Sat Aug 28
5:00 pm +Rose Baca
Sun Aug 29
8:00 am +Parishioners by our Pastor
9:30 am +Mary Wozniak
11:15 am +Christine Natividad
5:00 pm Living & Deceased of Roldan &
Florentino Families
Mon Aug 30
9:00 am +Judy Oppio
Tue Aug 31
9:00 am +Rita Casanova & Ricardo Mamaradlo
Wed Sept 1
9:00 am Communion Service
5:30 pm +Evelyn Whittemore
Thu Sept 2
9:00 am +Roland Creasy
5:30 pm Communion Service
Fri Sept 3
9:00 am +Caroline & William Dewane
Sat Sept 4
5:00 pm +Carol Dietz
TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
Theme: He Who Humbles
Himself Shall Be Exalted
Dear Parishioners,
Monday, many of our elementary and
secondary young persons will be returning to their
classrooms. It is our prayer that they and their
teachers will have a joyful year in the adventure of learning.
May our youngsters do as the child Jesus, “(He) advanced in
wisdom and age and favor before God and man.” Luke 2:52
Last week I mentioned some considerations regarding
funerals. Today, we might discuss helpful means of grief
resolution. Funerals are an important means of ritualizing our
“good-bye” to a loved one. It can be helpful to family mem-
bers when one leaves instructions as to how one wishes the
funeral and burial to be. When families opt for “pre-need”
mortuary and cemetery programs, they will likely make more
reasoned decisions then when the need does come.
When I was a seminarian at St. Patrick’s Seminary in
Menlo Park, each year we were given a pastoral assignment in
the Bay Area. It is their custom to strive to stretch our
experiences. Since up to that time 26 years ago I had worked
exclusively with teenagers in California public schools, I
received an assignment to initiate a grief counseling program
for Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, a cemetery where there
are an estimated 400,000 buried. Each Friday afternoon we
gathered at St. Anne’s on Judah Street in San Francisco. I will
describe below some of the means which we then explored for
grief resolution. We came to realize that there are two types
of persons, those who have experienced a significant loss and
those who eventually will. Most persons we found were not
ready to participate in grief sharing or counseling until about
three months following their loss. Then, they would begin “to
tell the story” of their loss to any attentive ear. Each time they
told the story, it would be slightly different. Finally, some-
times after the telling for a hundred times, what seemed
incomprehensible began to make sense and closure took
place.
Persons who were caretakers and family members of
one dying of cancer, for example, often experienced a readi-
ness to hand their beloved over to the Lord, as contrasted with
a sudden, unexpected death. In either situation, close rela-
tives and friends of the deceased can expect the grief process
to drain them of energy for a long period of time and they
cannot expect to accomplish as many activities as quickly and
easily as previously. It is important, therefore, for grieving
persons to take good care of themselves, to eat right and
exercise well, to welcome others’ invitations and their expres-
sions of caring and love. They must realize that life will
never be the same again without the loved one, but accept the
reality that life must go on.
Many described their loss as a deep, deep wound
inside. Persons having very invasive surgery can expect
physical healing and recovery within perhaps a month.
However, the emotional wound of loss can take much longer
and seem even more intense when anniversaries and tradi-
tional family gatherings take place without the loved one’s
presence. If the grieving person previously had an underlying
experience of depression, the depression may intensify and
private counseling be recommended.
continued on next page.
Monday: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5; Luke 4:16-30
Tuesday: 1 Corinthians 2:10b-16; Luke 4:31-37
Wednesday: 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; Luke 4:38-44
Thursday: 1 Corinthians 3:18-23; Luke 5:1-11
Friday: 1 Corinthians 4:1-5; Luke 5:33-39
Saturday: 1 Corinthians 4:6b-15; Luke 6:1-5
Sunday: Wisdom 9:13-18b; Philemon 9-10, 12-17; Luke 14:25-33
Readings for the week of August 30, 2010
Your prayers are needed for the recovery of the following people:
Eucharistic Liturgies for the week of August 29, 2010
Please call when they recover, so the name may be removed from the list.
LEARN YOUR FAITH: We are gathering each
Thursday at 7:00 p.m. in the parish hall to probe and
reflect upon the readings for the coming Sunday with
Fr. Norm. We are also studying the Creed section in the Cat-
echism of the Catholic Church. Everyone is welcome, including
those who are interested in joining the Catholic Church!
Fuest Family, Kuykandall Family, Leo Andreozzi, Dale
Richards, Bowers Family, Kathleen Foley, Liz Downer, Cleo
Hudson, Frediani Family, Ruby Sandoval, Reda Family, Ann
Cefalu, Nina Jones, Carol Morgan, Emma Hittle, Petty Family,
Corinna Osgood, Gloria Tyndall, Chicago Family, Sr. Mary Vianney,
Julie Nemitz, Christine Echeverria, Tony Macaluso, Pat Nees, Middleton
Family, Londos Family, Marsha Naten, John Gerbel, Marie Gardner,
Rene Carlson, Baby Catherine, Larry Sieber, Beeson Family, Noli Vidal,
Donna Casci, Kristy Burch-Weinberg, Carrara Family, Alfredo Panelli,
Lupe Garcia, Capurro Family, Debbie Earling, Schmaltz Family,
Angelina Marie, Mary Hutchison, Emily Taylor, Young Family, Chris
Watson, Cecelia Chapman, Lori Formento, Larry Spier, Lobo Family,
Rivard Family, Seddon Family, O’Brien Family, Tami Giovanetti, Rahul
Pinto, Marie Wilson, Amber Gibson, Pat Medina Family, Mott Family,
Teri McDonough, Walter Tonlianovich, Jack Aycock, McNeely Family,
John Hill, William Tamantini, Beau Regan, Amelia Sober, Vida Abutal,
Leon Micheline, Urica Bianca Nuguid, Ray Siverson, Kathy Reiner, Bob
Rasmussen, Carolyn Walsh, Laura Balmut, Spurgeon Family, Alex
Stukey, Midge Moore, Francis Balleweg
