Student Confirmation At Mass Next Sunday

Next Sunday, April 20^th, the 5:00 P.M. Mass will be a special liturgy for our high school Confirmation students and their families.  Sixty-two of our high school students will receive the Sacrament of Confirmation during this Mass.  Please keep our students and their families in your prayers.

PLANNED GIVING NOTES

Life Insurance Gifts

It is easy to turn an old life insurance policy into a nice gift to St. Victor’s Parish, and a possible tax deduction. Simply transfer it to, “The Roman Catholic Bishop, a California Corporate Sole, for the benefit of St. Victor’s Parish.” It is even easier to add the parish as a beneficiary to a policy.  Because you can always change this, there is no tax deduction for including the Church as a beneficiary.

If you want to know more about this, the Diocese can provide free assistance.  Call the Development Office @ 983-0246, or write to them at: 900 Lafayette St., Suite 301, Santa Clara, CA 95050.

REQUESTS FOR PARISH FACILITIES

Requests from our parish organizations for the use of the parish facilities for the 2008-09 year are due in the parish office by 9:00 A.M. on Friday, April 25^th.  Please use the yellow forms, which may be picked up at the parish office. All forms received after May 18^th will have to select from the remaining open dates.

Happy Birthday to Sister Noreen Driscoll, CSJ, this Sunday, April 13^th!

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL HELP NEEDED!

Power Lab Vacation Bible School, during the week of July 21^st-25^th, (kindergarten through 6^th grade) will give our children a new enthusiasm for God’s Word – and for Jesus!  We will engage the children with fun, and science-minded surprises; they’ll see amazing things happen. They’ll see that Jesus gives them the power to be thankful; help others; be brave; live forever; and tell others about God. For more information, or to help, contact the Rectory Office (251-7055).

SCRIPTURE READINGS

APRIL 19-20, 2008

ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 6:1-7

1 PETER 2:4-9

JOHN 14:1-12

NEXT SUNDAY, APRIL 20^TH, IS WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS IN THE DIOCESE OF SAN JOSE.  Everyone is invited to the Eucharistic Adoration to Foster Vocations in the Diocese of San Jose, which will be held from Sunday through Tuesday, April 20^th-22^nd, at the Carmelite Monastery of the Infant Jesus (1000 Lincoln Ave., Santa Clara).  Adoration begins at 12:00 noon on Sunday and ends Tuesday at 7:00 P.M. On Sunday, April 20^th, Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 A.M. by Rev. Mark Catalana.  There will also be Masses at 7:15 P.M. on Monday, April 21^st, (Bishop Patrick J. McGrath will be the presider of this Mass) and at 7:00 P.M. on Tuesday, April 22^nd (the celebrant for this Mass will be Rev. Adam Gregory Gonzales, OCD).  The concluding Mass will be celebrated at 7:15 A.M. on Tuesday, April 22^nd.  For more information and/or to register for a specific adoration time, please go to www.dsj.org/register/adoration.

Join us for a Celebration of Consecrated Life honoring the almost 640 religious in our Diocese, especially our 30 jubilarians, next Saturday, April 19^th, at Bellarmine College Preparatory (960 W. Hedding St.).  Mass will begin at 3:30 P.M. followed by a reception in Liccardo Center.  For more information, please call Melissa Tamayo @ 983-0155.

Mount St. Joseph Carmelite Monastery Benefit Dinner - will be held on Sunday, May 4^th, from 2:00-6:30 P.M. at the Holiday Inn (N. First St. at Hwy 101).  You are invited for a delicious dinner, music, door prizes, silent auction and raffle, all for the cost of $60.00 for adults and $30.00 for children under 12.  The Carmelites will be selling their Raffle tickets after the 8:00, 9:15 and 10:45 A.M. and 12:15 P.M. Masses this Sunday, April 13^th.  Please support the Carmelites who come and help us here at St. Victor’s.  If you have any questions, please call 251-1361. 

FIL-AM SPRING BENEFIT GALA...

will be held next Saturday, April 19^th, in the Parish Hall from 6:30 P.M. - midnight.  Cost is $40.00 per person.  For tickets or more information, please call the Rectory Office (251-7055).

SAVE THE DATES...EVERYONE IS INVITED...

St. Victor’s Dinner Auction – Saturday, April 26^th,

 from 6:00-9:30 P.M. in the Parish Hall.

