FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT Saturday/Sunday December 22-24, 2018

MASS INTENTIONS

Sat. Dec. 22-5pm: Clare & Pat Choy Sun. Dec. 23-5:15am: Tom McDonough 7am: 8:30am: †Gordon Chew 10:30am: Pro populo 12:30pm: Hoopes Family Mon. Dec. 24-6am: Michael Elias Leonard 8am: †Ba Van Dinh 5pm: Doan Family 10pm: Vic & Nancy Miloslavich 12am: Sullivan Family Tues. Dec. 25-7am: 8:30am: Michael Kuan 10:30am: Pro populo 12:30pm: Thomas Dinh Wed. Dec. 26-8am: Sabrina Ortiz

6pm: †Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hegarty

Thu. Dec. 27-8am: †Angelique Cotinaut 12pm: †Filipina Ustare Fri. Dec. 28-8am: Stephen Lipovich & Family 6pm: †Santiago Jose Dakudao III Sat. Dec. 29-8am: †Fr. Francis S. Phan 10am: Lucy Viana

5pm: Pro populo

Good Manners If we consider how manners have developed over time, or how they vary from one country to another, we might conclude that they are purely conventional and can therefore be changed or even transgressed at will. How-ever, certain basic aspects of courtesy seem to have en-dured unchanged. We have all heard such expressions as: "By his bearing, you can see he is from a good family," or "What a well brought up child!" The human virtues underpin the supernatural vir-tues, and also lie at the foundation of the human usages and customs that are normally referred to as politeness or good manners. Perhaps the affability that fosters pleasant social interaction can't be said to be the most important virtue. But it gives rise to cordiality, empathy and under-standing, so important in our dealings with others. Polite manners provide something essential for living in society, teaching us to be human and civil with others. Courtesy, affability, politeness are "little sisters" of other and greater virtues. But their particular feature resides in the fact that without them our interactions with others would become unpleasant. Moreover, a coarse and discourteous person could hardly live up to the require-ments of charity. Looking at Jesus At some point we may well have asked ourselves, when we have acted incorrectly: "What will people have thought of me?" or "Why did I do that?" or "How bad I must have looked!" The Gospel has handed down to us a passage that describes two opposing attitudes, that of a "respectable" person of those times, and that of a sinful woman. Simon the Pharisee organized a meal befitting the standing of the one invited, a person regarded as a prophet. He cer-tainly would have given some thought to the distribution of the dinner guests, the serving of the meal, the menu items and the topics of conversation he would like to bring up with the Master. He wanted to look good in front of the people who mattered and his main guest. But he overlooked some small points of refinement that our Lord noticed. (From Articles on Christian life, Family Life, by J.M. Martin)

To offer an intention drop off the Mass Intention envelope or contact David at extension 201 or at parishoffice@stmargaretm.org. Donation: $10/Mass, to “St. Margaret Mary Church.”

Please keep in your prayers….Fr. Stan Zak, Fr. Bill Marshall; Mary Walker; Alex Porcuna; Lewis Mullen; Carmel Mahoney; Nancy Dueñas; Vic & Nancy Mi-loslavich; Judy & Louis Delligatti; Sue Weber; Laura Montgomery; Sara Zendejas; Rosaline White; Francis Martinez, Mike Rodriguez; Paul & John Ehrfurth; Ana-idel Perezarevalo; Janice Siliger; Robert Martinez, Laverne Seliger; Eddie Martinez; Sylvester Bell, Keith Borchers; Theresa Kunihira; Lianne Claver; Mike Boz-zardi, Betty Garland, John Benish; Diane Kasdan; Mi-chael Quiñones; Marc Wyborny; James Smithwick; Rose Grimm; Mara Roberts; Walter Wagoner, Ann McHugh, Hoa Tran, Diana Hendriksson, Kam Malloy, Matthew Kuan, Charles Kachadoorian, I-Wen Connick.

