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March 14, 2021 Fourth Sunday of Lent Parish Community SAINT BARTHOLOMEW Parish Office: 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo, CA 94402 Phone (650) 347-0701 | Web: www.barts.org | Email: [email protected] Parish Office is available via phone Mon.- Fri. 10 a.m.—2 p.m. Mass Times INDOOR MASSES DAILY @ 8 a.m. SUNDAYS @ 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. OUTDOOR MASSES* SATURDAY @ 5 p.m. (New Time) SUNDAYS @ 11:15 a.m. *Join in your car via radio station FM 89.9 LIVESTREAM MASS SUNDAY MASS @ 8 a.m. CONFESSION SATURDAYS (outside) 4:15—4:45 p.m. Fr. Arsenio “Senic” Cirera, Pastor Contact: [email protected]; ext.213 Fr. Peter “Linh” Nguyen, Associate Pastor Contact: [email protected];ext.224 FUNERALS & BAPTISMS — please call the Parish office to schedule. @ StBartsParish GOD’S MERCY Today’s reading from the second book of Chronicles contains a sort of “mini-history” of Israel. It highlights God’s mercies in choosing Cyrus the Persian to be an instrument of deliverance when the people were in cap- tivity in Babylon. Despite their sinfulness and the de- served punishment they were undergoing, God’s mercy was lavished on the people in the form of a miraculous act of liberation. The Letter to the Ephesians, in much more theolog- ical terms, gives a similar account of a God “who brought us to life with Christ—by grace you have been saved.” The author stresses that it was when we were “dead in our transgressions” that God saved us, an act of pure grace. He emphasizes that it is not our own efforts that freed us from sin (“this is not from you”); rather, “it is the gift of God.” This, of course, is the heart of the entire Pauline corpus, that salvation comes to us by faith in God’s mercy, revealed in the death of Jesus. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. “God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, that the world might be saved through him.” — John 3:17
Transcript of March 14, 2021 SAINT BARTHOLOMEW Parish Community
March 14, 2021
Fourth Sunday of Lent
Parish Community SAINT BARTHOLOMEW
Parish Office: 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo, CA 94402
Phone (650) 347-0701 | Web: www.barts.org | Email: [email protected]
Parish Office is available via phone Mon.- Fri. 10 a.m.—2 p.m.
Mass Times
INDOOR MASSES
DAILY @ 8 a.m. SUNDAYS @ 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.
OUTDOOR MASSES*
SATURDAY @ 5 p.m. (New Time) SUNDAYS @ 11:15 a.m.
*Join in your car via radio station FM 89.9
LIVESTREAM MASS
SUNDAY MASS @ 8 a.m.
CONFESSION SATURDAYS (outside) 4:15—4:45 p.m.
Fr. Arsenio “Senic” Cirera, Pastor
Contact: [email protected]; ext.213
Fr. Peter “Linh” Nguyen,
Associate Pastor
Contact: [email protected];ext.224
FUNERALS & BAPTISMS — please call the
Parish office to schedule.
@ StBartsParish
GOD’S MERCY
Today’s reading from the second book of Chronicles contains a sort of “mini-history” of Israel. It highlights God’s mercies in choosing Cyrus the Persian to be an instrument of deliverance when the people were in cap-tivity in Babylon. Despite their sinfulness and the de-served punishment they were undergoing, God’s mercy was lavished on the people in the form of a miraculous act of liberation.
The Letter to the Ephesians, in much more theolog-ical terms, gives a similar account of a God “who brought us to life with Christ—by grace you have been saved.” The author stresses that it was when we were “dead in our transgressions” that God saved us, an act of pure grace. He emphasizes that it is not our own efforts that freed us from sin (“this is not from you”); rather, “it is the gift of God.” This, of course, is the heart of the entire Pauline corpus, that salvation comes to us by faith in God’s mercy, revealed in the death of Jesus. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
“God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, that the world might be saved through him.”
