Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time September 3, 2017

United in faith and guided by the Holy Spirit

MASS SCHEDULES

Sunday Mass in English Saturday 4:30 PM Sunday 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 AM & 12:15 PM

Daily Mass 7 & 8:30 AM (Saturday 8:30 AM)

Reconciliation Saturday 3-4:00 PM

Misas en Español Miércoles 7 PM

Misas Dominicales en Español Sábado 6 PM, Domingo 2 & 6 PM

Reconciliación Miércoles 6-7 PM, Sábado 3-4:00 PM

21250 Hesperian Blvd, Hayward, CA 94541 | 510 -783-2766 | www.st joachim.net

“Get behind me, Satan!”

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There is an ancient legend about Peter, which became the basis for a famous book and motion picture. At the time of the great persecution under Nero, the Christians of Rome told Peter to leave. "You're too valuable," they said. "Get out of town! Find your safety! Go to another

place and preach the Gospel." Peter hastily hurried out of town as fast as he could. But as he hurried along the Appian Way, away from the Eternal City, he was met by Christ, going toward the city. Peter said to him in Latin, "Quo vadis, Domine?" "Where are you going, Lord?" To which Jesus replied, "Back to Rome, to be crucified with my people. Where are you going, Peter?" Peter's eyes filled with tears of remorse, as he turned and walked back to Rome, where, according to tradition, he was crucified head downward, feeling that he was not worthy to die in the same manner as had his Lord. Jesus' question to Peter comes to us also. "Where are you going?" Are we going with Christ, or away from him and from his cross? That's the really important question. It doesn't matter how far we have traveled. What does matter is the direction in which we are going. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- During the Los Angeles Open Golf Tournament a few years ago, Arnold Palmer, the legendary golfer, was interviewed while practicing on the putting green. "Arnie," he was asked, "What do you feel was wrong to make you play so poorly this past year?" Without looking up from his putting, Arnold answered in his own direct way, "I wasn't hard enough on myself, that's all." Two hours after this brief interview, the same reporter came back to find Palmer still practicing on the putting green. The reporter concluded, "The greatness of Arnold Palmer is his choice of the hard way." Success in life requires a willingness to resist the lure of the easy way. A sound body requires that we exercise, eat the right foods, conquer bad habits. A sound mind requires that we read, that we observe, that we continually learn. A sound marriage requires that each partner go into it with the understanding that marriage is not a 50/50 proposition but a 70/30 one in which both parties give the 70. A sound family means that we take the time to be sensitive to the needs of our children and that we provide not only for their physical needs but for their emotional and spiritual needs as well. Such goals require sacrifice, they require perseverance and they require determination. But every one of us knows that the path to personal success is the path of self-denial. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Three holy, religious priests, a Dominican, a Franciscan, and a Jesuit were in the same hospice. All were near death. One evening, the Angel of Death appeared before them and informed them that it was their time. He said, however, that each could have a final request before accompanying him from this world as they had scrupulously practiced the triple norms of Christian discipleship in their pretty long lives. The Dominican went first and he asked to gaze upon the face of his Savior. In an instant the face of Christ appeared before him. He was satisfied and felt he could die with no regrets. The Franciscan was next. He asked to touch the wounds in the hands and feet of Jesus before he died. No sooner had he spoken than Christ appeared and invited him, as he did Thomas, to examine His wounds. The dying priest touched Christ's hands and feet, wept with joy and was content and at peace. Finally the angel turned to the Jesuit and asked his final request. Without hesitation the Jesuit replied: "I'd like a second opinion."

From the Pastor’s Desk: Hay una antigua leyenda sobre Pedro, que se convirtió en la base de un

