Church of the Transfigura on 4000 E. Castro Valley Blvd., Castro Valley, CA 94552-4908

(510) 538-7941 Fax (510) 538-7983 E-mail: transfig_office@sbcglobal.net Website: www.transfigchurch.com October 4, 2020

Rev. Mario L. Borges, Pastor ● Rev. Terence O’Malley, Parochial Administrator

Deacon Martin J. Leach ● Deacon John A. Mignano ● Deacon Timothy L. Moore ● Deacon Burton J. Rigley

LITURGICAL MINISTRY: Eucharistic Ministers, Elmer & Puri Serrano Email: eserrano76@gmail.com Lectors, Barbara Mehan Email: barbmehan@sbcglobal.net Altar Servers, Clarence Decano FINANCE COUNCIL: Chairman, Mark Zaleski PARISH ORGANIZATIONS: Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), 60 Plus or Minus Club, Cursillo Group SAINT VINCENT de PAUL SOCIETY: Call (510) 274-0830 for assistance. Call Mike Dresen (510) 813-6854 for more information about this ministry. SICK & HOMEBOUND MINISTRY: Mary Kay Kelder, (510) 582-7253 WINGS “Women in God’s Spirit”: Nancy Marcotte Email: nanmar2@aol.com (510) 303-3324) YOUTH MINISTRY: Alfonso Corona III transfig.oasis@gmail.com PARISH OFFICE: Phone: (510) 538-7941 Fax: (510) 538-7983 Hours: 8:00 a.m. — 4:30 p.m., Monday-Thursday (Closed between 12:00 & 1:00 p.m.) Friday, 9:00a.m. — 12:00 Noon - Saturday & Sunday—Closed Secretary, Elmer Serrano Secretary/Bookkeeper, Phyllis Moore

SCHEDULE OF MASSES Saturdays 4:00 p.m. Sundays 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. (Except First Fridays - 9:30 a.m.) Communion Service - Saturdays, 8:00 a.m. CONFESSIONS Saturdays 3:00-3:45 p.m. BAPTISMS: Pre-baptismal class is required. Class is held the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. in the Rectory. Please call the Parish Office, (510) 538-7941, to register. MATRIMONY: Six months advance notice required. Please call the parish office. WEDDING COORDINATOR: Mel Speed (510) 909-9334 or melspeed@live.com FUNERALS: Please contact the funeral home of your choice and then the parish office. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Deacon Martin J. Leach (510) 537-1502 or Transfig_Office@sbcglobal.net RCIA: Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults Please call the parish office. MUSIC MINISTRY: Director, Alexander Katsman (510) 538-7941, Ext. 302 or Transfig_Music@sbcglobal.net

Mission Statement: “Transfiguring Our Community Through Faith”

Announcement Transfiguration Church Masses continue to be suspended due to the corona virus pandemic. Please follow the live stream Sunday Mass scheduled at 12 noon via Facebook. Thank you.

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

October 4, 2020 Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,

make your requests known to God. — Philippians 4:6

Dear Friends of the Transfiguration Catholic Church, As a result of the global pandemic, I lost my job. After a few very hard months, I was able to find a new, and much better job. Proof that when one door closes, another one opens. There are few one-way doors in life. This job is based in the Seattle area, so my husband, two children, and I will be leaving California, and therefore leaving the Transfiguration community. I want to share that it has been a true pleasure being part of the Transfiguration family. We had both our children baptized at the church and we hold many fond memories of the Crab Feeds and community events. We wish you all the best and thank you for sharing irre-placeable memories with us. God Bless! Karen, Brian, Matthew & Emily Bueno

