St. Veronica Church Established 1951 A Stewardship Parish - Grateful Living through Faith, Fellowship, Service, & Giving

434 Alida Way South San Francisco, CA 94080 Phone: 650-588-1455 www.stveronicassf.com Fax: 650-588-1481

The Naming of St. John the Baptist by Fra Angelico The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist June 24, 2018

“John is his name.” - Luke 1:63 St. Veronica Parish Mass Intentions Parish Office Hours for the Week of June 24, 2018 Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sun 06/24 7:00 Fathers Living and Deceased Closed for lunch from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. 8:30 † Marla & Louis Braganza 10:00 † Mike Sr. and Kevin Folan (unless otherwise posted) 11:30 † George Griffin Phone: 650-588-1455 Fax: 650-588-1481 6:00 † Juan Manuel Ramirez

Parish Staff Mon 06/25 6:30 † Mario Feliciano 8:30 Fathers Living and Deceased Fr. Charles Puthota, Ph.D., Pastor Fr. Patrick Driscoll, Parochial Vicar Tue 06/26 6:30 † Jerry Avila 8:30 Fathers Living and Deceased Fr. Don Sharp, S.J., Weekend Assistant Wed 06/27 6:30 † Floral Cartel Abad Deacon Roger Beaudry 8:30 † Olga DeSouza Deacon Joseph LeBlanc Thu 06/28 6:30 † Jesus Atienza 8:30 † Richard Paul Fernandez Patricia Spiteri, Parish Secretary, Ext. 301

Karen Guglielmoni, Faith Formation & Fri 06/29 6:30 † Eva & Zoroastro Atienza 8:30 † Lolita Bueno Wedding Coordinator, Ext.305

Christopher Lindstrom, Music Director, Ext. 308 Sat 06/30 8:30 † Lita Nazario 5:00 † Reynaldo Baluyot Jim Rodriguez, Custodian/Maintenance Sun 07/01 7:00 The Battaglia Family 8:30 † Sylvia Azzopardi St. Veronica Catholic School 10:00 † Felicidad Pelayo www.saintveronicassf.org 11:30 † Dominador Roxas Jr. Phone: 650-589-3909 6:00 † Maria de Jesus Hernandez

Mrs. Mary Boland Principal St. Veronica Parish Mission Statement

St. Veronica Church is a multicul- SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION tural community of believers who treas-

Sacrament of Baptism ure Jesus Christ at the center of their Baptisms are to be arranged through the Parish Office. profession of faith & practice. They wor- Baptisms in English are typically held on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. ship & work together to build up a com- Baptisms in Spanish are typically held on the munity of family & friends according to 2nd Saturday of each month. the mind & heart of Christ. Out of the Baptismal Preparation classes are held once a month. Call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455 abundance of joy & gratitude, they live & share the good news of faith & hope, Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) Call the Parish Office to register 650-588-1455 Ext.309 striving to stand up for peace & justice,

Faith Formation: 650-588-1455 Ext. 305 to spread love & compassion, to care for Catechetical instructions (1st to 8th grades) those who are in need, and to make our

Confirmation Classes: 650-588-1455 nation & the world a better place for all. Parish Office email: [email protected] Mass Schedule On the Horizon Saturdays: 8:30 a.m. & 5:00 p.m. Sundays: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, and 11:30 a.m.  Parish Center repair work through July: Spanish Mass: Sundays at 6:00 p.m. Floor replacement in the Parish Center; hospitali- Holy Days: 6:30, 8:30 a.m., 6:30 p.m. (English) ty will move to Falcon Hall (the cafeteria) Monday - Friday: 6:30 & 8:30 a.m.  Sun., June 24: Farewell hospitality reception for Father Driscoll and Deacon Joe, following Confessions 10:00 a.m. Mass in Falcon Hall (the cafeteria) Saturdays: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.  Wed., July 4: Independence Day; One Mass at Liturgy of the Hours 8:30 a.m.; No Eucharistic Adoration; No Bingo Monday - Friday: Morning Prayer at 6:00 a.m. Sat., July 14: Spanish ministry vigil, 7:00 p.m. -  Eucharistic Adoration midnight in the Church 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday - Friday  Sat., August 11: Spanish ministry vigil, except as posted for holidays and parish events 7:00 p.m. - midnight in the Church

