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

Sixth Sunday of Easter May 10, 2015

OUR LADY OF LORETTO PARISH “Empowered by the Spirit of God we celebrate Jesus’ presence in Prayer,

Liturgy, Sacrament and Service”

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

Please pray for our parishioners who are sick and suffering that they may know the embrace of Christ’s healing love.

Paquita de Arboco, Neil Battaglia, Margaret Bohan, Paulette Borg, Ana Cabral, Sue Castillo, Everett Elmquist, Trini Esparza, Niloo Fatema, Violet Ferrigno, Mary Lou Fuette, Dustin Gorell, Thelma Graves, Andy Herr, Martin Keaney, Bridie Keenan,

Manuel Lamboy, Jim Lang, Pat Lewis, Juanita Mansfield, Betty McDonald, Mary Ellen McIntyre, Samuel Morris, Judy Nygard, Bob Rowden, Anita Skinner, John Stuber,

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

May all our deceased Parishioners rest in the

loving arms of God especially Sr. Rosemary Carroll, CSJ

Pauline Stuber Grace Derrough

Johnny Andaya

Magdalena Cantor (remembrance)

Mass Intentions May 9 to May 17

Day Time Intentions May 9—May 17

Priest *

Saturday 5/9

9:00am 5pm Vigil

Joseph Ottolini + Mary Dillion (L)

ME Bishop Justice

Sunday 5/10 7:30am 9:00am 10:30am 12 Noon

Marybethe Escobar + Mary Ellen Jehle + Margaret Mc Nern + OLL Parishioners

BC ME NH ME

Monday 5/11

9:00am

Jesuina Rodrigues +

BC

Tuesday 5/12 9:00am Mary Ellen and Hans Jehle +

NH

Wednesday 5/13 9:00am

Medieros and Teixeira Family (L) and +

ME

Thursday 5/14

9:00am Fr. Harry Olivier + NH

Friday 5/15

9:00am LaCarubba Family (L) and + ME

Saturday 5/16

9:00am 5pm Vigil

Cecelia Jimenez + Jessica Iacovetto +

BC BC

Sunday 5/17 7:30am 9:00am 10:30am 12 Noon

OLL Parishioners Rev. Harry Olivier + Crackbon Family (L) and + Raymundo Flores +

BC NH ME ME

BC: Fr.Brian Costello ME: Fr. Manuel Estrada NH: Fr. Neil Healy

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 EXT.226

Pastoral Associate

Rev. Mr. Alejandro Madero EXT. 225 Deacon

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

Monday—Friday 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

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 Rectory-

Catechesis 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

In March, Pope Francis ap-pointed Bishop Thomas Daly, 54, an auxiliary bishop with the Diocese of San Jose, California, as the seventh bishop of Spo-kane, Washington. Bishop Daly will be installed in his new posi-tion at Spokane’s Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes on May 20. Please pray for Bishop Daly as he begins his new minis-try to the faithful of Spokane.

MOTHER’S DAY We have, made a donation in honor of the Women and Mothers of our Parish, living and deceased, to the project, “Get On The Bus” sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Our $500.00 donation will sponsor a bus that will transport chil-dren from throughout California to visit their incar-cerated Mothers in one of the Women’s prisons of California for Mother’s Day. This year the project is able to visit at 11 various prisons and facilities in California.

SponsorshipandreservationformsarenowavailableatallchurchexitsforOLL's 11th Annual Youth Ministry Golf Tournament tobeheldonJune25that

IndianValleyGolfClub.Welookforwardtoyourjoiningusasasponsor,onthecourse,oratthedinnerinthechurchhallfollowingthetournament.Formoreinfor-mation,visitollnovato.org.Thankyou!

