SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Saturday / Sunday May 5 & 6, 2018

MASS INTENTIONS Sat. May 05- 5pm: †Violette Tamay Sun. May 06- 7am: Godchildren of Benedicta Dakudao 8:30am: Pro populo 10:30am: Souls in Purgatory 12:30pm: Canon Olivier Meney Mon. May 07- 8am: For our Mothers 6pm: Mark & Diana Crowder Tues. May 08- 8am: Souls in Purgatory 6pm: †Roland Ferrer Wed. May 09- 8am: †Nelson Salazar 6pm: For our Mothers Thu. May 10- 8am: Larysa Rutkowska 12pm: Rebecca O’Hare Fri. May 11- 8am: Margarita Doan 6pm: Jonah Nascimiento Sat. May.12- 8am: †Eliza & Giovanni Mancarti 10am: Fr. Francis McAllister & †Msgr. Jose Silva de Alba 5pm: Pro populo

The Calm Serenity of Jesus “Each day our Lord took up life’s burden in the same calm way; he went straight on through its round of tasks. Jesus was content with doing each function rightly; he never allowed his interior dispositions to be altered or disturbed by the immediate fruitfulness of his labors. It is true that he felt keenly his repeated failures. But he never was tempted by the pain he suf-fered in his sensitive nature to renounce his enterprise; he never took refuge in inactivity, or in the execution of things which should meet with a better measure of success. (E. Leen, In the Likeness of Christ) *** At all times our Lord bore himself with the same calm, unchanging, unbroken, undeviating forti-tude. He did not waste valuable time in complaints or in self-pity. He wasted no energy in rebellion against circumstances. And he did not passively acquiesce to the inevitable with a gesture of indifference or despair. (E. Leen, In the Likeness of Christ) *** Even if I know what hell will be, I cannot really imagine what it will be to be hated by Christ, to hear, “I don’t know you” (Mt 25:12). Yes; it will be better to suffer a thousand thunderbolts, than to see that face of mildness turning away from me, those eyes of peace not wanting to look upon me. He came to save me while I was his enemy, hating him, and turning away from him. He even gave himself up to death for me, and I rejected him. After all this, with what kind of eyes shall I ever again look at him? Notice his gentleness, he does not speak of his gifts. He does not say, “You have despised me who have done so much for you.” He does not say, “You have rejected me. And I brought you into being; for your sake I made the earth, heaven, sea and air, and all things that are; I set you over all things on the earth; after been dishonored by you, I did not withdraw my-self from you, but thought of you after it all; I chose to become a slave; I was beaten with rods and spat upon; I was slain for you; I died the most shameful death for you; I intercede on high for you; I freely send you my Holy Spirit; I grant you a kingdom; I made you such promises; I am, for your sake, the Head of my Body, the Bridegroom, the Food and Drink, the Shepherd, and the King; I took you to be my brother, and heir; I brought you out of the darkness into my light.” (From Patience: The Path To Victory by Charles Bel-monte)

There are Masses open for intentions on May 19, 26, 28, and 30. To offer an intention, call the Office at extension 201 or contact us at our email address: parishoffice@stmargaretm.org. Donation: $10/Mass.

Please keep in your prayers….Fr. Stan Zak, Fr. Bill Marshall; Mary Walker; Alex Porcuna; Lewis Mullen; Carmel Mahoney; Nancy Duenas; Vic and Nancy Mi-loslavich; Kathryn Rieger; Judy & Louis Delligatti; Rose Bloom; Stella Lurton; Sue Weber; Laura Montgomery; Sara Zendejas; Rosaline White; Josephine Palacios; Fran-cis Martinez, Mike Rodriguez; Paul Ehrfurth; John Ehr-furth; Anaidel Perezarevalo; Janice Siliger; Robert Mar-tinez, Laverne Seliger; Eddie Martinez; Sylvester Bell, Keith Borchers; Arthur Connick; Theresa Kunihira, Lianne Claver, Paul Oei, Mike Bozzardi, Betty Garland, John Benish, Diane Kasdan, Michael Quinones, Marc Wyborny, James Smithwick, Maureen Nassiri, Rose Grimm.

In memoriam: †Yolanda Cattoche, †Brad O’Leary, †Titus Ekanem, †Cornelius McCauley, †Lenaye Irving, †Jeffrey Garland, †Myrna Lanzar, †Barbara Shadix, †Bridget Connolly, †Virgil Garcia, †Wanda Krawczyk, †Bill Leitao, 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

Please refer to the Institute’s online bulletin for updates

CONFESSIONS Confessions are offered half hour before daily

Masses, during Sunday Mass, and upon request for those who cannot make it to confession on the

above mentioned schedules.

