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Holy Spirit Catholic Church Ministering to the people
in Rincon Valley and beyond 1244 St Francis Rd. Santa Rosa, CA 95409
Parish Office & Rectory: (707) 539-4495 FAX (707) 539-3343 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.holyspirit-sr.org
Pastoral Staff:
Fr Ron Serban, Pastor, Ext. 21
Deacon John Storm, 479-5424, [email protected]
Kathy Stoddard, Office Manager, Ext. 10
Megan O’ Neill, Director of Faith Formation (Grades 1-12),
Ext. 12, [email protected]
Andy Darrow, Liturgical Music, 695-3611
St Vincent de Paul Society, 537-7835
Walt Dillaway, Men’s Club, 539-1031
Gloria McKay, Women’s Club, 527-5906
Patty Edson, Holy Communion Visitation, 538-3208
Diane Bowman, Prayer Chain 539-9035
For other Ministerial Staff: Please phone the office (707) 539-4495
Mass Schedule: Ash Wednesday 9 am & 6:30 pm
Stations of the Cross, Fridays 6:30 pm
Saturday Vigil: 5 pm
Sunday: 7:30 & 10:15 am & 5:30 pm
Liturgy of the Word for Children: Sundays 10:15 am.
Weekdays: Mondays-Thursday & First Friday & First Saturdays 9 am.
Sacrament of Reconciliation: Every Thursday and First Saturdays following 9 am Mass
For other Sacraments:
Please call the Parish Office
6 months in advance for Marriage
3 months in advance for Baptism
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT
February 13 - 14, 2016
......from your Pastor’s Desk
“Where have all the Flowers gone?”
At the end of my homily at the Ash Wednesday
masses I wished you all a ‘Happy Lent’. If I said that to
someone 40 or 50 years ago – it might seem like an incongruous salutation, an impossible task. I hope that my admonition to approach our Lenten observances or prayer, fasting and almsgiving with a spirit of joy and gratitude, makes it truly achievable and fruitful.
I did not coin the phrase. I remember, about 20 years ago, how I felt when someone first said it to me. I smiled and thought, “Hmmm…is that even possible?” I discovered it was. It all has to do with how we approach the Holy Season.
Happy Lent. I suppose this greeting finds its origin in Blessing of the Ashes in the Sacramentary; which said; “…each year you give us this joyful season when we prepare to celebrate the Pascal Mystery with mind and hearts renewed.” However, the new translation found in the Roman Missal which we have been using for a few years says:”… as they follow the Lenten Observances, they may be worthy to come with minds and hearts made pure to celebrate the Paschal Mystery of your Son”. Aha! This makes things much clearer. It stresses that Lent is principally a time of purification. It is not the season that is joyful but the fact that it leads us to purify our lives. The joy that is referred to is more serenity than pleasure. It is the serenity that comes from having kept a good Lent, having borne the hardships of penance and fasting and having put quite a bit of extra effort into our prayer lives.
We need to be attentive to the fact that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass has various moods and specific emphases for each liturgical season. This is why music is at a minimum and there are no flowers or plants in church. This is why we refrain from singing the joyous ‘Alleluia’ or the Gloria until Easter. This is why we wear the solemn color purple. This is why we have devotions like the Holy Hour and Stations of the Cross offered for your edification. This is why we pray, fast,
and give alms during this time more than other Seasons of the Church Year. The idea is to express the very different emotions of sorrow, praise and profound devotion – in harmony.
Lent is a penitential season, but that does not make it a miserable season. There is joy in it but it is a sober joy, a restrained serenity that comes from being faithful to the traditional Lenten penances which are undertaken to unite ourselves to the sufferings of Jesus. It is a sorrowful (repentant) season but our sadness is moderated by the knowledge that Christ has won the victory and paid the price of our redemption. As we used to say; ‘Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.’ Never forget that. Truly, the best…is yet…to come. May this Holy Season serve to prepare you for that day. Keep Lent well.
