Fourth Sunday of Lent - March 21-22, 2009
SECOND COLLECTION TODAY FOR CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESOur social justice ministry as Catholics and Christians teaches us to reach out to and care for each other. Our brothers and sisters are all Jesus in Disguise. The Catholic Relief Services collection puts faith into action with funds from generous Catholics across the United States. These funds support five Catholic organizations (including Operation Rice Bowl) that provide emergency relief, provide legal services for poor immigrants, and promote justice and peace around the world. Thank you for your generosity. ANNUAL DIOCESAN
APPEAL Growing in
Faith Together As the final weeks of ADA
approaches, a group of concerned volunteer parishioners will be telephoning our
regular contributors who have not yet responded to this year’s Appeal, beginning
next Sunday, March 29th. If
you are called, please respond politely and generously.
For your convenience, you may make your pledge by phone.
It will be confirmed by mail from the Diocese.
MANY THANKS to those who have already pledged.
Please wait for your statements from the Diocese and mail payments
directly to them, as the bookkeeping is done there.
Thank you! VOLUNTEERS
ARE STILL NEEDED for the ADA telephone committee to call our most active parishioners,
who have not already given to ADA. Please
call Michelle at the Rectory Office (251-7055)
ASAP, if you are able to help. If
you need it, training will be provided. ADULT PARISH RECONCILIATION SERVICEAll parishioners
are invited to an Adult Parish Reconciliation Service on Wednesday, April 1st,
at 7:30 P.M. in the Church. During
this service, we will
gather together as a parish family to celebrate God’s mercy and forgiveness.
The service will include Scripture readings, time for reflection and
individual confession and absolution.
ADULT CONFIRMATIONSign-ups are being taken for the
ADULT Confirmation classes (age 18 and older, who have
already been baptized and have had First Eucharist).
Please register for the classes through the Rectory Office @ 251-7055.
The classes will be held April 20th-May 18th.
The sacrament of Confirmation will take place on May 31st, at
St. Joseph’s Cathedral. Registration
deadline is Monday, March 30th. SCRIPTURE
READINGS MARCH
28-29, 2009 JEREMIAH
31:31-34 HEBREW
5:7-9 JOHN
12:20-33 PLANNED
GIVING NOTES Jump
Into Our Pool! Did
you know that you can join the Diocese of San Jose Pooled Income Fund? You can
earn a nice income, avoid capital gains taxes and nail down a tax deduction by
doing this. When you no longer need
the income, your gift can go directly to St. Victor’s Parish. If you want to know more about this, the Diocese can provide free assistance. Call Robert Serventi @ 983-0168, or write to him at: 900 Lafayette St., Suite 301, Santa Clara, CA 95050. Come Back To Me With All Your Heart
Lent is a special time. We take time to look more closely at God and God
looks at us. How can we take even
minor steps to get closer to God during these forty days?
There are three traditional practices that the Church puts before us to
help us forget self and follow Christ more closely. These practices are: prayer,
fasting and almsgiving. The most perfect prayer we have is the Mass. Join with others at
the 6:30 or 8:00 A.M. Mass during the weekdays (Monday-Friday) of Lent.
And/or join us on Friday evenings for Stations of the Cross at
7:30 P.M. in the Church. Fasting asks us to
let go of habits that get in the way of our ability to love God and others.
The Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence for everyone 14
years or older. That means NO
MEAT. GOOD FRIDAY
will be a day of fast and abstinence.
That means ONLY ONE FULL MEAL for those 18-59 and NO
MEAT for anyone 14 years or older.
The faithful should not excuse themselves lightly from these observances. Through almsgiving (ADA Appeal, Special Collections, Operation
Rice Bowl – Catholic Relief Services, Eastside F.I.S.H., St. Vincent de Paul)
we come to see others as God sees them, worthy of our love and sharing. Lenten Reminders: All the faithful, after they have participated in First Communion, are obliged to share in Communion at least once a year during the Easter season (First Sunday of Lent until Trinity Sunday). The faithful who are old enough to understand that they have sinned are obligated to confess serious sins at least once a year. It is recommended that venial sins also be confessed. LEGION OF MARY ANNUAL ACIESAcies is an individual and collective renewal of consecration to our Blessed Mother. Every year, all active and auxiliary members of the Legion of Mary renew their consecration to their Queen. Families and friends are welcome. This year’s Acies will be held at Resurrection Church (725 Cascade Dr., Sunnyvale) on Saturday, March 28th. The rosary and consecration starts at 11:00 A.M., followed by Mass at 12:00 noon. Refreshments will be served in the Resurrection Parish Hall after the Mass.
Shared Scripture Study
The evening session of Shared Scripture meets on Thursdays at 7:30 P.M. We meet in the large room of the parish center (the library). In union with the Church’s, “Year of St. Paul,” we will begin reading his letter to the Philippians. Come join us and get to know St. Paul in his own words. PILGRIMAGE TO
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE & GUADALAJARA
You
are invited to come to the meeting regarding information about the pilgrimage to
Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City & Guadalajara from August 17th-24th.
The meeting will be held next Sunday, March 29th, from
2:30-4:00 P.M. in the small room of the parish center.
For further information, please call Father Lim @ 251-7055.
