Weekly Bulletin
Today is February 5, 2012 — 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time
TODAY
We each have
our own demons to taunt and tempt us. We are not possessed, nor do we
need exorcism. But each day we face our
own weaknesses, and struggle lest they take possession of us
completely. Probably the greatest temptation of all is disillusionment,
even despair, when we are confronted with suffering in our own life or
in the life of one we love. It cannot be rationalized or explained
away; it cannot be settled like a bad debt; it remains and challenges
whatever faith we have in God and God’s goodness.
Jesus experienced personal suffering and pain in his passion and cried
out, asking why God had abandoned him. There will be times when we will
feel that God has abandoned us and we will cry out. Yet, strangely,
these are the times when we can know the love of God most of all: in
our weakness and our fragility.
NEXT SUNDAY
First Reading - Leviticus 13:
1-2. 44-46
God gives a code that ritually deals with disease, which in turn keeps
open the eventual return of the suffering person to the community.
Second Reading - 1 Corinthians
10:31-11:1
Paul urges the Corinthians to be imitators of Christ, especially
through their gracious behavior towards others.
Gospel - Mark 1:40-45
Jesus heals a leper and restores him to the fullness of membership in
Israel’s worshipping community.
THIS WEEK
MONDAY, February 6, 2012
10:00 am - Pedro - Collins Center
1:00
pm - Tai Chi - Collins Center
3:00
pm - Current Events - Collins Center
1:30
pm - Art Class - Green Room
7:30
pm - Legion of Mary - Legion Room
7:30
pm - YLI - Green Room
TUESDAY, February 7, 2012
9:00
am - French - Collins Center
9:30
am - Knights Meeting - Collins Center
10:00 am - Italian - Collins
Center
11:00 am - Exercise - Collins
Center
12:30 pm - Bingo - Collins Center
7:30
pm - YMI - Green Room
WEDNESDAY, February 8, 2012
10:00 am - Sewing
Group—Green Room
7:00
pm - Forward in Faith - Lower Church
THURSDAY, February 9, 2012
10:00 am - Intermediate Bridge Lessons - Collins Center
10:00 am - Bridge Games - Collins
Center
10:45 am - Beginning Bridge -
Collins Center
1:00
pm - Crochet & Knitting - Collins Center
2:00
pm - AFF with Mr. Hupf - Collins Center
FRIDAY, February 10, 2012
8:30
am - Yoga - Collins Center
11:00 am - Exercise - Collins
Center
12:30 pm - Movie “Three
Coins in the Fountain” - Collins Center
SATURDAY, February 11, 2012
4:30
pm—Vespers & Benediction—Our Lady’s Chapel
9:30 A.M. FAMILY MASS
This Sunday
the CHINESE CLUB will be providing greeters and gift bearers. The
CHINESE CLUB will host the donuts and coffee in the school auditorium
after the Mass. Next Sunday will be hosted by the Youth Group.
COLLINS CENTER NEWS
Valentine’s Day and Birthday Celebration: Do you plan on
attending our next monthly luncheon on Monday, February 13, at 12:00 pm? The cost is $15.00 per person.
Please call the Center at 566-2690 if you have any questions or
just send your name, phone number, and payment in an envelope marked
“Attention Collins Center” to the rectory on or before
tomorrow Monday, February 6.
We also send a Happy Birthday wish to all parishioners with February
birthdays who will not be able to attend the luncheon and a Happy
Valentine’s Day to all.
Tai Chi: Classes starting
Monday, February 6th at 1:00 pm.
Movie: “Three Coins
in the Fountain” stars Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Rossanbo
Brazzi, Louis Jordan. In this romantic comedy, three American roommates
working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins
into Rome’s magnificent Trevi Fountain.
INTERESTED IN BECOMING CATHOLIC?
RCIA Inquiry
is starting on Saturday, March 3. Are you interested in becoming a
Catholic? Do you know someone who is? Come and see… We
invite all who are interested in learning more about the Catholic faith
to join our Inquiry group. This group meets on Saturday
mornings. The Inquiry group is open to adults interested in
finding out more about baptism and reception into the Roman Catholic
Church, as well as to adult Catholics seeking the sacraments of
Confirmation and First Holy Communion. Come and bring a friend! For
more information, please call the rectory at 664.8481.
ST. CECILIA CHINESE CLUB CHINESE NEW YEAR DINNER
Please join us to celebrate the YEAR OF THE DRAGON
Date: Saturday, February 25, 2012; Time: 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Place: St. Cecilia Lower Church; Cost: $30 Adults, $15 Children (age
6-12), Free for children under 5 years old.
Enjoy a delicious catered dinner by KC Catering, raffle prizes and
entertainment! Please stop by the rectory for a flyer and to reserve
your seat. A guest list will be held at the door. Checks should be made
payable to our Treasurer, Cynthia Stengel.
FESTIVAL WAS AN INCREDIBLE SUCCESS
The parish
festival is always a success in many ways. The months of preparation is
a tribute to the many individuals and families of our school and parish
who do a labor of love in planning all the activities: the silent
auction, raffle tickets, food and games. A thank you to the many
parishioners who buy raffle tickets and silent auction items to help to
make our festival so successful. The team of adults and junior high
students who set up the auditorium, Lower Church, Green Room and
Pavilion and put everything away after the weekend is an indispensible
element of the festival spirit. The hundreds of parishioners and school
families and alumni who fill our festival with sounds of fun and
laughter as they come together as one is inspirational. It is always
the leadership team who are the driving force behind everything that
happens. Monsignor Harriman and Sister Marilyn wish to congratulate the
chairpersons: Michelle Mikovich, Donita Murphy, and Grace Monares for
making this past year’s festival an incredible success. Thanks
also to Michelle O’Driscoll who coordinated the Silent Auction.
The total net profit was $98,580.
THANK YOU SANTO NINO GROUP
Monsignor
Harriman would like to express his gratitude on behalf to the parish to
the Santo Nino Group. This group has donation $5,000 to the parish.
Congratulations to the outgoing leadership group of Gina Arenas, Jake
& Emma Celedonio, Bubu Enriquez, Bill & Nancy Medley, and Remy
Retuta and the incoming leadership group of Joem & Glenda Aganden,
Nelly Carino, Jake & Emma Celedonio,
Aida Barrios, Flor Echon, and Mariwel Peralta.
ATTENTION all girls in
grades 3rd - 8th interested in playing basketball for the parish
school, try-outs are listed as follows:
Sun 2/5:8th
grade 1:30 - 2:30pm (final cut);7th
grade 3pm - 4pm (final cut); 5th grade
4:30 - 5:30 (1st try-outs)
Sun 2/12:3rd grade
1:30 - 3pm (final cut);4th grade 3:30 - 5pm (final cut);
5th grade 5:30 - 6:30 (final cut)
6th grade 7pm - 8:30 (final cut) * Schedule subject to change *
FINAL PILGRIM REFLECTIONS
T’fillat Ha-Derech (Traveler’s prayer
translated from Hebrew): May it be your will, Lord our God and God of our
ancestors, to guide us in peace, to sustain us in peace, and to bring
us home in peace. Save us from every enemy along the way, and from all
calamities that threaten the world. Bless the work of our hands. May we
find grace, love, and compassion in Your sight and the sight of all who
see us. Hear our supplication, for you listen to prayer and
supplication. Praised are you, Lord who hears our prayer.
I received this prayer in a leather journal, a going away
gift from a friend, before my study abroad semester. I have since
carried the journal, and the prayer, on other trips to Europe, on
shorter trips across the US, and on quiet walks around the city. I carried this prayer once more on our
pilgrimage to Rome and read and reread it several times during our
journey, the messages of peace resonating more with me during our week
together than on other journeys.
This trip came suddenly to me. I was presented with the opportunity to
join Monsignor, Sean, and the seniors just a couple of weeks before
their pilgrimage and said yes without really understanding what lay
before me. Aside from superficial preparations, I did not have a chance
to prepare and felt anxious as I packed, left my family, and joined
what, for the next week, would become my family.
The pilgrimage came suddenly to me as well. As I had not had time
before I left to read up on the sites we would visit, and as it had
been so long since I had studied ancient civilizations, I was taken by
surprise many times, most notably at the tombs of Saints Peter and
Paul. I was not aware they were buried beneath the churches we were
visiting until I stood, in awe, like a little kid, at the tops of the
staircases that led to their tombs. When those realizations sank in,
the true purpose and nature of our pilgrimage also sank in, and I began
to approach each site we visited differently. I brought to the
forefront of my mind and prayers the people in my life who had lived as
examples of faith for me.
As suddenly as my journey began, the peace I found while on pilgrimage
came to me slowly, in small ways, little reminders, throughout the
week. A fellow pilgrim gave me a bracelet with the word,
“pace,” Italian for “peace.” Hidden behind a
tree, on the wall of a building, a street sign read, “Via della
Pace,” or “Path of Peace.” I saw inscribed on a grate
in the floor of a baptistery, the words, “Christus, pax
nostra,” or “Christ, our peace.” While we did not
encounter any enemies or calamities from which we needed rescuing, in
each church we visited, with each candle I lit, I left the burdens I
had been carrying, that had guarded my heart, and I let those little
reminders guide me towards the grace, love, and compassion I was
seeking.
Our visit to Assisi was the culmination of my pilgrimage. After
establishing himself as an outsider, different from his friends and
family, I am sure peace must have been difficult for Francis to find. I
can’t imagine that he knew as he walked the streets of Assisi,
the peace and goodness his acts of disobedience would one day bring me,
and so many others. The churches we visited were beautiful, but more
striking were the tiny winding streets and the views of open fields
from the castle wall. Walking the paths he walked, with a group of
pilgrims who welcomed me so quickly and so warmly, I felt sustained in
peace and even more connected to his and St. Clare’s greeting to
each other, “Pace e bene,” or “Peace and all
good.” (Stephanie Santy)
Rome Experience: I
have had the privilege of being a part of the St. Cecilia Pilgrimage
for the last 4 years. As I traveled with our group this year, I was
struck by something. I had the realization that no matter how many
times I have been to these ancient and Holy places, my experience is
never the same. The people invited to journey together are what make
the pilgrimage what it is, and this year was like seeing Rome again for
the first time.
Obviously, after being in Rome as often as I have, I know my way around
the Metro and bus system, I can navigate the streets (if I’m
paying attention), and I know certain restaurants that I like. My
experience this year taught me something different.
Two things stood out to me over the course of the week.
Firstly, as we celebrated Mass together in the crypt under St.
Peter’s Basilica, we heard Priests from Africa singing. I
couldn’t understand a word, but it gave me goose bumps. It was a
“call and response” style hymn and seemed to me to be so
full of faith it was uplifting. Secondly,
at one of the Basilicas in Assisi, Santa Maria Deli Angeli (Our Lady of
The Angels), I was the last person in our group to leave. I
didn’t notice anyone leave, I just sat there thinking and talking
to God in my head. When it came to the point that I couldn’t
think anymore, I rose, made the Sign of The Cross, and exited. I was so
comfortable there gazing at the Porziuncola (St Francis’ own
Chapel), and comfortable with the people I was with that I got truly
lost in my conversation with God.
Like the Christian pilgrimage on the Road to Emmaus, when Jesus
came up and walked beside the two believers, I felt that God was truly
with us on our Pilgrimage together. (Seán
Farrell)
Sunday Ministries for Next Week
5:00 p.m. Saturday Mass - MUSIC: Frances
Peterson - Presider - Fr.
Landi—Lectors—Dorcas
Bender, Regan Stuart - Killion; Euch. Min.– Dorcas
Bender, Josephine Chan, Garrett Scanlan, Mary Chien, Carolyn Coe; Altar
Servers - Kendra Harvey, Claudia Cheng, Coleman McGrath, Franco Mercado
9:30 a.m. Mass - MUSIC: Cecilia
Cardenas-
11:30 a.m. Mass - MUSIC: Adult Choir -Presider -
Fr. Landi—Lectors—Marlies
Bruning, Steve Lau; Euch. Min.–
Marlies Bruning, Mary Mangan, Kathy Erigero, Mary Peterson, Lynne
Lanctot; Altar Servers- Alex Perez, Louis Novicki, Marco Bonacini,
Colin Flaherty
Mass Intentions For The Week
Monday, February 6, 2012
7:00 - Mary McNally, Special
Intention
9:00 -
Jessie Zmuda
5:30 – Jimmy Flannigan
Tuesday, February 7,
2012
7:00 - Jim Connors
9:00 -
Donald Darling
5:30 – Marcelina Paras Ysip
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
7:00 - Denis & Hanna
Culloty
9:00 -
Mr. O’Connor
5:30 – Ralph Cesari
Thursday, February 9, 2012
7:00 - Sing Cheuen Wan
9:00 -
Margaret & Frank Lynch
5:30 – Vincent J. “Diff” Diffley, Jr.
Friday, February 10, 2012
7:00 - Jeremiah & Kitty
Ryan
9:00 -
Daniel Walsh
5:30 – James & John
O’Neill
Saturday, February 11, 2012
7:00 - Elizabeth Mary Devlin
9:00 -
Bernice McGreevy
5:00 – Annie & Bridie Daly