THIS WEEK IN CONFIRMATION & YOUTH MINISTRY OLL YOUTH MINISTRY CONGRATULATES OUR 2015 CONFIRMANDI! May the Holy Spir it always be active in your lives and may your hearts burn within you in response to the love of God! THIS WEEK IN CONFIRMATION & YOUTH MINISTRY: Monday 5/11: Middle School closing prayer service & pizza dinner ! 6pm-7pm. Meet in the CHURCH. Thursday 5/14: OLL YM Retreat Team will be working on 8th grade retreat with Ynez from Archdiocese of San Francisco. OLL YM 8th Grade Retreat is coming up on Saturday, May 23 from 9am-3pm. This retreat is a mandatory component of our Confirmation Preparation process. 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 Sum-mer from July 23-26. 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

The Annual IDESI Festa Do Espirito Santo is Sunday May 17, 2015. The parade from IDESI Hall on Sweetser will leave at 9:30am and finish at the Church. Mass will begin at 10:30am. Lunch will be served at 11am and after the parade returns. Concert and dance in the afternoon. Dinner will be served at 6pm. Manuel Jacinto will provide music for dancing u ntil 10pm. The IDESI Hall is located at 901 Sweetser Ave-nue in Novato.

CLOSING MASS AND ICE CREAM SOCIAL The OLL Parish Religious Education Program is having Closing Mass on Monday, May 11 at 4pm for all Mon-day and Tuesday students grades 1-6 and their fami-lies. An ice cream social will follow in the parish hall sponsored by our Knights of Columbus. Thank you Knights! We hope all of our students and their families have a happy and healthy summer. See you at Sunday Mass and then again for classes in the Fall.

PRAY FOR OUR SEMINARIANS Please pray for our seminarians Patrick Summerhays and Cameron Faller as they move closer to their Ordination on June 6, 2015. Join us in a special way

at our daily Rosary at 3pm, Sunday ,May 31st in the Church. We will ask our Blessed Mother to bring our prayers to her Son for Cameron and Patrick as they pre-pare to embark on their priestly ministries.

OLL Parish would like to congratulate the following chil-dren who made their First Communion

May 2, 2015 OLL Parroquia quiere felicitar a los siguientes niños que hicieron su Primera Comunión el 02 de mayo 2015

Jean Aguilar Valentina Alva

Vincent Basso Carter Capobianco Stephanie Camarena Maia Chamberlin Ava DeRuvo Molly Duffin Vincent Etcheber Zachary Farbstein Kevin Fernandez Yahir Fernandez Gabriella Ginocchio Michael Gomez Vanessa Gonzalez Edwin Gramajo Jamileth Gramajo Juleyda Gramajo Erik Gramajo Alessandro Gutierrez Tyler Keehn Mia Keenan Emma Kostick America Martinez Owen McCall Sierra McNeill Eduardo Mora Grace O’Hara Aaliyah Olague Gabriel Pantoja Sofia Paredes Amy Perez Nicholas Rosiak Ava Ruano Katherine Sasan Theodore Stafford Nicholas Taylor Jake Tinkler Miriam Torres Isabella Valentino Miriam Victoriano Rowan Ward Maeve Welch Lucy Widergren Brian Yates

Thank you for your participation in the Winter Homeless Shelter Dinners Over the past four years Our Lady of Loretto has provided meals once a month over a five month period each year for the R.E.S.T. (Rotating Emergency Shelter Team) providing shelter for the homeless during the Winter months. The response, again this year, from members of Our Lady of Loretto parish has been most generous, from purchasing and preparing delicious home cooked meals to donating over 400 pair of socks, gloves, hats, scarves and toiletries. All who were housed by the REST program were so very appreciative of your generosity and efforts to make their lives more comfortable during the winter season.

This summer REST is planning to hold a pilot program to house the homeless for eight weeks at St. Anselm’s Gym. We have been asked, (along with 25 other churches and organizations) to provide two meals during this period. If you are interested in helping please let me know.

May God bless each of you who gave in some way for your kindness, generosity, and caring. You have truly been Christ to those in need.

Joanna Gernetzke 415-892-1532 jgernetzke@comcast.net

Dear Friends, and especially the Mom’s at OLL, Happy Mother’s Day! There is an old Jewish proverb that says: “God could not be everywhere, so God made Mothers.” I liked this saying so much that I put it on my Mom’s Mass card when she died in 2006. There is not a day that goes by where I don’t have a good thought for my Mom. My Mom was everything to me. I am who I am today because of her. I hope, if your mom is still alive, that you not only honor her today, but every day she is still with you. An old proverb says, “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.” The proverb’s

point is that a mother’s influence on a child is greater than any other influence.

Some modern critics feel the proverb over romanticizes mothers. It over idealizes them and their influence. I’ll leave that debate to the critics.

The point remains: a mother’s influence on a child is great. It is especially great during the child’s ear-ly years. A humorous story I found illustrates the point.

