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The Sunday Rosaries of May
are led by the
Societa del Santo Rosario
10:00 AM
May 10th, 2015
Sixth Sunday of Easter, Mother’s Day
Our Lady of the Rosary Mission Statement
Rectory
1659 Columbia Street
Pastoral Center Parish Office
1629 Columbia St.
(619) 234-4820 ~ FAX (619) 234-3559 ~ www.olrsd.org
1668 State Street; San Diego, California 92101
Italian National Catholic Parish
Our Lady of the Rosary
Church Hall
1654 State Street
We, the Parish of Our Lady of the Rosary, are a pilgrim church. Under the
mantle of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we grow as a people of God following Jesus,
celebrating the Eucharist, living apostolic service, continuing faith formation
and Marian devotions. We strive to bring the joy of the gospel and imitate Jesus
through compassion, mercy and love, especially for the poor and marginalized. We seek to be faithful stewards providing a heart and home for all. Our Lady of the Rosary
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We welcome all visitors to our celebration.
While Holy Communion may only be received by
prepared Catholics, our non-Catholic guests are
welcome to receive a special blessing from the priest
during distribution. Simply cross your arms on your
chest as you approach the priest.
Masses of the Week:
May 10th to 17th, 2015
Saturday, May 9:
5:30 p.m. Angie Giacalone †
Julio & Lynn Guidi
This Sunday, May 10: Sixth Sunday of Easter
7:30 a.m. Nilsa Calabria †
Barbara Calabria
9:00 a.m. Parishioners, Benefactors & Friends
10:30 a.m. Matilda Vattuone †
Carolann & children
12 noon Sara Sabatini Bruno †
her children
4:00 p.m. Lickona Family
Grimm Family
Monday:
7:30 a.m. Mario Sanfilippo †
Kathy & Joe Russo & Family
12 noon Caterina Zizzo †
Josie & Mario D'Amato
Tuesday:
7:30 a.m. Family Intentions
Joseph & MaryAnn Tarantino
12 noon Perpetual Membership
Wednesday:
7:30 a.m. Catherine Ruth Grobner Biedron † Jeanette Alessio Way
12 noon Guillen Family
Thursday:
7:30 a.m. Angie Giacalone †
Frank & Suzanne LoCoco
12 noon Mike Fiorentino †
Joanna & Lee Caudill
Friday:
7:30 a.m. Steven Pesany †
Robert Hewitt
12 noon Paul & Agnes Micaeline
Mari, Jon & Family
Saturday:
7:30 a.m. Harold Rose & Madison Grace Spoljaric Michael & Mary Ford
12 noon Vincenzo & Martha Giarratano † Giovanni & Lani LoCoco
5:30 p.m. (Vigil) Caterina Zizzo †
Nina & Sergio Gonzales
Next Sunday, May 17: Ascension of the Lord
7:30 a.m. Parishioners, Benefactors & Friends
9:00 a.m. Umberto & Adriana Assenti †
Assenti & Sardo Families
10:30 a.m. Gaetano Carini †
Anna Sanfilippo
12 noon In honor of St. Anthony
St. Anthony Prayer Group
Please remember that our daily Mass Calendar fills rapidly.
Presently the wait is eight to ten months in advance.
If you hope to have a mass celebrated on a special date,
look ahead and call early.
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FIRST HOLY COMMUNION
At a special 10:00 AM Mass yesterday,
Saturday, May 9th, our Religious
Education students received their First
Holy Communion. Our thanks to the
students who have worked so hard
to prepare, their parents who have
encouraged and worked with them at
home, and their teacher Antoinette
Cotton, who is retiring after 30 Years of
instructing the First Holy Communion
students here at Our Lady of the Rosary.
Please remember these students and their
families and pray for God’s continued
guidance and abundance as they grow in
faith by receiving the Eucharist.
Estevan Alvarez
Alyssa Anning
Emily Balajadia
Jackson Barnes
Maya Bell
Francesco Crivello
Joseph Horton
Vito Ingrande
Samantha Johnson
Giulia Rossi
Mia Torres
Dillon Sgalio
Megan Sgalio
Matias Udrys
Sofia Udrys
Faith Formation Corner
• Please register your child for 20152016 by May 31st.
• Remember to return your
“Missionary Childhood Boxes”
• Closing Children Mass is today,
Sunday, May 10th at 9:00 AM
May 3rd’s Collections
Weekly Goal = $11,000
Masses$6,335
Mailed In$790
Online$2,657.50
Total$9,782.50
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Pastor’s Corner
Do we really love the way our Lord loved? He
loved the way the Father loved Him. And that love is
perfect, eternal, immutable. . . get all the superlatives
on love and that is the love with which the Father
loved His son, Jesus our Lord, and the way Jesus has
loved us. We say, “But that is God. Mine is only a
human love.” The beloved apostle, John says: “God
is Love” (1 John 4:16). No wonder God’s love for us
is that perfect; it is His nature.
