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Saturday: 8:00AM; 5:00 PM (Vigil) Sunday: 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 6:00 PM

Weekdays: Tuesday-Friday 8:00 AM (Mondays: 8:00 AM Communion Service) Holy Days & Special Services: see bulletin RECONCILIATION: Saturdays, 4:00 PM PERPETUAL HELP NOVENA: Tuesdays 8:30 AM MARRIAGES: Those wishing to be married must contact the priest at least 9 months before date of marriage.

4540 El Cerrito Dr. San Diego, CA 92115

Parish Office: 619-582-5722

Parish Website: www.blessedsacrament-sandiego.org Parish E-Mail: jyin@blessedsacrament-sandiego.org

Fr. Jon P. Kirby, SVD: Pastor Tony Albers: Deacon Herb Kelsey: Deacon

Parish ID # for United Way Contributions………..…..9753

BAPTISM INFORMATION…………………………619-582-5722

RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) ……….619-582-5722

FAITH FORMATION, grade 1-8.….........619-582-5722, ext. 124 Kerwin Molina, Coordinator

CONFIRMATION, Teens…………………………...619-582-5722 Justine Coliflores

BLESSED SACRAMENT PARISH SCHOOL……619-582-3862 Anne Egan, Principal School Website: www.bsps-sd.org

Thirty–First Sunday in Ordinary Time November 5, 2017

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Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Blessed Sacrament November 5,2017

Why Guns? An Escapist Christianity!

(Adapted from an article, “thoughts and prayers” Christianity.by Jason Blakely, October 13, 2017, America)

Oct. 1, 2017, marked the worst mass shooting in mod-ern American history. The debate over gun violence continues. Why do we hold fast to the belief that God’s providence will handle it or His vengeance will extinguish it? The televangelist Pat Robertson blamed this incident on a culture of disrespect for Donald Trump, the national anthem and “biblical authority.” His answer is: better training in our churches, malls and schools on how to use firearms. In his words, “blessed are the fully armed.” This fatalistic attitude toward American violence and suffering is far from uncommon. In her recent book, the sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild describes the growth of political fatalism in conservative American Christianity. Their belief about the imminence of the second coming and the rapture have helped generate a politics of resigna-tion in the face of real social and political evils. She describes how small-town dwellers in Louisiana who suffer higher cancer rates, job insecurity and dimin-ished air and water quality at the hands of unregulated private sector corporations nonetheless abhor govern-ment regulations that could improve the situation. In-stead, they choose to believe in the rapture and a fu-ture in which the earth will “burn with fervent heat”. In short, they hope that God will rescue them from the world’s sufferings. In this way Christianity is reduced to a private search for escape, while public political action becomes futile.

These might at first seem like fringe ideas but they are far more common than one might realize. The Pew Research Center reported in 2010 that 58 percent of white evangelical Christians believe that Jesus Christ will return to the earth by the year 2050. Preachers continue to prophesy imminent doomsday. Predicting the apocalypse has had a long history in evangelical circles. Its roots lie in 19th-century biblical literalism which attempted to establish a timetable for the Last Judgment. This treatment of the Bible as bad science for making predictions akin to those found in the natu-ral sciences has been a constant refrain in evangelical

thought ever since. But there is a softer form of it even among us Catholics. Such Christian fatalism is evi-dent, for example, in Bill O’Reilly’s claim that mass shootings are simply the price of freedom.

A similar passivity and fatalism can be found among Christians who hold solely to “thoughts and prayers” as the appropriate response to mass shootings like in Las Vegas. Yet this gets a double-take when we con-sider the response of a Catholic Senator like Thom Tillis of North Carolina who sends out his “deepest condolences and prayers to the families of the vic-tims” in Las Vegas but has accepted millions of dol-lars in campaign contributions from the National Rifle Association. Most mainstream country artists, sent out “thoughts and prayers” without any mention of gun reform.

Has the notion of political action to improve our lives been completely abandoned? It seems so! Prayer and reflection on the perennial nature of evil sharply di-vides the kingdom of heaven from that of earth--heaven is good, earth is bad--and there’s not much you can do about it! Things like pollution, poverty, ill health, and other things just have to be endured. Yet, there are many societies that do not routinely suffer mass gun violence because they lack guns. The Sec-ond Amendment absolutists blame it all on a violent streak or some of the other factors. But because of the “thoughts and prayers” of too many contemporary Christians, the contingent features of our social reality have become inescapable and permanent.

