Monsignor Michael Padazinski, Pastor Cathy Plocki, Liturgical Coordinator Barbara Cavalier, Hospitality Coordinator Judy Kostelni, Director of Religious Education

Agata Konopka, Parish Office

Mass Schedule Weekdays: 8:00 a.m.,

Tuesday through Friday Saturday Vigil: 5:00 p.m.

Sunday: 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. & 11:30 a.m.

Last Sunday of the Month: 10:00 a.m. Family Mass

December 31, 2017

St. Patrick Parish 114 King Street, Larkspur, CA 94939

Email: parish@stpatricksmarin.org Phone: 415-924-0600 Fax: 415-924-3617 www.stpatricksparish.com

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

Saturday 4:00 p.m.- 4:30 p.m.

or another time by appointment.

St. Patrick’s Thrift Shop

457 Magnolia Avenue Larkspur CA 94939

Phone: 415-924-5393

Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday:

10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Thursday: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Saturday: Noon - 4:00 p.m. Parish Office Hours: 8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. (Monday—Friday)

St. Patrick School of Religion

415-924-0600 x15

St. Patrick K-8 School 415-924-0501

Terry Rosser & Phyllis Rybensky, Helping Hands Coordinators Daniel Savio, Musician Deborah Benedict, Adult Choir Director Linda Kinkade, School Principal

Parish Staff

The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph

Mass Intentions December 30 - January 7

Saturday December 30

5:00 pm People of the Parish

Sunday December 31

8:00 am 10:00 am 11:30 am

Eileen Pritzlaff Bob Urban † Michael McCullagh †

Monday January 1

9:00 am

Fr. Hugh O’Donnell †

Tuesday January 2

8:00 am

Sean Hughes

Wednesday January 3

8:00 am

Gary Farber †

Thursday January 4

8:00 am

Helen Shellenberger †

Friday January 5

8:00 am

Amelia Raffo †

Saturday January 6

5:00 pm Helen Shellenberger †

Sunday January 7

8:00 am 10:00 am 11:30 am

Dave Seyler Nunes Rosa & Silva Family † People of the Parish

We welcome into our faith community Anthony Robert Marotto, son of Stephen and Anjuli Marotto, and Shane Richard Moylan, son of James and Danielle Moylan, who were baptized this weekend at St. Patrick’s. We pray for blessings on them and their families.

St. Patrick’s Thrift Shop

Happy New Year and special thanks to our donors, our customers,

and our wonderful volunteers for your amazing generosity and support during 2017!

The shop will reopen Tuesday, January 2nd and we will be very happy to again accept your dona ons

beginning Wednesday, January 3rd... Wednesdays 10am to 3pm and Saturdays 12 to 3pm.

Our Holy Father’s Monthly Intention:

January 2018 Evangelization: Religious Minorities in Asia

That Christians, and other religious minorities in Asian countries, may be able to practice their faith in full freedom.

Thank you! Thanks to the many parishioners and friends of Saint Patrick’s who worked very hard to make our Christmas celebrations so prayerful and beautiful. Many hands and hours went into making our church shine, both inside and out. I am especially grateful to Stephen Conner for decorating our church on the outside. I do hope all of you have had the opportunity to pass by Saint Patrick in the evening to see the beautiful lights surrounding our church. Cindy Niven had a hand in preparing our beautiful creche inside our church along with decorating the altar with beautiful flowers in honor of our Lord’s nativity. Our parish choir, under the direction of Deborah Benedict and accompanist Daniel Savio outdid themselves – the music and singing were angelic and added much to our worship. I am also very grateful for the generous donations many of you made to our church over the holidays. Your financial support will help sustain the many wonderful programs we enjoy here at the parish. Your continued support will also help insure that the good news of Jesus Christ continues to be heralded in our local community of Larkspur and beyond. This parish community is an inspiration to me and I look forward to another wonderful year ahead growing in faith alongside each of you, my fellow parishioners. With warm good wishes and God’s blessings on you and your family and friends, I wish each of you a happy and healthy New Year! Monsignor Michael Padazinski

PRAYER LIST

If you have someone you would like to include, please contact the Parish Office.

Donating to St. Patrick Church Online

The church relies on an increase in contributions to support special programs and basic operating expenses. Please be as generous as you can. For your convenience, we offer online giving through the church website. It’s easy to donate! Simply go to our website, www.stpatricklarkspur.org. On the homepage click on ‘Donate,’ and you will be directed to VANCO. Please call the parish office with any questions.

Your donations to St. Patrick Parish

are always most appreciated!

1260 AM

Clericus Classic Basketball Game

Friday, January 5, 7:00 pm Sacred Heart Cathedral

Preparatory, 1055 Ellis St., San Francisco

Holy Hoopsters, Batman! It’s the Clericus Classic. Following on the success of last year’s basketball game of priests and seminarians, archdiocesan clergy and future clergy will lace up their sneakers and take to the hardwood again, on Friday January 5, in the gym at Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep. Parking is available in the Cathedral parking lot, a block from the school. Tickets $7 on the website: sfarchdiocese.org/basketball.

Traditional Latin Mass January 4, 2018, 5:00 PM

St. Sebastian Church There will be candlelight celebration of a Traditional Latin Mass at St. Sebastian Parish at 5:00 PM on Thursday, January 4th, 2018. In the Traditional Roman calendar, the Christmas season ends just before Vespers on January 5th. Thus, all the beautiful Gregorian Chants of Christmas Day will be the same ones sung this evening. Our celebrant will be Fr. Joseph Previtali. We invite you to come and spend a quiet evening of worship and meditation after all the activity of the Christmas season, a beautiful time of transition between the Birth and the Epiphany of Our Lord. Hot chocolate and cookies will be served following. Info 415-454-5663.

51ST WORLD DAY OF PEACE 1 JANUARY 2018

Peace to all people and to all nations on earth! Peace, which the angels proclaimed to the shepherds on Christmas night, is a profound aspiration for everyone, for each individual and all peoples, and especially for those who most keenly suffer its absence. Among these whom I constantly keep in my thoughts and prayers, I would once again mention the over 250 million migrants worldwide, of whom 22.5 million are refugees. Pope Benedict XVI, my beloved predecessor, spoke of them as “men and women, children, young and elderly people, who are searching for somewhere to live in peace.” In order to find that peace, they are willing to risk their lives on a journey that is often long and perilous, to endure hardships and suffering, and to encounter fences and walls built to keep them far from their goal. In a spirit of compassion, let us embrace all those fleeing from war and hunger, or forced by discrimination, persecution, poverty and environmental degradation to leave their homelands. We know that it is not enough to open our hearts to the suffering of others. Much more remains to be done before our brothers and sisters can once again live peacefully in a safe home. Welcoming others requires concrete commitment, a network of assistance and goodwill, vigilant and sympathetic attention, the responsible management of new and complex situations that at times compound numerous existing problems, to say nothing of resources, which are always limited. By practicing the virtue of prudence, government leaders should take practical measures to welcome, promote, protect, integrate and, “within the limits allowed by a correct understanding of the common good, to permit [them] to become part of a new society.” Leaders have a clear responsibility towards their own communities, whose legitimate rights and harmonious development they must ensure, lest they become like the rash builder who miscalculated and failed to complete the tower he had begun to construct. — excerpts from the Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the celebration of the 51st World Day of Peace, 1 January 2018.

Looking for ONE Good Aide! St. Patrick School, a K to 8 Catholic school in Larkspur, is looking for a Teacher’s Aide for our Jr. High. The ideal candidate should be organized, a self-starter, comfortable with young teens, able to correct papers, and proofread accurately. In addition, the ideal candidate must possess basic office skills (Xeroxing, filing, computer skills). Flexibility is important. Other details: Work days: Monday - Thursday: 10:10 to 3:15 Wednesday and Thursday: 10:30 to 3:15 Weekly hours: 18 hours 10 minutes per week Additional duties: Two recess yard duties per week Day off: Friday

Our environment is warm, friendly, supportive, and fun! If you are interested send resume to e_ogden@stpatricksmarin.org.

traditional yet innovative

Faith-based Curriculum Sacramental Preparation Next Generation Science Standards Honors High School Placement Service Learning Program Accelerated Math and Language Arts Programs Growth Mindset Philosophy Student-Teacher Ratio 7 to 1 Instructional Aides In All Classes Mindfulness Training After School Academy Homework Club n Renaissance Learning Resource and Enrichment Specialists

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is held on the First

Fridays of the month from 8:30am to 3:00pm.

Adoration concludes with Benediction at 3:00pm.

Sign up for some quality, alone time with the Lord this Friday, January 5th.

Sign up sheet in vestibule of the church.

Mary, Mother of God

Mary the virgin, the spouse of Joseph, chosen by God from the first moment of her existence to be the mother of his incarnate Son. She is the “blessed among women” (Lk 1:42)(…) Her whole life was spent in the light of the Lord, within the radius of his name and of the face of God incarnate in Jesus, the “blessed fruit of her womb” (…) fully intent upon guarding and meditating in her heart upon everything concerning her son Jesus (Lk 2:19, 51). The mystery of her divine motherhood (…) contains in superabundant measure the gift of grace that all human motherhood bears within it, so much so that the fruitfulness of the womb has always been associated with God’s blessing. The Mother of God is the first of the blessed, and it is she who bears the blessing; she is the woman who received Jesus into herself and brought him forth for the whole human family. In the words of the liturgy: “without losing the glory of virginity, [she] brought forth into the world the eternal light, Jesus Christ our Lord” (Preface I of the Blessed Virgin Mary). — Benedict XVI, January 1, 2012