St. Cyprian Parish 195 Leota Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94086 October 29, 2017 Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time CHURCH OFFICE/RECTORY 408-739-8506 Oficina de la Iglesia/Rectoría 1133 W. Washington Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION (Sacramento website: www.saintcyprian.org de Reconciliación—Confesiones): Office Hours: Saturdays (Sábados): 4:00 - 4:45PM or by appointment En Español el primer Sábado de cada mes a las 4:00 - Mondays—Closed ( Tuesday—Friday, 8:00 - 11:30am; 1:00 - 4:30pm 4:45PM) Rev. Vincent Pineda, Pastor ([email protected]) Rev. Thierry Geris, Parochial Vicar ([email protected]) MARRIAGES (Matrimonios): Jill Snoeberger, Office Manager ([email protected]) Call 408-739-8506 to make an appointment at least six (6) Greg Barron, Sacristan months in advance. Llame al 408-739-8506 para hacer una Colleen Vandevoorde, Youth Ministry cita con seis (6) meses de anticipación. ([email protected]) BAPTISMS (Bautismos): OFFICE OF CATECHETICAL MINISTRY Call 408-739-8506 to make an appointment at least two (2) Oficina del Ministerio Catequetico 408-739-1669 months in advance. Llame al 408-739-1669 para hacer una Alde Vera, Director of Religious Education ([email protected]) cita con dos (2) meses de anticipación. QUINCEAÑERAS: EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATIONS: (Celebraciones Llame al 408-739-1669 con seis (6) meses de anticipación. Eucarísticas) Weekdays (Misas Entre Semana): 7:30 AM Saturdays (Sábados): 5:00 PM ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY 408-212-4682 Sundays: (Domingos): Leave a message and a volunteer will return your call within 8:30 AM, 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM In English 72 hours. 11:30 AM in Spanish (Español) 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 Of Saints and Souls… All Saints Day and All Souls Day are twin spiritual and cultural occasions we celebrate and commemorate in the Church. These are occasions of rest, family bonding and prayer. To some, these days sadly, reveal only the social aspect. This situation gives rise to misconceptions by non-Catholics who question our biblical bases. But what can be more biblical than God’s love that transforms sinners into saints and purifies souls so they can inherit heaven. It’s all very biblical! Why do we remember? Why do we hope in a life promised to us? It is because we have experienced love. God’s love is so powerful an invitation and so attractive a prospect that many people lived their lives as a preparation for a fuller, richer, more abundant life with God in heaven. These are the saints, those who were faithful on earth and thus victorious in heaven. The Book of Revelations depict the “great multitude” from all walks of life, worshipping God and singing to him their eternal praise. They have “survived the time of great distress” – the time of trials – by holding on in faith to the God who saves. These are the saints we know and venerate in the church but also the nameless saints who silently walked this earth filling other people’s lives with love. They felt God’s love and responded in love, and now they bask in love. Remembering them inspires us to listen to love’s call and to be faithful to it. Honoring the saints makes us realize that we can become like them if we only try to be faithful to God and to one another in everything we do. In a special way we also continue to remember the ones who are closest to us - relatives and friends – and have gone before us; men and women with whom we shared our lives. After the drama of the wake and funeral, is every link with them destroyed? We cannot accept that. From the Bible to Tradition to personal testimonies, we are filled with the assurance that though they are dead in our eyes, in God’s eyes they “live forever”. While some of them are already in heaven, some are still being prepared and purified for it. And love, the power that defies boundaries, hatred and indifference, enables us to break through the walls of death and to feel our unity with these loved ones. It is not the flowers nor the candles that connect us with the departed, but our prayer and love. These sustain our link with them. In heaven or in purgatory, they help us with their