If you have requested someone’s name to be placed in the

bulletin for prayers, we would like to keep the person’s

name for up to 6 months so there will be room for others. If

after 6 months and someone is still in need of prayers,

please re-submit the persons’ name again. To re-submit

send the Office an email, or call David at ext 201.

In memoriam: †William Boyle, †Mary Cortese, †Marianna Rowe, †Norman Lum, †Al Raineri, †Ronald Sellman, †Yolanda Cattoche, †Brad O’Leary, †Titus Ekanem, †Cornelius McCauley, †Lenaye Irving, †Jeffrey Garland, †Myrna Lanzar, †Barbara Shadix. Requiescant in pace.

Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest

Rev. Canon Olivier Meney Episcopal Delegate for the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite in the Diocese of Oakland

Canon Meney - (510) 604-0391 or canon.meney@institute-christ-king.org

YOU ARE AT SAINT MARGARET MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH HUB OF THE LATIN MASS LITURGY IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

The Traditional Latin Mass (now called by the Holy Father: Mass in the Extraordinary Form) is brought to you through the ministry of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest.

WHAT IS THE INSTITUTE OF CHRIST THE KING SOVEREIGN PRIEST?

The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest is a Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right whose goal is the honor of God and the sanctification of priests in the ser-vice of the Church and souls. Its specific aim is missionary: to spread the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ in all spheres of human life. Our work is carried out under the patronage of the Immaculate Conception, to Whom the Institute is consecrated.

Recognizing the importance of a deep harmony between faith, liturgy, life, and the power of beauty in

attracting the human senses to the things above, an integral part of the Institute’s charism is the use of the traditional Latin Liturgy of 1962 for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the other sacraments. Great care for a solemn liturgy, complete fidelity to the doctrine of the Church and the Holy Father, and awareness of the central role of Grace, especially Charity – these are essential elements of the Institute’s spirituality, which is drawn from its three co-patrons, St. Benedict, St. Thomas Aquinas, and St. Francis de Sales.

Our motto is “Live the truth in charity." The Institute operates in more than fifty places in twelve countries, where our priests focus on the care of souls in many different ways. To assist our priests in their apostolic work, the Institute also has clerical oblates. In 2004, a community of religious sisters was canonically established to aid the priests in their mis-sion through prayer and apostolic work.

The Institute was founded in 1990 by Monsignor Gilles Wach. Today, the motherhouse and international seminary of the Institute is located in Gricigliano, in the Archdiocese of Florence, Italy.

The Institute serves the faithful of the Bay since 2005 at St. Margaret Mary in Oakland and at Five Wounds in San Jose (Mass at 12:30 pm on Sunday, 12:15 pm on Weekdays but Sat. at 7:30 am)

TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS SCHEDULE

Monday - Wednesday, Low Mass at 6:00 PM Thursday, Low Mass at 12:00 PM (Noon) Friday, Low Mass at 6:00PM Saturday, Low Mass at 10:00 AM Sunday, Low Mass at 7:00 AM High Mass at 12:30 PM Reception Every Sunday after 12:30 PM Mass Feast Days Mass at 6:00 PM

See the Institute bulletin for updates

CONFESSIONS Confessions are offered 30 min. before daily Masses, during Sunday Mass, and upon request for those who cannot make it to confession on the regular schedules.

Homebound Visits, House Blessings, Spiritual Direction, RCIA

Do not hesitate to call Canon Meney to have a visit the blessed Sacrament brought to your beloved ones or desire to join the Catholic Church (One to one class with Can-

on). Cell phone number is (510) 604-0391 Spiritual direction is available upon request.

