Saint Anthony Catholic Church

PARISH OFFICE HOURS

Monday 9 am to Noon Tues. - Thurs. 9 am to 12 pm & 1 pm to 4 pm Friday Closed Or call to make an appointment

Phone [408] 997-4800

Fax [408] 997-4801

Email churchstanthony@aol.com Website www.churchstanthony.com

Mailing Address 20101 McKean Road, San Jose, CA 95120

CATECHETICAL MINISTRY Phone [408] 997-4808

“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom”

STAFF Pastor Rev. Lawrence M Hendel (408) 997-4814 Pastoral Associate/ Catechetical Ministry Joann Maier Parish Secretary Tracey Nicol Parish Bookkeeper Susan Dunn

PASTORAL COUNCIL

Ramiro Bejinez, Holly Case, Michelle Contini, Cely-An Escay, Jim Georgiou,

Barbara Hawthorne, Katrina Healy, George Houston, Joann Maier, Son Nguyen,

Patti Rottjakob, & Barbara Wadors

FINANCE COMMITTEE

Tom Cronan, Kevin Healy, Ron LaValley, Maria McMurray, Jim Parks and Matt Tanzi

Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults Anthony Gonzales, Director, Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults Diocese of San Jose, 1150 North First Street, Suite 100, San Jose, CA 95112 Ph: (408) 983-0113, Fax: (408) 983-0147 e-mail: agonzales@dsj.org or www.dsj.org

SACRAMENT CELEBRATIONS MASS SCHEDULE

Sunday Observances: Saturday - 4:00 PM Little Church Sunday - 8:30 AM, 10:30 AM & 5:30 PM Big Church Tues. - Friday, Mass - 8:15 AM Big Church

RECONCILIATION Anytime by Appointment

Communal Celebrations during Advent & Lent

CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS Annually at the Easter Vigil.

Adults or children aged seven or older interested in discerning the Catholic faith or

completing the Sacraments of Initiation, please call the Catechetical Ministry Office or

e-mail: createdre@aol.com

BAPTISM OF INFANTS Ordinarily Third Sunday of the Month.

New or expectant parents should contact the Parish Office to schedule an appointment with

the Pastor. Infant Baptism is celebrated following Baptism Preparation Catechesis.

CONFIRMATION FOR TEENS Celebrated every other year in the Easter Season. Candidates for this Sacrament should call the

Catechetical Office at 997-4808

ANOINTING & CARE OF THE SICK Anytime as needed.

Communal Celebration Annually on/near the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, Feb. 11.

Call a priest to celebrate the Sacrament of Anointing for persons seriously ill, preparing for surgery or frail under the burden of years. Holy Communion is brought to all members of our parish who are ill or homebound through our Pastoral Care Ministers.

MARRIAGE Couples should contact the parish upon their Engagement and usually 6 months prior to the desired date of the Wedding Ceremony.

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20101 McKean Rd. San Jose, CA 95120

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21800 Bertram Rd. New Almaden,

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NEXT SUNDAY’S READINGS

First Reading: Isaiah 62:1-5

Second Reading: 1 Cor inthians 12:4-11

Gospel: John 2:1-11

JANUARY 9th & 10th, 2016

Saturday 4:00 PM Parishioners Sunday 8:30 AM Betty Kassawara (RIP) Sunday 10:30 AM Roger Golitz (RIP) Sunday 5:30 PM Parishioners

JANUARY 16th & 17th, 2016

Saturday 4:00 PM Parishioners Sunday 8:30 AM Stanley “Ozzie” Ozbolt (RIP) Sunday 10:30 AM Tom O’Hare (RIP) Sunday 5:30 PM Bob O’Neill (RIP)

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The Baptism of the Lord January 10, 2016

He saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. — Titus 3:5

Sunday Stewardship Trackable Donations for: 12/20/15: 70 12/25/15: 163 12/27/15: 72 01/03/16: 79

Stewardship - 12/20/15……………………….. $6,368.00 Christmas Collection……………………. $21,108.00 Christmas Flowers………………………….. $611.00 Stewardship - 12/27/15……………………….. $3,974.00 New Year’s Day (Solemnity of Mary)………$614.00 Stewardship - 1/3/16………………………….. $7,200.00 First Offering……………………………….. $669.00 Youth Ministry……………………………… $594.00

