Wedding Wisdom: What Mary Taught Us at Cana

by Erika Parks (Edited version)

Mary didn't need to explain the situa on or even ask Jesus to do anything; she just trusted and believed in Him. Those four, simple words were Mary's prayer, 'They have no wine.' She let Jesus know what was wrong, and then le it in His hands. When I have a problem, my prayers usually become a long session of whining, complaining, and worrying. If we live by Mary's example, she teaches us that God only needs us to put our problems in His hands and trust Him.

Mary lived her whole life following God's will.

A er Mary told Jesus about the lack of wine, He didn't tell her what He was going to, but she already knew the solu on. That's because Mary's en re life was based on doing God's will.

When Mary told the servants to do whatever Jesus tells them, she became a perfect mirror of Christ; and she remains one today. You can't look to Mary for guidance without seeing her Son; she wants nothing more than to point us back to Jesus and His will. Because of this, the more I grow in my rela onship with Mary, the more I grow in my rela onship with Jesus.

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time | January 20, 2019

800 Bel lo Street , Pismo Beach CA 93449-2310

Fr. Jacob Carazo OFM Conv., Pastoral Administrator—Ext. 10 Fr. Alphonse Van Guilder OFM Conv., Associate Pastor—Ext. 19 Fr. Allen Ramirez OFM Conv., Associate Pastor—Ext. 15 Fr. John Farao, OFM Conv., in residence (prison ministry) Michael Schacherer Administrative Assistant—Ext. 24 MASS SCHEDULE Sundays: 8:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 5:30 p.m. Sundays: 3:30 p.m. (Latin Tr identine Mass) Saturday (Sun. Oblig.): 5:30 p.m. Weekdays: 8:00 a.m. Holy Days: 8:00 a.m., 12:10 p.m., 7:00 p.m. (except Christmas)

RECONCILIATION (CONFESSIONS) Daily (except Sun.): pr ior to 8:00 a.m. Mass Saturdays: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Holy Days and Eve of: prior to Mass BAPTISM & INSTRUCTIONS By appointment only MARRIAGES 6 months in advance COMMUNION FOR SICK AND AGED Call Parish Office

St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church

Rectory Phone: (805) 773-2219 Fax: (805) 773-8617

Email: stpaulspismobeach@charter.net Website: www.stpaulspismobeach.com

SATURDAY 19 8:00AM

10:00AM

5:30PM

† Emilia Tablang

† Felicia Petsil

† Gordon Loflin

Niece, Epi

Funeral

Wife, Frances Loflin SUNDAY 20 8:00AM † Mary Dominguez Zoppel

Cadena Family

10:30AM Inten ons of Nancy De Wi Yvonne & Joe Rouleau 3:30PM LATIN MASS 5:30PM † Richard Goalin Mr. & Mrs. Jerry & Connie

Williams MONDAY 21 8:00AM † Linda Ornellas Barbara Lang

TUESDAY 22 8:00AM

Friar Nicholas Roberson Lubin Heidi Carpen er

WEDNESDAY 23 8:00AM † For the Deceased members of the Iljana & Dion Families Len, Diona & Family THURSDAY 24 8:00AM

Fred Rodic, Birthday Del & Ginger Haney

FRIDAY 25 8:00AM † LaVerne Coelho

Michael & Patricia Cox and Family

SATURDAY 26 8:00AM † Inten ons of Celine M. Souza Husband, Jeff Souza 5:30PM † Carol Brown SUNDAY 27 8:00AM

10:30AM

5:30PM

† James Bynum

†† William & Mary Ann Mauss

In thanksgiving to our miraculous Mother Mary, for all the blessings that we received and for the inten ons of Marissa Zambo (Birthday Blessings)

James Gen lcore

Carole Salce

Magdalino & Mila Zambo

Altar Servers SATURDAY 19 5:30PM Ma hew & Marshall Anderson SUNDAY 20 8:00AM Sean Pringle 10:30AM Hunter Boulais 5:30PM Lucas Conway

MASS INTENTIONS Second Sunday in Ordinary Time | January 20, 2019 Nations shall behold your vindication, and all the kings your glory. —Isaiah 62:2

Prayers for Military Members Major Chris Valine (USAF), Boatswain Mate Ashley Valine (US Coast Guard) , Lt. Col. James F. Maloney (US Army), Staff Sgt. Robert James Gassmann II (101st Airborne, US Army), Capt. Chris Mount (USMC, VMM-268), Maj. Grace Anderson (USAF).

