SAINT PATRICK CATHOLIC PARISH 3585 30Th Street • San Diego, CA 92104-4142

SAINT PATRICK CATHOLIC PARISH 3585 30th Street • San Diego, CA 92104-4142

Our Mission: To praise the Holy Trinity, To care for our Community, and To grow in Faith and Unity

Established in 1921 — SERVED BY THE AUGUSTINIANS

Sunday, June 20, 2021 — Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Rev. Carlos A. Flores Haylock, O.S.A. ** Pastor

Rev. Thomas Davis, O.S.A. Associate Pastor

Rev. Sarfraz Alam, O.S.A. Associate Pastor

Rev. James P. Retzner, O.S.A.

Rev. Michael McFadden, O.S.A.

In Residence

STAFF

Hernán Valdivia ** School Principal

Steve Granados Christian Initiation

Esbe Gomez ** Young Adult Professional [email protected]

Barb Mossinghoff Parish Secretary

Aida A. Rodriguez Ocaña ** Business Manager

PARISH OFFICE: Located in Rectory Phone: (619) 295-2157 Fax: (619) 297-3346

stpatrickschurchsd.weconnect.com

SCHOOL OFFICE: 3014 Capps Street Phone: (619) 297-1314

Preschool to 8th Grade Preschool (Lic # 376700882) www.stpatrickssd.com

** Bilingual

FACE MASKS ARE REQUIRED SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION : Saturday, 4:30 PM in the Parking Lot INDOOR MASSES: SACRAMENTS: Contact the Parish Office Monday—Saturday: Morning Prayer 7:30 AM. Monday—Saturday: Mass 8:00 AM (English) Tuesdays, 5:00 - 6:00 PM: Prayer Hour for Peace.

Saturday: 5:30 PM (English) First Fridays, 8:30-10:00 AM: Exposition of the Blessed Sunday: 7:30 AM (English) Sacrament, Holy Hour for Vocations, Benediction.

OUTDOOR MASSES: Fridays, 7:00-8:00 PM (Spanish): Exposition of the Sunday: 9:30 AM, (English), 11:30 AM (English) Blessed Sacrament, Holy Hour, Benediction.

1:30 PM (Spanish). 5:30 PM (CANCEL) First Saturdays, 8:30-9:15 AM: Devotion to Our Lady of Fatima (Rosary and meditation on the mysteries). Holy Days: The schedule will be announced Sundays, 12:30 PM: Flame of Love Rosary Sunday, June 20, 2021 — Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time

(...continues from previous paragraph…) Saint Patrick’s History From Dan Keays Augustinian Arrival During Father Healy’s inquiries two things happened to change the course of events. The The Panama Canal was completed in August friars of the order of St. Vincent de Paul (the 1914, and in anticipation of its opening the Vincentians) ran St. Vincent’s church in Mission citizens of San Diego made a tremendous Hills. They had been there since 1912. In 1922 gamble. They would stage a World’s Exposition they made the decision to change their course in 1915, creating a festival to rival some of the and become missionaries to China, leaving the best in the world. Many just laughed at the idea. parish without a priest. Bishop Cantwell World’s Fairs are events undertaken by cities like persuaded Father Healy and the Augustinians to Chicago, New York, and Paris, not some sleepy take over St. Vincent’s, which they did, with little border town that few had ever heard of. Father Healy as pastor. Around the same time But the opening of the canal meant that boats Father Gregory Ashe, the priest at St. Patrick’s, traveling westward would encounter San Diego became ill following a vacation and requested a as the first United States port of call on their six month leave of absence. journey, and it opened the gates to commerce Meanwhile, Father Healy and the Augustinians as well as tourism. Thanks to some keen creative had purchased land in an area adjacent to the planning and very hard work, the Panama- Burlingame development on 32nd Street, which California Exposition, which lasted two years, was became St. Augustine High School. It opened in a resounding success. 1923 with 54 students and three priests. The The Exposition, along with the end of both World Augustinians were now entrenched in San Diego, War I and the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, both as educators at the high school as well as initiated a tremendous expansion of the city’s parish priests at St. Vincent’s in Mission Hills. population. In the early 1920s many were now With Father Ashe’s illness and absence settling in North Park. With the inflow of new St. Patrick’s needed a priest. Since it was much residents there was a need for more churches closer to the Augustinian high school it was and priests to serve them. The Augustinians, determined that the Augustinians would move based in Philadelphia, were interested in into St. Patrick’s and a secular priest would as- becoming involved. sume the pastorship at St. Vincent’s. Father Bishop Cantwell saw the need for a Catholic Thomas Healy, a well-liked energetic priest, be- high school in San Diego. Knowing of the came the second pastor at St. Patrick’s and the Augustinians’ great interest in education, he first Augustinian. The date was January 4th, 1925. persuaded Father Nicholas Vasey, the Provincial, to investigate. Father Vasey sent a priest from

