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8:00 am & 11:00 am - English 9:45 am - Portuguese 12:30 pm & 7:00 pm - Spanish
Saturday Vigil / Vigilia 4:15 pm - English 7:00 pm - Spanish
Saturday Morning Mass 8:00 am - English
Monday - Friday Mass 7:00 am & 9:00 am - English
Eucharistic Adoration 7:30 am to 9:00 am Monday-Friday
Confession / Reconciliación Saturdays 3:00 - 4:00 pm, English
Finance Council: Janice Shaffer
PARISH STAFF Pastor
E-mail: [email protected] Associate Pastor Fr. Alberto Chavez, SDB ext. 20 [email protected] Secretaries Isabel Abundis, Maria Linan Finance Lorena Martinez
Religious Education Sister Irene Tapia, F.M.A. E-mail: [email protected] C.C.D. (831) 722-2392 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CLASSES First Communion 1st Year Saturday 9:15am - 11:00am First Communion 2nd Year Thursday 3:45pm-5:30pm Kennedy Hall
Our warmest welcome to all who celebrate with us. If you would like to register, or you need to
update your information, please send us an email at [email protected]
“Parroquia María Auxiliadora” 2401 East Lake Avenue, Watsonville, CA 95076
E-Mail: [email protected] Website: valleycatholicchurch.org
Telephone: (831)722-2665 Fax: (831)722-8305
For More Information regarding Baptisms, Quinceañeras, Funerals and Anointing of the Sick please call the office. For Weddings, appointments should be made at least six months in advance.
Para mas Información referente a Bautizos, Quinceañeras, Funerales y Unción de los Enfermos favor de llamar a la oficina. Para Bodas, se requiere seis meses de preparación.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24TH, 2017
Del escritorio del Párroco
BENDICIONES NAVIDE AS
Pero el ángel les dijo: “No tengan miedo, porque les traigo una buena noticia, que será motivo de gran alegría para todos: Hoy les ha nacido en el pueblo de David un salvador, que es el Me-sías, el Señor. Como señal , encontra-ran ustedes al niño envuelto en pana-les y acostado en un establo.” (Lucas 2:10-12) En el Evangelio de San Lucas podemos leer el momento en que los Angeles del cielo anuncian a los pastores, que ha nacido el Mesias, y se decian unos a
otros: "Vamos a Belén y veamos lo que ha sucedido y que el Señor nos ha anunciado." Ellos fueron a ver este gran acontecimieto que los ángeles les anunciaron, entonces salieron glorificando y alabando a Dios, diciendo a los demás lo que habían visto y oído. Este es el mensaje de Navidad: “que Dios vino a la tierra en forma de hombre, con el fin de salvar a Su propia creación. Con fin de demostrar que este niño envuelto en pañales vino con un propósito, el pesebre y la cruz deben ser vistos juntos”. El niño Jesus, de quien sus manos fueron clavadas más tarde en una dura cruz de madera, son las manos que muy a menudo con tanto amor llegan a cargarnos en nuestras dificultades de la vida.
La mejor Navidad no viene de los regalos bajo el árbol de Navidad, si no de Un niño envuelto en pañales acostado en el pesebre de madera en la ciudad de Belén, de Aquel de quien celebramos el cumpleaños. "¡Gracias a Dios, porque nos ha hecho un regalo tan grande que no tenemos palabras para expresarlo!" (2 Cor 9:15)
El Teologo Ron Rolheiser OMI nos dice: "Después del Nacimiento de Jesús, no tenemos que mirar a lo extraordinario, lo espectacular, lo milagroso para encontrar a Dios. Dios se encuentra donde vivimos, en nuestras cocinas, en nuestras mesas, en nuestras heridas y en el rostro de cada uno de nosotros”.
Deseo y pido para todos ustedes que esta Navidad, el niño na-cido en el pesebre oriente mas nuestra reflexión a entender la razón de su venida entre nosotros. Alegrémonos de recibir a Jesús como Mesías y Señor, regalo de Dios Padre. Les deseo a todos y cada uno de ustedes, que tengan en familia una Feliz Navidad. ¡Gracias por el regalo de darse a esta parroquia. Bendiciones para todos!.
