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Join us for our

Lenten Penance Service Tuesday, March 5th

6:00pm

Especially during Lent, a season of penance, we are

called to turn our hearts to the Lord, do penance for

our sins and reconcile ourselves with God and our

brothers and sisters.

Our Penance Service begins with communal prayer

followed by opportunities for individual confession

with many priests in English or in Spanish.

Through the sacrament of Penance, God offers

mercy and forgiveness. In response to this gift, we

are called to become vehicles of Christ’s love,

making amends and restoring justice and the bonds

that have been broken. Healed and forgiven, we are

sent to work for peace, justice and love in our

communities and world.

Get to Know our

Carmelite Neighbors

The Carmelite Monastery was founded in the

same year of our parish– 1926. The sisters

have lived in the monastery on Hawley

Boulevard since 1931. They are a contempla-

tive order of nuns and are dedicated to praying

for the needs of our community and our world.

They profess an allegiance to Jesus Christ by

living a consecrated life of silent, solitary prayer

in a small community of sisters where each day

they strive to help one another grow in love and

joy, depth and devotion as they journey toward

their goal: union with God.

We are blessed to have two Carmelites,

Sr. Ancilla and Sr. Jane with us on Friday,

March 8th for a talk following our soup supper.

They will talk about Lent and also about their

lives at the Carmelite Monastery. This is a

wonderful opportunity to learn more about

these special women.

We invite all parishioners to join us for

An Evening with the Carmelites Friday, March 8th

7:00pm in the Parish Hall

Right after soup!

Annual Lenten Collection Next weekend has been designated for

the 2013 Annual Lenten Collection.

There are special pink envelopes for

this collection in the pews. This

collection supports the works of

Catholic Relief Services, the Church in

Latin America, and the Church in Af-

rica. Take an envelope today and return it next week. Please

prepare to respond generously to this worthwhile collection.

Please note that we will not have a Mass on that day.

Catholics are called to focus on what is essential:

—to pray for Pope Benedict XVI

—to pray that the Holy Spirit enlighten the College of Cardinals

—to pray for the future Pope

trusting that the fate of the barque of St. Peter is in the hands of God.

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GIFTS OF OUR TREASURY

THE WEEK OF February 24, 2013

Collection for February 24, 2013 $4913.00 Restricted Funds for February 24, 2013 $ 203.00 Total Income: $5,116.00

Saturday...……………..March 2 9:00AM……………….Elena Garcia Martinez, Spec. Int. 5:00PM………...…….Michele & Bob Trevino, Spec. Int. Sunday……………..…..March 3 8:30AM……………......†Patricia Weaver 10:00AM…...…………..People of St. Didacus 11:30AM…………….....Fr. Emmet Farrell, Spec. Int. Monday………………...March 4 7:30AM…….……….….Matranga Family, Spec. Int. Tuesday………..…..….March 5 6:00PM…………..….....Parish Penance Service Wednesday………..….March 6 8:30AM………………….†Patricia Weaver Thursday………...…….March 7 7:30AM…………….†Fr. Anadeto Eduardo Encarnacion Friday…………....……..March 8 7:30AM ………...……...†Richard Neely Saturday...……………..March 9 5:00PM………………...†Eleanor Martinez

Mass Intentions

Please Pray For

Weekly Events at St. Didacus

Sunday, March 3, 2013 Location Confirmation II 10:00am School Monday, March 4, 2013 Location Small Faith V 7:00pm Winona Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Location Small Faith III 8:30am Hall Youth Group 6:30pm Hall Small Faith IV 7:00pm Hawley Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Location Eucharistic Adoration 7:30-8:30am Church Altar Society Meeting 12:00-2:00pm Hall Religious Ed 5:30pm School Choir 7:00pm Church Men’s Prayer Group 7:00pm Hall Parish Finance Council 7:00pm Hall Thursday, March 7, 2013 Location Spanish Choir 6:30pm Church Small Faith I&II 6:30pm Hall RCIA 7:00pm Hall Friday, March 8, 2013 Location Cub Scouts/Webelos I 3:00-5:00pm Hall Soup Supper: Spanish Comm. 6:00pm Hall Spanish Stations of the Cross 7:00pm Church Carmelite Sisters’ Talk 7:00pm Hall Saturday, March 9, 2013 Location Cub Scout Pinewood Derby noon-8:00pm Hall

