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St. Bonaventure Catholic Community Comunidad Cátolica de San Buenaventura 5562 Clayton Road, Concord, CA 94521 • PHONE (925) 672-5800 • FAX (925) 672-4606 • www.stbonaventure.net St. Bonaventure Garden Angels Photo Credit: Fr. Mathew Vellankal Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Vigésimo Sexto Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario October 1, 2017 MASSES IN ENGLISH/EN INGLES MARRIAGE/MATRIMONIO Mission Saturday Vigil/Sábado: 5:00 PM Call the office to arrange with a Priest or Deacon. This Sunday/Domingo 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM, 11:00 AM, 5:00 PM requires six months preparation. As disciples at St. Bonaventure, we are committed to know Christ better and Llame a la oficina para hacer arreglos con un make Him better known. To this end we MISA EN ESPAÑOL IN SPANISH Sacerdote ó Diácono. Este requiere seis meses de / are committed to… Domingo: 12:45 PM preparación. Keep connected to our parish DAILY MASS/MISA DIARIA (CHAPEL/CAPILLA) RECONCILIATION/RECONCILIACÍON community, PM Monday/Lunes thru Friday/Viernes : 6:30 AM & 9:00 AM In English: Saturdays 3:30 (in the church) or by appointment. Nurture the development of our faith En Español: Llame a la oficina para hacer arreglos con and knowledge of Christ, BAPTISM/BAUTIZOS un Sacerdote. Por cita. In English: Call the office to begin the process. This Offer to share the Holy Spirit’s gifts of requires two months preparation time, talent and treasure, En Español: Llame a la oficina para hacer arreglos con Worship through prayer, Mass and the un Sacerdote ó Diácono. Este require dos meses de preparación. Sacraments. solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell VOICE COLLECTION TODAY THOUGHTS you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot from Today is Catholic Voice Sunday. This second resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary.” collection is the annual request to support Father Mat The feast of Our Lady of the Rosary was the only regular source of Catholic news and instituted to honor Mary for the Christian victory information in the diocese. Our parish pays over the Turks at Lepanto on October 7, 1571. $23,000 as our diocesan share. Your donation Pope St. Pius V and all Christians had prayed the helps defray this cost. Please make your check Rosary for victory. The Rosary, or the Psalter payable to the parish. Thank you for your of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is one of the best support. OUR LADY OF FATIMA MASS AND ROSARY prayers to Mary, the Mother of God. On Friday, October 13, we conclude the Centennial FAITH DIRECT: PARISH EGIVING Year celebration of Our Lady of Fatima. To mark PILGRIMAGE TO ITALY, BOSNIA AND With the arrival of autumn, I’d like to invite you the occasion, we will have a special Mass at St. POLAND to join Faith Direct, our parish’s electronic giving Bonaventure church at 7:30 p.m. on that day. The You are invited to join me on a pilgrimage to program. Our to-do lists can get lengthy during Mass will be followed by a candlelit procession Italy, Bosnia, and Poland from May 14 to 28, 2018. this season, but Faith Direct’s eGiving program reciting the Holy Rosary. I cordially invite all The highlights are visits to Rome, San Giovanni will give you one less thing to remember each our parishioners to join me in honoring Mother Rotondo (St. Padre Pio), Lanciano (Eucharistic week—no more envelopes to find before you go th Mary as we close the ‘Our Lady of Fatima’ 100 Miracle), Medjugorje, Warsaw, Auschwitz, to Mass. Visit www.faithdirect.net and use our anniversary celebration. Krakow etc. For details please contact me at church code: CA725. [email protected] Our Lady appeared six times to the three Thank you for your continued support of our shepherd children – Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco parish family! God Bless You. —Fr. Mat – between May 13 and October 13, 1917. Lucia was ten years old, Francisco would be nine in PARISH LIFE thoughts June and Jacinta had just turned seven in March, LITURGY & PRAYER when on May 13th, 1917, they chose to pasture their sheep in a hilly depression owned by A DIALOGUE FOR UNDERSTANDING WITH FR. DAVID Lucia’s father and known as the Cova da Iria, or CLOSING CELEBRATION IN HONOR OF OUR Cove of Irene. It was there, with one exception, Tuesday, October 10, 7:00-9:00pm in the Large LADY OF FATIMA’S CENTENNIAL YEAR: that the Blessed Virgin, under the title of Our Hall