May 27, 2018 - June 3, 2018 May 27, 2018 - June 3,, 2018 Sunday No Continental Breakfast after 9am Mass Sunday 7:30am Jaqueline Buggy † 9:00am Joseph Lobo † Monday Next Grief Group Meeting is 6/4/18 11:00am For Our Parishioners in the Parish Office conference room at 5:00pm Stephen Baldzikowski † 7 pm. Happy Memorial Day!! Parish Office Closed!! Monday 6:30 am NO MASS 9:30 am Tuesday The next Ladies Guild Meeting is 6/12 in Victor Tejano † the meeting room of the Fr. Jim Commu- Tuesday 6:30 am Dean Reno nity Center . 9:30 am Maria Sam Tran † Wednesday School Baccalaureate Mass - 9:30am Mass Wednesday 6:30 am Dean Reno 9:30 am Mathew Family Thursday Adoration after 9:30 am Mass until 11:45 am Thursday 6:30am Eleanor Sugden † Friday First Friday Adoration after the 9:30am 9:30am Theresa Phuong Vu Mass Friday 6:30am Dean Reno Saturday 9:30 am Edgardo Ulpindo † Sunday No Continental Breakfast after 9am Saturday 8:00am No Intention Mass. 5:00pm Quy Vu †, Theresa Hoang † Sunday 7:30 am Bill Carpenter † SOCIAL JUSTICE CORNER 9:00 am Agnelo Pereira 11:00 am Ladies Guild DUTY, COURAGE, SACRIFICE and 5:00pm For our Parishioners HOPE On May 19th our Women’s Guild sponsored the Semi-annual Armed Forces Day Dinner. We gather together for this event as a community of the faithful to remember and honor those who have sacrificed doing their duty with courage to give us all hope. Weekly Stewardship Report These four words DUTY, COURAGE, SACRIFICE and HOPE apply to Collections 5/13/18 & 5/20/18 $ 24,150 Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day and Veterans Day and surprisingly Collections 7/1/17 –5/20/18 $540,220 they also apply to all of us. The readings this week are about The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. This is the fundamental on which Budgeted 7/1/17 - 5/20/18 $532,538 everything in Christianity is based. Prayerfully consider making a one Our first reading today from Deuteronomy speaks of God going to war for us. The responsorial speaks of us putting our hope in the time tax deductible gift. Lord. The second reading speaks of us being children of God, thus Contact the parish office for details. heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ; “we suffer with him, so that we may be glorified with him.” Usually when I sacrifice I feel like I am Thank you for your continued support! suffering. And finally in the Gospel, we are given our duty to observe all that God has commanded us and Jesus us reminds us that he is with us always giving us the courage to live out our faith and share it One time gifts this fiscal year with others. My GodWINK… Gifts for unrestricted use: $ 35,050 The celebration of the Most Holy Trinity on the same weekend we Gifts for specific projects: $ 9,780 celebrate Memorial Day. As we remember and honor all those who Total: $ 44,830 have fought for us and given us hope, we must also remember and honor God and all of his children as we stand united in the shield of Thank you for your generosity. the Holy Trinity. How can you give someone hope by remember- ing or honoring them? Social Justice Committee MARRIED COUPLES: Would you like to relive the excitement, romance and Sandwiches for the Homeless Thank you for your donations to passion from your honeymoon? Rekindle the sandwich-making ministry here at Queen of Apostles. We that spark on a World wide Marriage En- meet twice a month to prepare sandwiches, fruit and snack for counter Weekend? The next weekend the homeless who come to Casa De Clara, a Catholic Worker Marriage Encounter Weekend is August 24-26, at the House in San Jose. We gladly accept donations of peanut butter, Vallombrosa Retreat Center. For more information visit jam, granola bars and cash donations. Please bring the food to our website at sanjosewwme.org or contact Ken & Cla- Fr. Jim’s garage. Cash donations may be left at the Rectory. ranne at [email protected] or 408-782- Thank you for your generosity. Social Justice Ministry 1413. Most Holy Trinity Everything You Always Wanted to Ask about Your Faith but were Afraid to Ask Contributed by Fr. Rey Sarmiento Question: “Doesn’t the Trinity mean there are three gods?” Answer: The answer is no. Trinity means there are three persons in ONE God; yet, each of the divine persons is distinct from the other in relationship of each to the other (CCC, par. 252). The Father is not the Son, nor is He the Holy Spirit. Likewise, the Son is not the Father, nor is the Holy Spirit, in the same way that the Holy Spirit is not the Son, nor is the Father. However, they are all united