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October 4, 2020 Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION (Sacramento CHURCH OFFICE/RECTORY 408-739-8506 de Reconciliación—Confesiones): Oficina de la Iglesia/Rectoría BY APPOINTMENT ONLY 1133 W. Washington Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Office Hours: MONDAY: Closed MARRIAGES (Matrimonios): TUESDAY - FRIDAY: 9:30AM - 12:00PM Call 408-739-8506 to make an appointment at least six (6) 1:00PM - 4:00PM months in advance. Llame al 408-739-8506 para hacer una cita con seis (6) meses de anticipación.

Rev. Vincent Pineda, Pastor ([email protected]) Jill Snoeberger, Office Manager ([email protected]) BAPTISMS (Bautismos): Robert Lassalle-Klein, Deacon Call 408-739-8506 to make an appointment at least two (2) months in advance. Llame al 408-739-1669 para hacer una cita con dos (2) meses de anticipación.

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Our warmest welcome to all who celebrate with us, whether long-time residents or newly arrived in the parish. If you haven’t registered with us, please take a few minutes to fill out one of our registration forms and place it in the collection basket or mail to the rectory. Una calurosa bienvenida a todos los que celebran con nosotros, ya sean vecinos de mucho tiempo o recien llegados a nuestra parroquia. Si no se ha registrado aqui, por favor tome unos minutos para llenar la registracion y depositela en la canasta de la colecta o enviela a la rectoria. TODAY’S MESSAGE My Dear St. Cyprian Family,

Today’s gospel message is meant to help us understand that our stay here on earth is temporary. To put it simply, we are tenants who have but a brief moment to justify our tenancy. It is very instructive to note that in the parable, the landlord did not charge them before letting them into the vineyard. Ordinarily a tenant is required to pay before occupying a place. This is typical of God. “His ways are different from our ways and his thoughts are also different from our thoughts” (Is.55:8-9). For God, it is pay after service; not pay before service. More so, you are not required to pay with your own resources but the fruit of what He has already given to you.

The tenants were given the freedom to use the vineyard in whichever way that appealed to them. However, they were required to simply return some of the fruits to the landlord; from the episode in the parable, that was the only thing that was required of them. It is the same way that God requires us to bear good fruits, to live good lives, to produce good not evil in our lives. Some of us like the tenants are still killing the servants and the only son. We do so when we hear the word of God and refuse to allow it to become relevant and fruitful in our lives. We kill the servants and the only son when we willfully stifle the truth, discourage the word of God and when we keep doing our will instead of the will of God. As tenants in God’s vineyard what are expected from us? We are required to be good tenants who are ready and willing to fulfill the obligations of our tenancy. To achieve this St. Paul among other things in the Second Reading (Phil.4:6-9) advised us to pay attention to:

Whatever is true Whatever is honorable Whatever is just Whatever is pure Whatever is lovely Whatever is gracious Anything that is excellent Anything that is worthy of praise!

My sisters and brothers, let us pay particular attention to the vineyards around us and let us also make sure that we produce good fruits so that when the harvest time comes we shall not be like the empty tenants who had nothing to offer but aggression.

