WELCOME TO OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION CHURCH

SATURDAY, JUNE 2 Quinceañera 11:00am, Church Wedding—Marello & Cecilia Pedroza 1:00pm, Church SUNDAY, JUNE 3 Open Gym—OLA Basketball 7:30am, Parish Hall Flame Meeting 9:30am, St. Paul’s Room Group Baptisms 12:00pm, Church Strategic Planning Community Forum, 3:00pm, Church MONDAY, JUNE 4 Young Rembrandts Summer Workshop 8:30am, Cristo Rey Practice 1:30pm, Church Schl Mtg Room Girl Scout Leaders Meeting 5:30pm, St. John’s Hall Parent Meeting Jesuit Jr. Cheer 6:00pm, Parish Hall TUESDAY, JUNE 5 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6 Legion of Mary Meeting 8:30am, St. Paul’s Room THURSDAY, JUNE 7 FRIDAY, JUNE 8 Cristo Rey H. S. Baccalaureate Mass 7:00pm, Church Boys Basketball 7:00pm, Parish Hall Cristo Rey High School Reception 8:00pm, St. John’s SATURDAY, JUNE 9 Cristo Rey High School Graduation 10:00am, Church Curia Meeting 10:00am, St. Paul’s Room

SATURDAY, JUNE 2 St. Marcellinus & St. Peter, Martyrs 8:00am Frances Reilly † Steve & MaryJo Riehl 5:00pm Joan Kuhn † OLA Ushers SUNDAY, JUNE 3 8:00am Judith Wilson † Wilson Family 9:30am Jose De Vega † Parulan Family 11:00am Tars Fernandez † Luz Libre 7:30pm George Valencia Casey Oliver MONDAY, JUNE 4

8:00am Teresa Wilhelm † Richard & Margaret Heintz TUESDAY, JUNE 5 St. Boniface, Bishop & Martyr 8:00am Eunice Lis † Sweeney Family WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6 St. Norbert, Bishop 8:00am Gino Bertolucci † Bertolucci Family THURSDAY, JUNE 7 8:00am Fr. Mike McKeon† FRIDAY, June 8 8:00am Anastasia (prayer) Ricci Family SATURDAY, JUNE 9 5:00pm Lizz Baca † Baca Family

Monday, June 4 2 Pt 1:2-7; Ps 91:1-2, 14-15b, 15c-16; Mk 12:1-12 Tuesday, June 5 2 Pt 3:12-15a, 17-18; Ps 90:2, 3-4, 10, 14 and 16; Mk 12:13-17 Wednesday, June 6 2 Tm 1:1-3, 6-12; Ps 123:1b-2ab, 2cdef; Mk 12:18-27 Thursday, June 7 2 Tm 2:8-15; Ps 25:4-5ab, 8-9, 10 and 14; Mk 12:28-34 Friday, June 8 Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9; Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6; Eph 3:8-12, 14-19; Jn 19:31-37 Saturday, June 9 2 Tm 4:1-8; Ps 71:8-9, 14-15ab, 16-17, 22; Lk 2:41-51 Sunday, June 10 Gn 3:9-15; Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; 2 Cor 4:13—5:1; Mk 3:20-35

Ministry Spotlight

STEWARDSHIP

EX 24: 3-8; PS 116: 12-13, 15-18; HEB 9: 11-15; MK 14: 12-16, 22-26

We have had three consecutive weeks of significant Solemnities—Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, and now the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, better known by the name of Corpus Christi which translates from the Latin as the “Body of Christ.”

Clearly this is a celebration which brings our focus on the Eucharist, which is at the absolute center of our liturgy, and at the core of our Catholic faith. We have mentioned many times that all revolves around the Eucharist when we receive the real Body and Blood of the Lord.

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (#1324), “The Eucharist is ‘the source and summit of the Christian life.’ The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself.”

The Eucharist should be the high point of our week, or even of our day. The author J.R.R. Tolkien (author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Ring trilogy), who was a devout Catholic, once stated, “The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely and once for all in any of us. Like the act of Faith it must be continuous and grow by exercise. Frequency is of the highest effect. Seven times a week is more nourishing than seven times at intervals.”

OFFERING

Week of May 27 – June 2

Weekend Offertory: $ 6,704.76 Electronic Giving: $ 1,876.25

Total: $ 8,572.01

Average Weekly Budget Amount: $ 12,500.00

FAMILY PROMISE Provides fellowship and healthy meal to

homeless families with children

Family promise helps homeless families find self-sufficiency and regain a home of their own. Using a network of interfaith congregations across Sacramen-to, families use our partnership program to overcome the difficult and painful experience of homelessness.

