Church of the Epiphany - Iglesia de la Epifanía March 8, 2015 1911-2015 Third Sunday of Lent Tercer Domingo de Cuaresma Parish Information/Información Parroquial. 827 Vienna Street – San Francisco, CA 94112 www.EpiphanySF.com OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Daily Masses/Misas Diarias: We the people of the Church of the Epiphany strive to be a peace- 6:30am & 8:00am ful and welcoming parish. We strive to be mutually supportive of diverse communities. We strive to show compassion without dis- Saturday Masses/Misas los Sábados: tinction of age, gender, race or culture. Epiphany seeks to be a 8:00am & 5:30pm caring and loving community ever-growing in faith formation. Sunday Masses/Misas los Domingos: Telephone Numbers: 6:30am, 8:30am, 10:00am, 11:30am (Spanish/Español), Office/Oficina: 1 (415) 333-7630 Fax: 1 (415) 333-1803 1:00pm, and 5:30pm. School/Escuela: 1 (415) 337-4030 Fax: 1(415) 337-8583 Parish Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30am-7:00pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament/Exposición del Santísimo: Closed for lunch from 12:00pm-1:15pm. First Fridays/Primer viernes: 8:30am-5:00pm. Saturdays & Sundays/ Sábados y Domingos: 8:30am-3:00pm. Confessions: Saturdays 4:00-5:00pm & by appointment Our Lady of Perpetual Help Devotions/Oración a la Virgen del Confesiones: Sábados de 4:00pm-5:00pm & por cita Perpetuo Socorro: Wednesdays/Miércoles: 7:45am Parish Staff / Personal Parroquial Extensions at 1(415) 333-7630 Pastor / Párroco Rev. Eugene Tungol ext:18 Elementary School / Escuela Director of Music /Director de Música Parochial Vicar /Vicario Parroquial Principal / Director Mario Balestrieri Rev. William H. Thornton ext:28 Diane Elkins Office Support Staff / Secretarias In Residence Rev. Rolando Caverte ext: 26 Jenny Lopez ext: 10 Deacons / Diáconos School of Religion / Catecismo Maria Elena Herrera ext: 13 Deacon Ven Garcia, Jr. Principal / Director Church Sexton / Sacristán Deacon Ramon Zamora Loy Bañez ext: 15 Mark Ohlander Pastor’s Message: Welcome Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone Pope Francis sends Our Parish is excited for Archbishop Salvatore Cor- 'social justice' bishop to San Diego' dileone’s visit and it’s our pleasure to give you a little Robert W. McElroy, an auxiliary bishop in San Francisco and a background on him and his accomplishments. leader in the Catholic Church’s social justice wing, was named head of the Diocese of San Diego. Crux reported the move ABOUT THE ARCHBISHOP Monday, and it was confirmed by the Vatican Tuesday morn- June 5, 1956 Born third of four children, San Diego ing. He will be installed April 15. McElroy, 61, has written ex- 1956-74 Grew up in Blessed Sacrament Parish, San tensively about the Church’s social justice mission, promoting Diego Catholic engagement with society that places economic and December 1974 Attended vocation retreat during human rights issues on par with abortion and same-sex mar- freshman year at San Diego State University. riage. “We are called to see the issues of abortion and poverty, mar- EDUCATION riage and immigrant rights, euthanasia and war, religious lib- Attended public school through 12th grade, including erty and restorative justice, not as competing alternatives of- Horace Mann Junior High and Crawford High School, and ten set within a partisan framework, but as a complementary continuum of life and dignity,” he wrote in America magazine religious education classes at the parish in October 2013. McElroy’s appointment to San Diego is the 1975 Entered St. Francis Seminary and transferred as latest sign that Pope Francis intends to make his mark on the a sophomore to University of San Diego Church in America. 1978 BA, philosophy, University of San Diego Last fall, Francis handpicked another moderate, Blase Cu- 1981 Bachelor’s degree, sacred theology, Pontifical pich, to serve as Archbishop of Chicago. McElroy was present Gregorian University, Rome. at Cupich’s installation Mass. McElroy, a San Francisco native, 1985-89 Completed doctorate in canon law at Gre- graduated from Harvard University with a degree in history, gorian University. and holds a doctorate from Stanford University as well as a doctorate in moral theology from Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University. MINISTRY AND ADMINISTRATION Though he’s worked in the San Francisco chancery for many July 9, 1982 Ordained a priest by San Diego Bishop years, McElroy was pastor of St. Gregory’s Church in San Leo T. Maher. Mateo, California, parish for 14 years. Speaking last month in 1982-1985 Associate pastor, St. Martin of Tours Par- San Francisco, McElroy praised what he called the pope’s em- ish, La Mesa. phasis on mercy, and said that the church must gravitate to- 1989 Secretary to Coadjutor Bishop Robert Brom of ward pastoral responses to believers. “To be judgmental is a San Diego cardinal sin for religion,” he said, according to the National 1990 Appointed judicial vicar, San Diego Catholic Reporter. “It is easy for the church to get lost in the rules, but pastoral