MAY 11, 2008 - PENTECOST SUNDAY

TODAY

We like a tranquil and orderly life.  People rank peace and quiet high among their priorities.  Ask them, “What do you most dislike?”  They will answer, “Surprises”.  A head teacher once responded to a government demand for a mission statement on behalf of his religious education department.  What did he hope to achieve?  “More people in heaven,” he wrote, “and a quiet school.”

Today, we are invited to contemplate the glorious unpredictability of God’s massive, large-scale, powerful, effortless, sovereign, decisive unpredictability.  God is the master of the impossible.  We sometimes talk as if we, the Catholic Church, were locked into decline.  Well, the Lord of the Church is capable, with one hand tied behind his back, so to speak, of swamping us with vocations and conversions.  Capable, too, of filling us with peace and forgiveness, as we saw in the Gospel.

All these things are in the repertoire of the Holy Spirit.  We say in the Creed, “We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life.”  Do we?  Is this really true?  Because if only we will place unlimited faith and trust in the Spirit, there is no limit to what may happen.

NEXT SUNDAY

First Reading  Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9

On Mount Sinai Moses encounters God as a God of tenderness and compassion.

Second Reading  - 2 Corinthians 13:11-13

St. Paul urges the Christians at Corinth to live in the love, grace and fellowship of God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Gospel  - John 3:16-18

Jesus was sent by the Father out of love, not to condemn the world but to save it.

THIS WEEK                                                        

MONDAY, May 12, 2008

   7:30 pm- Legion of Mary - Serra Room

TUESDAY, May 13, 2008

  10:00 am—LCA—Serra Room

  11:00 am-Exercise—Collins Center

  12:30 pm- Bingo For Fun - Collins Center

  7:00 pm—YMI—Serra Room

WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2008

  10:00 am-Sewing Group—Green Room

  7:30 pm—ICF—Green Room

THURSDAY, May 15, 2008

  11:00 am—Bridge—Collins Center

  12:00 pm—Bridge Lessons for Beginners—Collins Center

  1:00 pm-Crochet & Knitting—Collins Center

  3:30 pm—Chinese Language—Serra Room

  7:00 pm—Meeting—Collins Center

  7:00 pm—Choir—Green Room

FRIDAY, May 16, 2008

  11:00 am—Exercise—Collins Center

  12:30 pm—Movie—”It’s a Gift” - Collins Center

  1:20 pm—Homebound Mass—Lower Church

  3:30 pm—Mandarin Classes—Serra Room

  6:30 pm—Mothers Club Installation Mass

  7:00 pm—Chinese Club—Collins Center

SATURDAY, May 17, 2008

  9:00 am –R.C.I.A. Inquiry—Serra Room

  10:00 am—Prayer Group—Green Room

  10:00 am - Centering Prayer - Convent

  4:30 pm—Vespers & Benediction—Our Lady’s Chapel

SUNDAY, May 18, 2008

  11:30 am—Mass of Thanksgiving

9:30 A.M. FAMILY MASS                                       

This Sunday the Youth Group will be providing greeters and gift bearers.  Following the Mass the Youth Group will host donuts and coffee in the school auditorium.  Next Sunday there will be no donuts and coffee after the 9:30 am Mass.

COLLINS CENTER NEWS

1. Join us Friday, May 16th at 12:30 for the movie “It’s A Gift” starring W.C. Fields.

Join us for the River Rock Casino trip on June 9th.  Call Diane at (415) 566-2690 for more information.

2. ANNOUCEMENT OF A NEW COLLINS CENTER GROUP

  We wish to thank Vicky Potthoff, Pat Barsetti and Peggy O’Brien who would like to bring together parishioners whose children attended St. Cecilia School to reunite in a social setting. The first meeting is THURSDAY, May 15th at 7:00 pm in the Collins Center. Please call Vicky (333-8687); Pat (566-5985) or Peggy (731-7814) if you are planning to attend.

ST. CECILIA’S FESTIVAL SILENT AUCTION COMMITTEE

The Silent Auction Committee is looking for new members!  The Festival takes place in October.  The first Silent Auction meeting is Wednesday, May 14th, at 7:00 pm in the Green Room at St. Cecilia’s.  For questions, contact Caitlin C. Stein at (415) 531-4315, or Kerry Dolan Button at (415) 681-8406.