YTD Stewardship…………………………..$168,188.00

YTD Goal…………………………………... $165,105.00

YTD Excess…………………………………… $3,083.00

Meetings This Week:

Sunday, Jan. 10th: 6:30 p.m., X-StATiC

Monday, Jan. 11th: 6:30 p.m., X-StATiC Core Team (Cottage)

7:00 p.m., Knitting Circle (Our Lady of Guadalupe Room)

Tuesday, Jan. 12th: 8:15 a.m., Morning Mass (Sanctuary @ McKean)

9:30 a.m., Scripture Study (Saint Joseph Room)

4:00 p.m., C.R.E.A.T.E. Classes (McKean Church)

5:15 p.m., Children’s Choir Practice (McKean Church)

7:00 p.m., 8:30 Choir Practice (McKean Church)

7:30 p.m., Liturgy Board (Our Lady of Guadalupe Room)

Wednesday, Jan. 13th: 8:15 a.m., Morning Mass (Sanctuary @ McKean Church)

6:30 p.m., Fearless Band Practice (Guardian Angels Room)

7:00 p.m., Scripture Study (Saint Joseph Room)

7:30 p.m., 1st Communion Parent Mtg. (McKean Church)

Thursday, Jan. 14th: 8:15 a.m., Morning Mass (McKean Church)

7:00 p.m., 10:30 a.m. Choir Practice (McKean Church)

7:00 p.m., RCIC (Cottage)

Friday, Jan. 15th: 8:15 a.m., Morning Mass (McKean Church)

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, January 14th – 6 p.m., Social Concerns Mtg.

Monday, January 18th – Martin Luther King Holiday Parish Office Closed

TURNING THE TIDE

When everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. —Harriet Beecher Stowe

CATECHETICAL MINISTRY AND UPCOMING PARISH EVENTS

Join us TODAY for the 5:30 p.m. Mass

Join us tonight a er Mass Topic: “Alive”

Registra on Forms for X-StATiC are in the ves bule at McKean or

on the back table at the Bertram Church.

7th & 8th Grade Students….. See you again on January 19th!

Topic: Safe Environment This topic is mandated by the Diocese.

All registered BLAST students are asked to be present!

X-StATiC

Thank you to the following people who helped to turn our church environment into a glorious Christmas wonder-land at both the Bertram and McKean Churches:

Bertram – Colleen Dooley, Mary & Doug Jackson, Sue & Rich Martinsky, Dick & Bobbie Svec, Sean Sullivan & Monica Rodriguez, Sharon & Jerry Wilkus

McKean – Brandon Bejinez, Pia Beltran, Faye Careway, Loraine & Ken England, Mary Lou Harvey, Doug Jackson, Mary Jacobsen, Johny George, Lita Kamantigue, Mary Ann Low, Joann Maier, Karen Pelosi, Marie Pfeiffer, Elaine & Pat Ryall, Jeanne & Katie Szoboszlay, Louie & Kim (thank you for lunch!)

Parking Lot on Christmas Eve (4 pm Mass) - Brandon & Ramiro (Jr.) Bejinez

St. Frances Cabrini School Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

St. Frances Cabrini School is holding an Open House for new students in Pre-K to 8th grade for the 2016-2017 school year. The event will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, in the school gym from 6:00-8:00 p.m. We are located at 15325 Woodard Rd. in San Jose 95124.

For further information or to schedule a tour, visit our website at www.sfcschool.org or call 408-377-6545.

Pope Francis’ Year of Mercy Prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, you have taught us to be merciful like the heavenly Father,

and you have told us that whoever sees you sees Him. Show us your face and we will be saved.

Your loving gaze freed Zacchaeus and Matthew from being enslaved by money;

the adulteress and Magdalene from seeking happiness only in created things;

made Peter weep after his betrayal, and assured Paradise to the repentant thief.

Let us hear, as if addressed to each one of us the words that you spoke to the Samaritan woman:

“If you knew the gift of God!”

You are the visible face of the Invisible Father, of the God who manifests his power above all by

forgiveness and mercy: let the Church be your visible face in the world,

its Lord risen and glorified. You willed that your ministers would also be

clothed in weakness in order that they may feel compassion for those in ignorance and error: let everyone who

approaches them feel sought after, loved and forgiven by God.

