ST. PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH 8720 Florin Road Sacramento, CA 95828 JULY 4, 2021 FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Pastor—Rev. Joyle Martinez Deacon— Antonio Ramirez Mailing Address: P .O. Box 292280, Sacramento CA 95829 Office hours 8:00am-4:00pm Mon.-Fri. Phone: 916-381-5200 Fax: 916-381-0332 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.stpaul-florin.org facebook: www.facebook.com/saintpaul.churchflorin YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCfrCwBY3cHoLNn3MC_6ySTQ Mass Schedules and other Services WELCOME! You are encouraged to participate in our many functions, events, and Weekdays [M-T-Th-F]: 8:00 AM (English) activities. We offer opportunities for parishioners to use the time, talent, and treasure that God has given them in praise and glory of His name No mass on Wednesdays through our liturgical, care–giving, philanthropic, faith-formation and First Saturday: 8:00 AM (English) social ministries. Saturday: 4:00 pm English Anticipated Sunday Mass Thank you for worshiping with us! Sunday: 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM (livestream) and 11:00 AM English; 1:00 PM Spanish Mass (livestream) Councils Holy Hour: First Friday 7-8 PM Pastoral Council Ja’net Blea 916.284.2008 Confession (bilingual): Saturdays 2:45 - 3:45 PM Finance Council Jerry Fong 916.689-9418 (back Sacristy behind the Altar/Sanctuary); by appoint- ment call the office. Liturgical Ministries Youth Altar Servers Ministry Brandon Fong & Marcos Galvan Faith Formation Ministries and Groups [email protected] Martha’s Daughters Ja’net Blea 916.284.2008 Director of Religious Education Sr. Ma. Elizabeth U. Siguenza RVM Art & Environment Ministry Virgie Monteagudo 916.688.0776 916.381.5200 Eucharistic Ministry 7:30am Nina Laconsay Catholic Faith Formation 9:00am Le Pham English Coordinator Lina Marco 510.334.2106 11:00am Romeo Sembrano Spanish Coordinators Ma. Consuelo Guerrez 916.607.1162 Hospitality Ministry Anita Fong 916-689-9418 Aracely Narvaez 916.383.6719 Ministry of the Word Rectory Office 916.381.5200 RCIA for Adults Angie Lovett 916.803.6463 Ministry Sick and Homebound Dale & Kit Yamamoto 916.895.1441 RCIA for Children Emiliia Caoagas 916.849.5617 Music Ministry Sr. Elizabeth Siguenza, RVM RCIA for Teens Imelda Nanca 916.744.3434 Liturgy Committee Rectory Office 916-381-5200 Catholics Returning Home Dale & Kit Yamamoto 916. 895.1441 Wedding Coordinator Le Pham Baptism Preparation Dale & Kit Yamamoto 916. 895.1441 [email protected] Young Adults Ministry Rectory Office 916.381.5200 Legion of Mary Norma Bolante 916.688.8769 Philanthropic Ministries and Groups Vocation Committee Catholic Daughters of the Americas Michelle Eck 916. 524.5097 Social Ministries and Groups Knights of Columbus Angelo Mendoza 916-761-6565 Religious Movements and Groups Christmas Fair Michelle Eck 916.524.5097 Fall Festival PPC/PFC 916.381.5200 Couples for Christ Billy/Virgie Monteagudo 916.688.0776 Cultural Dinner Rectory Office 916.381.5200 Chris & Rena Torres 916.873.7969 Parish Breakfasts Knights of Columbus 916.381.5200 Families in Christ Jesus Com’ty. Angie Lovett 916.803.6463 Religious Goods Store Rectory Office 916.381.5200 Rhett & Monica Tejada 916.308.8764 Yard Sale Rectory Office 916.381.5200 Miraculous Infant Jesus of Prague Minda Miguel 916.837.8527 Family Prayer Group (MIJ of Prague) Romeo Sembrano 916.599.7195 Caregiving Ministries and Groups MISSION STATEMENT We, God's people of St. Paul Catholic Parish In Sacramento, California, Bereavement Ministry Ella Baxa 916-849-0685 a multicultural, inclusive and welcoming community, Solett Smith 916.381.5200 inspired by the love of Jesus Christ are called: Health Ministry Clara Heimericks 916.689.3932 to bring all people of God together in worship, Loaves and Fishes Ministry Diane Welsh 916.682.7810 to declare our belief in God's love, Social Justice Ministry Diane Welsh 916.682.7810 based on the teachings of Jesus Christ, Pro Life 4 Life Rectory Office 916.381.5200 and to celebrate and grow in our relationship with God. PAGE 2 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 4, 2021 My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness. MON: 7/05 Guily Fontillas † — 2 Corinthians 12:9 (Death Anniversary) Jacob San Nicolas † NO BAD NEWS Jesse Santos Manibusan† (Recent Deaths) There are many times when we say, “Tell me what I Flavio Alfredo Sanchez want to hear, and don’t confuse me with facts.” And we don’t (Birthday Thanksgiving) take kindly to someone who might be bold enough to snuff TUE 7/06 Joan Tangerman † out our expectations. Madela Perez † The biggest problem with such an attitude is not that we (Recent Deaths) miss out on the truth or the facts, but that we miss out on the Cecilia Matanguihan Rivera new and surprising gifts others can give us. Like the towns- (Prayer for Healing) people in today’s Gospel story, we too often refuse to