Price is $20.00 per person or $35.00 per couple.  Price includes dinner and two drink tickets. {The main attraction of the night is the Live Auction of the St. Victor’s School K-8 class projects.} 

Benefit Bingo  – Saturday, May 17^th,

 from 5:30–9:00 P.M. in the Parish Hall.

Golf Tournament - Saturday, May 31^st, at Coyote Creek Golf Course in San Jose, 8:00 A.M.

For more information regarding any of the above events, please call the Rectory Office (251-7055).

Mother’s Day Brunch Buffet

Mass Intentions for the Week

Monday             April      14         8:00 A.M.          Eleanor Marie Taheny

Tuesday            April      15         8:00 A.M.          Feliza Cura

Wednesday       April      16         8:00 A.M.          Mary Regina Nunes

Thursday           April      17         8:00 A.M.          Tony & Rose Coelho

Friday               April      18         8:00 A.M.          Theresa Goulart

Saturday           April      19         8:00 A.M.          Maria Domondon

                                                5:00 P.M.          John & Frances Ernest

Sunday             April      20        9:15 A.M.          Steve & Mary Perata

                                               10:45 A.M.         Frank O’Brien

ATTENTION ALL HIGH SCHOOL TEENS

The Diocese of San Jose presents the annual Youth Summer Tahoe Retreat from June 16^th-20^th.  Cost is $300.00.  For more information, please visit http://www.dsj.org/tahoe or call Sharron Hollenbeck in the CM Office @ 251-0154.

For information regarding World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney Australia with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI from July 10^th-24^th, please contact Sharron Hollenbeck in the CM Office @ 251-0154.

SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES...

EASTSIDE F.I.S.H. food collection is next weekend.  Please bring your non-perishable food donations (tuna, macaroni & cheese, canned fruits and vegetables, peanut butter, etc.) and place them in the box in the vestibule of the Church.  No clothing, please!

GET ON THE BUS is a program that takes over 500 children from cities throughout the state to visit their mother in prison (Chowchilla, Ventura and Corona and Ontario) on the Friday before Mother’s Day.  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, CSJ, at the Rectory Office (251-7055) for more information.

CATHOLIC CHARITIES PROGRAM – Refugee youth seeks temporary host family (several weeks to a month).  There is an urgent need for a host family for a 13 year old male from the Sudan.  If you are able to help, or know someone who can, please contact Coleen Higa @ 325-5159 or [email protected].

DIOCESAN BLOOD DRIVE – will be held on Friday, April 18^th, from 9:00 A.M.-3:00 P.M. at St. Clare’s Parish Hall (Lafayette and Lexington Sts., Santa Clara).  To make an appointment to give blood, please contact Linda Tully @ 983-0144 or visit wwwbeadonor.com and type in the sponsor code: DOSJ. 

Author/Biographer Sr. Roseanne Murphy of Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, will be speaking about the work of Sr. Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN, on Sunday, April 27^th, at 7:00 P.M. at St. Athansius Parish (160 N. Rengstorff Ave., Mountain view).  Sister Stang was a missionary, living and working with the poor in the Amazon Forest of Brazil.  She was assassinated on February 12, 2005. There is no charge for this event, but donations would be appreciated towards the Sisters of Notre Dame’s continuing work in Brazil.  For more information, please call Mike Cavera @ (650) 967-7939.

CATHOLIC LOBBY DAY – The California Catholic Conference (CCC) is sponsoring “faithful citizenship” at the state’s Capitol on April 22^nd.  Catholic Lobby Day is a gathering of people of faith raising their voices on behalf of the poor and vulnerable.  The day begins in Sacramento with Mass at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. A march to the Capitol and rally follow with visits to legislators in the afternoon.  The buses that will be provided will leave from the parking lot at the Diocese.  The cost of $30.00 includes transportation, a pre-briefing, all materials, lunch and all the activities of the day.  To register, please contact Linda Batton @ 983-0158 or email her @ [email protected].  Registration deadline is April 15^th.

$CRIP gift certificates will be available after Masses next weekend (except Sunday 7:00 & 8:00 A.M.).

THERE WILL BE A SECOND COLLECTION NEXT WEEKEND FOR OUR HOME MISSIONS.

Congratulations to St. Victor’s School 8^th grader, Sylvia Shacker, who won the San Francisco Chronicle Spelling Bee and will be competing in Washington D.C.  Good luck, Sylvia!

Please check your local EWTN listings for the broadcast of Pope Benedict’s visit

to Washington D.C. and New York April 15^th-20^th or visit www.ewtn.com.

“...I am the gate for the sheep.”

 
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