Blessings, Fr. Vincent

SUNDAY COLLECTION KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Received in The Knights of Columbus, Our Lady of Fatima Council 3436 Date Processed Mail or at Mass Online would like to thank each and every parishioner for their 9-27-20 $2332.00 $485.00 generosity. The Knights were able to raise a total of $5186.92 last year for People with Intellectual Disabilities from three parishes: St. Cyprian, St. Martin and Resurrection. This allowed them to donate to these NEXT WEEKEND we will celebrate organizations: World Mission Sunday. Pope Francis invites the entire Church to support —Columbian Foundation $389.02 mission dioceses in Africa, Asia, the —Parents Helping Parents $1631.29 Pacific Islands, and parts of Latin —Ada’s Café Palo Alto $1583.31 America and Europe, where priests, —Special Olympics of No. California $1588.30 religious and lay leaders serve the world’s most vulnerable communities. The Knights of Columbus will be collecting for People with Please keep the Pope’s missions in your Intellectual Disabilities again this year on November 8th at prayers and be generous in next week’s the 10:00am and 11:30am Masses here at St. Cyprian. collection for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. WEEK OF OCTOBER 4, 2020 READINGS: Sunday: Is 5:1-7/Ps 80:9, 12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20 [Is 5:7a]/Phil 4:6-9/Mt 21:33-43 Monday: Gal 1:6-12/Ps 111:1b-2, 7-8, 9 and 10c [5]/Lk 10:25-37 Tuesday: Gal 1:13-24/Ps 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 14c-15 [24b]/Lk 10:38-42 Wednesday: Gal 2:1-2, 7-14/Ps 117:1bc, 2/Lk 11:1-4 Thursday: Gal 3:1-5/Lk 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75 [68]/Lk 11:5-13 Friday: Gal 3:7-14/Ps 111:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6 [5]/Lk 11:15-26 Saturday: Gal 3:22-29/Ps 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 [8a]/Lk 11:27-28 Next Sunday: Is 25:6-10a/Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 [6cd]/Phil 4:12-14, 19-20/Mt 22:1-14 or 22:1-10 OBSERVANCES: Sunday: 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time; Respect Life Sunday Monday: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest Tuesday: St. Bruno, Priest; Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, Virgin Wednesday: Our Lady of the Rosary Thursday: Friday: St. Denis, Bishop, and Companions, Martyrs; St. John Leonardi, Priest Saturday: Next Sunday: 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time — ©LPi

PRAY FOR THE SICK If you know of someone who is sick and needs our prayers, please submit their names to the parish office so that they can be included in our prayers. Si usted conoce a alguien que esta enfermo y necesita de oraciones, por favor de los nombres a la oficina de la parroquia para ser incluidos en nuestras oraciones.

FREE FLU VACCINATIONS Santa Clara County is offering flu vaccinations for free, regardless of insurance or immigration status, at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds every Saturday from 9:00am to 4:00pm through mid-December and at all Santa Clara Valley Medical Center clinics and pharmacies.

Getting vaccinated for the flu will be even more important this year because the symptoms of the flu and the coronavirus are very similar and the two illnesses could be mistaken for each other is someone has not been ONLINE GIVING vaccinated for the flu or tested for the coronavirus. As many around the world continue to struggle with the Coronavirus, St. Cyprian has not been immune to the effects caused by these recent events. The directive from MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK Bishop Oscar Cantu to suspend all Masses was an Monday Grace & Adelbert Herstedt Sr. + important step in helping slow the spread of the virus. This Thanksgiving—St. Jude decision was not made lightly. It was made from concern All Souls for the common good and care of the vulnerable in our Tuesday All Souls community. Like most parishes, 90% of our revenue comes Wednesday Lucia & Teresa Nguyen + from the generous support of our faith community. This Thursday All Souls generosity supports the basic operations (payroll, utilities, Friday Joseph-Maria Nguyen + maintenance, etc.) and ministries of our church. Saturday James Bertram Lindsay + Rustico Tensuan This is a good time to remind you that we offer the option Sunday Bob Kirsling + for giving electronically in a safe and secure way. Your Theresa-Maria Nguyen + online offertory can be customized by you The frequency of Joe O’Halloran + how you want to give (weekly, monthly, quarter, etc.) and Angelita Espiritu Chan + the type of gift (debit, credit, EFT, etc.) is up to you! Please James Bertram Lindsay + visit our website at www.saintcyprian.org for instructions on Mahfouz Srouji + how to quickly set up an online offertory account. Please Fr. Tim Kidney + feel free to contact the parish office if you have any Joe Dimare + questions. If you don’t wish to give online, please Elizabeth Reid remember to mail in your weekly offertory gift. We thank Special Intention—Joe V. you for your continued support of our parish community. The People of this Parish