prayers. On earth, we help them as well with ours. And this is why we have a rich biblical and cultural tradition of praying for the poor souls in purgatory. Honoring the departed makes us honor the God who is the one Master of life and who created us to live in perfect unity with each other. It also reminds us that love continues even beyond the grave. As love is powerful on earth, so it is even more forceful after our earthly pilgrimage. Let us continue to remember. Let us continue to hope. Let us continue to love. - Fr. Vincent OVER 50’S THANKSGIVING LUNCH WEEK OF OCTOBER 29, 2017 The next Over 50s Mass and Potluck Gathering will be on READINGS: Monday, November 6th. Mass at 11:30am in the Church Sunday: Ex 22:20-26/Ps 18:2-4, 47, 51/1 Thes 1:5c-10/Mt followed by the Potluck Lunch in the Extended Care room. 22:34-40 We will be celebrating Thanksgiving and the parish is Monday: Rom 8:12-17/Ps 68:2, 4, 6-7ab, 20-21/Lk 13:10- providing the turkey. Please bring a side dish or dessert to 17 share. Tuesday: Rom 8:18-25/Ps 126:1b-6/Lk 13:18-21 Wednesday: Rv 7:2-4, 9-14/Ps 24:1bc-4ab, 5-6/1 Jn 3:1-3/ Mt 5:1-12a SPECIAL COLLECTION Thursday: Wis 3:1-9/Ps 23:1-6/Rom 5:5-11 or Rom 6:3-9/ Jn 6:37-40 FOR FIRE VICTIMS Friday: Rom 9:1-5/Ps 147:12-15, 19-20/Lk 14:1-6 We will have a special second collection at all of our Saturday: Rom 11:1-2a, 11-12, 25-29/Ps 94:12-13a, 14-15, Masses next weekend, November 4th and 5th for the fire 17-18/Lk 14:1, 7-11 victims in the Diocese of Santa Rosa. Next Sunday: Mal 1:14b—2:2b, 8-10/Ps 131:1-3/1 Thes 2:7b-9, 13/Mt 23:1-12 OBSERVANCES: ROTARY HOME TEAM Sunday: 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time; Priesthood Sunday Are you over 60 years old and need help with basic home Monday: maintenance and repairs? Rotary HOME Team provides Tuesday: Halloween these services for free by local volunteer Rotary Club Wednesday: All Saints members on services days offered every other month. Thursday: All Souls Examples of maintenance done: changing out light bulbs, Friday: St. Martin de Porres, Religious replacing smoke and CO detector batteries, fixing a leading Saturday: St. Charles Borromeo, Bishop faucet or running toilet, replacing a torn screen, repairing a Next Sunday: 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time; National Vo- broken window pane or even simply hanging framed photos cation Awareness Week; Daylight Saving Time ends or art. The next service day will be November 18th. To schedule an appointment, call (408) 295-5905. ©Liturgical Publications Inc MINISTERS SCHEDULED FOR NEXT WEEKEND November Schedule is available in the Sacristy All Saints’ Day PRAY FOR THE ARMED SERVICES If you would like to have your family members and friends Wednesday, November 1st who are serving in the armed services remembered in (A Holy Day of Obligation) prayer, please call the rectory at 739-8506 or email at 7:30 AM Mass (English) [email protected]. Si usted quiere que algún miembro 12:10 PM Mass (English) de su familia o un amigo que sirve en las fuerzas armadas 7:00 PM Mass (Bilingual Spanish/English) sean recordados en nuestras oraciones, por favor contacte a la oficina parroquial para dar sus nombres. All Souls’ Day Thursday, November 2nd WEEKLY STEWARDSHIP OFFERINGS 7:30 AM Mass (English) 7:00 PM Mass (Bilingual Spanish/English) OFRENDAS SEMANALES DE CORRESPONSABILIDAD Saturday / Sabado - October 21 5:00PM $829.00 MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK Sunday / Domingo - October 22 Monday 7:30AM Virginia Picardal + 8:30AM $616.00 Lucia Liem Thi Nguyen Tuesday 7:30AM Chester I. Widener + 10:00AM $657.00 Lucia Liem Thi Nguyen 11:30AM $652.00 Wednesday 7:30AM Ben Lopez + Francisco Aseniero + 6:00PM $195.00 12:10PM OPEN TOTAL $2,949.00 7:00PM OPEN Thursday 7:30AM All Souls Lucia Liem Thi Nguyen SUNNYVALE FISH 40TH ANNUAL 7:00PM OPEN Friday 7:30AM All Souls Novena JUNQUE SALE Saturday 5:00PM All Souls Novena Saturday, November 4th from 9:00am to 3:00pm at St. Liduina Goulart + John’s Lutheran Church/Trinity United Methodist Church, Sunday 8:30AM All Souls Novena 581 E. Fremont Avenue in Sunnyvale. Visit the Café for Bob Lewis + coffee or lunch! Proceeds benefit Sunnyvale Fish, a group Dewitt Springmeyer + of Christians who care about their neighbors in need.