Has belief in God come to mean firearm ownership on the one hand, and resigned acceptance of slaughter on the other? It would seem Pastor Robertson would have it so. But this has also come to inform a quite general attitude of renunciation. Possibly America’s gun vio-lence ethos opens up a deeper issue--one that sees Christianity as completely irrelevant and powerless to help change our social and political world for the bet-ter. It is a sort of fatalism that views America’s politi-cal order as ordained by God and sees anyone who acts to reform it as acting against God’s will. Are the evils and suffering produced by American political arrangements are starting to be seen as unfortunate but also deeply unalterable features of our human condi-tion?

From The Pastor

Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Blessed Sacrament November 5,2017

Weekly Mass Intentions Sat. Sun. Mon.

Nov. 4 Nov. 5 Nov. 6

Tues. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat.

8:00am 8:00am 8:00am 8:00am 8:00am

Nov. 7 Nov. 8 Nov. 9 Nov. 10 Nov. 11

All Souls Novena All Souls Novena All Souls Novena All Souls Novena Claire Hill, int.

5:00pm 8:00am 10:00am 6:00pm 8:00am

Bertha Torres † All Souls Novena Baldassare & Caterina Ferrara † Parishioners All Souls Novena

Monday: Rom 11:29-36; Lk 14:12-14 Tuesday: Rom 12:5-16b; Lk 14:15-24 Wednesday: Rom 13:8-10; Lk 14:25-33 Thursday: Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12; 1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17; Jn 2:13-22 Friday: Rom 15:14-21; Ps 98:1-4; Lk 16:1-8 Saturday: Rom 16:3-9, 16, 22-27; Lk 16:9-15 Sunday: Wis 6:12-16; 1 Thes 4:13-18 [13-14]; Mt 25:1-13

Readings for the Week

FINANCIAL UPDATE 2017

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Diocesan African Mass & Gathering

Sunday, November 12 - 1:00 PM All are invited to attend.

The New BSP Look!

We are IN THE GREEN! Our landscaping looks great...and now we need to pay for it! This week we begin our Green Drive! Our goal is $23,000. Go out and walk on it! Summersault. Then come back and donate for the new Landscaping and Plants of the Bible Area! Thus far we have received donations of $9,768.00. God Bless You! - Fr Jon

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time; National Vocation Awareness Week; Daylight Saving Time ends Tuesday: Election Day Thursday: The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica Friday: St. Leo the Great Saturday: St. Martin of Tours; Veterans Day

Spanish Masses at BSP! Sunday November 5th 4:00pm

We encourage our Latino members to attend.

Blessed Sacrament Women’s Club Christmas Dinner Dance

Sat. Dec. 9 | 6:00pm | Parish Hall $40 per person

RSVP: Pat Luebbers 619-262-8522

Home Masses

Pleased contact the office if you wish to host a Mass.

Sara’s Thank You Reception Sunday, November 19

following 10:00am Mass Parish Hall

We would like to thank Sara Dickman for her 10 years of volunteer service as the

RCIA instructor. All are welcome!!!

Calling All Singers!

If you like to sing, are available to attend re-hearsals and would like to get involved in music ministry, the Traditional Choir welcomes new members! Please contact Patti Burch at 619-735-6330 for more information.

Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Blessed Sacrament November 5,2017

Parish Events Nov. 5 - Spanish Mass 4pm BSP Church Nov. 6 - Cares for Kids Mtg. 6-7pm PH Nov. 8 - Soup & Salad 5pm-7pm PH Nov. 9 - Women’s Club Mtg. 9am PH Nov. 12 - Diocesan African Mass & Gathering 1pm Nov. 12 - Spanish Mass 4pm BSP Church Nov. 12 - National Needs Weekend Collection Nov. 19 - RCIA Rite of Acceptance 10am CH Nov. 19 - Sara Dickman Thank You Reception PH Nov. 13 - Bibliodrama 6:30 pm PH Nov. 23 - Thanksgiving Day Mass 9am CH Nov. 23-24 - Church Office Closed Dec. 3 - Women’s Club Boutique & Bake Sale Dec. 8 - Feast of the Immaculate Conception 8am & 6PM Dec. 9 - Women’s Club Dinner Dance 6pm PH

Interested in joining a ministry group? Contact the person listed below or church office.