A young mother was attending a lecture on parenting. In the question and answer period, the mother asked the lecturer which were the most important years of a child’s life.

“How old is your child?” the lecturer asked. “Four!” replied the mother. “Rush right home”, said the lecturer. “You’ve just missed the four most important years.” Again, to all you mothers out there, Happy Mother’s Day!!

On an entirely different note, people have been asking me about the AAA. I am happy to announce, that as of today, we have pledges totaling $127,580, and from those pledges we have actually collected $97,076 which we have sent on to the Archdiocese. This is another outstanding example of your generosity! We have raised over $20,000 of our goal of $107,000 which will come back to us. Again, I can’t thank you enough.

To show you, again, how generous you are: 1. I told people at a weekday Mass that one of the panes of our new stained glass windows had a rock thrown through

it. The cost of fixing the window would be $5,000. Within a day, the parishioner wrote me out a check for $5,000. 2. Last Sunday, I asked the people of the two Masses I celebrated to contribute money to the poor people in Nepal

who were suffering from the massive earthquake. All I did was put a basket in front of the altar and we collected an astounding $1,700!

You are a generous people! You are a good people!! I am very happy to be here at OLL!!! Have a great Ascension Day! Father Brian

This Week at OLL May 10 — May 17

Sun. Sixth Sunday of Easter Catholic Charities/CYO Second Collection Mon. Tue. Our Mother of Perpetual Help—Chapel—6pm Al-Anon—Convent – 7:15pm ICF—Hall –5:30pm Wed. Our Lady’s Prayer Group—Church—7:30pm CDA Meeting—CONVENT CHAPEL –6pm Thurs. Choir Practice—Choir Room—6:30pm Fri. Eucharistic Adoration—Chapel 9:30am—5pm Sat. Cenacle—Chapel—9:30am

OLL FIESTA LATINA SEE BROCHURES IN VESTIBULE

Sun. THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD

Esta semana en OLL 10 Mayo — 17 Mayo

Domingo: SEXTO DOMINGO DE PASQUA 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 Oración- Capilla– 7:30pm Ensavo del Coro-Espanol—Iglesia—7pm Jueves:

Viernes: JPC—Bibliotecca—7pm

Sabado: Cenaculo—Chapel—9:30am Domingo: La Ascensión del Señor  

PRO LIFE NEWS— When God created each of us, He did so with precision and purpose, and He looks on each of us with love that cannot be outdone in intensity or tender-ness. Moreover, the Lord invites each of us to behold ourselves and each oth-er with the same wonder and awe.” — 2014-15 Respect Life Program flyer, USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities

Cuando Dios creó a cada uno de nosotros, lo hizo con precisión y con un propósito, y mira a cada uno de nosotros con un amor que no se puede superar en intensidad ni ternura. Además, el Señor nos invita a contem-plarnos a nosotros mismos y a contemplarnos mutuamente con la misma maravilla y asombro. — Volante del Programa Respetemos la vida 2014-15, Secretariado de Actividades Pro-vida de la USCCB

UPCOMING SECOND COLLECTIONS SEGUNDO COLECCIONES PRÓXIMOS

5/10—Catholic Charities/CYO 5/24—Catholic Communications Campaign

5/31—OLL St. Vincent de Paul 6/28—Peter’s Pence (Holy Father)

DEEP DEBT My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual, and physi-cal education I received from her. —George Washington

LA BARCA DE LA IGLESIA La Iglesia es como una gran barca combatida por las olas de los vendavales de la vida. Nuestro deber es no abandonarla sino mantenerla en su curso. —San Bonifacio

Desfile y Cena El Anual IDESI Festa Do Espirito Santo es el domingo 17 de mayo de 2015. El desfile de IDESI Hall el Sweetser saldrá a las 9:30 am y terminan a la Iglesia. Misa comenzará a las 10:30 am. El almuerzo será servido a las 11 horas y después de las declaraciones del desfile. Concierto y baile por la tarde. La cena se servirá a las 18:00. Manuel Jacinto ofrecerá música para bailar hasta las 10 pm. El IDESI Hall se encuentra en el 901 de la avenida Sweetser en Novato.

