St. Veronica Church Established 1951 A Stewardship Parish - Grateful Living through Faith, Fellowship, Service, & Giving

434 Alida Way South San Francisco, CA 94080 Phone: 650-588-1455 www.stveronicassf.com Fax: 650-588-1481

The Last Supper by Peter Paul Rubens (1630) Palm Sunday & Holy Week 2019 April 14-20, 2019 St. Veronica Parish Parish Office Hours Mass Intentions Monday to Friday for the Week of April 14, 2019 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Closed for lunch from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Sun 04/14 7:00 † Benito Pablo Esteban 8:30 † Mike Sr. & Kevin Folan (unless otherwise posted) 10:00 People of Saint Veronica Phone: 650-588-1455 Fax: 650-588-1481 11:30 † Emiliano & Teresa Valdez 6:00 † Ricardo Moreno Parish Staff Mon 04/15 8:30 † Rufino Monterola Fr. Charles Puthota, Ph.D., Pastor † Concordia Pascual

Tue 04/16 8:30 † Maria Da Cunha Deacon Roger Beaudry † Dean Calder Drablos

Wed 04/17 8:30 † Frank Casagrande Mary Martin, Administrative Assistant, Ext.301 † Gertrude Eberle Silvia Reyes, Bookkeeper, Ext.304 Thu 04/18 Holy Thursday - No Morning Masses 6:30 p.m. - No Intention Karen Guglielmoni, Faith Formation & Wedding Coordinator, Ext.305 Fri 04/19 - No Morning Masses

Sat 04/20 Holy Saturday - No Morning Mass Christopher Lindstrom, Music Director, Ext. 308 8:00 Vigil - No Intention

Jim Rodriguez, Custodian/Maintenance Sun 04/21 Easter Sunday - No Intentions

Wishing you a Holy and Blessed Easter! St. Veronica Catholic School www.saintveronicassf.org Phone: 650-589-3909

Mrs. Mary Boland Mrs. Pam Cavagnaro St. Veronica Parish Mission Statement Principal Vice Principal St. Veronica Church is a multicultural community of believers who treasure Je- SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION sus Christ at the center of their profession

Sacrament of Baptism of faith & practice. They worship & work Baptisms are to be arranged through the Parish Office. together to build up a community of fam- Baptisms in English are typically held on the ily & friends according to the mind & 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. Baptismal Preparation classes are held once a month. heart of Christ. Out of the abundance of Call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455 joy & gratitude, they live & share the

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) good news of faith & hope, striving to Call the Parish Office to register 650-588-1455 Ext.309 stand up for peace & justice, to spread love & compassion, to care for those who Faith Formation: 650-588-1455 Ext. 305 Catechetical instructions (1st to 8th grades) are in need, and to make our nation & the world a better place for all. Confirmation Classes: 650-588-1455 Parish Office email: [email protected] Mass Schedule

Saturdays: 8:30 a.m. & 5:00 p.m. On the Horizon Sundays: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, and 11:30 a.m.  Final Tuesday during Lent, April 16: Confes- Spanish Mass: Sundays at 6:00 p.m. sions from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in the Church (please Holy Days: 6:30, 8:30 a.m., 6:30 p.m. (English) enter via the side door near the sacristy) Monday - Friday: 8:30 a.m.  Sun., April 14: Palm Sunday (regular schedule First Fridays: 6:30 a.m. & 8:30 a.m. of Masses); begins at 9:45 a.m. from Confessions the Parish Center Saturdays: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.  Thurs., April 18 - Sun., April 21: See back

Liturgy of the Hours page for Holy Week and Easter schedule Monday - Friday: Morning Prayer at 6:00 a.m.  Mon., April 22: Easter Monday, Parish Office closed, NO Eucharistic Adoration Eucharistic Adoration  Sun., April 28: YMI Parishioner of the Year 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday - Friday Mass, 8:30 a.m., and breakfast (Falcon Hall) except as posted for holidays and parish events  Fri., May 3: Please note: The First Friday Mass at 6:30 a.m. will NOT be celebrated; please join Parish Registration us at the 8:30 a.m. Mass if your schedule allows Please complete and return form to the parish office,  Sat., May 4 & May 11: St. Veronica Faith For- or simply drop it in the collection basket. mation First Communion Masses, 10:00 a.m. Kindly print all information.  Sun., May 12: Mother’s Day

Name(s): ______ Sat., May 18: St. Veronica Catholic School First Communion Mass, 10:00 a.m. Name(s): ______Address: ______Pray for our Beloved Deceased City & Zip: ______In your prayers this week, please remember the repose of the souls of our deceased parishioners, especially: Phone: ______E-mail: ______George Carmone Primary language spoken at home: ______died April 1, 2019

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Cecilia Conway Moving / Please remove from mailing list. died March 28, 2019

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Lent Events at St. Veronica

Fasting and Abstinence: Everyone 14 years of age and older is bound to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday, each Friday of Lent, and Good Friday. Those 18-60 years of age are to fast on Ash Wednesday & Good Friday. On these two days the law of fasting allows only one full meal a day, but does not prohibit taking some food during the day, as long as this does not constitute another full meal. Drinking liquids is permitted.

