St. Anselm

April 15, 2018 Third Sunday of Easter You alone, O LORD, bring security to my dwelling. -- Psalm 4:9

97 Shady Lane, PO Box 1061, Ross, CA 94957 Mass Schedule: Saturday Vigil 5:00pm, Office: (415) 453-2342 Sunday 8:00am, 10:00am, and 5:00pm Office Fax: (415) 453-8713 : Fr. Jose Shaji, ext. 15 Weekday Mass: Monday through Friday 8:00am Email: [email protected] (Tuesday is a Communion Service) Bernie O’Halloran Tuesday & Thursday 5:30pm Deacon Ed Cunningham Deacon Robert Meave Parish Office Hours: 8:30am-1:00pm, 2:00pm-5:00pm Parish Secretary: Sissy Ratto ext. 10 [email protected] Holy Day Masses: 8:00am, 12:00pm, 5:30pm Religious Education: Natalie Larraga D.R.E. ext. 20 [email protected] Reconciliation: Saturdays 4:00pm-4:45pm Health-Senior Ministry: Rose Shadduck or by appointment (415) 453- 6533 Baptism: Preparation Class required. Music Director: Michael Mello (415) 453-2342 Call parish office St. Anselm School: Kim Orendorff, Principal Sacrament of the Sick: Anytime upon request. School Office: (415) 454-8667 Contact Pastor. School Fax: (415) 454-4730 Matrimony: Six months notification required to Parish Email: [email protected] desired date. Contact Pastor. Parish Website: www.SaintAnselm.org School Website: www.StAnselmSchool.com St. Vincent de Paul Help Desk: (415) 454-0366 CYO Website: www.stanselmcyo.org Helping Hands: (415) 453-2342 Eucharist for Homebound: (415) 453-2342 St. Anselm’s Parish is a Catholic community formed by families, individuals and clergy that worship together, celebrate the sacramental life of the Church, and seek to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ everyday. We welcome, serve, and educate. Dear Parishioners, MASS INTENTIONS Mon. Apr 16 8:00am Special Intention The Gospel reading of this Sunday concludes with an Tues. Apr 17 8:00am Communion Service invitation to every disciple to be 5:30pm Arlene Hansen (INT) a witness to Christ, His Resurrection, His message and Wed. Apr 18 8:00am Virginia Sonne Pleger His offer of forgiveness of sins. (D) Many people are Christians more out of habit than Thurs Apr 19 8:00am Catherine Gill (D) out of conviction. We take part in the Eucharistic 5:30pm Kai Kiernan (D) celebration, say our prayers, live moral lives. And most of us stop there. Christ invites us today to move Fri. Apr 20 8:00am Ben Sasan (INT) from being passive Christians to becoming active Christians. Christ invites us to live his message. St. Sat. Apr 21 5:00pm Jim Stillman (D) Francis of Assisi tells us how, “Always preach the Gospel and if necessary use words.” Sun. Apr 22 8:00am Mary Przybyski (D) 10:00am Louise Alberty (D) 5:00pm Parish People Yours sincerely, Fr. Jose Shaji, Pastor