The thinking on love today is so muddled up. Boy
meets girl, look into each other’s eyes, then wonder
what hit them. The attraction so the saying goes is
“love at first sight”. If I can take possession of the
world, I’ll lay it at your feet, my love.” The girl rises
to Cloud 9. So they marry on Cloud 9. After a month,
the cloud evaporates; they find their feet are stuck
to the ground – the wife faces the thousand and one
household worries; the husband finds her irritable and
there he is all run down after a day’s hard work. What
hit them on first instance, and where is that now? Was
it love that hit them?
In his Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus insists on love:
“Remain in My love.” How? “You will remain in
My love if you keep My commandments, even as I
have kept My Father’s commandments and remain
in His love.” The most forgotten word nowadays:
Commandment: We have forgotten there are
commandments of God. But the Lord reminds us:
“This is My commandment: Love one another as I
have loved you . . . You are my friends if you do what
I command you . . .” For Christians, love is not an
option; it is a command.
Love one another? Does that mean saying “I
love you” all the time or in a much more modern
twang, “Hi, luv ya.” No Our Lord spells it all out:
“Keep My commandments” which means no
strange other ‘gods’ in our life because He alone in
the Lord; no irreverence of God’s name, mind you;
no unholy disrespect of father or mother or elders;
no taking the life of anyone including our own; no
adultery, remember, no stealing; no lies against one’s
fellowmen; no stealing of another’s wife much less of
another’s property, or money in your charge whether
you are in government or nongovernment office. Why
these are all negatives. Is God a negative God who
enunciates in a negative way? God is very positive
about those negatives; He cannot be negative because
that would be an imperfection. But why don’t we
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want the commandments to be in the negative “don’t,
don’t, don’t”? Why? Because we do not want to be
reminded of what we cannot do which we have been
doing. That puts us into a moral hara-kiri. We want it
positive like ‘keep your own wife’. At least that is in
the future tense. Somehow it places the other woman
under cover and you are saved from a guilt complex.
But that is what Jesus says – “Love one another” and
that simply means we do not (in the negative again)
do any of the above. Underscore the negatives. Only
the first three are our duties to God directly and the
seven are our duties to our neighbors. Jesus said it is
serving God and loving God if we fulfill the seven.
And we don’t say we love God if we are remiss on
those seven duties towards our neighbor.
Jesus can sound very unromantic, indeed. Love
in its stark reality. True love indeed is not as easy as
instant attraction and wondering on Cloud 9 “what
hit me”. It is an honest-to-goodness following of the
Lord in the love between Father and Son by fulfilling
the first commandments of the law: “you shall love
the Lord your God . . . and your neighbor as yourself”
(Luke 19:27). And for that, Jesus promises: “All this
I tell you that My joy may be yours and your joy
may be complete.” Take it from Jesus. When love is
perfect, sacrifice is joy.
Mother’s Day Cards
If you wish to offer a Mother’s
Day Spiritual Bouquet for your
Mother, living or deceased, see
Fr. Albino, Fr. Joe or
Fr. Louie after Mass.
Gregorian Chant Latin Mass
Today at 4:00 PM. Mass will be in Latin with
Schola and Congregational singing. Hymnals/
missals provided with Latin-English pages.
Baptism Class
The next Baptism class will be this Thursday, May
14th at 6:30 PM in the St. Gianna Room of the
Pastoral Center. Parents wishing to have their
child baptized and confirmed adults who have been
asked to be a godparent must attend this program,
which is regularly offered by all the parishes.
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Background of the Liturgy
The word “catholic” means “universal.” The Church
is intended for all people of all places, of all ethnic
backgrounds, and of all ages. The Church (and this
includes the local parish) must not be the Church of the
Rich or of the Poor. It must not be primarily for the young
or for the old.
In every way, our gospel message and our
celebration of the mysteries must seek to transcend all
accidental differences of the people of God.
Our first reading reflects the division between Jew
and Gentile. Observant Jews at the time of Jesus could
not enter homes of Gentiles, and they could not eat with
them. Jesus came as Redeemer of all mankind. No longer
were there to be divisions of Jew and Gentiles. But it was
a struggle to put to an end all the traditional divisions.
In today’s reading, Peter, at first, would not eat with
Gentiles. He is given a vision of all foods and sees that all
have been made clean. He goes to the home of Cornelius.
