Today: In the parable of the weeds among the wheat the church, meaning you and me, is being cautioned to practice patience and tolerance with those whom we are just aching to con-demn. All of us are in fact created good but with proclivities to our own peculiar sins. None of us are wheat without God’s help, and the improper rush to create a pure church, exclud-ing those who do not sin the same way we do, or who do not think like us, is bound to fail. We must patiently allow God to work in us as we prepare for the end of the age.

Mass Intentions: 5:00 PM Cathy Gilligan 4:00 PM, 9:00 AM & 11:00 AM Stephan Brown

Upcoming Dates:

July 20th Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary TimeJuly 22nd St. Colman’s Salad LuncheonJuly 24th Monte Rio Variety ShowJuly 27th Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary TimeAugust 3rd Eighteenth Sunday in Ordi nary Time Our Lady of Good Counsel Ft. Bragg Fund RaiserAugust 6th St. Elizabeth’s Guild 1pm at St. Hubert’s HallAugust 10th Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary TimeAugust 15 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Holy Day of ObligationAugust 26th St. Colman’s GuildAugust 31st St.Vincent de Paul Second CollectionSept. 20 & 21 Jazz & Blues Fest Parking ProjectOct. 18th Catholic Men’s Conference

Please Pray For our brothers and sisters:

Who Are Ill or in Pain: Who Are Ill or in Pain: Maureen Shaw, John Hoffman, Margie Heil, Helen-Lee Bryant, Mary Tamargo, Mary Coverdale, George Shorb, Art Mc Nulty, Lotte Cabral, Margaret Nelson, Don Covello, Louis Baros, Tom and Elaine Joyce, Gerald Dodson, Dale Guinn, Bill Rodgers, Gary Wood, Mary Helen Carpenter, Helen Mur-phy, Joanne Rodgers, John Beamon, Frank Lambert, Phil Mohardt, Jeanie Torr, Larry Gomme, Sara Bardoni, Cheryl Cabral, Jean Wright, Ila Donovan, Abbey Moreno, Alicia Bicoy, Maureen O’Rourke, Valerie Jones, Mel Jones, Andy Jones, Frank Danzart II, Robert Navarro, Mike Wilson, Erling Ribbing, Janice Miller, Shirley Segar, Johnny

Albritton.Who Have Been Called to Eternal Life: Cathy Gilligan.

Readings For The Week Of JULY 13Sunday: Is 55:10-11 / Ps 65:10-14 / Rom 8:18-23 / Mt 13:1-23Monday: Is 1:10-17 / Ps 50:8-9,16-17, 21,23 / Mt 10:34–11:1Tuesday: Is 7:1-9 / Ps 48:2-8 / Mt 11:20-24Wednesday: Is 10:5-7,13-16 / Ps 94:5-10,14-15 / Mt 11:25-27Thursday: Is 26:7-9,12,16-19 / Ps 102:13-21 / Mt 11:28-30Friday: Is 38:1-8,21-22 / (Ps) Is 38:10-12,16 / Mt 12:1-8Saturday: Mi 2:1-5 / Ps 10:1-4,7-8,14 / Mt 12:14-21Sunday Next: Wis 12:13,16-19 / Ps 86:5-6,9-10,15- 16 / Rom 8:26-27 / Mt 13:24-43

OFFERINGS:July 12 & 13St. Elizabeth’s $1,642St. Catherine’s $1,037St. Colman’s $ 379Total for the week $3,058Thank you for your generosity

SECRETARY FOR THE DAY:This is your opportunity to become Sec-

retary for a Day. We are setting up a monthly schedule for office help. Can you help us one day a

month? Any Tuesday through Friday from 9 to 12. Con-tact Gail at gailculv@sonic.net or phone 869-9602.

a little humor

A group of friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competition wasunfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him.

So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to “persuade” the friars to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he’d be back if they didn’t close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that only Hugh can prevent florist friars.

