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OUR LADY OF LORETTO CATHOLIC CHURCH
1806 Novato Blvd., Novato, CA 94947
415-897-2171
FAX 415-897-8251
Parish Office Hours Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm
Jesus answered them,
“The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Amen, amen, I say to you,
unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
it remains just a grain of wheat;
but if it dies, it produces much fruit.
March 22, 2015
Fifth Sunday of Lent
OUR LADY OF LORETTO PARISH
“Empowered by the Spirit of God we celebrate Jesus’ presence in Prayer, Liturgy, Sacrament and Service”
Mass Intentions
March 21 to March 29
BC: Fr.Brian Costello ME: Fr. Manuel Estrada
NH: Fr. Neil Healy
Day
Time
Intentions
March 21—March 29
Saturday 3/21
9:00am
Adrian and Pierina Giannini +
5:00pm Vigil Thomas Ryan +
BC
BC
Sunday 3/22
7:30am
9:00am
10:30am
12 Noon
Maurice O’Dowd +
Rosa Staben and Marion Montes +
Sixto and Gloria Yumul +
Antonio Gurrola +
Hermila Nunez +
BC
NH
NH
BC
Monday 3/23
7:00am
9:00am
Felix Becerra +
Paul Conradi +
BC
ME
Tuesday 3/24
7:00am
9:00am
Amando Sebano +
Robert O’Brien (L)
BC
NH
Wednesday 3/25
7:00am
9:00am
Our Lady of Loretto Parishioners
Healing of Families
BC
ME
Thursday 3/26
7:00am
9:00am
Poor Souls in Purgatory
Sonja Engler (L)
BC
ME
Friday 3/27
7:00am
9:00am
Poor Souls in Purgatory
Margaret and Daniel Olbrantz ++
BC
NH
Saturday 3/28
9:00am
Mary Ann Amaral +
5:00pm Vigil Howard Pierson +
NH
ME
Sunday 3/29
8am
10am
12 Noon
NH
BC
ME
Bill Schober +
Gene Erigero +
OLL Parishioners
Priest *
May all our deceased
Parishioners rest in the
loving arms of God especially:
Rachel Adrian
Please pray for our parishioners who are sick and suffering
that they may know the embrace of Christ’s healing love.
Paulette Borg, Sue Castillo, Everett Elmquist, Niloo Fatema, Violet Ferrigno, Mary
Lou Fuette, Dustin Gorell, Thelma Graves, Fr. Tom Hamilton, Martin Keaney, Bridie
Keenan, Jim Lang, Juanita Mansfield, Betty McDonald, Mary Ellen McIntyre, Samuel
Morris, Judy Nygard, Bob Rowden, Anita Skinner, Mary Lisette Vazquez, Tim Wright
We are updating our prayer list and have removed names which have been on the list for some time. Please call the Rectory
to have someone included on the Prayer List.
Rev. Brian Costello
frbrian@ollnovato.org Ext.227
Pastor
Rev. J. Manuel Estrada
frmanuel@ollnovato.org EXT 230
Parochial Vicar
Rev. Neil Healy
In Residence (Happily Retired) EXT 233
Sr. Jeanette Lombardi osu
Pastoral Associate
EXT.226
Rev. Mr. Alejandro Madero
Deacon
EXT. 225
Patrick Reeder EXT. 234
Parish Manager
Office Staff
Mary Ann Varner EXT. 221
Erin Troy EXT. 222
Allen Shirley EXT. 236
Our Lady of Loretto School
Mrs. Kathleen Kraft, Principal
415-892-8621
Parish Religious Education
Amy Bjorklund Reeder, Dir. Grades 1-6
Kathleen Pitti
415-897-6714
Diacono Alejandro Grades 1-3
en Espanol
415-897-2171 ext 225
Annie Troy, Dir. Youth Ministry
and Confirmation
415-897-2171 ext.277
Mass Times
See separate article regarding
Lenten observances
Monday—Friday
7:00am During Lent, 9:00 am
Saturday 9:00am
5:00 pm (Vigil Mass)
Sunday 7:30am, 9am, 10:30am,
12pm Spanish Mass
Eucharistic Adoration
Every Friday
9:30am-5:00 pm
Stations of the Cross
7pm Friday During Lent
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Saturday3:00pm-4:00pm
Rosary
Monday—Thursday after
9am Mass and 5:30pm
Friday after 9am Mass and at 5pm
Sunday at 3:00pm
Baptisms
Please contact the RectoryCatechesis Required
Marriages
Please contact the Rectory at least
6 months in advance
Our Lady of Loretto
St. Vincent de Paul Society
415-497-5090
Visit us on the Web www.ollnovato.org
E-mail us:
church@ollnovato.org
THIS WEEK IN CONFIRMATION AND YOUTH MINISTRY:
Monday, 3/23: Middle School Classes will be joining in the par ish r econciliation ser vice. All students report TO THE
CHURCH AT 6:45PM.