Send your Spirit and consecrate every one of us with its anointing so that the Jubilee of Mercy

may be a year of grace from the Lord, and your Church, with renewed enthusiasm, may bring good

news to the poor, proclaim liberty to captives and the op-pressed,

and restore sight to the blind.

We ask this of you, Lord Jesus, through the intercession of Mary, Mother of Mercy;

you who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever.

Amen

DIOCESAN NEWS, CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING & MORE PARISH EVENTS

Marlene Agnoletti, Robin Beresford, Justin Bourdet,

Ed Canlas, Grant Collins, Moira Fayle, Noreen Fletcher, Mary Ann Fox, Tricia Kallio

Tara Gerhardt Kelly, Michelle Kim, Dory Lucena, Jay Mahon, Nicole Mahon,

Jeff Matthew, Troy Matthew, Louella Matthews, Steve Mayer,

Margie McMahon, Kim McMillen, Josephine Montanaro,

Kim Neff, Veronica Navarro, Benedict Oh, Richard Pfeiffer,

Steven Pfeiffer, Tarcy Philippidis, Kenneth Pohl, Cay Rafferty, Charles Roig, Cissy Rowley,

Diane Sanguinetti, Mary Sheehan, Grant Show, Carole Show-Grundy,

Bruce Skillings, Raymond Smith, Richard Smith, Renee Stokes,

Debbie Walters

The people and families of those on the Prayer Request List would like to give a big “Thank You” to those who

continuously lift them up in prayer. They greatly appreciate all of your thoughts. The power of prayer does great things!

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: 1 Sm 1:1-8; Ps 116:12-19; Mk 1:14-20

Tuesday: 1 Sm 1:9-20; 1 Sm 2:1, 4-8abcd; Mk 1:21-28

Wednesday: 1 Sm 3:1-10, 19-20; Ps 40:2, 5, 7-10; Mk 1:29-39

Thursday: 1 Sm 4:1-11; Ps 44:10-11, 14-15, 24-25; Mk 1:40-45

Friday: 1 Sm 8:4-7, 10-22a; Ps 89:16-19; Mk 2:1-12

Saturday: 1 Sm 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1a; Ps 21:2-7; Mk 2:13-17

Sunday: Is 62:1-5; Ps 96:1-3, 7-10; 1 Cor 12:4-11; Jn 2:1-11

Mercy

There are many definitions of “mercy.” Traditional Catholic moral theology

treats the virtue of mercy as flowing from love of neighbor. Namely, it is that virtue which inclines us to offer assis-tance to a person suffering from want or misery. This being so “mercy” in moral theology…. is not love itself but love’s result and extension (quoted in “Pillars of Fire in my Soul: the Spirituality of St. Faustina,” Marian Press, 2003, p. 95).

68th Annual Men’s Retreat “Come Follow Me”

Friday - Sunday January 15th to 17th, 2016 Brother Brian Malone, OFM

For more information, call: 831-623-4234 or e-mail: info@stfrancisretreat.com Website: www.stfrancisretreat.com

Wedding Anniversary Celebration Registration Deadline - January 22, 2016

Couples celebrating their 5th (or less), 25th, 40th and 50th (or more) Wedding Anniversaries are invited to the celebra-tion at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Joseph at 2 p.m. on Feb. 6, 2016. For information call: Sylvia Blanch at 408-983-0128 Register Online at: www.dsj.org/weddinganniversarymass

Catholic Professionals Speaker Event

Thursday, January 14, 2016

7:00 a.m. Mass - Msgr. John Sandersfeld Presiding 7:35 a.m. - Speaker Program Location: Three Flames Restaurant Banquet Room 1547 Meridian Avenue San Jose (just north of Hamilton Ave.)

SPEAKER: Skip Vaccarello CEO and Co-Founder of The Saratoga Group

TOPIC: “Finding God in Silicon Valley” (Inspiring stories of How God is working in Silicon Valley) RSVP at: 408-491-9229 or

www.sjcatholicprofessionals.com

www.cpbcinfo@gmail.com

Save the Date Saint Anthony Annual Past Dinner

Friday, Feb. 5th @ 6:30 p.m.

Girl Talk will be taking a holiday break, but will return on Monday, January 11th at 7 p.m.