2019 Mass Intentions Available! Parish Registration Please complete and return form to the parish office, or simply drop it in the collection basket. Mass intentions for 2019 are now being accepted in Kindly print all information. the Pastoral Center office. Kindly observe the fol- lowing guidelines when reserving Masses: Name(s): ______ Intentions are on a first-come, first-served basis Name(s): ______ Up to 4 intentions may be made during one visit Address: ______ Intentions are to be made in person at the ______Pastoral Center during regular office hours  Intentions are limited to one name per Mass City & Zip: ______except for those made for a wedding anniversary Phone: ______ Please Note: A large number of 2018 inten- E-mail: ______tions (particularly for weekdays and the weekly Spanish Mass) remain available. Primary language spoken at home: ______

Envelopes received in the First Collection: Updating Current Parish Registration

June 02 & 03: 317 Moving / Please remove from mailing list. June 09 & 10: 306 June 16 & 17: 317

___This is a new registration Please call me. If you currently receive envelopes but do not use them, please prayerfully consider including your donation in the collection basket.

Thank you for your generosity in support of St. Veronica Parish and its works. Day Mass Time 1st Collection Environment Totals

Saturday 06/16/18 5:00PM 1268.00 231.00 1499.00 Sunday 06/17/18 7:00AM 1459.00 276.00 173.5.00 8:30AM 1107.00 281.00 1388.00 10:00AM 1332.00 341.00 1673.00 11:30AM 1023.00 185.00 1208.00 6:00PM 271.00 173.00 444.00 TOTAL IN-PEW DONATIONS: 6460.00 1487.00 7947.00 Other Contributions 260.00 n/a 260.00 Rejoice and Be Glad - “Gaudete et Exsultate”

The Call to Holiness in Today’s World tyrdom, and certain cases where a life is constantly offered for others, even until death. This shows an exemplary imita- On March 19, 2018, the feast of St. Joseph, Pope Francis tion of Christ, one worthy of the admiration of the faithful. signed the apostolic exhortation “Gaudete et Exsultate”. We can think, for example, of Blessed Maria Gabriella Sa- The pope reminds us, “We need to recognize and combat gheddu, who offered her life for the unity of Christians. our aggressive and selfish inclinations, and not let them take root” (no. 114). THE SAINTS “NEXT DOOR”

Over the course of the next several bulletins, the five chap- 6. Nor need we think only of those already beatified and ters of Pope Francis’ exhortation will be presented in its canonized. The Holy Spirit bestows holiness in abundance entirety. among God’s holy and faithful people, for “it has pleased God to make men and women holy and to save them, not as 1. “REJOICE AND BE GLAD” (Mt 5:12), Jesus tells those individuals without any bond between them, but rather as a persecuted or humiliated for his sake. The Lord asks every- people who might acknowledge him in truth and serve him thing of us, and in return he offers us true life, the happiness in holiness”. In salvation history, the Lord saved one people. for which we were created. He wants us to be saints and not We are never completely ourselves unless we belong to a to settle for a bland and mediocre existence. The call to holi- people. That is why no one is saved alone, as an isolated ness is present in various ways from the very first pages of individual. Rather, God draws us to himself, taking into ac- . We see it expressed in the Lord’s words to Abra- count the complex fabric of interpersonal relationships pre- ham: “Walk before me, and be blameless” (Gen 17:1). sent in a human community. God wanted to enter into the

2. What follows is not meant to be a treatise on holiness, life and history of a people. containing definitions and distinctions helpful for under- 7. I like to contemplate the holiness present in the patience standing this important subject, or a discussion of the vari- of God’s people: in those parents who raise their children ous means of sanctification. My modest goal is to repropose with immense love, in those men and women who work the call to holiness in a practical way for our own time, with hard to support their families, in the sick, in elderly religious all its risks, challenges and opportunities. For the Lord has who never lose their smile. In their daily perseverance I see chosen each one of us “to be holy and blameless before him the holiness of the Church militant. Very often it is a holi- in love” (Eph 1:4). ness found in our next-door neighbours, those who, living in our midst, reflect God’s presence. We might call them “the

