May 17 - the Church of Santa Maria

Santa Maria
Pastoral Team
Fr. George Mockel
Pastor
gmockel@smparish.org
Church of Santa Maria
May 17, 2015
Dcn. Maurice Custodio
Deacon Emeritus
smoffice@smparish.org x303
Dcn. James Pearce
Deacon
dcnpearce@smparish.org x307
Linda Zunino
Administrative Assistant
lzunino@smparish.org x301
Tony Millette
Director of Liturgy and Music
tmillette@smparish.org x310
Sr. Theresa Lan Do, LHC
Faith Formation
Kindergarten to Grade 5
sistertd@smparish.org x306
Megan Dagang Arteaga
Youth Ministry, Grades 6-12
and CYO Parish Liaison
megan@smparish.org x308
Sr. Mary Anh Cong, LHC
Pastoral Care of the Sick
sisterma@smparish.org x309
Francy Rasimus
Pastoral Care Associate
fr@smparish.org x309
Sr. Magdalena Duong, LHC
Bookkeeper
sistermagdalena@smparish.org
x302
40 Santa Maria Way | Orinda, CA 94563
Tel: 925-254-2426
Fax: 925-254-2468
General Email: smoffice@smparish.org
www.SantaMariaOrinda.com
Emergency Sick Call: 925-695-7677
Office Hours
Monday—Thursday 9am-5pm, Friday 9am-1pm
Schedule of Mass and Liturgy
Daily Mass
Eucharistic Adoration*
Reconciliation
Sunday Masses
Holy Days
8am (Chapel)
Noon-3pm Tuesday (Chapel)
4:00pm Saturday (Church)
5:00pm Saturday Vigil Mass
8:30am, 10:30am & 5:00pm
8:00am and 7:00pm
*Tuesday Adoration takes place from September through
May; there is no weekly adoration from June through August.
Ascension of the Lord
May 17, 2015
Dear Fellow Parishioners,
Today we celebrate the Ascension of the Lord (usually celebrated on the 40th day after Easter) but
now celebrated on Sunday, so that a fuller experience can be celebrated by parishioners. The Ascension of
the Lord prepares us for the end of our fifty day celebration of Easter.
We have shaped our Sunday liturgies during Easter with many songs and sights; flowers and water,
baptisms and first Eucharist, confirmations and weddings. There has been a simple and beautiful presence of
water: the font, the holy water, the rite of sprinkling. There has been the Easter candle: large and beautifully
crafted and burning during all of the liturgies of the Easter season. Joy has permeated the gospels of the Easter weeks: Jesus and Mary in the garden, the upper room, the stranger cooking breakfast, the Emmaus supper,
the discourse from John’s Gospel. During these weeks of Easter we have sought ways to express the spirit of
the season with sounds, colors, textures, tastes, melodies, and movements. Our Easter Season invited us to
celebrate the fullness of our deeply Christian voices, eyes and hands.
Next Sunday we conclude the transformative season of Easter with the celebration of Pentecost. The
gift of the Holy Spirit will come to us anew next Sunday—the Spirit, which in a very unique way has been
unceasingly with us since the Great Easter Vigil on April 4th when Gabrielle Skelton was baptized, Don
Reed was received and Kim Clougherty completed her initiation into the Catholic Church.
Lord, send down your Spirit and renew the face of the Earth!
Happy Pentecost—and don’t forget to wear red.
Mass Intentions
Week of May 18-May 22, 2015
Monday
8:00am
Tuesday
8:00am
Wednesday 8:00am
Thursday
8:00am
Friday
8:00am
Weekend of May 23-May 24, 2015
Saturday 5:00pm
Mother’s Day Novena
Sunday
8:30am
Ed Coyne (d)
10:30am
Christopher Nemeth (d)
5:00pm
Holy Souls in Purgatory
Tom O’Brien (d)
D=Deceased; L=Living
Ed Coyne (d)
Msgr. Theodore Kraus (d)
Harold Simms (d)
For the Parish
Mary’s Shower
The Social JusƟce Team expresses graƟtude to all parishioners
who helped to coordinate the details of “Mary’s Shower” and to
those who donated. Through the generosity of our parishioners,
we were able to donate to the Birthright Center in Concord:
almost 700 diapers and about 1,100 wipes;
20 charming new baby ouƞits; some new maternity tops;
blankets and adorable, handmade baby items.
