OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL CHURCH 2700 DOVER AVENUE - FAIRFIELD, CA 94533

FR. DAVID FONTAINE, O. CARM. (PASTOR) FR. PEDRO (PETE) MANILAG, O. CARM. (PAROCHIAL VICAR) DEACON RAYMOND ELIAS

WWW.OURLADYOFMTCARMELFAIRFIELDCA.ORG

PARISH OFFICE..................................................(707) 422-7767 Gemma Gonzalo, Parish Administrator Office email address: olmc.gem@gmail.com Office hours: 8 AM - 4 PM, Monday - Friday FAITH FORMATION............................................(707) 422-2814 ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY........................(707) 422-5209 Emergency material assistance EMERGENCY SICK CALLS.................................(707) 422-7767 CONFIRMATION & RCIA............................(707) 422-7767 TAG / HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH MINISTRY Rhyan Ramirez…………………………..(707) 853-2905

MASS: WEEKEND….Saturday Evening: 5PM Vigil Sunday: 8AM, 10AM & 12 Noon DAILY…….Monday - Saturday: 9AM HOLY DAYS…………9AM, Noon and 7PM

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturdays………...3:30 to 4:30 PM or by appointment BAPTISMS: 3rd Weekend of the Month Pre-Baptism Program Required (visit our website) MARRIAGES: Six months notice required Contact the Parish Office for all Baptisms & Marriages

Mass Schedule / Sacraments Served by the Carmelites

Mass Intentions

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday: AM 5PM Sunday: 8AM

10AM 12Noon

Week of Dec. 18th, 2016 ~ Fourth Sunday of advent Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration

“How has He been loving us? First of all, He loves us in simplicity. Is there anything

more simple than a child, or anything more simple than the round wafer of the Eucha-

rist? God wants us to love Him in simplicity. Above all, we must have no duplicity with God. He wants

our whole heart, not just part of it. We are to love Him, therefore, simply, unqualifyingly, totally.”

~ Fr. John A. Hardon

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION By now, the first Christmas carols are heard in the home, but usually not yet in church. What is a “carol” anyway? Origi-nally, a carol was any kind of communal song sung at a festi-val such as a harvest. By the thirteenth century or so, carols were associated with household celebrations. “Carol” comes from the Old French carula, meaning a circular dance. Car-ols weren’t for church, since the language of liturgy was Latin and the carols were in the common language. Their characteristic sound comes from medieval chord patterns, and they often have strong refrains for everyone to sing. Even in the churches of the Reformation, carols didn’t make it into church services until the 1870s or so, since there was a preference for psalms. Anglicans resisted popular carols; most of our beloved carols came via the Methodists, an off-shoot of the Church of England. The Catholic Church gener-ally didn’t admit carols to liturgy either, but we didn’t make laws against them. We are told that the beloved carol “Silent Night” comes from Catholic Austria and a harried parish music director. Joseph Mohr, the priest of St. Nicho-las in Oberndorf, had written the words in 1816, but offered them to his music director, Franz Gruber, when the church’s organ broke. Mohr asked him to write a melody that could be played on guitar as a prelude to Mass. Gruber finished the tune just hours before midnight Mass in 1818. The people were shocked to hear a guitar in church, but were charmed by the sweet lullaby. The church was swept away by a flood in the 1990s and the village later relocated, but the towns-people have set up the “Silent Night Memorial Chapel” at

the site. Today the carol is in print in some three hundred languages. How wonderful that the pipe organ broke on that night!

Gabino & Carmen Casillas † Patricia May / † Mary Palmer † Jonn Brown /† Anatulia & Edwardo Arias † Mae Harnett Dolores Charles-Sanders / † Deacon Larry Sheldon

Monday Tuesday Wednes. Thurs. Friday Sat. Sun.

12/19 12/20 12/21 12/22 12/23 12/24 12/25

Children’s Pageant Rehearsal Legion of Mary ~ ~ ~ Children’s Pageant Rehearsal / Nativity Nativity Display, Dec. 22nd thru 27th

~ ~ ~ Merry Christmas ~ ~ ~

OLMC’s St. Therese Chapel is open 24 hours, 7 days a week! Our goal is to have 2 or more committed adorers

every hour. Please call the Parish Office for more information, (707) 422-7767.

Christmas Children – It is good to be children some-times, and never better than at Christmas.