Villanova, Father Thomas Healy, to scout the area and determine the feasibility of such a project. This was in 1921, around the same time Masses for June 21 — 26 that Father Gregory Ashe established St. Patrick’s Mon. 8:00 AM Father’s Day Novena church. Fran & Connie Peluso † (...continues next paragraph…) Tues. 8:00 AM Father’s Day Novena Petra & Evelio Jimenez †

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Our advertisers support Saint Patrick Parish. † Rest In Peace HB Happy Birthday HA Happy Anniversar Please support our advertisers. Saint Philip Neri Saw Christ in Everyone He Met Saint Patrick’s CENTENNIAL COUNTDOWN: # 18 By Elisa Ambre, St Patrick’s Parishioner Our parish Centennial begins in just 4 months. True Reformers by Jerome K. Williams was the Over the summer you will find in the Bulletin book we read for our first ever book club. When various vignettes of our parish’s early history I started reading the fifth saint, Saint Philip Neri, I prepared by Dan Keays, a Centennial truly fell in love with a saint for the first time in my Committee member and lifelong parishioner. life! Philip Neri known as The Second Apostle of Please take time to read and enjoy these histor- Rome after Saint Peter. He was born of nobility in ical gems. Additionally, if you or your family has the year 1515. Philip Neri heard the call of Christ also called St. Patrick home for many years, to sell all as a young man of 19 or 20 years of please consider and consent to share your age. Saint Philip Neri’s love of people, his ability memories and memorabilia with Dan. to be blind of their shortcomings, and to love Remember, “Your Story is Our History” the image of Christ in everyone he met is most inspiring. St Patrick’s is Composed of People Like Me Saint Philip’s life choices shed light on our life today. Philip Neri chose to be happy, to enjoy I help make it what it is. life, and bring the love and light of Christ to It will be friendly if I am. everyone he encountered. His love and It will be holy if I am. devotion to Christ in prayer and confession Its pews will be filled if I help fill them. permeated his everyday interactions with It will do great work if I work. others. He consciously looked for Christ in It will be prayerful if I pray. everyone and genuinely loved them. In this 5 th It will make generous gifts to many causes, if I book club discussion, Father Carlos am a generous giver. recommended the film, Saint Philip Neri I Prefer It will bring others into worship, if I invite and Heaven directed by Giacomo Campiotti. My bring them in. family saw it, it is an excellent movie, and I It will be a place of loyalty and love, of fearless- highly recommend viewing this film. In viewing ness and faith, of compassion, charity, and mer- the film, it inspired me to read more on the life cy if I, who make it what it is, am filled with these of this great saint of the 16th century. same things.

In reading and then reflecting on the life Saint Therefore, with the help of God, Philip Neri, I want to make a concerted effort to I now dedicate myself to the task of being all the see Christ in everyone I meet. It is not a simple things that I want my parish to be. task. It is easy to love my husband, child, family, and friends. It is not as easy to love the misun- Readings for the Week: derstood, lost, or people who are living a sinful June 21 – 27 life. I desire to emulate Saint Philip in his way of Sundays: Year B — Weekdays: Year III seeing Christ in those that I do not understand. Reading about the life of the “Apostle of Monday: Gn 12:1-9; Ps 33:12-13,18-19,20&22; Rome”, Saint Philip Neri, I now know that I need Mt 7:1-5 to understand that I must love what I do not un- Tuesday: Gn 13:2, 5-18; derstand with a heart of Christ just as Saint Philip Ps 15:2-3a,3bc-4ab,5; Mt 7:6, 12-14 loved. To join our book club, please email me Wednesday: Gn 15:1-12, 17-18; at: [email protected] Ps 105:1-2,3-4,6-7,8-9; Mt 7:15-20 Thursday: Is 49:1-6; Ps 139:1-3,13-14,14-15;

Facebook Information Acts 13:22-26; Lk 1:57-66,80 MASS AND FEASTS Friday: Gn 17:1,9-10,15-22; Ps 128:1-2,3,4-5; Mass continues to be live streamed on Sunday. Mt 8:1-4 These videos are available on the Parish Face- Saturday: Gn 18:1-15; book page. Lk 1:46-47,48-49,50&53,54-55; Indoor mass hours were resumed. Mt 8:5-17

