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Mass Schedule SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Saturday Evening: PARISH VISION AND MISSION STATEMENT 5:00 pm 7:00 pm (Tagalog) Vision Sunday: 7:30; 9:00 & 10:45 am; We are called to active discipleship to live the values taught by our Lord Jesus Christ through acts of 12:30 & 7:00 pm faith, hope, and . Weekdays: Monday through

Saturday Mornings: 7:00 am Mission Wednesdays: OLPH Novena Mass 6:30 pm • We seek to be a welcoming community where everyone knows each other by name.

First Fridays: 7:00 pm • We seek to enhance our parish stewardship by identifying the gifts of individuals within the parish

Holy Days: Schedule is published and encouraging the sharing of the time, talents, treasures, and traditions from the diverse prior to the day cultures of our parish. Pastoral Staff • We commit to encourage and engage the full participation of all parishioners in the liturgy, the sacraments, and all parish celebrations and activities. Main Number (408) 262-2546 Rev. Ritche Bueza, Pastor, • We seek to know the Lord better through commitment to promote continuing and lifelong x316, [email protected] religious faith formation. Rev. Eduardo Obero, Parochial Vicar, x302, [email protected] Rev. Andres Ligot, JCD and Rev. Sacrament of Reconciliation Daniel Urcia, In Residence Chris Brazil, School Principal Saturday: 4:00-4:45 pm or by appointment. (408) 262-8110, [email protected] Parish Office x301 Infant Baptism Cory Mollat, Director of Faith Formation, Liturgy Coordinator Preparation can begin either before or after the birth of your x315, [email protected] child. Contact the Parish Office at (408) 262-2546 for Mary Ann Gonzalo, Office information regarding our pre-Baptism preparation program. Manager, Bulletin Editor x306 [email protected] [email protected] Adult Baptism Ed Sacramento, Facilities Coordinator x307 Contact the Parish Office (408) 262-2546 [email protected] [email protected] Marriage Irene Banzon, Admin Assistant x316 [email protected] Weddings normally take place in the parish of the bride or the Jeryll Fernandez, CM Admin groom. Couples wishing to marry must contact one of the Assistant X305 [email protected] at least six months before the proposed date of the Arjay Endozo, Music Coordinator wedding. X308, [email protected] Macy Canasa, Coordinator, x312 WELCOME TO OUR NEW PARISHIONERS! [email protected] To register, please complete a Registration Form available at the Parish Office or Ruben Cardenas, Youth Coordinator, download from the parish website - www.sjbparish.org. X312 [email protected] Page 2 SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Our readings today are a summons to holiness, and a description of what it means to be holy. In Leviticus, we read that holiness begins with God, the Holy One, who called the people of Israel to be like God. Holiness takes the form of love: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Paul claims that the Christian community in Corinth, with all its laws and petty rivalries, is in fact holy. It is holy because it is God’s temple, the place where God dwells. And in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus describes what holiness looks like: breaking cycles of violence and negativity through forgiveness and generosity. When we bring forgiveness to the table of our lives, especially when anger and bitterness threaten to overwhelm our relationship with others, we relect the Holy One who dwells within us. NOT ASKING THE IMPOSSIBLE The inal line in today’s Gospel can seem confusing: “be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” “Perfect” is sometimes imagined as “lawless,” as in a lawless diamond. But the Greek word used here, as used elsewhere in the New Testament, means something different: to become mature, whole, or healthy. Jesus is not asking us to be lawless, nor does he want us to say, “Well, that’s impossible, why bother then?” He is inviting us to grow into full Christian maturity. For most of us, Jesus’ words in today’s Gospel are very challenging. We need to resist the temptation to dodge his challenge by calling it impossible. RESISTING EVIL Jesus’ teaching in the irst verses of today’s Gospel has also been puzzling to many. Some interpret Jesus to say that we should not resist evil, but instead be completely passive. However, the Law of called Israel to vigorously resist evil. Within this section of the Sermon on the Mount, we can see how Jesus interpreted the Law, “not to abolish but to fulill” (Matthew 5:17). Jesus taught that violent resistance to the oppressor tends to sustain and expand the pattern of hatred and evil. Violence spawns new violence. But those who turn the cheek, hand over the cloak, and go the second mile, resist evil by exposing it within the evildoer’s heart. Jesus was not naı̈ve about evil and violence. In fact, he experienced these fully in his death. On the cross, Jesus radically resisted evil and exposed its powerlessness. On the cross, he loved his enemies and prayed for those who persecuted him. As Jesus forgave his enemies, he witnessed to the Good News he preached, that God loves and forgives all of us. When we forgive and love our enemies, we are liberated from hatred in our own hearts. Then evil’s power diminishes, and a path opens toward ending its patterns of violence and oppression.

