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Fax: 650-588-1481 Phone: 650-588-1455 www.stveronicassf.com
434 Alida Way South San Francisco, CA 94080
Established 1951
St. Veronica Church
October 23, 2016
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and
the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” - Luke 18:14
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Parish Office email: [email protected]
St. Veronica Parish Parish Office Hours
Monday to Friday
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Closed for lunch from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
(unless otherwise posted)
Phone: 650-588-1455 Fax: 650-588-1481
Parish Staff
Fr. Charles Puthota, Ph.D., Pastor
Fr. Nicasio G. Paloso Jr., Parochial Vicar
Fr. Don Sharp, S.J., Weekend Assistant
Fr. Al Grosskopf, S.J., Weekend Assistant
Deacon Roger Beaudry
Deacon Joseph LeBlanc
Patricia Spiteri, Parish Secretary, Ext. 301
Oneyda Perez, Parish Bookkeeper, Ext. 304
Karen Guglielmoni, Faith Formation &
Wedding Coordinator, Ext.305
Christopher Lindstrom, Music Director, Ext. 308
Jim Rodriguez, Custodian/Maintenance
St. Veronica Catholic School www.saintveronicassf.org
Phone: 650-589-3909
Mrs. Kathryn Lucchesi Mrs. Geninne Ruegg
Principal Vice Principal
SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION
Sacrament of Baptism
Baptisms are to be arranged through the Parish Office.
Baptisms in English are typically held on the
1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month.
Baptisms in Spanish are typically held on the
2nd Saturday of each month.
Baptismal Preparation classes are held once a month.
Call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455
Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA)
Call the Parish Office to register 650-588-1455 Ext.309
Faith Formation: 650-588-1455 Ext. 305
Catechetical instructions (1st to 8th grades)
Confirmation Classes: 650-588-1455
Mass Intentions for the Week of October 23, 2016
Sun 10/23 7:00 † Steve Murphy
8:30 † Ramona Black
10:00 † Emanuel & Josephine Borg
11:30 † Eufracio Baluyot
6:00 † Cesar Herrara
Mon 10/24 6:30 † Renato Bautista
8:30 Jovita Robles
Tue 10/25 6:30 † Frank Stahlnecker
8:30 † Martha Puthota
Wed 10/26 6:30 † Brian Stahlnecker
8:30 † Manrique Lingad Thu 10/27 6:30 † Deceased Legion Members
8:30 † Everisto Legaspi
Fri 10/28 6:30 † Segundo & Florenda Suerte
8:30 † Patrick Kerrigan
Sat 10/29 8:30 † Steven Dub
5:00 † Jacqueline & Ramon Estella
Sun 10/30 7:00 † Mary Ghiorso
8:30 † Evelyn Casagrande
10:00 † Zachariah Jacob
11:30 Mary & James Sarantopulos
6:00 † Carmen Mora
St. Veronica Parish Mission Statement
St. Veronica Church is a multicultural
community of believers who treasure
Jesus Christ at the center of their profes-
sion of faith & practice. They worship &
work together to build up a community of
family & friends according to the mind &
heart of Christ. Out of the abundance of
joy & gratitude, they live & share the
good news of faith & hope, striving to
stand up for peace & justice, to spread
love & compassion, to care for those who
are in need, and to make our nation & the
world a better place for all.
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or simply drop it in the collection basket. Kindly print all information.
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Mass Schedule
Saturdays: 8:30 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.
Sundays: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, and 11:30 a.m.
Spanish Mass: Sundays at 6:00 p.m.
Holy Days: 6:30, 8:30 a.m., 6:30 p.m. (English)
Monday - Friday: 6:30 & 8:30 a.m.
Confessions
Saturdays: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Liturgy of the Hours
Monday - Friday: Morning Prayer at 6:00 a.m.