From the desk of the Pastor
CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS
The angel said to the shepherds, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For today in the city of David a savior has been born for you who is Messiah and Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.” (Luke 2:10-12)
The message of Christmas is found in St. Luke’s Gospel, chapter two, in the fif-teenth verse. The shepherds said to one another, “Let us go then to Bethlehem to see this thing that has taken place which the Lord has made known to us.” They came to see this thing the angels said, and they saw, then went forth glorifying and praising God, telling others what they had seen and heard.
The true message of Christmas is that Eternal God came to earth in the form of man in order to save His own creation. In order to show that this tiny babe in swaddling clothes came for a purpose, the manger and the cross must be seen together. The small infant’s hands that were later nailed to a rugged wooden cross are the hands that so often lovingly reach down and pick us up during the often difficulties of life.
Our best Christmas comes not from the wrapped presents under the Christmas tree, but from the One wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a wooden manger in the town of Bethlehem, he One who’s birthday we celebrate. "Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift.”(2 Cor 9:15)
“After the Birth of Jesus, we need not look to the extraordi-nary, the spectacular, the miraculous to find God. God is found where we live, in our kitchens, at our tables, in our wounds and in each others’ faces”. (Ron Rolheiser OMI)
I wish and pray that, this Christmas when we see a manger sce-ne and the baby, may we think beyond the Babe, to His reason for coming. Let us reaffirm God’s gift come to us in the person of Jesus as our Messiah and Lord.
Wish each and every one of this Parish-family a merry Christ-mas. Thank you for the gift you are to this Parish.
Blessings of Christmas to you and your families!
Fr. Joseph M. Paradayil, SDB
MASS INTENTIONS: DECEMBER 24TH TO , 2017 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2017 8:00 AM Julian & Macaria Valoroso † (Henry Valoroso) 4:15 PM Antone & Pauline Resetar † (Family) Lucia Bettencourt † (Portuguese Choir) Clarence Phillips † (Maria), Frances Heick † (Emila Derpich) Madeline, Mary Ann and Jordan Family Intentions 7:00 PM Jose Francisco Zepeda † (Mamá) David, Antonia & Jose Luis Lizaola † Por la animas del purgatorio (Familia Juarez SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24TH, 2017 8:00 AM Fidel Barroga Sr. † (Wife & Children) Maria Salsa † (Ilido & Idalina Salsa) Nadine Travers (Jim & Carol Ivelich) 9:45 AM For the intentions of OLHC parishioners Lino Jose Nunes Almeida † (Herculano J. Almeida) Noelia Bettencourt † (Miguel Bettncourt), Oscar Rincon B-Day (Arely) 11:00 AM Jim & Mimi Dutra † (Family), In Thanksgiving of Lita Bolante Phillip C. DiGirolamo † (Bedell Family) 12:30 PM Bendiciones para la familia Vega Vieyra Trinidad, Francisco & Pascual Salinas †, Rebeca Martin † (Hijos) Jose Francisco Zepeda † (Mom), Amelia Cornejo y familia, Bendiciones SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24TH, 2017—CHRISTMAS EVE 4:15 PM: Louise & Louise Bilicich † (Fam.), Antone Basich † (Family), John & Mary Lukrich † (Son John) Vincenzo & Rosina Muzzi †, Guiseppe & Mary Gionnini † (Lizza Muzzi), 7:00 PM Nestora †, Pedro † y Martina Avila †, Nicolas Jr. †, Marcela † y Nicolas Sr. Aguirre † (Anatalia), Joel López †, Maria Elena y Aurelio Nolasco † (Family) MONDAY, DECEMBER 25TH, 2017 - CHRISTMAS DAY 8:00 AM John Zivanovich † (Family), Isabel