Church of the Transfiguration 4000 E. Castro Valley Blvd., Castro Valley, CA 94552-4908

(510) 538-7941 Fax (510) 538-7983 E-mail: transfig_office@sbcglobal.net Website: www.transfigchurch.com October 5, 2014

Rev. Mario L. Borges, Pastor ● Rev. Terence O’Malley, Parochial Administrator Deacon Martin J. Leach ● Deacon Timothy L. Moore ● Deacon Burton J. Rigley

LITURGICAL MINISTRY: Liturgy Coordinator, Sean Cooper Eucharistic Ministers, Stephen and Carina Kowalewski Lectors, Barbara Mehan Altar Servers, Alicia Antonio Children’s Liturgy, Michelle Gilman

FINANCE COUNCIL: Chairman, Mark Zaleski

PARISH ORGANIZATIONS: Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), 60 Plus or Minus Club, Hospitality Committee

SAINT VINCENT de PAUL SOCIETY: (510) 274-0830 Serving our community.

SICK & HOMEBOUND MINISTRY: Claudia Paquette, (510) 537-8986

STEWARDSHIP: Chairperson, Ed Coelho, (510) 881-5705

WINGS “Women in God’s Spirit”: Bobbie Blackard, (510) 581-4149

HALL MANAGER: Ann McAusland, (510) 239-7941

YOUTH MINISTRY: Sean Cooper, (510) 581-5870 or Transfig_Youth@sbcglobal.net

PARISH OFFICE: Phone: (510) 538-7941 Fax: (510) 538-7983 Hours: 8:00 a.m. — 4:30 p.m., Monday-Thursday (Closed between 12:00 & 1:00 p.m.) Friday, 9:00 a.m. — 12:00 Noon - Saturday & Sunday—Closed Secretary, Gloria Meeker Secretary/Bookkeeper, Phyllis Moore

SCHEDULE OF MASSES Saturdays 4:00 p.m. Sundays 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. (Except First Fridays - 9:30 a.m.) Communion Service - Saturdays, 8:00 a.m.

CONFESSIONS Saturdays 3:00-3:45 p.m.

BAPTISMS: Pre-baptismal class is required. Class is held the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. in the Marian Room, Parish Hall. Please call the Parish Office, 538-7941, to register.

MATRIMONY: Six months advance notice required. Please call the parish office. WEDDING COORDINATOR: Mel Speed (510) 909-9334 or melspeed@live.com FUNERALS: Please contact the funeral home of your choice and then the parish office. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Director, Patrice Ballinger (510) 537-1502 or TransfigCCD@aol.com

RCIA: Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults Director, Martin Mijalski. Please call the parish office.

MUSIC MINISTRY: Director, Alexander Katsman (510) 538-7941, Ext. 302 or Transfig_Music@sbcglobal.net

Mission Statement: “Transfiguring Our Community Through Faith”

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time October 5, 2014

Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. — Philippians 4:6

Transfiguration Catholic Church

Mass Intentions (October 4-11, 2014) Sat. 4:00p.m. Angel & Carina Pelayo Sun. 7:30a.m. For the People 9:00a.m. Giuseppe & Fine Poggio 11:00a.m. James Catrina Mon. 8:00a.m. Special Intention for Merritt & Margaret Gust Tues. 8:00a.m. Special Intention for Rose Marie Ramos Wed. 8:00a.m. May Feeney Thurs. 8:00a.m. Daniel Royer Conroy Fri. 8:00a.m. Kay Murray Sat. 4:00p.m. Alice Sullivan

Stewardship Corner The collection total for the weekend of: September 27th & 28th—$7,917.00 (compared to $12,000 average weekly stewardship goal) Peter Pence’s—$369.00 Thank you for continuing in your stewardship role of providing for the upkeep of our parish community.

October Birthdays Happy Birthday to you, May God Bless you.

Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, May God Bless you!

Remember Transfiguration in your Will and Living Trust

Coffee and Donuts Nhat & Kathleen Nguyen will be hosting coffee and donuts after the 9:00 Mass this Sunday. Stop by and enjoy the fellowship.

Baptism Class The next Baptism class will be

Tuesday, October 14, 2014. Please call the Parish Office to register.

Adult Bible Study Join us on Monday evening, October 6th in the Marian Room of the Parish Hall,7:00-8:30 p.m. No sign-up required, just drop in. Free will offering.

