Fax: 650-588-1481 Phone: 650-588-1455 www.stveronicassf.com

434 Alida Way South San Francisco, CA 94080

Established 1951

St. Veronica Church

September 14, 2014

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish

but might have eternal life.” - John 3:16

Parish Office email: churchoffice@stveronicassf.com

Mass Intentions for the Week of September 14, 2014

Sun 09/14 6:45 † Elsie Trollman 8:00 † Pauline Busch 9:30 † Gordon O’Keefe 11:00 † Luz Roque David 12:30 People of St. Veronica 6:00 † Thomas O’Rourke

Mon 09/15 6:30 † Juan Escobar 8:30 † Thomas O’Rourke

Tue 09/16 6:30 Annette Bernier 8:30 † Margarita Baluyot

Wed 09/17 6:30 † Joan Gavin Hogan 8:30 Cecilia Pallasiqui Family

Thu 09/18 6:30 † Paul & Joy Ann Wendler 8:30 Carlos Dayrit

Fri 09/19 6:30 Carlos Dayrit 8:30 † Dominador Roxas

Sat 09/20 8:30 † George Dreier 5:00 † Margarita Ancanan

Sun 09/21 6:45 † Cesar M. Cerdena 8:00 † Paul Broussard 9:30 † Emanuel & Josephine Borg 11:00 † Rene Canizares 12:30 People of St. Veronica 6:00 Hermelinda De La Mora

St. Veronica Parish

Parish Office Hours

Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Closed for lunch from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. (unless otherwise posted)

Phone: 650-588-1455 Fax: 650-588-1481

Parish Staff

Fr. Charles Puthota, Ph.D., Pastor Fr. Rafael de Avila, Parochial Vicar

Fr. Don Sharp, S.J., Weekend Assistant Fr. Al Grosskopf, S.J., Weekend Assistant

Deacon Roger Beaudry Deacon Joseph LeBlanc Ms. Patricia Spiteri, Parish Secretary

Mrs. Karen Guglielmoni, Faith Formation & Wedding Coordinator Ext.305

Mr. Christopher Lindstrom, Music Director 650-588-1455 Ext. 308

St. Veronica Catholic School www.saintveronicassf.org

Phone: 650-589-3909

Mrs. Kathryn Lucchesi Mrs. Geninne Ruegg Principal Vice Principal

SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION

Sacrament of Baptism Baptisms are to be arranged through the Parish Office. Baptismal Preparation classes are held once a month.

Call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) Call the Parish Office to register 650-588-1455 Ext.309

Faith Formation: 650-588-1455 Ext. 305 Catechetical instructions (1st to 8th grades)

Confirmation Classes: 650-588-1455

St. Veronica Parish Mission Statement St. Veronica Church is a multicultural community of believers who treasure Jesus Christ at the center of their profession of faith and practice. They worship and work together to build up a community of family and friends according to the mind and heart of Christ. Out of the abundance of joy and gratitude, they live and share the good news of faith and hope, striving to stand up for peace and justice, to spread love and compassion, to care for those who are in need, and to make our nation and the world a better place for all.

Please Note: There are still limited openings for 6:30 a.m. Masses in December 2014. If you would like to remember a loved one, living or deceased, please visit the Pastoral Center office to reserve your Mass.

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Mass Schedule

Saturdays: 8:30 a.m. & 5:00 p.m. Sundays: 6:45, 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 a.m.,

and 12:30 p.m. Spanish Mass: Sundays at 6:00 p.m.

Holy Days: 6:30, 8:30 a.m., 6:00 p.m. (English), & 7:30 p.m. (Spanish)

Monday - Friday: 6:30 & 8:30 a.m.

Confessions Saturdays: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Liturgy of the Hours Monday - Friday: Morning Prayer at 6:00 a.m.

Eucharistic Adoration 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday - Friday

Thank you for supporting St. Veronica Parish and its works.