— John 3:17
March 14, 2021
Fourth Sunday of Lent
MINISTRIES & ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN
ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S PARISH Bridge for Fun (and Bridge Lessons) Drew Donovan (650) 341-0896 [email protected]
Building and Grounds Committee Bob Fitzgerald (650) 574 8644 [email protected]
Circle of Concern—Funeral
Receptions
Ursula Esteves (650) 341-0717 [email protected]
Trudie Huygen (650) 341-5969 [email protected]
Eucharistic Adoration Mary Jo Anstey (650) 348 3571 [email protected]
Eucharistic Ministers to the Sick Theresa Chenlouie (415) 205-2394 [email protected]
Filipino Ministry Brenda Foster (650) 346-2327 [email protected]
Finance Council Bob Bunje (650) 341-7671 [email protected]
Friendship Club Betty Jue Tan (650) 571-0430 [email protected]
Grief Support Ministry Gwyn Luong (650) 773-9314 [email protected]
Hospitality Ushers Joe Pert (650) 341-6152 [email protected] Men’s Club Tony DaRoza (415) 298-2788 [email protected]
Men’s Prayer Group Jack Baumgarten (650) 218-2225 [email protected]
Parish Book Club Ann Regan (650) 347-4680 [email protected]
Pentateuch Prayer Group Eleanor Britter (415) 378-6789 [email protected]
Saint Vincent de Paul Randi Randle (650) 573-0619 [email protected]
Samaritan House Brenda Sell (650) 483-3765 [email protected]
Sandwich Sunday Francine Dickson (650) 346-9455 [email protected]
Gary Bergero (650) 372-0576
Saturday Morning Fitness Class Jack Galatolo (650) 345-7531
Second Harvest Mary Jo Anstey (650) 740-0347 [email protected]
Spiritual Direction Barbara Sequeira (650) 364-4572 [email protected]
Social Justice Ross Weir (650) 678-0480 [email protected]
Women’s Guild Kathy Messinger (650) 544-9023 [email protected]
Women’s Prayer Group Karen Lautsch (650) 342-9827 [email protected]
PARISH STAFF
Mary Rock
Operations Manager,
[email protected], ext. 225
Pattie Tangney
Receptionist
[email protected], ext. 210
Rachael Smit
Director of Religious Education,
First Eucharist Preparation
[email protected], ext. 215
Maria Shao
Music Director
[email protected], ext. 222
Jacob Tolentino
Youth Minister
Confirmation Coordinator
[email protected], ext. 218
Joanie Bronzini
Bulletin Editor
Faith Formation Assistant
[email protected], ext. 219
Andrea Rodriguez
Communications
Webmaster
Luis Marcello
Maintenance/Facilities
Ext. 223
Ministry Scheduling
PLEASE PRAY FOR ...
OUR MILITARY: Dan Lagomarsino, Elizabeth Constantino, Sean McGinnis,
Alaina Mariano, Reece Zunino, and Michael Henry Tauskey
OUR PARISHIONERS: Lucille Mazzeo, Christine Langley, Francisco Ramon
Nava, Ramon Ongpin, Mary Helen McMahon, Margaret Chan, Yolanda Mef-
fert, Les Carscadden, Jack Sunseri, Penny Bloching, Shelli Keck, Kelly Smir-
cich, Sharon Jean Rottiers, Julie Ann Rottiers, Veronica Dean, Barbara Carmo-
dy, Connie Leahy, Jane Thompson, Lyla Shin, Denise Briand, Peggy Crisci, Bob
Pfeffer, Christina Picazo, Nathaniel Lighty, Benny Long, Helen Maurana, Rick
Meyers, Joan Morabito, Juan Carlos Munoz, Santino Olives, Joan & Bill Pizoli,
Joel Rivera, Anne Soeitek, Roy Taboada, Bob Zuehlke, Michael Morales, Mi-
chael Henry Tauskey, Carolyn Amaral, Trudie Huygen & Lucy Fontenot.
READINGS FOR NEXT WEEK ——: Fifth Sunday in Lent :——
First Reading Jeremiah 31: 31-34
Psalm Psalms 51:3-4, 12-13, 14-15
Second Reading Hebrews 5: 7–9
Gospel John 12: 20—33
March 14, 2021
Fourth Sunday of Lent
— THIS WEEK’S MASS INTENTIONS —
Sunday 8:00 a.m. Angie Dava †
9:30 a.m. Laura Lanthier †
11:15 a.m. Dorothy & Bert Wharton †
5:30 p.m. Jerry Castada †
Monday 8:00 a.m. Michael Corsetti †
Tuesday 8:00 a.m. Laura Lanthier †
Wednesday 8:00 a.m. Ben Aduan †
Thursday 8:00 a.m. Marcelino Navarro †
Friday 8:00 a.m. Thomas Keighan
Saturday 5:00 p.m. Mario Basso †
—Saints and Special Observances —
Sunday: Fourth Sunday of Lent; Second Scru-tiny; Daylight Saving Time begins
Wednesday:St. Patrick
Thursday: St. Cyril of Jerusalem
Friday: St. Joseph; Abstinence
Saturday: Spring begins
— OFFERATORY GENEROSITY —
Sunday Collection:
Week of March 7th — pending
Week of Feb. 28th — $6,223.00
To donate online click on WeShare.
— Todays Readings — Reading I: 2 Chr 36: 14-16, 19-23
Responsorial Psalm Response:
“Let my tongue by silenced, if I ever forget you!”
Reading II: Eph 2: 4-10
Gospel: John 3: 14-21
Jesus said to Nicodemus: “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not per-ish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been con-demned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred dark-ness to light, because their works were evil. For eve-ryone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly
seen as done in God.
— We Welcome —
Fr. Peter “Linh” Nguyen to
St. Bart’s! Fr. Linh comes to us from St.
Patrick Parish in San Francisco, where he has
been for the past five years. Prior assignments
include St. Vincent De Paul Parish, St. Veroni-
ca Parish and St. Pius Parish since being or-
dained 16 years ago.
Born and raised in Vietnam, Fr. Lihn has seven
siblings and 65 nieces and nephews – most of
them still living in Vietnam with his elderly
parents. He came to the United States in 1994,
and one year later he enrolled at St. Francis de
Sale, college seminary in San Diego. After
graduating from USD, he arrived at St. Pat-
rick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, joining the
Archdiocese of San Francisco upon graduation.