in one Godhead (CCC, par. 253). All the three persons possess the same divine nature; none of them is subordinate to each other. Each of them is “God whole and entire” (CCC, par. 253). The Church had to borrow some terms from the discipline of phi- losophy to explain the Trinity: Jesus, who is God the Son, is homoousious with the Father. Ok, what is that strange, fancy word, homoousious? Homoousious is a Greek word used to explain that Jesus is “of the same essence” of the Father, not similar, but of the same essence, “one in being” with the Father. Once we say that the Father greater than the Son, or the Son is greater than the Holy Spirit, then we will have a breakdown in our creed: “I believe in one God”. The breakdown will result in having three Gods competing with each other in prominence. Now, is this something that the Church invented? No. In John 14:9, Jesus himself says, “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father”. In John 14:11, Jesus further says, “I am in the Father, and the Father is in me”. What these two verses clearly state is that wherever Jesus is, the Father is there as well, even if they remain distinct persons. The same is likewise true in the case of the Holy Spirit. Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church, Pinto and Evert, “Did Jesus have a Last Name?” Google images for the image used in this article. May 27, 2018 Family Faith Formation 408-255-9950 Some of our Spanish students were treated to men- Office is staffed on Tuesday and Thursday toring from approximately a dozen students from the 8:00 am -3:00 pm and on weekends by ap- Spanish 4 class from Mitty High School followed by a lunch featuring pointment. Please call before stopping by. Spanish cuisine. Students in our second grade Spanish class are learning about animals On the Calendar: and describing them in the Spanish language and then earning animal Registration for the 2018-2019 catechetical year is now stamps matching their assignments on their work. open. You can register online at www.qofa.org Time is running out! Register now for Shipwrecked— A group of our 7th and 8th graders traveled to the east coast to see Get- Vacation Bible Camp June 18th-22nd This is for students th tysburg, Philadelphia, and Washington DC at the end of April. in pre-k through incoming 5 graders. Middle School and High School students are invited to be a part of the VBC crew. Registration ends on May 31st, so get your kiddos HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND registered today! You can register online at www.qofa.org and click on the link for VBC. Paper registration forms are also available in the vestibule. THE PARISH OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED ON MONDAY FOR MEMORIAL DAY. THERE Introducing: ENCOUNTER—a ten week bible study, just for WILL BE ONE MASS ONLY AT middle school students. Forms are available in the vestibule. 9:30 AM. Mark Hart, “The Bible Geek” takes us on an 8 week journey through the scriptures, in a way that truly draws us into the Great Story! Pre-registration is required. Sessions begin th Calling Singers, Instrumentalists & Piano Players of all Ages! on May 20 . You're welcome and encouraged to join the 5pm Sunday music th group. We play mostly contemporary/Christian pop music (some of May 27 : Encounter-Session II 6:30-8pm in the meeting which you'll hear on Christian radio stations), and practice Tuesday rooms nights at 7:30 in the church. We also practice starting an hour before mass. Even if you cannot participate every week, please consider joining and help "make a joyful noise to the Lord" as often as you ADULT FORMATION: can. For more information, contact Amy Cooprider at Bishop Robert Barron’s Catholicism Series [email protected]. This series is a drop in program designed for adults. There is no registration required. Sessions take place from 10:15-11:15 Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults in room 6. If you missed the series, we’ll run it again this summer! Diocese of San Jose - Anthony Gonzalez Join us on Wednesday nights at 7pm, beginning May 23rd Phone: 408-983- 0113 Fax:408-983-0147 Emergency in the parish office. line: 408-983-0141 A Biblical Walk through the Mass with Dr. Edward Sri: Sundays, May 27-June 24th 10-11am, $25 registration fee includes HIGH SCHOOL Youth Ministry and Confirmation workbook. Have you ever felt like you were just going through the 3rd Saturdays motions at mass? Why do we do and say the things that we do? This The high school youth ministry meets every 3rd Saturday.