January 31, 2021 – Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time January 31, 2021 Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Psalm 95:1-2, 6-9 1 Corinthians 7:32-35 Mark 1:21-28 “If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts” St. Dominic’s is a Catholic Parish Inspired by Dominican Spirituality Igniting the Faith for the Salvation of Souls Mass Intentions Sun 01/31 7:00 a.m. (B) Rene Aquino 9:00 a.m. (D) Edmundo de Joya 11:00 a.m. (D) Ruth McElhaney 1:00 p.m. (D) Jim & Pat Kirksey Public Outdoor Mass 5:00 p.m. (T) People of the Parish Sunday: 11:00 a.m. Mon 02/01 6:45 a.m. (D) Reuben Garcia Small Parking Lot 8:15 a.m. (T) Lori Telepak & Family See Mass guidelines at Tues 02/02 6:45 a.m. (T) Jude Potter https://www.stdombenicia.org/covid19/ 8:15 a.m. (D) Paul Mullane Wed 02/03 6:45 a.m. (D) Tita Palermo 8:15 a.m. (D) Doris Hale Thank you to all our volunteers who make outdoor Thurs 02/04 6:45 a.m. (D) Richard S. Callao Masses possible. If you would like to help please 8:15 a.m. (D) Aurora Masbad email Teresa at [email protected]. Fri 02/05 6:45 a.m. (D) Fr. Victor Cavalli, O.P. 8:15 a.m. (D) Fr. Victor Cavalli, O.P. *Live-Stream Masses Sat 02/06 8:15 a.m. (H) Richard Nahm 5:00 p.m. (D) Agustin Leong WatchStDom.com Sun 02/07 7:00 a.m. (T) Jude Potter Saturday (Vigil): 5:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. (T) Teresa Stone & Family Sunday: 7:00, 9:00, 11:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. (D) Jim Guinasso & 1:00 p.m. (English/Spanish) 1:00 p.m. (D) Marla Peck Monday-Saturday: 8:15 a.m. 5:00 p.m. (T) People of the Parish Legend: (D) Deceased (H) Health *All of our live-stream Masses will be immediately (A) Anniversary (B) Birthday (T) Thanksgiving followed by distribution of Holy Communion in front of the church. Mass & Flower Intentions available Contact Alisa [email protected] Confession Times Mass & Altar Flowers are Please follow the signs in the vestibule. Available for March Tuesday and Thursday: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Friday: 9:15-10:15 a.m. Starting February 1st Saturday: 3:30-4:30 p.m. 475 East I Street, Benicia, CA, 94510 (707) 747-7220 www.stdombenicia.org @stdombenicia #stdominicsbenicia Pastor’s Corner St. Thomas Aquinas – the Dumb Ox and Patron of Catholic Schools January 28 is the feast day of the great Dominican saint, St. Thomas Aquinas. He is probably the best know Dominican saint. In the United States, we celebrate the week closest to his feast day as Catholic Schools’ Week; it begins this weekend. St. Thomas is the patron saint of all students. His most famous teacher, St. Albert the Great gave him the nickname “dumb ox.” This came to multiple meaning throughout his life. First, he was a very large person, an ox of a man, you could say. But also like an ox, he was incredibly tenacious in his pursuit of Jesus Christ and the truth. He was so quiet as a student, he was called dumb because they thought he wasn’t paying attention. Turns out, his brilliant intellect was absorbing what was being presented and making new connections in almost all areas of human knowledge. He was struck dumb, or speechless, toward the end of his life by a personal vision of Jesus. The beauty he experienced was so overwhelming that his by then voluminous works were “so much straw” in comparison to Christ. Here is a brief biography. “By universal consent, Thomas Aquinas is the preeminent spokesman of the Catholic tradition of reason and of divine revelation. He is one of the great teachers of the medieval Catholic Church, honored with the titles Doctor of the Church and Angelic Doctor. “At five he was given to the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino in his parents’ hopes that he would choose that way of life and eventually became abbot. In 1239 he was sent to Naples to complete his studies. It was here that he was first attracted to Aristotle’s philosophy. By 1243, Thomas abandoned his family’s plans for him and joined the Dominicans, much to his mother’s dismay. On her order, Thomas was captured by his brother and kept at home for over a year. “Once free, he went to Paris and then to Cologne, where he finished his studies with [St.] Albert the Great. He held two professorships at Paris, lived at the court of Pope Urban IV, directed the Dominican schools at Rome and Viterbo, combated adversaries of the mendicants, as well as the Averroists, and argued with some Franciscans about Aristotelianism. “His greatest contribution to the