St. Veronica Church Palm Sunday & Holy Week
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St. Veronica Church Established 1951 A Stewardship Parish - Grateful Living through Faith, Fellowship, Service, & Giving 434 Alida Way South San Francisco, CA 94080 Fax: 650-588-1481 www.stveronicassf.com Phone: 650-588-1455 Palm Sunday & Holy Week Entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem by Anthony van Dyck 1617 The Last Supper by Jon McNaughton March 25 - 31, 2018 Christ and Pilate - Behold the Man by Marcus Vincent St. Veronica Parish Parish Office Hours Mass Intentions Monday to Friday for the Week of March 25, 2018 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sun 03/25 7:00 † Marino Sun Closed for lunch from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. 8:30 † Raymond Morales (unless otherwise posted) 10:00 † Peg Kidd Phone: 650-588-1455 Fax: 650-588-1481 11:30 † Uwe Zinck 6:00 Miguel & Julio Velarde Parish Staff Mon 03/26 6:30 † Irene Grimes 8:30 † Bob Cauterucio Fr. Charles Puthota, Ph.D., Pastor Fr. Patrick Driscoll, Parochial Vicar Tue 03/27 6:30 † Isaac Puthota 8:30 † Steve Lozar Fr. Don Sharp, S.J., Weekend Assistant Deacon Roger Beaudry Wed 03/28 6:30 † Dick Battaglia 8:30 † Rufino Leduna Jr. Deacon Joseph LeBlanc Thu 03/29 Holy Thursday - No Morning Masses Patricia Spiteri, Parish Secretary, Ext. 301 6:30 p.m. - No Intention Karen Guglielmoni, Faith Formation & Fri 03/30 Good Friday - No Morning Masses Wedding Coordinator, Ext.305 Sat 03/31 Holy Saturday - No Morning Mass Christopher Lindstrom, Music Director, Ext. 308 8:00 Vigil - No Intention Jim Rodriguez, Custodian/Maintenance Sun 04/01 Easter Sunday - No Intentions St. Veronica Catholic School Wishing you a Holy and Blessed Easter! www.saintveronicassf.org Phone: 650-589-3909 Mrs. Mary Boland St. Veronica Parish Mission Statement Principal St. Veronica Church is a multicul- tural community of believers who treas- SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION ure Jesus Christ at the center of their Sacrament of Baptism profession of faith & practice. They wor- Baptisms are to be arranged through the Parish Office. Baptisms in English are typically held on the ship & work together to build up a com- 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. munity of family & friends according to Baptisms in Spanish are typically held on the the mind & heart of Christ. Out of the 2nd Saturday of each month. Baptismal Preparation classes are held once a month. abundance of joy & gratitude, they live & Call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455 share the good news of faith & hope, Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) striving to stand up for peace & justice, Call the Parish Office to register 650-588-1455 Ext.309 to spread love & compassion, to care for Faith Formation: 650-588-1455 Ext. 305 those who are in need, and to make our Catechetical instructions (1st to 8th grades) nation & the world a better place for all. Confirmation Classes: 650-588-1455 Parish Office email: [email protected] Mass Schedule On the Horizon Saturdays: 8:30 a.m. & 5:00 p.m. Thurs., March 29: Holy Thursday Mass of the Sundays: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, and 11:30 a.m. Lord’s Supper, 6:30 p.m. followed by Eucharis- Spanish Mass: Sundays at 6:00 p.m. tic Adoration until 10:00 p.m. Holy Days: 6:30, 8:30 a.m., 6:30 p.m. (English) Fri., March 30: Good Friday - Stations of the Monday - Friday: 6:30 & 8:30 a.m. Cross at noon, Choir Cantata at 12:45 p.m., & Confessions Good Friday Liturgy from 1:00-3:00 p.m. Saturdays: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Sat., March 31 & Sun., April 1: Easter Masses Liturgy of the Hours at 8:00 p.m. Saturday (Vigil); 7:00, 8:30, 10:00 Monday - Friday: Morning Prayer at 6:00 a.m. & 11:30 a.m. (English), and 1:30 p.m. (Spanish). Mon., April 2: Easter Monday Holiday, Pasto- Eucharistic Adoration ral Office closed, one Mass at 8:30 a.m., NO Eu- 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday - Friday charistic Adoration except as posted for holidays and parish events Sun., April 8: YMI Parishioner of the Year Mass, 8:30 a.m. with Breakfast following in Fal- con Hall Parish Registration Please complete and return form to the parish office, Welcome New Parishioners! or simply drop it in the collection basket. Kindly print all information. Our parish continues to be blessed and enriched by the presence of newly registered parishioners: Name(s): ____________________________________ Name(s): ____________________________________ Kaho, Johannah, Address: ____________________________________ Luke & Ian Li ___________________________________________ May St. Veronica Church become a spiritual home where your faith