Prayers for the Sick Armida Robb, Irene Duralde, Jack Nunes, Sandi Morrissey, Joy Gifford, Janice Shields, Jim Maloney, Stephen Bezruchka, Mel Ormonde, Jennifer Ojeda, Marilyn Biven, Larry Eskew, Bob Robison, Randy and Cecilia Thiel, Joel Rivera, Valeria & José Ramón, Do y Crow, Cynthia and Wayne Toscas, Elaine Talley, Daniel J. Hoffmann, Jr; Layla Dickson, Carolyn Hoffmann, Pa-trice Eley, Kathy Gibson, Bella Manfredi, Evan Anderson, Mag-daleno Zambo, Linda Joan Diaz, Harmony & Aiden Moore, Bar-bara Ma hias, and Sharon Boors.

***To add a loved one to either prayer list, please email your request to: stpaulspismobeach@charter.net , or call (805) 773-2219 Ext. 24 NO LATER THAN 12:00 P.M. ON TUESDAY.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

Please join us every Thursday from 1:00pm-6:45pm in the church.

EVENTS IN THE PARISH:

EVENTS OUTSIDE THE PARISH: 1. WALK FOR LIFE WEST COAST 2019: Join Fellow

Catholics and Pro-Lifers from all over the state and beyond as we stand up for the littlest among us at the 15th Annual Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco on January 26, 2019. Mass at 9:30AM, St. Mary’s Cathedral. Rally begins at 12:30PM in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza. Walk down Market St. begins 1:30PM. QUESTIONS? Visit www.walkforlifewc.com or call 415-558-1793.

2. ***St. Rose Parish, Paso Robles has reserved a bus to travel to the 2019 West Coast Walk for Life in San Francisco on Saturday, January 26, 2019. To reserve your spot on the bus or for more information, please contact Mary at 434-6076, 805-674-4131 (cell/text) or email: mcbaxstress-er@hotmail.com.

3. INSTALLATION OF BISHOP DANIEL GARCIA: Bishop Daniel Garcia will be installed as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Monterey, on Tuesday, January 29, 2018, at 2pm, at Madonna del Sasso Pro-Cathedral in Salinas, CA. Each parish in our diocese has been given only eight tickets for parish representatives. There will only be limited amount of open seating available in a special adjunct Pa-vilion on the Madonna del Sasso Parish Campus. Shuttles will be available from Cristo Rey Parish in Salinas. Parking at Madonna del Sasso is also limited.

4. ***However, the Installation Mass will be broad-cast/steamed live on our Diocese of Monterey Youtube page and regular updates about this spe-cial event will be on our web site: www.dioceseofmontery.org. You can also fol-low us on Facebook for up-dates as well.

5. MASS OF MERCY & HEALING: On Monday, January 28, 2019 @ St. Joseph’s Parish, Nipomo. Come seek God’s healing Presence as a community through the Holy Mysteries (Sacraments) available to us from the Church. We will begin at 6PM with Adora-tion and singing/praying the Chaplet of Divine Mer-cy. Then, at 6:30PM we celebrate the Mass for the people and intentions that we have written down before the service. Finally, we receive the official Blessing of the Sick with the laying on of hands by the clergy. Let us turn to the Living God and trust in His mercy and healing!

Faith Formation (K-8) The Faith Formation group meets on Wednesdays at 4:00-5:15 p.m. in the parish hall during the school year for Catholic reli-gious education classes.

The regular meeting is on the 3rd Tuesday of the month. After prayer and Mass at 10:30 a.m., the usual luncheon and business meeting will

follow in the Parish Hall. All are invited to attend and participate. NO meetings : June, July, August, December.

Rosary for Priests The Rosary for Priests is prayed on Thursday afternoons from 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in the family room in rear of church (parking lot side). “ Behind each priest, there is a demon fighting for his fall. If we have the language to criticize them, we must have twice as much to pray for them.” —Saint Therese of Liseaux

High School Youth Group Join the group in the parish hall each Sunday from 6:30-8:00 p.m. during the school year for Catholic faith study & social activities.

Choir rehearsal THERE WILL BE NO CHOIR RE-HEARSAL ON 1/23 AND 1/30! Rehearsals are Wednesdays at 7pm. Want to join? Just show up. :)

Knights of Columbus Regular Officer's Mee ng (3rd Wednesday of the month at 6:00 p.m.) Regular General Mee ng (3rd Wednesday of the month at 7:00 p.m.) Social (2nd Wednesday of the month at 6:00 p.m.)