Catholic Church is his writings. The unity, harmony and continuity of faith and reason, of revealed and natural human knowledge, pervades his writings. One might expect Thomas, as a man of the gospel, to be an ardent defender of revealed truth. But he was broad enough, deep enough, to see the whole natural order as coming from God the Creator, and to see reason as a divine gift to be highly cherished. “The Summa Theologiae, his last and, unfortunately, uncompleted work, deals with the whole of Catholic theology. He stopped work on it after celebrating Mass on December 6, 1273. When asked why he stopped writing, he replied, ‘I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.’ He died March 7, 1274.” From AmericanCatholic.org Fr. Carl Schlichte, O.P. [email protected] 707.335.4668 2 YR I Confirmation The confirmation team is looking forward to gathering with all YR I confirmation candidates during the month of January. Please see your January email/newsletter for specific details. YR I Form Due: Sponsor Forms are due by January 11th. This online form can be found on the confirmation page on the Church website at www.stdombenicia.org. YR II Confirmation The confirmation team is looking forward to a great second half of the program and to sacrament day on April 26th! The January - YR II calendar includes: Sunday, January 31st Teen Gathering with Catechist 6:30 pm Please see your January email/newsletter for specific details. Youth Ministry Opportunities January 2021 1. Serve at the Food Bank of Solano & Contra Costa - Various Dates 2. Support Vallejo Together, an organization that provides assistance to our homeless friends in our local area. The needs are many! 3. Adopt a prayer buddy at St. Dominic's Church. Pray for a specific child who is preparing to receive his/her First Eucharist in the spring. For more information regarding confirmation gatherings, Vallejo Together donations or youth ministry opportunities, please contact Lisa Toomey at [email protected] or 707.335.4697. St. Dominic’s Cemetery OPEN Everyday! 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 1st Saturday Mass will be February 6, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. All Covid-19 protocols must be observed (masks & social distancing). The cemetery will close for burials while in the purple tier, and follow all COVID-19 protocols. 3 Dominican Saints and Blesseds of the Week February 3 General for combating heresies in Genoa and Blessed Peter Cambiani of Ruffia, the Lombard region of Italy, and he was also friar, priest and martyr elected prior of the Dominican Convent of Peter was born Circa Savigliano. His method of preaching and his March, 1320 and austere life angered Heretics who saw no died February 2, character flaw in him that could be exploited as a 1365. He was weapon and so inspired to kill him. In 1374 the beatified by Pope Bishop of Turin, asked him to preach during Lent. Pius X on December He was stabbed to death in an ambush as he 4, 1856. Peter's preached in Turin the Sunday after Easter, on father was a city April 9, 1374. Blessed Anthony Pavonio, pray for councillor, his mother us. was from a noble family, and the boy Blessed Bartholomew Cerveri, was raised in a Pious friar, priest and martyr household. He Bartholomew was born Circa, 1420 in the received a good Piedmont Region of Italy, he died in 1466 in education, and was Piedmont. He was beatified by Pius IX in 1853. drawn early to Carrying on the glorious tradition of death in the religious life, with a cause of Truth. Blessed Bartholomew was the personal devotion to fourth Dominican Inquisitor to win his crown in Our Lady of the Piedmont, in the stronghold the Catharists, who Rosary. He joined had taken the lives of Peter of Verona, Peter of the Dominicans in Piedmont, Italy at the age of Ruffia, and Antony of Pavonio. He was martyred 16. He continued his studies, and was ordained by five heretics on the road entering Cerverio at the age of 25, and he was a noted preacher and they stabbed him over 100 times. Blessed throughout Northern Italy. He worked to bring the Bartholomew Cerveri, pray for us. heretical Waldensians back to the church, and was appointed Inquisitor General of the February 4 Piedmont Region. In January, 1365 Peter and Saint Catherine de Ricci, two Dominican Brothers went on a preaching sister and virgin Mission through the mountains between Italy and She was born on April 23, Switzerland, working from The Franciscan friary 1522 in Florence, at Susa, Italy.