and fellowship may be nourished with inspiration for you City & Zip: __________________________________ to live a life of service and generosity toward God and others. Phone: ______________________________________ E-mail: _____________________________________ Can You Spend Time With Our Lord? St. Veronica Parish is blessed with Eucharistic Exposition Primary language spoken at home: ________________ and Adoration on weekdays from after the 8:30 a.m. Mass until 4:00 p.m. This brings many blessings to the Updating Current Parish Registration adorers, our parish and the entire Body of Christ! We need more adorers, especially on Thursdays and Moving / Please remove from mailing list. Fridays from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Please consider committing to spending one hour (or more!) ___This is a new registration Please call me. with our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Start this Lent! Contact Carmella Da San Martino at 650-615-0479. Lent Events at St. Veronica Fasting and Abstinence: Everyone 14 years of age and older is bound to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday, each Friday of Lent, and Good Friday. Those 18-60 years of age are to fast on Ash Wednesday & Good Friday. On these two days the law of fasting allows only one full meal a day, but does not prohibit taking some food during the day, as long as this does not constitute another full meal. Drinking liquids is permitted. Almsgiving: Our St. Vincent de Paul Conference is accepting non-perishable food items. Through Good Friday, March 30, items may be placed in the baskets in the vestibule or dropped off at the Pastoral Center. Thank you for supporting St. Veronica Parish and its works. Due to holiday printing schedules, our collection numbers for March 17th & 18th will be reported in the April 1st bulletin. Thank you for your continued support. Pope Francis’ Message for Palm Sunday Today’s celebraon can be said to be biersweet. It is joyful and sorrowful at the same me. We cele- brate the Lord’s entrance into Jerusalem to the cries of his disciples who acclaim him as king. Yet we also solemn- ly proclaim the Gospel account of his Passion. In this poignant contrast, our hearts experience in some small measure what Jesus himself must have felt in his own heart that day, as he rejoiced with his friends and wept over Jerusalem. The Gospel we heard before the procession (cf. Mt 21:1-11) describes Jesus as he comes down from the Mount of Olives on the back of a colt that had never been ridden. It recounts the enthusiasm of the disciples who acclaim the Master with cries of joy, and we can picture in our minds the excitement of the children and young people of the city who joined in the excitement. Jesus himself sees in this joyful welcome an inexorable force willed by God. To the scandalized Pharisees he responds: “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would shout out” (Lk 19:40). Yet Jesus who, in fulfilment of the Scriptures, enters the holy city in this way is no misguided purveyor of illusions, no new age prophet, no imposter. Rather, he is clearly a Messiah who comes in the guise of a servant, the servant of God and of man, and goes to his passion. He is the great “paent”, who suffers all the pain of hu- manity. So as we joyfully acclaim our King, let us also think of the sufferings that he will have to endure in this week. Let us think of the slanders and insults, the snares and betrayals, the abandonment to an unjust judgment, the blows, the lashes and the crown of thorns . And lastly, the way of the cross leading to the crucifixion. He had spoken clearly of this to his disciples: “If any want to become my followers, let them deny them- selves and take up their cross and follow me” (Mt 16:24). Jesus never promised honour and success. The Gospels make this clear. He had always warned his friends that this was to be his path, and that the final victory would be achieved through the passion and the cross. All this holds true for us too. Let us ask for the grace to follow Jesus faithfully, not in words but in deeds. Let us also ask for the paence to carry our own cross, not to refuse it or set it aside, but rather, in looking to him, to take it up and to carry it daily. This Jesus, who accepts the hosannas of the crowd, knows full well that they will soon be followed by the cry: “Crucify him!” He does not ask us to contemplate him only in pictures and photographs, or in the videos that circulate on the internet. No. He is present in our many brothers and sisters who today endure sufferings like his own: they suffer from slave labour, from family tragedies, from diseases . They suffer from wars and terrorism, from interests that are armed and ready to strike.