Almsgiving: Our St. Vincent de Paul Conference is accepting non-perishable food items. Through Good Friday, April 18th, items may be placed in the baskets in the vestibule or dropped off at the Pastoral Center.

Thank you for supporting St. Veronica Parish and its works.

Due to holiday printing schedules, our collection numbers for April 6th & 7th will be reported in the April 21st bulletin. Thank you for your continued support. From the Pastor’s Desk

Dear Parishioners, Word of God: This Palm Sunday, the Word of God is all

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion: Paul Grant and about suffering. The first reading is from Isaiah about the Marian Palmer sing: “Hey, King! Where’s your crown, suffering servant. He suffers much, but he places all his where’s your Cadillac? I’ve never seen a king before --- trust in God. The responsorial psalm is about: “My God, on a donkey’s back.” On Palm Sunday, we commemorate my God, why have you abandoned me?” A very powerful our King’s triumphant entry into . Henry Hart sentiment indeed! How many times have we felt this way Milman says: “Ride on, ride on in majesty! In lowly in our life? We sometimes feel that we are abandoned by pomp ride on to die; O Christ, thy triumphs now begin, everyone, including God. Jesus himself felt this way. He O’er captive death and conquered sin.” Jesus’ triumphal used these very words on the cross. Jesus knows our hu- entry will turn into dark, sad days of excruciating suffer- man frustrations and anguish because he himself has ing and humiliating death. But it will all pale in the re- gone through those dark moments in his life. That’s the splendent glory that will dawn on Easter. The profound reason we can go to Jesus with great confidence. He Christian insight is that it’s always through the cross that knows exactly our struggles and sufferings. The second we find our glory. Without suffering, there is no love, no reading is the famous hymn from the letter to the Philip- redemption, no new life. Suffering is redemptive. Death pians, which celebrates Jesus’s humility, obedience to his is the way to resurrection. Let’s look at the face of Jesus Father, his dying on the cross, his exaltation by his heav- this Holy Week. Let’s look into his tender eyes. Let’s enly Father above everything and everyone. The place our hand on the heart of Christ. Let’s try to enter reading, the passion narrative, is taken from Luke. On his mind and heart to dwell on his thoughts and feelings. Good Friday, though, the passion narrative will be from John’s gospel. As we go through these readings, the Lord : When I went with some of our parishion- will speak to us tenderly and give us the grace to enter ers to the Holy Land a few years ago, we walked the holy more deeply the sufferings and death of Jesus so that we route, Via Dolorosa, which in Latin means “the way of can rise with him to a new life in the glory of the resur- suffering.” It’s in the Old City of Jerusalem. Tradition rection. has long held that Jesus walked through this very path toward Calvary. This route winds through narrow streets Good Friday quotes: “If you are going to follow Jesus, with thousands of shops on either side. That is why we you better look good on wood.” --- Daniel Berrigan. had to wake up early in the morning by 4:30 a.m. and get “Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other to this place and start the Way of the Cross by 5:30 a.m. things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ulti- so that we could complete our prayers by the time the mate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we shops opened. Our Way of the Cross along this sacred lay hold of a great hope.” --- Dietrich Bonhoeffer. “In path ended with Mass at the Church of Holy Sepulcher truth, there was only one Christian and he died on the (my most favorite church in the whole world) which I cross.” --- Friedrich Nietzsche. “We adore you and we celebrated. Via Dolorosa was the most memorable walk bless you, Lord Jesus Christ, here and in all the churches of our life ever. We walked the same path that Jesus did! which are in the whole world, because by your holy cross We were filled with sadness for Jesus carrying the cross, you have redeemed the world.” --- St. Francis of Assisi. but we were also lifted by hope and gratitude for what “Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Jesus brought for us through his ultimate sacrifice. Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible, it is not surprising that people should have One Practical Suggestion for the Holy Week: Can you found it a stumbling block to faith.” --- W. H. Auden. choose one of the passion narratives from one of the four ? Every gospel, toward the end, has an account of Jesus’ suffering and death. Go to a church or any other I wish everyone at St. Veronica parish calm place or your living room or kitchen. Turn the TV a grace-filled Holy Week. off. Sit quietly. Read slowly and prayerfully the passion Do come join the services narrative and be silent for a few minutes after reading it. on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, It will only take about 20 minutes or so to do this. You and at the Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday. will not regret spending some quality time on this simple form of prayer. If you feel inspired, speak to Jesus in Your Friend & Pastor, your words. St. Ignatius of Loyola suggests in the