MISA Y HELADO SOCIAL El Programa de Educación Religiosa OLL Parroquia está ten-iendo Misa de clausura el lunes 12 de mayo a las 16:00 para todos los lunes y martes por estudiantes de los grados 1-6 y sus familias. Un helado social, seguirá en el salón parroquial patrocinado por nuestros Caballeros de Colón. Gracias caballe-ros! ¡Esperamos que todos nuestros estudiantes y sus familias tienen un verano feliz y saludable. Nos vemos en la misa del domingo y luego de nuevo para las clases en el otoño.

ORAR POR NUESTROS SEMINARISTAS Por favor oren por nuestros seminaristas Patrick Summerhays y Cameron Faller mientras se mueven más cerca de su or-denación, el 6 de junio de 2015. Únase a nosotros de una manera especial a las 3 pm, domingo 31 de mayo. Vamos a pedir a nuestra Madre Santísima para que nuestras oraciones a su Hijo para Cameron y Patrick mientras se embarcan en sus ministerios sacerdotales

DÍA DE LA MADRE Hemos, hizo una donación en honor de las Mujeres y Madres de nuestra Parroquia, vivos y difuntos, con el proyecto "Get On The Bus", patrocinado por las Her-manas de San José de Carondelet. Nuestra donación $ 500.00 patrocinará un autobús que transportará a los ni-ños de todo California para visitar a sus madres en-carceladas en una de las cárceles de mujeres de California para el Día de la Madre. Este año, el proyecto es capaz de

Queridos amigos, y sobre todo la mamá en OLL, Feliz Día de la Madre! Hay un viejo proverbio judío que dice: ". Dios no podía estar en todas partes, por lo que Dios hizo a las madres" Me gustó este diciendo tanto que me puse en la tarjeta de Misa de mi mamá cuando ella murió en 2006. No hay un día que pase por donde yo no tengo una buena idea para mi mamá. Mi mamá era todo para mí. Yo soy el que soy hoy en día gracias a ella. Espero que, si su madre sigue viva, que no sólo honra ella hoy, pero cada día que ella todavía está con usted. Un viejo proverbio dice: "La mano que mece la cuna gobierna el mundo." El punto del proverbio es que la influencia de una madre de un niño es más grande que cualquier otra influencia.

Algunos críticos modernos sienten el proverbio sobre romantiza madres. Es sobre ellos y su influencia idealiza. Voy a dejar que el debate a los críticos. El punto sigue siendo: la influencia de una madre de un niño es grande. Es especialmente grande durante los primeros años del niño. Una divertida historia que encontré ilustra el punto. Una joven madre asistía a una conferencia sobre la crianza de los hijos. En el período de preguntas y respuestas, la madre le pidió al profesor que fueron los años más importantes de la vida de un niño. "¿Qué edad tiene su hijo?", Preguntó el profesor. "¡Cuatro!", Respondió la madre. "Rush casa ahora", dijo el profesor. "Simplemente Te has perdido los cuatro años más importantes." Una vez más, a todos ustedes, las madres por ahí, el día de madre feliz !! En una nota completamente diferente, la gente me han estado preguntando acerca de la AAA. Estoy feliz de anunciar que a partir de hoy, tenemos promesas por un total de $ 127 580, y de esas promesas en realidad hemos recolectado $ 97.076 que hemos enviado a la Arquidiócesis. Este es otro ejemplo sobresaliente de su generosidad! Hemos recaudado más de $ 20,000 de nuestra meta de $ 107,000 que vendrá de nuevo a nosotros. Una vez más, no puedo agradecerle lo suficiente. Para mostrar, una vez más, lo generoso que eres: 1) Le dije a la gente en una misa de lunes a viernes que uno de los cristales de nuestras nuevas vidrieras tenían una piedra lanzada a través de él. El costo de la fijación de la ventana sería de $ 5.000. Dentro de un día, el feligrés me escribió un cheque por $ 5,000. 2) El domingo pasado, le pregunté a la gente de las dos misas celebré aporte dinero a la gente pobre en Nepal que estaban sufriendo por el terremoto masivo. Todo lo que hice fue poner una cesta delante del altar y nos recogió un asombroso $ 1.700! Usted es un pueblo generoso! Usted es un pueblo bueno !! Estoy muy feliz de estar aquí en OLL !!! Que tengan un buen día de la Ascensión! Padre Brian