Fax: 650-588-1481 Phone: 650-588-1455 www.stveronicassf.com

434 Alida Way South San Francisco, CA 94080

Established 1951

St. Veronica Church

October 23, 2016

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

“Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and

the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” - Luke 18:14

Parish Office email: churchoffice@stveronicassf.com

St. Veronica Parish Parish Office Hours

Monday to Friday

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Closed for lunch from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

(unless otherwise posted)

Phone: 650-588-1455 Fax: 650-588-1481

Parish Staff

Fr. Charles Puthota, Ph.D., Pastor

Fr. Nicasio G. Paloso Jr., Parochial Vicar

Fr. Don Sharp, S.J., Weekend Assistant

Fr. Al Grosskopf, S.J., Weekend Assistant

Deacon Roger Beaudry

Deacon Joseph LeBlanc

Patricia Spiteri, Parish Secretary, Ext. 301

Oneyda Perez, Parish Bookkeeper, Ext. 304

Karen Guglielmoni, Faith Formation &

Wedding Coordinator, Ext.305

Christopher Lindstrom, Music Director, Ext. 308

Jim Rodriguez, Custodian/Maintenance

St. Veronica Catholic School www.saintveronicassf.org

Phone: 650-589-3909

Mrs. Kathryn Lucchesi Mrs. Geninne Ruegg

Principal Vice Principal

SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION

Sacrament of Baptism

Baptisms are to be arranged through the Parish Office.

Baptisms in English are typically held on the

1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month.

Baptisms in Spanish are typically held on the

2nd Saturday of each month.

Baptismal Preparation classes are held once a month.

Call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA)

Call the Parish Office to register 650-588-1455 Ext.309

Faith Formation: 650-588-1455 Ext. 305

Catechetical instructions (1st to 8th grades)

Confirmation Classes: 650-588-1455

Mass Intentions for the Week of October 23, 2016

Sun 10/23 7:00 † Steve Murphy

8:30 † Ramona Black

10:00 † Emanuel & Josephine Borg

11:30 † Eufracio Baluyot

6:00 † Cesar Herrara

Mon 10/24 6:30 † Renato Bautista

8:30 Jovita Robles

Tue 10/25 6:30 † Frank Stahlnecker

8:30 † Martha Puthota

Wed 10/26 6:30 † Brian Stahlnecker

8:30 † Manrique Lingad Thu 10/27 6:30 † Deceased Legion Members

8:30 † Everisto Legaspi

Fri 10/28 6:30 † Segundo & Florenda Suerte

8:30 † Patrick Kerrigan

Sat 10/29 8:30 † Steven Dub

5:00 † Jacqueline & Ramon Estella

Sun 10/30 7:00 † Mary Ghiorso

8:30 † Evelyn Casagrande

10:00 † Zachariah Jacob

11:30 Mary & James Sarantopulos

6:00 † Carmen Mora

St. Veronica Parish Mission Statement

St. Veronica Church is a multicultural

community of believers who treasure

Jesus Christ at the center of their profes-

sion of faith & practice. They worship &

work together to build up a community of

family & friends according to the mind &

heart of Christ. Out of the abundance of

joy & gratitude, they live & share the

good news of faith & hope, striving to

stand up for peace & justice, to spread

love & compassion, to care for those who

are in need, and to make our nation & the

world a better place for all.

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Mass Schedule

Saturdays: 8:30 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.

Sundays: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, and 11:30 a.m.

Spanish Mass: Sundays at 6:00 p.m.

Holy Days: 6:30, 8:30 a.m., 6:30 p.m. (English)

Monday - Friday: 6:30 & 8:30 a.m.

Confessions

Saturdays: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Liturgy of the Hours

Monday - Friday: Morning Prayer at 6:00 a.m.

Eucharistic Adoration

9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday - Friday

except as posted for holidays and parish events

ON THE HORIZON

Tues., Nov. 1: All Saints Day, a Holy Day

of Obligation

Wed., Nov. 2: All Souls Day - Mass of

Remembrance at 7:00 p.m. followed by a re-

ception in the Parish Center

Sun., Nov. 6: 3rd-grade Class Mass, 10 a.m.

Sat., Nov. 19: Annual Spanish Ministry din-

ner-dance, 6:00 p.m.-midnight, benefitting

Repair My Church (contact Parish Office for

reservations)

Thank you for supporting St. Veronica Parish and its works.

Envelopes received in the First Collection:

October 1 & 2: 394

October 8 & 9: 330

October 15 & 16: 325

If you currently receive envelopes but do not use them, please

prayerfully consider including your donation in the collection basket.

Saturday 10/15/16 5:00PM 1679.00 243.00 1922.00

Sunday 10/16/16 7:00AM 970.00 170.00 1140.00

8:30AM 1288.00 259.00 1547.00

10:00AM 1479.00 195.00 1674.00

11:30AM 987.00 159.00 1146.00

Spanish Mass 6:00PM 540.00 169.00 709.00

TOTAL IN-PEW DONATIONS: $6,943.00 $1,195.00 $8,138.00

Other Contributions 444.10 n/a 444.10

Day Mass Time 1st Collection Maintenance Totals

Welcome New Parishioners!

