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OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR CATHOLIC CHURCH Iglesia Católica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar
400 Church Street, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 (650) 726-4674
Office Hours: Open Monday—Friday 9:00am– 4:30pm
Email: [email protected]
SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FEBRUARY 19th, 2017
Rev. Joseph Previtali Administrator
Rev. Gabriel Wankar Parochial Vicar
Rev. Charles Onubogu
In Residence
Religious Education (650) 726-5587 K-6th Grade
Claudia Miramontes Ext. 210 Youth Confirmation
Elizabeth Neapolitan Ext. 209
Encargada de Ensayo para Bodas: Juana Ruano
RCIA/ Adult Faith Formation: Rev. Joseph Previtali (English)
Educación/ Sacramentos para Adultos Carlos y Celina Rivera (Español)
Parish Secretary: Paula Martinez Fax: (650) 726-0980
Mass Schedule Monday through Friday: 8:00 am
Saturday:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm - 8:00pm (Español) Sunday:
8:00 am - 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (Español) 6:00 pm
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament:
Every Friday after 8:00 am Mass Benediction 12:00 pm First Friday of the Month
after 8:00 am Mass - Benediction 6:30pm
St. Anthony's — Pescadero 696 North Street, Pescadero, CA 94060
Saturday: 6:00 pm (Español) Sunday: 9:00 am
Our Lady of Refuge — La Honda
146 Sears Ranch Road, La Honda, CA 94020
Sunday: 10:30 am
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The time between Candlemas and Ash Wednesday is unique in the rhythm of the liturgical year. It is traditionally given the name of "Septuagesima," which means "70th" as in 70 days until Easter. "Septuagesima Sunday" was February 12 this year. From that Sunday, we have 63 days until Easter. This number is rounded up in the liturgical imagination of the Church to the Biblical number of 70, which commemorates the 70 years that the People of Israel spent in the Babylonian Exile. Septuagesima Sunday began our solemn countdown to Easter, which is our return to the Promised Land after the tears of the exile. Next week, we will say more about the spirituality of this liturgical time. This time before Lent is also popularly called "Shrovetide" or "Carnival." Carnival takes its name in the Latin languages from the abstinence from meat ("carnis") that traditionally marked the entire Season of Lent. Thus, before Ash Wednesday, the faithful would consume their meat and other animal products before the Sacred Fast. Hence the eating of pancakes in England and of gumbo and funnel cake in New Orleans! This custom is the origin of the names "Mardi Gras" in French and "Fat Tuesday" in American English. It also is part of the reason why we eat eggs at Easter! In the Catholic culture of Germanic lands, the carnival time before Lent is called "Fastnacht," the eve before the fast. "Shrovetide" takes its name from the English word "to shrive," which means "to hear confessions." As the "Catholic Encyclopedia" tells us, this custom "is sufficiently explained by a sentence in the Anglo-Saxon 'Ecclesiastical Institutes' translated from Theodulphus by Abbot Aelfric about A.D. 1000: 'In the week immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him as he then may hear by his deeds what he is to do [in the way of penance].'" In other words, it was a time to go to confession before Lent in order to receive from the priest the penance that one would observe throughout the Lenten season. As we know from our own times, Shrovetide and Carnival have often degenerated into occasions of sinful behavior. The "Catholic Encyclopedia" tells us: 'The Church repeatedly made efforts to check the excesses of the carnival, especially in Italy. During the sixteenth century in particular a special form of the Forty Hours Prayer was instituted in many places on the Monday and Tuesday of Shrovetide, partly to draw the people away from these dangerous occasions of sin, partly to make expiation for the excesses committed. By a special constitution addressed by Bene-dict XIV to the archbishops and bishops of the Papal States, and headed "Super Bacchanalibus', a plenary indulgence was granted in 1747 to those who took part in the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament which was to be carried out daily for three days during the carnival sea-son." Following this sacred custom of reparation, we will have a Carnival Holy Hour at Our Lady of the Pillar Church from 7:00-8:00 PM on February 28, in order to do penance for our sins and to ask the Lord for the grace of a holy Lenten Fast. Pray for me, Father Joseph Previtali
