Stained Glass

23^rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - September 6-7,2008

SECOND COLLECTION TODAY FOR ST. VICTOR’S DEVELOPMENT FUND

Today’s second collection is for St. Victor’s Development Fund. This fund assists with the never-ending projects and repairs on the parish grounds. Thanks for your support.

You Are Invited

Everyone is invited to the installation of Father Michael Hendrickson as pastor on Sunday, September 21^st, at the 12:15 P.M. Mass. A welcome reception for Fathers Michael Hendrickson and Paul-Cuong Phan will be held in the hall and on the parish grounds after Mass. *Your help is needed, please call Alice @ 928-1630 (days).*

SHARED SCRIPTURE STUDY

The morning session of Shared Scripture will begin on Thursday, September 11^th, after the 8:00 A.M. Mass in the parish center. We will discuss the readings for the upcoming Sunday. Everyone is welcome. Please call Sister Noreen for more information @ 251-7055.

The evening session of Shared Scripture will begin meeting on Thursday, September 11^th. Our meetings last from 7:30-9:30 P.M. We meet in the large room of the parish center (the library). We will be reading St. Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians. For more information, please call Parish Office @ 251-7055.

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults

RCIA for whom? Maybe for you?

We welcome interested adults to join our faith community.

If you are not Baptized

Baptized in another faith tradition

Baptized Catholic, but in need of Confirmation and Eucharist

RCIA offers a process, which welcomes interested persons to join in full communion with our Catholic Community. The process will begin on September 16^th. If you are interested in becoming a part of the process or know of someone who might be, please leave a message for Sister Noreen @ 251-7055. God may be calling you this year to take the steps needed to really be a participating member of our Catholic Community.

Just maybe – RCIA is for you!

Previous RCIA candidates will speak at each Mass this weekend.

Teen/Young Adult Choir – Join Us!

The Sunday 5:00 P.M. Choir invites all teens and young adults interested in singing with them to attend their practice on Thursday evenings from 5:30-7:00 P.M. (please see Rose Tice), or contact the Catechetical Ministry Office @ 251-0154 for more information.

SCRIPTURE READINGS

SEPTEMBER 13-14, 2008

NUMBERS 21:4-9

PHILIPPIANS 2:6-11

JOHN 3:13-17

SACRIFICIAL GIVING – Fostering Stewardship As A Way Of life

Parish Offertory Collections for August 2007 2008

$68,794.00 $77,838.00

PLANNED GIVING NOTES

Is Your Will Valid?

If your will was written in another state or your financial and/or family circumstances have changed, or it has been three years since it was last reviewed by a professional, it may be obsolete!

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 95950.

LITURGY MINISTERS MEETING

All current and interested ministers are urged to join us for the training session on Wednesday, September 24^th, at 7:00 P.M. in the Church. The evening will consist of evening prayer, a talk by Melissa Broom, liturgist at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph, and ministry-specific training for our ushers, lectors, musicians, and Eucharistic ministers. Refreshments will be provided. Parishioners who are interested in becoming a liturgical minister at St. Victor’s are requested to first contact the appropriate coordinator listed on the front of the bulletin prior to this meeting.

CATECHETICAL MINISTRY REGISTRATION

Catechetical Ministry (CM) registration will be held this Sunday, September 7^th, from 8:00 A.M.-2:00 P.M. in the parish center. All those who will be signing-up their student(s) to receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation (Confession), First Communion or Confirmation must bring an original or a copy for their child’s BAPTISMAL certificate. (It will be returned to you at the time you register.) No child will be registered for a sacrament class without their Baptismal certificate.

For those who will be registering young people for our CM program, you will need to complete Emergency/Family Agreement Form(s) for each student attending our program. This form must be completed every year and handed in at the time of registration in September. For your convenience, you may print the form from our Website, http://www.parish.stvictor.org/catechism.html . Please scroll down to CM Handbook and open it. The “Emergency Form” and “Family Agreement Form” are near the end of the handbook. Print as many as needed for the amount of students you have. PLEASE be sure you have the following on your “Emergency Form:” complete names, addresses and telephone numbers for your student’s dentist, doctor, two Emergency Contacts as well as complete name, address telephone number and working hours for each parent’s employer. This includes “step-parents.” These forms will also be available at the time you register if you do not have access to a computer. It is important to note that these forms must be kept current at all times. As with any school, new emergency forms must be filled out each year and kept current throughout the year. It is no different for our program. We have found that indeed we needed information from a few of them this past school year and unfortunately found that they were NOT kept current. This delays the emergency process. We realize that this form is time consuming, but we ask your cooperation in filling in this information properly and completely, and then presenting it to us at the time you register your student(s) for CM classes. If you are registering your returning 2^nd year student(s) for sacraments (student must have already completed their first basic year of Catechism), please remember to bring their BAPTISMAL certificates, as NO student(s) will be registered without it. No exceptions will be made. If you are registering someone else’s student(s) for CM classes (i.e., niece, nephew, grandchild, friend), please remember that you MUST have written permission from the parent to do so. We cannot register the student without this permission. This also means, you must make sure that you have the completed Emergency/Family Agreement Forms for these student(s). Please bring your completed forms with you when you register your student(s) for CM Classes.