JOB OPENING, ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

St. Cecilia is looking for a part-time (20-25 hours per week, school term) Athletic Director to oversee all aspects of the Girls’ Athletic Sports Program.  To apply or get more information, please contact Chris Pollino at (415) 566-2733.

HOW DID YOU HEAR THE GOOD NEWS TODAY?

Next week’s collection supports the Bishops’ CATHOLIC COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGN (CCC).  For more than 25 years, the CCC has been spreading the Gospel message locally and nationally on radio, television, in print, and on the Internet.  It is only through donations from Catholic parishioners that the work of the CCC is possible.  Please contribute generously to the Campaign in the upcoming parish collection.  Half of the collection will remain in our archdiocese to fund local Catholic communication efforts.  Visit www.CatholicCommunicationCampaign.org for national program information.  The Catholic Communication Campaign—it’s  how the Good News gets around.

WE WISH YOU A BLESSED AND HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

40

  In Sacred Scripture, the number forty has special significance.  In the days of Noah, after it rained for forty days and nights, there was a new beginning on the earth; in the days of Moses, the Israelites wandered in the Sinai for forty years before they entered the Promised Land; in the days of Jesus, after his baptism he spent forty days in the desert before beginning his public ministry, and in the Acts of the Apostles,  it says that forty days after his death Jesus showed himself to the disciples in ways that proved beyond doubt that he was alive. In each case the number forty seems to describe a period of purification, preparation for something new.  Now that I have come to my fortieth anniversary as a priest, for all that has been I say thanks, for all that is yet to be, with the help of God’s grace, I say Yes!

ALL PARISHIONERS

ARE INVITED TO

MASS OF THANKSGIVING

NEXT SUNDAY—MAY 18TH

11:30 AM

A RECEPTION IN THE

DUROCHER PAVILION

WILL FOLLOW THE MASS.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco

Joyfully announces the

Episcopal Ordination of

THE MOST REVEREND WILLIAM J. JUSTICE

as

Titular Bishop of Matara di Proconsulare

and Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco

THE MOST REVEREND GEORGE H. NIEDERAUER

Archbishop of San Francisco

Principal Consecrator

THE MOST REVEREND RANDOLPH R. CALVO

Bishop of Reno

and

THE MOST REVEREND JOHN C. WESTER

Bishop of Salt Lake City

Co-Consecrators

in the Presence of

HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL ROGER MAHONY

Archbishop of Los Angeles

Cathedral of Saint Mary

Of the Assumption

 1111 Gough Street at Geary Boulevard

San Francisco, California

Wednesday, the twenty-eighth of May

two thousand eight

at two o’clock in the afternoon

RECEPTION FOLLOWING THE CEREMONY IN PATRONS’ HALL

SUNDAY MINISTRIES FOR NEXT WEEK

5:00 p.m. Saturday Mass-MUSIC: Frances Peterson

Presider –  Msgr. Harriman—Lectors—Pat Barsetti, Betty McCunniff; Euch. Min.—Margot Moor, Betty McCunniff, Pat Barsetti, Carolyn Coe, Garrett Scanlan; Altar Servers –Molly McFadden, Nichole McManus, Aidan Downes, Cole Schmitz

7:30 a.m. Mass

Presider  - Fr. Landi —Lectors—Jan Warmerdam, Cecilia Brown; Euch. Min.–Paul Hupf, Sr. Julie O’Neill, Evelyn Hollins, Sharon Hupf, MariGrace Cohen, Doris Grimley, Pat Barsotti;  Altar Servers—Alexandra Cava, Cassie Naughton, John Paul Naughton, Conor Hurley

9:30 a.m. Mass - MUSIC: Holy Spirit Music Ministry

Presider – Msgr. Harriman- Lectors– Family Mass-; Euch. Min– George Ibarcena, Rita Mazzei, Paula Granucci, Denise Little, Donna Bruno, Kathleen Fitzgerald, Kathy O’Connor;  Altar Servers –Kate Johnson, Bridget Quinlan, Kevin Buckley, Jack Porter

11:30 a.m. Mass - MUSIC: Adult Choir

 Presider  - Msgr. Harriman—Lectors—; Euch. Min.–; Altar Servers— Judith Castillo, Michael Caltagirone, Sean Quesada, Matt Quesada