ANNOUNCEMENTS (continued): 5pm: Vigil Mass in the Ordinary Form (OF) 10 p.m. Mass at Night (OF in Latin) Christmas Day, Tuesday, December 25, 2018: 12am High Mass in the Extraordinary Form (EF) 7am: Low Mass with Organ (EF) 8.30am: OF in English preceded by Lauds at 8:15am 10:30am: OF in Latin (chanted with choir) 12:30pm: High Mass in the EF. Feast of the Holy Family, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018: 7am: Low Mass in the EF. 8:30am: OF in English 10:30am: OF in Latin (chanted with choir) 12:30pm High Mass in the Extraordinary Form Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God and New Year’s, Tuesday, January 1, 2019 7am: Low Mass in the EF 8:30am: Ordinary Form in English, preceded by Lauds at 8.15 a.m. 10:30am: OF in Latin (chanted) with choir 12:30pm: High Mass in the Extraordinary Form

● A meeting with parents with children in our Children’s Religious Education Program is being planned for January 13, 2019 beginning at 9:40am in the Kozina Hall. The children will have a special

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ANNOUNCEMENTS: The schedule of Masses for Christmas and New Year’s Day is as follows: Christmas Eve, Monday, December 24, 2018:

MESSAGE FROM FR. GLENN NAGUIT: On behalf of the staff I wish all of the house-hold that make up the Parish a Merry Christmas. I bid a safe journey to those who are travelling for the coming feasts. Please note the schedule of Masses here in the Parish. * For the past three weeks we have been using the new Pew Missal from Ignatius Press, the same publishers of the Adoremus Hymnal. In use this year on a trial basis, the Pew Missal contains many of the hymns found in the Adoremus Hymnal, while at the same time containing the Scripture readings for Sun-day. Given ecclesiastical approval/approbation by Archbishop Cordileone, the Pew Missal—featured recently in the newspaper “Catholic World Re-port”— is the work of Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB who visited the Parish last year and offered one of the Sunday 10:30am Masses. Fr. Weber runs the “Pope Benedict XVI Institute” in Menlo Park, established by the same Archbishop to promote greater rever-ence, chanting, and Latin in our parishes. The three people most involved with the mu-sic ministry in the Parish—David Sundahl, Lynn Su-er, and Lolita Morelli studied and critiqued the Pew Missal. Only after they expressed their approval and enthusiasm that we all decided to try it out for this year. It is not a perfect missalette/hymnal: many of the Latin Mass settings we use are not printed, but that doesn't mean we won’t be using those Masses anymore (the choir still has access to the Adoremus Hymnal); some of the hymns may not be in it, but that doesn’t mean we won’t hear them anymore. It may not be perfect, but it’s probably one of the best ones out there. Hopefully with the pew pockets be-ing “less crowded,” it will lessen the damage to our pews; additionally we won’t have to change the mis-salettes every 2-3 months which is what we’ve been doing. There’s always a give-and-take with things like this; but most definitely we’re not changing our music program. So please let David, Lynn, Lolita and I know your thoughts. In the meantime the Adore-mus Hymnal is still accessible to us—we’re keeping our copies. And for those who needed them to teach their children the Mass in Latin, let the Office know and we’ll lend you a copy or two. Thank you.

presentation in the Church. Please join us to plan for next year’s catechetical program.

● Collection For Wildfire Victims: On Janu-ary 6, 2019 our Parish will be having a second collec-tion in support of those affected by the wildfires in our State. The funds collected will be forwarded to Catho-lic Charities, USA. Those who use envelopes will not find this in their packet. However, please use the yel-low envelopes found in the vestibule. If you on WeShare, or wish to donate online, visit the Parish’s website at stmargaretmaryoak.org and click “Give Online.” Look for “Catholic Chari-ties: Attention California Wildfires.” Or you may contribute directly to Catholic Charities. Visit www.catholiccharitiesusa.org. Checks can be sent to Catholic Charities USA, attn: California Wildfires/ 2050 Ballenger Ave, Suite 400/ Alexandria, VA 22314. All (100%) contributions to Catholic Charities USA for this cause will support those suffering from the wildfires in our State.

