Saint Mary’s Catholic Church

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MASS SCHEDULE HORARIO DE MISAS Saturday 5:30 PM English Sunday 8:00 AM Español 10:00 AM English - Livestream 1:00 PM Español - Livestream 5:30 PM English

Monday—Saturday 8:00 AM - Livestream Martes y Jueves 6:30 PM (Español)-Livestream

RECONCILIATION CONFESIONES Saturday 3:30-4:30 PM or by appointment o por cita

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ADORACIÓN AL SANTISIMO 1st Friday of the month 1er viernes de cada mes

CLERGY Pastor: Rev. Enrique Sera Parochial Vicars: Rev. David A. Otto Rev. Hector Bedoya Deacons: Carlos Gonzalez Tony Mercado Intern: Ian Gaston

Phone: 714-525-2500 Fax: 714-525-3837 E-mail us at: secretary@saintmarysfullerton.org Visit our website at: www.saintmarysfullerton.org 400 W. Commonwealth Ave. Fullerton, CA 92832

Our Parish Mission & Vision Saint Mary’s Catholic Church strives to be a community of believers in the Catholic tradition that brings to life the spirit of Jesus and shares it with others.

21O DOMINGO DEL TIEMPO ORDINARIO 23 DE AGOSTO

“TU ERES EL MESÍAS”

21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME AUGUST 23RD

“YOU ARE THE CHRIST”

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THE SUNDAY WORD

It is good to prepare with your family before coming to church.

Readings for Sunday August 30th

Jer 20: 7 - 9 Rom 12: 1 - 2 Mt 16: 21 - 27

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY

August 16th

Mass Collections: $ 5,094 Online Giving: $ 877 Special Donations: $ 6,144 Building Fund: $ 0 You can call the Parish Office to request envelopes or give online

by visiting our website and finding the online giving logo.

God has given us all we have, let us rejoice and be glad.

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Sharing our faith... Arturo & Anabel and Family

Since when have you been a parishioner here at St. Mary’s? We have been parishioners since 1992 Why do you love your Catholic Faith? Thanks to God, both of us were born into Catholic families and through God we have experienced true love. We met at Saint Mary's and we found our vocation which was matrimony. We have had the privilege to deliver the Holy Commun-ion to sick parishioners, our children were altar servers for many years, and we are members of the Neocatechumenal Way. We have discovered that serving the Lord has strengthened our faith

What words of encouragement will you give to St. Mary’s parishioners during this time? To have faith in God and the Virgin Mary because they will never abandon us. This time is a test to our faith. We must obey our pastor by following the safety regulations. With the help of God we will strive forward.

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

In our Gospel passage, from Matthew, Jesus poses a question to the disci-ples: “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they offer vary-ing responses. Then, Jesus gets personal with them. “But who do you say that I am?” Peter gets the answer right: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus is getting personal with us today. He poses the same question to each of us who call ourselves His stewards and modern-day disciples. But do our lives truly reflect this? If we really believe that Christ is the Son of God, sent to save us from our sins and lead us to Heaven, then we must say so, not just with words but with our actions. Do my am-bitions and priorities in life say that Christ is my Savior and I am His disciple? Does my budget, my family life, my entertainment say so? The gifts and blessings God has given us — our time, our talents, our material posses-sions — are meant to be used in a manner that says "Christ is my Savior and I am His disciple." The most eloquent praise we can offer Him is a life lived in grateful response to His unfathomable love. This is the beauty and power of a stewardship way of life.

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21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Whenever the scriptures are read at Mass our Lord Jesus speaks, as the Second Vatican Council de-clared: “He [Christ] is present in His word, since it is He Himself who speaks when the holy scriptures are read in the Church” (Sacrosanctum Concilium 7). Jesus’s question to Peter and the disciples—“But who do you say that I am?”—is not a lifeless word that remains in the past. Our Lord is Risen, and He now puts the question to us: “But who do you say that I am?”

Back then, simply by using the word ‘but,’ Jesus drew a line between His disciples and everyone else. The others believed something about Jesus—He was a prophet—but the disciples’ answer was different. The others looked at Jesus from a purely human knowledge. But Peter, aided by divine knowledge, a gift of faith, answered from a supernatural place: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” This is an answer that “flesh and blood [had] not revealed…but [Jesus’s] heavenly Father.”