famoso libro y película. En el momento de la gran persecución bajo Nerón, los cristianos de Roma le dijeron a Pedro que se fuera. "Eres demasiado valioso", dijeron. "Sal de la ciudad! ¡Encuentra tu seguridad! Ve a otro lugar y predica el Evangelio". Peter corrió precipitadamente fuera de la ciudad tan rápido como pudo. Pero mientras se apresuraba a lo largo de la Vía Apia, lejos de la Ciudad Eterna, se encontró con Cristo, quien iba hacia la ciudad. Pedro le dijo en latín, "¿Quo vadis, Domine?" "Dónde vas, Señor?" A lo que Jesús respondió, "Vuelvo a Roma para ser crucificado con mi pueblo. Dónde vas, Pedro?" Los ojos de Pedro se llenaron con lágrimas de remordimiento, mientras él dio la vuelta y caminó hacia Roma, donde, según la tradición, fue crucificado cabeza abajo, sintiendo que él no era digno de morir de la misma manera como su Señor. La pregunta de Jesús a Pedro viene a nosotros también. "Dónde vas?" ¿Vamos con Cristo, o lejos de Él y de su cruz? Esa es la pregunta realmente importante. No importa cuán lejos hemos viajado. Lo que importa es la dirección en la que vamos. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Durante el Torneo Abierto de Golf en Los Ángeles hace unos años, Arnold Palmer, el legendario golfista, fue entrevistado mientras practicaba en el putting green. "Arnie", le preguntaron, "¿qué siente que fue el error que lo hizo jugar tan mal este año?" Sin mirar hacia arriba desde su puesta, Arnold respondió en su manera directa, "No fui lo suficientemente duro con mí mismo, eso es todo." Dos horas después de esta breve entrevista, el mismo reportero volvió a encontrar a Palmer practicando en el putting green. El reportero llegó a la conclusión, "la grandeza de Arnold Palmer es su elección de la forma más difícil." Éxito en la vida requiere una voluntad de resistir a la tentación del camino fácil. Un cuerpo sano requiere de hacer ejercicio, comer los alimentos adecuados, conquistar malos hábitos. Una mente sana requiere que leamos, que observemos, que aprendamos continuamente. Un matrimonio sano requiere que cada uno entre en él con el entendimiento de que el matrimonio no es una propuesta de 50/50 pero un 70/30 uno en el que ambas partes dan el 70. Una familia sana significa que nos tomemos el tiempo para ser sensible a las necesidades de nuestros hijos y que proveamos no sólo para sus necesidades físicas sino emocionales y espirituales también. Esos objetivos requieren sacrificio, requieren perseverancia y requieren determinación. Pero cada uno de nosotros sabe que el camino al éxito personal es el camino de la negación propia. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tres sacerdotes santos, religiosos, un Dominico, un Franciscano, y un Jesuita, fueron al mismo hospicio. Todos estaban cerca de la muerte. Una noche, el Ángel de la Muerte se apareció ante ellos y les informó que era su tiempo. Sin embargo, dijo que cada uno podría tener una petición final antes de que lo acompañaran de este mundo, ya que habían practicado escrupulosamente las normas triples del discipulado cristiano en su muy larga vida. El Dominico fue primero y pidió contemplar el rostro de su Salvador. En un instante el rostro de Cristo apareció ante él. Él se sintió satisfecho y sintió que podía morir sin remordimientos. El Franciscano fue el siguiente. Pidió tocar las heridas en las manos y los pies de Jesús antes de morir. Tan pronto como habló Cristo apareció y le invitó, como lo hizo con Tomás, a examinar Sus heridas. El sacerdote moribundo tocó los pies y las manos de Cristo, lloró de alegría y se sintió contento y en paz. Por último el ángel se dirigió al Jesuita y le preguntó su petición final. Sin dudarlo el Jesuita respondió: "Me gustaría una segunda opinión".

Nota de nuestro pastor:

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WEEKLY READINGS

Readings for the Week

of September 3, 2017

Sun/Dom: Jer 20:7-9/Ps 63:2-6, 8-9/Rom 12:1-2/

Mt 16:21-27

Mon/Lunes: 1 Thes 4:13-18/Ps 96:1, 3-5, 11-13/

Lk 4:16-30

Tues/Martes: 1 Thes 5:1-6, 9-11/Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14/

Lk 4:31-37

Wed/Mier: Col 1:1-8/Ps 52:10-11/Lk 4:38-44

Thurs/Juev: Col 1:9-14/Ps 98:2-6/Lk 5:1-11

Fri/Vier: Mi 5:1-4a or Rom 8:28-30/Ps 13:6/

Mt 1:1-16, 18-23 or 1:18-23

Sat/Sab: Col 1:21-23/Ps 54:3-4, 6, 8/

Lk 6:1-5

Next Sun/Dom:

Ez 33:7-9/Ps 95:1-2, 6-9/Rom 13:8-10/

Mt 18:15-20

OFFICE INFORMATION

Parish Office

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Parish Office Hours Monday-Friday 10 AM-7:30 PM Bilingual available T,W,F 4-7:30 PM Saturday 10 AM-4 PM Bilingual available 10 AM-4 PM Sunday 10 AM-4 PM Bilingual available 12 PM-4 PM

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Rev. Joseph Antony Sebastian, SVD Pastor Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,&Friday 10 AM to 12 PM 5 PM to 8 PM (with appointment) lunes, martes, miércoles, y Viernes 10 AM a 12 PM