Cornelius kneels before him, and Peter raises him up and
says that we are all human beings.
The Holy Spirit comes upon the Gentiles. (This incident
is called “Pentecost of the Gentiles.”) The Gentiles are
baptized and nothing further is imposed upon them
except the urging of the gospel.
The second reading gives that urging: God is love.
Those who abide in love abide in God. All have life
because of God who loved the world so much that he sent
his Son to save all. If anyone says he loves God, then he
must love all those that God has called to redemption.
The gospel is taken from the Last Supper sermon
of Jesus in the gospel according to John. This is a
fitting conclusion to the mystagogy of Easter. It is the “new
commandment” which sums up all Christian morality. We
are called to love others as Christ loves us.
The standard for previous moral codes was based on
self: Love neighbor as self. But now we are called to love
others as Christ has loved us. This transcends the Golden
Rule and all other moral imperatives.
If we ever wonder about our relationship to others —
to those who differ from us and to those who are not of
“our kind” or our culture or our ethnic heritage, here is the
answer: Love as Christ loves.
If we are truly Christian — and truly united with
Christ — we must overcome all hatreds and jealousies and
prejudice and division. Our moral imperative is always to
seek unity, since we all belong to Christ.
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Faith & Family Night
At Petco Park
Saturday, May 16th At
5:40pm Vs Nationals
The Padres invite you
to join hundreds of other
churches from around
Southern California for Padres
Faith & Family Night on Saturday, May 16th
at 5:40pm. This event has been designed
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provide your church with a great night of fun,
fellowship and worship!
Your game ticket includes: Padres vs.
Nationals game, Post - Game Q & A and
testimony with Padres players, and a POSTGAME CONCERT featuring San Diego
County’s very own Christian Artist, PHIL
WICKHAM!
Churches receive our greatest savings,
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Our Lady’s
Living Rosary Devotion
In case you missed the
opportunity to sign up for “This
Living Rosary” daily decade
devotion, you can still do so by
contacting us by phone, email or
P.O. Box, and we will be happy
to send you your 20 month schedule along with
all the information about this beautiful simple
devotion. For those of you who have already
signed up and are praying your daily decade,
we thank you, and encourage you to continue
to strengthen the family of “This Living
Rosary“ by your heartfelt prayers. Thank you
one and all. God Love You!!!
Frank & Trudy Bonack
P.O. Box 785
Three Lakes, WI. 54562
(715) 477-2255 Home
(715) 891-2382 Cell
E-mail ourladyslivingrosary@yahoo.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ualr-oz8_g
www.thelivingrosaryapostolate.com
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What Is the Feast of the Ascension?
Next Sunday we celebrate the Feast of the Ascension. What
we are “feasting” is the fact that Jesus has gone up to heaven
(ascended) to be with the Father. It isn’t that we are celebrating
Jesus going away!
First, we are feasting because Jesus has been glorified and his
divinity revealed in an amazing way: The disciples watched him
being taken up into heaven, where he took his rightful seat at the
right hand of the Father.
The Great Commission
Second, we are feasting because Jesus needed to go up to heaven
so that he could send us the Holy Spirit. He said, “very truly I tell you, it is for your good that
I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send
him to you” (John 16.2). The Advocate is a name for the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit
is called to our side as a helper, much like when a lawyer advocates our case before a judge.
So, St. John says, “if anyone does sin, we have an Advocate with the Father” (1 John 2:1). The
Holy Spirit is also called the Comforter, because he brings consolation and healing.
The last instruction Jesus gave to his disciples before his Ascension was this: “Go into the
whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). That command is
called the Great Commission and it is meant not just for those who witnessed the Ascension
but for all Christians in all times. Through our Baptism and Confirmation, we are empowered
by the Holy Spirit, our Advocate, to go out into the whole world proclaiming Christ. Jesus
promised: “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my
witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8).
Help with Living the Great Commission
If you know your faith well, but the thought
of actually proclaiming Christ is intimidating,
here are some helpful tools:
If you feel like you need to know your faith better before you can proclaim it, please come
by Our Lady’s Gifts so we can make specific recommendations for you.
The Rosary Ministry meets every 2nd and 4th Monday from 1:30-3:30.
The next meeting is tomorrow, May 11.
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Congratulations to Our Lady of the Rosary
Council 16175’s newest 4th Degree Knights!
John Boyce
Mitch Meredith
Ronald Sanchez
Fr. Joseph Tabigue
Fr. Albino Vecina
Baptisms ~ The following children have been joyfully welcomed into the family of God:
Gabriel Victor Garcia, son of Rafael & Michelle Christian Monroy Garcia, Jr.