Mass Intentions for the Week

Monday September 08 8:00 A.M. Mervyn Alcoy

Tuesday September 09 8:00 A.M Roger & Sofia Del Castillo

Wednesday September 10 8:00 A.M. Catharine Alves & Jose de Oliveira

Thursday September 11 8:00 A.M. Pablo & Isabelita Antonio

Friday September 12 8:00 A.M. Deceased Members of the Latendresse Family

Saturday September 13 8:00 A.M. Cornelia L. Ombrog

5:00 P.M. Emin & Adelina Capullari

Sunday September 14 9:15 A.M. St. Victor’s Alumni & Their Special Intentions

10:45 A.M. Anna Nguyen Thi Duyen

5:00 P.M. Edward & Olive Olivera

Banns of Marriage

Quang Duong & Hong Dinh II

Golden Wedding Anniversary

Wayne and Phyllis Minten donated this week’s Sanctuary flowers in celebration of their 50^th Wedding Anniversary. Congratulations!

CATHETICAL MINISTRY TEACHERS NEEDED

If you have a love for children and a desire to share your faith, Catechetical Ministry is in need of fall session High School Confirmation I facilitators (the facilitators are members of a core team that present to a smaller group). This is a big commitment and we ask you to please give it prayerful consideration. CM will train you. Please call the Catechetical Ministry Office @ 251-0154, if you are able to help.

REMINDER: The Sunday 5:00 P.M. Mass will resume next Sunday, September 14^th.

ALTAR SOCIETY MEETING

The quarterly meeting of the Altar Society will be held on Thursday, September 18^th, at 6:30 P.M. in the parish hall.

New members are always welcome.

St. victor’s fiesta (October 4^th& 5^th) – Needs your help!

The Silent Auction is looking for new chairpersons for next year. The current chair ladies would like to work with them this year in preparation for 2009. Please call the Parish Office @ 251-7055, if you are able to help with this very important part of the yearly FIESTA!

The FIESTA Silent Auction is in need of LARGE BASKETS. Please drop them off at the Rectory Office.

NEED A TAX DEDUCTION? HAVE A USED CAR IN GOOD WORKING ORDER? Why not donate it to this year’s FIESTA!!! Please call Bob Butler NOW @ 550-3646. If we do get a car, we will have a LIVE auction for it prior to the drawing for the RAFFLE prizes.

Would you like to see your NAME or BUSINESS on display? Why not sponsor a booth at this year’s FIESTA? For a donation of $120.00 your name/business will be displayed for all to see, while you are helping to defray the cost of booth rentals. For all the details, please call Parish Office @ 251-7055 ASAP!

Raffle – We are currently looking for a RAFFLE chairperson - please call Parish Office @ 251-7055 ASAP. Don’t forget to turn in your tickets stubs and monies for the Early Bird Drawings for $50.00 worth of $CRIP gift certificates of your choice, which will begin the weekend of September 6^th & 7^th. And still be eligible to win the $10,000.00 at the Fiesta! For your convenience, you may drop them off at the Rectory Office, or place them in the collection basket at Mass.

CONGRATULATIONS to our First Early Bird Drawing winner, parishioner, BEATRICE MADRIGAL!

Bingo – We are in need of BINGO workers! If you have ever been a bingo caller or sold Cherry Bells, and are able to help this year, please call Parish Office @ 251-7055.

Game Booths – Support your parish, chair a Game Booth. For details, call Parish Office @ 251-7055.

Cakes – Cakes, we need cakes! To donate to our popular Cake Walk Booth, please call Parish Office @ 251-7055. Cakes may be dropped off in Room #1 during the Fiesta.

Large coffee cans with lids (about 2 pound size) are needed for the game & food booths. Please drop them off at the Rectory Office.

For information regarding applications for St. Victor’s School, please call 251-1740.

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

ANNUAL EDUCATION APPEAL NEXT WEEKEND

The Annual Education Appeal, which will be held on the weekend of September 13^th&14^th in our Diocese, is most important as it provides financial assistance to many of our Catholic students who want to receive a Catholic education. This special collection is for the scholarship fund that supports the tuition aid program for elementary and high school students in our schools. Although not all parishes have schools, they all have families with school age children. Many of our families would like the choice in the school where they can send their children. Our schools provide that choice. Over 17,000 students are educated in our 41 elementary and 6 high schools and many are there because of the generosity and support of your parish community. Please plan on giving generously – this is an investment in the future of young lives as well as the future of the Catholic Church in the San Jose Diocese. Questions and inquiries can be directed to the Department of Education @ 983-0185.

FIESTA GAUCHA will be held at St. John Parish Vianney’s Pavilion on Saturday, September 13^th, from 6:00-10:00 P.M. Tickets cost $50.00 per person (adults only). For tickets, please call Poc @ 258-7832. [A flyer is also on the bulletin board in the vestibule.]

KIEV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR CONCERT will be held at Sacred Heart Parish (13716 Saratoga Ave., Saratoga) on September 19^that 7:30 P.M. Host families are also needed for the musicians and vocalists for one night. Please call Bruce Hodgin @ 370-9030 for info or tickets {$30-$40 – mention St. Victor’s and receive a $5.00 discount}.

“Love your neighbor as yourself.” {Romans 13:9}

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