Confessions Schedule Monday (Lunes) 6:00- 7:00 pm 8:45- 9:30 pm Tuesday (Martes) 7:00- 7:45 am
Wednesday (Miércoles) 7:00– 7:50am Thursday (Jueves) 7:00– 7:50 am 5:30- 6:30 pm Friday (Viernes) 6:00- 7:00 pm
9:00- 10:00 pm Saturday (Sábado)4:00– 5:00pm
Parish Announcements
Sick Relatives & Friends/ Parientes y Amigos Enfermos
Pray that God’s, healing power will fill them with strength and hope. Glenn Gonzales, Joe Ashe, Virginia Shea, Raul Batista, Manuel Arca, Terry R. Fenwick, Geral-dine Medigan, Javier Ramos, Marina Williamson, Mickey Williamson, Alteamor Espejo, Abby Franco, Rachel Thein, John Romero, Pedro Bautista, Donald Thierry, Shiela Santos, Shannon Perez, Don Wright, Harvey Koepf, Jena Losch, Sam Reynal, Duncan Harter, Loretta Duran, Tammy Endsley, Kathy Repetto, Raquel Corona, Rich Perez, Marie Caloca, Claire Simonich, Diana Marcheschi, Greg Miller.
Pray for Our Parishioners Who are Sick
Our Lady of the Pillar Monday Nights Adult Catechism with Father Joe 7:30pm—8:30pm @ New Hall Third Tuesday of the Month Knights of Columbus Meeting Old Hall—7:00pm Tuesday Nights Bible Study 5:30pm– 7:00pm @ Conference Room Miércoles por la Noche Estudio de la Biblia 7:00pm en el Salón Viejo (Old Hall) Saturday Morning Legion of Mary Meeting Conference Room 9:00am– 11:00am Second Sunday of the Month Hospitality after 8:00am Mass (Old Hall) Clases de Bautizo Para Padres y Padrinos El cuarto Viernes del Mes 7:00pm en el Old Hall ( Salon Viejo) Office closed: Monday, February 20, 2017
Opportunity to learn more about our Catholic tradition!
GREGORIAN CHANT CLASS With Fr. Joe Previtali
Thursday, February 23rd, 2017 at 7:00 pm at Our Lady of the Pillar
All are welcome! Community Gregorian
Oportunidad para profundizar su conocimiento de nuestra tradición Católica!
CLASE BILINGUE DEL CANTO GREGORIANO (MUSICA CATOLICA) Con Padre Joe Previtali
Jueves, 23 de Febrero , a las 7:00 pm en la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar
Todos son bienvenidos!
ASH WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE
MARCH 1st. 2017 8:00 am Mass and Ashes at Our Lady of the Pillar 3:30 pm Liturgy of the
Word/ Ashes at Our Lady of the Pillar 7:00 pm Mass/ Ashes at St. Anthony’s, Pescadero (Bilingual) 7:00 pm Misa/ Cenizas en Nuestra Señora del Pilar 7:00 pm Mass/ Ashes at Our Lady of Refuge (La Honda)
Donate by Credit Card? Did you know that you can make a donation to Our Lady of the Pillar using your credit/debit card? Did you know that you can make recurring donations using your credit/debit card? But why would anyone want to do this? A lot of people like to take advantage of credit card rewards, extra mileage, points, cash rebates, etc. Let’s not forget that donations are tax deductible. Of course, those with memory issues can take full advantage of recurring donations. Tell you more? Here’s the inside scoop: Go to the Parish website at http://ourladyofthepillar.org. There’s a Donations tab on the far right. Click the tab and select the “Make a Gift Donation” link. Scroll down the page (you should really read the first half of the page but if you’re in a hurry, scroll) to the “Donate Now” button and click it. This will take you to a website operated by Vanco. Vanco is the approved vendor of the Archdiocese for online financial transactions, super secure. From there, you can select from three different funds to do-nate. You can even donate to all three funds. Your options are the General Fund, the Building Fund and the Annual Ap-peal. Just enter the amount of your donation and the frequen-cy. If you select a weekly, monthly or semi-monthly frequen-cy, you’ll need to select a start date and an end date (the end date is optional, leave this field blank and you can give for the rest of your life). Then hit the “Continue” button. This takes you to the next step. Enter your information and select whether you want to donate with your credit/debit card, checking account or savings account (Wow, so many op-tions!) Enter your card or bank information. At this point, you can save your profile by creating a password. This is optional but saving your profile will allow you to log in at any time and enable you to change or stop a recurring dona-tion, and allow you to view and print your online donation history. Check the “I’m not a robot” box and select the tiles that pop up to confirm that you are an actual human being. No robots, androids, zombies or synthetics allowed! Hit the “Process” button. You should receive a confirmation of your transaction. You’re done! You can go back to relax-ing.