Bible Study Friday mornings 8:30-10:30 a.m., in the Parish Hall. Scripture study focuses on individual books of the Bi-ble. "This is the cause of all evils, the not knowing the Scriptures. We go into ba le without arms, and how are we to come off safe?" (St. John Chrysostom).

Novenas The Saint Anthony Novena is prayed Tuesday mornings a er 8:00 a.m. Mass. The Mother of Perpetual Help Novena is prayed on Wednesday mornings a er 8:00 a.m. Mass.

Cenacle of Prayer/Marian Movement of Priests

Please join us on the first Thursday of the month at 8:30a.m., after 8:00a.m. Mass in the church. We are here to support and pray for the priests. Questions? Contact Lindy Loomis, at 805-773-4078.

PARISH EVENTS CONTINUED AT TOP OF NEXT COLUMN.

Coffee and Donuts will be available Sunday morning in the hall after 8am and 10:30am

Mass.

Join the Catholic Daughters of the Americas! The CDA was formed over 100 years ago and is one of the largest and oldest organizations of Catholic women in the Americas. We donate to charities, administer scholarship programs

and strive "to be helping hands where there is pain, pov-erty, sorrow or sickness." Meetings for Court #1162 take place every second Saturday of the month at Nativity of Our Lady Parish Hall in San Luis Obispo. The next meeting will take place on Saturday, January 12th at 10:00AM. Luncheon will follow. New members always welcome. Questions? Please call Rose at (805) 544-3358.

Protec ng Our Children/Safe Environ-ment

On Wednesday from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m., only au-thorized individuals and personnel who have been cleared by the Diocese may be in the parish hall (parents or guardians may bring or pick up the children in the hall). NO-BODY ELSE will be permi ed ANYWHERE in the hall, including members of the Knights of Columbus, the Altar and Rosary Soci-ety and Martha’s Ministry or anyone else. Help us keep our chil-dren safe.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1. SECOND COLLECTION NEXT WEEKEND, 1/27 for

the Church in Latin America.

2. EARN YOUR GED: An opportunity to earn the equivalent of a High School Diploma through Cuesta College. Includes FREE; Child Care, Tutoring, Online Study Tools, Practice Test Voucher and GED Vouch-er. See flyer on Church Bulletin Board for more details, or call Office of Continuing Education at 805-546-3942 in SLO, or 805-591-6273 in Paso Robles.

3. ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASS (ESL): An opportunity through the Cuesta College Arroyo Grande Campus. FREE Class and Child Care. For more info. Call 805-546-3941 or see Church Bulle-tin Board.

A VISIBLE GOD We find it difficult to convey ideas to people unless we can actually show them something, demon-strate what we mean. God, who is invisible and truly beyond hu-man understanding, apparently faces the same difficulty. People want to see, not just listen to an idea. So God gave us Jesus Christ, God made visible in the world. During these past weeks we have seen how Jesus was revealed as an infant to the shepherds and the magi, and then began his adult “public life” at his baptism by John. Today’s Gospel reading tells us of his “first sign,” providing wine for the wedding guests at Cana. Of course, even Jesus, God made visible, was not always easily understood in his own day, nor is he even now. So we have to ponder what we see: the poverty and simplicity of his birth, his humility and openness before John the Baptist, his kindness and compassion toward people in their ordinary problems, such as running short of wine at a wedding. Yet it is in coming to know Jesus that we come to know God.

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SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Monday: St. Agnes; Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Tuesday: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of

Unborn Children; World Youth Day

Wednesday: St. Vincent; St. Marianne Cope

Thursday: St. Francis de Sales

Friday: The Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle;

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ends;

Saturday: Ss. Timothy and Titus

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Heb 5:1-10; Ps 110:1-4; Mk 2:18-22 Tuesday: Heb 6:10-20; Ps 111:1-2, 4-5, 9, 10c; Mk 2:23-28, or any of a number of readings

for the Day of Prayer Wednesday: Heb 7:1-3, 15-17; Ps 110:1-4; Mk 3:1-6 Thursday: Heb 7:25 — 8:6; Ps 40:7-10, 17; Mk 3:7-12 Friday: Acts 22:3-16 or 9:1-22; Ps 117:1bc, 2; Mk 16:15-18 Saturday: 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5; Ps 47:2-3, 6-9 or Ps 96:1-3, 7-8a, 10; Mk 3:20-21 Sunday: Neh 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10; Ps 19:8-10, 15;

1 Cor 12:12-30 [12-14, 27]; Lk 1:1-4; 4:14-21

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