DaSilva McKinney † (Mena) 9:45 AM Joe Carvalho † (Lucille Carvalho), Lucy Bettencourt † (Gabriel & Lucila Mendoca), Jose, Miguel, Jose & Maria Santos † (Maria Bettencourt), Maria Nunes † (Joe & Fatima Almeida) 11:00 A Brian Zorra † (Frank & Carminda), Nascimiento Silva † Bruno & Lucinda Imazio † Helen & Bert Mercier † (Doud & Noris) 12:30 PM En Accion de gracias al niño Jesus, Bendiciones para la familia Garcia Hernandez , Maria Perez Aceves †, Joel Lopez †, Jose Francisco Zepeda †, Angelita †, Salvador † & Jose Rocha † TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26TH, 2017 7:00 AM Jose Francisco Zepeda † (Mom) 9:00 AM Alice Sebastiao † (I.S.T.W. Charity), Thomas & Paula Valoroso † (Ernie) Hector & Felipe Velasco-Castillo (Ivone Mansenerous) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27TH, 2017 7:00 AM Jose Francisco Zepeda † (Mom) 9:00 AM Louie Pedrosa † (Daughter) Rodelio & Narciso Sunga † (Rowena & Vic), Antonio Cuevas † (Familia) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28TH, 2017 7:00 AM Jose Francisco Zepeda † (Mom) 9:00 AM Lucia Bettencourt † (Maria Joao) FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29TH, 2017 7:00 AM Jose Francisco Zepeda † (Mom) 9:00 AM Gary Bettencourt Avelar † (Joe & Fatima Almeida) Federico & Renato Dollente † (Ernie Valoroso), John Zvonne † (Phillip & Angie Rigor) SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30TH, 2017 8:00 AM Ignacio & Severina Ablidas † (Ernie Valoroso) 4:15 PM Julie Zarate † (Rebecca Rojas), Frances Heick † (Emilia Derpich) Maria Cremilde Nunes † (Maria Celeste Luis) 7:00 PM Jose Francisco Zepeda † (Mom), Cinthia Rocha † (Familia Rocha Diaz) Luz Elena Valenzuela † (Dobora & Thomas Valenzuela) Maria Ventura Vasquez Segura † (Family) SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31ST, 2017 8:00 AM Sthephen Kornish † (Marlene & Bill Kueneman) Jose F. Moules † (Albano Bettencourt) Fe Encarnacion Pagaduan † (Mary Barroga) 9:45 AM Por as Familias (Lucy Bettencourt), Adriana Borges † (Lucille Carvalho) Lucia Bettencourt † (Urania Valencia) Rita & Jose Maderos † (Evelina Fam) 11:00 AM For the Intentions of OLHC , All Souls in Purgatory Mary Ellen Pierson † (Frank & Jack Osorio) 12:30 PM Jose Francisco Zepeda †, Isabel Burtfield † Diego & Yalissa Diaz † Por el 36 Anniversario de Matrimonio de: Octavio Diaz & Martha Murillo 7:00 PM Maria de Jesus Fernandez †, Juan Carlos Villegas † (Cecilia Gallegos Matiana Murillo † & Jesus Salcedo † (Josefina Salcedo)
STEWARDSHIP CORNER:
December 16th & 17th, 2017 Plate Collection Donations: $ 4,146.50
Candles: $ 750.00
Thank you for your generosity! !Muchas gracias por su generosidad!
Organized by the Portuguese Community of Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31ST, 2017/2018 Kennedy Youth Center
Dinner: 7:00 PM
Rib-Eye steak and prawns and All it’s accompaniments!
Dance: 9:00 PM / Music by: Zé Maria Adult $50.00 Kids 6-12 - $20.00
For information or tickets please contact: Maria Avelar 831-728-2393Joe Moules 831-722-6588, João Matos 831-359-2663
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31 / DOMINGO 31 DE DICIEMBRE 8:00 A.M. & 11:00 A.M. English 9:45 A.M. Portuguese 12:30 P.M. & 7:00 P.M. Español
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MONDAY, JANUARY 1ST / LUNES, 1ERO DE ENERO
7:00 A.M. & 9:00 A.M. English 12:30 P.M. Español
Meeting to Plan for St. John Bosco Feast.
Planeación de la Fiesta de San Juan Bosco
PARISH OFFICE CLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS
The parish office will be closed, Monday, December 25th and Tuesday, December 26th. We will open on Wednes-day, December 27th at 9:00 a.m.
NO HABRÁ SERVICIOS DE OFICINA