Welcome to St. Didacus Parish! Masses Saturday 5:00pm Sunday 8:30am & 10:00am English 11:30am in Spanish Daily Mass Mon., Thurs., Fri. 7:30am Wednesday 8:30am & Tues. 6:00pm Eucharistic Adoration Wednesdays 7:30am—8:30am First Fridays 8:00am—9:00am Confessions—Saturdays 3:30pm or by appt.

Pastor, Fr. Michael J. Sinor Parish Office 619-284-3472

And the special

intentions in our

Book of Needs

Maria Luz Arrellano Angelo Artale Jim Barnes Diann Bauer Dan Bauer Herbert Baxter Rita Bonnell Herminia Brignoni Ibeth Brignoni Lee Burnett Ruben Campos Marie Cavanaugh Terry Davidson MaryLou De Luca Bart Diaz Juanita Diaz Fred Dueber Clyde Elkins Maria Fielding

Susan Guenzel Rosie Kinninger Marcella Halweg Bernie Kober Marilyn Kober Maria Koter Juanita Lopez Maria Lopez Dolores Mediano Esteban Mediano Joe Moser Segunda Ordona Sylvia Paiz Dominick Palestini Diane Porter Dolores Robertson Atina Rodriguez Aaron Rodriguez Alette Rodriguez

Gladys Palestini Jeff Salazar Patricia Seay Christine Segura Michael Smith Raymond Sparks Angel Tapia Pedro Tapia Therese Tucker Carol Verdon Catarina Zizzo Rose Zaragoza Adalina Zarate

Josephine

Readings for the Week of March 3, 2013 Sunday: Ex 3:1-8a, 13-15/1 Cor 10:1-6, 10-12/ Lk 13:1-9 Monday: 2 Kgs 5:1-15b/Lk 4:24-30 Tuesday: Dn 3:25, 34-43/Mt 18:21-35 Wednesday: Dt 4:1, 5-9/Mt 5:17-19 Thursday: Jer 7:23-28/Lk 11:14-23 Friday: Hos 14:2-10/Mk 12:28-34 Saturday: Hos 6:1-6/Lk 18:9-14 Next Sunday: Jos 5:9a, 10-12/2 Cor 5:17-21/ Lk 15:1-3, 11-32

REST IN PEACE

† Helen Treat

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St. Didacus Parish School’s Annual Dinner & Auction

A Night “On Broadway” Saturday, March 23, 2013

5:00-10:00pm at the University of San Diego Hahn University Center Cocktail party atmosphere with food stations, silent and live auction and musical entertainment. Please contact the school at 619-284-8730 by March 15th if you’d like to attend. We are also collecting auctions items. Bring your donations to the school or parish office ASAP.

2013 Annual Appeal Update...Thank you 16%!

Thank you to everyone who has pledged to the 2013 Annual Catholic Appeal. Our campaign is still underway and we invite ALL parishioners to participate.

Parish Goal: $24,000 Pledges to date: $18,999 Total No. of Parish families/individuals 680 No. of Parish Contributors: 107 % of Parishioners Contributing: 16%

Baptism Classes for March English: Thursday March 21 @ 7pm in the hall Spanish: Saturday, March 23 @ 10am in the hall

You must register before attending the class. Contact the Parish Office to register.