Sunday, July 20th 16th Sunday in ordinary Time t

Santa Rosa Diocesan Conference:Please Save the Date for our Santa Rosa Congress, Saturday, October 4, 2014; located at Cardinal Newman High School, Santa Rosa. Look soon for registration to open. For informa-tion and updates contact the Diocesan Dept. of Rel. Edu-cation (707)566-3366 or dre@srdiocese.org. Or check the Diocesan Web Site www.santarosacatholic.org

Help Catholic Charities Family Support Center:Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa provides services to challenge poverty on many fronts. One such service is the Family Support Center (FSC). The FSC provides a comprehensive shelter program that serves up to 138 homeless people daily. Multiple services are directed to move clients towards self-sufficiency, but meanwhile, the need for basic necessities continues. The center is in need of personal hygiene items. Diapers and shampoo are always in short supply. Next time there is a buy one, get one free offer, consider donating the second bottle of shampoo, or an extra pack of diapers. There are white baskets to collect the items in the atriums of St. Elizabeth’s and St. Catherine’s. Donations will be picked up and delivered twice monthly to Family Support Center. If you are unable to take your donations to the church, you can arrange for your donations to be picked up. Call Tonya @ 869-0395.

ST.VINCE

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benefitSaturday, September 27, 2014

6 pm to 10 pm Friedman Center4676 Mayette Avenue, Santa RosaRequest for auction items:

Vacation RentalsTickets for Sporting Events, Concerts, or other Events, Gift Certificates for Local

RestaurantsWine Cases or MagnumsArt, Jewelry, or Antiques

Private Chef In-Home Dinners

svdpharvestforhumanity@gmail.com or (707) 586-8121�

The 103rd Annual Monte Rio Variety Show will be held on July 24th, 2014 at the Monte Rio Amphitheater. We have a beautiful Fender 60th Anniversary Classic Player Stra-tocaster Guitar for our raffle this year, donated again by a member of the Bohemian Club. You can find the mail-in ”Will-call Reservation by Mail form” for your use at our website: www.monterioshow.org.

The barbeque begins at 4:30pm next to the Monte Rio Amphitheater. Chicken or Ribs dinner will be served and veggie Burgers will also be available as a meat alternative. Hot dogs, baked goods, beer, and wine, will also be offered for sale near show time. For more information you can also call Michele at 707-486-1739.

Beyond our little corner of the world:

Speaking at the Mexican Foreign Relations Secretariat on July 14, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, repeated a recent call of bishops in five countries for Catholics and society at large to lend a helping hand for the thousands of young migrants traveling through Mexi-co and often arriving unaccompanied in the United States. “Given these migratory facts, we urgently need to over-come primitive misgivings and again propose common strategies at the regional and world levels that include all sectors of society,” Cardinal Parolin said in a speech attended by clergy and the foreign ministers of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

The plight of the child migrants has the full attention of Pope Francis, who sent a message in advance of the forum, jointly sponsored by Mexico and the Vatican. “I wish to also call attention to the tens of thousands of children that emigrate alone, unaccompanied to escape violence and poverty,” Pope Francis said in the message read by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, papal nuncio to Mexico. “This is the category of migrants from Central America and Mexico itself that cross the United States’ border under extreme conditions and pursuing a hope that, for the majority, will be in vain.

“This humanitarian emergency requires, as a first urgent measure, these children be welcomed and protected,” Pope Francis continued. “Many people forced to emigrate suffer, and often, die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to separate from their families and, unfortunately, continue to be the subject of racist and xenophobic attitudes,” the pope said.

Cardinal Parolin said “it is evident that the phenomenon of migration cannot be resolved only with legislative measures or adopting public policies, however good, and much less only with law enforcement and security forces. The solution of the migration problem goes through an in-depth cultural and social conversion that permits passage from the ‘cultural of closure’ to a ‘culture of reception and meeting.’”

“In Mexico, in Central America, in Guatemala, in Hon-duras, in El Salvador, and in the United States, migration has a child’s face, and it obliges us to reflect more deeply and in short time frames,” said Mexican Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena.

http://americamagazine.org/issue/vatican-calls-international-ac-tion-us-border-crisis

All proceeds from the show and barbecue go to benefit St. Catherine’s Church, the Monte Rio School Foundation, and the Monte Rio Fire Services Foundation. Note: We are very grateful to Michele McDonald and all the volunteers who work so hard to make the Monte Rio Variety Show such a fantastic entertainment for the community.