Since 2005, the trained staff and countless volun-teers from local faith communities have provided hands-on services and supports. Headquartered at 165 A Commerce Circle, Sacramento, it is led by our Executive Director and Case Manager. They coordi-nate the program, guide the families and use social service and employment resources.

Each evening the families are driven to the Host Congregation location for the week, where they provide sepa-rate rooms for each family to sleep. The families return to the Day Center in the morning.

The Host Congregations pro-vide volunteers, who welcome families and provide meals, tu-toring and some recreational ac-tivities. OLA is one of the Support Congregations. At the request of the Host Congregation, we provide meals one night during the families stay at that host congregation church site. Some of our volunteers work at the Day Center and others do the overnight sleepovers, etc. Some of the OLA children and their parents entertain the guest families’ children during and after dinner.

Families are defined as “at least one child and one adult linked with love and commitment, where the adults have responsibility for care of children.” Fami-lies must pass a background check to get into the pro-gram. During the program, they must participate in the program, identifying goals, reviewing finances, seeking services form other agencies and parenting their children. They have to follow program rules, budget and save for permanent housing and achieve their goals.

The Day Center is a secure place with a shower, computer stations, common eating, lounge and play areas.

Children continue their schooling at their regular school or may use Mustard Seed School at Loaves and Fishes.

During the time Family Promise Sacramento, has been in operation, we have helped 236 families. Of those families, 9 have bought their own home and 16 have earned college degrees. We have a 99% success rate. Most of our families are still working and being self-sufficient. Several of our former families are now volunteers who help our other homeless families in our program.

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OLA SCHOOL NEWS

Wednesdays (Grades 7 - 8) 7:00pm - 8:30pm Tuesdays (Grades 9 - 12) 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Meetings are held in Seton Hall.

For more information about Youth Groups, please contact OLA´s Youth Minister,

Johann Rubia-Miller at (916) 481-5115 or Email: youth@olaparish.net

Dinner and Mass Fellowship Night

Every 3rd Sunday of the month come and break bread in the youth room, attend Mass together, and experience our faith through prayers and worship. There will be a light dinner in the youth room from 6:30pm to 7:15pm followed by attendance at the 7:30pm Mass. Help to participate in the Mass by greeting, ushering, bringing up the gifts, and read-ing. This evening is for youth in grades 7-12. RSVP is not required.

A Loving Message From Our Principal

How can this school year be al-

ready ending? I am not sure that I

welcome the closure of my first

year at OLA - I miss the children

already! Thank you each and every

one for welcoming me into this

amazing school and parish commu-

nity. It now feels like home and is,

indeed, a marvelous place full of faith, learning,

laughter, fellowship, and fun. May your blessings

abound this coming summer to reunite us again on

August 15th!

Blessings on our work and on each other,

~Nicole Grant

Pope John Paul II To the Youth of the World

March 31, 1985 On The Occasion Of International

Youth Year

“It is also my hope that, after you have made the discernment of the essential and important ques-tions for your youth, for the plan of the whole life that lies before you, you will experience what the Gospel means when it says: “Jesus, looking upon him, loved him”. May you experience a look like that! May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love! He looks with love upon every human being. My wish for each of you is that you may discover this look of Christ, and experience it in all its depth. I do not know at what moment in your life. I think that it will happen when you need it most: perhaps in suffering, perhaps together with the witness of a pure conscience, as in the case of that young man in the Gospel, or perhaps precisely in an opposite situation: together with the sense of guilt, with re-morse of conscience. For Christ looked at Peter too in the hour of his fall: when he had three times denied his Master. Man needs this loving look. He needs to know that he is loved, loved eternally and chosen from eter-nity. Perhaps most powerfully in trying and diffi-cult moments, the awareness that Christ always loves each of us, becomes a solid support for our whole human existence. When everything would make us doubt ourselves and the meaning of our life, then this look of Christ, the awareness of the love that in him has shown itself more powerful than any evil and destruction, this awareness ena-bles us to survive.”

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Family Connection

Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

Theme: Jesus continues to offer himself to us and feed us in the Holy Eucharist. Breaking Open the Word Suggested text for faith sharing: Today’s Gospel Step One: Listen to the Word As you hear this reading, what words or phrases strike you? What in this reading touches your heart? What lingers in your memory? Step Two: Look into Your Life Question for Children: How can you share what you have received from Jesus with others this week? Question for Youth: Each week, when we celebrate the Holy Eucharist we are asked to “do this in remembrance of me”. How else do you acknowledge the importance of Jesus in your life? Through prayer? Through the ways that you treat others? Question for Adults: How can you prepare yourself to be nourished by Jesus in the Eucharist this week?