theology trumps rules.” He went on to say 1991-95 Pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, Ca- he favors allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to receive lexico, four blocks from Mexican border communion, a position that allies McElroy with bishops at- 1995-2002 Assistant, Supreme Tribunal of the Apos- tempting to overturn the ban at this fall’s synod on the family tolic Signatura, the church’s highest canonical court, in Rome. He’s also made economic inequality one of his signa- Rome. ture issues, praising the pope’s emphasis on poverty. He told July 5, 2002 Appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese Crux last summer that Catholic laypeople have a special re- of San Diego by Pope John Paul II sponsibility to fight inequality. “I think Pope Francis’ state- March 23, 2009 Appointed fourth bishop of Oakland ments on the challenge of global poverty and questions of by Pope Benedict XVI inequality provide a unique opportunity for the Catholic com- munity to deepen its institutionalized lay resources,” he said. July 27, 2012 Appointed ninth archbishop of San McElroy succeeds Bishop Cirilo Flores, who passed away in Francisco by Pope Benedict XVI September after less than a year on the job. The diocese, with Oct. 4, 2012 Installation as archbishop of San Fran- a little less than 1 million Catholics, is among the largest in the cisco United States. - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - cut here- - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - Want to become a registered parishioner Already a registered parishioner, updating information NAME(S):_______________________________________________ PHONE: ( ) _______________________________ Last Name First Name ADDRESS:______________________________________________ EMAIL: _______________________________________ Please return to: Church of the Epiphany ________ would like Sunday Offering Envelopes 827 Vienna Street San Francisco, CA 94112 Meetings/ Intentions/ Pray for the Sick Reuniones: Intenciones: Oremos por los enfermos: Sunday/Domingo, March 8 Sunday/Domingo, March 8: Rich Alson 7:00am OKH Confirmation 6:30am Mary Avila Uriarte Lydia Artuz Retreat LV 2 8:30am Clementina Solorano Oscar Avellan 11:00am RH RCIA 10:00am People of the Parish Morgan Benedicto 2:00pm RH Filipino Ministry 11:30am Susana E. Brenner John Burke 8:00pm DR AA English 1:00pm Enedina Pascua Erwin Castillo Canaya 5:30pm Oreste Landi Monday/Lunes, March 9: Ursula Cayabyab Monika Carlson 12:35pm OKH School Monday/Lunes, March 9: 2:00pm OKH SVDP Domingo Claribone 6:30am Pietro Masanda Jennifer Contini 6:00pm OKH Grupo Progesso 8:00am Community Mass: Mae Dela Calsada 6:30pm RH Finance Council Zita Rigonan, Adoracion B. Flores , 7:00pm CAF Bible Study (Spanish) Intention: Ramon La Fuente & Laura De Lucas 7:00pm OKH SVDP Thanksgiving: Godwin Holgado Eldie Espino Opal & Baby Fuller Tuesday/Martes, March 10: Tuesday/Martes, March 10: Esther Garcia 9:00am OKH Over 50 Club Ruben Garcia, Sr. 6:30pm OKH Legion de Maria 6:30am Fr. Leo Clifford George Hahourieh 7:00pm OKH Social Resp. Com. 8:00am Victorio Salinda 7:00pm RH School Age Bap. Class Rosey Joseph Wednesday/Miércoles, March. 11: Petra Laguatan Wednesday/Miércoles, March 11: 6:30am Intention: Joe Valerga Alex Lopez 6:00pm OKH Grupo Progeso 8:00am Intention: Wendy Nielsen M. Lopez 7:00pm CAF EPA Meeting Rosario Lopez 7:00pm RH Parish Council Mtg. Thursday/Jueves, March 12 : Fr. Marlon Lumanas 6:30am Marcelino & Leogarda Naval Carl Jason Malolot Thursday/Jueves, March 12: 8:00am Thanksgiving: Francesca Dante Manuel 6:30pm OKH Grupo de Oracion Venturi Mike Moriarty 7:00pm RH Epip. Of the Lord Friday/Viernes, March 13: Michael Murphy 7:15pm CH Coro de Jovenes 6:30am Marcelino Cabahug Jose Edson Naval 8:00pm DR English AA 8:00am Simona Gilbuena & Louis Neubecker Percival M. Mayuga Virginia Noato Friday/Viernes, March 13 : 3:00pm RH Small Christian Com. Mario Nuti 6:00pm RH Outreach Commission Saturday/Sábado, March 14: Daniel O’Shea 7:00pm OKH Baptismal Catechesis 8:00am Florentina Umipig Rich Ocean (E) 5:30pm Lena Neubecker Tere Platero 7:00pm SAC Jovenes Adultos- Nanette Ramos Nueva Generacion Sunday/Domingo, March 15: Nicholas Zepeda Rosa 6:30am Hannah Faye De Castro 8:30am Dominga & Daniel Diao Erica & Baby Isabel Sanders Saturday/Sábado, March 14: 10:00am People of the Parish & Maria Lourdes Y. Santos Archbishop Visits Epiphany Maria & Giovanni Lombardi Christine Strebel 8:30am RH Legion of Mary 11:30am Francisco Chang Glenn Tagle No Faith Formation Classes!! 1:00pm Thanksgiving: Feliciano & George Tolentino 4:00pm CH Confessions Estrella Ibay & Family Melissa Quintanar 5:30pm Thanksgiving: Erwin & Sunday/Domingo, March 15: Rose Vedamoni Mari Chris Canaya 8:30am CAF Ladies Auxiliary Mtg Ligia Velez 8:30am OKH K of C Mel Villamar 11:00am RH RCIA 1:00pm OKH Epiphany Filipino Soc. 2:30pm CAF Year of Faith Meeting Pray for the Dead 8:00pm DR English AA Oremos por los Difuntos: Pauline Chetcuti Announcements: For your Information: Coming up soon: Thunder Valley Casino: St.