February 14, 2021 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time 94 years of Faith, Education & Service to community. CHURCH ADDRESS: 923 S. LA BREA AVE. LOS ANGELES, CA 90036 OUTDOOR MASS SCHEDULES Masses are held in our parish patio. Sunday: 8am, *10am & 12pm Weekday: *9am (Wed/Temporary) * Live streaming Holy Days: *9am (No Vigil Mass) Wednesday: 6:30pm First Friday Mass/Adoration: 9am ADMINISTRATION Fr. Truc Q. Nguyen, Pastor (ext. 223) Nancy G. Sheehan, Parish Business Manager (ext. 224) Sr. Anna Tom, RE Director (ext. 234) Mayela Albarran, Ofice Asst. (ext. 235) Maria Lim, Secretary (ext. 221) Most Rev. Bishop Ed Clark, In Residence CATHEDRAL CHAPEL SCHOOL Grades K-8, cathedralchapelschool.org freepik.com/created by pikisuperstar SACRAMENTS “Create in me a clean heart, O God; Confession: By appointment on Sundays immediately following the and renew in me a steadfast spirit.” ~ Psalm 51:12 masses. Tue & Thu immediately ASH WEDNESDAY following the mass. Baptisms, Matrimony (6 months’ notice required in advanced for marriage prep), Funerals are A BLESSED & FebruaryHAPPY 21ST 17, PRIESTHOOD 2021 by appointment only. ANNIVERSARY,Schedule ofFR. Services TRUC! PARISH OFFICE is currently closed to the public. For 9:00 AM Mass & Distribution of Ashes inquiries, you may call or send 6:30January PM 15, Mass 2000 ~& JanuaryDistribution 15, 2021 of Ashes an email Mon-Fri, 9am-4:30pm Mailing Address: 926 S. Detroit St. L.A., CA 90036 Tel: (323) 930-5976 Fax: (323) 297-7677 [email protected] Let’s build a new parish hall! Connect with us! www.cathedralchapel.org Join our Matching Gi Program. Facebook.com/CathedralChapelParish Your gi today will be matched up to $15,000! Tweeter: catchapel In this year of St. Joseph we are featuring reflections from the best elementary Catholic schools, we found Cathedral members of our parish councils and parishioners. This week, Chapel School in Miracle Mile, which coincidentally was we reflect on St. Joseph’s role as a father to Jesus and what conveniently within our local home distance. Vanessa this role signifies to the fathers in our parish. “What does attended this highly acclaimed elementary school since being a Father mean to you? kindergarten, which have won various academic decathlons, including two (2) state championships! Our due diligence in picking this school has paid off. And how time flies, she graduated Valedictorian in 2011! Our “A man does not become a father simply by bringing a Dichoso family attributes and thanks their teachers and child into the world, but by taking up the responsibility staff for their past commitment in helping shape a to care for that child.” [Pope Francis] responsible and success-oriented grade schooler Vanessa. She closes this chapter in her life with academic success, and a major part of my father responsibility fulfilled. INTRODUCTION The second phase of shared parental responsibility came into Pope Francis has proclaimed December 8, 2020 through December searching for acclaimed high schools, again far and wide. We chose 8, 2021 as the “Year of St. Joseph”. Our Pope has described the Notre Dame Academy – an all-girls Catholic School in West Los father of Jesus as a beloved, tender, loving, obedient, courageous, Angeles. Our parental due diligence paid off the second time. accepting, and hard-working “father in the shadows”. Academic competition was fierce at this Blue Ribbon school where many of her fellow classmates were grade school valedictorians As a loving father, I feel some sense of delight of knowing that I themselves. She graduated in 2016 with over 4.5 GPA. Her Class of may also have acquired some of the above- described attributes of 2015 were accepted to the best universities and colleges, including St. Joseph while rearing up my own daughter, Vanessa Anne MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, University of Chicago, Berkeley, Dichoso. LMU and USC. At this time, she had already made her independent decision as to her future career as well as the university of her choice. She accepted the offer from the #1 public university and the #1 most-applied for university year after year: UCLA. MY STORY – AS FATHER My wife Marilou and I brought Vanessa into this world on Valentine’s Day, February 1997. I contributed my own share of our FATHER’S RESPONSIBILITY – TOWARDS AN joint husband-wife responsibilities of rearing up Vanessa by INDEPENDENT, SUCCESS-ORIENTED CHILD exemplifying a hard-working father of success in my career, being courageous by taking reasonable business risks for financial Vanessa’s consistent success as a top student formulated her life rewards for the family’s future, while promoting a loving character morally and into a success-oriented mindset. The long history with empathy towards charity by helping the less fortunate. As under excellent Catholic educational guidance established her Pope Francis further elaborates: Children need fathers who will not moral character. For example, whenever the family travels, one of try to dominate them, but instead raise them to be “capable of our first priorities is to find the nearest Catholic Church so not to deciding for themselves, enjoying freedom and exploring new miss the Sunday mass in another town or country. This strong possibilities.” moral character to her faith has been instilled in Vanessa, as she spent one (1) month in South Korea alone with her best friend last September 2019 exploring the countryside, while she sent us pictures of her attending various Sunday masses in different South FATHER’S RESPONBILITY – SAVINGS FOR CHILD Korean towns. Just like St. Joseph, I was a hard-working father. With a thriving The South Korean trip was her college graduation reward from CPA practice in two (2) locations, I immediately and instinctively UCLA, which included more academic and leadership recognitions focused on securing her future college education as soon as she was in various organizations. Her success as a UCLA college-student born due to the nature of my accounting and business career. earned her an internship with BDO Seidman – a prestigious global Because I also understood the rising college costs each year, my first CPA firm during her junior year. Ultimately, she received an even responsibility as a father was just that: immediately begin a bigger, advanced job offer during her senior year to work for one monthly college tuition fund in 1997 – the year of Vanessa’s birth, the world’s biggest CPA firms with over $30 billion of revenues – including budgeting and planning for Vanessa’s future registration KPMG - after graduation. She chose the much respected CPA into the best elementary and secondary schools. With patience, the career on her own without parental influence since high school, funds created and accumulated through those years instead of hasty following the footsteps of her dad. At a young age of still 23 years spending on vices or less important matters paved the way through old, Vanessa will continue to succeed professionally, financially, her college education and dormitories with ease. Worrying less and morally. She aspires that mansion, that expensive sportscar, about educational costs during her teens provided Vanessa with the that Bugatti as has described in her own words, all financially main focus to enjoy the exploratory benefits of education and reachable as she succeeds as a CPA. There is nothing wrong with financial freedom. these dreams. She deserves it. But I know she will not forget the charity and love that she is required of her faith. Vanessa can be reached at the KPMG Building in downtown: FATHER’S RESPONSIBILITY – FORMULATING MORAL [email protected]. CHARACTER/FREEDOM FOR CHILD As a father, I now enjoy the fruits of my labor after all these years. I Despite living in the Westside, Marilou and I searched far and feel that I have accomplished the responsibilities as promulgated by beyond our Westside-based home for academically-acclaimed our Holy Father Pope Francis. Catholic elementary schools, primarily because of its excellent teaching reputation, in addition to exposing Vanessa to develop her faith and moral character. Even our personal Jewish friends hailed Van Gerard Dichoso, CPA the Catholic educational system! Parish Finance Council Member Searching with due diligence as far as the San Fernando Valley for HAPPY WORLD MARRIAGE DAY! Sunday, February 14 World Marriage Day honors husband and wife as head of the family, the basic unit of society. It salutes the beauty of their faithfulness, sacriice and joy in daily married life. Give the Gift of Prayer to your one and only love! Meaning and Purpose Enroll in our 9-Day Marriage Novena, from Feb. 14th through Feb. 22nd. Marriage is the intimate union and equal partnership of a man and a woman. It comes to us from the hand of God, who created male and Envelopes are out this weekend. female in his image, so that they might become one body and might be fertile and multiply (See Genesis chapters 1 and 2). Though man and woman are equal as God’s children, they are created with important differences that allow them to give themselves and to receive the other as a gift. Marriage is both a natural institution and a sacred union because it is rooted in the divine plan of creation. In addition, the Catholic Church teaches that the valid marriage between two baptized Christians is also a sacrament – a saving reality and a symbol of Christ’s love for his church (See Ephesians 5:25-33). In every marriage the spouses make a contract with each other. In a sacramental marriage the couple also enters into a covenant in which their love is sealed and strengthened by God’s love. The free consent of the spouses makes a marriage. From this consent and from the sexual consummation of marriage a special bond arises between husband and wife.