SCHEDULE OF MASSES Saturday:

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

Sunday:

7:30am , 9:30am, 11:30am & 5:30pm

Daily:

7:15am in the Mary Chapel 7:00pm - Wednesday

Holy Days:

7:15am, 9:30am & 7:30pm

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.

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

Website: www.StBasilVallejo.org

Rev. Ambrose O. Ugwuegbu Parochial Administrator Rev. Jeremy A. Santos Parochial Vicar Deacon Mike Urick Deacon Casey Walker Pilar M. Dumlao - Admin. Assistant

stbasiloffice@gmail.com

Stacy Gunn - Bookkeeper Joe Martinez - Facility Maintenance Parish Center - (707) 644-5251 Fax - (707) 644-1423

Parish Office Hours Monday - Friday 9:00am to Noon & 1:00pm to 5:00pm

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 St. Vincent de Paul Food Assistance ~ (707) 644-0376

AUGUST 12, 2018 –NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

SACRAMENTS Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday, 4:00 to 5:00pm Wednesday, 6:00 to 7:00pm 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.

Stewardship at St. Basil Parish Grow our Gifts…Share Our Blessings

Stewardship of Treasure

WEEKLY COLLECTION

Average Weekly Expense………...$12,250.00 Last Sunday Collection………………..9,780.81 Others………………………………………….350.00 Weekly Surplus/(Deficit)…………..($2,119.19)

Thank you.

PLEASE PRAYERFULLY CONSIDER

YOUR GIFT TO ST. BASIL PARISH.

Thank you.

Your ongoing support is essential in helping us meet the many needs of our parish and

community.

The gifts of God that the Angel brought to Elijah—food, water, rest, and encour-agement - were given, not for his own good alone, but to strengthen him for service. How am I using my gifts to serve others?

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WE WELCOME THE NEW MEMBERS OF OUR ST. BASIL’S FAITH COMMUNITY

Our warmest welcome to all who worship with us!

If you are not yet registered, please fill out the form below and place it in the offering basket or mail it to

Saint Basil Parish Center 1225 Tuolumne Street, Vallejo, CA 94590

Upon receipt of this form we will mail you the parish registration form to complete and return. Thank you! NAME:________________________________________ ADDRESS_____________________________________ CITY______________________ZIP______________ TELEPHONE NUMBER: __________________________

(Change Address/Remove from list_____)

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 12, 2018

I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever. — John 6:51

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: Ss. Pontian and Hippolytus Tuesday: St. Maximilian Kolbe Wednesday: The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Thursday: St. Stephen of Hungary Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary

STRENGTHENED BY THE BREAD OF LIFE Today we resume the “Bread of Life” discourse from John’s Gospel that began two weeks ago. He makes refer-ence to the Jews’ ancestors who ate manna in the desert. These days we would think primarily of Israel wandering in the desert, but faithful Jews would also have known the story of Elijah that we hear today. Strengthened by food and drink in the desert, the angel of the Lord sends him on his forty-day and forty-night journey (the biblical number for a preparation time). Like the food given to Elijah in the desert, Jesus tells his listeners that he is bread for the life of the world. It is very important that we not stop listening to Jesus after his promise of eternal life—a marvelous promise, but this “reward” is not the only rea-son we feast on the Bread of Life. We also come to the table to be made strong for the journey of mission, that the whole world might have life in the fullness of Christ. We are compelled, if we have eaten of the bread of life, to go forth in service to all. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Careful readers of the “Treasures” will have noticed that the two columns about the oldest monastic communities in the Unit-ed States refer to the colonial states. The Louisiana Purchase gained a great treasure for our nation, the Ursuline monastery of New Orleans. Among the greatest pioneers of that city were nuns who came from France on a perilous voyage in 1727, pes-tered by pirates and tossed by fearsome storms. These were gen-teel, well-educated Ursulines, yet their first task was to roll up their sleeves and open a hospital to care for the pestilence-ridden colony. Next, they opened a school for girls and launched a plan to educate the women being shipped over from France to marry settlers. In this way, they had enormous influence in molding patterns of family and domestic life. At Christmastime in 1814, the threat of a British assault on the city was growing. On the terrifying night of January 7, 1815, the women of New Orleans gathered in the monastery chapel to pray that the city be spared from destruction in battle. The moth-er superior made a vow to have a Mass of Thanksgiving on that date every year should the Americans win. That night, Our Lady of Prompt Succor, to whom the nuns had great devotion, became the protector and patron of this great city. The convent in the French Quarter is the oldest standing building in the Mississippi valley, and the only surviving building of the French colonial period. The nuns relocated in 1824, but their old monastery is preserved as a museum and archives for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. The school the nuns began, Ursuline Academy, is the oldest continuously operating Catholic school, and school for women, in the United States. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — Elijah looked and there at his head was a hearth cake and a jug of water (1 Kings 19:4-8). Psalm — Taste and see the goodness of the Lord (Psalm 34). Second Reading — Be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love (Ephesians 4:30 — 5:2). Gospel — Jesus said, “I am the living bread; whoever eats this bread will live forever” (John 6:41-51). 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: Ez 1:2-5, 24-28c; Ps 148:1-2, 11-14; Mt 17:22-27 Tuesday: Ez 2:8 — 3:4; Ps 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131; Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 Wednesday: Vigil: 1 Chr 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2; Ps 132:6-7, 9-10, 13-14; 1 Cor 15:54b-57; Lk 11:27-28 Day: Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; Ps 45:10-12, 16; 1 Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 Thursday: Ez 12:1-12; Ps 78:56-59, 61-62: Mt 18:21 — 19:1 Friday: Ez 16:1-15, 60, 63 or 16:59-63; Is 12:2-3, 4bcd-6; Mt 19:3-12 Saturday: Ez 18:1-10, 13b, 30-32; Ps 51:12-15, 18-19; Mt 19:13-15 Sunday: Prv 9:1-6; Ps 34:2-7; Eph 5:15-20; Jn 6:51-58