Santino Xavier Grimaldi, son of John Alexander & Briana Schaefer Grimaldi
Kira Lani Austria Johns, daughter of Justin Erickson Johns & Loren Austria
God love & bless them always.
Marriage Banns ~ The following couples have exchanged a promise to marry in Christ:
Bradley Kelly & Sarah Marijana
Ralph Hajnrych & Elena Roma
Rest in Peace ~ Kindly pray for the repose of the souls of Mary Busalacchi, Barbara Shrader & Italo
Vattuone, who were called to their eternal rewards. Please remember them and their loved ones in your prayers.
May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
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Our Lady of the Rosary
Mass Schedule
Daily (Monday - Saturday): 7:30 am - 12 Noon
Saturday Vigil: 5:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30, 12:00
(Noon Mass in Italian on 1st Sunday of the Month)
Holy Days: 7:30 am, 12:00 Noon, 7:00 pm
2nd Sunday, Gregorian Chant Latin Mass: 4:00 pm
Devotions
Sacred Heart: 1st Friday at 7:30 am
Blessed Mother: 1st Saturday at 7:30 am
Mother of Perpetual Help: Tuesday at 7:30 pm
Goretti Mass & Devotions: 1st Friday at 6:30 pm
St. Padre Pio: 1st Monday of the month at 6:30 pm
Sacraments
Baptism ~ Given to registered parishioners. Parents &
Godparents must attend a BAPTISM CLASS. Instruction
given on the 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the Month, 6:30 - 8:00
PM. Baptisms scheduled on the 1st Sunday of the Month.
Register Online.
Reconciliation (Confession) ~ Saturdays from 4:00 to
5:00 pm, weekdays 11:30 am to 12:00 noon, 30 minutes
prior to each Mass (must approach the altar and request
from the priest).
Matrimony ~ Notice is required 9 (nine) months in
advance and before any other arrangements are made (i.e.
hall rental, invitation printing, etc). Contact Timothy.
Christian Education Classes (CCD) ~ Offered to
all registered parish students attending public school.
Kindergarten through Confirmation attend on Sundays from
9 to 11 am. Registered private school students wishing to
receive Communion & Confirmation must attend the two
year program for each Sacrament.
R.C.I.A. (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) ~
Instructions for Adults desiring to receive the Sacraments of
Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Eucharist meet Tuesdays at
7:00 pm in the Downstairs Hall from September to Pentecost
Eucharist For Homebound/Sick ~ Contact Sophie
Piconi at piconi@att.net to schedule receipt of Eucharist
at home.
Pastor
Fr. Joseph M. Tabigue, C.R.S.P.
Associate Pastor
Fr. Louis M. Solcia, C.R.S.P.
Fr. Albino M. Vecina, C.R.S.P.
Deacon
Stephen O’Riordan ~ deaconstephen@olrsd.org
deaconstephen.blogspot.com
Parish Office
Monday - Friday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Phone: (619) 234-4820 ~ Fax: (619) 234-3559
Pastoral Offices
Antoinette Cotton
antoinette@olrsd.org
(Office Manager/Accounting/Secretary)
Our Lady’s Gifts
shop@olrsd.org
Timothy Horning
tim@olrsd.org
(Bulletin & Newsletter Editor/Database Manager/
Accounting/ Weddings/Website)
Lori Lopez
lorilopez@cox.net
Angela Rieta
anglrieta@gmail.com
(Faith Formation Co-Principals)
Donna Piranio
(Receptionist, Mass Requests)
donna@olrsd.org
To Register
Come to the Pastoral Center or go to our website and fill
in the form found in the “Contact Us” tab.
You will be considered a Registered Parishioner
AFTER one year.
Our Lady’s Gifts
Pastoral Center Parking Lot
Monday - Wednesday: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Sunday: 8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
(619) 234-0162 ~ shop@olrsd.org
Please, come to Church Dressed Appropriately!
To be modestly and tastefully dressed is a sign of respect for God, for our selves, and for others.
It’s a false assumption that God does not care how we dress. Jesus told us “Whatever you do to the least of my brothers,
you do it to me.” If our attire is indecently provocative (short shorts, strapless, backless, spaghetti strap dresses/tops, or
displaying cleavage), displaying unwholesome graphics (skulls, advertisements, scantly clad people) or tattered, it becomes
offensive to our brothers and sisters who are worshipping the Lord and therefore offensive to God’s Majesty.
Ask this question: “Would you dress this way before God?” You are! He sees everything and you are in His house.