middle class of holiness”. CH. ONE: THE CALL TO HOLINESS 8. Let us be spurred on by the signs of holiness that the Lord THE SAINTS WHO ENCOURAGE & ACCOMPANY US shows us through the humblest members of that people 3. The Letter to the Hebrews presents a number of testimo- which “shares also in Christ’s prophetic office, spreading nies that encourage us to “run with perseverance the race abroad a living witness to him, especially by means of a life that is set before us” (12:1). It speaks of Abraham, Sarah, of faith and charity”. We should consider the fact that, as Moses, Gideon and others (cf. 11:1-12:3). Above all, it in- Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross suggests, real history is vites us to realize that “a great cloud of witnesses” (12:1) made by so many of them. As she writes: “The greatest fig- impels us to advance constantly towards the goal. These ures of prophecy and sanctity step forth out of the darkest witnesses may include our own mothers, grandmothers or night. But for the most part, the formative stream of the other loved ones (cf. 2 Tim 1:5). Their lives may not always mystical life remains invisible. Certainly the most decisive have been perfect, yet even amid their faults and failings turning points in world history are substantially co- they kept moving forward and proved pleasing to the Lord. determined by souls whom no history book ever mentions. And we will only find out about those souls to whom we 4. The saints now in God’s presence preserve their bonds of owe the decisive turning points in our personal lives on the love and communion with us. The Book of Revelation at- day when all that is hidden is revealed”. tests to this when it speaks of the intercession of the martyrs: “I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain 9. Holiness is the most attractive face of the Church. But for the word of God and for the witness they had borne; they even outside the and in very different con- cried out with a loud voice, ‘O sovereign Lord, holy and texts, the Holy Spirit raises up “signs of his presence which true, how long will it be before you judge?’” (6:9-10). Each help Christ’s followers”. Saint John Paul II reminded us that of us can say: “Surrounded, led and guided by the friends of “the witness to Christ borne even to the shedding of blood God … I do not have to carry alone what, in truth, I could has become a common inheritance of Catholics, Orthodox, never carry alone. All the saints of God are there to protect Anglicans and Protestants”. In the moving ecumenical com- me, to sustain me and to carry me”. memoration held in the Colosseum during the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, he stated that the martyrs are “a heritage 5. The processes of beatification and recognize which speaks more powerfully than all the causes of divi- the signs of heroic virtue, the sacrifice of one’s life in mar- sion”. (Ch. One continues next week . . .) It is with great joy that we welcome into A very special our church and community the following children who received the THANK YOU Sacrament of Baptism at our Church to Father Patrick Driscoll and Deacon Joe LeBlanc for their on June 16, 2018 years of service to our parish!

Christian Alonso Calderon Please join with your fellow parishioners on Sunday, June 24 at the 10:00 a.m. Mass (celebrated by Father Nolan McLaughlin Driscoll with Deacon Joe preaching and assisting) and at a special hospitality afterward as we say thank you and farewell, and as we ask for God’s blessings on the next stages of their journeys! We offer our congratulations and ask for God’s continued blessings on Quo Vadis Camp for Teen Boys Evelyn Mingoa July 8-11, 2018 overnight retreat and St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park

DonDon Jose Open to incoming 10th graders to just-graduated seniors from NorCal & the Bay Area

who were united in Quo Vadis is a camp for young Catholic men to Marriage deepen their faith and seek God’s call in their lives. The camp is led by priests, seminarians, and at St. Veronica college men. It includes prayer, Mass, sports, great on Saturday, June 16 food, discussion, hiking, and talks. Quo Vadis is an awesome opportunity for prayer, brotherhood, and adventure:

July Bingo at St. Veronica! PRAYER: Mass, Adoration, Liturgy of the Hours, Looking for something fun to do on Wednesday Rosary, Confession evenings this July? Come join the dozens of others BROTHERHOOD: Food and fun with Catholic from our community who play Bingo in Falcon Hall guys serious about their faith; discussions, talks (school cafeteria). Doors open at 6:00 p.m.; games begin at 7:00 p.m. ADVENTURE: Tournaments, sports, games, PLEASE NOTE: There will NO Bingo on swimming, hikes, campfires, and more

Independence Day, July 4th! CONTACT: Father Patrick Summerhays, Voca- All proceeds from our tions Director, Archdiocese of San Francisco at Bingo games benefit St. 415-614-5684 or [email protected]. For more Veronica Catholic School. information, visit www.sfpriest.org/quovadis