Fr. Linh enjoys people especially being with
them in Eucharist, sacramental celebrations
and parish events. He loves music as well as
food! He enjoys almost all multicultural foods.
Fr. Linh notes that, “I am now singing,
‘here I am Lord . . . I come to do the will
of God’ at St. Bart’s Parish.”
March 14, 2021
Fourth Sunday of Lent
PRAYER
EASTER LILY DONATIONS WELCOME! Drop-off at the church during Holy Week For Easter Sunday we’d like to decorate the church with Easter Lilly’s. Thank you in advance for your kind donations.
MONTHLY PARISH ZOOM ACTIVITIES THE PENTATEUCH::Tues., March. 16 @ 7 p.m *(New Day/Time)
In the Pentateuch, God talks about the coming of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. At the same time he gives us the 10 commandments. He shows us His peo-ple and begins the telling of a process that becomes the living document and prophesy that will unfold through many, many lifetimes. Join us to find out how we are an intrical part of the process and how as God’s chosen we can deeply experience his love, protection and blessings always. For log-in info, contact Eleanor Britter at [email protected].
WEEKLY PARISH ZOOM ACTIVITES
MORNING PRAYER: Mon.—Thurs. @ 10 a.m. (15 min) - Join us for Song, Scripture & Prayers in the morning as we pray for the needs of our world. We follow the daily morning prayer from Give Us This Day. Contact [email protected] for log-in details RCIA: Mondays @ 7 p.m. (90 min) - RCIA or Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults is for anyone who is preparing to receive the sacraments of initia-tion or anyone who would like to learn more about the Catholic faith. Through discussions, sharing and learning, we journey in faith together towards God’s calling for us. Contact [email protected] for log-in details BREAK OPEN THE WORD: Tuesdays @ 7 p.m. (60 min) — Join us to read and reflect on the Sunday readings. Through discussion, sharing, apprecia-tion of religious artworks and connection to spiritual practices, we seek to deepen our faith in life in God. Contact [email protected] for log-in details MEN’S PRAYER GROUP: Wednesdays @ 8:45 –10 a.m. — Our meetings consist of an opening prayer, followed by specific intentions and then dis-cussions centered on a topic of the day. Contact Jack Baumgarten at [email protected] for log-in details. SONG & PRAYER: Wednesdays @ 7 p.m. (40 min) — Listen in or sing along to five—six hymns and psalms for the upcoming Sunday. Contact [email protected] for log-in details
WOMEN’S PRAYER GROUP: Fridays @ 8:30 a.m.. (40 min) — We meet weekly to read and discuss topics of faith from the Word of God in the Gos-pels and the Psalms as well as passages from contemporary Christian writ-ers. Contact Karen Lautsch at [email protected] for log-in details.
March 14, 2021
Fourth Sunday of Lent
YOUTH IN THE PARISH
FAITH FORMATION Congratulations to our students who received the Sacrament of Reconcila-tion for the first time last Saturday. Please continue to keep them in your daily prayers as they are now preparing for the Sacrament of First Holy Communion that will take place this Spring..
Polly Ambrose, Liam Chiang, Jack Cook, Laura Haddad, Corinne Harris,
Daniel Klippert, John Lorber, Valerie Maghsoudnia, Ava Mitchell,
James Moir, Julie Moir, Maxwell Rarden, Zachary Elijah Reyes, Raquel
Rodriguez, Sela Saba, Camden Schenck, Cole Sellers, Jack Seigfried,
Leyla Ta, Grace Terry, Christopher Tom, Julia Vogensen Cascao, Lucas
Vogensen Cascao, Molly Van Doren, Nolan Watt, Hudson Wideman
Faith Formation Key Dates: March 20/21—Confirmation I Box Retreat. Box pick-up day is on 3/14 (9 a.m.-12 p.m.) at church vestibule.
Sat., March 21—Family Mass (CLOW) @ 11:15 a.m. outside Mass
Tues., March 23 — Reconciliation Service @ 4:30 p.m. outside
CLOW—CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD During Lent at our Family Masses (March 21) we will offer a special chil-dren’s liturgy of the word. Students (K-5th grade) will be ushered to the front of the church (outside & socially distanced) to hear a kid-friendly ver-sion of the gospel readings. All are welcome!
CLOW: ALSO OFFERED VIA ZOOM AT 4 P.M.
March 14 & 28th—Sign-Up will be via FLOCKNOTE
YOUTH GROUP Check out our Instagram account for updates and information on events: https://www.instagram.com/saintbartsyouthgroup/
Next meeting is March18th @ 4—5 p.m. via Zoom Move Night—March 27th @ 5-7 p.m. Raya & the Last Dragon
Contact Jacob for zoom info: [email protected]
COMMUNITY
CELEBRATE THE YEAR OF ST. JOSEPH St. Joseph’s Feast Day is March 19th See back cover of the bulletin for details!
40 DAYS FOR LIFE This Lent spend an hour of your time in peaceful prayer to end abortion outside of Planned Parenthood, Redwood City. Contact Jessica at 650-918-9119 or email [email protected] to set-up a time.
