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We are a welcoming inter-generational community bonded together through our faith in Jesus Christ, striving to live by the Word, demonstrating our love to others through service and charity St. Philip the Apostle Church A refuge to renew your spirit and heal your brokenness info@saintphilipparish org www.saintphilipparish.org March 26, 2017 Fourth Sunday of Lent Laetare Sunday “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see might see, and those who do see might become blind.” PASTORAL STAFF LITURGIES DEVOTIONS Rev. Stephen Howell, Sunday: 8:00 a.m. Rosary - Monday - Saturday Pastor 10:30 a.m. after 8:00 a.m. Mass Saturday: Vigil 5:00 p.m. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Weekdays: 8:00 a.m. - Chapel Tuesday after 8:00 a.m. Mass Rev. Brendan McBride Holy Days: 8:00 a.m. In residence 9:00 a.m. Stations of the Cross Irish Pastoral Center 7:00 p.m. After 8:00 a.m. Mass on Fridays Confessions: 4:15 p.m. (Saturday) during Lent 725 Diamond Street, San Francisco, CA 94114 Phone 415-282-0141 Fax: 415-282-8962 Fourth Sunday of Lent—Laetre Sunday 1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Eph 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 March 26, 2017 As our Lenten journey progresses, we strive to improve the manner in which we “see” with our hearts, hop- ing that, in the light of Christ, we can truly come to see the world as God does. Reflecting on the Gospel Dear Parishioners and Guests, Through baptism we come to a new seeing and we are recreated into being more perfect members of the Body The Church’s liturgy, on this the fourth Sunday of Lent, of Christ, more truth-filled images of God. Our own be- invites us to retrace one of the fundamental dynamics of lieving responding to Jesus continually recreates us with our baptismal re-birth through the Gospel account of the new spiritual insight, with deeper believing, with more healing of the ‘man born blind’. It is the passage from sure understanding of who Jesus is for us and who we the darkness of sin and error to the Light of God, who is are to be for others. the Risen Christ. This long gospel intertwines many conversation- encounters on many levels. There is the conversation- This Sunday was formerly called "Laetare Sunday" since encounter of the miracle: Jesus touched, the man “went its mood and theme was one of hope and rejoicing that and washed.” There are the conversation-encounters of Easter was near. In the reformed calendar this Sunday is relationships: the disciples and Jesus, Jesus and the blind not different from the other Sundays of Lent even man, the neighbors and the blind man, parents and the though the entrance antiphon for the day still begins Pharisees, Pharisees and the bland man, Pharisees and with the Latin word "laetare.” If rose colored vestments Jesus. There are the conversation-encounters about see- are available those are worn in lieu of the violet. ing: gaining sight, resisting sight; coming to faith, resist- ing faith. Lent invites us into the same conversation- The second creation account in the book of Genesis tells encounters with Jesus, in which we choose either to be us how “the Lord God formed the man out of the dust of drawn toward Jesus or to turn away from him. Which do the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life.” we choose? This is our lifelong baptismal challenge. God was the first potter! God was the first to have the pleasure of taking dust and water, mixing it and smooth- The miracle recorded in this gospel is less about a blind ing it, and then drawing it into a divine image into which man receiving his sight than it is about the openness of God breathed God’s very own life. This Sunday’s gospel the blind man to having an encounter with Jesus, his tells of another divine potter—Jesus, the Son of God— willingness to enter into conversation with him, and his who uses his own saliva to mix with the dust of the readiness to believe and respond in worship. This gospel earth, make clay, and use it to bring new seeing and be- challenges us to deepen our faith so that we, too, are rec- lieving out of a blind beggar. All the man needed to do reated with ever new Life. Then, like the blind man who was to obey Jesus’ command to “Go wash.” He did so, Jesus helps to see, we can exclaim “I do believe” and and was recreated to see with the new eyes of faith. worship with raised hearts and voices. L P M Baptism is a ritual sign of coming to believing, admitting us to full participation in worship. This statement doesn’t