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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 December 29, 2019
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, Elmer & Puri Serrano Lectors, Barbara Mehan Altar Servers, Clarence Decano
FINANCE COUNCIL: Chairman, Mark Zaleski
PARISH ORGANIZATIONS: Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), 60 Plus or Minus Club, Cursillo Group
SAINT VINCENT de PAUL SOCIETY: Call (510) 274-0830 for assistance. Call Mike Dresen (510) 813-6854 for more information about this ministry.
SICK & HOMEBOUND MINISTRY: Claudia Paquette, (510) 537-8986 WINGS “Women in God’s Spirit”: Peggy Maurer, (510) 538-5671
HALL RENTAL MANAGER: Monica Corona, 510-239-7941
YOUTH MINISTRY: Alfonso Corona III [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, Elmer Serrano 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 Rectory. Please call the Parish Office, (510) 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”
Mass Intentions (Dec 28—Dec 29, 2019) Sat. 4:00 p.m. Giuseppa & Nunzio Latora, Paola Vitale, Mike & Rita Bosozki Sun. 7:30 a.m. For the People 9:00 a.m. Barbara Neil 11:00 a.m. Maria Portela Mon. 8:00 a.m. Maria Teresa Silva Tues. 8:00 a.m. Norma Talan Wed. 8:00 a.m. For the People Thurs. 8:00 a.m. Bill Giammona Fri. 9:30 a.m. Tom Paquette Sat. 4:00 p.m. Maria Portela
Stewardship Corner The collection total for the weekend of:
December 14th & 15th — $8,468.00 Religious Retirement — $180.00 Christmas Flowers — $571.00
(compared to $12,000 average weekly stewardship goal)
Thank you for continuing in your stewardship role of providing for the upkeep of our parish
Transfiguration Catholic Church
Isaac & Jocelyn Nodal will be hosting coffee and donuts this Sunday after the 9:00 a.m. Mass. Stop by and enjoy the fellowship.
Eucharistic Ministry The Eucharistic Ministry is looking for volunteers to serve in our Liturgy. If you are interested, please send an email to Elmer Serrano at: [email protected]. Training will be provided. Thank you.
Baptism Class The next Baptism Class will be
Tuesday, January 14, 2020. Please call the Parish Office to register.
NOTE: Mass on Friday January 3rd will be at 9:30 a.m.
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
December 29, 2019 Over all [other virtues] put on love,
that is, the bond of perfection. — Colossians 3:14
We invite all women to join us for: WINGS (“Women in God’s Spirit”)
WINGS is a faith enhancement group that encourages spiritual growth through prayer, scripture study, catechesis, life sharing and
community. Transfiguration Church Marion Room (Hall)
Thursday, January 9, 2020 9:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Speaker: Stephanie Luna Topic: “On the Journey”
SALVATION IN DAILY LIFE This Sunday is the feast of the Holy Family, which comes on the first Sunday after Christmas Day. Today’s feast celebrates how the humanity of Jesus (including his entire family life) has brought saving significance into the daily rhythms of our hu-man family life. The scriptures offer instruction and encour-agement on how to share—within our families, par-ish families, and the wider human family—the love that God shares with us in Jesus. Selections from Si-rach, Psalm 128, and Colossians encourage us to re-flect divine love and thus find holiness in all our hu-man relationships. The reading from Matthew’s Gos-pel offers a living example of love in the actions Jo-seph took to protect his young family from danger and to nurture them within the larger family of faith of their time. — Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
St. Vincent de Paul Collection This Sunday
Through your generosity, in a typical month we pro-vide food, transportation, furniture, utility, rent and other assistance to approximately 120 men, women and children in our parish. We THANK YOU for your continued support!
Save The Date Our Pastor, Fr. Mario, is turning 70 in January 2020. Let us help him celebrate at the 11 a.m. Mass on January 12th, followed by a lunch reception in the Church Hall. Next week’s bulletin will have more information. Fr. Mario would like the gift of your time at this celebration. So, please NO PRESENTS.
Adult Bible Study There will be no bible study on Monday, December 30 2019.
