OUTDOOR MASSES

Saturday: 5:30pm (Vigil Mass) 8:30am - 1st Saturday

Sunday: 7:30am 9:30am 5:30pm

Daily: 7:15am

Holy Days:

7:15am, 9:30am & 7:30pm Baptism: Please call the office Prep Class - 1st Sat. of the month (Please call Religious Education) Weddings: Please call Parish Office

Rev. Ambrose O. Ugwuegbu Parochial Administrator Rev. Jeremy A. Santos Parochial Vicar Deacon Mike Urick Deacon Casey Walker Renett E. Balingit - Admin. Assistant

stbasiloffice@gmail.com Stacy Gunn - Bookkeeper Joe Martinez - Facility Maintenance Parish Center - (707) 644-5251 Fax - (707) 644-1423 New Parish Office Hours Until Further Notice Monday to Friday 9:00am to Noon & 1:00pm to 3:00pm Music Ministry Cherry Lopez ~ Director Josie Hibbard ~ Director Religious Education/Youth Ministry (707) 644-8309 1230 Nebraska Street, Vallejo, CA 94590 Julie Kissinger ~ Director

St. Basil School - (707) 642-7629 1230 Nebraska Street, Vallejo, CA 94590 Connie Howard ~ Principal St. Basil Preschool - (707) 642-5966 1225 Tuolumne Street, Vallejo, CA 94590 Lisa Butler ~ Director Sbs.preschool@gmail.com St. Vincent de Paul Food Assistance ~ (707) 644-0376 Sacrament of Anointing: (Emergency calls only): (707) 567-9500

SACRAMENTS Sacrament of Reconciliation: Mary’s Chapel Wednesday, 6:00 to 7:00pm Saturday, 4:00 to 5:00pm Sacrament of Baptism: Pre-Baptism preparation class required. Please call the Parish Office for more information. Sacrament of Marriage: Minimum 6 months advance notice required. Please contact the Parish Office to make an appointment with the Marriage/Wedding Coordinator. Pastoral Care for the Sick/Homebound: Please call the Parish Office to arrange for home and hospital visits.

St. Basil the Great Catholic Church 1200 Tuolumne Street, Vallejo, CA 94590

Website: www.StBasilVallejo.org

MISSION STATEMENT We, the St. Basil the Great Catholic faith community, guided by the Holy Spirit and nurtured by the Eucharist, are called to share the gospel values of love, justice, forgiveness and service through the celebration of the sacraments, prayer, stewardship and fellowship with respect and dignity to all.

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September 27, 2020 - Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 27, 2020 Have in you the same attitude that is also in Christ Jesus. — Philippians 2:5

FAMILIAR INSIGHTS Spiritual teachers tend to repeat themselves, and to repeat other teachers. Maybe there really aren’t that many different truths to tell. Just a lot of slow, sleepy human beings—like us—who need to hear the basics over and over. Consider to-day’s readings. People complain God isn’t “fair,” and Ezekiel answers that God is more than fair. People choose their own fates, and people can change. Even evildoers can turn, do right, and live. “Actions speak louder than words.” A fresh new insight? Hardly. Paul tells the Philippians that he would truly be encour-aged if those who claimed to be believers would, in fact, look to others’ interests and not their own. “The proof of the pud-ding is in the eating.” A novel idea? I don’t think so. In Jesus’ story of the farmer and his sons, everyone knows that the one who said he wouldn’t work—but did—is way ahead of the one who said he would work—but didn’t. “Talk is cheap.” Heard that before? Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

SAINT THÉRÈSE OF THE CHILD JESUS (1873-1897) October 1 “The cornerstone’s dated 1872, but the stained glass is much later,” explained the pastor, astonished when his visitor accurately dated it to just before the Great Depression, explaining, “The win-dow for the Little Flower”—Thérèse’s nickname—“gives it away.” From her canonization in 1925, her statues and windows adorn most churches where European immigrants worshiped. Entering Carmel at fifteen, victim of tuberculosis at twenty-four, Thérèse proposed her “Little Way” to sanctity: doing ordinary tasks with extraordinary love. Thus ordinary Catholics, many of whom had lost loved ones to tuberculosis, embraced her. Though she never left her cloister, this Carmelite’s spiritual communion and devoted correspondence with missionaries earned her the title Patroness of Missions. Her autobiography, Story of a Soul, continuously in print since her death, chronicles her prayerful perseverance through doubt and caused her to be the youngest person ever named a Doc-tor of the Church. Countless physical healings and spiritual conver-sions testify to her fulfillment of her deathbed promise: “After my death, I will let fall a shower of roses. I will spend my heaven doing good upon earth!” TODAY’S READINGS