TODAY’S READINGS: First Reading: Isaiah 5:1-7 Second Reading: Philippians 4:6-9 Psalm: 80 Gospel: Matthew 21:33-43 READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Gal 1:6-12; Ps 111:1b-2, 7-9, 10c; Lk 10:25-37 Tuesday: Gal 1:13-24; Ps 139:1b-3, 13-15; Lk 10:38-42 Wednesday: Gal 2:1-2, 7-14; Ps 117:1bc, 2; Lk 11:1-4 Thursday: Gal 3:1-5; Lk 1:69-75; Lk 11:5-13 Friday: Gal 3:7-14; Ps 111:1b-6; Lk 11:15-26 Saturday: Gal 3:22-29; Ps 105:2-7; Lk 11:27-28 Sunday: Is 25:6-10a; Ps 23:1-6; Phil 4:12-14, 19-20; Mt 22:1-14 [1-10]

Credit, Debit, and Electronic Check Offerings If you would like to make your Sunday offering by credit, debit, or electronic check, please go to our website, transfigchurch.com, and click on the “Donate” tab. From there, click on the “Donate Now” button to be taken to a se-cure website to complete the setup of your offering. If you prefer, you can contact Sean Cooper at (510) 581-5870, and he will be happy to assist you in setting up your credit, debit, or electronic check offering.

The Catholic Voice This weekend is the annual collection for The Catholic Voice. Your donation helps our parish offset its payments for this im-portant communication ministry. A $20 donation pays the cost of a subscription for one year. Please make your check payable to Transfiguration. Thank you.

Congratulations to the parents of: Luis Angel Garcia

who was baptized here last Sunday.

Statue of Our Lady Of Fatima Transfiguration will be hosting the

Statue of Our Lady of Fatima on October 18 & 19. Saturday, October 18 Service beginning with 7:00p.m. Candlelight Procession. Sunday, October 19 Visitation and closing with 12:00-2:00p.m. Recitation of Rosary.

Did you know? We will be taking an attendance count at all of the masses during the month of October.

Please Note The Parish Office will be closed on Monday, October 13 in observance of the Columbus Day holiday.

We invite all women to join us for: WINGS (“Women in God’s Spirit”)

Wings is a faith enhancement group that encourages Spiritual growth through prayer, scripture study,

Catechesis, life sharing and community. Transfiguration Church, Marian Rm. Parish Hall

Thursday, October 16, 2014, 9:15-11:15a.m. Speaker: Mary Ann Wiesinger

Topic: “Sin, Mercy and God’s Love”

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) is a process for adults who wish to become Catholics. They meet weekly with the RCIA team for several months to receive the sacra-ments of Baptism, Confirmation, and First Communion at the Easter Vigil. The low-key and confidential meetings are where we share our spirituality as well as discuss the teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. Adult Catholics who have been baptized and have received First Communion, but not Confirmation are welcome to join if they wish to be con-firmed in a diocesan ceremony in February. We also welcome adult Catholics who simply want to learn more about their faith. Also cordially invited are fully-initiated Catholics who are moved to simply share their faith as team members. Experience and training are not requirements. Our first meeting this year will be on Sunday, October 12 at 9:45a.m. in the St. Joseph room in the Hall directly after the 9:00a.m. Mass. Interested parties, including RCIA team volunteers, may call Marty Mijalski, 510-582-3511.

Today, at 9:00 Mass, we commission our catechists, the wonderful men and women who have answered Christ’s call to share their faith with the next generation. We THANK them all for their dedication, their time, and their LOVE. Kinderchurch: Maria Cunha, Trina Tinti and Kathy Vieira First Year: Joyce O’Sullivan, Emily Lassalle, Brigid Keenan, Monica Langella, Jenny Mares Second Year: Earlene Bridgeman, Allie Field, Monica Corona Third Grade: Sr. Dorothy Stelzer, Ed Azevedo Fourth Grade: Penny Arndt, Claudia Bradley Fifth Grade: Laura Keyser, Chris Yanke Sixth Grade: Michael Langella, Juan Contreras, Christian Corona Seventh Grade: Patrice Ballinger, Kendall Bonvicin Eighth Grade: Alfonso Corona, Sean Cooper AOK: Sr. Dorothy Stelzer Office Manager: Ellen Graham Confirmation Team: Jeff Badarello, Beth Ballinger, Pat Ballinger, Dan Bellone, Steve Bellone, Sean Cooper, Alfonso Corona, Allie Field, Monica Keyser, Teresa Meadows, Jeff Petersen STARTING DATES: Grades 1 thru 5— TOMORROW, October 6, 3:15-4:30 6 through 8 — THIS WEDNESDAY, October 8, 7:30-9:00 AOK— THIS WEDNESDAY, October 8, 7:30-8:30 Kinderchurch— NEXT SUNDAY, October 12, 9:00a.m.