Thursday, 3/26: The Passion of the Chr ist. 7-9pm in the OLL Library. Permission slips required.
Spring Clean Up Time is upon us! Do you have some work around your property that needs some extra hands? OLL
YOUTH MINISTRY will be sending 25 young people to this year’s Steubenville San Diego conference this Summer from July 2326. We need your help getting there and we’re willing to work for it! While we will be fundraising in the months to come, each family is responsible for contributing $500 – this works out to be about 2/3 of their total trip cost. We have already had requests from
parishioners looking to hire out yard help, set-up/clean-up for events, etc. If you have any opportunities for our teens, please contact
the youth ministry office. (annie@ollnovato.org; 897-2171 x277) Thanks! If you are interested in learning more about what our
teens will experience during this powerful weekend, please visit www.allforgodcatholic.org and click on the “Steubenville San Diego” tab.
Markyourcalendars
forOur Lady of Loretto’s 11th Annual
YouthMinistry Golf
Tournamenttobe
heldThursday, June
25th,at Indian Valley
Golf Club.Wehopeeachandeveryparishionerwillsupportthisveryspecialfund
raiserbybeingasponsor,playingaroundof
golf,purchasingaraf leticket,and/orattendingthedinnerinthechurchhallfollowingthetournament.Withyourcontinued
generoussupport,wecanprovidemuchneededfundsforYouthMinistry,amostimportantprogramfortheteensandyoung
adultsofourparish.Thankyou!
11thAnnualGolfCommittee
The North Marin Auxiliary
of St. Vincent de Paul at St.
Anthony’s presents its Annual Spring Luncheon on
Wednesday, April 22nd at
the Marin Country Club.
You can make your reservations by calling Gwen Johnson at 415-883-3055. Please bring your friends and
join us for an elegant and fun afternoon.
TODAY’S READINGS
First Reading — I will make a new covenant; I will
write my law upon their hearts (Jeremiah 31:31-34) or
Ezekiel 37:12-14.
Psalm — Create a clean heart in me, O God (Psalm 51)
or Psalm 130.
Second Reading — Christ learned obedience and became the source of eternal salvation (Hebrews 5:7-9) or
Romans 8:8-11.
Gospel — If a grain of wheat falls to the ground and
dies, it produces much fruit (John 12:20-33) or
John 11:1-45 [3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45].
OUR JOINT PARISH RECONCILLIATION
SERVICE IS TOMORROW AT
OUR LADY OF LORETTO
MONDAY MARCH 23
10:30am and 7pm
WE HOPE YOU CAN JOIN US
SAVE THE DATE
The St. Raphael and St. Isabella Conferences
of the St. Vincent de Paul Society will once again
hold their annual “BOCCE BALL TOURNAMENT
AND PICNIC” benefiting their conferences and serving the needy in our parishes. The date is Saturday,
May 2nd and the location is the San Rafael Bocce
Federation on B St. in San Rafael. Questions
call: Dean DiGiovanni @ 415 485 3855 or Joe Martino @ 415 479 8477
A fun day for the whole family!!
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
PARISH BLOOD DRIVE
MARCH 22 IN THE PARISH HALL
8am to 1 pm
BRING YOUR ID AND TRY TO
EAT BEFORE DONATING
ALL DONORS WILL BE ENTERNED TO
WIN
TWO BOTTLES OF WINE FROM BEVMO
THE NEW COVENANT
When the prophet
Jeremiah coined the term
“new covenant” he was actually doing something quite
radical. For the Jewish people, there was only one covenant, the one made between the Lord God and Israel through Moses at
Mount Sinai. For Jeremiah to suggest that God
would somehow supersede the covenant with a
new one would have sounded audacious to Jewish ears. But in this way he is a predecessor of
Jesus who, in the Gospel of John, is continually
portrayed as superseding the past, establishing
the reign of God in a new way. And in today’s
Gospel passage, Jesus the “new covenant”
speaks the language of his “new commandment”
of love when he tells of the dying grain of wheat,
and of our own need to die to self in order to be
raised with Christ. As Lent ends and we prepare
to enter into Holy Week, the dying grain of
wheat serves as an excellent symbol of the kind
of dying and self-sacrifice to which disciples are
called, a symbol of that new covenant written
deep within our hearts.