“Let us do the things that make for peace and the building up of one another”

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Pastor’s desk

This morning I have an important question to ask: “When were ‘the good old days?’” What I mean is, exactly what year, or what decade, or what century are we talking about? If you are 9, maybe it was a time when you didn’t have to get out of bed early for school. If you are 79, maybe it was a time when you still had reason to get out of bed early for anything!

It seems like it’s just in our nature to want to look back and reminisce about how much better things were in days gone by. In this regard, a wise man had this to say: “Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.” So this morning, perhaps, the more important question is, “Are we living in the good old days – right here and right now?” And if not, why not?

In today’s Gospel Lesson, Jesus says that the “Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is the biggest shrub of all and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and shelter in its branches” (Mt. 13:31-32). And then in the next verse, He says, “The Kingdom of God is like the yeast which a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour, till it was leavened all through” (Mt. 13:33).

The tiny mustard seed doesn’t just grow into a giant mustard seed. It becomes something new. A qualitative change takes place. The yeast doesn’t just grow into a bigger batch of yeast. When mixed through with flour, it becomes something new. A qualitative change takes place. Here and now, in this worship experi-ence, as we recall the past we are in fact invoking the future: the Coming Kingdom. Here and now, in this sense, we are a people ahead of our time. Here and now we are anticipat-ing the day when, like the mustard seed, all things will be made new -- when “every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.” Here and now we are making ready for the time when the whole world will be joined together in the beloved community -- the Kingdom of Love.

The nostalgia we often feel for times past partially stems from a conviction that human misery is the special ingredient of our own time. We long for some golden age out of the past, but closer inspection of the “good old days” tends to lessen their glamour. Commenting on the human tendency to romanti-cize remote times, the Irish writer, Sean O’ Faolain once said, “Don’t look back on the good old days; the good old days are now.”

“All things new in Christ” is not just a mindless alternative to a mindless present. It is not mindless addiction to achievement or progress. It is hope realized. It is justice satisfied. It is truth triumphant. It is love fulfilled. The Kingdom of Heaven is at

hand. Through an attitude of openness to the limitless possi-bilities of God’s creative genius, “all things new in Christ” can be yours. Learn to expect the unexpected from God, and all things New in Christ will be yours. Indeed, the good old days are now!

Peace and Blessings!Fr. Luis

OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL FUND RAISER

For 60 years, Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish in Fort Bragg, California has hosted a fun day filled with love, friendship and great food! We grill and smoke 700 orders of delicious marinated chicken, Mexican style rice and beans, green salad, garlic bread and dessert. Full orders (1/2 chicken) is only $14 and half-orders (1/4 chicken) is only $8. For the adults, we have a fun wine wheel; tasty margaritas and local beer from the North Coast Brewery in Fort Bragg. For the kids- we have a full carnival- like atmosphere with a 24 foot tall rock wall to climb; a Giant slide (35 ft!) a wipe-out-style Big Baller;

jump houses and a chuggy train to crawl through. We have face painters, egg-shells to crack on mom

and dad’s head! So, please join us for our only fund raiser of the entire year! You will enjoy seeing all your friends and family gathered in good Catholic fun! God bless!

North Coast Catholic

The July edition of the North Coast Catholic, in its new format, is available at the back of the

church. Get to know the newly ordained priest for the Santa Rosa Diocese in this issue. Please take

one home and share with your family. You can also read this month and previous month’s issues at www.santarosacatholic.org.

ST ELIZABETH’S GUILD

St. Elizabeth’s Guild earns from four to five thousand dollars annually from two rummage sales held in June and October. We would like to thank the hard working volunteers and Guild members who help. Funds are used for the support of the church, St. Hubert’s Hall and the community. The sales provide gently used clothing at an affordable price for the local community. Small furniture, household items and working electronics are also popular items. If you have items to donate, please call Jan Brown or Joe Torres at 604-7386 and make an appt. to unlock the Hall basement and store your items. St. Elizabeth’s Guild meetings are at 1:00 PM on the first Wednesday of the month in St. Hubert’s Hall. We invite you to come to a meeting and hope you will consider joining the Guild!

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