THE GIFT OF THE REIGN OF GOD Matthew’s Gospel today expands on Isaiah’s ballad considerably. A comparison with the same story in Mark’s Gospel clearly shows us that here the author is busy teaching this community of Jewish Christians: “This is a story about Israel a long time ago; this is also a story about Jesus and the skeptical leaders.” Jesus as much as told these Jewish leaders that they were the tenants who first stoned their own prophets. And he told the leaders they were the ten-ants who would soon even dispose of him—Jesus—and, in doing so, would forfeit their privileged place of presenting to the world the promised Messiah. “And this,” says Matthew’s Gospel, “is a sto-ry about you, the inheritors of what was first offered to Israel.” The reign of God was first opened to Isra-el and is now given to the whole world, but it must be received as a gift. The first Christians are the new tenants in the vineyard. The deeper reality of the reign or kingdom of God is that it is available to eve-ryone on the face of the earth—Israel included. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time The Church presents today’s Old Testament and Gospel readings together, as a pair. We delight in the symmetry between the two passages. Jesus, who is the Word of God, knows the Hebrew scriptures by heart and intends for his parable to echo Isaiah. As Jesus begins speaking he summons the words of Isai-ah, knowing his learned audience of chief priests and elders will feel comfortable with a familiar scripture passage. These scholars recognize immediately that Jesus is referring to a prophetic passage about sin, about the chosen people’s tendency to turn away from God and grow “wild.”

AMAZED BY INNOVATION What Jesus does next surprises his audience. He adds a new twist to Isaiah’s well-known words, adding a new character the landowner’s very own son. Adding this innovation shows that Jesus confirms the prophet’s warning — that God longs for “his cher-ished plant” to grow according to the divine plan. The narrative twist also allows Jesus to reveal the fullness of God’s plan in a way his audience can un-derstand. like a master teacher, Jesus respects the knowledge and faithfulness of the chief priests and elders, and then builds on what they know. By add-ing the landowner’s son to the parable of the vine-yard Jesus gently expresses his own mission as the Son of God. Matthew’s Gospel often depicts the chief priests and elders as oppositional; they worry that Jesus will abolish the law and foment rebellion. As the Lord said earlier in Matthew’s Gospel, how-ever, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fullfill” (Matthew 5:17). Jesus’ audience is skeptical about him, horrified at the thought of a mere human being claiming that he is the Son of God. Jesus’ mas-terful approach provides an opportunity for his audi-ence to give him the benefit of the doubt. In this way, Jesus proposes — not imposes — his kingship, invit-ing us all to follow him. —Copyright © 2020, J.S.Paluch Company, Inc.

MASTER AND SERVANT Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. —P. T. Barnum

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Gal 1:6-12; Ps 111:1b-2, 7-9, 10c; Lk 10:25-37 Tuesday: Gal 1:13-24; Ps 139:1b-3, 13-15; Lk 10:38-42 Wednesday: Gal 2:1-2, 7-14; Ps 117:1bc, 2; Lk 11:1-4 Thursday: Gal 3:1-5; Lk 1:69-75; Lk 11:5-13 Friday: Gal 3:7-14; Ps 111:1b-6; Lk 11:15-26 Saturday: Gal 3:22-29; Ps 105:2-7; Lk 11:27-28 Sunday: Is 25:6-10a; Ps 23:1-6; Phil 4:12-14, 19-20; Mt 22:1-14 [1-10] SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time; Respect Life Sunday Monday: Bl. Francis Xavier Seelos Tuesday: St. Bruno; Bl. Marie Rose Durocher Wednesday: Our Lady of the Rosary Friday: St. Denis and Companions; St. John Leonardi Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary

For your convenience the following are the Transfig-uration Church electronic links: Transfiguration website: www.transfigchurch.com Electronic Bulletin: www.e-churchbulletins.com/bulletins/523293.pdf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Church-of-the-Transfiguration-115417251810536/ On-Line Donation: https://www.sagepayments.net/eftcart/forms/donate.asp?M_id=798399645711 You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbOVJzFJt4uPc2VtCCc_IHA/

TODAY’S READINGS First Reading: Isaiah 5:1-7

Second Reading: Philippians 4:6-9 Psalm: 80 — Gospel: Matthew 21:33-43

The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981,

Stewardship Corner The collection total for the weekend of Sept. 26th & Sept. 27th — $4,120.00 Building Fund — $1,820.00

(compared to $12,000 average weekly stewardship goal)

Thank you for continuing in your stewardship role of providing for the upkeep of our parish community.