~ Charles Dickens

Prayer Requests - If you would like the faith community of OLMC to join you in prayers for special needs, contact the Parish Office at 422-7767. We do occasionally take some names off of the list in the bulletin. If we have taken a name from the printed list of a person still in need of prayers, please give us a call and we will happily put him or her back on. Please take some time this week to remember the

following in your prayers: - For all in our parish family who are suffering serious or terminal illness - For Armed Forces Men and Women on Active Duty, and for

Madison O’Shields Timothy White Ron Scharfen Dolores Highsmith-Cass Dion Newman Shannon Valtierra Daniella Rogers Harre Kim Bettencourt Susan Stockwell Francisco Galvez Joe & Evelyn Nunes Ezra Creed Haueter Nino Casilag Karen Mastrandrea Andy Andalajao Aukusitino Iulio Dolores Krystek Cassandra Lopez Yolanda Galvan Darwin Rasmussen Eugene P. Curtis Andrew Michael Capriato Sabine Krygier John & Vivian Donahoe Bob & Carol Howisey Marie Louise Caro Susan Cox Rosemary Costales Tom McCoy Carrol Thierry Pearla Cuerdo Rene Haag Tess Ramiro Daniel Yaroch

Carol Nunes Dolores Sheppard Bessie Zanolini Elba Elias Ian Padilla Cameron Schuster Miley McCrary De Pham John & June Kelley David Quilao Llavore Family Angelina Sabaria Charles Raymond Sandy Leigh Leny Casquejo Sal DiMarco Anita Flueck Sachi Mueller Fr. Don Burnet Dottie Lescano Bobby Holsworth George Sloan Mary Scheunemann Reagan Johnson John Joe White Virgil Jaramillo Therese & Bob Keck Anita Costa Bonnie Gomez Pat Murtha Dolores Sanders Bonnie A. Marotta Austin Yang Bill Rawlinson

Joe Hill Vic & Connie Arias John Hess & Sharon Dotson Kimo Boone Gloria Lee Anita Brennan Steve Henson Stephen Shanahan Rebecca Rivera Kathy Spain Larry Hebert Kellie Arnold Josephine Iannarelli Jennifer Briones Su Kuropatin Romy & Cuca Lopez Darrell Sturgeon Ken Sanders Jasmine Liban Jose Cadiz Mary Montandon Dennis Harp Bantique & Villarama Families Debra Loredo John Andrada Crystal Buelna Nancy & Jim Lockwood Arden May & Family Corrie Carbonel Bernice Jojola Bing Lovena Lagdamen Leo & Gwen Martinez Lou Gimarelli Marsch Family

Parish Collections

Our weekly goal $12,500.00

Offertory for week ending:

Dec. 11th - $10,550.00

Rainer Urbach 246-4686 Pearla Cuerdo 386-3403 Phyllis Kaminska 419-4237 Matt Maffei 592-0375

(Immaculate Heart Radio Ambassador)

Angie Bernardo 592-5084 Hayde Talley 421-1306 Mike Lonero 389-0130 Connor Ng 386-3461 John Quitugua 428-7255 Laura Rojas (415) 613-3671 Vince Tydingco/Sec. 631-5269 Julie Darling / Pres. 425-3934

Knights of Columbus

Council #15499

2017 New Year’s Eve

Dinner / Dance 7PM - 1AM. Cost per person $50. Last day to purchase your ticket Dec. 26, 2016. Contact the Parish Office, (707) 422-7767 for tickets. OLMC Ministry Fair

Sunday, January 29, 2017 This New Year come see how your Church helps the commu-nity and how you can help your Church!

Annual Nativity Display at Our Lady of Mount Carmel - 2016 Schedule :

Dec. 22 9:30AM - 1PM & 6PM - 8PM Dec. 23 9:30AM - 1PM & 6PM - 8PM Dec. 24 9:30AM - 1PM & 4PM - 11PM Dec. 25 8:30AM - 2PM Dec. 26 9:30AM - 1PM & 6PM - 8PM Dec. 27 9:30AM - 1PM Raffle drawing at 1PM

SUMMONED BY GOD The Fourth Sunday of Advent As Christmas draws near, Advent’s scrip-tures lure us into a world of dreams, signs, wonders, and the miracle of the virgin birth. Too often we allow the great stories of our faith, the ones that are most famil-iar, simply to wash over us. Today’s Gos-pel account of the events leading up to the birth of the Lord reads like a present-day soap opera. Yet Joseph’s courage, even in the midst of what must have been an in-credibly confusing time, provides a model for us. Each week, we are summoned by God to embrace the way of goodness and truth through the proclamation of God’s holy word. Like Joseph, we are called to do as the Lord commands us. As we stand at the threshold of Christmas, let us have the courage to be open to whatever it is that the Lord will require of us as we celebrate the miracle of Bethlehem.

Unto us a child is born . . . and his name shall be

called . . . PRINCE OF PEACE . . .

Need stocking stuffers for Christ-mas gifts? Scrip (gift

cards) are sold after each Mass in the Dome. If you

need 5 or more items, please call Peggy (707)

429-3183.

OLMC RELIGIOUS ICONS ...make a wonder-ful Christmas gift! Help reduce our Church’s Mortgage Debt by donating towards one of these beautiful ICONs. The molding of these art pieces is made using marble dust and a special German resin coating, which then goes through a State-of-the-Art “Galvanization” process. The paint-ing and finishing are entirely hand-made, giving the art piece a delicate and refined presentation. For infor-mation on how to obtain one of these beautiful artworks, please contact the Parish Office, (707) 422-7767.