Today’s Readings: Lev 19:1–2, 17–18; Ps 103:1–4, 8, 10, 12–13; 1 Cor 3:16–23; Mt 5:38–48

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Mass Intentions Upcoming Week’s Calendar Saturday - February 18, 2017 5:00PM Chelsea Ann Susbilla (Birthday) Monday - February 20, 2017 Jenner Delgado (Healing) Hall Gym 3:00p-11:00p Bingo TODAY’S READINGS Juan Domingo Alejandro † Hall 2B 6:45p - 9:15p Upper Room Bible Study First Reading — Take no Emelita Brito † Tuesday - February 21, 2017 revenge and cherish no Rommel Dela Rosa † Hall Gym 3:00p-9:00p SJBS Basketball grudge; love your neighbor Zennie Ferrer † MP Hall 6:00p-8:30p Sr as yourself. (Leviticus 19:1- James & Carol McCormick † Hall 1A 7:00p-10:00p Little Rock Bible Study 2, 17-18). Louise Nachazel † MP Hall 8:30p-10:00p SJB Youth Ministry 7:00PM Karen Miranda & Karla Hall Gym 9:00p-10:30p CCIC Basketball Psalm — The Lord is kind and Mitchell (Birthday) Wednesday - February 22, 2017 merciful (Psalm 103). Jesus Agustin † Hall Gym 1:00p-9:00p SJBS Basketball Second Reading — You are Sunday – February 19, 2017 Hall 2B 7:00p-9:00p Adult Choir 2nd Sunday 7:30AM Ellie D Cerezo (Thx) the temple of God, and holy Church 7:30p-9:00p Himig San Juan Mary Nancy Nguyen † (1 Corinthians 3:16-23). Hall 2A 7:30p-9:00p B & W Ball Committee Peter Thanh Pham † Gospel — Offer no Thursday - February 23, 2017 Val Wilson † resistance; love your Hall Gym 3:00p-7:00p SJBS Basketball 9:00AM People of the Parish enemies (Matthew 5:38-48). Hall 2B 7:00p-10:00p 10:45 Choir Practice 10:45AM Rommel Dela Rosa † The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Hall Gym 7:00p-10:00p SJBS Dads’ Basketball Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International 12:30PM Isagani Garcia † Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All 7:00PM People of the Parish Church 7:15p-9:15p Baptismal Prep Class rights reserved. Monday – February 20, 2017 Friday - February 24, 2017 7:00AM Ellie D Cerezo (Birthday) Hall Gym 3:00p-6:00p SJBS Basketball READINGS FOR THE WEEK John & Cici Susbilla (Wed MP Hall 4:00p-10:00p SJB Youth Ministry Monday: Sir 1:1-10; Ps 93:1 Anniv) Hall 2A 6:30p-9:30p CFC - CLS -2, 5; Mk 9:14-29 Mary Nancy Nguyen † Hall 2B 6:30p-10:30p Youth for Christ Tuesday: Sir 2:1-11; Ps 37:3 Peter Thanh Pham † Hall 1A 6:30p-9:30p KFC Assembly Manuel Rodriguez † Hall Gym 7:00p-9:30p Lakas Volleyball -4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40; Tuesday – February 21, 2017 Saturday - February 25, 2017 Mk 9:30-37 7:00AM Mikayla Tan (Birthday) Hall 2A 8:00a-2:00p K of C Officers’ Training Wednesday: 1 Pt 5:1-4; Ps Eduardo Hernandez † Hall Gym 9:00a-1:00p Dance Ministry 23:1-3a, 4-6; Mt 16:13-19 Enrique Hernandez † Mary Nancy Nguyen † Hall 2B 11:00a-12:30p Jr Legion of Mary Thursday: Sir 5:1-8; Ps 1:1- Peter Thanh Pham † MP Hall 3:00p-4:30p Childrens’ Choir 4, 6; Mk 9:41-50 MP Hall 4:30p-6:00p Himig San Juan Wednesday – February 22, 2017 Friday: Sir 6:5-17; Ps Sunday - February 26, 2017 7:00AM Felix & Margarita Mayrena 119:12, 16, 18, 27, 34, 35; Hall 2A 6:00a-12:45p RCIA (Thx) Mk 10:1-12 Conrado Asuncion † Ch Yard 7:30a-1:30p K of C Recruitment Day Mary Nancy Nguyen † Hall 1A 9:00a-11:00a RCIC Saturday: Sir 17:1-15; Ps Peter Thanh Pham † Hall 2B 10:30a-12:00p Holy Family Choir 103:13-18; Mk 10:13-16 6:30PM Bernadette Morales (Birthday) Hall 2A 1:00p-4:00p EM General Assembly Sunday: Is 49:14-15; Ps 62:2 Thursday – February 23, 2017 Hall 1A 2:00p-4:00p Adult Confirmation -3, 6-9; 1 Cor 4:1-5; Mt 7:00AM Thomas R Nangpi (Birthday) Hall 2A 5:00p-10:00p SJB Youth 6:24-34 Dominador S Domingo † Hall Gym 6:00p-11:00p Bingo Set Up Jun G Domingo † Romeo Galasinao † Let us pray for the sick: Chloe Avalos, Darwin Domingo, Rex Galasinao, Mary Nancy Nguyen † Benito Gaviola, Joanne Gonzalo, Debbie Ignacio, Marcelito Insilay, Peter Thanh Pham † Jordan Reyes, Bernadette Tan, and Alvin Tayag. May the Lord relieve them Friday – February 24, 2017 of their pain and suffering. 7:00AM Josie Gaudinez (Birthday) Let us pray for those requesting prayers: Expecting Mothers, Walter Seepersad, Jocelyn Wariner (Birthday) Unemployed Parishioners, and US Troops. Mary Nancy Nguyen † Let us pray for all those who have passed away: Gregorio Barela, Ambrosio Belgica Jr, Peter Thanh Pham † Herminia Belgica, Felicia Coggin, Leanna Jasmine Cu, Maria Foronda, Percival Walter & Philip Vales † Kempis, Helen Madayag, Jose Ramos, Esperanza Sumabat, and Rodolfo Vasques. Saturday - February 25, 2017 May God grant them eternal rest. 7:00AM Mary Nancy Nguyen † Names of those who are sick will remain on the prayer list for one month unless otherwise Margaret Oh † requested. Peter Thanh Pham † E-mail [email protected] to submit names. Page 4 SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION In brushing up for “Catholic Jeopardy,” it might help to know February 11 & 12 that there is only one feast on the calendar for a thing, rather than a

