Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church 300 Fulton Street ▪ Redwood City, CA 94062 Tel. (650) 366-3802 ▪ Fax: (650) 366-1421 [email protected] [email protected] ▪ www.mountcarmel.org

September 25, 2016 Parish Center Hours Monday - Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Parish Staff

Pastor: Rev. Ulysses D’Aquila - 306-9583 Deacon: Rev. Mr. Thomas J. Boyle - 366-3802 Principal: Teresa Anthony - 366-6127 Development: Nori Jabba - 366-8817 Kid’s Place: Maureen Arnott – 366-6587 CCD: Magdalena Hernández - 368-8237 Youth Confirmation: Judy Draper - 368-8237 Director of Music: Bianca Remlinger - 366-3802 Spanish Music Ministry: Andres Garcia -366 -3802 Administrative Assistant: Alba Canelo – 366 -3802

Mass Schedule Sunday: 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 pm (Español), and 5 pm Saturday: 8: 15 am and 5:00 pm Vigil Mass Monday to Friday 8:15 am Reconciliation/Confession Saturday 3:30 –4:30 pm

Baptisms / Bautismos Call parish at least two months in advance. Llame a la parroquia a lo menos dos meses antes.

Weddings / Bodas Call parish at least six months in advance. Llame a la parroquia a lo menos seis meses antes.

Mission Statement Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish is a Christ-centered community in the Roman Catholic tradition. We try to share the Good News of salvation with others. As a diverse community, we value and respect individual differences. As God’s people, we gather in the Spirit to pray, to celebrate the sacraments, to teach, to learn, to console, to rejoice, to minister and to renew our faith with one another.

Notes from the Pastor

Notas del Párroco

On Thursday of this week we’ll be celebrating the memorial of St. Vincent de Paul. As all of our parishioners know, we host here at Our Lady of Mount Carmel a very active Conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. We have a food pantry located on the parish grounds, and the Society has regular meetings on the 3rd Thursday of the month. On the fifth Sundays of the month, we take up a second collection that is given to the St. Vincent de Paul Society to help with their apostolate of serving the poor. Participation in the Society can help us to live our faith in a more active way, putting into practice Jesus’ command to serve the needy. The group meets at 7:00 p.m. on the third Thursday of every month for no more than an hour, so the time commitment is not great. The good works of the Society flow from the spiritual life of the members. This active spirituality is the legacy of the Society’s patron saint, Vincent de Paul (1581-1660). Vincent was born to a peasant family and he early in life discerned his priestly vocation. After ordination, he became a court chaplain to a wealthy family and served in a parish on the outskirts of Paris. During this time he came to know another future saint, Francis de Sales, whose famous book, Introduction to the Devout Life, had a profound influence on him. He soon felt compelled to do something to alleviate the sufferings of the poor and the sick whom he saw when he left the confines of the court. Vincent formed a group made up of women who named themselves Servants of the Poor. This initial group continued to grow and to branch out, developing into a now familiar religious order, the Daughters of Charity, who still minister to the needy today. Vincent hoped to form a parallel group for men, but this did not come about during his lifetime. It was a young French scholar, Antoine Frédéric Ozanam, who in 1833 established the first Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Ozanam was eager to promote Catholic life among intellectuals who were becoming alienated from the Church. He was also deeply moved by the plight of the thousands of people who were living in poverty in Paris during the early stages of the Industrial Revolution. The new St. Vincent de Paul Society was the means by which dedicated laypeople could gather to pray and then mobilize to help the poor. Today, the Society has spread to more than a hundred countries. Here in the United States, it is widely known for the used clothing and furniture stores it operates as well as for the numerous charitable activities it promotes. The individual parish conferences such as ours are meant to serve the needy locally by home visits, through prayer, and by various acts of mercy, all in the spirit of St. Vincent de Paul, Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, and of our Lord Jesus Christ himself. Fr. Ulysses