Eucharistic Adoration
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday - Friday
except as posted for holidays and parish events
ON THE HORIZON
Tues., Nov. 1: All Saints Day, a Holy Day
of Obligation
Wed., Nov. 2: All Souls Day - Mass of
Remembrance at 7:00 p.m. followed by a re-
ception in the Parish Center
Sun., Nov. 6: 3rd-grade Class Mass, 10 a.m.
Sat., Nov. 19: Annual Spanish Ministry din-
ner-dance, 6:00 p.m.-midnight, benefitting
Repair My Church (contact Parish Office for
reservations)
Thank you for supporting St. Veronica Parish and its works.
Envelopes received in the First Collection:
October 1 & 2: 394
October 8 & 9: 330
October 15 & 16: 325
If you currently receive envelopes but do not use them, please
prayerfully consider including your donation in the collection basket.
Saturday 10/15/16 5:00PM 1679.00 243.00 1922.00
Sunday 10/16/16 7:00AM 970.00 170.00 1140.00
8:30AM 1288.00 259.00 1547.00
10:00AM 1479.00 195.00 1674.00
11:30AM 987.00 159.00 1146.00
Spanish Mass 6:00PM 540.00 169.00 709.00
TOTAL IN-PEW DONATIONS: $6,943.00 $1,195.00 $8,138.00
Other Contributions 444.10 n/a 444.10
Day Mass Time 1st Collection Maintenance Totals
Welcome New Parishioners!
Our parish continues to be blessed and enriched
by the presence of newly registered parishioners:
Anne Marie Jones
May St. Veronica Church become a spiritual home where your
faith and fellowship may be nourished with inspiration for you
to live a life of service and generosity toward God and others.
All Saints Day Schedule
Tuesday, November 1st, is the So-
lemnity of All Saints, and a Holy
Day of Obligation. The regular
morning Masses will be at 6:30 and
8:30 a.m. with an additional Mass
at 6:30 p.m.
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From the Pastor’s Desk - A Scripture Reflection Dear Parishioners,
Two elderly women in the front pew of their
church were listening to a fiery preacher. When he
condemned the sin of stealing, they cried out:
“Amen, Brother.” When he condemned the sin of
lust, they cried out all the more: “Preach it, Rever-
end.” When he condemned the sin of lying, they
jumped to their feet screaming: “Tell it as it is,
Brother. Amen.” But when the preacher con-
demned the sin of gossip, they got very quiet. One
said to the other, “He’s quit preaching and now
he’s meddlin’.”
Self-righteousness is more common than we think.
Over 2000 years ago, Jesus addressed the parable
of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector “to those
who were convinced of their own righteousness
and despised everyone else.” There is a tendency
in us to be quite sure of our own rightness and be
smugly moralistic and intolerant of others’ actions
and beliefs. It is a false conviction that we are bet-
ter or more moral than others, something enter-
tained inside and expressed outwardly. Jesus ad-
dresses it through parables and, at times, in strong
language.
Richard Crashaw, a 17th Century English meta-
physical poet, who was also an Anglican cleric
converted to Catholicism, has a poem on this Sun-
day’s gospel:
“Two went to pray? O rather say one went to
brag, th’ other to pray:
One stands up close and treads on high, where
th’ other dares not send his eye.
One nearer to God’s altar trod, the other to the
altar’s God.”
Crashaw’s poetic interpretation captures Jesus’
contrasts in the two men’s posture and prayer. One
brags while the other prays. One takes up position
in pride while the other feels unworthy even to
raise his eyes. One gets only as far as the altar
while the other gets close to God. The parable
seeks to persuade us toward the nature of our rela-
tionship with God, with one another, in particular,
with the poor, and the practice of prayer.
The context is provided in Sirach where the poor
of the world, the weak, oppressed, orphan, and the
widow are close to God: “The prayer of the lowly
pierces the clouds.” The rich and the powerful are
on notice because with wealth and position there
is a grave danger of self-righteousness and lack of
need for God. The poor in their lowly status have
God on their side because, as the psalm says, “the
Lord hears the cry of the poor.”
Jesus the prophet par excellence continues and
fulfills the Old Testament theme of God standing
by the poor. In his words and actions, Jesus up-
holds the poor and those crushed by society, cul-
ture, and even religion. He keeps company with
sinners and tax collectors. He challenges the op-
pressive structures arrayed against the poor and
suffering. Jesus calls people to an authentic and
loving relationship with his Father and one anoth-
er as essential for the Kingdom.
Three insights stand out. One, our relationship
with God is based on grace, not on the merits of
our deeds. It is not the quantity, but the spirit in
which we live and love. Undeserved though we
are, God shares his superabundant love with us
freely and joyfully. Prayer is self-emptying before
God who alone can fulfill us. Two, our relation-
ship with one another is based not on pride but
humility, not on comparison but compassion. We
are all in the same boat of sinfulness. The Church
is a fabulously sacred place to find our identity.
As Charles Morrison has said, “The Christian
church is a society of sinners. It is the only society
in the world in which membership is based upon a
single qualification, that the candidate be unwor-
thy of membership.” Three, poverty and suffering
in the world are humongous and heartbreaking.
God in Jesus Christ is stirred up to compassion,
urging us to be his devotees in alleviating pain and
healing the planet earth.
Your friend & pastor,
Father Charles Puthota
(This scripture reflection for this Sunday’s read-
ings --- 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time --- was pub-
lished in this weekend’s SF Archdiocesan news-
paper, Catholic San Francisco)
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St. Veronica Catholic School Tours
Our school tours begin at 9:00 a.m. They are
an informative session in which you can view the
classroom and ask questions regarding the pro-
grams and school community.
Please call St. Veronica Catholic School at
(650) 589-3909 to schedule a tour.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
The Archdiocese of San Francisco
announces the following events in
conjunction with
the Jubilee Year of Mercy,
as announced by Pope Francis.
The Jubilee continues through Nov. 20
Cathedral Speaker Series: As the Jubilee Year of
Mercy concludes, the final speaker in the Cathedral
Speaker Series will be Archbishop Salvatore
Cordileone (Nov. 19); details to follow as they be-
come available.
Monthly Mercy Series Talks at Presentation Sis-
ters’ Convent, 2340 Turk Blvd., San Francisco,
2:00-4:15 p.m. Email [email protected] or
call 415-614-5535 to register for these free talks
(registration required).
Sunday, November 13 - “To Bury the Dead, to
Pray for the Living and the Dead” with Laura
Bertone, Director of Worship for the Archdio-
cese of San Francisco, and Monica Williams,
Director of Cemeteries for the Archdiocese of
San Francisco
Sunday, December 4 - “Reflections on the Year
of Mercy” with Archbishop of San Francisco
Salvatore Cordileone
Wednesday Night Bingo In Falcon Hall Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Games begin at 7:00 p.m.
Bring a friend and join in the fun!
Proceeds benefit
St. Veronica Catholic School
Catholic Charities Thanksgiving 2016
Sharing Your Thankful Spirit
Catholic Charities of San Francisco invites you to
help our neighbors in Marin, San Mateo, and San Fran-
cisco counties enjoy a memorable Thanksgiving meal.
You can provide food baskets, turkeys, or pumpkin pies
to families in need. Volunteer by helping with food prep-
aration, set-up, carving a turkey, leading activities, or
helping to clean-up after a Thanksgiving lunch or dinner.
Find out how you can participate in spreading holi-
day cheer for people in need. Contact Volunteer Manager
Diana Contreras at 415-972-1297 or visit the website
[email protected] .
It is with great joy that we welcome into our
church and community the following
children who received the
Sacrament of Baptism at our Church
on Saturday, October 15, 2016
Hunter Cole O’Connor
Raphael Elijah Ponce
All Are Invited! St. Veronica School 4th Annual
Family Fun Run/Walk
Sat., Nov. 19th, 2016, 9:00 AM Oyster Point Marina Bay Trail, SSF
Family Price $75
Early Registration
$30 for adults/$15 for kids
After Nov. 1st
$40 for Adults/$20 for kids
Call Michelle at 415-672-1343 with any
questions or register online through
www.eventbrite.com.
