OurOur LadyLady ofof GoodGood CounselCounsel ChurchChurch

2500 Bermuda Ave., San Leandro, CA Mailing address : 14112 Azores Place, San Leandro, CA 94577

OFFICE : (510) 614-2765 RECTORY: (510) 969-7013 Parish Office hour : 9:30 AM—2:30 PM Monday to Friday Pastor: FR. JAN RUDZEWICZ Deacon Thomas Martin Secretary: LINO POBLETE www.olgcsanleandro.com

Fr. Jan w/ Espie & Ador during then 9th day of Black Nazarene fellowship

SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME — JANUARY 14, 2018

BAPTISMS AND WEDDING MASSES: By appointment : (510) 614-2765 Saturday Vigil : 5:00 pm Sunday: 8:30am, 11:00am & 12:30 pm (in Polish) ADORATION IN THE CHAPEL

Weekdays: (Monday - Friday ) 9:00 am Monday—Saturday—9:30am—7 pm First Saturday—8:00 am First Friday– 8pm-9pm—at the Church Holy Days: 9:00 am & 7:30 pm 9pm-12mn—at the Chapel

Second Sunday: 3:00 pm - PARISH HALL INFORMATION Third Sunday: 2:00 pm - Virgin of Penafrancia Call: (510) 501-4894 -Tuesday & Thursday CONFESSIONS: FAMILY RELIGIOUS EDUCATION/ CCD

Saturday: 4:00 –4:45 pm First Friday– 8 pm Sunday morning – All grades after 8:30

CALLED BY GOD This week’s Intentions

Through the grace of the sacra- Sat Jan 13 5:00 PM Mass Venus Almonte (BD) ment of baptism, each person receives a Erlinda Supelario (BD) particular vocation (or calling) from God. Henrica + Most are called to live out their vocations Chris Hermann & Family ( Intentions) Emiliana & Francisco Hidalgo ++ as married persons and others are called Sun Jan 14 8:30 to respond to God in their capacity as sin- 11:00 AM Don Praesto ( Thanksgiving) gle persons. Some are called to conse- Emmanuel Manlangit + crate their lives to God as religious brothers and sisters. Juliana & Naty Macasieb + Others are called to consecrate their lives as virgins or as Mon Jan 15 Henrica ( Eternal happiness) 3rd order Religious. Still others are called to dedicate their Grandpa Felix & Grandma Violet Paes lives to God and the church as ordained and dea- Marta Paes ( Thanksgiving) cons. Tue Jan 16 Teresa Ysguerra ( BD) Whatever one’s calling may be, discerning it Henrica ( Eternal happiness) prayerfully and responding to it fully is the key to experi- All Souls in Purgatory encing God’s light and purpose in our lives. Wed Jan 17 Henrica ( Eternal happiness) Thu Jan 18 Henrica ( Eternal happiness) called the apostles by name to learn from him and Mario da Rosa + to carry on his ministry. He gave them extraordinary pow- Bessie Redard + ers to baptize, to preach his gospel, to forgive sins and to Fri Jan 19 Henrica ( Eternal happiness) feed His people with His own body and blood in the Eu- Adolf Bader + charist. Sat Jan 20 5:00 PM Mass Felix Exevea + Every Catholic man ought to prayerfully consider if Henrica + Jesus may be calling him to the priesthood. Often those Poor & the Unemployed who are called say that the thought of the priesthood en- Sun` Jan 21 8:30 tered their mind and wouldn’t go away. They find that time 11:00 AM at Mass brings deep peace and joy. Gradually they sense SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES that Jesus may be inviting them in a very personal way to investigate the possibility of the priesthood. Sunday: Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: Martin Luther King, Jr., Day A priesthood candidate needs to have a personal Wednesday: St. Anthony relationship with Jesus. He is a person of prayer and fidel- Thursday: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins ity to the Catholic Church. He is energized by the Church’s ministry and seeks to make his particular gifts Friday: Julian Calendar Theophany (Epiphany) and talents available for service to the Church. He should Saturday: St. Fabian; St. Sebastian be disciplined and responsible, of at least average intelli- READINGS FOR THE WEEK gence and maturity. Monday: 1 Sm 15:16-23; Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21, 23;