“Girl Talk” is fun-filled meetings where high school girls mentor middle school girls. All are welcome! For more information contact: Janey Holm at janeyholm@gmail.com

Worldwide Marriage Encounter Married Couples: This

New Year resolve to make your mar-riage the best it can be by attending a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Week-end! The next Marriage Encounter Weekend is February 26-28, 2016 in Mountain View. For more infor-mation contact Ken & Claranne at: applications@sanjosewwme.org or call 408-782-1413 or visit our website at: www.sanjosewwme.org

HURTFUL SIN Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. —Benjamin Franklin

SAINT ANTHONY PARISH CATHOLIC SOCIAL

TEACHING COMMITTEE Quotes for Reflection

“There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.” Pope Francis

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK:

Today we come to the end of the Christmas season with the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord. With the Baptism that Jesus submitted to by John the Baptist in the Jordan, he bridges the Old and the New Covenants, and the coming cycle of sacred scriptures will open up his years of public ministry. We might even examine the

meaning of our own Baptism: What does my baptism mean to me? Before we leap ahead to Ash Wednesday on February 10th, we have one last opportunity today to reflect on the question: How have I experienced Christ this past Christmas and/or Advent season? This weekend is the final opportunity to reflect and pray at the Nativity scene and respond to these questions: Where do I find Christ in my life right now? How do I live my baptism? What am I thankful for as I enter into this New Year? In the pamphlet from Our Sunday Visitor, the author gave “Pope Francis’ 10 Secrets to Happiness.” There are so many ways we can be happy and most of them pushed our way are materialistic. Pope Francis identifies ten secrets that are time tested and true. I will simply list them again:

1. Live and let live. 2. Be giving of yourself to others. 3. Proceed calmly (my hoped for goal). 4. Develop a healthy sense of leisure. 5. Make Sunday a holy day. 6. Create jobs for young people. 7. Respect and take care of nature. 8. Stop being negative. 9. Respect other’s beliefs. 10. Work for peace.

Each one of these steps can easily require some time for prayer and reflection, seek-ing guidance on how we can live these steps, these virtues, these aspects of the Gospel message. From being washed into the life of Christ at Baptism to living our baptism each day, Pope Francis gives each of us specific goals for this New Year. Let us take them to heart and put them into practice and transform our world, our parish, our families and our homes. Blessings - Father Larry

* A housekeeping request: On Monday, January 11th we need individuals to take down the wreaths, garland and stars, box up the ornaments, put away the Christ-mas trees, the crèche figures and return to the green banners of Ordinary Time Happy New Year! Please sign up after Mass today.

From the Parish Office

We are blessed to have such a strong community of

volunteers. At this time, we would like to ask for people to help in the Parish Office. We have opportunities to volun-teer for afternoons (Tues. - Thurs. from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.) and to cover during vacation days. You would be asked to assist one day per week or every other week as part of a rotating roster. If you have office experience and some availa-ble time, please contact Tracey Nicol, our Parish Secretary, at 408-997-4800, to discuss what is involved. Some train-ing will be needed, computer experience is not necessary, but could be helpful. THANK YOU!!

Scripture Study

Tuesday morning Scr ipture study resumed on Tuesday, January 5th at 9:30 a.m. in the St. Joseph Room.

Wednesday evening Scr ipture study resumed on Wednesday, January 6th and will delve into the “Book of Revelations.” Weekly meetings are held from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the McKean Church. If you are interest-ed, please contact Catherine Knaresboro at (408) 268-6242, as soon as possible, so an order can be placed for materials.

Arise! Season 2 Please “Save the Date” for Season 2, which will begin the week of February 7 and conclude the week of March 13, 2016. Dur ing these 6 weeks, parishioners are invited to join a small faith-sharing group. Each group meets once a week, for approx. 1.5 hours and the cost is $20

per person. Dur ing the meeting, par ticipants use the Arise guidebook to learn more about their personal faith. Discussion questions encourage each individual to think about their relationship with God and how they live their “Catholic faith.” Par-ticipation in Season 1 is not necessary for those interested in joining Season 2. All are welcome--and we encourage those that have participated in the past to select a differ-ent group so that everyone has the opportunity to meet all our wonderful parishioners!

Sign-ups for Season 2 will be held the weekends of January 23rd/24th and 30th/31st. Those that participated in the past have found the experience to be very enlightening. They have also enjoyed connecting with more Saint Anthony parishioners. Please plan now to join a small faith-sharing group during this upcoming Lenten season!