We too are asked this question. The dia-logue back then teaches something about our dialogue with Jesus now. Peter’s answer came from God. What other people answered came from man, and it was not an answer that could change their lives; those who only thought Je-sus was a prophet were not His followers. Their answer did not correspond to the objective real-ity of Who Jesus is. He is the Son of God. This truth, however, cannot simply be professed with our lips. Jesus asks of us a living faith, one in which our belief transforms our life. He wants us to believe that He is the Son of God so deeply that the belief reaches down to our core and causes us to toss our life into His hands. So while there is a right answer to the question of who Jesus is, the question “But Who do you say that I am?” does not have a right answer in the same way. It instead stretch-es to our interior life and sets up a measure and judgment of our heart: Jesus is in truth God; do I profess that, in word and action? How does my subjective belief about Jesus measure up to the reality of Who He is? Our answer is known to us and God. But recall that Peter’s answer did not come from “flesh and blood”—it was not something he thought up for himself by the exercise of his intellect. His answer came from the Father as a gift, and so that answer must come to us in the same way. Whatever our answer to Jesus’s ques-tion is now, it does not have to remain so. We can ask our Father in heaven for the same gift He gave to Peter. And He so wants us to receive this gift, for those who receive it become saints. What else was St. John Paul II than a man who believed that Jesus is God and acted upon it? What else was Mother Teresa than a woman who believed down to her core that Jesus is Lord? These are but two saints who show us what can hap-pen to us and the world when we assent to the truth of Jesus’s identity.

Jesus asks us today, “But who do you say that I am?” The answers of St. John Paul II and St. Teresa of Calcutta had tremendous effects on many lives. Our answer will have consequences too, for both our own eter-nal salvation and the world’s.

Ian Gaston, Seminarian

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Remember the basics

Wear your mask Wash your hands and pray while at it Keep physical distance Check your temperature and symptoms at home Restroom use: for emergencies only

Our Capacity to celebrate Mass

OUTSIDE: NO LIMIT!!! please bring your chair and protection from the sun In your car: At 10:00 AM and 1:00 PM masses Participate in the livestream and receive communion. Step our of your car during the “Lamb of God” and line up by the classrooms. Take a note of the row number you sat on: write it down with the date or take a picture

THANK YOU

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SATURDAY, August 22 5:30 PM † Frank Gavaller (Helen Rhodes) 7:00 PM † Fr. Armando Villel:Feliz Cumpleaños

SUNDAY, August 23 6:30 AM Populum Mass 7:45 AM † Josefina Cendejas (Margarita Cerda) 9:30 AM † Alejandro Fabila (Fabila Family) 11:00 AM † Mr. John Pedroza (Pedroza Family) 1:00 PM Maria Luisa Castañeda (Familia Castañeda) 5:30 PM Miguel & Jesus Trujillo (Trujillo Family)

Monday, August 24 8:00 AM Adolfo & Rebeca Trujillo Wedding

Anniversary (Trujillo Family) TUESDAY, August 25 8:00 AM † Victoria Flores (Lourdes Flores) 6:30 PM Maria Luisa Apagian & Avelina Rodriguez (Familia Gonzalez)

WEDNESDAY, August 26 8:00 AM Tino & Toña Wedding Anniversary (Morales Family)

THURSDAY, August 27 8:00 AM † Zachary Spiers (Monnig Family) 6:30 PM Gabriel Uribe:Feliz Cumpleaños (Padres & Hermana)

FRIDAY, August 28 8:00 AM † Clemie Fraser (Hoban Family)

SATURDAY, August 29 8:00 AM † Rita Rucker (Theresa Russell)

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LET US PRAY FOR THE SICK

Names of the sick and those serving our country will remain on list for four weeks. You will need to call again after four weeks to keep the name on for another four weeks. Thank you. † Indicates deceased. They will remain on for four weeks. This is for announcement purposes only and will not be renewed.

Jane de Paolo Arturo Medina y familia Stephanie Ng Arturo Ramirez Familia Sanchez Luis & Noemi Santos

† Consuelo Aripez de Gutierrez † Alfred Cruz † Manny Magboo

† Mary Morales † Carlos Rodriguez † Monico Sanchez † Ana Margarita Serrato

LET US PRAY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED

PRAY FOR OUR PARISH MEMBERS WHO ARE SERVING OUR COUNTRY & MILITARY FAMILIES

Tony Carnesi Reese Kimball Daniela Magaña

Cipriano Rivera Arturo Rivera

Compartiendo nuestra fe… Rafael y Maria Pilar Sandoval

¿Desde cuándo han sido feligreses de Santa María? Tenemos 23 años asistiendo a Santa María.

¿Por qué aman su fe católica? Amamos nuestra fe porque la recibimos como herencia de nuestros padres, reconociéndola como única y verdadera, sabiendo que es el camino hacia el Señor nuestro Dios que es la salvación y la Vida eterna.