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Saturday EVENING February 18, 2017 5:00pm Joe, Artur & Emilia Goulart + 8:00pm Maria de Jesus Barriga + Sunday February 19, 2017 8:00 am Angelo Giannini + 10:00 am Elias Pacheco + & Family 12:00 pm Por la Parroquia 6:00pm Domingos & Maria Rocha + Monday February 20, 2017 8:00 am Diana Lopes and Jose Valdemar + Tuesday February 21, 2017 8:00am Francisco & Idalina Costa + & Family Wednesday February 22, 2017 8:00 am Manuel A. Pereira + Antonio & Genuina Costa + & Sons Thursday February 23, 2017 8:00 am Frank Vaz Jr. + & Family Friday February 24, 2017 8:00 am Souls in Purgatory Saturday February 25, 2017 8:00 am Manuel & Maria Ferreira + & Parents 5:00pm Joe Lopes, Isabel & Jose Gabriel + 8:00pm Marie Donovan + Sunday February 26, 2017 8:00 am Eduardo & Maria Silveira + 10:00 am Francisco & Idalina Costa + & Family 12:00 pm Margarito Sarabia + (aniversario) 6:00pm Vincent Cozzolino + St. Anthony’s 6:00pm February 18 Paulina Caal + Y Familia 9:00am February 19 Ed & Candance Lilly + 6:00pm February 25 Graciela Barrios + 9:00am February 26 For the Parish Our Lady of Refuge 10:30am February 19 Alda & Tony Capitao+ 10:30am February 26 Dorothy Wylie +
1st Collection 2nd Collection Our Lady of the Pillar $ 4,516 $ 1,573 Our Lady of Refuge $ 230 $ 341 St Anthony’s $ 217 $ 108 Second Collection this week: Religious Education February 26: Annual Appeal March 5: Building Fund March 12: Annual Appeal March 19: Religious Education March 26: Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
St. Patrick’s Day Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner
Sponsored Annually by KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Saturday March 18th New Hall of Our Lady of the Pillar
No Host Cocktails 6:00pm Dinner at 7:00pm Tickets $25.00 each
Children aged 12 to 18 $10.00 12 and under FREE
TRADITIONAL IRISH LIVE MUSIC Lighthouse String Band 50/50 Pot O’ Gold Raffle
$5.00 a ticket or 5 for $20! TICKETS and INFO Brian (650)799-0011
Bob (650) 464-0164 Jim (650) 867-5018
PROCEEDS BENEFIT COUNCIL’S ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Lent Camp Our parish Lent camp, for stu-dents grades 3 through 12, will take place at Our Lady of the Pillar Church on Sunday, March 12, from 1:30 pm to 7:45 pm. Please call the parish office to register for free today. Campamento de Cuaresma Nuestra Parroquia tendrá un Campamento de Cuaresma para estudiantes de 3rd grado a el 12avo grado, que tendrá lugar en Nuestra Se-ñora del Pilar el Domingo 12 de Marzo, de 1:30pm a 7:45pm. Por favor llame a la oficina de la Iglesia para registrarse. El campamento es GRATIS!
CARNIVAL HOLY HOUR Come to Our Lady of the Pillar Church on February 28 at 7:00 pm for a special Carnival Holy Hour to ask for the grace of a holy Lent. We will have a tradi-tional Carnival party after-wards in the Church Hall.