5 PM a 8 PM (con cita)

Rev. Stephen Ayisu, SVD Parochial Vicar

Monday,Wednesday,Thursday,&Friday

10:00 AM to 12:00 PM 5 PM to 8 PM (with appointment) lunes, miércoles , jueves y viernes 10:00 AM a 12:00 PM

5 PM a 8 PM (con cita)

Ariel Mayormita Musc Director/Director de Música Phone Ext. #223

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Flor Herce

Bookkeeper

Pat Ludwig Administrative Assistant

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St. Vincent de Paul

783-0344

Office hours 1:00-2:30 PM ONLY

Monday-Friday

San Vicente de Paul

Gary Enos, President

Faith Formation Office Oficina de Formación de Fe

785-1818

Glenda Aragón Director of Faith Formation

glendaaragon@comcast.net

Braulio Gomez Faith Formation Coordinator/ Youth Minister

550-6878 / stjoachimym@gmail.com

Bertha Cruz Administrative Assistant

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St. Joachim School Escuela de San Joaquín

783-3177

Armond Seishas

Principal

Sandra Garzon

School Secretary

St. Joachim Pre-School

783-0604

Marisa Melgarejo

Director

THE WEEK AHEAD

Monday Sept 4th

Labor Day ~~ The Rectory, Faith

Formation and the School will all be closed

on Monday September 4th in observance

of Labor

Day.

Remember

there are no

meetings or

gatherings

held here

when the

offices are

closed .

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PRAY FOR Beth Pineda Hu"on

Francis Roque

Isabel Burkfield

Joann Yarbrough

Bernee Venenciano

Rita Dondoyano

Norma DeGuzman

Amelia Mamaril

Jim Smith

Cassandra Rodriguez

David Stump

Minda Bermudez

Georgie Dwonch

Ellen Rodel Ramil Hilario

Araceli Loza

Angie Biscocho

DONATIONS St Vincent de Paul offering for next week:

Canned Fruits or Juices

Frutas o jugos enlatados

Dona ons are very much

appreciated—but please no

expired food. ~ Thank You

CONTRIBUTIONS CONTRIBUCIONES

COLLECTION FOR WEEK

August 27th The Plate Collec$on

$ 9,811.50 EFT Collec$on

$ 105.00 On Line Giving

$ 121.00

TOTAL for the WEEK

$ 10,037.50

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Would you like to help out at Mass?

Are you interested in becoming a Communion Minister?

We will be training ALL those interested in becoming an

Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion on:

Saturday September 9, 2017—12 NOON in the CHURCH

Please complete online Safe Environment training at virtusonline .org before a"ending the training

Please call the Rectory office for further informa on or to sign up to a"end

Workmen digging in the Va can’s

Belvedere Courtyard, in February 1962

discovered pieces of a large jaw bone and a large tooth. They thought

they had found a dinosaur, but the bones were not fossilized and

when examined were found to be from an elephant. For decades

there was no explana on of the find un l the historian Silvio Bedini in

the 1980s and 1990s uncovered the story of the elephant named

Hanno who belonged to Pope Leo X. No elephant had been in Italy

since the fall of the Roman Empire many centuries earlier. Hanno

came from India by way of Portugal, and was a poli cal gi% from the

Portuguese king. It was tradi onal for Chris an rulers to send a gi%

when a new pope was elected. At that me the Portuguese had been

expanding the spice trade over the oceans and had brought back

strange creatures from across the globe. The ocean trade threatened

the land trade routes controlled by Egyp ans traders. In a trade war,

the Portuguese were looking for the Pope’s favor, so upon Pope Leo

X’s elec on, King Manuel I of Portugal, in 1514, sent many gi%s to the

new Pope. There was a gold chalice, a brocade altar cover, gold and

jeweled items, a cheetah, leopards, parrots, strange dogs, a Persian horse and Hanno a four year old white elephant. The

slow march Hanno made on the 70 mile trek from the Italian coast to Rome le% a path of destruc on, not from Hanno, for

he was not such a large elephant, but from the great crowds that came to see him and the other strange animals. The

people trampled fields, crashed roofs and broke through walls just to see him. Finally reaching Rome, Hanno bowed before

Pope Leo, then trumpeted three mes and drank water and sprayed it on everyone. The Pope thought the performance

was deligh&ul and Hanno quickly became a celebrity in Rome and a favorite of Pope Leo. He had a special house built for