Thank you for advertising in our bulletin. We appreciate your support!
TODAY’S READINGS First Reading: Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14
Second Reading: Colossians 3:12-21 (12-17) Psalm: 128—Gospel: Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23
The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, Interna-tional Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.
READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 1 Jn 2:12-17; Ps 96:7-10; Lk 2:36-40 Tuesday: 1 Jn 2:18-21; Ps 96:1-2, 11-13; Jn 1:1-18 Wednesday: Nm 6:22-27; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Gal 4:4-7; Lk 2:16-21 Thursday: 1 Jn 2:22-28; Ps 98:1-4; Jn 1:19-28 Friday: 1 Jn 2:29 — 3:6; Ps 98:1, 3cd-6; Jn 1:29-34 Saturday: 1 Jn 3:7-10; Ps 98:1, 7-9; Jn 1:35-42 Sunday: Is 60:1-6; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-13; Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6; Mt 2:1-12 SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph Monday: Sixth Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord Tuesday: Seventh Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord; St. Sylvester I; New Year’s Eve Wednesday: The Octave of the Nativity of the Lord; Mary, the Holy Mother of God; World Day of Peace; New Year’s Day Thursday: Ss. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen Friday: The Most Holy Name of Jesus; First Friday Saturday: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton; First Saturday
Your Prayers Are Requested for the Repose of the Soul of:
Charles Minihan
(Husband of Marie Minihan)
C.C.D C . C . D .
NO Classes this Week. We will have Two weeks off.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
~~Religious Education~~
Sixty Plus or Minus Club Please join us at the Hall following the 9:30 a.m. Mass on the first Friday of the month on January 3, 2020. Our hosts this month will be Marlene Tallo. If you can volunteer to help please, contact her. Dues for the year are now payable and will delinquent if not paid by March 2020. Bingo will be placed after the meeting. Please signup today if you plan to at-tend.
Music Ministry Fundraiser
We at the Music Ministry compiled a CD, the best of our last ten years of Christmas Concerts. If you would like to get one, please, stop by our musicians before or after Mass on weekends. We are asking for $20.00 donation which will go towards the purchase of new chairs and stands for the choir. Bring the beautiful music of Transfiguration Choir to yourself, your family and your friends!
TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION In the last century, a few new feasts were blended into the Church year, including today’s. Af-ter World War I, the chaos of daily life in Europe made its impact felt on the family structure. Partly to offer Christians an image of hope and holiness in married family life, and also to promote the welfare of children, today’s feast was “invented” in 1921. In 1969, it became a feast of Christmas. The prayers today remind us not only of fami-ly life, but of life in the community of faith. We pon-der the mystery of a God who loves us dearly enough to embrace the struggles, joys, and daily sorrows of family life. The message of Christmas shines through: God-with-us is available to us in the ordinary patterns of our lives and commitments. The lives of people who raise their children in difficult circumstances, and of people who remain faithful to life in the Church in spite of some of their own family struggles, occupy a special place in our hearts today in prayer. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
BEWARE!!!
Several parishes have reported that the email/text gift card scam is underway again. As we have shared be-fore, it is a national scam. You can google “priest scam gift cards” and see how widespread it is. We need to battle this through education and communica-tion to the parishioners/school families.
LAUDATO SI’ OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS
ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME
LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY
#32 The earth’s resources are also being plun-dered because of short-sighted approaches to the economy, commerce and production. The loss of for-ests and woodlands entails the loss of species which may constitute extremely important resources in the future, not only for food but also for curing disease and other uses. Different species contain genes which could be key resources in years ahead for meeting human needs and regulating environmental problems. Fr. Terry’s Remarks: All of us love instant rewards and the whole thrust of almost all the advertising that constantly bombards us promises immediate satisfaction. No wonder that so much of our businesses are short-sighted so that we are losing our forests and woodlands and a grow-ing number of species. Future resources are being wasted. We are saving our dollars to ensure our fu-ture golden years but we are negligent in ensuring our very environment in which we hope to live our golden years.