FATHER’S LETTER WILL RETURN NEXT WEEK
ARE YOU A REGISTERED PARISHIONER?
IF NOT, CALL THE RECTORY TO BE INCLUDED
IN OUR PARISH MAILINGS AND TO RECEIVE THE
WEEKLY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO NEWSPAPER
FROM THE ARCHDIOCESE.
FROM THE DESK OF THE PAROCHIAL VICAR
Dear Friends,
In his Lenten message for 2015, Pope Francis asks us to “make our hearts firm” (Jas
5:8) and to be “merciful, attentive and generous.” Embrace his call to mercy by reaching out
to those in need. Be attentive to the Lenten call to prayer; be generous with your time and
treasure. “Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart “which is
firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to
the globalization of indifference.” Pope Francis says in his Lenten message.
During Lent, the Church asks us to surrender ourselves to prayer and to the reading of
Scripture, to fasting and to giving alms. The fasting that all do together on Fridays is but a
sign of the daily Lenten discipline of individuals and households: fasting from certain foods,
but also fasting from other things and activities. Likewise, the giving of alms is some effort to
share this world equally – not only through the distribution of money, but through the sharing
of our time and talents.
Have a good week!
Father Manuel
Monday through Friday of Lent:
Masses are at 7am and 9am
Fridays of Lent (except Good Friday):
Soup and Salad Supper in the
Hall at 6pm
Bilingual Stations of the Cross
in the Church at 7pm
During the Fridays of Lent, we
abstain from meat
HOLY WEEK AND EASTER
SIGN-UP SHEETS FOR LECTORS,
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS AND
ALTAR SERVERS ARE
AVAILABLE IN THE SACRISTY.
MUCH HELP IS NEEDED!
SIGN UP TODAY! REMEMBER! NEXT WEEKEND IS PALM SUNDAY. PALMS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED AFTER ALL MASSES BEGINNING AT THE 5PM
SATURDAY VIGIL MASS MARCH 28th
MASSES SUNDAY MARCH 29TH AT 8AM—10AM and 12 NOON IN SPANISH
This Week at OLL
Sun.
Mon.
Tue.
Wed.
Esta semana en OLL
22 Marzo —29 Marzo
March 22— March 29
The Fifth Sunday of Lent
SECOND COLLECTION FOR SVDP
Our Mother of Perpetual Help—Chapel—6pm
Al-Anon—Convent – 7:15pm
Our Lady’s Prayer Group—Church—7:30pm
Thurs. Choir Practice– Choir Room—6:30pm
Fri.
Eucharistic Adoration—Chapel—9:30am—5pm
Soup, Salad and Stations
6pm—Parish Hall and Church
Sat.
Cenacle—Chapel—9:30am
PALM SUNDAY
Sun.
Domingo: Quinto Domingo de Cuaresma
SEGUNDA COLECCIÓN SVDP
Lunes:
Coro de JPC—Cuarto de Coro—7pm
Martes: Helping Hands Grupo de Oración por
la Iglesia-1pm
JPC Discipulados—Capilla del
Convento –7pm
Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo
Socorro-Chapel-6pm
Al-Anon-Convento - 7:15 pm
Miércoles: Nuestra Señora Grupo de OraciónCapilla– 7:30pm
Ensavo del Coro-Espanol—Iglesia—7pm
Jueves:
Ensayo del Coro-Iglesia-6:30pm
Viernes:
HOLY WEEK AND EASTER
SCHEDULE
Lenten Reconciliation Service
At Our Lady of Loretto Church
Monday, March 23rd
10:30 am
7:00 pm
March 29th
Palm Sunday
Saturday, March 28th, 5pm (Vigil)
8:00 am and 10:00 am Masses in English
12 Noon in Spanish
Blessing of Palms & Distribution after all the Masses
April 2nd
Holy Thursday
7:00pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Bi-lingual)
Altar of Repose / Adoration
In Parish Hall until 10 pm
April 3rd
Good Friday
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm—School Passion Play
1:00pm—Choir: “Whispers of the Passion”
2:00pm - Veneration of the Cross/Communion Service
5:00 pm—Live Stations in Spanish
7:00 pm Good Friday Service in Spanish
April 4th
Holy Saturday
No Confessions on Holy Saturday
8:00pm - Easter Vigil (Bi-lingual)
April 5th
Easter Sunday
Masses in English - 8:00 am, 10:00 am, and 10:15 am in
Hall
Spanish Mass 12 Noon
Adoración Eucarística-Capilla 9:30am a 5pm
JPC—Bibliotecca—7pm
Sabado:
Cenáculo-Chapel-9: 30am
Domingo:
DOMINGO DE RAMOS
SEMANA SANTA Y PASCUA SIGN-UP
HOJAS DE LECTORES,
MINISTROS DE LA EUCARISTÍA Y
MONAGUILLOS SON
DISPONIBLE EN LA SACRISTÍA.
