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Mater
Dolorosa Catholic Church
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary
& Joseph
December 31, 2006 -
Bulletin
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Blessed
are they who dwell in your house, O
Lord.
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—
Psalm
84
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THEME
OF OUR LITURGY:
Family
life is sacred, but it is not
without
trial.
First
Reading:
1
Samuel
1:20-22,24-28
Hannah conceived, and at the end
of her term bore a son whom she
called Samuel.
Second
Reading:
1
John 3:1-2,
21-24
See what love the Father has
bestowed on us that we may be
called the children of
God.
Gospel:
Luke
2:41-52
The boy Jesus remained behind in
Jerusalem, but his parents did
not know it. They found him in
the temple, in the midst of the
teachers.
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MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
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Sunday,
December 31
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8
AM
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Antone Orta
(D)
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10
AM
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People of
the Parish
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Noon
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Cherry
Hazel Tesoro (SI)
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5
PM
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Kevin
Coughlin (D)
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Monday,
January 1
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8:30
AM
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Rommel
Castelo Family
(TH)
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10:00
AM
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Priest’s
Intention
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Tuesday,
January 2
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8:30
AM
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Cecilia
Munoz Palma (D)
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Wednesday,
January 3
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8:30
AM
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George
Comisky (D)
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Thursday,
January 4
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8:30
AM
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Priest’s
Intention
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Friday,
January 5
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8:30
AM
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Priest’s
Intention
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Saturday,
January 6
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8:30
AM
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Priest’s
Intention
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5
PM
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Priest’s
Intention
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AS
A PARISH COMMUNITY
We pray for all the sick in our parish,
especially: Maureen Dan, Jack Devine,
Florence Farrow, Jovita Guajardo, Lory
Manzano, Bob Reid and Luz P. Valdez.
May
God bless them and their
families.
Our Parish Office will be closed until
Tuesday, January 2, 2007 for the Christmas
break. Please feel free to leave a
message for our office staff and we will
get back to you the first week in January.
Have
a very Happy New Year from the M.D.
Staff
HAPPY NEW YEAR
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Recently,
Archbishop Niederauer received a
letter from a lady named Cecilia
(with no last name). Her letter,
in part, reads as
follows:
“The
reason I am writing to you is
that I have no family. I was
adopted and the couple that
adopted me. . . left a box of
pictures and moved away when I
became ill. Now I have no one. .
. I am so lonely. Maybe my birth
family would like to know what
happened to me.
Could
you find it in your heart to
include this message in bulletins
throughout the Archdiocese?
Teresa Louise, born 11/28/1953 in
San Francisco. Write P.O. Box
127, Columbia, CA
95310.”
Many
thanks for considering her
request!
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Dear Friends,
I want to thank all those
who helped make Christmas this
year so special: the musicians,
altar servers, ushers, and the
members of the Altar Society.
I’ve never seen the Church
look so good.
Thank you, George and Pat
Garibaldi, for purchasing a king
for our new Nativity Set. George
and Pat purchased the statue in
memory of their parents. If you
are interested in purchasing
other statues in the set
(shepherds, kings, or animals),
please contact Fran in the
rectory office.
We have removed 407 people
from our Sunday Envelope
Collection List. These 407
people did not use their
envelopes once during this past
year and each packet of envelopes
costs us a few bucks. If you
were one of these 407 people, and
would like to continue receiving
envelopes, please contact Fran in
the rectory office. I’ve
also been told that the envelopes
will be delivered every other
month beginning in the New Year,
rather than three times a year.
Thanks to all of you who use the
Sunday Envelopes on a regular
basis. It makes everything a lot
easier when the people come in to
count the collections on
Monday.
Finally, I want to say
I’m sorry to all those
parishioners I may have offended
during this past year. My goal
has always been to bring people
together, and thus, closer to
Christ. I’m sorry that this
has not happened with some of
you. My door is always open if
you want to talk. Looking back
on 2006, I thought losing my Mom
was difficult enough, but losing
some of you good parishioners has
been much harder. I pray with
this New Year almost upon us,
that this will be a new beginning
for our parish as well. If there
is anything I can do to make this
happen, please let me know.
Happy
New Year!
Father
Brian
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Prayer
for Peace
O
Loving God,
grant us peace.
Bring peace to my family,
my loved ones,
my community,
my nation and my world.
We
place ourselves in Your care,
in the gentle hands of Your Blessed
Mother.
We
ask You to make us more alive in
faith,
generous in love and filled with
hope.
O
God, help us be peacemakers,
people of vision and courage
and give us the grace to follow You.
Amen.
New
Year’s Day, Monday, Jan.
1st:
(Not a Holy Day
of Obligation)
Masses at 8:30 and 10:00 a.m.
PEACE
ON EARTH
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