Special thanks go to Marcia Kelly, Anne Fuller, and Jennifer Swan
for help with the display and deep appreciaƟon to Maria Elsa Moya and Angelena Sanchez for their work on the handmade baby
items. May you all be richly blessed for your stewardship in sharing your Ɵme, talent and resources.
Thank You!
Pentecost
All parishioners are asked
to wear fiery colors
of red, yellow or orange
on the Feast of Pentecost
May 24th!
Pastoral Care Ministry
We Christians are called to heal
Service to the sick is a particular aspect of our Ministry, which Jesus Himself required to all of us who bear His
name. Healing and care for the sick physically, psychologically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually-must be a priority in our community.
Sickness and pain have always been an enigma to humankind and difficult to understand because we believe in an all
loving, all powerful God.
Sickness can not be seen as punishment in which we suffer for our personal or ancestral sins. The disciples asked
Jesus about the cause of man’s blindness:
“Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, for him to have been born blind?”
Jesus replied: “ Neither he or his parents sinned . He was born blind so that the works of God might be displayed in
him.” (Jn.9:2-3)
Members of Pastoral Care Team are available to bring Holy Communion to Parishioners who are ill or
recovering after surgery at home and can't come to church. To schedule a home visit, please contact Sr. Mary
Anh Cong at ext.254-2426, x 309 or email: sisterma@smparish.org.
Pray for the Sick
Joan Artmann, Shoaib Aryan, Bert Azaro, Harlon Berg, Maria Carmen, Sonya Cavazos, Blanca Christie,
Delores Codde, Tom Crosby, Nora Enriquez, Emidio Fonseca, Patricia Fox, Bridget Gallagher, Noreen Gillham, Dorothy Harrington, Brian Kelly, Mason Kelly, Carol Koupus, Katherine Linehan, Yal Liu, Rose Mary
McPhee, Stephen O’Brien, Susan O’Hara, Katherine Shanahan Poettgen, Ann Powell, Mark Ricci, Betty
Sammon, Pierre Schreyer, Helen Sullivan, John Twomey, Margaret Wiegand
Pray for the Deceased
Msgr. Ted Kraus, Mark Norton
Treasure
Week-at-a-Glance
Weekly Need: $10,350.00
Monday - May 18
8:00a Mass
Chapel
7:00p Liturgical Team Meeting
Library
7:00p Buildings Meeting
Parish Office
Tuesday - May 19
8:00a Mass
Chapel
12:00p Adoration & Benediction
Chapel
Wednesday - May 20
8:00a Mass
Chapel
7:00p Middle School Youth Grp (last class) Y. Room
7:00p RCIA
Parish Office
Thursday - May 21
8:00a Mass
Chapel
5:00p Wedding Rehearsal: Christine Walter
& Dylon Watts Church
7:30p Parish Choir
Church
Friday - May 22
8:00a Mass
Chapel
6:00p Wedding Rehearsal: Rebecca Rangel
& Estevan Villarreal Church
Saturday - May 23
8:00a Communion Service
Chapel
9:00a Minister of the Word Practice
Church
3:00p Wedding: Christine Walter &
Dylon Watts
Church
4:00p Sacrament of Reconciliation
Church
5:00p Mass
Church
Sunday - May 24 (Pentecost)
8:30a Mass
Church
10:30a Mass
Church
5:00p Mass
Church
The Weekly Need is based on the average
cost of running our parish, including bills,
supplies, and programming, and 5% of the
plate collection is designated for
Social Justice charities.
Actual: May 10, 2015
Plate
$
5,457.00
EFT
$
1,233.50
Credit
$
1,391.11
________________________
Total
$
8,081.61
Upcoming Second Collections
05/31/15—Maintenance Fund
06/07/15—Faith Formation
WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS
We encourage all to register in the parish so that you can receive regular communication via
both e-mail and regular mail. Please fill out this form and place it in the collection basket and
we will mail you a registration form.
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