Saturday, August 11

5:30pm Mary Choy (SI)

Jaime & Benita Belen (+) Marcelino & Restituta Quiambao(+)

Pablito & Encarnacion David (+) Honorio Naguit (+)

Sunday, August 12

7:30am

Mass for St. Basil Parish

9:30am Sandy Morgado (+) Lou Geissberger (+)

Agapita Olario Galia (+) Lourdes Ragadio (+)

11:30am

Marilou Valdez (+) Helen Ballerini (+)

Ramon Aguilar (+DA)

5:30pm Paul Hanson (SI)

Quimpo & McCarthy Family (TG) Karen Paclibar (TG) Lourdes Ragadio (+)

Monday, August 13 - 7:15am

Marybelle Ocampo (BD) Roberto Quimpo (BD) William Lovelock (SI) Teofilo Florenco (+) Benjamin Sy (+40th)

Tuesday, August 14 - 7:15am Jerrick Mollari (SI)

Teofilo Florendo (+)

Wednesday, August 15 - 7:15am (Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

Marella Castro (SI) William Lewis (+BD) Teofilo Florendo (+)

9:30am

St. Basil School Staff & StudentsSI) Mercedes Cruz (+DA)

7:30pm

Joseph C. AVellar

Thursday, August 16 - 7:15am Baron Gatchalian (BD) Henry del Rosario (BD)

Joanne Tai (SI) Sixto Cornel (+BD) Teofilo Florendo (+)

Friday, August 17 - 7:15am

Jessica Tang (SI) Mamie Brito (+)

Teofilo Florendo (+)

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Please pray with our Lazarus Ministry

for all who recently departed

especially: +Helen Ballerini +Loreto Rillera

+Joseph C. Avellar +Robert Rogers

Please pray for the sick… Jesus, we ask you to bring your peace and healing touch to those who are ill or afraid or worried. AMEN. Ka e Abeyta, Ariel Agoncillo, Lina Antonio, Yolande Bekhit, Ismael Beltran, Ursula Charifa, Sabina Cruz Cerna, Rosita Cunanan, Si-mon Daus, Jessalyn Detosil, Danilo Dipiramo, Theresa Dizon, Marissa Esplana, Margaret Hoo-ver, Severina Ilagan, Marissa Lew-is, Myrna Magat, Eugenia Mananquil, Normita Mangalen-dan, Joaquin Manibusan, Paul B. Manibusan, Vic Mararac, Michael O’Regan, Dolly Marquez, Proceso Marquez, Jr., Winnie Meadows, Anna Nalty, Dolores Owens, Adoracion Perez, Sr. Julita Perez, Magnus Perez, Ed Peña, Nicholas Policar, Lourdes Pineda, Lorens Quidet, Louie Romero, Ed Sablan, Sarah Saldajeno, Mike Skiles, Adri-ana Silva, Sonia Rita Tanciongco, Sara Rose Teding-Weiss, Loida Toralba, Anne Torres, Ma lda

A Faith-filled Study of The Letter to the Galatians

Saturdays July 14 through August 18

2 – 3:30 P.M. Father Garrigan Room

St. Paul's letter to the Christian communities of Galatia is the first of the "great epistles" of "the apostle to the Gentiles." It has been called the "Magna Carta of Christian liberty" because the focus of St. Paul's message is that Jesus Christ has freed those who believe in Him from bondage to the legalism of the old Law and from slavery to sin, and He has placed all who come in faith to embrace Him as Lord and Sav-ior in a position of true liberty.

St. Basil the Great 15 Annual Parish Picnic! Sunday, August 26, 2018

11:30am Mass Blue Rock Springs Park

(there will be NO 11:30Mass in the Church)

Donate and earn a limited-edition Oakland A’s T-shirt!

ON FiRE NorCal Jam 2018 September 15, 2018 from 9am-9pm Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, CA With just under 3 months left until ON FiRE NorCal Jam 2018 – you do not want to miss out on these deals! Purchase your ON FiRE tickets now and receive a free ticket to Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Water Park in Con-cord, valid on any day from June through August. What better way is there to beat the heat before you join us at ON FiRE in September? Now is also a great time to pur-chase your ticket and take advantage of the LOW ticket prices! Prices heat up after September 3! For more infor-mation and to purchase tickets, please visit www.onfirenorcal.com!

Lunch tickets are now available for purchase during office hours in the Parish Center Office and at the Msgr. Byrne Room after all the weekend Masses.

Church in Latin America— This weekend is the Collection for the Church in Latin America! Many people in Latin America and Caribbean do not have access to church programs and ministries because of rural terrain and a lack of ministries. Your generosity makes it possible for them to share in the life of the Church and grow closer to Christ. Please be generous to the second collection! To learn more about the collection, please visit www.usccb.org/latin-america.

Saint Basil The Great Sunday, August 19, 2018 8:30am - 1:30pm Location: Bloodmobile 1200 Tuolumne St, Vallejo Please sign up in the church annex after Mass Sponsored by: Couples for Christ Foundation For Family Life. Please bring photo ID. Please eat and Drink plenty of water before donating.

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Wednesday

August 15, 2018 Schedule of Masses: 7:15am, 9:30am and

7:30pm

Kentucky Fried Chicken will cater our lunch at the picnic which consist of 2 fried chicken, mashed potato and corn.

ANGER’S OFFSPRING As long as anger lives, she continues to be the fruitful moth-er of many unhappy children. —St. John Climacus

Please pray for protec-tion over everyone who is fighting the fire and all those affected by the California wildfire.