Hanno on the Belvedere Courtyard and the people of Rome were allowed to visit Hanno on weekends. On occasion, Hanno

would parade through Rome, but that didn’t always go so well. Trumpets and drums frightened Hanno and he would

eventually throw his rider. Another me he stampeded a%er a cannon went off and injured some of his fans. Another me

the crowds were so ght that noblemen on horseback ended up crushing viewers. Hanno lived 3 years in Rome but

eventually started having trouble breathing and showed he was in pain. The doctors determined that he was cons pated

and used a common treatment at the me, a suppository with a high dose of gold, which quickly killed him. The Pope was

devastated and arranged for Hanno to be buried beneath the Belvedere Courtyard, he wrote the epitaph and

commissioned a mural commemora ng Hanno, insis ng that it be drawn by the ar st Raphael himself. The original no

longer exists, but studies of the mural do. Hanno became a symbol for the excesses, frivoli es and improprie es of the

Pope’s reign and Mar n Luther used Hanno as the subject of one of his first published cri cisms of the Pope. Hanno’s tusks

had been removed and stored elsewhere, but the rest of his bones s ll lay under the courtyard today. Sources: atlasobscura.com, npr.org, weeklystandard.com

VATICAN CORNER

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MASS INTENTIONS September 2-9, 2017

Saturday 4:30 PM

Felisa Fernandez (73rd Birthday)

Elmer & Mary Ann Kriewaldt †

Saturday 6:00 PM

Mireya Or z Alejo (salud)

Sunday 7:30 AM

Eufemio Marabe (86th birthday)

Sunday 9:00 AM

Mila Diaz (birthday)

Vito Paje Jr. (healing)

Ha Van San †

Ligoria “Lily” Fernandez †

Rose Herrera † (40th day)

Aracely Albar †

Juan C. Joyosa † (anniversary)

Hedeliza P. Silvano † (40th day)

Sunday 10:30 AM

Josef & Erin Munoz (5th wedding anniversary)

Chris an Dela Cerda (special inten!on)

Jeremy Dela Cerda (special inten!on)

Jocelyn A. Alcantara †

Odilo Velasquez †

Juan Velasquez †

Angela Velasquez †

Froiland Eugenio †

Isabel Yap Rosario †

Sunday 12:15 PM

Fe Torres ( † birthday)

Jose Reyes † (40th day)

Sunday 2:00 PM

Joaquin & Carlos Duenas (thanksgiving)

Teresa Ayala †

Juliana Andrea Randan †

Sunday 6:00 PM

Jessica Ochoa (15th cumpleanos)

Monday 7:00 AM

The Community of St. Joachim

Monday 8:30 AM

Talaue Family (thanksgiving)

Fr. Salvador Macias (healing)

Lucy M. Gonzalez (15th anniversary)

Tuesday 7:00 AM

Luz Garcia †

Tuesday 8:30 AM

Clem & Remedios Paraiso

(52nd wedding anniversary)

Wednesday 7:00 AM

The Community of St. Joachim

Wednesday 8 :30 AM

Zacarias Paraiso ( † birthday)

Joao Passos †

Antonio Abbruzzini †

Maria Gloria Passos †

Vera Lucia Pinto † (1st anniversary)

Wednesday 7:00 PM

Maria Petra Nunez (79th cumpleanos)

Thursday 7:00 AM

Sandra Vargas (birthday)

Aurelia Nevarez †

Thursday 8:30 AM

Herb DeRego (90th birthday)

Panfilo Lopez ( † birthday)

Friday 7:00 AM

The Community of St. Joachim

Friday 8:30 AM

Donovan Leblanc (1st birthday)

Angelino Montes †

Lazaro C. Arquero † ( 8 month anniversary)

Francisco Camaclang †

Milaros & Guillermo Garcia †

Saturday 8:30 AM

Denise Pahl (birthday)

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Invites you to come and have fun at our

Sunday, September 10, 2017

8:00 – 3:30PM in the Gym Great Group of Vendors & Crafters:

Park Lane Jewelry, Tupperware, Hand Crafted Crocheted Items, Household Crafts, Coffee Vendor, Religious Items

and many more vendors added daily.

Various raffle drawings donated by

those selling at the Bazaar.

All ckets $1.

A pancake breakfast will be served by our St. Joachim Altar Servers and

their parents star ng a%er the 7:30AM mass. Breakfast plate $5

Lunch will also be served beginning at Noon (12:00PM). All items for lunch

are $1 each.

Come Support Our Church

Enjoy some good food & get some Great Deals