MARIAN REFLECTION

Listen: “Be simple, be humble,

and bring joy to others.”

~St. Madeleine Sophie Barat

Ponder: How was Mary’s life the

embodiment of this vision of

discipleship? How do I strive for

simplicity, humility and joy in

my daily life?

Respond: Father, give me the

grace to bring your joy to the

world.

A reflection on Corpus Christi

W hat does Corpus Christi mean to me? It does not only bring the liturgy to mind; for me, it is a day on

which heaven and earth work together. In my mind’s eye it is the time when spring is turning into sum-

mer; the sun is high in the sky, and crops are ripening in field and meadow. The Church’s feasts make present the

mystery of Christ, but Jesus Christ was immersed in the faith of the people of Israel and so, arising from this

background in Israel’s life, the Christian feasts are also involved with the rhythm of the year, the rhythm of seed-

time and harvest. How could it be otherwise in a liturgy which has at its cen-

ter the sign of bread, fruit of earth and heaven? Here this fruit of the earth,

bread, is privileged to be the bearer of him in whom heaven and earth, God

and man have become one. The way the Church’s feasts fit in with the sea-

sons of the year is therefore not an accident. Consequently we must go on to

discover the inner rhythm of the Church’s year and see the place Corpus

Christi has within it. First of all, clearly, it grows out of the mystery of Easter

and Pentecost: it presupposes the Resurrection and the sending of the Spirit.

But it is also in close proximity to the Feast of the Trinity, which reveals the

inner logic in the connection between Easter and Pentecost. It is only because

God himself is the eternal dialogue of love that he can speak and be spoken

to. Only because he himself is relationship can we relate to him; only because

he is love can he love and be loved in return. Only because he is threefold can

he be the grain of wheat which dies and the bread of eternal life. Ultimately,

then, Corpus Christi is an expression of faith in God, in love, in the fact that

God is love. All that is said and done on Corpus Christi is in fact a single vari-

ation on the theme of love, what it is and what it does. In one of his Corpus

Christi hymns Thomas Aquinas puts it beautifully: nec sumptus consumitur - love does not consume: it gives and,

in giving, receives. And in giving it is not used up but renews itself. Since Corpus Christi is a confession of faith

in love, it is totally appropriate that the day should focus on the mystery of transubstantiation. Love is transub-

stantiation, transformation. Corpus Christi tells us: Yes, there is such a thing as love, and therefore there is trans-

formation, therefore there is hope. And hope gives us the strength to live and face the world. Perhaps it was good

to have experienced doubts about the meaning of celebrating Corpus Christi, for it has led us to the rediscovery of

a feast which, today, we need more than ever.

Text by Pope Benedict XVI from Feast of Faith

Worldwide Marriage Encounter

Enjoy an amazing weekend away with your spouse on August 24-26, 2018, in Sacramento, CA.or on October 5-7, 2018 in Reno, NV Please visit: https://www.sacramentowwme.org to register. For more information, please contact Terry & Janet at (916) 489-3464 or applications@sacramentowwme.org.

LIVE, LEARN &ENJOY YOUR FAITH

Free Webinar on Parenting and Pornography. Free Webinar on Parenting and Pornography: A free one-hour webinar hosted by the Religious Alliance Against Pornography (RAAP) will be offered on May 22 at 5 pm (PST). The webinar will address how to initiate ageappropriate discussion free of fear and shame, how to approach technology, social media and pornography, and ultimately how to create an atmosphere of openness and honesty in your home where you are the go-to person for your kids. For more information and to register go to http://bit.ly/ParentsKidsandPorn. Another helpful website on this issue: https://protectyoungminds.org. For more information please contact Steve Patton at spatton@scd.org.

Retrouvaille—Marriage Recovery Weekend. Retrouvaille – Marriage Recovery Is your marriage in trouble – miserable – dead? Would you like it to come alive? Retrouvaille can give you the communication skills you need to relate to one other in a more respectful and emotionally mature way. The next weekend is in Sacramento, July 13 – 15. For more information call (800) 470-2230, email 6013@retrouvaille.org or visit http://www.helpourmarriage.com.