● Parish Library is usually open on the 2nd Sunday of each month, on the stage in Fr. Kozina Hall after the 7, 8:30 and 10:30 Masses. We have a won-derful collection of books, DVDs and CDs you may borrow. You won’t find these books in the public li-brary. If you have materials checked out, please re-turn them at that time. Used Book Sale on April 28, 2019: The Li-brary is accepting donations of books/ DVDs & CDs. If you have items to donate, please bring them to the stage in Fr. Kozina Hall. We will add appropriate items to the library or will sell to raise funds for li-brary purchases. For more information contact Lily at (925)827-1946 or stmmaryhands@gmail.com

● Holy Hour for Priests: Thank you to Lily Noia for serving the priests in November. We are still in need of volunteers in May 2019. This is a 2-3-person task; you can get a friend to join you, or Lily can find people to work with you. If you can cook or want to help serve, please contact Lily Mullen to sign up at stmmaryhands@gmail.com or (925)827- 1946. Our parish priests and priests from other par-ishes who join them for this monthly morning of pray-er and recollection appreciate our efforts to provide a

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What Love Is The professors who are absent-minded about their studies, to the extent that on rainy nights they put the umbrella to bed and stand in the sink all night, are proving that love makes us indifferent to our ordi-nary surroundings. Where there is great love, people can put up with every manner of hardship because of the quality of love which lifts them up from their en-vironment. The hovel of the husband and wife who are in love is not nearly as boring as the rich apart-ment of the husband and wife who have ceased to love one another. The saint, like Vincent de Paul, has such a love of God's poor that he forgets to feed him-self. The particular spiritual phenomenon of levita-tion, in which saints in their ecstasies are lifted bodily off the ground, is a still higher manifestation of a love in which matter seems powerless to restrain the spirit. The difference between love of humans and love of God is that in human love, ecstasy comes at the beginning, but in the love of God it comes only at the end after one has passed through much suffering and agony of soul. The flesh first has its feast, and then the fast and sometimes the headache. The spirit has first the fast, and then the feast. The ecstatic pleasures of marriage are in the nature of a "bait," luring lovers to fulfill their mission, and they are also a Divine credit extended to those who later on will have the burden of rearing a family. No great ecstasy of flesh or spirit is ever giv-en for permanent possession without casting out something. There is a price tag on every ecstasy! The glory of an Easter Sunday cost a Good Friday. The privilege of the Immaculate Conception was an ecsta-sy given before the payment, but Mary had to pay for it at the foot of the Cross. Our Lord gave her "credit" but she later paid the debt. Young couples who equate marriage and the thrill often refuse to reimburse Nature with children and thus lose love, as the violinist with a gift for mu-sic, who does not practice, loses the gift. "Take the talent away from him." (Matt. 25:28) The first love is not necessarily the lasting love. The thrill of the young priest at his First Solemn Mass, and the near ecstasy of the nun at her clothing, are like "candy" given by God to urge them to climb spiritually. Later on the sweetness is taken away, and it takes a su-preme effort of the will to be all one ought to be. So with the honeymoon of marriage. The term itself in-dicates that at first the love is honey, but afterwards it is as changeable as the moon. (From Three To Get Married by Fulton Sheen)

MUSIC 12/22-23

Organ: “Prelude on Stuttgart”, R. Ellsasser Hymns for today: #204 O Come O Come Emmanu-el; and #230 People Look East

5pm (Sat.) Missa Veni Emmanuel, Proulx. 8:30am: Missa Jubilate Deo 10:30am: Missa de Adventus

Offertory: Ave Maria, Arcadelt. Communion: The Angel Gabriel. Organ Postlude “Postlude on Stuttgart”, by Edward

Mead.