Homebound Visits, House Blessings, Spiritual Direction

Do not hesitate to call Canon Meney to have a visit or the blessed Sacrament brought to your beloved

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

ANNOUNCEMENTS (continued): for the unseen, everyday duties all of which, taken together, is important in the running of the Parish. Let us pray that Almighty God continue to bless and support her as she leaves as a member of our staff. Many thanks, Larysa. ● Please join us on Sunday, May 6 in the Kozi-na Hall after the 10:30 AM Mass for Hotdog Lunch to benefit our medical assistance fund and the Wy-borny family! ● There will be no Bible Trivia contest on May 13 because of the First Holy Communion festivities. It will resume next month. Please join us then.

● Mark your calendars for Friday, May 18th at 7PM for our monthly young adults’ potluck in the Parish hall! As usual, gentlemen please bring des-sert and ladies and couples please bring side dish! Main dish provided (gluten free will be available too). Please feel free to invite any young adult 18+ that might be interested! ●

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Next Sunday, May 13, we will celebrate First Communion at both the 10.30am and 12.30pm Mass-es, with the procession of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima following the 10.30am Mass. This begins anew our 13th-of-the-Month Devotions this year. Please join us.

● Thanks to your generosity: our St. Vincent DePaul conference recently donated $1,500 to the support of the Alameda County SVdP Women's Vis-itation Center in downtown Oakland, which provides basic essential services for homeless and low-income women and their children. Also, we continue to ac-cept donations for the Wybonry medical expense fund. If you wish to contribute to that fund, please write out a check to St. Margaret Mary's with a nota-tion - SVdP W. Medical fund. The check may be placed in any Sunday collection basket. Thank you for your support!

● We all thank Larysa Rutkowska for her 13 years of dedicated work at St. Margaret Mary as our administrative assistant. She has helped us in many sundry tasks in the Parish all these years. We thank God for her work and service on our behalf, not only for the big tasks she has accomplished, but especially

MESSAGE FROM FR. GLENN NAGUIT: Next week we will celebrate the First Com-munion of several of our children. The children who will receive their First Communion at the 10.30am Mass are: Lydia Dean, Jonah Kamp, Margaret Kennedy, Margaret Kiker, Paola Kra-mer, Liaden Nelson, Julia Richnavsky, Esmerelda Santos-Cortes, and Matthias Wilson. Please pray for them and their family. * Please also remember the three men who will be ordained to the Sacrament of Holy Orders for the Diocese next month. Their names are Reverend Mis-ters Jose Bazan (who had served at Masses here in St. Margaret Mary), Jimmy Macalinao, and Mario Rizzo. Their ordinations will be at the Cathedral on May 25, Friday, at 7pm, through the imposition of hands and the invocation of the Holy Spirit by Bish-op Barber. * Pray also for the candidates for Confirmation. Their names are: Andrew Dombrowski, Izabella Gutierrez, Mark Hockel, William Kennedy Ambrose Poon, Joseph Wyborny.

ANNOUNCEMENTS (continued) Parish Library Update: Note the SJGR Li-brary will open on May 19 after the vigil Mass, and on May 20 after the morning Masses. Due to First Holy Communions we won’t be able to open on the 2nd Sunday as usual. We’ll resume on 2nd Sunday & Vigil in June. Volunteers needed for after the 12:30 Mass, 1 time a month. Training will be provided. It’s easy! We are accepting donations of books. If you have books to donate, please bring them to the stage in Fr. Kozina Hall. We will add appropriate books to the library or will sell at upcoming book sale to raise funds for library purchases. Please contact Lily Mul-len for more information at (925)827-1946 or lily.mullen@gmail.com. ● To all parents that have a child graduating from College, High School or Junior High, save the date for our 4th Annual Baccalaureate Mass. The date for the Mass is on Saturday, June 9th, 2018 at 5:00PM. RSVP in the meantime to the Parish Office at parishoffice@stmargaretm.org. ● For our CCD/Religious Education programs, the classes offered include: Pre-First Communion (1st grade); First Communion (2nd grade); Post-First Communion (Grades 3-4); Grades 5 and 6; Pre-Confirmation, Confirmation, and our St. John Paul II Youth Group. Please share this notice with others that may have an interest in Catechism Classes at St. Margaret Mary Church. Thank you! Contact Lucia Wyborny or the Parish Office at parishoffice@stmargaretm.org or (510) 482-0596. The remaining dates for our CCD Classes are the following: May 6: Final CCD Classes. May Crowning. May 12: Holy Communion rehearsal and Confes- sions. May 13: First Holy Communion with Procession with the image of Our Lady of Fatima June 2: Confirmation rehearsal and Confessions (Noon in Church) June 3: Confirmation with Bishop Barber at the 10.30am Mass followed by Corpus Christi Procession.