MISSIONARY SISTERS Sunday: Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24; Weekday mass videos by the monastery in Tlax- Ps 30:2,4,5-6,11,12,13; cala, Mexico are available to view. 2 Cor 8:7,9, 13-15; Mk 5:21-43

In the world, but not of the world La arrogancia de las aguas by Chris Humphrey, St Patrick’s Parishioner En la Biblia, el agua tiene un significado ambivalente: a veces trae la muerte, como en el I had the joy of meeting with others in the diluvio, pero si ella falta tampoco es posible la St. Patrick's Book Club, to discuss and reflect on vida. Esta doble relación aparece claramente en the book "True Reformers" by Jerome K. Williams. el sacramento del bautismo, que representa a la One of the saints featured in the book was vez nuestra participación en la muerte de Cristo, St. Thomas More. Sir Thomas More was an English para que estemos muertos al pecado, y en la lawyer, judge, philosopher, author, statesman, resurrección de Cristo, para que vivamos para and noted Renaissance humanist who served Dios.

Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England En general, los hebreos no fueron buenos from October 1529 to May 1532. Some of you navegantes, como sí lo fueron sus vecinos los may be familiar with a play and movie about his fenicios. Ante el agua los hebreos sentían una life called "A Man for all Seasons". Venerated as serie de temores que podríamos describir un Saint Thomas More, he opposed Henry VIII's poco con palabras como inseguridad, separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to inestabilidad, fragilidad, impotencia o precarie- acknowledge Henry as supreme head of the dad. En ese sentido todos podemos asociar algo Church of England and the annulment of his de nuestras vidas con la experiencia del Pueblo marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing de Dios. Cada uno puede preguntarse en qué to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was circunstancias se siente firme y en qué momentos convicted of treason and executed. On his se siente naufragar. execution, he was reported to have said: "I die En el breve texto de Job es importante destacar the King's good servant, and God's first". la manera como se describe a las aguas. Ellas son la imagen del poder del caos, y por eso en el The Desert Fathers and Mothers were early relato del comienzo de la Biblia Dios "separa las Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who aguas" (Génesis 1,6-7) antes de hacer la "tierra formed communities mainly in the desert of firme" (Génesis 1,9-10). La creación misma es Egypt around the third century, and became the "separar" en el sentido de dar un orden, ordenar. model for Christian monasticism. A record of their La anti-creación, la fuerza del mal, consiste en wisdom is still with us in a collection of stories and confundir, crear caos, hacer desparecer la nitidez sayings called the “Apophthegmata Patrum”. I que trae la Palabra.

discovered their simple but deeply profound De esta manera, la expresión "arrogancia de las words many years ago, which has served as aguas" refleja ese concepto del límite que Dios deeply personal inspiration for me in my faith pone a todo lo que trata de ser caos o absurdo journey. I was drawn to stories of their commit- en nuestra vida. El desorden queda así limitado y ment to humility, wisdom and prayer life; living confinado, de modo que llega a ser parte de un and practicing the teachings of Christ. When I orden superior. El mal se ve obligado a proclamar read the biography of St. Thomas More, I was el bien. moved how this gifted person of privilege, Cristo y la tormenta education and status - who had achieved so A menudo se predica el evangelio de hoy dicien- much in his professional life and academic do que Cristo calmó la tormenta. Eso vale, por career, was guided and strengthened by his supuesto, si pensamos en las aguas de ese lago deep Catholic faith, and a lifetime cultivating pero no es una descripción del conjunto de lo 'the interior life' through prayer and devotion to sucedido. A mí me gusta decir que Cristo cambió de lugar la tormenta: ya nos son las aguas las que his faith. He spent much of his talent and se agitan: son los corazones de los discípulos. energies to make the teachings of Christ and the Church more accessible to everyone, as Cristo viene a calmar y también a agitar. Trae opposed to focusing on scholastic theology, an respuestas que nos pacifican y preguntas que nos inquietan. Nos hace firmes pero también sacude approach he felt was inadequate to address the nuestra sabiduría convencional. Su palabra refres- challenges people of faith faced during his time. ca y quema a la vez. Su propuesta es increíble- St. Thomas More even spent several years con- mente sensata y es la mayor locura de amor que sidering becoming a Carthusian Monk. Here was se haya oído en esta tierra. a man, a Saint, who lived his faith almost like Así pues, no miremos a Jesús como un calmante. those Desert Fathers and Mothers, but remained Es un profeta también; uno que vino a realizar la 'in the world, but not of the world'. A martyr who verdadera y profunda revolución, que no es died to preserve the truth, always putting God destruir a los malos sino al mal. first. His feast day is June 22nd. Fr Nelson Medina, OP

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