HORA SANTA DE CARNAVAL Venga a la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de el Pilar el 28 de Febrero a las 7:00pm a una Hora Santa para el Carnaval, para pedir por la gracia de una Santa Cuaresma. Tendremos una fiesta de carnaval tradicional después de la Hora Santa en el Salón viejo de la Iglesia.
Art. 8: Whether it was becoming, when Christ was baptized that the Fa-ther’s voice should be heard, bearing witness to the Son? OBJ 1: It would seem that it was unbecoming when Christ was baptized for the Father’s voice to be heard bearing witness to the Son. For the Son and the Holy Ghost, according as they have appeared visibly, are said to have been visibly sent. But it does not become the Father to be sent, as Augustine makes it clear (De Trin. ii). Neither, therefore, (does it become Him) to appear. OBJ 2: Further, the voice gives expression to the word conceived in the heart. But the Father is not the Word. Therefore He is unfittingly mani-fested by a voice. OBJ 3: Further, the Man-Christ did not begin to be Son of God at His baptism, as some heretics have stated: but He was the Son of God from the beginning of His conception. Therefore the Father’s voice should have proclaimed Christ’s Godhead at His nativity rather than at His bap-tism. On the contrary, It is written (Mt. 3:17): “Behold a voice from heaven, saying: This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” I answer that, As stated above (A[5]), that which is accomplished in our baptism should be manifested in Christ’s baptism, which was the exem-plar of ours. Now the baptism which the faithful receive is hallowed by the invocation and the power of the Trinity; according to Mt. 28:19: “Go ye and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” Wherefore, as Jerome says on Mt. 3:16,17: “The mystery of the Trinity is shown forth in Christ’s baptism. our Lord Himself is baptized in His human nature; the Holy Ghost de-scended in the shape of a dove: the Father’s voice is heard bearing wit-ness to the Son.” Therefore it was becoming that in that baptism the Fa-ther should be manifested by a voice. Reply OBJ 1: The visible mission adds something to the apparition, to wit, the authority of the sender. Therefore the Son and the Holy Ghost who are from another, are said not only to appear, but also to be sent visibly. But the Father, who is not from another, can appear indeed, but cannot be sent visibly. Reply OBJ 2: The Father is manifested by the voice, only as producing the voice or speaking by it. And since it is proper to the Father to produce the Word---that is, to utter or to speak---therefore was it most becoming that the Father should be manifested by a voice, because the voice desig-nates the word. Wherefore the very voice to which the Father gave utter-ance bore witness to the Sonship of the Word. And just as the form of the dove, in which the Holy Ghost was made manifest, is not the Nature of the Holy Ghost, nor is the form of man in which the Son Himself was manifested, the very Nature of the Son of God, so neither does the voice belong to the Nature of the Word or of the Father who spoke. Hence (Jn. 5:37) our Lord says: “Neither have you heard His,” i.e. the Father’s, “voice at any time, nor seen His shape.” By which words, as Chrysostom says (Hom. xl in Joan.), “He gradually leads them to the knowledge of the philosophical truth, and shows them that God has neither voice nor shape, but is above all such forms and utterances.” And just as the whole Trinity made both the dove and the human nature assumed by Christ, so also they formed the voice: yet the Father alone as speaking is manifested by the voice, just as the Son alone assumed human nature, and the Holy Ghost alone is manifested in the dove, as Augustine [*Fulgentius, De Fide ad Petrum] makes evident. Reply OBJ 3: It was becoming that Christ’s Godhead should not be pro-claimed to all in His nativity, but rather that It should be hidden while He was subject to the defects of infancy. But when He attained to the perfect age, when the time came for Him to teach, to work miracles, and to draw men to Himself then did it behoove His Godhead to be attested from on high by the Father’s testimony, so that His teaching might become the more credible. Hence He says (Jn. 5:37): “The Father Himself who sent Me, hath given testimony of Me.” And specially at the time of baptism, by which men are born again into adopted sons of God; since God’s sons by adoption are made to be like unto His natural Son, according to Rm. 8:29: “Whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be made conforma-ble to the image of His Son.” Hence Hilary says (Super Matth. ii) that when Jesus was baptized, the Holy Ghost descended on Him, and the Father’s voice was heard saying: “‘This is My beloved Son,’ that we might know, from what was accomplished in Christ, that after being washed in the waters of baptism the Holy Ghost comes down upon us from on high, and that the Father’s voice declares us to have become the adopted sons of God.”