Friday, October 13 at 7:30pm in the Church Lady of the Rosary, appeared on six occasions in Join Fr. David and other parishioners as we We will be closing the Centennial Celebration of 1917, and a seventh time in 1920 (to Lucia alone). discuss the immigration issue within our Catholic Our Lady of Fatima with a Mass and procession. A simple reception follows in the Hospitality Room. As important as the place and the time was the teachings and how we receive them. We are People are welcome to bring cookies, pastries or situation of the world. At that moment, the First hearing and seeing the Bishops and Pope speak bottled water. Please come and join us. World War raged in Europe, introducing mankind up on a number of Catholic Social teachings that to the most savage forms of warfare seen to are challenging. Some we agree with and some that date. In far-off Moscow Lenin prepared the we don’t. If I disagree am I a “bad Catholic”? If I SEÑOR DE LOS MILAGROS (LORD OF revolution that would overturn the Russian social agree, what do I do? MIRACLES) YOU’RE INVITED! order in November 1917 and eventually engulf We will use a letter written by the Bishop of El The largest and most spectacular Peruvian almost half the peoples of the earth. It was in Paso as a starting point for our dialogue. To be that context that heaven sent a message to earth prepared, please read the document before our to provide the antidote to the moral and social meeting. It is available on the front page of our evils of the world - the message of Fatima. web site: www.stbonaventure.net and copies are The closeness of Our Lady to us and her call to available in the parish foyer. return to the Gospel through prayer, sacrifice and RSVP if you can. It will help to ensure we have READINGS for the WEEK conversion are as important for us today as they seating and enough copies of materials, but MONDAY: ZEC 8:1-8; PS 102:16-21, 29, 22-23; were in 1917. The month of October is the month it’s not required. All are welcome. Contact MT 18:1-5, 10 of the Holy Rosary. Sister Maria Lucia of Fatima Eileen Limberg 672-5800 x2217 or elimberg@ TUESDAY: ZEC 8:20-23; PS 87:1B-7; LK 9:51-56 WEDNESDAY: says: “The Most Holy Virgin in these last times stbonaventure with questions or to RSVP. NEH 2:1-8; PS 137:1-6; LK 9:57- in which we live has given a new efficacy to the 62 THURSDAY: NEH 8:1-4A, 5-6, 7B-12; PS 19:8- recitation of the Rosary, to such an extent that SAVE THE DATE 11; LK 10:1-12 FRIDAY: there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, Saturday, Dec. 2nd at 7:30 pm in the Church BAR 1:15-22; PS 79:1B-5, 8-9; LK whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the 10:13-16 The Resurrection Choir’s annual Advent/ SATURDAY: personal life of each one of us, of our families… BAR 4:5-12, 27-29; PS 69:33-37; LK Christmas Concert 10:17-24 of the life of people and nations, that cannot be Prepare your heart for the experience of SUNDAY: IS 5:1-7; PS 80:9, 12-16, 19-20; PHIL Christmas. 4:6-9; MT 21:33-43 2 October 1, 2017 SAINT BONAVENTURE CATHOLIC CHURCH / IGLESIA CATÓLICA DE SAN BUENAVENTURA Weekend of September 23 & 24 Collection Goal: $25,440 Actual: $22,626 Deficit: ($2,814) Food for Family: 178 EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) included in above figures religious festival is the annual Señor de los MINISTER OF HOSPITALITY TRAINING: Milagros. MONDAY, OCTOBER 23 @ 7:30PM INVITATION TO VOLUNTEER Tens of thousands of devotees take to the Are you interested in meeting other parishioners streets of Lima to carry a painting of El Señor de and being involved in the Mass? If so, please los Milagros; also known as the Purple Christ or consider becoming a Minister of Hospitality. LOAVES & FISHES VOLUNTEER NEEDED Christ of Pachacamilla. On this mural appears These ministers greet and welcome the Loaves and Fishes needs volunteers to help serve the crucified Black Jesus. Above the Cross are the community at each weekend liturgy, pass the once a month on the second Tuesday of each Holy Spirit and God the Father. Below and to the collection baskets, direct people forward to month and, on certain months, the 5th Friday right of Jesus is his mother, the Virgin Mary, with receive Eucharist, and distribute bulletins after from 9:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., in the St. Vincent de her heart pierced by a lance of sorrow and to her Mass. Volunteers of all ages, from 6th grade Paul Dining Room located at 1415 Simpson Ct. off right at the foot of the cross is Mary Magdalene.