OUR ALMSGIVING FOCUS: I mentioned that our Lenten observes are threefold. Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving. Almsgiving comes from the sacrifices we make when we deny ourselves certain pleasures (going out to eat, going to the movies, or other forms of recreation) or even usual things (eating and living more moderately) and putting the money that would have gone to that – to a charity or special need or cause to benefit those in most need. This year it is feeding (literally) local babies in greatest need.
Please make a special place in your home for your almsgiving offering and say a prayer for the little ones each time you place in it your offering. Please take one baby-bottle per household. The idea is that you return it at the end of Lent with a check or cash amount of the money you have raised by the sacrifices you are making. Again, 100% of your donation will go directly to help the babies and children to whom Catholic Charities ministers. Please note: The bottom of the bottle screws off for your convenience.
Father Ron
We still are trying to get one copy of our Lenten Devotional ‘Little-Black Book’ into each house. After this weekend I will put any extras out for the taking.
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MASS INTENTIONS —February 13 - 21:
Sat 13 5:00 +Leocadia Serban
Sun 14 7:30 For the People of the Parish
10:15 +Kathleen Ann Krempely 5:30 Intentions of the Ballotti Family
Mon 15 9:00 +Frank Lyman
Tue 16 9:00 +Theresa McElroy
Wed 17 9:00 +Arvo Kannisto Thurs 18 9:00 Intentions of Katie Neal
Fri 19 9:00 Communion Service Sat 20 5.00 +Pat Deering
Sun 21 7:30 +Dr. William B. Serban
10:15 For the People of the Parish
5:30 +Ethan S. Polis
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK AND THOSE WHO
NEED OUR PRAYERS: The intentions of the Holy
Spirit Prayer Chain, Tony Chu, Tristan Humble, Mauro DeTrizio, Kelly McGuire, Feliciano Llosa, Helen Hubbard, Carol Posehn, Pat LaRussa, and Loretta May.
COLLECTION LAST WEEK: $7,474.33
SECOND COLLECTION LAST WEEK: $1,986.00
Building Maintenance Fund
SECOND COLLECTION THIS WEEK: Church in Central and Eastern Europe - This Collection makes funds available for grants that provide pastoral care, affordable shelter, and a cultural and spiritual education for people who live in areas formerly under Soviet control. The Dioceses of the U.S. take up this Collection as a way for Catholics in the United States to stand in solidarity with those who face the enormous task of literally rebuilding the Church in Central and Eastern Europe. _____________________________________________
YEAR OF MERCY – FROM POPE FRANCIS: This is important! To know how to forgive one another in families because we all make mistakes, all of us! Sometimes we do things which are not good and which harm others. It is important to have the courage to ask for forgiveness when we are at fault in the family.
END OF THE YEAR TAX STATEMENTS
To request your statement for 20145, please
call, email or drop a note to the office:
707-539-4495 #10
YOUTH MINISTRIES INFORMATION
FAITH FORMATION CLASSES GRADES 1-6:
NO Faith Formation classes this week due to
President’s Day Holiday.
Our final Circle of Grace program will be held on
Sunday, February 21st, 9-10am. This year each
classroom will experience Circle of Grace at their
grade level. Parents you are welcome to join us for
class on February 17th and 21st.
JUNIOR HIGH YOUTH MINISTRY “We are Church!”
This Monday, February 15th, we will NOT gather. Enjoy your President’s Day Holiday.
Altaration: The Mystery of the Mass Revealed will continue on February 22nd.
CONFIRMATION PREPARATION 2ND YEAR
Confirmation Preparation Classes will continue this
Tuesday evening, February 16th, from 7-8:30 pm in
the Holy Family Room. Our “Chosen” topic will be
“Why Do I Have to Go to Mass?! (Encountering Jesus
in the Eucharist).
HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH MINISTRY
All high school teens are invited to join us on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday evenings from 7-8:30 pm in the Holy Family Room. We will be gathering this Wednesday, February 17th and continue our study Altaration “The Mystery of the Mass Revealed. For more information or to register for the study, call Megan O’Neill at 539-4495 Ext. 12 or email [email protected].
