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Church of the Transfiguration 4000 E. Castro Valley Blvd., Castro Valley, CA 94552-4908
(510) 538-7941 Fax (510) 538-7983 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.transfigchurch.com July 24, 2016
Rev. Mario L. Borges, Pastor ● Rev. Terence O’Malley, Parochial Administrator Deacon Martin J. Leach ● Deacon John A. Mignano ● Deacon Timothy L. Moore ● Deacon Burton J. Rigley
LITURGICAL MINISTRY: Eucharistic Ministers, Stephen and Carina Kowalewski Lectors, Barbara Mehan Altar Servers, Clarence Decano Youth Liturgy, Michelle Gilman
FINANCE COUNCIL: Chairman, Mark Zaleski
PARISH ORGANIZATIONS: Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), 60 Plus or Minus Club, Cursillo Group
SAINT VINCENT de PAUL SOCIETY: (510) 274-0830 Serving our community.
SICK & HOMEBOUND MINISTRY: Claudia Paquette, (510) 537-8986
STEWARDSHIP: Chairperson, Ed Coelho, (510) 881-5705 WINGS “Women in God’s Spirit”: Bobbie Blackard,510-581-4149 HALL MANAGER: Pat Ballinger, (510) 537-1502
HALL RENTAL MANAGER: Ann McAusland, 510-239-7941
YOUTH MINISTRY: (510) 581-5870 or [email protected] PARISH OFFICE: Phone: (510) 538-7941 Fax: (510) 538-7983 Hours: 8:00 a.m. — 4:30 p.m., Monday-Thursday (Closed between 12:00 & 1:00 p.m.) Friday, 9:00a.m. — 12:00 Noon - Saturday & Sunday—Closed Secretary, Gloria Meeker Secretary/Bookkeeper, Phyllis Moore
SCHEDULE OF MASSES Saturdays 4:00 p.m. Sundays 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. (Except First Fridays - 9:30 a.m.) Communion Service - Saturdays, 8:00 a.m. CONFESSIONS Saturdays 3:00-3:45 p.m. BAPTISMS: Pre-baptismal class is required. Class is held the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. in the Marian Room, Parish Hall. Please call the Parish Office, 538-7941, to register. MATRIMONY: Six months advance notice required. Please call the parish office. WEDDING COORDINATOR: Mel Speed (510) 909-9334 or [email protected] FUNERALS: Please contact the funeral home of your choice and then the parish office. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Director, Patrice Ballinger (510) 537-1502 or [email protected] RCIA: Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults Please call the parish office. MUSIC MINISTRY: Director, Alexander Katsman (510) 538-7941, Ext. 302 or [email protected]
Mission Statement: “Transfiguring Our Community Through Faith”
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 24, 2016
You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him
through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
— Colossians 2:12
Mass Intentions (July 23-30, 2016) Sat. 4:00p.m. Anna Nguyen and Maria & Mark Tran Sun. 7:30a.m. George Thompson 9:00a.m. For the People 11:00a.m. Mario Cirimele Mon. 8:00a.m. Special Intention for Manuel Silva and Family Tues. 8:00a.m. Eva Pinto Wed. 8:00a.m. Special Intention for Connie Thompson Thurs. 8:00a.m. Special Intention for Connie Thompson Fri. 8:00a.m. Antonio Freitas Sat. 4:00p.m. John Ferreira
Stewardship Corner The collection total for the weekend of: July 16th & 17th —$8,966.00 (compared to $12,000 average weekly stewardship goal) Thank you for continuing in your stewardship role of providing for the upkeep of our parish community.
We extend a warm welcome to new parishioners. Please pick up a registration form in the vestibule of the church and return it to the Parish Office. This helps us to serve you better.
Remember Transfiguration in your Will and Living Trust
Baptism Class
The next Baptism class will be Tuesday, August 9, 2016. Please call the Parish Office to register.
Transfiguration Catholic Church
Coffee and Donuts Julie Monteiro & Sunita D’Costa will be hosting coffee and donuts this Sunday after the 9:00a.m. Mass. Stop by and enjoy the fellowship.