Youth Music Auditions All students in the 6th grade or older are invited to audition for Transfiguration’s Sunday 9:00am Mass youth music group. We are looking for new singers and instrumentalists. Youth Music is a great chance for young musicians to strengthen their skills, and will receive some basic music theory and sight reading training. Rehearsals are held on Friday evenings, and we pro-vide music at the Sunday 9:00am Mass between September and mid-June. Please contact Sean Cooper at (510) 581-5870 or transfig_youth@sbcglobal.net to schedule an audition time.

Your Prayers Are Requested for the Repose of the Soul of: Barbara Payette (Sister of Roberta Rogers)

The FOUR fishermen were called and FOUR thousand were fed. To the FOUR corners of the

earth...in all FOUR directions of the compass … in each of the

FOUR seasons of the year … the FOUR gospels, telling the Good News of Jesus Christ, are Proclaimed! AND, at Transfig-uration, the FOURth Sunday of each month is dedicated to Our Children!! Please join us at 9:00 Mass on Sunday, October 26th (the FOURth Sunday of October) for a very special litur-

gy hosted by our FOURth Grade Class!!! Pancake Breakfast

will follow served by our FOURth Graders … Only $4.00… Hope you can join us!

Dress-A-Girl Ministry Fr. Kabipi took 40 dresses for the girls of Tanzania this summer. We are now in need of more kits from which to sew more dresses. The next meeting to put kits together for dresses for the girls of Tijuana will be on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 9:30 AM in the Holy Family Room in the hall. (Park in the back of the hall) Any one is welcome to join the activity of putting kits together for ladies to sew. For more information or to get kits to sew, call Dorothy Giammona, 881-5326.

Happy 63rd Anniversary to Merritt & Margaret Gust!

Next Liturgy Meeting Thursday, Oct. 16th, 7:00p.m. St. Thomas Rm., Parish Hall

All are welcome.

Save the date! Oct. 9th at 6:30p.m. at OLG Stack Center, for our monthly ICF Branch #343 meeting. We will have a wonderful Polenta dinner with chicken & sausage, (prepared by Chef Mike Miraglia), salad and dessert followed by the meeting. $14/adults; $6 children under 12. Call Stella at 581-5863 or Juanita at 582-7242 for reservations.

LETTER FROM POPE FRANCIS THE “JOY OF THE GOSPEL” CONTINUED...

The Church’s Missionary Transformation—#49. Let us go forth, then, let us go forth to offer everyone the life of Jesus Christ. Here I repeat for the entire Church what I have often said to the priests and laity of Buenos Aires: I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security. I do not want a Church con-cerned with being at the centre and which then ends by being caught up in a web of obsessions and procedures. If something should rightly disturb us and trouble our con-sciences, it is the fact that so many of our brothers and sisters are living without the strength, light and consola-tion born of friendship with Jesus Christ, without a com-munity of faith to support them, without meaning and a goal in life. More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: “Give them something to eat” (Mk 6:37). Fr. Terry’s Remarks— The words of Pope Francis today gives us our blueprint for the kind of Church we truly should be. The Church of Jesus should be out in the streets bruised, dirty and hurting. That's what Jesus did, that's where the people of God are. Today in Rome, the Synod of Bishops meet and their main bone of contention will be: should we pay more attention to 'obsessions and procedures' words of Pope Francis, when so many of our wounded brothers and sisters are denied the light, strength and consolation that comes from closeness to Jesus in their community of faith, their Church? We have become harsh judges, we are living lives behind struc-tures that give some of us false security while our wound-ed brothers and sisters are being denied the nurture and holy medicine they desperately need and in many cases desire. So many of us are so worried about making a mis-take or going astray that we are overcompensating and in danger of missing the Good News of the Gospel in our own lives while denying it to those in greatest need by creating too many obstacles. We recall when Jesus sent his disciples out, he warned them about carrying unneces-sary baggage. Now you need a Doctorate to explain our Laws, another to understand our Sacraments and still another to read Scripture. No wonder so many of our peo-ple are in travail. Over the next ten days, let us pray ear-nestly and act Christlike so that the Synod meeting in Rome listens to the Holy Spirit and the cries of our people.