Remember Transfiguration in your Will and Living Trust.

October Birthdays Happy Birthday to you, May God Bless you.

Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, May God Bless You!

Adult Bible Study Monday evening, Oct. 5, 2020 via Zoom, 7:00p.m.- 8:00p.m. Free will to be mailed to Michael Galvan at Transfiguration Catholic

Church, 4000 E. Castro Valley Blvd., Castro Valley, CA 94552. Please arrange Zoom connectivity with Mike Dresen at m.dresen@comcast.net.

We Invite All Women To Join Us For: WINGS (Women in God’s Spirit”)

WINGS is a faith enhancement group that encourages

Spiritual growth through prayer, scripture study, Catechesis, life sharing and community.

Our meetings are normally held at Transfiguration Church but, during COVID, our meetings will be

held virtually via ZOOM.

Next Meeting: Thursday, October 15, 2020 9:00 a.m.—11:00 a.m.

Speaker: Inga Lizdenyte

Topic: Growing into Unshakable Faith For further information or, if you would like to attend, please contact: Nancy Marcotte@nanmar2aol.com or (510) 303-3324.

Catholic Voice Collection This Weekend

This is the annual collection for The Catholic Voice. Your donation helps the parish offset its payments for this important communications ministry. A $25 donation pays your share. The Voice, websites and social media are the only regular source of Catholic news and infor-mation for all parishioners in the diocese. Please make your check payable to the Parish.

Thank you

Sincere thanks to all Transfiguration parishioners who supported the Virtual FESCO Shuffle this year with donations totaling $890. Your continued support and generosity made the difference in FESCO ex-ceeding its $50,000 goal and, most importantly, pro-vides the necessary resources to continue making a difference for homeless children. Please stay safe and healthy and we will keep you and your family in our prayers. Thank you again for all you have done and continue to do on behalf of the homeless. Bill & Roberta Rogers

LAUDATO SI’ OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS

ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME

THE WISDOM OF THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNTS

#70. In the story of Cain and Abel, we see how en-vy led Cain to commit the ultimate injustice against his brother, which in turn ruptured the relationship between Cain and God, and between Cain and the earth from which he was banished. This is seen clearly in the dra-matic exchange between God and Cain. God asks: “Where is Abel your brother?” Cain answers that he does not know, and God persists: “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the ground” (Gen 4:9-11). Disregard for the duty to cultivate and maintain a proper relationship with my neighbour, for whose care and custody I am responsible, ruins my relationship with my own self, with others, with God and with the earth. When all these relationships are neglected, when justice no longer dwells in the land, the Bible tells us that life itself is endangered. We see this in the story of Noah, where God threatens to do away with humanity because of its constant failure to fulfil the requirements of justice and peace: “I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them” (Gen 6:13). These ancient stories, full of symbol-ism, bear witness to a conviction which we today share, that everything is interconnected, and that genuine care for our own lives and our relationships with nature is in-separable from fraternity, justice and faithfulness to oth-ers. Fr. Terry’s Response: Pope Francis uses two well told stories from the early Scriptures to remind us how our behavior af-fects everyone and everything. Cain killing his brother Abel arises from his neglect of the earth. Our abilities, our talents must be employed as thoughtful tillers and not as ruthless exploiters. Fur-thermore, our abuse of the soil leads to abuse of each other and the danger of a flood as related in the life of Noah results. Everything these days keep re-minding us just how related we all are and how dan-gerous it is for us to be aliens to each other. In the past we have too often twisted the words of Scrip-ture to serve our illegal purposes. Now the chickens are coming home to roost with disastrous conse-quences. We need to move toward with genuine re-pentance and full restitution to restore the balance in Heaven and on Earth.

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