Deadline for Bulletin The deadline for items in the bulletin is
Monday, 4:30p.m. Thank you for your support!
Pancake Breakfast We will not have a Pancake Breakfast on Sunday after the 7:30 and 9:00 Masses in the months of July and August. We will resume on September 25th.
TODAY’S READINGS First Reading: Genesis 18:20-32
Second Reading: Colossians 2:12-14 Psalm 138
Gospel: Luke 11:1-13 The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.
READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 2 Cor 4:7-15; Ps 126:1bc-6; Mt 20:20-28 Tuesday: Jer 14:17-22; Ps 79:8, 9, 11, 13; Mt 13:36-43 Wednesday: Jer 15:10, 16-21; Ps 59:2-4, 10-11, 17-18; Mt 13:44-46 Thursday: Jer 18:1-6; Ps 146:1b-6ab; Mt 13:47-53 Friday: Jer 26:1-9; Ps 69:5, 8-10, 14; Jn 11:19-27 or Lk 10:38-42 Saturday: Jer 26:11-16, 24; Ps 69:15-16, 30-31, 33-34; Mt 14:1-12 Sunday: Eccl 1:2; 2:21-23; Ps 90:3-6, 12-14, 17; Col 3:1-5, 9-11; Lk 12:13-21 SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: St. James Tuesday: Ss. Joachim and Anne; World Youth Day, Krakow, Poland Friday: St. Martha Saturday: St. Peter Chrysologus; Blessed Virgin Mary
KEEP PRAYING St. Monica, whose feast we celebrate in August, is often known as “the persistent mother.” She watched her oldest son, Augustine, turn his back on his Christian faith. Monica was exasperated. For years she gave up talk-ing directly to her son on the advice of a local bishop, who told her that it was better to talk to God about Au-gustine then to Augustine about God. The mother never gave up praying for her son. Even-tually Augustine gave up his wild ways, was baptized, and later ordained and named bishop of Hippo. St. Au-gustine went on to become one of the Church’s greatest scholars. Today’s readings address the importance of persistent prayer. Abraham, in spite of trepidation that he is bother-ing the Lord, continues to ask about the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah. Jesus, in Luke’s Gospel, tells his disciples to “ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you” (Luke 11:9). This is our charge: keep praying. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
Adult Bible Study Monday evening, July 25, 2016 in the Marian Room, Parish Hall, 7:00-8:30p.m. No sign-up required, just drop in. Free will offering.
Credit, Debit, and Electronic Check Offerings If you would like to make your Sunday offering by credit or debit card, or electronic check, please go to our website: transfigchurch.com, and click on the “Donate” tab. From there, click on the “Donate Now” button to be taken to a secure website to complete the setup of your offering.
Tiny Tickets = Tremendous Treasure What is a Tiny Ticket??? And why would anyone
want them??? MANY of you have been so faithful to our project —- Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! Many of you may not know anything about TINY TICKETS…Well……Tiny Tickets are those BART tickets, often discarded or left in pockets or drawers, which have tiny bits of value left on them that could be turned into cash. The Tiny Tickets Program allows these resources to provide need-ed support to nonprofit groups like FESCO. Our Confirmation Program is committed to help. There is a Treasure Chest in the vestibule of the church, please drop your Tiny Tickets in the chest and we will transport them to the FESCO Offices. Thank you in advance for your kind generosity to our brothers and sisters in need.
BLOOD DRIVE Sunday, July 24, 2016, 8:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
Transfiguration Lower Parking Lot Give blood. Go hybrid. Donate blood July 16 – August 31 and be entered to win a Toyota Prius (donated by Stevens Creek Toyota). To schedule your life-saving appointment, go to www.bloodheroes.com, click on "Locate a Blood Drive" & enter Sponsor Code: COTT or contact Sunita D’Costa at 510-733-2500 or; [email protected]. Donors Reg-istered Online Receive Online Rewards Points.
