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Church of the Transfigura on 4000 E. Castro Valley Blvd., Castro Valley, CA 94552-4908
(510) 538-7941 Fax (510) 538-7983 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.transfigchurch.com January 24, 2021
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: [email protected] Lectors, Barbara Mehan Email: [email protected] 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: [email protected] (510) 303-3324) YOUTH MINISTRY: Alfonso Corona III [email protected] 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 [email protected] FUNERALS: Please contact the funeral home of your choice and then the parish office. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Deacon Martin J. Leach (510) 537-1502 or [email protected] RCIA: Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults Please call the parish office. MUSIC MINISTRY: Director, Alexander Katsman (510) 538-7941, Ext. 302 or [email protected]
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.
Thank you for your continued support of Transfig-uration Church as it struggles to fulfill its financial obligations due to the corona virus pandemic.
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, February 4, 2021 9:00 a.m.—11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Sister Joann Heinritz Topic: In These Chaotic Times,
“Lord, Teach Us to Pray!”
For further information or, if you would like to attend, please contact: Nancy [email protected] or (510) 303-3324.
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
January 24, 2021 The kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent, and believe in the gospel. — Mark 1:15
Continued from last week…
Fratelli Tutti “Fratelli Tutti” (“Brothers all”), the new papal encyclical on fraternity and social friendship, is an important teach-ing document that must be read by anyone who wants to know where Pope Francis is coming from. PANDEMICS AND OTHER CALAMITIES
IN HISTORY
32. True, a worldwide tragedy like the Covid-19 pan-demic momentarily revived the sense that we are a global community, all in the same boat, where one person’s problems are the problems of all. Once more we realized that no one is saved alone; we can only be saved together. As I said in those days, “the storm has exposed our vulnerability and uncovered those false and superfluous certainties around which we constructed our daily schedules, our projects, our habits and priorities… Amid this storm, the façade of those stereotypes with which we camouflaged our egos, always worrying about appearances, has fallen away, revealing once more the ineluctable and blessed awareness that we are part of one another, that we are brothers and sisters of one another”. 33. The world was relentlessly moving towards an economy that, thanks to technological progress, sought to reduce “human costs”; there were those who would have had us believe that freedom of the market was sufficient to keep everything secure. Yet the brutal and unforeseen blow of this uncontrolled pandemic forced us to recover our concern for human beings, for everyone, rather than for the benefit of a few. Today we can recognize that “we fed ourselves on dreams of splendour and grandeur, and ended up consuming distraction, insularity and solitude. We gorged ourselves on networking, and lost the taste of fraternity. We looked for quick and safe results, only to find ourselves overwhelmed by impatience and anxiety. Prisoners of a virtual reality, we lost the taste and flavour of the truly real”. The pain, uncer-tainty and fear, and the realization of our own limita-tions, brought on by the pandemic have only made it all the more urgent that we rethink our styles of life, our relationships, the organization of our societies and, above all, the meaning of our existence. To be continued on next Sunday’s bulletin………
Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 There will be a live stream Mass on Ash Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 12Noon. Ash distribution will be conducted after the live stream Mass between 1:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.. Detailed instructions will follow.
St. Vincent de Paul Collection Thanks to your generous support, our St. Vincent de Paul chapter has been continuously providing food, transportation, rent and other assistance to about 125 people in need in our community each month. Re-quests for rent assistance are increasing, and will continue to increase, especially if the eviction mora-torium expires at the end of this month. Our volun-teers THANK YOU for your continued support.
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/ St. Vincent De Paul Donation Link: https://transfigchurch.com/st-vincent-de-paul-society/
Stewardship Corner The collection total for the weekend of:
Jan. 16th & Jan. 17th — $4,865.00
(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.
Thank you for advertising in our bulletin. We appreciate your support!
Adult Bible Study Monday evening, Jan. 25, 2021 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 [email protected].
TODAY’S READINGS First Reading: Jonah 3:1-5, 10
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 Psalm: 25 — Gospel: Mark 1:14-20
The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights re-served.
READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22; Ps 117:1bc, 2; Mk 16:15-18 Tuesday: 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5; Ps 96:1-3, 7-8a, 10; Mk 3:31-35 Wednesday: Heb 10:11-18; Ps 110:1-4; Mk 4:1-20 Thursday: Heb 10:19-25; Ps 24:1-6; Mk 4:21-25 Friday: Heb 10:32-39; Ps 37:3-6, 23-24, 39-40; Mk 4:26-34 Saturday: Heb 11:1-2, 8-19; Lk 1:69-75; Mk 4:35-41 Sunday: Dt 18:15-20; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; 1 Cor 7:32-35; Mk1:21-28 SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: The Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle Tuesday: Ss. Timothy and Titus Wednesday: St. Angela Merici; Tu B’Shvat (Jewish new year of trees) begins at sunset Thursday: St. Thomas Aquinas
THEY ABANDONED THEIR NETS AND FOLLOWED Jesus.
Mark describes the beginning of Jesus’ ministry with his proclamation that the “kingdom of God is at hand.” The rest of Mark’s Gospel — all of Jesus’ preaching and healing, his death and resurrection — describes the inauguration of this kingdom of God. For Mark, the life of Jesus is the center point of his-tory, where everything leads up to Jesus, and every-thing follows from Jesus. Mark then tells us that the first disciples follow Jesus immediately and whole-heartedly. They leave their work and family, all for Jesus. Because compared to Jesus and the life he of-fers, everything else is secondary. Perhaps our invitations from God do not entail such dramatic life changes. But all who follow Jesus are called to align our life and values with his ways of love. As we continue to mature in love and in faith, we might ask: What needs to be renewed, re-oriented, or discarded in light of our life in Christ? JONAH AND NINEVEH Jonah makes a rare appearance this week. The book of Jonah is fascinating tale of God, stubborn Jonah, surprising Nineveh, and the famous fish (or whale). Please consider reading the whole book, just 48 vers-es, together with a good commentary. The book is read at Jewish services at Yom Kippur, as a profound reflection about God and about all of us. Today’s passage takes place shortly after Jonah’s time in the fish’s belly. Jonah finally performs the task that God asks of him, to call the people of Nine-veh to repentance. (Nineveh was notorious for its brutality.) Their sudden repentance is bitterly accept-ed by Jonah, as he resents God’s mercy for Nineveh. God reminds Jonah that the people of Nineveh are God’s beloved too. Like the parable of the Prodigal Son, the story hints at the vastness of God’s mercy, especially forgiveness of those who seem least de-serving. We are reminded that all of us are sinners, and we are all in need of God’s mercy. —Copyright © 2021, J.S. Paluch Company, Inc.
ANNOUNCEMENT
We still have a lot of copies of our 2021 Parish Calendars and Rice Bowls available for pick up.
LAUDATO SI’ OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS
ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME
THE MESSAGE OF EACH CREATURE IN THE HARMONY OF CREATION
#86. The universe as a whole, in all its manifold relationships, shows forth the inexhaustible riches of God. Saint Thomas Aquinas wisely noted that multi-plicity and variety “come from the intention of the first agent” who willed that “what was wanting to one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another”, inasmuch as God’s goodness “could not be represented fittingly by any one creature”. Hence we need to grasp the variety of things in their multiple relationships. We understand better the importance and meaning of each creature if we contemplate it within the entirety of God’s plan. As the Catechism teaches: “God wills the inter-dependence of creatures. The sun and the moon, the cedar and the little flower, the eagle and the sparrow: the spectacle of their countless diversities and ine-qualities tells us that no creature is self-sufficient. Creatures exist only in dependence on each other, to complete each other, in the service of each other”. Fr. Terry’s Response: Our limitations despite our infinite longings makes it difficult for us to explore and above all comprehend the almost infinite number of beings and objects in our universe Added to this is the fact that somehow due to our very limitations we are dependent and related to all of them. An example of this, when I scroll on my Ipad, the number of people whom I may know and again when their picture numbers our mutual acquaintances I begin to wonder if I'm connected to everyone in the whole world?? And when I stop and reflect especially in a spiritual mode, of course I am! not only through the infinite goodness of God but by the very form of our uni-verse which links and binds us all together in a won-drous symmetry of Divine Wisdom. Pope Francis calls on us to reflect and rejoice and love and care for every person and all of Creation.
ANNOUNCEMENT Many of our parishioners have given permission to use their email address for parish communication purposes. If you would like to receive the Sunday Bulletin and parish updates electronically, please send email to [email protected] for permission to be included in the distribution. Thank You.
Remember Transfiguration in your Will and Living Trust.
An Act of Spiritual Communion My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, And I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You.
Amen. This prayer could be recited in lieu of receiving the Eucharist while a end-ing the live stream Mass.
FEAST OF FAITH The Penitential Rite Standing together in the presence of the Lord, we acknowledge our weakness, our sins and faults and failings. But the penitential rite is really less about our sins than it is about God’s mercy. It is not a time for individual confession, like a mini-sacrament of reconciliation. It is, rather, a preparatory rite, pre-paring us to praise the mercy of Christ as we acknowledge our own weakness. When Simon Peter witnesses the miraculous catch of fish—when he re-alizes who is in the boat with him—he falls at Jesus’ feet with the words, “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man” (Luke 5:8). We are like Peter. The more aware of the Lord’s presence we become, the more awareness we also have of our sinfulness, our weakness. The penitential rite of the Mass takes several forms, from the traditional Confiteor or “I confess” to a litany, spoken or sung by the deacon or cantor with responses by the entire assembly. The penitential rite always includes the words Kyrie, eleison; Christe, eleison—Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy. This ancient Greek prayer came to the Roman liturgy from the East, and still echoes in many of the litanies of the Eastern Rite Churches. These words turn our gaze from our own weakness to the gentleness, the kind-ness, the forgiving love of Christ. —Corinna Laughlin, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
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