Este jueves celebraremos la fiesta de San Vicente de Paúl. Como muchos saben, tenemos aquí en Monte Carmelo una Conferencia muy activa de San Vicente de Paúl. Hay una despensa de alimentos en la parroquia, y la Sociedad tiene reuniones cada tercer jueves del mes. Cuando hay un quinto domingo, recaudamos una segunda colecta para ayudar a la Sociedad con su apostolado de servicio a los pobres. La participación en la Sociedad puede ayudarnos a vivir nuestra fe de una manera más activa, poniendo en práctica los mandamientos de Jesús de servir a los necesitados. El grupo se reúne a las 7:00 p.m. el tercer jueves de cada mes por una hora, por lo que el compromiso de tiempo no es muy grande. Las buenas obras de la Sociedad se derivan de la vida espiritual de los miembros. Esta espiritualidad activa es el legado del patrono de la Sociedad, Vicente de Paúl (15811660). Vicente nació en una familia de campesinos. De joven discernió su vocación sacerdotal. Después de su ordenación, se convirtió en capellán de una familia rica y sirvió en una parroquia en las afueras de París. Durante este tiempo conoció a otro futuro santo, Francisco de Sales, cuyo famoso libro, Introducción a la Vida Devota, tuvo una profunda influencia sobre él. Pronto se sintió obligado a hacer algo para aliviar el sufrimiento de los pobres y los enfermos que vio cuando salió de los límites de la corte. Vicente formó un grupo de mujeres que se llamaron Siervas de los Pobres. Este grupo inicial siguió creciendo y luego, se convirtió en una orden religiosa ya familiar, las Hijas de la Caridad, que todavía sirven a los necesitados. Vicente de Paúl quería formar un grupo para los hombres, pero esto no ocurrió durante su vida. Un joven estudioso francés, Antonio Federico Ozanam, que en 1833 estableció la primera Sociedad de San Vicente de Paúl. Ozanam estaba deseoso de promover la vida católica entre los intelectuales que estaban alienados de la Iglesia. También se sintió profundamente conmovido por la situación difícil de las personas extremadamente pobres que vivían en en París durante las primeras etapas de la revolución industrial. La nueva Sociedad de San Vicente de Paúl fue un medio por el cual los laicos podrían reunirse para orar y luego movilizarse para ayudar a los pobres. Hoy en día, la Sociedad se ha extendido a muchos países. Aquí en los Estados Unidos, es bien conocido por sus tiendas de ropa y muebles usados, así como por las muchas actividades de caridad que promueven. Las conferencias parroquiales como la nuestra tienen el propósito de servir a los necesitados por medio de visitas a sus hogares, a través de la oración, y por diversos actos de misericordia, todo en el espíritu de San Vicente de Paúl, el Beato Federico Ozanam, y de nuestro Señor Jesucristo. Padre Ulises

Grand Kermesse Hoy: Domingo 25 de septiembre a partir de las 10:30 a.m. Habrá antojitos mexicanos, pupusas, aguas frescas y postres. Tendremos lotería, brincolín y música. Fondos recaudados serán para la fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe.

Welcome!! Women’s Club Invitation October 5th 6:30pm – Small Hall We are excited to have our October dinner catered by: 3Pigs BBQ of San Carlos. Donʼt miss this special night of fun and a delicious meal. OLMC Womenʼs Club

meets on the first Wed. of the month.

Water for Tanzania!

Help our brothers and sisters in Kiraeni to build a cistern to hold drinking water. The village of 5,000 continues to suffer from severe drought and families in the village must travel by foot several miles each day to collect drinking water in large buckets. Our goal is to raise $20,000 to help them build a cistern to hold 150,000 gallons of rainwater collected from the roof of the church. To date the school and parish community have raised $4,800 and we hope to collect a total of $20,000 by January so that we can hand deliver the funds. Please make checks payable to Mount Carmel Church and put Sister Parish in the memo line. Want more information? Join us for our meeting Oct. 3 at 7pm in the Parish Center. Contact Lucinda Dei Rossi at 366-9604 with any questions.