AYUDA MUCHO SE NECESITA!
INSCRÍBASE HOY MISMO!
CABALLEROS DE COLÓN
DONACION DE SANGRE DE LA PARROQUIA
22 de marzo en el Salón Parroquial
08 a.m.-1 p.m.
Traer su identificación y tratar de
COMER DE ANTEMANO
TODOS LOS DONANTES SE ENTERNED PARA GANAR
DOS BOTELLAS DE VINO DE BevMo
LLAME A BOB ABELING PARA UNA CITA
415-328-5789
El Norte Marin Auxiliar de San Vicente de Paul en
San Antonio de presenta su primavera Almuerzo
Anual miércoles 22 de abril en el Club de Campo
Marin. Usted puede hacer sus reservaciones llamando Gwen Johnson al 415-883-3055. Por favor, traiga a sus amigos y únete a nosotros para una tarde
elegante y divertido.
PADRES CARTA VOLVERÁ LA PRÓXIMA SEMANA
¿ES USTED UN PARROQUIANO REGISTRADO?
SI NO, llame a la rectoría A INCLUIR EN NUESTROS CORREOS PARROQUIA Y RECIBIR EL
PERIÓDICO SEMANAL CATÓLICA SAN FRANCISCO
DE LA ARQUIDIÓCESIS.
DESDE EL ESCRITORIO DEL VICARIO PARROQUIAL
Queridos amigos,
En su mensaje para la Cuaresma de 2015, Francisco nos invita a "hacer de nuestra firma corazones" (Santiago 5: 8) y ser ". Misericordioso, atento y generoso" Abrace su llamado a la misericordia a
través del acercamiento a los necesitados. Esté atento a la llamada a la oración de Cuaresma; ser generoso
con su tiempo y tesoro. "A través de la oración, la caridad y la humildad ante Dios, la gente recibe un corazón", que es firme y misericordioso, atento y generoso, un corazón que no es cerrado, indiferente o presa a
la globalización de la indiferencia. "Francisco dice en su mensaje para la Cuaresma.
Durante la Cuaresma, la Iglesia nos invita a entregarnos a la oración ya la lectura de la Escritura, al ayuno y
la limosna. El ayuno que todos lo hacen juntos los viernes es más que un signo de la disciplina de Cuaresma
diaria de las personas y los hogares: el ayuno de ciertos alimentos, sino también el ayuno de otras cosas y
actividades. Del mismo modo, la limosna es un poco de esfuerzo para compartir este mundo por igual - no
sólo a través de la distribución del dinero, sino a través de la puesta en común de nuestro tiempo y talentos.
Tener una buena semana!
Padre Manuel
Sopa, Ensalada y Estaciones de la Cruz
El viernes de la Cuaresma que estamos teniendo una
sopa y ensalada "simple" de la cena en el Salón a las 6
pm seguida de las estaciones bilingües de la Cruz en
la Iglesia a las 7pm. Esto le brindará la oportunidad
para que nos unamos como parroquia en el ayuno, la
oración y la limosna durante la Cuaresma.
NUESTRA PARROQUIA EL RECONCILLIATION
SERVICIO ES MAÑANA A
NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LORETTO
Lunes 23 de marzo
10:30 am y las 19:00
ESPERAMOS QUE USTED PUEDA ÚNETE A NOSOTROS