October 21, 2018 ‘Santa Clara de Asis, a growing Catholic community, comes together to praise and worship the Lord while responding to the Gospel through service to others in the spirit of our Patroness.’ Santa Clara de Asis Parish Mission Statement Liturgy Schedule Saturday Vigil Mass: 5:00 p.m. Sunday Masses: 8:00 am , 10:00 am & 12:00 pm Greetings and Welcome! Weekday Masses: Mon - Fri 8:30 a.m. Weddings: Contact Fr. Fred 714-970-2149 Welcome to our home, Santa Clara de Asis six (6) months in advance Catholic Church! May the peace and love of Baptisms: By Appointment. Baptism Prep: Call 714-809-0205 Father, Son and Holy Spirit be with you! Reconciliation: Saturdays 3:30 pm Anointing of the Sick: Upon Request We invite you to enter fully into the life of our Funerals: Ed Valenzuela 714-504-7936 parish community sharing our worship and love Adoration: First Friday of the Month 9am-6pm of Jesus Christ. Within this Bulletin is news of Food Collection for Sister Parish upcoming events, activities and opportunities Immaculate Heart of Mary: First Full Weekend of the Month which may be of interest to you. Santa Clara de Asis Parish Office Contact information is likewise provided for all Reverend Fred K. Bailey, Pastor 714-970-2149 of our groups, organizations, outreaches and Father Seamus Glynn, Pastoral Assistance ministries. Feel free to speak directly with these individuals for more information. 22005 Avenida de la Paz, Yorba Linda, CA 92887 office: 714-970-7885 fax: 714-970-2618 www.scdayl.org Fr. Fred K. Bailey and the Santa Clara de Asis Pastoral Team After Hours Emergency Only: 714-312-0967 Diocese of Orange Sexual Misconduct Hot Line: 800-364-3064 Page Two October 21, 2018 Dear Friends: While the frenzied winds and 80+-degree temperatures of this past week were Indian Summer’esque, last weekend’s rains and abundant lightening were AWESOME! I was with friends at an outdoor/patio eatery when the rains began two Fridays ago and it required some quick and adept huddling for us all to position ourselves dryly beneath an umbrella canopy. With our Southern Cal seasons frequently described as ‘nonexistent’, the Autumn rains and lightening were sure signs that the season of harvest, bounty and change was fully here. Autumn is not just the break between Summer and Winter, it is the traditional time when crops are REAPED into storage so as to sustain people with food for the coming year. On a Churchy-liturgical level it is also the traditional time when parishes INVITE their parishioners to review their measure/standard of helping to support their home parishes...in our case, Santa Clara, with the bounty of your financial donations. So YES....as you are correctly guessing....this Bulletin Letter is about INVITING YOU to review your own measure by which you support Santa Clara de Asis. A Scriptural reference for financial giving is frequently called a TITHE, which means 10%. Let me be honest...NOBODY (or only a rare few) ever gives 10% of their income to the Church....what a different world it would be if we could reliably count on that measure of support! From my observation, many people give based on what they have in their pockets or purse, a quick reach....and then a sorting through of what is easily available. Some give based on what their parents used to give... forgetting that the world has changed since they have grown up. Thinking back to my own mom, I have a recollection of her usually offering a $5 bill...with Christmas and Easter being upped to a whopping $10....and that was back in the 1950’s -1960’s! That would be one In & Out Double/double with a small coke in today’s figures. About five years ago here at Santa Clara we began promoting a concept called THE FIRST HOUR...a way of saying ‘GRACE’ as you start your work-week and a way of maturely supporting the parish. The concept is based on the imaginary and old-fashioned 40-hour work week and the dedicating of THE FIRST HOUR of work as your PRAYER, your GRACE, your BENEDICTION on the rest of the work week; your way of saying THANK YOU to God for the ability to support yourself and your family with whatever type of work you do. The financial compensation from this FIRST HOUR then becomes your monetary donation to Santa Clara. Even if you are salaried, simple mathematics will get you to your ‘hourly’ wage...just take the weekly compensation and divide by 40 and bingo....there you have it. 39 hours of compensation for your OWN use and 1 hour of compensation to support Santa Clara. Our Ordinary Income (the weekly Offertory Collection) levels have barely budged from when I arrived in 2012 and on a yearly basis we have had to use some of the PSA