Saturday 09/06/14 5:00PM 1145.00 234.00 1379.00

Sunday 09/07/14 6:45AM 991.00 211.00 1202.00

8:00AM 697.00 174.00 871.00

9:30AM 2674.00 502.00 3176.00

11:00AM 852.00 167.00 1019.00

12:30PM 699.00 190.00 889.00

Other Contributions 180.00 n/a 180.00

Spanish Mass 6:00PM 392.00 172.00 564.00

TOTAL IN-PEW DONATIONS: $7,450.00 $1,650.00 $9,100.00

Day Mass Time 1st Collection Maintenance Totals

Envelopes received in the First Collection:

August 23 & 24: 264 August 30 & 31: 268 September 6 & 7: 294

If you currently receive envelopes but do not use them, please prayerfully consider including your donation in the collection basket.

Welcome New Parishioners!

Our parish continues to be blessed and enriched by the presence of new parishioners:

Ryoji, Geraldine, Ryan, Nathan, Colin & Kyle Ashizawa

Luis, Marisela & Ziraily Melgoza Sanchez

Orlando, Laura & Benjamin Opina

May St. Veronica Church become a spiritual home where your faith and fellowship may be nourished with inspiration for you to live a life of service and generosity toward God and others.

ON THE HORIZON

♦ Sept. 21 - Catechetical Sunday with commissioning of teachers and catechists, 9:30 a.m. Mass

♦ Sept. 20-21 - Annual Spanish Ministry Retreat ♦ Sept. 26-28 - Annual Parish Festival ♦ Oct. 5 - 4th Grade Class Mass, 9:30 a.m. Mass ♦ Oct. 13 - Office closed for Columbus Day ♦ Oct. 25 - Annual Santini Golf Tournament & Dinner ♦ Nov. 1 - Sister Strikes Back: Late-Night Catechism 2 com-

edy show, Parish Center (tickets on sale in September) ♦ Nov. 8 - Second annual Spanish Ministry Dinner-Dance

benefitting the Capital Campaign

Pray for our Beloved Deceased

In your prayers this week, please remember the repose of the souls of our deceased parishioners, especially:

James Cornett - died August 26, 2014 Bernardino Cardarelli - died August 31, 2014

“Eternal Rest Grant Unto Them, O Lord . . .”

From the Pastor’s Desk Dear Parishioners,

My Silver Jubilee Celebration: Thank You is the up-permost feeling in my mind and heart for how beautiful-ly this celebration went. The Archbishop celebrated the Thanksgiving Mass at which he preached an inspiring homily. After the Mass, he was kind enough to bless the Fountain and the Legacy Courtyard. Then the Archbish-op joined and stayed for the entire reception in the Parish Center, which shows how much he values our parish. I’m deeply grateful to him for being so generous with his time for us. It was a joy to have the concelebrating priests. Some of my friends were delighted with the quality of our liturgy and our parish life.

At the reception, Gene Mullin spoke and presented a Certificate of Recognition from California State Assem-bly signed by Kevin Mullin, Assembly Member from our District 22. Rich Garbarino, Vice Mayor, spoke and presented a “Proclamation” from the City Council of SSF. He declared last Sunday “Father Charles Puthota Day in South San Francisco”! That’s a first for me and probably the last in my life. Ron Derenzi also spoke. Archbishop made some appreciative comments. I owe my deep gratitude to these speakers. My sister Josephine and brother Abraham spoke from the family treasure trove of memories. Present were also my younger broth-er John whose wedding I blessed twenty-five years ago at my Ordination and my sister-in-law (Abraham’s wife) Vimala. They showed an 8-minute video about me. Our principal Kathy Lucchesi made a heartwarming presen-tation through some school children and presented mes-sages from all the classes of our school and a tile. I spoke at the end thanking everyone and expressing how much I love and treasure the Church---and the call of Christ and the mission given to me by God.

I want to thank Karen Guglielmoni for doing an excel-lent job of organizing all the details of the Mass and re-ception. I’m proud to have her working for our parish. Her flexibility, efficiency, great spirit, friendliness, help-ful nature, and faith combined together make her a treas-ure in our parish office. I also express my deep gratitude to Joe and Carmella da San Martino and their dedicated hospitality committee for providing an excellent lunch to the guests. For all the assistance Patti Spiteri gave, I’m grateful.