Drivers Needed Second Harvest Food Bank sponsors “Operation Brown Bag,” a program that provides free groceries for the needy. One of the distribution sites is at Fair Oaks Community Center at 2600 Middlefield Road in Redwood City. We are in need of volunteers to help deliver groceries to approximately 11 Redwood City Seniors who are unable to come to the Community center. Please contact Dennis Gilroy at (650) 298-8036 or at Gilroy. [email protected] if you can help.

Women over 21 invited. $20 .

Archdiocesan Annual Appeal 2016 Thank all of you who have contributed to the Archbishop Annual Appeal. Our parish assessment this year is $74,614. To date we have received $47,202. Our new balance $27,412. Please consider how you can help us meet our goal. For those who have not, would you take one of the brochures and consider what you might do to help us make our goal?

2016 PRIESTS’ RETIREMENT FUND Priesthood is a Gift from God This Sunday, September 25 the 2nd collection will be for the Priests’ Retirement Fund. Priesthood is a lifelong vocation. Whether still active in ministry or not, our retired priests make Christ present. Every aspect of the life and ministry of a priest is a gift from God. Make a generous gift to the Priests Retirement Fund Special Collection. “We give thanks to God always for all of you…” Thesalonians 1: 2

Saturday, September 24, 2016 5:00 PM Alfred Schneider † Sunday, September 25, 2016 08:00 AM Pro Populo 10:00 AM James Murphy † 12:00 PM Patricia Villa (Bendiciones en su cumpleaños) 05:00 PM Carmen Lutz †, Sammy & Vanessa Samson † Monday, September 26, 2016 8:15 AM Ana Josefa Palomo & Maybelle Melendez † Tuesday, September 27, 2016 8:15 AM Mary Ann Appleby (health) Wednesday, September 28, 2016 8:15 AM Pope Francis (Int.) Thursday, September 29, 2016 8:15 AM Flood Victims Friday, September 30, 2016 8:15 AM Tim Norman † Saturday, October 1, 2016 8:15 AM Pro Populo

THIS WEEK AT MT. CARMEL Sunday, September 25, 2016 CCD English 8:45 am CCD Parents Meeting 8:50 am Children’s Liturgy 10:00 am Monday, September 26, 2016 Charismatic Leaders 7:00 pm Tuesday, September 27, 2016 Men’s Basketball 8:30 pm Wednesday, September 28, 2016 CCD Spanish 6:30 pm Charismatic Group 7:00 pm Thursday, September 29, 2016 Good Grief 6:00 pm CCD Spanish 6:30 pm Ensayo Coro Hispano 7:00 pm

School Small Hall Chapel Parish Center Large Hall School Large Hall Old Chapel School Parish Center

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Monday: Ss. Cosmas and Damian Tuesday: St. Vincent de Paul Wednesday: St. Lawrence Ruiz and Companions; St. Wenceslaus Thursday: Ss. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels Friday: St. Jerome Saturday: St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus; First Saturday

GOOD GRIEF MINISTRY The loss of every loved one creates many changes, challenges and pain. “Good Grief”, an ongoing support group, meets every Thursday at the Parish Center, from 6:00-7:30 p.m. We care. We share. Do come.

HOMEBOUND MINISTRY If someone in your family is homebound, lives nearby and is unable to attend Mass, but would like to received the Eucharist, please contact Julie O’Leary at (650) 361-8681. Communion ministers are needed to bring the Eucharist to homebound parishioners. Please call Julie O’Leary if you would like to partici-

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OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL #919128 300 Fulton St. Redwood City, CA 94062 CONTACT PERSON Alba L. Canelo, Bulletin Editor: 650-366-3802 Fr. Ulysses D’Aquila, Pastor: 650-306-9583 EMAIL ADDRESS [email protected] SOFTWARE Microsoft ®Publisher 2007 Adobe®Acrobat®X Window7® PRINTER Toshiba e studio 3055c TRANSMISSION TIME By 11:00 a.m. On Wednesday SUNDAY OF PUBLICATION Sept 25, 2016 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 6 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS