Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic Parish

Mission Statement: Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we the church answer the call of Christ to be a visible sign of His presence by participating in: Scripture and Sacraments, Worship and Prayer, Spiritual and Academic Education, Evangeliza-tion and Witnessing, Service and Charity, Fellowship and Community. Through our words and actions with our universal community of believers, we strive to share the love of God with the greater Oroville community and throughout the world.

Fr. Gerome Hernandez, MSP,

Parochial Administrator

Jesus Venegas, Deacon

Thomas O'Connell, Deacon

Shirlee Ohls-Morris, Parish Bookkeeper

Ms. Kasia Heinert, Principal

Mrs. Tamara Landers, School Bookkeeper

Mrs. Erin Weckman, School Secretary

Established

1857

Our Parish Family includes Saint Thomas the Apostle in Oroville, Saint Thomas the Apostle School, and of Saint Anthony of Padua in Challenge. For mass Times see inside.

Diocese of

Sacramento 1886

Parish Office: 1330 Bird Street,

Oroville CA 95965

Office Hours: Tues.- Fri. 9-12;

Phone: 530-533-0262

Fax: 530-533-1148

http://www.orovillecatholic.org

School Office: 1380 Bird Street,

Oroville CA 95965

Phone: 530-534-6969

Fax: 530-534-9374

http://stschool.net

The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sunday July 29th 2018

Mass Schedule, Intentions & Observances

Readings for the Week

Sunday: 2Kgs. 4:42-44; Eph. 4:1-6; Jn. 6:1-15 Monday: Jer. 13:1-11; Mt. 13:21-35

Tuesday: Jer. 14:14:17-22; Mt. 13:36-43

Wednesday: Jer. 15:10, 16-21; Mt. 13:36-43

Thursday: Jer. 18:1-6; Mt. 13:47-53

Friday: Jer. 26:1-9; Mt. 13:54-58 Saturday: Jer. 26:11-16,24; Mt. 14:1-12

Saturday, July 28: 5:30 PM (English) Rita M. Frericks 7:00 PM (Spanish)

Sunday, July 29: 76th Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:40 AM Rosary 8:15 AM William Keegan 10:30 AM 12:00 PM Rosary @ St. Anthony’s in Challenge 12:30 PM @ St. Anthony’s in Challenge

Monday, July 30: St. Peter Crhysologus There is no daily mass today at 8:30 AM, at 6:30 PM The Divine Mercy Chaplet and scriptural Rosary in will be held in the Church.

Tuesday, July 31: St. Ignatius of Loyola 8:30 AM

Wednesday, August 1: St. Alphonsus Liguori 8:30 AM

Thursday, August 2: Ss. Eusebius of Vercelli, Peter Julian Eynard 8:30 AM

Friday, August 3: 8:30 AM

Saturday, August 4: St. John Vianney 5:30 PM (English) Rita M. Frericks, RIP 7:00 PM (Spanish) Recitation of the Rosary follows the Tuesday through Friday Daily Masses. Confessions are heard from 4:00PM to 5:00 PM Saturdays, and by Appointment.

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Please Remember in Your Prayers

Esther Corona

Mary Castillo

Bob Rice

Russ Lewis

Francisco Zarate

Marian Ritter

Wilma Koenig Fred Reno

Rosemary Keegan

Infant Karlee Davis

Bev Brinson

Frank Clanton

Thomas Edward Winter

Ann Lewis (Loseke)

Eva Lincoln

Catherine Wetzel, RIP

Saint Thomas The Apostle Church, Oroville California Sunday July 29 2018

Something New for Coffee Hour Take this OPPORTUNITY to request a convenient Sunday for your coffee hour assignment. If your ministry would like to increase the odds of getting a preferred date rather than a random selection, please call \Mary at 589-2986.The new schedule for fall, 2018, will be complete by July 31, 2018.Thank you!

Communion Classes Taking Students Religious Education is now accepting First Communion students for the upcoming school year First Communion is a two-year program. The Diocese requires, students must have completed two years of classes and be minimum age 7 and in the Second grade to receive their First Communion. Please bring a copy of your Child’s Baptismal Certificate when you enroll your child on the first day of class. Confirmation Year 2 students only will take place in spring of 2019. Classes resume Sunday, September 9. Meet in the Community Center for opening prayer and announcements at 9:30 AM then off to class in the Church Library. Because parents are considered the primary teachers, participation of both the parent, sponsor, and the student will be expected both years. Registration/Orientation for all classes takes place on: Sunday, September 9th at 9:30 AM in the Community Center. Volunteers are needed to build our Religious Education Program. For questions, please contact Lucia in the Church office at 533-0262.

Reno Bus Trip The annual Knights of Columbus RENO BUS TRIP will be on Sat. Aug. 18th. We still have a few seats available!!!! The bus will load and leave from the Applebee’s parking lot this year due to construction at the previous site. Departure for the Silver Legacy is at 8 am with leaving RENO at 5 pm arriving in Oroville at 8 pm. We need 32 passengers signed to guarantee the bus by July 24th. The ticket price is $50 again this year with $10 free play and $5 meal ticket. Raffles, door prizes and refreshments are available on the bus. Contact Gene Murray @ 533-3549 or Jim Cupido @ 533-5599 for reservation or other questions regarding the trip.

DATE TIME MINISTERS OF THE WORD EMHC July 28 5:30 1. Judy McInturf

2. Zee Ramirez

1. Kristine Read

2. Mary Seegert

3. Darleen Barton

July 29 8:15 1. Angella Wentz

2. Mike Ronco

1. Stella Spoor

2. Julie Silviera

3. Julie McCullough

10:30 1. Jim Moll

2. Claudia Moll

1. Kathy Grundmann

2. Maribel Melchor

3. Larry Grundmann

ROSTER OF MINISTERS OF THE WORD AND EXTRA-ORDINARY MINISTERS OF COMMUNION

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR MINISTRY. Ministers for next week are the following.

INFORMATION AND INVITATION

PARISH BULLETIN: LPI will soon publish our weekly bulletin. Expect some changes in the submission of articles for parish information or announcements. LPI will provide instructions on the layout of our bulletin. If you are also inter-ested in helping improve our parish bulletin, contact Bryan, our current bulletin editor, at saintthomasbulle-tin.oroville@gmail.com. If you also know businesses who would like to advertised in our bulletin, kindly call the office and leave the name of the company name and number.

PARISH WEBSITE: Our website is being updated and some links are under construction. But you may still visit our website. If you have any suggestions on how we can improve more our communications, please do not hesitate to call the parish office.

ONLINE GIVING: Give, Serve and Pray while you are away. Online giving help sustain our parish. Online Giving allows you to make donations, payments and pledges via computer or your smart device to our parish. Set up your gift today or consider an additional gift via apps on your smart device. Go to the parish website; orovillecatholic.org and click the online giving.

PARISH DAY OF PRAYER AND PASTORAL PLANNING: Calling the attention of all ministry and parish organization leaders and members. There will

be an assembly at the Parish Com-munity Center. The first assembly will be A Day of Prayer on the 25th of August and the second assembly will be the evaluation of our Mis-sion Statement and Pastoral Plan-ning on 1st of September. All min-istries are expected to attend both

gatherings. Deacon Emmett Pogue will facilitate the activities. Both sessions will start at 9:30 am until 12:00 nn. Do mark your calendars.

ST. THOMAS, THE APOSTLE SCHOOL SY 2018-2019: Have you ever considered Catholic education for your children? It’s not as costly as you may think!

St. Thomas friends and families, spread the news. St. Thomas, the Apostle School is now accepting applications for enrollment in grades TK-8th. For further infor-mation on enrollment and/or tuition assistance, please contact the school office at 530 534 6969 or email our principal at kheinert@stschool.net.

DATE TIME MINISTERS OF THE WORD EMHC August 4 5:30 1. Mike McGhee

2. Maeva Barickman

1. Sherri McGhee

2. Sharon Reed

3. Beth Rickey August 5 8:15 1. Dan Quinn

2. Mary Haloski

1. Marta Quinn

2. Aimee Myles

3. Berthe Mastelotto 10:30 1. Jim Moll

2. Jilliana Coffelt

1. Jim Coffelt

2. Kasia Heinert

3. Jake Coffelt

Y ou know the line about opera: “It ain’t over till the fat lady sings.” The same is

true about Sunday Mass. And no, the “fat lady” is not the cantor. She’s us—all of us—the church! Sated (miraculously with just a morsel and a sip), stuffed on grace, a bit tired from sincere thanksgiving and sustained praise, the assembly has to finish this liturgy before it’s over. Would the cast leave before the final curtain? The orchestra before the finale? The team before the final buzzer or last out? At Mass, we are all the cast, all the orchestra, all the team.

The end of Mass comes quickly: After the silent revery that follows communion, there is a prayer and maybe a hymn. Some announcements follow, then a blessing and dismissal, perhaps a final song. So is it really asking too much of each other to see it through to the very end? Sure, you might be blocking in someone’s car in the parking lot. But if we all stay till the end, what difference does it make? Of course the little ones are antsy; we all are at this point. A few minutes more won’t hurt. (Nor will cries and squirming now.) And yes, not

slipping out early means rubbing elbows with everyone, people jamming up at the doors and a procession of cars crawling out of the park-ing lot, but isn’t this a consequence of the communion that we just shared? Isn’t this how we know that we are becoming what we have shared: the body of Christ, risen from the dead, going out into the world to give to oth-ers what has been given to us? It’s a simple act of kindness—finishing the liturgy before leaving. And if we slow down

just enough to finish our liturgy, maybe we’ll slowly learn to finish well other things in life, too. And when we learn to rel-ish and not rush the end of things—the last minutes of a mov-ie, the final words of a conversation, the last hand of cards and the final set of pins to knock down—what we are truly learn-ing is to relish and not rush the end of our days—a final act of gratitude that gives God praise.

Copyright © 2001 Archdiocese of Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1800 North Hermitage Avenue, Chicago IL 60622‑1101; 1‑800‑933‑1800; www.ltp.org. Text by David Philippart. Art by Luba Lukova. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

UNTIL THE FAT LADY SINGS

Dear brothers and sisters,

A nameless hero of the New Testament is the boy in today’s gospel. While everyone else is urging Jesus to send the crowds away, this young man offers the little he has - five barley loaves and two fish. He could have easily kept the food for himself. He could have said to himself, “Why should I share my food with people I don’t know?” He could have thought to himself, like Andrew, “What good are these for so many people?”. Instead, he decided to be generous. He decid-ed to give what he had and trust God to provide the rest. Because of his faith, Jesus was able to perform a miracle so impressive that it is one of the only stories that appears in all four gospels.

We could be that nameless hero in the gospel. Jesus is chal-lenging us today to be generous, to give what we have cheerfully and to not refuse our sisters and brothers who are in need. Everything we have comes from Him to begin with. We can trust that if we give, even when it hurts, He will continue to provide for us. If we are generous, we can expect to see miracles.

Points for reflection:

1. Are we cheerful in giving or do we always complain when we give?

2. Am I generous in sharing my time, treasure, and talent to the church?

Blessed Sunday to all!

Fr. Gerome D. Hernandez, MSP

MISSIONARY COOPERATIVE APPEAL: The Mis-sionary Cooperative Appeal is an annual program in which missionaries from around the world speak at each par-ish. The goal of this appeal is to increase awareness of mis-sionary work and to raise funds to help missionary organi-zations continue their evangelization efforts. In the Dio-cese of Sacramento, 50 different missions were selected this year to each speak at two parishes. Last year through gener-ous donations, we collected $392,880 for 51 missions.

Today, Fr. Freddie Pinuela, MJ of the Missionaries of Jesus shares with us their courageous evangelization ef-forts on behalf of the Catholic Church and gives us an op-portunity to support their work in the field. A second col-lection will be taken up. Donations made by check should be made payable to the parish. All funds collect-ed through the Diocese will be equally divided among the 50 missionary organizations visiting the Diocese of Sacra-mento this year. A special envelopes are inserted in our bul-letin for next week second collection. Thank you in ad-vance for your generosity.

Este dia, Fr. Freddie Pinuela, MJ de los Misioneros de Jesus. Él comparte con nosotros sus esfuerzos de evangelizar en nom-bre de la Iglesia Católica y nos da la oportunidad de dar apoyo a su trabajo en el campo. Hay una segunda colecta después de su presentación. Se proporcionarán sobres especiales para su conveniencia. Donaciones hechas por medio de cheque deben hacerse a nombre de la parroquia. Todos los fondos recaudados en la Diócesis se dividirán igualmente entre las 50 organizaciones misioneras que visitan la Diócesis de Sacramento este año. Gracias de antemano por su generosidad.

17th Sunday in Ordinary Time July 29 2018

Advertising in the bulletin is easy and a basic ad can be pur-chased for as little ad $5.00 a week. Graphic ads and larg-er sizes are more but discounts for multiple weeks are avail-able. Contact the Parish Office or email saintthomasbulle-tin.oroville@gmail.com for more information. Please no polit-ical ads.

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Food Drive We will once again start collecting non-perishable food items for the Salvation Army’s pantry here in Oroville. We will start collecting after July 1st and thru August, 2018. Please donate for those in need in our community. May God bless you and your Family, thank you.

Rummage Sale! The Catholic Ladies’ Relief Society is gratefully accepting donations for the next rummage sale to be held Saturday, August 4 from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm and Sunday, August 5 from 8:00 am to Noon. Please contact Ruth at 533-0172 to arrange time for drop off of items at your convenience. Drop off donations will also be accepted at Fitzgerald Hall on Friday, August 3 from 9:00 am until 2:00 pm. Please no computers, electronics, furniture or large appliances. Thank you for supporting us in our mission to serve those in our local community.