Impressed! Everyone who attended the event, especially those who came from other parishes, and the Archbishop and priests, went away with a very good impression about our parish. I have been getting emails from some people praising our parish and the event last Sunday. I thank you all for keeping our parish flag flying high.

25 years of my priesthood have been good and filled with blessings. Please keep me in your prayers as I con-

tinue my priestly journey for service of God and people. Any leadership is hard, but a leadership at the heart of spiritual and pastoral ministry is much harder. I need your help so I can carry out God’s work entrusted to me.

Capital Campaign Update: As we continue Phase 2 of the repavement and beautification project and are about to bring it to a close soon, I am in awe of what we have been able to do so far. May I proudly continue to present to you the updates coming from Terri Ciardella:

“Congratulations to Father Charles on his 25 years as a priest! It was a wonderful celebration. At Father Charles' request, Archbishop Cordileone honored us all by blessing the Fountain, Cross & Legacy Courtyard . . . it was the perfect culmination of our community coming together and successfully achieving Phase 2 of the pro-ject.

“Lighting: We are in the process of reviewing all out-door light sources and plan to have them synchronized on timers so that the parish and school grounds will be adequately lit when necessary.

“Fountain: The two legacy benches are in place with beautiful bible verses to be enjoyed for years to come. Planters have been ordered and will be added to enhance the courtyard area as well as serve as a deterrent for au-tomobiles between the church and the fountain – at that time, we will be able to remove the current barricades.

“Legacy Courtyard: The concrete is scheduled to be power washed and sealed in time for the Festival.

“EXCITING NEWS!!!!!: Did you or someone you know miss out on the opportunity to be in the legacy courtyard by purchasing a brick or tile? If so, you are in LUCK! We have a few blank bricks that we can remove and re-place with personalized ones. And we have room on the granite tile wall to add a limited number of granite tiles. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD that we are going to take orders throughout the Festival Weekend. At that time, you will need to order, confirm and pay for your legacy item. Order forms will be available in the Pasto-ral Center office, School office, in the vestibule and on the St Veronica website. This will give you the oppor-tunity to decide what size item you would like and what you would like engraved.”

Joke: A heavy snowstorm closed the schools in one town. When the children returned to school a few days later, one grade-school teacher asked her students wheth-er they had used the time away from school constructive-ly. “I sure did, teacher,” one girl replied. “I just prayed for more snow.”

Your Friend & Pastor,

Father Charles Puthota

Parish Enrichment Events (Held in the Pastoral Center)

♦ Thursday, September 18, at 9:15 a.m.: Episode 8 of the Rev. Robert Barron lecture series “On Ca-tholicism” - A Vast Company of Witnesses: The Communion of Saints will be presented.

♦ Thursday, September 25, at 1:00 p.m.: The Movie Club will be viewing “Mona Lisa Smile” (2003), starring Julia Roberts and Kirsten Dunst and with a runtime of 117 minutes.

♦ Monday, October 6, at 7:00 p.m.: The St. Veronica Book Club will discuss “The Questions of Jesus” by John McLaughlin.

Newcomers are always welcome! Please call Patti at the parish office to add your name to the

contact list and be apprised of upcoming events.

Parish Ministry News Update

Faith Formation - The first day of classes for Faith Formation grades 1-8 (first-year of Confirmation preparation) was September 10 (for Wednesday students) and September 13 (for Saturday students). If you have not yet registered your child/children for 2014-15, please do ASAP - late registration will be accepted until the end of September! For those being confirmed in the 2014-15 program, the Confirmation Orientation Meeting for parents, candidates and (if available) sponsors will be held on Monday, September 22, from 7:30-9 p.m. in the Church.

Just a reminder that preparation for First Holy Communion and Confirmation are each two-year programs, beginning no earlier than 1st grade for Communion and no earlier than 8th grade for Confirmation.

RCIA - The RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) program holds its first session on September 14 in the Pas-toral Center. If you are at least 18 years of age and interested in becoming Catholic, know someone who is, or are bap-tized but would like to complete your Sacraments of Initiation (Communion and/or Confirmation), then RCIA is for you! Registration can still be completed by contacting the Parish Office at 650-588-1455.