allow others to display the talents that can be good news for us. WED: 7/07 NO HOLY MASS Today’s readings call for hospitality and faith and dis- cernment. Hospitality opens the doors of our hearts and THUR: 7/08 Aurora De Asis † minds to the “stranger” among us, no matter how familiar he (Recent Death) or she may seem to be. Faith enables us to accept the gifts Cecilia Matanguihan Rivera of others, no matter how alarming or “strange” they may (Prayer for Healing) seem to be. Discernment helps us discover the prophets in FRI: 7/09 Cecilia Matanguihan Rivera our midst, no matter how amazing they may seem to be. (Prayer for Healing) Hospitality, faith, and discernment—cultivate these. Then, nobody can bring bad news. Roberto Labao Sr. † Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. (Recent Death) FEAST OF FAITH TODAY’S READINGS Little Mysteries First Reading — They shall know that a prophet has been Two small rites—or, as one liturgist has called them, among them (Ezekiel 2:2-5). “little mysteries”—accompany the preparation of the gifts. Psalm — Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for his mer- The priest or deacon takes a small cruet of water from the cy (Psalm 123). Second Reading — I am content with weaknesses and hard- server and adds a drop of water to the wine. Then, after the ships for the sake of Christ (2 Corinthians 12:7-10). elevation of the chalice (and the incensation, if incense is Gospel — “Where did this man get all this? Is he not the car- used), the priest washes his hands. Both of these actions penter, the son of Mary?” (Mark 6:1-6a). were at first practical, matter-of-fact realities: in the ancient world the wine was usually quite thick, and was generally mixed with water before it was drunk. And in the early READINGS FOR THE WEEK church, when the faithful brought forward a great variety of gifts at this time, there was a definite need for the presider Monday: Gn 28:10-22a; Ps 91:1-4, 14-15ab; Mt 9:18-26 to wash his hands! Tuesday: Gn 32:23-33; Ps 17:1b, 2-3, 6-7ab, 8b, 15; But now these rites serve a purely symbolic function. Mt 9:32-38 The mingling of the water and wine is accompanied by a Wednesday: Gn 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a; prayer that speaks of the wonderful exchange of the Mass, Ps 33:2-3, 10-11, 18-19; Mt 10:1-7 the mingling of Christ’s divinity and our humanity. And as Thursday: Gn 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5; Ps 105:16-21; Mt 10:7-15 the priest washes his hands, he prays words of supplica- Friday: Gn 46:1-7, 28-30; Ps 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, tion from Psalm 51, acknowledging his own sinfulness in 39-40; Mt 10:16-23 the presence of the assembly before he dares to approach Saturday: Gn 49:29-32; 50:15-26a; Ps 105:1-4, 6-7; the altar for this most sacred action. Mt 10:24-33 —Corinna Laughlin, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. Sunday: Am 7:12-15; Ps 85:9-14; Eph 1:3-14 [1:3-10]; Mk 6:7-13 THE SHAPE OF THINGS SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES We cannot help conforming ourselves to what we love. —St. Francis de Sales Sunday: Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time; Independence Day Monday: St. Anthony Zaccaria; St. Elizabeth of Portugal WAITING Tuesday: St. Maria Goretti Our Lord prefers to wait for the sinner for years rather than Friday: St. Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions keep the sinner waiting one instant. Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary —St. Peter Julian Eymard PAGE 3 TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION WELCOME NEW PARISHIONERS FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Fernando Flores Carmona & Ma. Guadalupe Rodriguez Flores In the Sunday Lectionary, the first reading is usually chosen & Family, Lynny Huynh-Nguyen & Family, Minh & Lynna Ngo from anywhere in the Hebrew Bible to tie together with the Gospel. & Family, Merle C. Larios & Reesa Laguador, Alicia Raya & Currently, the second reading is from Saint Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians. Often the second reading is not so closely related to the Family, Jose & Nancy Silva, Luis Rivas & Family, Jovanny day’s Gospel selection, because those books are read in a more con- Hernandez & Briza Batres Aguilera & Family, Sixtus & Grace tinuous fashion from week to week. But today, all three of the scrip- Aliriagwu & Family, Jose Flores & Angeles Sanchez & Family, ture readings go together very well. Ezekiel struggles with the job he Grindys Galvez Hermida & Family, Carmen Lopez Cazarez & is given by the Lord, speaking to a rebellious people. Paul is dealing Family, Valentin Gutierrez & Maria Cano & Family, Tricia Rive- with a “thorn in his side,” that is, the difficulties of his own personal ra & Family, Yvonne Poe & Anaconta Flores, Emmanuel and weakness and foibles, and learning to rely on God’s grace.