● We will be having a 1-day Mother Mary Camp (MMC) on June 8 (Friday) beginning at 9am, with Holy Hour at 2pm. This is in celebration of Mary, Our Heavenly Mother. We will have a little apologetics, song, story and prayer! It will be a whirl-wind of fun and reverence. Lunch to be provided and

For Better or For Worse The "believing wife" or the "believing hus-band," whichever the case may be, refuses entreaties to another marriage (while the spouse is living) not for the negative reason, "The Church will not allow me," but for the positive reason, because "I love in a Christian way." Each refusal is a deepening of the first love! Fidelity in crisis is therefore not something one "puts up with" or "makes the best of"; it is some-thing that is ardently chosen for love's sake. Homer had a better understanding of this than the modern pagans. Penelope, during the absence of her husband, was courted by many admirers. Each day she worked on a tapestry to keep her hands busy, while her heart awaited his return from the wars. The years rolled on, and though she was told her husband would never return, she still believed he would. Her faith was not based on his charm, but on the original gift of her love and his. She told her suitors she would marry when she finished her tapestry, but each night she would undo the stitches she knitted during the day, until Ulysses returned. It is a false idea of liberty to think that it promises a release from love in order to please one-self. No person in all the world is made happier by the breaking of a pledged love. There are certain things that once accepted are never to be surrendered. Food is one of them in the lower order. What is forci-bly ejected from the stomach has a mark of vileness and impurity. But it is pure compared to a love that is vomited from the heart. Hell is full of hearts which took back their love. As breathing in the same air the lungs exhaled is slow poison, so the lover who draws back into his heart the love he gave in marriage suf-fers a spiritual thrombosis, which is eternally disas-trous. Since marital love is the shadow cast on earth by the love of Christ for His Church, then it must have Christ's redemptive quality. As Christ delivered Himself up for His Spouse, so there will be some wives and some husbands who will deliver them-selves up to Golgotha for the sake of their spouses. The young suitor does not abandon his beloved be-cause she falls in the mud. Why then, when there is moral dirt into which she tumbles, should the hus-band claim that love does not demand the rescue? There is not a child who was ever born who did not introduce suffering into love. The coming into being of a new love is heralded by the labor of the mother, but the pain soon passes into joy. Our Lord uses this analogy to suggest that every pain nobly born can bring joy into the soul….(From Three To Get Mar-ried by Fulton Sheen)

MUSIC Hymns: “Bring Flowers of the Rarest” (Crowning hymn) #546 Regina Caeli 5pm (Sat.) Heritage Mass, Alstott. 5pm: 411 At the Lamb’s High Feast 8:30am: Missa Jubilate Deo Mass at 10:30am: TORCH choir sings today. "Missa Jubilate Deo" Offertory at 10:30: "Alle Psallite cum luya". Commun-ion "Like as a Hart", Howells Organ postlude on “Hail Holy Queen” by Kreckel

ANNOUNCEMENTS (continued) served by the Knights of Columbus, Gutierrez Agen-cy. Thank you to the few folks that have raised their hand and said YES! to Mother Mary. We would love more volunteers. If you have a teen/tween or parent that would be interested, feel free to email Rosemary direct at r_cervantez@yahoo.com or 510-414-0776 cell. Please join us. Cost is $5/child. ● Those who wish to receive a blessing on the anniversary of their wedding, feel free to approach any priest for a blessing. Likewise, those who are expecting may also receive a blessing for expectant mothers. Please likewise approach a priest for a blessing.

● 2018 Bishop’s Appeal Update: The Parish has raised $10,775which is 49.20% towards our goal of $21,900. Thank you to those who continue to sup-port Bishop Barber in his ministry. If you wish to contribute directly to Bishop’s Appeal, please find envelopes in the vestibule desig-nated for the Appeal. If making a donation directly please make your check payable to “Bishop’s Ap-peal”. Or you may donate at the next second collec-tion for the Appeal on June 10.