(area codes are (619) except were listed)

Adoration Chapel…………………………………………………..582-5722

Altar Servers: Judy Cromwell……………………………………………………..582-5722

Cares For Kids-Blessed Sacrament Teresa Markey……………………………………………………..582-2141

Contemporary Choir: (10:00 am & 6 pm Masses)……………………………………….582-5722

Culture of Life: Margie Morrison……………………………………………………582-8651

Eucharistic Ministers: Church Office………………………………………………………582-5722

Knights of Columbus: John Agoh…………..…………………...…………..…………….278-8405

Lectors: Cynthia Gonzales………………………………………………….218-8155

BSPS Parent-Teacher Group (PTG): Kristen Crisostomo (President)…….……………….klhbones@aol.com

Traditional Choir: Patti Burch (8 am Mass)………………………………………….735-6330

Tuesday Fun Club: Peggy Raynoha……………………………………………………582-3657

Ushers: Church Office…………………………………………….………...582-5722

Vocations Committee: Dick Reid…………………………………………………………...583-1081

Women’s Club: Pat Luebbers…………………………………………………….…262-8522

Youth Ministry (High School Students): Parish Office…………………………………………………..…...582-5722

PARISH MINISTRIES & GROUPS

Got Jesus! Be an Altar Server!

You gotta be in 5th grade or higher! If you are interested in serving at the altar contact Judy Cromwell at the parish office (619) 582-5722

or jcromwell@blessedsacrament-sandiego.org

Next Bibliodrama Monday, November 13 at 6:30pm

November Food Collection

This weekend Nov. 4 & 5

All Non-Perishable Food goes to Catholic Charities College Area Center for their Annual Thanksgiving

Food Baskets. They need : Canned Pumpkin, Yams, Corn, Green Beans;

Instant Mashed Potatoes, Gravy (no glass please), Stuffing & Cranberry Sauce,

Grocery Store Gift Cards in $20 & $25 increments Monetary Donations, Plus any other food items.

Please bring your bags to the altar after the Bread and Wine are presented.

Thank you for your continued support.

No November Coin Collection Because of National Needs Collection

Halloween Candy Collection DUE by Mon., Nov. 6

Donate part of your Halloween candy which is used for the Christmas distribution at the Casa de los Pobres (House of the Poor) in Tijuana, Mexico. Toothbrushes & toothpaste are also greatly appre-ciated! The Sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Queen of Peace coordinate an annual Christmas distribution where 1,500 impoverished families receive a chicken, rice, beans, canned vege-tables & fruit, and a bag of candy to make Christ-mas festivities a little sweeter! Families also receive blankets, jackets, shoes and toys for the children.

Bring your wrapped candy donations to the church or school office. Mark bags “Candy Collection.”

Thank you for your donations.

Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Blessed Sacrament November 5,2017

Monday ~ November 6 Rev. Tommie Jennings Tuesday ~ November 7 Rev. Niranjan Kanmury Wednesday ~ November 8 Rev. Gerald Kasule, CSSP Thursday ~ November 9 Rev. John Keller, OSA Friday ~ November 10 Rev. Brian Kelly Saturday ~ November 11 Rev. Ronald Kelso, SSC Sunday ~ November 12 Rev. William Kernan

Daily Prayer for Our Priests

O Jesus, I pray for your faithful and fervent priests; for your unfaithful & tepid priests; for your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields; for your tempted priests; for your lonely & desolate priests; for your young priests; for your dying priests; for the souls of your priests in Purgatory. But above all, I recommend to you the priests dearest to me: the priest who baptized me, the priests who absolved me from my sins, the priests at whose Masses I assisted & who gave me Your body & blood in Communion, the priests to whom I am indebted any other way especially (name….) O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart, and bless them abundantly in time & in eternity. Amen. --St. Therese of Lisieux

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Our World is Dying!

Last Monday, the World Meteorological Associa-tion announced that the amount of CO2 in the at-mosphere is higher than it has been in 800,000 years, the highest in human history! The CO2 which is mainly from burning fossil fuels is disrupting the climate and threatening humans with extinction. It is killing us! There are 200,000 premature deaths in America each year due to pollution, not to mention the millions in other parts of the world. When we do harm to God’s creation it becomes a moral issue. It is not too late to do something about it. We need energy systems based on wind, water and the sun. America leads the world! Let us then be the first to become 100% fossil-fuel free. If the American peo-ple stand up to demand it—it will happen. Get out and vote, demonstrate, and cry out against this great sacrilege.

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