The Great Mystery Is Accomplished Of all the works done by God in time and out- side of Himself, the redemptive Incarnation of the Word is the greatest. It is the greatest because it has for an end not a mere creature, however sublime, but God Himself, the eternal Word, who, in time, assumed a human nature. It is the greatest because it is the su- preme manifestation of the merciful love of God, and the work which above all others glorfies Him; and it glorifies Him precisely in reference to charity which is His very essence. It is also the greatest of His works because of the immense good it brings to mankind. The salvation, sanctification, and eternal happiness of the whole human race depend wholly upon the Incar- nation of the Word, upon Jesus, the Incarnate Word. God the Father “chose us in Him before the founda- tion of the world, that we should be holy and unspot- ted...Who hath predestined us unto the adoption of children through Jesus Christ unto Himself...In whom we have redemption...the remission of sins according to the riches of His grace...God hath quickened us to- gether in Christ...and hath raised us up together, and hath made us sit together in the heavenly places, through Christ Jesus” (Eph. 1:4-5,7-2:5-6). Jesus, the Incarnate Word, is the once source of our salvation, and our sanctification. Without Him, man would not be able to call God by the sweet name of Father; he could not love Him as a son loves his father, nor could he hope to be admitted to His intimacy: there would be no grace, no Beatific Vision. Without Jesus, man would be imprisoned within the limits of a purely hu- man life, deprived of every supernatural horizon, in time and in eternity. God’s greatest work, the incarnation of the Word, destined to enlighten and save the whole world, takes place in obscurity and silence, and under the most human and most human conditions. Caesar’s edict obliges Mary and Joseph to leave their little home in Nazareth and undertake a journey. They trav-el on foot like the poor, in spite of the discomfort of Mary’s condition. They do not think of objecting to the trip; they make no complaint, but obey with promptness and simplicity. He who commands is a man, but their profound spirit of faith discovers God’s will in the command of a pagan emperor. And they go, trusting in God’s Providence; God knows, God will provide: “To them that love God, all things work together unto good” (Rom. 8:28). In Bethlehem there is no room for them; they are obliged to take shelter in a hillside cave. The poverty of this refuge for animals does not dismay or scandalize them. They know that the Child who is about to the born is the Son of God. (From Divine Intimacy by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene, OCD).

Weekly update Dec. 8 & 9 Year-to-Date

Actual - 1st Plate $4,759 $253,465

WeShare -Regular $1,160 $98,800

Total 1st Plate $5,919 $352,265

Goal $6,400 $313,600

Variance (-$481) $39,146

This weekend’s second collection is for the Diocesan Assessment & Insurance. The collection for the Re-ligious Retirement Fund raised $1,448. Next week’s second collection is for St. Vincent dePaul. Thank you.

homemade meal and serve them. In this little way we say “Thank You” for their ministry to us. Won’t you consider serving?

● The St. Vincent de Paul bin in the vestibule has been removed. Please make any food donations to your local food bank and any donation of clothing to your local Goodwill or other thrift store. Addi-tionally, in response to an urgent appeal, our confer-ence has donated $1,000.00 to the Sacramento Dioc-esan SVdP which is providing direct assistance, in coordination with FEMA and Catholic Charities, to the individuals and families displaced by the Camp Fire. Thank you for your generosity which made this donation possible.

● 2018 Bishop’s Appeal Update: Congratula-tions. The Parish has surpassed its goal by 103.65%, raising $22,699. Thank you to all of the individuals and fami-lies who supported the Bishop’s Appeal this year.

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4TH SUNDAY OF ADVENT

December 22nd, 2018

Merry Christmas to all.

All the superiors, canons, abbes and sisters adorer of the Institute and in particular abbe Kevin and myself wish you a Merry Christmas and an happy new year 2019. May the Infant King protect you, your family and your

Apostolate.

With the assurance of our thanksgiving for your support and our continuous prayers.

A particular note of gratitude goes once again to abbe Kevin for his beautiful Nativity Scene.

INSTITUTE OF CHRIST THE KING SOVEREIGN PRIEST

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IN THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

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seminarians throughout the year • Quotations from Saint Philip Neri, patron

saint of the Institute's international seminary in Gricigliano, Tuscany

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