rebate monies to cover our operating and salary expenses. This is nothing new, this occurred yearly during Fr. Mike’s tenure as well. The problem is that we have SO MUCH MORE happening and so many MORE things requiring our support (increasing maintenance of deteriorating facilities, Youth Ministry, Adult Minis- try, Children/Family Ministries...just to name a few) that our Ordinary Income quickly is expended. In order for us to continually offer you, your family and friends, a RICH HARVEST of spiritual strength and resources, we in turn need a rich harvest of sacrificial offerings from YOU to support all that we are becoming. Thus, I ask and urge you to consider and review what your financial level of support for Santa Clara is and to make sure it is reflective of 2018 and not 1950! A reminder that on Halloween afternoon, Wednesday, October 31st, at 5pm we will offer an All Saint’s Vigil Mass with the usual 8:30am Mass and 10am SFA School Mass on Thursday, November 1st as well. Special envelopes by which to enroll your beloved dead family and friends in November’s All Souls Masses are available at the exits for your consider- ation. Our High School Youth are preparing to go on Retreat in early November, please keep them in your prayers that their hearts will be open to the prompting of the Holy Spirit. As well, please keep Kirsten and her Leadership Team in your hearts, that they will be abundant vessels of grace by which your sons and daughters will be blessed. (Please whisper a prayer for Cheeyoon who will also be attending...that he will survive the ‘blessing’ of being surrounded with youth for an entire week- end!) THANK YOU for your generous outpouring of support last weekend for St. Dominic’s Parish in Panama City, Florida. We transmitted your financial gift of $4,466.00 directly to St. Dominic’s on Monday so that the money could immediately be put to use for their and their community’s benefit. Given the number of recent disasters, both here and abroad, I was hesitant to again invite your generosity (I understand that some of you can be stretched financially.) What changed my mind was a call from a long-time parishioner who asked if I had selected a parish to be the recipient of our generosity? When I explained my reasoning for not doing it, there was a long pause and then a sound of disappointment when she shared that she, and others, valued the opportunity to connect DIRECTLY with another parish, knowing that they were helping someone they could pinpoint on a map and also people for whom they could directly pray. Thinking about that, I realized I was being overly cautious, hence, after a bit of research, St. Dominic Parish became OUR outreach. (Now you know that I really do listen and can change my mind!) Thanks for your attention, have a blessed and peaceful week and please remember, you are loved. FKB October 21, 2018 page three October 20-21, 2018 Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 53:10-11 Hebrews 4:14-16 Mark 10: 35-45 Suffering makes no sense. Emotional, physical, spiritual, mental, suffering gnaws at our lives, depletes our energies, strains our capacity for human interaction and transforms our desires for pleasant days into rubble. Our culture goes to great length to medicate, yoga, Zen, philosophize, ourselves in the effort to diminish the pain and to give ourselves some semblance of peace. Yet...try as we might, suffering frequently clings to the corners of our consciousness, scattering our thoughts, draining our energies and opening the door for us to question our value, our worth, our purpose, our very lives. This weekend’s Scripture selections touch upon SUFFERING, particularly the suffering of Jesus and casts it in the redemptive light by which the Church has always viewed it...as a backhanded grace that opens us to closeness with the divine. In our Gospel selection from Mark, the disciples once again are viewing Jesus through a WORDLY lends of political power, asking to sit at Jesus’ left and right hands when he comes into his glory. Jesus cautions them that they do not know what they are talking about but they persist and Jesus relents...but not without giving a lesson on service and leadership. As each early apostle/disciple died, frequently accompanied with great suffering, the truthfulness of their message, of their RELATIONSHIP in the CRUCIFIED and RISEN JESUS, was validated. People do not suffer for something dismissible or known to be untrue. In our daily existence, the challenge is to transform our private and personal sufferings into invitations for conversations with Jesus, to, in the old teachings of the Church, turn them into a gift back to Jesus..