¿Qué palabras de aliento darían a los feligreses de Santa María durante este tiempo? Que pongamos nuestra Fe y confianza y caminemos de la mano de María, que es nuestra madre y protectora, con ella lo tenemos todo, sin ella tristeza y obscuridad.

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Lecturas del Domingo Es bueno prepararse junto a su

familia antes de asistir a la Iglesia.

Lecturas del domingo 30 de agosto

Jer 20, 7 - 9

Rom 12, 1 –2 Mt 16, 21 - 27

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Dios nos ha dado todo lo que tenemos, regocijémonos y

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21o DOMINGO DEL TIEMPO ORDINARIO

Siempre que se leen las Escrituras en la Misa, nuestro Señor Jesús habla, como declaró el Concilio Vaticano II: “Él [Cristo] está presente en su palabra, ya que es Él mismo quien habla cuando se leen las Sagradas Escrituras en la Igle-sia” (Sacrosanctum Concilium 7). La pregunta de Jesús a Pedro y los discípulos: "¿Pero quién dicen que soy yo?", No es una palabra sin vida que permanece en el pasado. Nuestro Señor ha resucitado y ahora nos hace la pregunta: "¿Pero quién de-cís que soy?" En ese entonces, simplemente usando la palabra "pero", Jesús trazó una línea entre sus discípulos y todos los demás. Los demás creyeron algo acerca de Jesús, era un profeta, pero la respuesta de los discípulos fue diferente. Los demás miraron a Jesús desde un conocimiento puramente humano. Pero Pedro, ayudado por el cono-cimiento divino, un don de fe, respondió desde un lugar sobrenatural: "Tú eres el Cristo, el Hijo del Dios vivo". Esta es una respuesta que "la carne y la sangre [no se] había revelado ... sino el Padre celestial [de Jesús]". A nosotros también se nos hace esta pregunta. El diálogo en ese entonces enseña algo sobre nuestro diálogo con Jesús ahora. La respuesta de Pedro vino de

Dios. Lo que otras personas respondieron vino del hombre, y no fue una respuesta que pudiera cambiar sus vidas; aquellos que solo pensaban que Jesús era un profeta no eran sus seguidores. Su respuesta no se correspondía con la realidad objetiva de Quién es Jesús. El es el Hijo de Dios. Sin embargo, esta verdad no puede profesarse simplemente con nuestros labios. Jesús nos pide una fe viva, en la que nuestra fe transforme nuestra vida. Quiere que crea-mos que Él es el Hijo de Dios tan profunda-

mente que la creencia llega hasta nuestro centro y nos hace poner nuestra vida en Sus manos. Entonces, si bien hay una respuesta correcta a la pregunta de quién es Jesús, la pregunta "¿Pero quién dices que soy yo?" no tiene una respuesta correcta de la misma manera. En cambio, se extiende a nuestra vida interior y establece una me-dida y un juicio de nuestro corazón: Jesús es en verdad Dios; ¿Profeso eso, en pala-bra y acción? ¿Cómo se compara mi creencia subjetiva sobre Jesús con la realidad de Quién es Él? Nuestra respuesta es conocida por nosotros y por Dios. Pero recuerden que la respuesta de Peter no provino de "carne y sangre", no fue algo que él mismo haya pensado mediante el ejercicio de su intelecto. Su respuesta vino del Padre como un regalo, por lo que esa respuesta debe llegar a nosotros de la misma manera. Cual-quiera que sea nuestra respuesta a la pregunta de Jesús ahora, no tiene por qué seguir siéndolo. Podemos pedirle a nuestro Padre que está en los cielos el mismo regalo que le dio a Pedro. Y Él quiere que recibamos este regalo, porque aquellos que lo reciben se vuelven santos. ¿Qué más era San Juan Pablo II que un hombre que creía que Jesús es Dios y actuó en consecuencia? ¿Qué más era la Madre Teresa que una mujer que creía hasta el fondo que Jesús es el Señor? Estos son solo dos santos que nos mues-tran lo que nos puede pasar a nosotros y al mundo cuando aceptamos la verdad de la identidad de Jesús. Jesús nos pregunta hoy: "¿Pero quién dicen que soy yo?" Las respuestas de San Juan Pablo II y Santa Teresa de Calcuta tuvieron efectos tremendos en muchas vidas. Nuestra respuesta también tendrá consecuencias, tanto para nuestra propia salvación eterna como para la del mundo.

Ian Gaston, Seminarista

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