Choirs Return From Summer Break - St. Veronica’s Adult and Angel (Children’s) Choirs began practice on Thursday, September 11 from 3:15-4:15 p.m. (Angel Choir) and 7:00-8:30 p.m. (Adult Choir) in the Church. ♦ Children of the parish in grades 1-8 are invited to join the Angel Choir. A permission form may be obtained from

the Pastoral Center Office or by visiting the parish website, www.stveronicassf.com. ♦ Any adults interested in joining the choir are asked to contact Music Director Christopher Lindstrom at the Pastoral

Center Office at 650-588-1455 ext. 308.

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It is with great joy that we welcome into our church and community the following

children who received the Sacrament of Baptism at our Church

on Saturday, September 6, 2014

Mia Hayden Casazza Aleks Javier Mindeguia Joseph Zaid Rodriguez

An Athlete’s Prayer

God, let me play well but fairly. Let compe on make me strong but never hos le. Forbid me to rejoice in the adversity of others. See me not when I am cheered, but when I bend to help my opponent up. If I know victory, allow me to be happy; if I am denied, keep me from envy. Remind me that sports are just games. Help me to learn something that ma ers once the game is over. And if through athle cs I set an example, let it be a good one. By Gregg Easterbrook from the column “Tuesday Morning Quarterback” on NFL.com and ESPN.com

Reflecting on the Word

The story goes that as the ship Titanic sank into the North Sea, the ship’s band played the hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” the first verse of which is: Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!. Even though it be a cross that raiseth me, Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee. While some have questioned the truth of this ac-count, the appeal of the story remains, because the brav-ery of the musicians who continued to play to lift the hearts of the passengers reminds us of how suffering and disaster, rather than beating us down and defeating us, can become the means by which we are lifted up to God. This feast is called the “Exaltation of the Holy Cross” because it celebrates the cross as the occasion of Jesus’ being lifted up to God to be a sign of the world’s salvation. In some paradoxical way, it is in his humilia-tion that Jesus most clearly shows us the nature of divine love. In coming to know and believe in this love, we are healed and given eternal life. Just as the sight of the bronze serpent saved the Israelites from the venom of the seraph, so too our coming to “see” Jesus in faith heals us of the deadly poison of sin. What we see in Jesus we see also in our own lives. In a way that we cannot always understand, the crosses that we encounter in our lives lift us nearer to God, pro-vided that we embrace them in the faith that Jesus has transformed the meaning of suffering. If in the midst of suffering and disaster we can look to the one who was raised up on the cross for our salvation, we will not per-ish but have eternal life.

For Prayer and Discussion: ♦ When I look at an image of the crucified Jesus, how

does it speak to me of God’s love and healing? ♦ Are their experiences in my life when I have felt that

distress or suffering have ultimately drawn me closer to God? - from Living the Word

Baptism Information

Registration forms are available from the Pastoral Center during regular office hours,

or you may download a form from our website at www.stveronicassf.com.

Baptisms are celebrated on the 1st and 3rd Saturday (English) and 2nd Saturday

(Spanish) of each month. Please call the Parish Office for times and to register.

Preparation classes for parents and godpar-ents are held monthly on Tuesdays as noted:

Classes are conducted in the Pastoral Center from 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. (Adults only please).

Please call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455 to reserve your space for the Baptismal

Preparation Classes.

October 14 November 11 December 9

2015 Dates TBA

September 20 (full) October 4 (full), 11 (S), 18

November 1, 8 (S), 15 December 6, 13 (S), 20

2015 Dates TBA

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FRECUENCIA: Todos los domingos del año. HORA: 6:00 PM.

BAUTISMOS EN ESPAÑOL

Los bautismos en español se llevan a cabo el segundo sábado de cada mes.

La plática preparatoria para el bautismo se lleva a cabo el mismo día del bautismo. Esto es, se da la plática e inmediatamente después se

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FRECUENCIA: Sábado segundo de cada mes HORA: 11:00 AM

PLÁTICA: Antes de la ceremonia del bautismo.

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♦ Receive complimentary copies of Catholic San Francisco newspaper by becoming a registered member of St. Veron-ica. Not registered yet? Call the Pastoral Center or down-load the form from the St. Veronica website to register.

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