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SAINT BARBARA PARISH AT OLD MISSION SANTA BARBARA A Franciscan Center of Evangelization In response to God’s call to love, we are a faith community that strives to live the gospel in prayer, formation, evangelization, outreach and stewardship in the Franciscan tradition. MAY 24, 2020 THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD " And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age" Matthew 28:20 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 | (805) 682-4151 | saintbarbaraparish.org STAFF FROM ARCHBISHOP GOMEZ For best access to the Parish Staff, please send an For the full information regarding Masses, e-mail. Voicemails are being checked periodically Sacraments, and dispensations, visit: as the staff is working mostly remotely. lacatholics.org/emergency/ Our general office e-mail is: [email protected] -The public celebration of Mass has been suspended in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles until further notice. Fr. Dan Lackie, OFM - Pastor Office: (805) 682-4151 ext. 101 -To participate in live stream Sunday Masses with [email protected] Archbishop Gomez, visit this link: lacatholics.org/mass-for-the-homebound/ Terry Bascombe Mass will begin at 10am. Parish Manager Office: (805) 682-4151 ext. 102 -Bishop Robert Barron will be streaming Masses [email protected] on his website: https://www.wordonfire.org/daily-mass/ or follow Roy Spicer on facebook at: Director of Sacred Music and Liturgy https://www.facebook.com/BishopRobertBarron/ Office: ext. 103 [email protected] -The Archbishop encourages us as a Church to keep Sunday holy by reading the Gospels, Alex Turcios praying with family, and making an act of spiritual Director of Faith Formation communion. For more information on spiritual Office: ext. 118 communion, visit: [email protected] lacatholics.org/2020/03/22/spiritual-communion/ Active Retirement -The Archbishop has closed down all Churches Fr. Larry Gosselin, OFM and Chapels throughout the Archdiocese. This Office: ext. 105 includes the Old Mission, Serra Chapel, and the [email protected] Porziuncula Chapel. RECONCILIATION YOUTUBE VIDEOS Weekly celebration of the Sacrament of We are on youtube! Reconciliation (Confession) has been suspended Subscribe and follow until further notice, as per Archdiocesan the Parish by searching guidelines. "St. Barbara Parish at We as a Church are encouraged to practice Old Mission Santa Barbara" on youtube. There "Perfect Contrition". Such contrition arises when you will find reflections and messages from our the penitent expresses a love of God Franciscan Friars! above all else, the sincere desire for forgiveness, If you have not been receiving Fr. Dan's e-mails and firm resolution to receive the Sacrament of via mailchimp regarding this way to stay Reconciliation as soon as possible when available. connected, please send the Parish Office an e-mail Perfect Contrition obtains the forgiveness of all so that we can make sure you're on the list! [email protected] sins. (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church 1452) Page 2 LETTER FROM FR. DAN LIVESTREAM OUR PARISH MASS Dear Friend, Join us this Sunday at 9am on Youtube as we celebrate the Years ago in college, I came across a phrase in my Ascension of the Lord reading that’s stayed with me We will livestream Mass through YouTube for the ever since: the ministry of the weeks to come. Log onto the Parish website to sky. I’ve forgotten the context download the worship aid ahead of time! You can – I’m almost sure it was an access our live stream through our Parish Website essay by John Ruskin – but (saintbarbaraparish.org) or by going to Youtube and the words built a hut in my typing in "St. Barbara Parish at Old Mission Santa memory. I was captivated by Barbara". the insight that the sky ministers to us as human beings. I could relate, maybe because I was (and still am?) the kind of guy who’s not uncomfortable with his head in the clouds. In any event, the phrase always comes back to me at the Feast of the Ascension which we celebrate this Sunday. Jesus ascends into a cloud and the disciples are baffl ed – a dramatic scene. While in Luke’s account an angel chides the disciples for looking intently at the sky, I, given my aforementioned personality bent, am more inclined to cut those disciples a little slack. Maybe they needed the sky’s ministry. Plus, my Franciscan sensitivity tells me creation can speak to us. When the sky is charged with beauty it can inspire me. When I pause and notice its changing “moods”, the sky assures me that “moodiness” is something I can expect, don’t panic. And when it seems that Jesus has disappeared, maybe the sky is telling us to be faithful and wait. Sometimes the sky is bold and charged with light; at other times it’s humble, in darkness, unknowing, we might say, making way for a light further beyond itself. We’re in the midst of a global pandemic, under enormous economic pressure. We have a ONLINE GIVING mission, and the sky can show us its outline: be faithful; remember the power of beauty; don’t let the changing moods surprise you. Th ank you to all who have responded so Most of all, step toward the generously through online giving! For more new horizon - Jesus Christ is information on how to give online, visit: waiting there. Gratefully, santabarbaraparish.org/donate Fr. Dan ofm Pastor Page 3 COMMUNITY Mass Intentions Catholic Social Teaching Pope Francis’s Earth Day Message: Part Two Masses are being celebrated privately by the Friars. Friars will be praying for all those affected by “Because of our selfishness we have failed COVID- 19 at all Masses. The Friars will pray for in our responsibility to be guardians and stewards the benefactors, living and deceased, of the Poor of the earth…We have polluted it, we have Clare Sisters, Spokane, WA. despoiled it, endangering our very lives: we have no future if we destroy the very environment that To schedule a Mass intention, contact [email protected] sustains us. How can we restore a harmonious relationship with the earth and with the rest of May 23 +Laura A. Belfiore humanity?…We need a new way of looking at May 24 +Lou Johnson our common home. For this is not a storehouse May 25 Mary Lou Johnson of resources for us to exploit. For us believers, the May 26 +Sr. Anthony Mary Stevens natural world is the ‘Gospel of Creation’: we stand May 27 Poor Clares of Spokane WA on holy ground! May 28 +Fran Kruger “Dear brothers and sisters, let us awaken May 29 +Robert Miller our God-given aesthetic and contemplative sense. May 30 Anthony and Maria Dal Bello The prophetic gift of contemplation is something May 31 +Honorata Aquino that we can learn especially from indigenous peoples [such as the Chumash, who built our church]. They teach us that we cannot heal the Keeping our Children Safe earth unless we love and respect it. “Let us pledge to love and esteem the beautiful gift of the earth, our common home, and What Can You Do to Stop the Spread of Child to care for all members of our human family. As Pornography? brothers and sisters, which we are, let us together Child pornography is one type of child sexual implore our heavenly Father: ‘Send forth your exploitation, which includes a range of illegal and Spirit, O Lord, and renew the face of the earth.’” abusive activities that control and use children for Roger Bergman ([email protected]) sexual purposes. Each year, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reviews 25 million images related to child pornography. You can help by reporting sightings of a missing Sunday Readings child to 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678). Operators are available 24/7. May 24 Readings: 1st: Acts 1:1-11 2nd: Ephesians 1:17-23 For more information, please visit, https:// Gospel: Matthew 28:16-20 lacatholics.org/did-you-know/ " God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of If you have any questions about the Safeguard trumpets for the Lord" the Children Committee contact: Alex Turcios - Director of Faith Formation at: aturcios@ http://cms.usccb.org/bible/readings/052420- saintbarbaraparish.org ascension.cfm Page 4.