TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JUNE 25, 2017 T OHN EUMANN S . J N CATHOLIC CHURCH WELCOME MISSION STATEMENT Guided by the Holy Spirit, St. John Neumann Parish of Irvine shares the Good News of Jesus Christ with people of all ages, diverse faiths and cultures, forming a welcoming, worshiping Catholic community. MASS SCHEDULE Sunday 7:00am, 8:30am, 10:30am, 12:30pm, 5:00pm Sat 8:30am 5:00pm (Vigil) Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 6:30am, 8:30am Wed 8:30am, 6:00pm CONFESSION Wed 5:30pm - 6:00pm Sat 3:30pm - 4:30pm PARISH OFFICE HOURS Mon - Fri 9:00am - 5:00pm Sat & Sun 9:00am - 12:00pm ANOINTING OF SICK Please contact the parish office 5101 Alton Pkwy Irvine, CA 92604 (949) 559-4006 sjnirvine.org sjnirvine.org TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JUNE 25, 2017 A WORD FROM SUNDAY COLLECTION June 10—June 11, 2017 DEACON CHARLIE Sunday Collection: $17,727.03 As we transition into our Electronic Giving: $ 6,750.00 summertime, I ran across a Total: $24,477.03 couple of reflections on this Number of Envelopes Used: 299 most welcome time of the year. Number of E-givers: 141 One in particular, from Bishop Facilities Maintenance: $ 540.00 Paul Loverde, of Alexandria, Capital Improvements: $ 263.25 Va, struck a chord. Here are some highlights. SJN Charities: $ 565.00 Summertime brings a smile to the face of almost Bapt/Wdng/Funerals: $ 1,220.00 everyone. Children are freed from the Miscellaneous: $ 4,177.72 responsibilities of school work. Families and friends E-giving Misc: $ 994.00 gather together for picnics and celebrations, along with seeing long-time friends. Total: $ 7,759.97 Summer often acts like a Sabbath for the year. God E-GIVING created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. Likewise, people in the work-force and Join the SJN families that contribute to our parish students work hard through the year, and by using E-Giving. This is a convenient way to summertime provides a period of rest and make your secure donations to SJN parish online. refreshment after long hours of labor. Although You may use debit cards, credit cards or electronic work continues through the summer, many use this funds transfer recurring contributions to fulfill season to take a much-needed vacation with family and friends. your stewardship pledge and make donations to the various funds and special collections. We continue to learn every day, even though school Please go to is out. Parents are the primary educators of their sjnirvine.org children. What do you have planned for the to sign up. summer? Maybe just going to a movie as a family and then discussing the film afterwards would be fun and enlightening. You could volunteer in a soup UNDAY OLLECTION kitchen, or attend Vacation Bible School. S C June 17—June 18, 2017 What about those who are not children? I have met Sunday Collection: $16,121.72 many who are reluctant to take any time off for fear Electronic Giving: $ 5,140.00 of “falling behind” at work. That is not healthy. Total: $21,261.72 Pope Francis tells us that we all have a “need for Number of Envelopes Used: 285 vacation and renewal for enrichment and Number of E-givers: 132 worthwhile enrichment and family through contact Facilities Maintenance: $ 304.00 with nature, tranquility and the opportunity to foster greater family harmony.” Capital Improvements: $ 82.00 SJN Charities: $ 781.38 This is a wonderful time of the year. May God bless Bapt/Wdng/Funerals: $ 1,125.00 us with a summer of fun and joy. Miscellaneous: $ 6,337.40 In Christ, Deacon Charlie Boyer E-giving Misc: $ 424.00 Total: $ 9,053.78 sjnirvine.org 2 TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JUNE 25, 2017 S˞˗ˍˊˢ J˞˕ˢ 2˗ˍ AFTER ALL MORNING THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS MASSES Monday, June 26 9:30am & 7pm Meditation 3:30pm Sharing the Harvest Sorting and packing Tuesday, June 27 9:30am Grief Support Meeting Wednesday, June 28 7pm Earthen Vessels 7pm Rediscover Jesus Book Discussion Saturday, July 1 2pm Divine Mercy Cenacle COMING SOON Sunday, July 2 KOC Pancake Breakfast After all morning masses Tuesday, July 4 SHARING THE HARVEST Fourth of July Monday, June 26 Parish offices closed 9:00am Morning Mass Only The Sharing the Harvest monthly food collection will be held the weekend of Wednesday, July 5 June 24/26, with sorting and packing 5pm-5:45pm NEW Confession time on Monday, June 26. July 10-14 Please join us at Conlon Hall from 3:30pm to