Job Announcements at Pastoral Center Campus Minister - Sacramento Regional Coordinator for Hispanic Youth & Young Adult Ministry – Sacramento

DIOCESAN EVENTS

The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos

Upcoming Retreats

June 8-10 Fr. Tom Weston retreat More information at: 650-917-4000,

http://www.jrclosaltos.org/ or reservations@jrclosaltos.org

CATHOLIC VIEWPOINT, FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE

“Catholic Viewpoint, Faith, Hope and Love,” half hour interviews of guests by Fr. Michael Kiernan, airs on Comcast Channel 20, Consolidated/19 and AT&T/14, at 7:00AM Sunday, 9:30AM Tuesday, 8:30PM Wednesday and 5:00PM Thursday All the shows are also on YouTube.

You simply type in “Catholic Viewpoint, Faith, Hope and Love.” Then click on the icon, as shown on the left here, which will give you all the shows in one place. Recent guests have been Bishop Francis Quinn, Sr. Eileen En-right, RSM, and Fr. Paul Mark Schwan, Abbot of the Trappist Monastery in Vina.

Attention Single Catholics

Sacramento Catholic Alumni Club is an affiliate of CAC

International and is a local organization of single Catho-

lic professional men and women. CAC provides a

friendly setting for Catholic singles to meet and develop

friendships with other Catholic singles at a variety of

enjoyable activities. We welcome you to come and at-

tend our monthly events.

Questions: Ann 916-332-1916

Website: http://tontino.wix.com/cac-of-sacramento

Email: sactocac@yahoo.com

Matthew 25 Ministries

Thank you for supporting our pill bottle recy-cling program! All pill bottle donations are ap-preciated and helpful to our ongoing work. Clean, capped empty pill bottles with labels removed that are sealed in plastic bags marked "clean" are shipped with other medical supplies to hospitals and clinics in developing countries around the world. Unprepared pill bottles are shredded and recycled for program funds, while reducing the amount of waste deposited into landfills.

Thank you, Joodi

(Side note: you can join on any 3rd Saturday to help prepare bottles for shipment. Watch the bulletin for information! If you are unsure of what to do with old pills, just contact the office and we'll put you in contact with someone who can help you! As a hint "Skin So Soft" works well for removing labels.)

COME CHECK OUT OUR LOST AND FOUND

Please stop by the parish office to retrieve your lost items. Items remaining will be donated. Some of the unclaimed items are: glasses, sunglasses, prayer books, change wallet, gloves, umbrellas, sports caps, jacket, keys, jewelry etc.

OUR PARISH

Body and Blood of Christ reminds us of His sacrificial love

On the night before He died to save the world, the Lord Jesus gave us the memorial of His love, His Body and Blood, that saves us, washes away our sins, and gives us eternal life. Because of the sadness of Good Friday which tampers our joy, the Church pauses after Easter to allow us to rejoice deeply on this great gift of the Charity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us pause today and meditate on the Love of Our Savior and the great cost of our salvation, His most precious Blood beyond all costs, more precious than gold or silver.

BULLETIN

Please remember that if you have any ads you would like to be published in our Bulletin, you should email them to: parishbulletin@olaparish.net, with copy to our Ministry Coordinator, Shannon Blecha ministrycoordi-nator@olaparish.net, or you may drop them in the Parish office. Also please, keep in mind that submissions are due two Fridays prior to the bulletin you want your infor-mation in (e.g., for 6/17 bulletin, due 6/8. Thank you!

Weekly Monthly Quarterly Annually 5-year Total

$384.62 $1,666.67 $5,000 $20,000 $100,000

$192.31 $833.33 $2,500 $10,000 $50,000

$96.15 $416.67 $1,250 $5,000 $25,000

$38.46 $166.67 $500 $2,000 $10,000

$19.23 $83.33 $250 $1,000 $5,000

Your prayers and financial support are important to the success of this campaign. The size of your gift is inspired by your heart’s response to God’s call and plan for OLA. Sacrificial and transforming gifts are easier and more affordable when given over a five year period.

OLA is thankful for your sacrificial gift, as gifts of all sizes are welcome.

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver (2 Corinthians 9:7).

Potential Gift Options

Pledge forms are available in the Church, Parish Office and online. You may also contact Elisabeth Gustorf, Campaign Coordinator at capitalcampaign@olaparish.net or at 916.481.5115 ext.203

THE PARISH OFFICE IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS!

We are especially in need of someone on Monday and Friday afternoons from 1:00-4:30 p.m. Training is offered and it's a great way to serve your parish and meet more people. Please call Shannon for more information at 916-481-5115 ext. 223

Deacon German’s Mass of Thanksgiving

Fr. German's Mass of Thanksgiving is at 11:00am. Reception to celebrate with him right after Mass in St. John's Hall. Please come join us!