OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL CHURCH 2700 DOVER AVENUE - FAIRFIELD, CA 94533

FR. DAVID FONTAINE, O. CARM. (PASTOR) FR. PEDRO (PETE) MANILAG, O. CARM. (PAROCHIAL VICAR) DEACON RAYMOND ELIAS

WWW.OURLADYOFMTCARMELFAIRFIELDCA.ORG

PARISH OFFICE..................................................(707) 422-7767 Gemma Gonzalo, Parish Administrator Office email address: olmc.gem@gmail.com Office hours: 8 AM - 4 PM, Monday - Friday FAITH FORMATION............................................(707) 422-2814 ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY........................(707) 422-5209 Emergency material assistance EMERGENCY SICK CALLS.................................(707) 422-7767 CONFIRMATION & RCIA............................(707) 422-7767 TAG / HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH MINISTRY Rhyan Ramirez…………………………..(707) 853-2905

MASS: WEEKEND….Saturday Evening: 5PM Vigil Sunday: 8AM, 10AM & 12 Noon DAILY…….Monday - Saturday: 9AM HOLY DAYS…………9AM, Noon and 7PM

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturdays………...3:30 to 4:30 PM or by appointment BAPTISMS: 3rd Weekend of the Month Pre-Baptism Program Required (visit our website) MARRIAGES: Six months notice required Contact the Parish Office for all Baptisms & Marriages

Mass Schedule / Sacraments Served by the Carmelites

Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration

• Wed. 4-5 AM • Saturday 6 PM - 7 PM

• Tuesday 11 - Midnight

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 11, 2018 ~ SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Today’s Gospel centers on the plight of a leper and Jesus’ re-sponse of healing. In Hawaii, the bacterium that causes leprosy probably entered from China in the mid-1800s, and the native islanders were susceptible to the dreaded disease. In 1866, the government literally dumped the sufferers on a remote and virtu-ally inaccessible island peninsula with towering cliffs. Thrown off ships into the sea, the sick people were told to swim for the beach and head for caves, and for seven years the only supplies were similarly cast into the sea to drift ashore. It was then, 1873, that a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest, Damien de Veuster, went voluntarily to Kalaupapa. Before long, he cajoled the gov-ernment into funding his mission and its hospital, built a village with proper homes and sanitation, and recruited Mother Marianne Cope to bring sisters from Syracuse, New York, to nurse the sick. Damien, who eventually died of leprosy, has been canonized, and Mother Marianne as well. Although leprosy has been curable since the 1940s, today a few patients remain in their lifelong home, now a national historic site. The peninsula is still utterly isolated from the outside world, and the speed limit for the few cars there is 5 mph since there’s nowhere to go! The hospital is still well-staffed and equipped, but access is regulated and visitors must take an official tour, often involv-ing a descent down the cliffs by “Molakai mule.” There are few places on earth that evoke the healing power of Jesus, or our

call to follow the Healer, more than Da-mien’s beloved island mission.

Monday 02/12

If you would like the faith community of OLMC to join you in prayers for special needs, contact the Parish Office at 422-7767. We do occasionally take some names off of the list in the bulletin. If we have taken a name from the printed list of a person still in need

of prayers, please give us a call and we will happily put him or her back on. Please take some time this week to remember the following in your prayers: - For all in our parish family who are suffering serious or terminal illness - For Men and Women in Armed Forces and for

Madison O’Shields Timothy White Ron Scharfen Dolores Highsmith-Cass Dion Newman Shannon Valtierra Daniella Rogers Harre Kim Bettencourt Susan Stockwell Francisco Galvez Joe & Evelyn Nunes Andy Andalajao Dolores Krystek Cassandra Lopez Darwin Rasmussen Eugene P. Curtis Andrew Michael Capriato John & Vivian Donahoe Marie Louise Caro Susan Cox Tom McCoy Carrol Thierry Daniel Yaroch Bruce Waelbrock Jeff Anub Terri Bridges Peter D & Laura Labrado Dick Kraft Mary Highsmith Matt Villaver Francisco Piedra T. Bautista & Family Paul Vogel Bethany and Family Alexis Marie Stinson

Carol Nunes Dolores Sheppard Bessie Zanolini Elba Elias Ian Padilla Cameron Schuster Miley McCrary De Pham John & June Kelley David Quilao Sal DiMarco Dottie Lescano Bobby Holsworth John Joe White Virgil Jaramillo Therese & Bob Keck Pat Murtha Lina Cradduck Jason Eshabarr Haley Family Akina Family Zenaida Sarin Darrell Sturgeon Steve Meyers Malou Garado Shannon Salvador Jerrylean Baker Anasa Bliss Leonida Bascara Mike Bordau Vivian Blas Zabala Family Roberto, Inday & Robbie Visda Joel Rivera