VBS Maker Fun Factory 5:00pm to help the needy families of our parish and 9am—Noon community. Tuesday, July 11 24hr Eucharistic Adoration DIVINE MERCY CENACLE A complete calendar of events Saturday, July 1st, 2pm can be found at Join us to pray the Divine Mercy Chapel sjnirvine.org/calendar after the 8:30am mass. For more information call 949.559.6680. sjnirvine.org 3 TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JUNE 25, 2017 DO PEOPLE SEE JESUS? By John Erdag, Director of Parish Life “Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.” – Matthew 5:16 here’s a story about some important. It’s in the way we do the T businessmen who were running good. through the Chicago airport, racing to The man in the story didn’t just help the get to their plane on time. The airport apple girl. He was concerned about the was crowded and they were dodging apple girl. He didn’t just act upon a people right and left as they ran. In bunch of scattered apples that needed to their rush, one of them accidently be picked up, he showed compassion for bumped into a table that was holding someone who couldn’t gather the a large basket of apples. The apples scattered apples herself. He respected fell off the table and spewed across her and her dignity. He showed care for her the floor. The man didn’t stop running, but one of because of her, not because of a guilt over his his friends turned back and saw a girl on her knees friend’s apathy. Can you see Jesus in that? trying frantically to save the apples. He saw the crowd stepping all around her as she crawled It came from his heart; where Jesus resides in us. It around on the floor, so he stopped running and came from a full awareness that it’s not just about went back to help her pick up the apples. His friend what we do, it’s about the sincerity of the love we called after him that he would miss the flight, but do it with. It’s about allowing Christ to reveal he responded that he would have to try to catch a Himself through that love. He reveals Himself. In a later plane. Dropping to the floor, he collected a love that cannot be genuine if it does not come from bunch of the apples and started to hand them back Him. When we recognize that, embrace it, and truly to the girl. That’s when he saw that she was blind. live it, people see Him and not just a do-gooder. He helped her up and asked her if she was all right. But that’s easier said than done. In the busy hustle Then he led her back to her chair and gathered up of life, we can lose sight of Jesus within us. We fall the rest of the apples. As he restacked them, he back into the details of what we’re doing, and pulled out the ones that had been bruised. He gave forget the real purpose. We don’t necessarily lose the girl $40 for those and again made sure that she our love for helping others, but we miss showing was all right. As he turned to go find another flight, Christ’s love to them. We find ourselves working she called after him. “Mister,” she asked, “Are you for Christ, instead of walking with Christ. Do Jesus?” people see Jesus in us then? Probably not. But by Do people see Jesus in you? I ask this question becoming attentive to Him, and re-engaging with about myself all the time. Often, I’m not sure of the Him in our hearts, we bring that focus back to His answer. I like to believe that I help others whenever love and He shines through us again. I can. But is that showing Jesus, or is it just doing May we always come to wholly live the love of good? Really, there’s nothing wrong with doing Jesus within ourselves and for others that allows good. But the difference between people seeing Him to reveal His glory to all through us. Amen. Jesus in us versus just being a do-gooder is very sjnirvine.org 4 TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JUNE 25, 2017 BLOOD DRIVE MEDITATION GROUP Several parishioners have mentioned Mondays, 9:30am & 7pm that they have received an email Come, learn, and practice silent meditation on from the Red Cross thanking them Mondays, 9:30am in the Library & 7:00pm in the for donating blood at our blood Chapel. drives. I had not until today. I have just received an email that thanked me for giving “By the repetition of a single verse, you blood at our May 4 Blood Drive. It said that my renounce all the riches of thought and blood donation was sent to Kaiser Permanente imagination, and come to the first of the Beatitudes, poverty of spirit.” Medical Center in Los Angeles.