Queridos hermanos y hermanas en Cristo, El tiempo entre la Candelaria y el miércoles de ceniza es único en el rit-mo del año litúrgico. Tradicionalmente se da el nombre de "Septuagésima", que significa "70" al igual que 70 días hasta la Pascua. "Domingo de septuagésima" fue el 12 de Febrero de este año. Desde ese Domingo, tenemos 63 días hasta la Pascua. Este número se redondea hacia arriba en la imaginación litúrgica de la Iglesia en el número Bíblico de 70, que conmemora los 70 años que el pueblo de Israel pasó en el exilio babilónico. El domingo de Septuagési-mo comienza la cuenta regresiva solemne para la Pascua, que es nuestro regreso a la tierra prometida después de las lágrimas del exilio. La próxi-ma semana, vamos hablar mas acerca de la espiritualidad de este tiempo litúrgico. Este tiempo antes de la Cuaresma es también llamado popular-mente "Carnaval". Carnaval toma su nombre en los idiomas latinos de la abstinencia de carne ("carnis") que tradicionalmente marcaron toda la Temporada de Cuaresma. Por lo tanto, antes del Miércoles de Ceniza, el fiel consumiría su carne y otros productos de origen animal antes de el Sagrado Ayuno ¡Por lo tanto, el comer panqueques en Inglaterra y gum-bo y un tipo de torta en New Orleans! Esta costumbre es el origen de los nombres "Mardi gras" en francés y "Martes Gordo" en Inglés americano. ¡También es parte de la razón por la que comemos los huevos de Pascua! En la cultura católica de origen de las tierras de Alemania, la época de carnaval antes de la cuaresma es llamado "Fastnacht", la víspera antes del ayuno. "Carnaval" toma su nombre de la palabra inglesa "a shrive," que significa ""oír confesiones”. Como la "Enciclopedia católica" nos dice, esta cos-tumbre "se explica suficientemente por una frase en el anglosajón 'Institutos eclesiásticos' traducidos del Theodulphus por Abad Aelfric cerca de 1000 A.D.: 'En la semana inmediatamente antes de la Cuaresma cada uno debe ir a su confesor y admitir sus pecados y el confesor debe ir así oír la confesión ya que entonces puede oír por sus hechos lo que debe hacer [en forma de penitencia]'".En otras palabras, había un tiempo para confesarse antes de la Cuaresma para recibir del sacerdote la penitencia que se observaría durante toda la Cuaresma. Como lo sabemos por nuestros tiempos, el carnaval a menudo en ocasio-nes han degenerado un comportamiento pecaminoso. La "Enciclopedia católica" nos dice: ' La Iglesia repetidamente hizo esfuerzos para contro-lar los excesos del carnaval, especialmente en Italia. Durante el siglo XVI, en particular, una forma especial de la Oración de Cuarenta Horas fue instituida en muchos lugares en el Lunes y Martes de Carnaval, en parte para apartar a la gente de estas ocasiones peligrosas del pecado y en parte para hacer expiación por los excesos cometidos. Por una constitu-ción especial dirigida por Benedicto XIV, a los arzobispos y a los obis-pos de los Estados Pontificios, y titulada "Super Bacchanalibus', la indul-gencia plenaria se concedió en 1747 a quienes participaron en la exposi-ción del Santísimo Sacramento, que iba a llevarse a cabo a diario por tres días durante la época de carnaval". Siguiendo esta costumbre sagrada de la reparación, tendremos una hora Santa de Carnaval en Nuestra Señora del Pilar de 7:00pm a 8:00pm el 28 de Febrero, con el fin de hacer penitencia por nuestros pecados y pedir al Señor la gracia de un ayuno Santo de Cuaresma. Oren por mi, Padre José Previtali