John Hess & Sharon Dotson Kimo Boone Gloria Lee Anita Brennan Steve Henson Stephen Shanahan Kathy Spain Larry Hebert Josephine Iannarelli Su Kuropatin Romy & Cuca Lopez Dennis Harp Debra Loredo Crystal Buelna Jim Lockwood Bernice Jojola Bing Lovena Lagdamen Leo & Gwen Martinez Lou Gimarelli Valerie Rhodes Mary Ellen McCormick Fr.Hank Ormond, OCarm Jewel Perez Arias Family Evelyn Pacheco Cynthia Fernandez Ethel May Applewhite Pearla Cuerdo Jean Banks Michael Garibay Carole Kraiss Bob & Carol Howisey Don Haug Georgina McClinton Jose Cadiz Elsie Harris & Family Dawn Wickman Suly & Esme Pelayo

Committed Adorers are

OLMC’s St. Therese Chapel is open 24 hours, 7-days a week! Our goal is to have 2 or more committed adorers every hour. Please

call the Parish Office for more information, (707) 422-7767.

Mass Schedule - February 14th: 9AM, Noon and 7PM.

Date Activities - Dome / Church Mass SCHEDULE / Intentions

Tuesday 02/13

Wednes. 02/14

Thurs 02/15

Friday 02/16

Saturday 02/17

Sunday 02/18

Parish Pastoral Council Meeting (7pm) 9 AM: † Betty Harnett

9 AM: Faith Formation Classes / Legion of Mary Georgina Boyd

Faith Formation / RCIA (7pm) / Ash Wed.! 9 AM: OLMC Parishioners

Cancer Support (1pm) / TAG (5pm) Lay Carmelites (6:30pm)

EADM / Amor Dei / Lenten Soup Supper (5:30pm) / Stations of the Cross (6pm)

9 AM:

9 AM

9 AM: 5 PM:

First Sunday of Lent!

† Lelyan & † Deonicio Bayquen † Purificion Vizcarra

Jushua B. Padilla

† Miguel & † Jovita Daclan † Bev Orlando

8 AM: 10 AM: 12 PM:

Fr. David Fontaine, O.Carm Dina Cruz † Luisa Gutierrez Pelayo

OLMC’s Lenten Retreat (see details on pg. 3)

Parish Collections

Our weekly goal $12,500.00

ENVELOPE Collection Feb. 4th: $12,774.00

ONLINE Donations Weekly Offering:

01/28—02/03: $3,003.55 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

If you would like a copy of your 2017 Contribution Statement, please contact

the Parish Office. Thank you.

Rainer Urbach 246-4686 Pearla Cuerdo 386-3403 Phyllis Kaminska 419-4237 Matt Maffei 592-0375

(Immaculate Heart Radio Ambassador)

Evelyn Samson 372-7215 Rita Santos 386-0423 Mike Lonero 389-0130 John Shinstock 437-4773 John Quitugua 428-7255 Laura Rojas (415) 613-3671 Vince Tydingco/Sec. 631-5269 Julie Darling / Pres. 425-3934

OLMC 2018 LENTEN SOUP SUPPERS

Welcome to our Lenten Soup Suppers! This year we will start our Lenten

journey with Ash Wednesday, February 14th. All Soup Suppers are on Fridays, 6PM, fol-lowed by Stations of the Cross at 7PM. Each Ministries are asked to bring 5 meatless soups and bread, hot and ready to serve by 5:30PM. Desserts are welcome ONLY on March 23rd. Please find our Ministry schedule and contact information, located in the Church Narthex and Dome.

. . . is looking for new volunteers to be Duty Officers.

Duty Officers volunteer 3 days a month from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., a Tuesday, Wednes-day and Thursday. He / she would assist community members in need with utility shut-offs, rental assistance, food, other basic needs and prayer. If interested please call our office, (707) 422-5209. God bless you!

All are welcome!

Please join us. . .

CHRISTIAN LIFE PROGRAM

for

Married Couples * * Single Men and Women * * Widows & Widowers Divorced Men & Women * * Single Mothers & Fathers

ORIENTATION: Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Dome. Contact: Cesar & Norma Dulay, 707-628-5892 / Rey & Milva Lapitan, 707-280-8963

OLMC’s Lenten Retreat

February 17, 2018

Experience God’s merciful gaze during our Lenten Journey:

A look at God’s mercy through Jesus’

Paschal Mystery Join Fr. Paul Henson, O.Carm., as

he talks about our Salvation - through Jesus’ suffering, death and God’s

mercy upon us.

Retreat Schedule: 9:00 AM Mass

10:00 AM—Noon Talk #1

Noon—1PM Lunch (Dome)

1:00—2:30 PM Talk #2

2:30—3:30 PM Adoration 3:30—4:30 PM Confessions 5:00 PM Mass

ACTS The Spread of the Kingdom

BIBLE STUDY at OLMC Acts is a story of hope. It’s the story of how a few Christians empowered by the Holy Spirit were chosen to bring Christ and the Good News to the ends of the earth. They taught as Christ did. They performed miracles as he did. Some even gave their lives for him. They faced secu-lar forces, internal strife, hostile crowds, and despite all of this, they brought the kingdom of God to a broken world and the love of God to the hearts of men. Acts will enrich your faith and rekindle your love for Christ as you live the lives of his first disciples. Start Date: February 22, 2018 at 10AM (class meets every Thursday) Location: OLMC, Dome Registration: To purchase book material, please visit AscensionPress.com or purchase / register through the Parish Office (limited books on hand—first come first serve).