Mass
Intentions for the Week Monday March 23 6:30 A.M. Leilani Tiffer 8:00 A.M. Special Intention for Thu Nguyen Tuesday March 24 6:30 A.M. Raymond Earl Van Fleet 8:00 A.M. Paul Khuong Ha Wednesday March 25 6:30 A.M. Timothy Gallagher 8:00 A.M. Josephine Barreras Thursday March 26 6:30 A.M. Ernesto Amore 8:00 A.M. John & Jessie Correia Friday March 27 6:30 A.M. Deceased Members of the Tran Family 8:00 A.M. Dominic & Mary Vu Saturday March 28 8:00 A.M. Cezar Uytingco 5:00 P.M. Peggy Brunelli (Father Lim) Sunday March 29 7:00 A.M. For the Parishioners of St. Victor Parish (Father Phan) 8:00 A.M. Chau Vu (Father Phan) 9:15 A.M. Josephine Barreras (Father Hendrickson) 10:45 A.M. Consolacion Glass (Father Lim) 12:15 P.M. Laurie Eustaquio (Carmelites) 5:00 P.M. Lola Mendoza (Father Hendrickson)
SCHOOL NEWSStop by the hall after Masses this Sunday, March 22nd, and see the projects of the future scientists of St. Victor’s School. For an application or information regarding our school, please visit www.school.stvictor.org or call the School Office @ 251-1740. SEDER HELP NEEDED.
Waiters, waitresses, cookie bakers, potato bakers and general help is
needed for Wednesday, April 8th, for St. Victor’s annual SEDER
supper. If you can help in any way,
please call Alice @ 928-1630 (W). Thank
you! Attention all high
school teens
Join over 200 teens from the Diocese of San Jose for Tahoe ’09 Back
to the Future from June 15th-19th.
Cost is $300 (includes $100.00 deposit, bus transportation, lodging, 11
meals, a T-shirt and group photo). Scholarships
are available. Please contact
Sharron Hollenbeck in the Catechetical Ministry Office @ 251-0154 for more
information. Deadline to
register for this event is March 31st. EASTER FLOWER DONATIONS NEEDEDDonations for the Altar Society Flowers may be made in our EASTER FLOWER envelopes located on the tables inside the Church and in the vestibule. Your contribution will help defray some of the expenses used for beautifying the Church at this time of the year. Please place these envelopes in the collection basket, or drop them by the Rectory Office. Thank you. ALTAR SOCIETY FLORAL SERVICE The Altar Society offers parishioners an opportunity to provide flowers for our Sanctuary as a memorial or tribute gift. It might be in memory of a deceased loved one, in thanksgiving, or to commemorate a birthday, baptism, marriage, anniversary, etc. In return for a minimum $100.00 gift, the Altar Society will arrange for the floral display on the date(s) specified and will see that an acknowledgment appears in the Parish Bulletin for the corresponding week. For more information or to order this floral service, please call the Parish Office @ 251-7055. IMPORTANT
USHERS MEETING... will be held on Tuesday, March 31st, @
7:00 P.M. in Room 8 of the School. All
ushers are asked to attend.
REMINDERS:
The Parish
Office closes at 4:00 P.M. on Monday and Wednesday evenings. We
ask that our organizations please make sure that all doors are locked when they
have finished their meeting/event. And,
return all keys immediately. If
you see that someone has left a personal belonging (hat, prayer book, umbrella,
etc.) in the pew at Mass, please place it on the bottom shelf of one of the
tables at the nearest exit. They may
come back for it. If it is an
article of some value (eye glasses, cell phone camera, jewelry), please give
these items to an usher or sacristan, so that they may be locked in a safe place
until the owner comers for it. Thank
you for your help! SOCIAL JUSTICE NOTES... GET ON THE BUS is a program that will take over 1000 children from cities throughout the state to visit their mothers in prison (Chowchilla, Ventura and Corona, CA and Ontario, Canada) on May 8th. This is free transportation for the children and their caregivers. This program is sponsored by our Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Financial donations are needed. Please call Sister Noreen Driscoll, CSJ, at the Rectory Office (251-7055) for more information. NEEDY FAMILIES. Our St. Vincent de Paul volunteers are working with several families in need of twin beds. If you are able to help, please call the Rectory Office @ 251-7055. SPECIAL NEED:
There is an 11-year old with muscular dystrophy in need of a foster
home. The child is currently in the
hospital and both of his parents are deceased.
If you, or you know of someone who is able to help, please call the Parish Office @ 251-7055. 1The
Knights of Columbus will be passing out the FIGHT FOCA POSTCARDS after al
Masses this weekend. Affix a
27¢ stamp on each postcard and mail to them to our senators, Barbara Boxer
and Diane Feinstein and our Representative, Mike Honda.
THERE
WILL BE A SECOND COLLECTION NEXT WEEKEND FOR ST. VICTOR’S ST. VINCENT de PAUL
SOCIETY. Please
help our volunteers help the needy members of our parish community. LOYOLA MARYMOUNT CHORUSES from Los Angeles will be on tour in Northern California and will be
presenting two concerts in San Jose. Friday,
March 27th, the choirs will give a concert at the Cathedral, and on
Saturday, March 28th, at Santa Teresa Church.
Both concerts begin at 7:30 P.M. [These
are the University choruses that the St. Victor student choirs joined in concert
in past years.] Please join the
choirs for an evening of beautiful choral music. “Do what is true.” (John 3:21)
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