TAIZE SERVICE
HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH
AT 7 PM, FOR ALL AGES
Taize prayer is a center prayer, a form of meditation involving the repetition of Christian phrases. The experience nourishes us on a deep non-verbal level. Andy Darrow, our Liturgical Music Director, will lead the service; Andy has been leading this prayer for over 20 years.
In the words of the Lord,
“Can you not stay and pray with me, for
one hour?”
SCHEDULE FOR NEXT WEEK – SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT
Readers Eucharistic Ministers Greeters Server
Holy Spirit Women’s Club
“SOUP, SALAD, SOURDOUGH AND SOCKS”
Wednesday, February 24th
6:30 pm - $10
Please bring socks for
Catholic Charities
Men’s, Women’s & Children’s!
Make your reservation by calling
Nora Ward (707) 539-9344 or
Lynne DeCota (707) 981-8619
NEWS FROM OUTSIDE THE PARISH
GET ON THE BUS a statewide program which
unites children with their Mothers and Fathers
in prison to celebrate Mother’s Day and
Father’s Day. It is sponsored by Center for
Restorative Justice Works and relies on
volunteers. We need you as a volunteer on
Saturday, February 20 from 10 to noon at
Resurrection Church or you can participate by
supporting the program financially. Send your
checks to Get On The Bus, 6400 Laurel Canyon
Blvd, North Hollywood CA 91606. Designate
your check for Bus U. Call Joan at 707-968-
9179.
LENTEN RETREAT on the Jubilee Year of Mercy
with the Reverend John Boetcher at St. Sebastian Church, Sebastopol on MARCH 1, 2 & 3, 6:30-8:00 pm.
SISTER ANTONIA SPIRITUAL ENRICHMENT
CENTER will present a Lenten Series, Year of
Mercy. Together we will explore the call to be
the “Face of the Father’s Mercy”. It will be held
at St. Rose Parish Hall, Annex Room, Feb. 29
and March 7 and 14, 7 to 8:30 pm, donation of
$10 per presentation or $25.00 for the series.
UPCOMING EVENTS!
1. NO Jr. High Youth, Mon., Feb. 15, 7-8:30 pm, in the Holy Family Room 2. Confirmation, Tues., Feb. 16, 7-8:30 pm, in the Holy Family Room
3. 6th Grade Wednesday Class, Feb. 17, 3:30 pm, in the Rectory
4. High School Youth, Wed., Feb. 17, 7-8:30 pm, in the Holy Family Room 5. RCIA, Wed., Feb. 17, 7-8:30 pm, in the Rectory
6. Bible Study, Thurs., Feb. 18, 7-8:30 pm, in the Rectory (NO Bible Study, Thurs., Feb. 25)
7. STATIONS OF THE CROSS, every Friday of Lent, 6:30 pm, in the Church
8. Women’s Club “Soup, Salad, Sourdough & Socks”, Wed., Feb. 24, 6:30 pm, in the Hall
9. TAIZE SERVICE, Thurs., Feb. 25, 7-8 pm, in the Church
10.
Sat, Feb. 20 5 pm
K. Schmoll, B. O’Shell D. Boito, M. Breuer, C. Cucley M. DeMeo
Sun., Feb. 21 7:30 am
L. Kubo, E. McCarthy B. Antoniuc, E. McDonnell C. Dowcewicz-Hordyk
K. Castro
Sun., Feb. 21 10:15 am
M. Cunningham, L. Johnson Dn. Storm, S. Johnson, Mi. Davis, V. Higdon, T. Pimentel, R. Vidalin, P. Zack
K. & N. Hicks
C. Beurtheret
Sun., Feb. 21 5:30 pm
Available for Volunteers Available for Volunteers
Children’s Liturgy of the Word –
Homebound Week of February 17: M. Davis, P. Edson, E. Manfredi Friends House: Jeanne Huffman