“Spiritual Exercises” to stand before the cross and ask: Fr. Charles Puthota “Lord, what have I done for you? What am I doing for you? What shall I do for you?” On Good Friday, experience the final hours of Jesus’ life through sound and sight. Combining the beautiful voices of our St. Veronica Adult Choir with the assistance of members of our St. Veronica Youth Ministry, “We Remember Calvary” brings the power of Jesus’ Passion and Death to our parish in a whole new way.

12:45 p.m. this Friday, April 19th, in our Church

Immediately following the and leading up to the Good Friday Liturgy Pope Francis on the Sacrament of B.Y.O.B. Penance and Reconciliation (Bring Your Own Basket!)

“The two of them alone remained: mercy with mis- The St. Veronica Youth Ministry ery” (In Joh 33, 5). In this way Saint Augustine sums up is hosting an Easter Egg Hunt! the end of the Gospel we have just heard (John 8:1-11). Those who came to cast stones at the woman or to accuse Come join in the fun! Jesus with regard to the Law have gone away, having lost interest. Jesus, however, remains. He remains because When: Sunday, April 21 (Easter Sun- what is of value in his eyes has remained: that woman, day), following the 10:00 a.m. Mass that person. For him, the sinner comes before the sin. I, you, each one of us come first in the heart of God: before mistakes, rules, judgements and our failures. Let us ask Where: In the labyrinth area alongside for the grace of a gaze like that of Jesus, let us ask to the school building have the Christian perspective on life. Let us look with love upon the sinner before his or her sin; upon the one going astray before his or her error; upon the person be- Who: Children fore his or her history. through “The two of them alone remained: mercy with mis- elementary ery”. What do we need to do to come to love mercy, to overcome the fear of Confession? Let us accept once school grades more the invitation of Isaiah: “Do you not perceive (up to 8th grade) it?” (Is 43:19). It is important to perceive God’s for- giveness. It would be beautiful, after Confession, to re- main like that woman, our eyes fixed on Jesus who has just set us free: no longer looking at our miseries, but ra- ther at his mercy. To look at the Crucified One and say Baptism Information with amazement: “That’s where my sins ended up. You took them upon yourself. You didn’t point your finger at me; instead, you opened your arms and forgave me once Registration forms are available from the again”. It is important to be mindful of God’s for- Pastoral Center during regular office hours, giveness, to remember his tender love, and taste again or you may download a form from our and again the peace and freedom we have experienced. website at www.stveronicassf.com. For this is the heart of Confession: not the sins we de- clare, but the divine love we receive, of which we are Baptisms are generally celebrated monthly ever in need. We may still have a doubt: “Confessing is on the 1st and 3rd Saturday in English. useless, I am always committing the same sins”. The Lord knows us, however; he knows that the interior Please call the Parish Office to sign up. struggle is difficult, that we are weak and inclined to fall, that we often relapse into doing what is wrong. So he Upcoming baptism dates are as follows: proposes that we begin to relapse into goodness, into ask- May 4 & 18 ing for mercy. He will raise us up and make us new crea- June 1 & 15 tures. 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2019 HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE

PALM SUNDAY, APRIL 14 Masses: 5:00 p.m. April 13 (English) 7:00, 8:30, 10:00 & 11:30 a.m. (English); 6:00 p.m. (Spanish) Procession prior to 10:00 a.m. Mass Please gather in the Parish Center at 9:45 a.m.

HOLY THURSDAY, APRIL 18 No Morning Mass 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. – Morning Prayer 6:30 p.m. – Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m.

GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 19 No Morning Mass 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. – Morning Prayer 12:00 – 12:45 p.m. – Stations of the Cross 12:45 – 1:15 p.m. – Adult Choir Performance 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. – Good Friday Liturgy

HOLY SATURDAY, APRIL 20 No Morning Mass 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. – Morning Prayer 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. – Confessions No 5:00 p.m. Mass 8:00 p.m. - Easter Vigil Mass

EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 21 Masses: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, & 11:30 a.m. (English); 1:30 p.m. (Spanish)