Join us for our Lenten Friday Night Activities Friday, March 8

6:00pm Soup dinner Spanish Community

7:00pm—A Lenten talk by Sr. Ancilla and Sr. Jane from the Carmelite Monastery in the Parish Hall 7:00pm—Stations of the Cross in Spanish in the Church

Altar Society Meeting

Wednesday, March 6th

12:00-2:00pm in the Hall The Saint Didacus Altar Society invites the

women of the parish to join us for our monthly meeting. Father Mike and Fr. Bob will celebrate the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick with us between our lunch and our meeting. Please take this oppor-tunity to have fellowship and learn what you can do to help our Parish by becoming a member of our Altar Society. If you have any questions, call Teri Scinocca at 619-851-8628.

St. Vincent de Paul’s Villages Ladies Guild

Invites you to attend a charity luncheon

To benefit the Children at Fr. Joe’s Villages

“A Garden Party Luncheon” Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Hilton Mission Valley at 11:00am

The cost is $50 per person.

For reservations and information

contact janet.milliken@gmail.com

or call 619-275-6283 by March 13th.

Help us clean the Church

in preparation for Easter!

Saturday, March 16th at 9:00am.

Donate to our

Parish Food Pantry

Easter Baskets Bring your items to the Parish Office by the end of the day Wednesday, March 20th! Items

needed are: boxed potatoes, canned vegetables, canned fruit, rice, beans, Jello, marshmallows, bread mixes, dessert mixes, Easter candy, or a cash donation is always welcome! If you would like to request a basket or have any ques-tions, please contact Bernie Arreguin at 281-5387.

Kid’s Corner Did you know that

when glass breaks,

the cracks move

faster than 3,000

miles per hour?

That’s much faster

than a jet airplane

can travel! That’s even faster than YOU can

run! Did you know some children run very

fast when they’re going out to play but move

very slowly when their mom or dad calls

them to help with a chore? How fast do YOU

run when you’re called to help? —365 Fun Facts for Catholic Kids

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Penance, aka confession, is the sacrament of the forgiveness of sin.

It has many benefits...here’s one: Closeness to God. Confession helps you realize that you have a close connection to God and receive his grace through the sacraments. What can be better than knowing God’s on your team, or, to be less arrogant about it, that you are on God’s.

Make prayer

work for you

Deeper prayer is one

pillar of Lenten practice,

but note it is deeper

prayer, not necessarily

more praying. A billboard

once proclaimed: “Pray. It

works.” True, but prayer can be easily misunder-

stood as a kind of spiritual magic that gets you

what you want if you do it just right, often

enough, loud enough. As a matter of fact, while

prayer does make demands—attention and si-

lence—it’s really the Holy Spirit who prays within

you, making you malleable, beautiful, and useful

for God’s purpose. Moments of silent listening

may not make your dreams come true, but prayer

“works”—when you allow God to work in you.

—TAKE FIVE FOR FAITH: Daily renewal for busy Catholics

Cultivating Our Lives The challenge of Lent is urgent: “repent or perish; bear fruit or be cut down.” But what does this urgency mean for most of us who are scarcely huge sinners! Although murder and adultery and apostasy (giving up the faith) and other public, scandalous, heinous sins are as much a part of our church now as they were when the early church practiced public penitence, the vast majority of us are just common sinful folk. Sometimes it’s not so obvious to us of what we must repent. We are sort of stuck—like the fig tree; it was still alive, just wasn’t doing much. The challenge of Lent is to allow Jesus to “cultivate” and “fertilize” us so that we know of what we are to repent and can begin bearing even more fruit. Heeding the message of the Gospels is one way we prune ourselves of sins. The Gospels are the measure against which we can examine our daily living. Another way is to pay attention to the peo-ple around us. They can reflect back to us behaviors we need to change as well as draw us out of ourselves to act in charity and graciousness. Christian living—and repent-ing—isn’t something undertaken in isolation. It always in-volves other people. They are the “examples” who teach us what needs to change in us so that we can bear fruit—even a bumper crop! —Living Liturgy

Knights of Columbus

Fish Dinner Friday, March 15th

6:00pm in the Parish Hall

The Knights will be on hand outside after Mass today to sell tickets for their upcoming dinner. Buying your ticket early helps them budget their supplies and saves you $2! The early bird price is $8.00 adults/$6 kids, and at the door- $10.00 adults/$8 kids

Tune in to the History

Channel on Sunday,

March 3rd at 8pm for

their new mini-series

“The Bible.”