Mary Our Guide and Model Month of May, month of Mary! The heart of every Christian turns spontaneously toward his heav-enly Mother, with a desire to live in closer intimacy with her and to strengthen the sweet ties which bind him to her. It is a great comfort on our spiritual way, which is often fatiguing and bristling with difficulties, to meet the gentle presence of a mother. One is so at ease near one’s mother. With her, everything be-comes easier; the weary, discouraged heart, disturbed by storms, finds new hope and strength, and continues the journey with fresh courage. “If the winds of temptation arise,” sings St. Bernard, “if you run into the reefs of trials, look to the star, call upon Mary. In danger, sorrow, or perplexity, think of Mary, call upon Mary.” There are times when the hard road of the “nothing” frightens us, mis-erable as we are and then, more than ever, we need her help, the help of our Mother. The Blessed Virgin Mary has, before us, trodden the straight and narrow path which leads to sanctity; before us she has carried the cross, before us she has known the ascents of the spirit through suffering. Sometimes, perhaps, we do not dare to look at Jesus the God-Man, who because of His divinity seems too far above us; but near Him is Mary, His Mother and our Mother, a privileged creature surely, yet a creature like ourselves, and therefore a model more accessible for our weakness. Mary comes to meet us during this month, to take us by the hand, to initiate us into the secret of her interior life, which must become the model and norm of our own. St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, referring to cer-tain discourses on the Blessed Virgin, said, “She is spoken of as unapproachable, whereas she should be represented as imitable.” Mary is inaccessible, it is true, in the sublime privileges whicih flow from her divine maternity, and it is right to consider these pre-rogatives in order to admire and contemplate them, to praise our Mother’s greatness and hence always to love her more and more; but, at the same time, we must consider Mary in the concrete picture of her earthly life. It is a simple, humble picture, which nev-er leave the framework of the ordinary life common to all mothers; under this aspect, Mary is truly imitable. Our program for the month of May, then, will be to contemplate the grandeurs of Mary, that we may be stimulated to imitate her virtues. We shall consider Mary especially as the ideal and the model of our interior life. No one has under-stood, as she did, the depth of meaning in the words of Jesus: “But one thing is necessary,” and no one has lived by these words better than she. (From Divine Intimacy by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene OCD)

Weekly update April 21 & 22 Year-to-Date

Actual - 1st Plate $4,319 $79,026

WeShare -Regular $1,160 $28,864

Total 1st Plate $5,479 $107,890

Goal $6,400 $102,400

Variance (-$921) $5,490

This weekend’s second collection is for Bishop’s Appeal. The collection for Insurance & Diocesan Assesment totaled $998. Next weekend’s 2nd collection is for Catholic Communications. Thank you for your generosity.

T HE S ISTERS OF THE I NSTITUTE OF C HRIST THE K ING T HE A DORERS OF THE R OYAL H EART OF J ESUS

G RICIGLIANO , F LO RENC E , I TALY

To support the work of the Institute of Christ the King, Divine Providence has brought about the formation of a community of contemplative nuns dedicated to reparation and adoration of the Royal Heart of Jesus Christ Sovereign Priest. Leading a non-cloistered contemplative life, the sisters offer their daily prayers and sacrifices particularly for the priests of the Institute and the souls entrusted to them.

In June 2004, Ennio Cardinal Antonelli, Archbishop of Florence, vested the first three sisters with their hab-it. In Spring 2007, they already number nine sisters and four postulants, from France and the United States.

Like the priests and oblates of the Institute, the Adorers of the Royal Heart hold three co-patrons as the guiding lights of their spirituality: St. Francis de Sales, St. Benedict, and St. Thomas Aquinas. From St. Francis de Sales' doctrine of Divine Love, the sisters draw the pattern of their vocation: to be in constant pursuit of growth in Love, which should always be founded on Truth.

The Benedictine aspect of their charism is reflected in the central place of the Church's Liturgy in their daily life. Holy Mass and the Divine Office celebrated in the classical Roman form, form the rhythm of each day. In St. Thomas Aquinas, the sisters find the clar-ity and structure of thought necessary for their formation and ever-deepening understanding of the mysteries of our Catholic Faith. Finally, it is through their principal patroness, the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title of the Immaculate Conception, that they seek to conform their lives and their whole beings to the Royal Heart of Her Divine Son--thus their motto, In Corde Regis ("in the Heart of the King").

Their day is centered around prayer - Holy Mass and the Divine Office in the traditional Latin form, one hour of mental prayer and one hour of Eucharistic adoration in the evening, the Rosary, etc. Punctuating this rich life of prayer are periods of manual labor and intellectual training, including instruction in Gregorian Chant, Latin, Spirituality, Philosophy, and Theology, as well as the learning of crafts such as sewing, lace-making, and the care of liturgical vestments and altar linens.

Bright Future As the community expands, it is foreseen that foundations will be made alongside the apostolates of the Institute of Christ the King, where the sisters will be able to provide support for the apostolic work of our priests. It is foreseeable that the sisters will eventually make a foundation in the United States. There are at present two American sisters, and the amount of vocational inquiries from the United States is ever increasing.

Recently, the Sisters were given a building that will serve as their future convent. At present, it is in need of extensive repair. Howev-er, the Sisters are certain that with prayer, generous donors will come to realize the importance of their work.

Vocations For inquiries about vocations to the Sisterhood, please contact the Institute's US Provincial Headquarters in Chicago.

INSTITUTE OF CHRIST THE KING SOVEREIGN PRIEST

DIOCESAN APPROVED TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS APOSTOLATE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MOTU PROPRIO, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM

IN THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

5th Sunday After Easter May 6, 2018