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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 January 22, 2017
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”: Trish Ferrari, (510) 581-7263 HALL MANAGER: Pat Ballinger, (510) 537-1502
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, 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 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”
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time January 22, 2017
Wait for the L with courage; be stouthearted, and wait for the L .
— Psalm 27:14
Mass Intentions (January 21-28, 2017) Sat. 4:00 p.m. John Ferreira Sun. 7:30 a.m. For the People 9:00 a.m. Alfred Iannarelli and Alfred Iannarelli, Jr. 11:00 a.m. Joe & Grace Bavaro & Maria Bavaro Mon. 8:00 a.m. Anna Dygert & Dennis Regacho Tues. 8:00 a.m. Special Intention for Manuel Silva and Family Wed. 8:00 a.m. Patrick Conroy and Mary Conroy Bingham Thurs. 8:00 a.m. Vince Alongi Fri. 8:00 a.m. Lucie Pereira Sat. 4:00 p.m. Angel & Carina Pelayo
Stewardship Corner The collection total for the weekend of: January 14th & 15th—$8,062.00 (compared to $12,000 average weekly stewardship goal) Seminary Collection—$1,369.00 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
Adult Bible Study Monday evening, January 23, 2017 in the Marian Room, Parish Hall, 7:00-8:30 p.m. No sign-up required, just drop in. Free will offering.
Coffee and Donuts Mark & Bee Medders will be hosting coffee and donuts this Sunday after the 9:00 a.m. Mass. Stop by and enjoy the fellowship.
Transfiguration Catholic Church
Your helping hands are needed! Do you know that BREAD OF LIFE is a ministry here at Transfiguration which provides luncheons after the funerals of parishioners? Would you like to help this ministry of hospitality? Commitment is as easy as occasionally dropping off a dish of food or helping set up, serve or clean up. It is truly a ministry of love. Women AND men welcome! Contact Peggy Maurer at 510-538-5671 or Nancy Saun-ders at 510-427-4811 for more information. We'd love to have you on board!
Dear Parishioners, I want to express my gratitude to all those who contribut-ed toward the Corpus (that was stolen) for our cross. We have a good start toward the project. I have placed the order for a new Corpus. Your generosity is making this possible. My heartfelt thank you. To those who cannot contribute, pray that we, as a parish, will bring this to a happy conclusion. Yours in Christ, Fr. Mario L. Borges
It is Crab Feed Time! (Transfigura on’s Single Largest Fundraiser)
The Crab Feed is on Saturday, February 18th. The
ckets are $45.00 and will be sold a er every Mass on
January 21/22 & 28/29, February 4/5 & 11/12.
We are looking for dona ons. (cash or raffle items)
Contact: George at (510) 512-6150 or
Your Prayers Are Requested for the Repose of the Souls of: Martha Berube (Wife of George Berube) Marlene Hintzman (Wife of Leroy Hintzman)
Sixty Plus or Minus Club Please join us in the Hall following the 9:30 a.m. Mass on Friday, February 3rd for our meeting and continental break-fast. Our hosts will be Adele Jenkins and Doug Paulo. Sign up today if you plan to attend and remember, dues are paya-ble this month. Bingo will be played after the meeting.
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, Marian Rm. Parish Hall
Thursday, February 2, 2017, 9:15-11:15 a.m.
Baptism Class The next Baptism class will be
Tuesday, February 14, 2017. Please call the Parish Office to register.
Deadline for Bulletin The deadline for items in the bulletin is
Monday, 4:30 p.m. Thank you for your support!
Classes, as usual, this week.
Confirmation PGO Updates: • Thank you to all who made “trauma blankets” for Pro-
ject Linus last Sunday … Children and teens in need will have something warm and soft to hang on to thanks to your kindness.
• Thank you to our group who went to St. Vincent Din-ing Room yesterday. “When I was hungry, you fed me”.
You teach us ALL— “Service is JOY”
Religious Education~~ C.C.D.
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TODAY’S READINGS First Reading: Isaiah 8:23—9:3
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, 17 Psalm 27 —Gospel: Matthew 4:12-23
The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, Interna-tional Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.
READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Heb 9:15, 24-28; Ps 98:1-6; Mk 3:22-30, Tuesday: Heb 10:1-10; Ps 40:2, 4ab, 7-8a, 10,
11; Mk 3:31-35 Wednesday: Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22; Ps 117:1bc, 2; Mk 16:15-18 Thursday: 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5; Ps 96:1-3, 7-8a, 10; Mk 4:21-35 Friday: Heb 10:32-39; Ps 37:3-6, 23-24, 39-40; Mk 4:26-34 Saturday: Heb 11:1-2, 8-19; Lk 1:69-75; Mk 4:35-41 Sunday: Zep 2:3; 3:12-13; Ps 146:6-10; 1 Cor 1:26-31; Mt 5:1-12a
Calling All Transfiguration Parish Cursillistas!!!
Please join our monthly group reunion
every 1st Friday of the month St. Peter’s room in the
pARISH HaLl, 6:00-8:30pm….
Spiritual Director Deacon Tim Moore
WARM BLANKETS FOR THOSE WITH COLD NOSES…
OUR FURRY FRIENDS GET MIGHTY COLD THIS TIME OF YEAR! So, our
Confirmation class is seeking your help. We are collect-ing blankets and towels to help warm up those COLD cag-es in our local animal shelters. This is your chance to clean out that linen closet and get rid of your old, your tired, your torn. The things that are no longer fit for hu-mans may be just the right thing for a cold puppy or kit-ty...please help us to help them. We will be accepting your donations on the following weekends ONLY: TODAY and NEXT Weekend...January 28 and 29 Thank you for helping us make some sad little lives a bit warmer and nicer. “God made all the creatures and gave them our love and
our fear, To give sign, we and they are His children, one
family here.” ~ Robert Browning ~
St. Vincent de Paul Collection There will be a second collection for our Society of St. Vincent de Paul on the weekend of January 28 and 29. St. Vincent de Paul is our outreach to the poor in our parish. We help our needy neighbors by providing assis-tance for food, transportation, and other household assis-tance. During the 2016 SVdP Fiscal Year running from October to September, our 28 parish volunteers made 510 home visits helping 1,710 people many of whom were children. Based upon your generous donations, we were able to provide $37,050 worth of assistance most of which was for food. Over 99.8% of the money collected went directly to the poor. We hope you will be generous once again so we can continue to help the poor. If you are interested in finding out more about SVdP and possi-bly becoming a member, contact Carl Bellone at [email protected] or call the parish office.
Buon Tempo Upcoming Dinners Transfiguration Parish Hall
All parishioners are invited to the following dinners. Be sure to mark your calendar!
February 7 Chicken Pasta w/Sun Dried Tomatoes March 7 Corned Beef & Cabbage April 4 Cannelloni May 2 Pasta Pesto/Chicken June 6th Stuffed Pork Chops If you are interested in attending, please call the Dinner Line,(510) 483-6929. Questions: Call Len Tallo, President at (510) 912-5730.
LETTER FROM POPE FRANCIS THE “JOY OF THE GOSPEL” CONTINUED...
The Proclamation of the Gospel—#168
Kerygmatic and mystagogical catechesis
As for the moral component of catechesis, which pro-motes growth in fidelity to the Gospel way of life, it is helpful to stress again and again the attractiveness and the ideal of a life of wisdom, self-fulfilment and enrichment. In the light of that positive message, our rejection of the evils which endanger that life can be better understood. Rather than experts in dire predictions, dour judges bent on rooting out every threat and deviation, we should ap-pear as joyful messengers of challenging proposals, guardians of the goodness and beauty which shine forth in a life of fidelity to the Gospel. Fr. Terry’s Remarks— Pope Francis’ words today need to be memorized and we should begin each and eve-ry day by reliving them to our hearts. I often tell the story about how, 60 years ago when my fellow missionaries first went to the Karen people and told them that God loved them, they were overcome with joy. They had been living lives threatened constantly by capricious spirits. But then having embraced our Faith, the good Fathers began to talk to them about sin, hell, how easily God is hurt and how He can be so judgmental, so that in the end their salvation was in the balance. Faith and their Salva-tion was no longer a joyous thing but a hard slog. Peo-ples’ lives are already in most cases a hard and arduous climb. Francis reminds us that people came to Church to be helped, encouraged, empowered, enlightened, graced, not to listen to dire predictions and dour judges bent on rooting out every fault and failing. Homilists! Preachers! TELL IT AS IT IS: God created us and made us in His own image. God loves us so much He became one of us in Christ Jesus. God in Jesus made us his sons and daugh-ters and renewed our Divine inheritance. Assure people of their true inheritance and send them home full of joy and hope so that they are graced to live lives of People of God.