ULTREYA MEETING: February 18, 2018 - 3PM Conference Room, Dome

St. Vincent de Paul would like to t h a n k you for your gener-

osity and donations throughout the 2017 fiscal year. Your gen-erosity enabled us to service 7,213 people in the Fairfield, Suisun, Cordelia areas with emergency food, shelter, cloth-ing, utilities, holiday meals, prison visits and homeless con-tacts; also fire and hurricane disaster relief on a national level. Based on the donations for fiscal year 2017, we spent $73,308 on direct services. Without your kindness this would not have been possible. Thank you and God bless you!

OLMC MINISTRIES & ORGANIZATIONS

OLMC Parish Calendar

Feb. 16th - Mar. 23rd - Lenten Soup Suppers & Stations of the Cross

Feb. 17th - OLMC Lenten Retreat Feb. 24th - RCIA Retreat Mar. 17th - Knights of Columbus

St. Patrick’s Dinner /Dance

From February 14th through March 25th, you’re invited to join other Christians for 40 Days for Life - 40 days of prayer and fast-ing for an end to abortion. You are also

invited to stand and peacefully pray during a 40day vigil in the public right-of-way out-

side Planned Parenthood, 1325 Travis Blvd., Fairfield. Please help spread the word about this important community outreach. If you would like more information and especially if you’d like to

volunteer to help, please contact: Maria (707) 718-1356 or Cathy (707) 688-6551, or visit 40daysfor life.com.

ADULT EDUCATION - RCIA Catholics Come Home

Vivian Donahoe 422-0872 / Kelly Newman 422-4582 / Dom Orlando 429-0149

MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER Tom and Elaine Bruno - 426-9564

ALPHA PREGNANCY CLINICS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 428-3300 MEMBERS IN MOTION Betty McFadden - 422-4129

ALTAR & SANCTUARY Lay Carmelites MINISTRY OF THE EUCHARIST Julie Darling - 425-3934 Pearla Cuerdo - 429-8226

ALTAR SERVERS Deacon Raymond Elias / 416-4618 MINISTRY OF THE WORD Greig Parker - 688-1795

AMOR DEI CHARISMATIC COMMUNITY

Delia Tabasa / 631-9577 MUSIC MINISTRY DIRECTOR Mark Middleton 688-4157 olmcmusic@guitarandpiano.com

BAPTISM (Baptismal Prep Class

held every other month)

Deacon Raymond Elias / 416-4618 deaconraymondelias@sbcglobal.net

OLMC GIFT CARDS Peggy Sherrod / 429-3183

CANCER SUPPORT Annie Hutchinson - 422-0851 Parish Pastoral COUNCIL Consists of 10 members (See Bulletin)

CFC-FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY & LIFE

John & Malou Bayquen - 208-4005 PERPETUAL Eucharistic Adoration Lynda Sutton - 330-4858

COUNSELING (private practice) Henry A. Ormond, O.Carm, PhD 422-7767 ext 305

PRAYER LINE Catharine Scharfen - 427-2320 / Pearla Cuerdo -429-8226

COUPLES FOR CHRIST Cesar & Norma Dulay (707) 816-9576

Rey & Milva Lapitan - 707-428-1561 Ray & Lyn Fortaleza 707-208-6679

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Elaine Bruno or Anna Albericci 422-2814

CURSILLO Gem Geluz - 386-9142 RESPECT LIFE Cathy Omoso 688-6551

FIAT Norma Dulay - (707) 816-9576 RETROUVAILLE (Lifeline for trou-bled marriages)

Call the Parish Office.

FINANCE COUNCIL HELPING HANDS MINISTRY

Doug Darling - 425-3934 Annie Hutchinson - 422-0851

ST. VINCENT de PAUL 422-5209

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Dominic Orlando - 429-0149 USHERS / HOSPITALITY Bunny Dominguez / 386-2709

LAY CARMELITES Melody McCloskey 415-377-1139 VISITS TO THE SICK and SACRA-MENT MINISTRY

Parish Office

LEGION OF MARY Orlie Mangune, 707-880-5602 YLI (A Catholic Women's Organiza-tion)

Kathy Marley - 422-3588 or Margaret Sanders - 428-1970

LORD'S LEAVEN MISSION SOCIETY

Marlon & Yvette Taasan - 688-4880 YOUTH MINISTRY Rhyan & Danielle Ramirez - 853-2905 Regina Berdak - 398-1092

EURHARISTIC APOSTLES OF DIVINE MERCY (EADM)

Mindy Zindel 421-0776, Marlon Taasan 688-4880

CATHOLIC MEDIA KIOSK Phyllis Kaminska 419-4237