Our parish continues to be blessed and enriched

by the presence of newly registered parishioners:

Anne Marie Jones

May St. Veronica Church become a spiritual home where your

faith and fellowship may be nourished with inspiration for you

to live a life of service and generosity toward God and others.

All Saints Day Schedule

Tuesday, November 1st, is the So-

lemnity of All Saints, and a Holy

Day of Obligation. The regular

morning Masses will be at 6:30 and

8:30 a.m. with an additional Mass

at 6:30 p.m.

From the Pastor’s Desk - A Scripture Reflection Dear Parishioners,

Two elderly women in the front pew of their

church were listening to a fiery preacher. When he

condemned the sin of stealing, they cried out:

“Amen, Brother.” When he condemned the sin of

lust, they cried out all the more: “Preach it, Rever-

end.” When he condemned the sin of lying, they

jumped to their feet screaming: “Tell it as it is,

Brother. Amen.” But when the preacher con-

demned the sin of gossip, they got very quiet. One

said to the other, “He’s quit preaching and now

he’s meddlin’.”

Self-righteousness is more common than we think.

Over 2000 years ago, Jesus addressed the parable

of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector “to those

who were convinced of their own righteousness

and despised everyone else.” There is a tendency

in us to be quite sure of our own rightness and be

smugly moralistic and intolerant of others’ actions

and beliefs. It is a false conviction that we are bet-

ter or more moral than others, something enter-

tained inside and expressed outwardly. Jesus ad-

dresses it through parables and, at times, in strong

language.

Richard Crashaw, a 17th Century English meta-

physical poet, who was also an Anglican cleric

converted to Catholicism, has a poem on this Sun-

day’s gospel:

“Two went to pray? O rather say one went to

brag, th’ other to pray:

One stands up close and treads on high, where

th’ other dares not send his eye.

One nearer to God’s altar trod, the other to the

altar’s God.”

Crashaw’s poetic interpretation captures Jesus’

contrasts in the two men’s posture and prayer. One

brags while the other prays. One takes up position

in pride while the other feels unworthy even to

raise his eyes. One gets only as far as the altar

while the other gets close to God. The parable

seeks to persuade us toward the nature of our rela-

tionship with God, with one another, in particular,

with the poor, and the practice of prayer.

The context is provided in Sirach where the poor

of the world, the weak, oppressed, orphan, and the

widow are close to God: “The prayer of the lowly

pierces the clouds.” The rich and the powerful are

on notice because with wealth and position there

is a grave danger of self-righteousness and lack of

need for God. The poor in their lowly status have

God on their side because, as the psalm says, “the

Lord hears the cry of the poor.”

Jesus the prophet par excellence continues and

fulfills the Old Testament theme of God standing

by the poor. In his words and actions, Jesus up-

holds the poor and those crushed by society, cul-

ture, and even religion. He keeps company with

sinners and tax collectors. He challenges the op-

pressive structures arrayed against the poor and

suffering. Jesus calls people to an authentic and

loving relationship with his Father and one anoth-

er as essential for the Kingdom.

Three insights stand out. One, our relationship

with God is based on grace, not on the merits of

our deeds. It is not the quantity, but the spirit in

which we live and love. Undeserved though we

are, God shares his superabundant love with us

freely and joyfully. Prayer is self-emptying before

God who alone can fulfill us. Two, our relation-

ship with one another is based not on pride but

humility, not on comparison but compassion. We

are all in the same boat of sinfulness. The Church

is a fabulously sacred place to find our identity.

As Charles Morrison has said, “The Christian

church is a society of sinners. It is the only society

in the world in which membership is based upon a

single qualification, that the candidate be unwor-

thy of membership.” Three, poverty and suffering

in the world are humongous and heartbreaking.

God in Jesus Christ is stirred up to compassion,

urging us to be his devotees in alleviating pain and

healing the planet earth.

Your friend & pastor,

Father Charles Puthota

(This scripture reflection for this Sunday’s read-

ings --- 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time --- was pub-

lished in this weekend’s SF Archdiocesan news-

paper, Catholic San Francisco)

St. Veronica Catholic School Tours

Our school tours begin at 9:00 a.m. They are

an informative session in which you can view the

classroom and ask questions regarding the pro-

grams and school community.

Please call St. Veronica Catholic School at

(650) 589-3909 to schedule a tour.

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

The Archdiocese of San Francisco

announces the following events in

conjunction with

the Jubilee Year of Mercy,

as announced by Pope Francis.

The Jubilee continues through Nov. 20

Cathedral Speaker Series: As the Jubilee Year of

Mercy concludes, the final speaker in the Cathedral

Speaker Series will be Archbishop Salvatore

Cordileone (Nov. 19); details to follow as they be-

come available.

Monthly Mercy Series Talks at Presentation Sis-

ters’ Convent, 2340 Turk Blvd., San Francisco,

2:00-4:15 p.m. Email ConrottoR@sfarch.org or

call 415-614-5535 to register for these free talks

(registration required).