We are currently setting up the Nativity display for this year. If you would like to LOAN your Nativity Set for display, please bring it to the Dome Office. If you do loan us your set you can pick it up on Dec. 28th between 9:30 AM—Noon. If not picked up between those hours the set will be stored until December of 2017. For more information, please contact Dom Orlando, 429-0149.

Coming Home Catholic: Have you been away from the Church for a while? Have you ever thought about returning? If so, we would like to wel-come you back to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church! We have a special ministry for people just like you who have been away from the Church. Please join us beginning January 9, 2017. We would like to address your questions and make you feel at home once more in the Catholic Church. For more information, call Kelly Newman (707) 422-4582, Dom Orlando (707) 429-0149.

OLMC MINISTRIES & ORGANIZATIONS

Dec. 22nd-27th - Nativity Display, Dome. Dec. 31st - New Year’s Eve Dinner Dance. Jan. 28th/29th - Carmelite Mission Appeal. Feb. 4th - Crab Feed (Knights of Columbus). Feb. 25th - RCIA Retreat. Feb. 25th/26th - Annual Catholic Appeal.

Respect Life News: SAVE THE DATE! Join us for the 13th Annual WALK FOR LIFE West Coast in San Francisco, January 21, 2017. Our Respect Life Ministry will charter a bus to the event. Check out the speakers scheduled for the event at

www.walkforlifewc.com. To reserve your bus seat, contact Anna (707) 290-5583 or Cathy, (707) 688-6551.

ADULT EDUCATION - RCIA / Catholics Come Home

Vivian Donahoe - 422-0872 / Kelly New-man - 422-4582 / Dom Orlando - 429-0149

MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER Tom and Elaine Bruno - 426-9564

ALPHA PREGNANCY CLINICS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

428-3300 MEMBERS IN MOTION Betty McFadden - 422-4129 Mary-Ellen McCormick - 434-9850

ALTAR & SANCTUARY Lay Carmelites MINISTRY OF THE EUCHARIST Julie Darling - 425-3934 Pearla Cuerdo - 429-8226

ALTAR SERVERS Deacon Raymond Elias / 416-4618 MINISTRY OF THE WORD Greig Parker - 688-1795

AMOR DEI CHARISMATIC COMMUNITY

Delia & Ireneo Tabasa / 631-9577 MUSIC MINISTRY - Mark Middleton olmcmusic@guitarandpiano.com

Barbara McFadden - 580-6514,

BAPTISM PREP Class held every other month

Deacon Raymond Elias / 416-4618 deaconraymondelias@sbcglobal.net

OLMC GIFT CARDS Peggy Sherrod / 429-3183

CANCER SUPPORT Annie Hutchinson - 422-0851 Parish Pastoral COUNCIL PERPETUAL Eucharistic Adoration

Consists of 10 members (See Bulletin) Lynda Sutton - 330-4858

CFC-FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY & LIFE

John & Malou Bayquen - 208-4005 PRAYER LINE Catharine Scharfen - 427-2320 Jewel Perez, 426-3697 / Pearla Cuerdo -429-8226

COUNSELING (private practice) Henry A. Ormond, O.Carm, PhD 422-7767 ext 16

QUEEN OF PEACE CENACLE Mindy Zindel - 421-0776

COUPLES FOR CHRIST Cesar & Norma Dulay (925) 528-3528 Rey & Milva Lapitan - 428-1561

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Elaine Bruno or Anna Albericci 422-2814

CURSILLO Gem Geluz - 386-9142 RESPECT LIFE and LIGHTHOUSE KIOSK

Cathy Omoso 688-6551 / Phyllis Kaminska 419-4237

FIAT Norma Dulay - (925) 528-3528 RETROUVAILLE (Lifeline for trou-bled marriages)

Fred & Barbara Valles - 422-1215

FINANCE COUNCIL Doug Darling - 425-3934 ST. VINCENT de PAUL 422-5209

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Dominic Orlando - 429-0149 USHERS / HOSPITALITY Bunny Dominguez / 386-2709

LAY CARMELITES Teresa Smith - 421-1491 VISITS TO THE SICK and SACRA-MENT MINISTRY

Parish Office

LEGION OF MARY Orlie Mangune, 707-880-5602 YLI (A Catholic Women's Organiza-tion)

Kathy Marley - 422-3588 or Margaret Sanders - 428-1970

LORD'S LEAVEN MISSION SOCIETY

Marlon & Yvette Taasan - 428-6375 YOUTH MINISTRY Rhyan & Danielle Ramirez - 853-2905 Regina Berdak - 398-1092

DIVINE MERCY Mindy Zindel 421-0776, Marlon Taasan 428-6375