Proceeds benefit St. Veronica School
Technology and Fine Arts Programs
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Baptism Information
Registration forms are available from the
Pastoral Center during regular office hours,
or you may download a form from our
website at www.stveronicassf.com.
Baptisms are generally celebrated monthly
on the 1st and 3rd Saturday in English
and on various 2nd Saturdays in Spanish.
Please call the Parish Office to sign up.
Upcoming baptism dates are as follows:
November 5 & 19 (full)
December 3 & 17
January 7 & 21
Preparation classes for parents
and godparents are held on the second Tuesday of the month.
Classes are conducted in the Pastoral Center from
7:30 - 9:00 p.m. (Adults only please).
Please call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455 for
specific dates and to reserve your space for the
Baptismal Preparation Classes.
Reflecting on the Word
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Fr. James V. Marchionda, OP, wrote a song -
“The Prayer of the Lowly” - that sets part of our first
reading to music: “The prayer of the lowly pierces
the clouds and does not rest till it finds God.” Alt-
hough Sirach proclaims that God knows no favor-
ites, God seems to hear the cry of the lowly - the op-
pressed, the widow, and the orphan - with sharper
ears. Pope Francis keeps reminding us about this:
“God’s heart has a special place for the poor.” We
see a picture of this in today’s Gospel parable.
It is the prayer of the tax collector, who did not
even raise his eyes to heaven, that Jesus offers as an
example of the attitude we need. He simply and
honestly prays, “O God, be merciful to me a sinner.”
His poverty freed him to name his utter need for
God. The Pharisee, on the other hand, was full of
himself, “I thank you . . . I am not like the rest . . . I
fast . . . I pay tithes.” It’s all about him: “I, I, I, I.”
The Pharisee had what my Aunt Sophia called “ ‘I’
trouble.” Even when looking heavenward, he could
see only himself.
Each of us is poor in our own way because we
are all sinners. We need God’s rich mercy to heal
us, transform us, and raise us up. Each of us has “I”
trouble from time to time. It’s all about me. How-
ever, if we can admit our need for God’s mercy, like
the tax collector, and give God the glory, like the
author of Second Timothy, our prayer can pierce the
clouds and will find rest in the God who judges just-
ly, affirms the right, and will not delay in answering
our prayers.
For Prayerful Consideration & Discussion
With whose prayer to you identify more, the tax
collector or the Pharisee? Why?
When has an awareness of your lowliness helped
you pray in ways that pierced the clouds to reach
God’s ears? - Living the Word
USHERS URGENTLY NEEDED
FOR MOST WEEKEND MASSES Due to recent circumstances, there is a
CRITICAL NEED to recruit and train new ushers
for many of our Masses.
If you regularly attend, or could regularly at-
tend, the 5:00 p.m. Saturday Mass, or the 8:30 a.m.
or 11:30 p.m. Sunday Mass, and would like to be-
come an usher, please contact the Parish Office at
650-588-1455.
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“REPAIR MY CHURCH”
St. Veronica Church Building Renovation Project
Planning is underway for Phase II! Thank you for your continued generosity!
Planned Phase II Projects going out for bid:
Replace the old, piecemeal sound system in the Church with an up
-to-date wireless system, including more microphones and possibly
speakers in the vestibule
Refurbish the 10 exterior doors, including new stain and new
hardware
Replace the old protective plexiglass on all the stained glass win-
dows with new protective coverings which will not warp or “fog”
over time
Repair the broken latches on the stained glass windows
Replace the 25-year-old heating and air-conditioning (HVAC) sys-
tem, which has not been operational for some months
Install additional lighting in the pew area
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Francis heard the invitation of Jesus: “Francis, go repair my Church.”
“Yes!” said Francis. “This is what I long for with all my heart.”