Sunday, November 13 - “To Bury the Dead, to

Pray for the Living and the Dead” with Laura

Bertone, Director of Worship for the Archdio-

cese of San Francisco, and Monica Williams,

Director of Cemeteries for the Archdiocese of

San Francisco

Sunday, December 4 - “Reflections on the Year

of Mercy” with Archbishop of San Francisco

Salvatore Cordileone

Wednesday Night Bingo In Falcon Hall Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Games begin at 7:00 p.m.

Bring a friend and join in the fun!

Proceeds benefit

St. Veronica Catholic School

Catholic Charities Thanksgiving 2016

Sharing Your Thankful Spirit

Catholic Charities of San Francisco invites you to

help our neighbors in Marin, San Mateo, and San Fran-

cisco counties enjoy a memorable Thanksgiving meal.

You can provide food baskets, turkeys, or pumpkin pies

to families in need. Volunteer by helping with food prep-

aration, set-up, carving a turkey, leading activities, or

helping to clean-up after a Thanksgiving lunch or dinner.

Find out how you can participate in spreading holi-

day cheer for people in need. Contact Volunteer Manager

Diana Contreras at 415-972-1297 or visit the website

volunteer@CatholicCharitiesSF.org.

It is with great joy that we welcome into our

church and community the following

children who received the

Sacrament of Baptism at our Church

on Saturday, October 15, 2016

Hunter Cole O’Connor

Raphael Elijah Ponce

All Are Invited! St. Veronica School 4th Annual

Family Fun Run/Walk

Sat., Nov. 19th, 2016, 9:00 AM Oyster Point Marina Bay Trail, SSF

Family Price $75

Early Registration

$30 for adults/$15 for kids

After Nov. 1st

$40 for Adults/$20 for kids

Call Michelle at 415-672-1343 with any

questions or register online through

www.eventbrite.com.

Proceeds benefit St. Veronica School

Technology and Fine Arts Programs

Baptism Information

Registration forms are available from the

Pastoral Center during regular office hours,

or you may download a form from our

website at www.stveronicassf.com.

Baptisms are generally celebrated monthly

on the 1st and 3rd Saturday in English

and on various 2nd Saturdays in Spanish.

Please call the Parish Office to sign up.

Upcoming baptism dates are as follows:

November 5 & 19 (full)

December 3 & 17

January 7 & 21

Preparation classes for parents

and godparents are held on the second Tuesday of the month.

Classes are conducted in the Pastoral Center from

7:30 - 9:00 p.m. (Adults only please).

Please call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455 for

specific dates and to reserve your space for the

Baptismal Preparation Classes.

Reflecting on the Word

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fr. James V. Marchionda, OP, wrote a song -

“The Prayer of the Lowly” - that sets part of our first

reading to music: “The prayer of the lowly pierces

the clouds and does not rest till it finds God.” Alt-

hough Sirach proclaims that God knows no favor-

ites, God seems to hear the cry of the lowly - the op-

pressed, the widow, and the orphan - with sharper

ears. Pope Francis keeps reminding us about this:

“God’s heart has a special place for the poor.” We

see a picture of this in today’s Gospel parable.

It is the prayer of the tax collector, who did not

even raise his eyes to heaven, that Jesus offers as an

example of the attitude we need. He simply and

honestly prays, “O God, be merciful to me a sinner.”

His poverty freed him to name his utter need for

God. The Pharisee, on the other hand, was full of

himself, “I thank you . . . I am not like the rest . . . I

fast . . . I pay tithes.” It’s all about him: “I, I, I, I.”

The Pharisee had what my Aunt Sophia called “ ‘I’

trouble.” Even when looking heavenward, he could

see only himself.

Each of us is poor in our own way because we

are all sinners. We need God’s rich mercy to heal

us, transform us, and raise us up. Each of us has “I”

trouble from time to time. It’s all about me. How-

ever, if we can admit our need for God’s mercy, like

the tax collector, and give God the glory, like the

author of Second Timothy, our prayer can pierce the

clouds and will find rest in the God who judges just-

ly, affirms the right, and will not delay in answering

our prayers.

For Prayerful Consideration & Discussion

With whose prayer to you identify more, the tax

collector or the Pharisee? Why?

When has an awareness of your lowliness helped

you pray in ways that pierced the clouds to reach

God’s ears? - Living the Word

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“REPAIR MY CHURCH”

St. Veronica Church Building Renovation Project

Planning is underway for Phase II! Thank you for your continued generosity!

Planned Phase II Projects going out for bid:

Replace the old, piecemeal sound system in the Church with an up

-to-date wireless system, including more microphones and possibly

speakers in the vestibule

Refurbish the 10 exterior doors, including new stain and new

hardware

Replace the old protective plexiglass on all the stained glass win-

dows with new protective coverings which will not warp or “fog”

over time

Repair the broken latches on the stained glass windows

Replace the 25-year-old heating and air-conditioning (HVAC) sys-

tem, which has not been operational for some months

Install additional lighting in the pew area

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Francis heard the invitation of Jesus: “Francis, go repair my Church.”

“Yes!” said Francis. “This is what I long for with all my heart.”