Pagina 6 Tercer Domingo de Cuaresma 3 de marzo de 2013

Recemos por el Papa Benedicto XVI y pidámosle al Espíritu Santo que ilumine al

Colegio de Cardenales y oremos por el futuro Papa .

Todo sucedió como ejemplo para nosotros

Jesús nos enseña, en el texto del evangelio de hoy a aprender a escuchar la voz de Dios en los aconte-

cimientos de la historia. De hecho sus contemporáneos también lo hacían, y por eso van a contarle los hechos, pero escuchaban mal, Dios no decía lo que ellos entend-ían. Es verdad que Dios habla, pero hay que aprender a escucharlo. Dios no nos dice que los muertos de esos acontecimientos drásticos eran pecadores, de hecho to-dos lo somos. Lo que Dios nos dice es que por serlo, de-bemos convertirnos y dar frutos de conversión. Los frutos son una palabra de Dios para esta etapa de la historia. La vid y la higuera, representan en la Biblia, frecuente-mente, al pueblo de Israel, el pasaje de la parábola nos habla de una higuera plantada en una viña. Pero en estos casos, el problema, son los frutos, o para ser precisos, los frutos malos la falta de ellos... ¿De qué sirve una higuera que no da frutos? Si no da frutos, el problema se agrava: no sólo no da fruto sino que ocupa un lugar que se podría aprovechar para otra planta. Dios preparó el terreno, hizo todo lo necesario, se tomó un tiempo prudencial, pero ¿y los frutos? El pueblo que Dios se ha preparado con tanto cariño, ¿cómo responde al cariño de Dios?, el tiempo se acaba y la higuera puede ser cortada. Sólo la intercesión de los trabajadores puede postergar esto un breve tiempo más. En la escena del Éxodo que leemos en la primera lectura, vemos la primera representación de Dios en la historia. ¿Qué características podemos decir que tiene el Dios bíblico del Éxodo?

¡NECESITAMOS VOLUNTARIOS!

VIERNES 8 DE MARZO: VIA CRUCIS Y CENA DE SOPAS PATROCINADA POR

LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA Cada viernes de Cuaresma se recorren las Estacio-nes de la Cruz en nuestra iglesia, este próximo viernes será solo en español, por lo que esperamos que nuestra comunidad que habla español este presente. Antes de las estaciones, compartimos una cena sencilla de sopas y ensaladas. Necesita-mos personas que donen sopas y ensaladas para 5 personas y que ayuden a servir y dejar la cocina y el hall limpio. Contacte a Elena para mas informa-ción.

Únase a nosotros en

Servicio Penitencial

Cuaresmal

Martes 5 de marzo, 6:00 PM

El tiempo de Cuaresma es un tiempo de peniten-

cia, en el que estamos llamados a confesar

nuestros pecados con un verdadero arrepenti-

miento, hacer penitencia por nuestros pecados y

reconciliarnos con Dios y con nuestros hermanos

y hermanas. Nuestro Servicio Penitencial se

inicia con una oración comunitaria seguida de

confesiones individuales, habrá varios sacerdo-

tes que hablan español. A través de este sacra-

mento, Dios nos ofrece su misericordia, amor y

perdón. Acompáñenos con toda su familia.

SABADO DE LIMPIEZA

NECESITAMOS VOLUNTARIOS

Necesitamos ayuda para lim-

piar la iglesia en preparación

para la Pascua , el sábado 16 de marzo,

a las 9 am, por favor acompáñenos y de-

muestre su pertenencia a nuestra comu-

nidad de San Didacus.