BRINGING HOLY As a community we ask God’s blessing for the ill: COMMUNION TO Mark Gardner, Steve Leland, Garth Stanton, Christopher HOMEBOUND Goward, Richard Green, Barbara Gilligan, Irene Lorente, PARISHIONERS: Luisa Espinosa, Terese Marklinger, Vincent Boyle, If you know of a parishioner who is unable to attend Allison Chichizola, Karen Poligono, John Weiser, Bob Mass but would like to receive Holy Communion, Buckley, Cherie Visconti, Susan Blair, Steve Pelaez, please contact the Rectory so that arrangements can Pauline O’Brien-DeLury, Frank Dal Gallo, Ulla Reilly, Marjorie Smith, Ashley Noe, Bill White, Judie & Steve be made for a Eucharistic Minister to bring the McDonald, Jacob Aceto, Sasheen Littlefeather, Sandra parishioner Holy Communion. Homebound includes Servadei, Matthew Hunter, Joan Woods, Alexander anyone who is unable to attend Mass on an ongoing Raab, John Daly, Suzanne Woo, John Linneman, Teresa, basis or anyone who is temporarily unable to go to Brian McClung, Arlene Hansen, Grace Komo Mass due to, for instance, a surgery, illness or injury. For the Repose of the Soul: Edwin Silvia On April 14th & 15th, join your fellow parishioners for wine and For our military: Robert Gebhardt, Tyler Lopez, Alex Boatwright, Sean Courtz, Elizabeth Baumsteiger, cheese along with stimulating Christian Miller, Robert Kent, Shane Morgan, John conversation following the 5:00pm Loughran, William Ghiringhelli Masses. The gatherings will take place in Centennial Hall. READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Acts 6:8-15; Ps 119:23-24, 26-27, 29-30; Jn 6:22-29 St. Anselm Church Stewardship Tuesday: Acts 7:51 -- 8:1a; Ps 31:3cd-4, 6, 7b, 8a, Registered Parishioner Families 2018- 1675 17, 21ab; Jn 6:30-35 1st Collection: $6,274 Wednesday: Acts 8:1b-8; Ps 66:1-3a, 4-7a; Jn 6:35-40 2nd Collection: St. Anselm School- $853 Thursday: Acts 8:26-40; Ps 66:8-9, 16-17, 20; Electronic Weekly Donations-$2,625.00 Jn 6:44-51 Please visit our church website to sign-up for Friday: Acts 9:1-20; Ps 117:1bc, 2; Jn 6:52-59 Electronic Donations Saturday: Acts 9:31-42; Ps 116:12-17; Jn 6:60-69 *Please log onto Parish Pay and update your Sunday: Acts 4:8-12; Ps 118:1, 8-9, 21-23, 26, 28, 29; CC expiration date! 1 Jn 3:1-2; Jn 10:11-18 Second Collections: CHURCH-God sends no churches from the skies, Centennial Building & Maintenance– April 15 Out of our hearts they must arise. Catholic Home Missions-April 22 --Anonymous St. Vincent de Paul-April 29 EARTH DAY HIKE & AAA PICNIC – On Sunday, April Archdiocese 22nd join fellow $86,050 Annual parishioners on an easy hike Appeal and picnic on Ring Mountain 2018 in celebration of Earth $42,137 Day. Bring a lunch, and if you like, a treat to share. We will meet in the parking lot near the Rectory after the 10:00 am Mass to organize carpools. For those who want to meet at the trailhead please call the Rectory for directions.

St. Anselm Church Multipurpose Totes REST-April 30th is the last REST dinner (actually St. Our Youth Ministry is selling two different types of totes. Anselm will serve its last dinner on Saturday, April Foldable Tote- $10 & Insulated Tote- $20. All proceeds 28th). On Tuesday, April 17, 6:30 pm, there will be a go towards our Youth Ministry. Support your Parish by walk from the St. Vincent de Paul Dining Room, 820 “rocking” one of these beautifully logoed totes to the B St., San Rafael to St. Raphael’s Church for a grocery store, to a picnic at the park, your children’s candlelight vigil/press conference. At that time we sports game…etc. You can purchase your tote at our will announce the new Housing Focused Shelter parish office during working hours or after one of the collaboration between St. Vincent de Paul and Homeward masses. We thank you for your support. Bound. We began the REST program ten years ago when 200 people took the same walk. We would like to show the County that their support is needed for Housing Focused Shelter. The best way to do that is to have a large number of people walking to show that providing for our homeless is important to our community. Please join us!!! Easter Season-HOPE RESTORED– On Easter Sunday, Christians around the world gathered to celebrate the centrality of their faith-that the Lord Jesus suffered, died, and rose from the dead to bring new life to all who believe. What difference can Easter really make in our lives? Any difference that Easter can bring can be Marin Handicapables Mass and Luncheon - summed up in one word: hope. Picture yourself as one of Persons with special needs (shut-ins, developmental- the followers of Jesus of Nazareth. The one for whom ly disabled, etc.) who would enjoy fellowship are you had given up everything, the one in whom you had placed all your trust, the one who seemed to be the way cordially invited to the Marin Handicapables Mass to freedom from fear-this one had been put to death in the and Luncheon on May 12, 2018. This event will be most horrifying way. He was nailed to a cross, and on held at Marin Catholic High School, 675 Sir Francis that cross it seemed that hope itself breathed its last. Drake Blvd., Kentfield, with Mass at noon in the Have you ever felt that way-that hope had breathed its Chapel, followed by lunch and entertainment in the last? For many who lose a cherished job, a spouse to Student Center. Sponsors are The Order of Malta death or divorce, a child to drug abuse or disease, there just doesn't seem to be any hope remaining. This was the Western Association. There is no fee to attend, but kind of despair that Peter, John, and Mary of Magdala reservations are requested. RSVP: Cheryl Giurlani, must have been feeling on that first day of the week. 415.308.4608 or [email protected] EASTER: OUR OWN STORY The Easter Gospel is, in a nutshell, the story of our very own lives. It is a story of The women’s Cursillo is restored hope. Like those disciples, we must always, being held this weekend at when in despair, see and believe that Jesus Christ rose the SF Theological Seminary from the dead. When we place our belief in the power of in San Anselmo. Three of God to raise Jesus from the dead, we also place our belief our parishioners are making in the power of God to deliver us from the death of des- it: Pam Engel, Bess Nuzzo, and Laura Shea. Connie Sume pair, malaise, and hopelessness. This is at the heart of and Rose Shadduck are working on the team. Please keep why we come to church. We look to the empty tomb to them all in your prayers for a successful weekend. If you find hope that was lost. It is for this that we raise heart would like to make Cursillo, please contact the Rectory and voice in an endless "Alleluia!" for an application. St. Anselm Church Calendar of Events April 14-15– Wine & Cheese after 5:00Masses April 22– Earth Day Hike & Picnic Lunch—After 10:00am Mass April 28-Confirmation- 2:00pm May 5- First Communion– 10:00am Events Near St. Anselm Parish