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The Nativity of St. John the Baptist Registration forms are available from the I find it strange that Elizabeth’s neighbors and Pastoral Center during regular office hours, relatives made signs to ask Zechariah the name of or you may download a form from our their son. He was mute, not deaf. However, don’t website at www.stveronicassf.com. we tend to act in strange ways when we meet some- one who is different from us or when we encounter Baptisms are generally celebrated monthly something that we do not expect? WE talk louder in on the 1st and 3rd Saturday in English our own tongue to someone who speaks a different and on occasional 2nd Saturdays in Spanish. language. We stumble for words when tragedy Please call the Parish Office to sign up. strikes. We become tongue-tied when we meet someone famous. Flustered, we tend to lose our- Upcoming baptism dates are as follows: selves. We can even misunderstand the situation July 7 & 21 before us. Elizabeth’s and Zechariah’s confidence August 4 & 18 offers another model for response. They simply speak their truth, ask for what they need, and affirm September 1 & 15 one another. Their union with God and willingness to do what God asked free Zechariah’s tongue. This Preparation classes for parents and godparents tells their family and friends that God’s hand was are held on the second Tuesday of the month. involved in naming their son John. Classes are conducted in the Pastoral Center from Most of us are not prophets like John and Isaiah. 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. (Adults only please). Called from our mother’s wombs, we are formed to Please call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455 for be servants of God, to announce the of the specific dates and to reserve your space for the Lord. Our lives herald Jesus Christ when we imprint Baptismal Preparation Classes. the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ, in our words, actions, and attitudes. Meeting us, people meet Jesus. Seeing us, they see Jesus. Encountering us, they encounter Jesus the Christ. By living Jesus, we prepare and point the way to the Lord, like John. Open your ears to hear God’s will. Open your mouths and let God free your tongue to proclaim the Gospel. Allow the hand of God to calm your fears and give you the confidence and trust that Zechariah and Elizabeth exhibited. Then praise God that you have been wonderfully made to imprint the gospel with your life.

For Prayerful Consideration & Discussion  How to you experience the hand of the Lord with you?  Name ways in which you announce the gospel of the Lord each day.

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The RCIA (Rite of Christian Initia- tion of Adults) program is now accepting registration for 2018-19. Those 16 years of age or older who would like to become Catholic St. Veronica Parish Festival 2018 (having never been baptized) or who would like to com- plete the Sacraments of Initiation (having been baptized September 28, 29, 30 into a Christian faith, but not received Communion and/ or been confirmed) are invited to call the Pastoral Center offices at 650-588-1455 and leave their contact infor- We are going to the Islands! mation. A member of the RCIA team will follow up with details about the program, which begins in September. Festival planning is underway! Donations will Registration forms are available in the Pastoral Center. be taken throughout the summer at the Parish Office for the following booths: New and continuing registration is being accepted for the 2018-19  Café (bottled water, canned or bottled non- Faith Formation program. alcoholic beverages in single-serve size, Registration forms are on the single-serve chips, boxed candy, etc.) parish website under the “Faith Formation” tab, or may be requested by calling the Faith  Liquor Booth Formation office at 650-588-1455 ext. 305. Even if your  Sports Booth child will be a returning student, a 2018-19 registration  Toy Booth form is required. Forms are available in Spanish at the parish office.

Please register your child/children as soon as possible as class sizes are limited. Classes begin in September.

A reminder that preparation for the sacraments of First Holy Communion and Confirmation are each two-year programs, beginning no earlier than first grade for Com- munion and no earlier than 8th grade for Confirmation.

Donations of gift cards/certificates will gladly Special Needs Faith Formation Program: “Let the be accepted for the silent auction. little children come to me; do not hinder them, for such is the kingdom of God.” - Mark 10:14. Own a business or know of a business that Implicit in Jesus’ words is his wel- might like to become a festival sponsor? come to all children. We are all chil- Leave your contact information with the Parish dren of God; God welcomes us all.

Office, and it will be passed along Every child may receive the sacra- to the Festival Planning Team! ments of Holy Eucharist and Confirmation. At St. Ve- ronica, we are blessed to offer classes for students with special needs. The children usually begin preparation for Holy Eucharist at age 6 or 7, but there is no upper age limit. Confirmation preparation usually begins around age 12. Preparation for each sacrament is two years.

If you have a child with special needs who has not re- ceived his or her sacraments, please contact the Parish Office. And please pass along our information to others who may be interested in the program!

Classes begin in late September on Saturdays from 10:30 -11:45 a.m. We would love to work with your child on his or her faith journey!