Thank you for advertising in our bulletin. We appreciate your support!
St. Vincent de Paul
Collection: There will be a second collection for St. Vincent de Paul the weekend of July 30 and 31. SVdP helps the poor in our parish by providing food, gas, and household assis-tance to our neighbors in need. In May, SVdP volunteers made 41 visits providing assistance to 197 individuals, many of whom were children. We appreciate your generosity and encourage you to be generous once again for the collection at the Masses on July 30 and 31. Please use the envelopes in the pews for the collection.
Support St. Vincent de Paul's Backpack/School Supply Drive!
St. Vincent de Paul is collecting new backpacks filled with school supplies for children of the poor that we serve in our parish community. Each backpack needs some or all of the following supplies: pencil case, pencil sharpener, regular pencils, colored pencils, erasers, washable markers, scissors, glue sticks, ruler, folders with pockets, small /individual packs of tissue, pens, drawing paper, and wide ruled paper in spiral notebooks. We will be in the vestibule of the Church on August 6 and 7 after all of the Masses to collect the backpacks filled with supplies. If you have any questions, please call Nancy Hol-lister, 510-889-7011 or email: [email protected].
Sixty Plus or Minus Club Please join us in the Hall following the 9:30a.m. Mass on Friday, August 5th. Our hosts will be Marlene Tallo, Jo Green and Barbara Coelho. We will have someone from Eden Medical Services Senior Injury Prevention speak about contributing factors that cause falls. Those attend-ing will receive a “Falls Prevention Manual”. Everyone is welcome to come to our meeting. Please sign up today if you plan to attend as the hosts need to have a count of attendees.
MERCY The Heart of Peace
Interfaith Meeting of Prayer for Peace
All are invited for an evening of prayer and dialogue in the spirit of peace.
The Cathedral of Christ the Light Event Center
2121 Harrison St., Oakland, CA 94612 September 6, 2016
Prayer 5:45p.m. Panel Dialogue: 6:30p.m. Procession & Pledge 8:00p.m.
RSVP at JubileeOfMercy-EB.org or Oakdiocese.org/InterfaithMeeting
For more information, contact Jean Evans at 510-267-8357 or [email protected].
LETTER FROM POPE FRANCIS THE “JOY OF THE GOSPEL” CONTINUED...
The Church’s Missionary Transformation—#143
Words which set hearts on fire
The challenge of an inculturated preaching consists in proclaiming a synthesis, not ideas or detached values. Where your synthesis is, there lies your heart. The differ-ence between enlightening people with a synthesis and doing so with detached ideas is like the difference be-tween boredom and heartfelt fervour. The preacher has the wonderful but difficult task of joining loving hearts, the hearts of the Lord and his people. The dialogue be-tween God and his people further strengthens the cove-nant between them and consolidates the bond of charity. In the course of the homily, the hearts of believers keep silence and allow God to speak. The Lord and his people speak to one another in a thousand ways directly, without intermediaries. But in the homily they want someone to serve as an instrument and to express their feelings in such a way that afterwards, each one may chose how he or she will continue the conversation. The word is essen-tially a mediator and requires not just the two who dia-logue but also an intermediary who presents it for what it is, out of the conviction that “what we preach is not our-selves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake” (2 Cor 4:5). Fr. Terry’s Remarks— Last week I remarked how dif-ficult it is to stand before a congregation of God's people and communicate the Kingdom of God with them; add that their ages range from one year to one hundred, plus that there are people from different nations and cultures. It now becomes not so much a question of language, or knowledge or ethnicity but a meeting of loving hearts and mutual communion. We are in a place where both homi-list and people allow God to speak to them in the inner recesses of their hearts and spirits. The Lord is not re-stricted by age or culture but speaks to everyone in their own tongue. Remember at Pentecost : ''and each one heard them speak in his or her own language.'' Pope Francis puts it beautifully when quoting from second Co-rinthians: '' what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.'' (2 Cor 4:5). Oh! how blessed are we all.