ST. RAPHAEL AND ST. ISABELLA CONFERENCES OF THE ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY 14TH ANNUAL BOCCE BALL TOURNAMENT AND PICNIC

Sunday, May 6, 2018 is the date for the 14th Annual Bocce Ball Tournament and Picnic benefitting the St. Raphael and St. Isabella Conferences of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin. Join us for a day of fun including a delicious BBQ lunch provided by Marin Joe’s Restaurant. Players, spectators, picnickers and children are all welcome. You will be helping a worthy cause and 100% of all proceeds fund our work to help the needy in our parishes. For information and/or sign up forms contact: DeGiovanni at 415 485 3855 or Joe Martino at 415 479 8477 St. Vincent de Paul Society Vehicle Program St. Vincent de Paul of Marin has launched a new vehicle donation program in collaboration with SVDP National’s vehicle vendor, CARS. If you have a car that you would like to donate for a tax deduction, you can call 800-322- 8284 or go online and fill out the donation form at http:// vinnies.careasy.org/HOME.html. Your gift supports the SVDP Free Dining Room in San Rafael which serves over 500 meals daily.

The Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin is a group of 50+ single or single again Catholics who are interested in making new friends, taking part in social activities, sharing opportunities for spiritual growth and becoming involved in volunteer projects that will benefit our parishes, our community, and one another. We welcome those who are interested. For Membership & Event information, please call Bob at 415 897-0639 The Archdiocese of San Francisco announces that Francis has appointed Fr. Robert Christian, O.P., as auxiliary . Fr. Chris- tian is a of the Western Dominican Province and currently serves as Master of Students of the province. We are blessed that Bishop- Elect Christian joins us to serve our , religious, and all the people of the Archdiocese. Robert Francis Christian was born in San Francisco in 1948 to Robert Francis and Gloria Jean Christian. He was raised in St. Brendan Parish and attended St. Brendan and St. Vincent de Paul grammar schools. In 1966 he graduated from St. Ignatius High School and from Santa Clara University in 1970. That year he entered the Dominican Novitiate in Oakland. Fr. Christian was ordained in 1976 at St. Francis de Sales Cathedral in Oakland and started his teaching career immediately thereafter at Dominican College. After later receiving his doctorate in theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (The Angelicum) in Rome he began a long teaching career there as professor of theology. He is presently a consultor to the for Christian Unity and a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission. His episcopal ordination is planned to take place at St. Mary’s Cathedral by the beginning of summer. Prayer for Vocations-God, our Father, In Your love and providence, You call each of us to a more holy and abundant life. We pray for our young people in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Open their hearts and minds to know the vocation You have planned for them for all eternity. If they are being invited to follow You as a , , or Sister, give them a generous heart to respond to Your challenging call and the strength to follow wherever You lead them. May families desire to please You by encouraging and supporting vocations within their homes. We ask this through Jesus Christ, our Good Shepherd. Amen WINGS Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to Heaven. --St. John Climacus Bulletin Number: 513520

Church Name and Address: St. Anselm 97 Shady Lane PO Box 1061 Ross, CA 94957-1061

Telephone: 415-453-2342

Contact Person: Sissy Ratto

Email: [email protected]

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