person or mystery. It’s for a chair: ’s chair in fact. Saturday 5:00 PM 1,443.50 After the Resurrection, there can be no doubt that the disciples 7:00 PM 651.00 reserved a special place for Simon Peter in the upper room. Later, Sunday 7:30 AM 1,398.00 Peter became the bishop of Antioch in today’s Syria, the place where 9:00 AM 1,730.00 we were irst called “Christians.” From there, he went to Rome, the 10:45 AM 2,392.00 12:30 PM 1,761.00 center of the Empire, where it is said that Peter sat in a chair in the 7:00 PM 1,254.28 house of to instruct his lock. Jesus, in entrusting Online Giving 113.00 the keys of the Kingdom to Peter and his successors, entrusted his

Total Sunday Offering $ 10,742.78 compassion and mercy to them, and charged them with pointing to the Kingdom of God. Compassion and mercy are to resonate Our Weekly Goal $ 11,000.00 through their teaching. Variance (257.22) Since the ancient sign of a teacher is the chair (“” Novena (including Online Giving) 458.00 literally means one who sits at the feet of a teacher), Peter’s chair Maintenance Fund 2,113.50 has long been treasured. Today there is a symbolic shrine of Peter’s Upcoming Second Offerings: chair above the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. This 03/12/17 St John Parish School monument is the last work of Bernini, a huge bronze throne 03/26/17 Catholic Relief Services supported by four doctors of the Church: Augustine and Your generosity is appreciated from the Western Church, and Chrysostom and Athanasius from the THANK YOU FOR YOUR East. High above it is the alabaster window of the descent of the Holy Spirit. GENEROUS GIFTS! —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. Please make your checks payable to St Parish. Thank you! AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: Presidents’ Day Tuesday: St. Wednesday: The Chair of St. Peter the Apostle; Washington’s Birthday Thursday: St.

DIVINE WISDOM The Lord’s message, through Moses, was to “take no revenge and cherish no grudge . . . love your neigh- bor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18). We might think, “Great in theory, but not always realistic!” Then Jesus in today’s Gospel goes even further. Take a slap in the face and then turn the other cheek? Treat enemies the same as friends? Again, we’re tempted to think that those are nice ideals, but not very practical in the “real world.” Paul echoes Jesus when he tells the Corinthians that what passes for human wisdom is absurdity to God. Divine wisdom casts sunshine on the good and the bad, showers rain on the honest and the dishonest—without distinction. We must examine our wisdom and com- mon sense to see how they compare to the wisdom of God, and make adjustments accord- ingly.

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PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS

As of February 12, 2017: Total Pledged: $128, 055.00 From: 252 Families Thank you to all who have pledged! ______Parish Ofice Closure The Parish Ofice will be closed on Monday, February 20, 2017 in observance of Presidents’ Day. Normal business hours will resume on Tuesday, February 21, 2017. ______The Upper Room Bible Study - 02/20/17 There will be no Upper Room Bible Study on 02/20/17. For more info contact Dave Meszaros ‐ 408‐892‐ 0510 or [email protected] ______Knights News Any Third‐Degree Knight that would like to move on to the Fourth Degree should contact Grand Knight Art Basco. Any practicing Catholic gentleman over the age of 18 can join the . For more info, please contact Grand Knight Art Basco (408) 768‐0231 [email protected]

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St. John the Baptist Catholic Parish ww a ow w t 279 South Main Street N e .sjb Milpitas, CA 95035 p abl ar Phone: (408) 262-2546 ail ish For Emergency: Av .o (408) 476-1649 rg Fax: (408) 263-2564 School: (408) 262-8110 Fax: (408) 262-0814

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PASSIONS We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.

—Richard Steele