imply that those who have not been baptized or fully received into the church haven’t worshiped God. They have or they probably wouldn’t be seeking to be initiated into the Catholic Church. Initiation changes the way one can worship and the sign of this is admittance to Eucharist and reception of the Body and Blood of our Lord. Worship, however, is far more than attendance and engagement in ritual acts, as important as that is. Worship includes a mission to reach out to others who are in need of spiritual insight, of a more sure believing, of a deeper conversation with Jesus that brings recreation and life. Authentic worship always requires a response of charity on behalf of others. Authentic worship includes an encounter with the One who gives us sight and a conversation that recreates us to full stature in Christ. MASSES FOR THE WEEK Remember the Sick in your Prayers… March 26, 2017 Let us remember the sick, homebound and elderly of our 03/25 Saturday The Annunciation of the Lord Parish that they may find comfort and healing in Christ. 8:00 a.m. † Jack Hart (by: Corrado DeMartini) Isabel Juarez Mow, Kain Chiu Mary Crowley 5:00 p.m. † Antonio DeNegri Patricia Crowley Mary Dekle David Dickey (by: Agnes Piva) Laura Garcia Danica Linnemann Dolores Martin Agnes Piva Bill Matthews Mary Leung 03/26 Sunday Fourth Sunday of Lent John Bamber Leo Juarez Gina Wood 8:00 a.m. Pura Lippi (Spl. Intention) Fred Jungmann Tom Welch (by: Pura Lippi) Archbishop Emeritus John R. Quinn 10:30 a.m. For the People of the Parish Archbishop Emeritus George H. Niederauer 03/27 Monday 8:00 a.m. † Betsey Auren F T W H D. (by: Anne ) May the Perpetual Light Shine upon them. 03/28 Tuesday 8:00 a.m. Alaina Kyra (Birthday) (by: Mila Schneider) For those preparing for the Sacrament of Marriage Jason Cannata & Rochelle Mercurio 03/29 Wednesday 8:00 a.m. In Thanksgiving (by: Ding & Carol) 03/30 Thursday 8:00 a.m. † Manuel Gonzalez Tuesday’s Choir Practice (by: Maria De Martini) Adults Tuesdays, 7:30PM in the Church 03/31 Friday 8:00 a.m. † Catherine Tobin Lyons Children’s Choir - Tuesdays 4PM in the (by: Joan Cuddihy) Parish Hall 04/01 Saturday 8:00 a.m. † Breda Gaines 03/26 (by: Danielle Donelly) Second Collection to support the Catholic Relief 5:00 p.m. † Mike Shanahan Services. (by: Robinson Family) 03/26 Hospitality Sunday following the 10:30 a.m. Mass, 04/02 Sunday Fifth Sunday of Lent hosted by our Kindergarten School families 8:00 a.m. Mila Schneider (Spl. Intention) 03/30 (by: Maureen Dineen) Lenten Parish-wide Reconciliation Service, 7:00 p.m., Church 10:30 a.m. For the People of the Parish 03/31 Stations of the Cross, 8:30 a.m., Church We are sincerely grateful for your supporting Saint Philip 04/05 Saint Philip’s Lenten Sacred Space, Parish Hall and its ministries open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., with Prayer service the last hour. March 19, 2017 Sunday Collection $3,494.00 04/06 Chrism Mass, 5:30 p.m. at the Cathedral MESSAGE FROM MOST REVEREND LENTEN SPEAKER SERIES SATURDAYS SALVATORE J. CORDEILEONE AT CATHEDRAL ARCHBISHOP OF SAN FRANCISCO Saturdays, March 11 -April 8, 10:30 am -12:00 noon St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough Street, On October 7, 2017, Archbishop will consecrate our San Francisco -415-567-2020 Archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This stmarycathedralsf.org . will coincide with the Centennial Celebration com- The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption offers memorating the Apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima. six noted speakers in a series of reflections during Lent 2017. The presentations are each Saturday morning at The Archdiocese has put together a link that will be 10:30, from March 4 through April 8. Admission is free, on the Archdiocesan website with helpful infor- and all are welcome. For more information, see above. mation and suggestions. More information will be provided as well in future April 1: “Meditations on the Seven Last Words,” a guid- Sunday bulletins regarding the history of the Fatima ed meditation by Fr. Victor Sczurek, O.Praem., Head- apparitions and in particular the role these appari- master, Saint Michael’s Abbey Preparatory School, Sil- tions have played in the life of the Church over the verado past 100 years. April 8: “Penance: Its virtue, practice and role in the spiritual life.” Fr. James Garcia, Archdiocese of San Francisco. SAINT PHILIP’S LENTEN ACTIVITIES Lent calls us to return to the image of God that we were Celebrating Reconciliation & Healing fashioned to reflect.