Jesus himself was celibate and gave himself com- Mk 2:18-22 pletely to his Father’s will. Priests in the Roman Rite do Tuesday: 1 Sm 16:1-13; Ps 89:20-22, 27-28; not marry. They give their time, energy, love and commit- Mk 2:23-28 ment to those that they serve. Celibacy is not for every- Wednesday: 1 Sm 17:32-33, 37, 40-51; Ps 144:1b, 2, 9-10; one, but for those who are called to the priesthood it is a Mk 3:1-6 way to live and love in the world after the example of Je- Thursday: 1 Sm 18:6-9; 19:1-7; Ps 56:2-3, 9-13; sus himself, and is not a burden. Mk 3:7-12 Friday: 1 Sm 24:3-21; Ps 57:2-4, 6, 11; Mk 3:13-19 th st Next weekend, January 20 and 21 , is our Saturday: 2 Sm 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27; annual diocesan-wide Seminary collection. In today’s Ps 80:2-3, 5-7; Mk 3:20-21 bulletin you will find a brochure which introduces you Sunday: Jon 3:1-5, 10; Ps 25:4-9; 1 Cor 7:29-31; to our 17 seminarians attending different seminaries. Mk 1:14-20 The cost to the Diocese of educating our future priests is substantial (about $44,000 per seminarian Join our OLGC Weekday Devotions after 9AM per year) and your help is needed. Masses Please be generous in financially supporting those St. Anthony - Tuesdays called to serve in the Oakland Diocese as future Mother of Perpetual Help Wednesdays priests. St. Jude - Thursdays For your convenience special envelopes have La Pieta—Every Friday been inserted into this bulletin. Kindly make your Chaplet In Song every second Saturday of the check payable to Our Lady of Good Counsel and no- month at 3:00 PM at the Church. tate “Seminary Collection” on the memo line. Thank Healing Prayer in Scriptural —Every Fourth Monday of you for your support. the month at 3:00 PM at the Church. Everyone is welcome Q. . Did Jesus say He was going to die for LAST WEEK’S CONTRIBUTIONS our sins? Also, if we were redeemed by Jesus' death, why is there to be a judg- Sunday collection (for general operating expenses) Collected $2,559.00 ment? Catholic Restricted donations for: (Diocesan Assessment) A. Yes. In both St. Matthew's and St. Mark's $809.00 Gospels He says, "The Son of Man has Answers come, not to be served, but to serve and to Black Nazarene (January 1-7) 1,280.00 give His life for the ransom of many." El Shaddai (monthly donation) 700.00 But the doctrine of our being redeemed by Christ's dying Votive candles 90.00 Adoration Chapel 87.00 for our sins does not depend on the interpretation of texts of Scrip- St. Anne (donation box) 27.00 ture. It is the fundamental message of the Gospel and the basis of ______the whole Christian religion. Redemption is the master idea of the

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUOS SUPPORT! writings of St. Paul. Next week’s 2nd collection : SEMINARY A quick sketch of the Catholic doctrine would begin with ______the observation that there is something terribly wrong with the TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION world. Human beings do not all obey God. The resulting murders “Ordinary Time” began for us this week. On the old and wars must have their cause in some catastrophe at the begin- calendar, the feast of the Presentation, still more than two ning of human existence. We call it original sin. The human. per- weeks away, was the last day of the Christmas season. Sad- son is a creature endowed by the Creator with free will, the ability ly, Bethlehem is hardly a place of peace on earth these days. to turn toward the Creator with love or away from Him in disdain The ancient Christian community has been largely uprooted and disobedience. When the head of the human race did turn by political strife. The Church of the Nativity stands (barely) away from God in disobedience, it wasn't just a question of saying, in remarkable disrepair and disorder in Manger Square. The "Excuse me!" to repair the damage. Infinite majesty had been of- roof is crumbling, the major doorways are blocked, the wir- fended by a finite creature, and as things stood the damage was ing is faulty, and the worship life is disrupted by quarrels irreparable. Nothing a human person could do would set things among Eastern Christians. right. In His mercy God provided an answer. His Son became man. The church was founded by the Emperor Constantine You have to remember that it was not just the physical death of in 325, destroyed in a Samaritan revolt in 539, and rebuilt by the Emperor Justinian. When the area came under Mus- Jesus which made up for mankind's disobedience. It was the pur- lim control in 638, the holiness of the church was respect- pose of Jesus in dying and the superhuman value of His every act ed, and in return Christians allowed Muslims to pray in the as God-Man. south aisle, a right still upheld. Earlier in that century, in- To answer your question about why we are to be judged vading Persians were ordered to destroy all churches, but even though we have been redeemed, let me point out that re- when they saw the magi carved over the doorway of the demption did not take away the supreme gift of freedom of the will. Church of the Nativity, they spared it out of respect for A person can reject redemption even after he has accepted it at their ancestors who bore gold, frankincense, and myrrh to Baptism. Redemption makes salvation possible; it does not the same city. The Crusaders restored and redecorated the make it inevitable, nor does it guarantee it. church by the twelfth century, and it is their plan that sur- vives. Down a few stone steps is a stone grotto with a sil- Gary Anderson, Erlinda Ar- ver star marking the place of Christ’s birth: when the star Requesting rieta, Ed & Eliz Coyne, was stolen in 1847 it triggered an international crisis that Your Leonor Yracheta, Erlinda exploded into the Crimean War. Prayers Dizon, Priscilla Da Rosa, Belen Escondo, Eddie Exe- PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS vea, Nilda Falero, Arnel Flores, Mercy Gallardo, Frank Goldsborough, Avelino Gapasin, Maria Per- WHO MAKE OUR WEEKLY BULLETIN POSSIBLE petua Querubin, Erlinda Howard, Willie Orpiano, Pacita Macasieb, Geri Murchison, Tina Shaeffer, Edward Mejia, Gail Ocasion, Frances OLGC’s is sponsoring E-Waste Program. If Pangelinan, Rosy Pereira, Aida Pineda, Romeo Camantigue, you have any electronic items to contribute to the program; TV's, com- Maritess Sanchez, Rosa Maria Santos, Minda Santos, Ursula San- puter monitors, PCs, fax machines, cell phones, old phones, tape tos, Linda Silverio, Augusto Uy, George Ybanez. Let us thank God decks, boom boxes, stereos, video game consoles, etc. please call the for what doesn’t need healing. Let us know if somebody wishes to parish office at 510-614-2765 during office hours. receive Holy Communion at home or call Beth Mayor 510-483-1078. Welcome New Parishioners ! If you are not currently registered, please take a moment to fill this out and return it to the parish office, or you may drop it in the collection basket. Name______Phone______New Parishioner Address______City ______ZIP Code______New Address ____Updating Parish Information ____Send Sunday Envelopes ___ Put on mailing list