First Reading — When the wicked turn away from their wickedness they have committed and do what is right, they shall surely live (Ezekiel 18:25-28). Psalm — Remember your mercies, O Lord (Psalm 25). Second Reading — Consider others as better than yourselves; look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others (Philippians 2:1-11 [1-5]). Gospel — Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you (Matthew 21:28-32). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, Interna-tional Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Jb 1:6-22; Ps 17:1bcd-3, 6-7; Lk 9:46-50 Tuesday: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14 or Rv 12:7-12a; Ps 138:1-5; Jn 1:47-51 Wednesday: Jb 9:1-12, 14-16; Ps 88:10bc-15; Lk 9:57-62 Thursday: Jb 19:21-27; Ps 27:7-9abc, 13-14; Lk 10:1-12 Friday: Jb 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5; Ps 139:1-3, 7-10, 13-14ab; Mt 18:1-5 Saturday: Jb 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17; Ps 119:66, 71, 75, 91, 125, 130; Lk 10:17-24

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time; World Day for Migrants and Refugees; Priesthood Sunday; Yom Kippur (Jewish day of atonement) begins at sunset Monday: St. Lawrence Ruiz and Companions; St. Wenceslaus Tuesday: Ss. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels Wednesday: St. Jerome; Sukkot (Jewish harvest festival) begins at sunset Thursday: St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus Friday: The Holy Guardian Angels; First Friday Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary; First Saturday

The Understanding Father Jesus is saying something important in today’s Gospel. He talks about tax collectors and prostitutes who repented after

hearing John the Baptist preach. He must have shocked the priests and elders when he said those prostitutes would enter the king-dom of God before them. After all, his listeners had spent their whole lives being faithful to the Law. Yet Jesus was saying that sinners who repented will enter God’s kingdom first. Jesus’ point was not so much about final salvation as about our daily choices.

Remember the parable about the two sons. The second son said what his father wanted to hear, with no intention of doing it. The first was honest about not wanting to go to the vineyard, but then decided to do it anyway. I suspect the father of those men knew what each would or would not do.

And whom do we want to imitate? The priests and elders said all the right things about obeying God’s laws, but they were more interested in looking important than living a holy life. Are we like that—telling everyone I am a good Christian, going to church every Sunday (or at least on Christmas and Easter), and yet never making any effort to be loving, forgiving, patient, honest, or any of the difficult things that Jesus calls us to be?

The tax collectors and sinners knew that they were unworthy, but they listened to the call to repentance and let God make them worthy. Are we honest enough to look at our lives and repent of our hatred, our selfishness, or whatever keeps us in sin, and then to follow Jesus with our whole heart? We may not always like doing what God asks of us, but God is an understanding Father who can accept our weaknesses and forgive them when we are ready to return to him. Tom Schmidt, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

Jesus, we ask you to bring your peace and healing touch to those who are ill, or afraid or worried. AMEN. ********************* Natividad Puzon-Abando

Lillibeth Martinez-Janerol

Please pray with our Lazarus Ministry

for the recently deceased:

+ Al Montoya

“Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let Perpetual Light

shine upon them”

September 26, 2020

Saturday, 5:30pm

Rona Hernandez (BD) Daniel Galvez Sr. (+)

Winston Shen (+) Ann Luz Olar (+)

September 27

7:30am

Mass for All St. Basil Parishioners

9:30am Fr. Jeremy Santos (BD)

Ed Sablan (BD) Marcela Fernandez (+DA)

Marilyn Concepcion Lizardo (+)

11:30am Rolando Vengco (+)

Carmen Villafranco (+)

5:30pm Paula Hanson (+) Ann Luz Olar (+)

Monday, September 28- 7:15am

Lilian Gatchalian (SI) Troadio Ramones (+) Castora Ramones (+) Loubertha Ford (+) Ann Luz Olar (+)

Tuesday, September 29 - 7:15am

Marie Britto (+) Ann Luz Olaz (+)

Wednesday, September 30 - 7:15am

Gregorio Lao Santos (+BD) Concepcion Gatman (+DA)

Cheng Chi Keung (+)

Thursday, October 01 - 7:15am

Friday, October 02 - 7:15am

during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Thank you for your continued support

Please note: All mass intentions will be offered privately by the pastor. Mass is still being offered everyday - just not publicly. There are many daily and weekend Mass intentions open and available for you to have offered for your loved ones. Email the parish office. Your message will be returned and we will arrange for your intentions to be offered.

“The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus. When you see a priest, think of our Lord Jesus Christ.” – St. John Vianney, patron saint of parish priests

IMPOSSIBLE Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible; sudden-ly you are doing the impossible. —St. Francis of Assisi