Fax: 650-588-1481 Phone: 650-588-1455 www.stveronicassf.com

434 Alida Way South San Francisco, CA 94080

Established 1951

February 28, 2016

Third Sunday of Lent

St. Veronica Church

“This is what you shall tell the Israelites:

I AM sent me to you.” - Exodus 3:14

God Speaks to Moses from the Burning Bush by Elizabeth Wang

Parish Office email: churchoffice@stveronicassf.com

St. Veronica Parish Parish Office Hours

Monday to Friday

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Closed for lunch from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

(unless otherwise posted)

Phone: 650-588-1455 Fax: 650-588-1481

Parish Staff

Fr. Charles Puthota, Ph.D., Pastor

Fr. Nicasio G. Paloso Jr., Parochial Vicar

Fr. Don Sharp, S.J., Weekend Assistant

Fr. Al Grosskopf, S.J., Weekend Assistant

Deacon Roger Beaudry

Deacon Joseph LeBlanc

Patricia Spiteri, Parish Secretary, Ext. 301

Oneyda Perez, Parish Bookkeeper, Ext. 304

Karen Guglielmoni, Faith Formation &

Wedding Coordinator, Ext.305

Christopher Lindstrom, Music Director, Ext. 308

Jim Rodriguez, Custodian/Maintenance

St. Veronica Catholic School www.saintveronicassf.org

Phone: 650-589-3909

Mrs. Kathryn Lucchesi Mrs. Geninne Ruegg

Principal Vice Principal

SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION

Sacrament of Baptism

Baptisms are to be arranged through the Parish Office.

Baptisms in English are typically held on the

1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month.

Baptisms in Spanish are typically held on the

2nd Saturday of each month.

Baptismal Preparation classes are held once a month.

Call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA)

Call the Parish Office to register 650-588-1455 Ext.309

Faith Formation: 650-588-1455 Ext. 305

Catechetical instructions (1st to 8th grades)

Confirmation Classes: 650-588-1455

Mass Intentions for the Week of February 28, 2016

Sun 02/28 7:00 † Maria Mobo

8:30 † Paul & Lizia Azzopardi

10:00 † Frances A. Zicke

11:30 † Nils Birkeland

6:00 † German Nuñez

Mon 02/29 6:30 † Ken Bozzini

8:30 † Frances McVeigh

Tue 03/01 6:30 † Lucille Gingras

8:30 † Cynthia Galicia

Wed 03/02 6:30 † Francisco Valera

8:30 † Carolyn Damonte Thu 03/03 6:30 † Harry Higuera

8:30 † Nello Venturini

Fri 03/04 6:30 † The Hanley Ancestors

8:30 † Mike Halloran

Sat 03/05 8:30 † Antonio Deloria

5:00 † Rufino Leduna Sr.

Sun 03/06 7:00 † Maria Mobo

8:30 † Joe Asciutto

10:00 † Dan Hagnaier

11:30 † Nils Birkeland

6:00 † Gloria Hueck

St. Veronica Parish Mission Statement

St. Veronica Church is a multicultural

community of believers who treasure Jesus

Christ at the center of their profession of

faith and practice. They worship and work

together to build up a community of family

and friends according to the mind and heart

of Christ. Out of the abundance of joy and

gratitude, they live and share the good news

of faith and hope, striving to stand up for

peace and justice, to spread love and com-

passion, to care for those who are in need,

and to make our nation and the world a bet-

ter place for all.

Parish Registration Please complete and return form to the parish office,

or simply drop it in the collection basket. Kindly print all information.

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Mass Schedule

Saturdays: 8:30 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.

Sundays: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, and 11:30 a.m.

Spanish Mass: Sundays at 6:00 p.m.

Holy Days: 6:30, 8:30 a.m., 6:30 p.m. (English)

Monday - Friday: 6:30 & 8:30 a.m.

Confessions

Saturdays: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Liturgy of the Hours

Monday - Friday: Morning Prayer at 6:00 a.m.

Eucharistic Adoration

9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday - Friday

except as posted for holidays and parish events

ON THE HORIZON

Sat., March 5: Luck of the Irish Dinner (see

reservation form on back page)

Tues., March 8: Lenten Retreat at St. Veronica,

8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Sat., March 12: St. Veronica Catholic School

First Communion, 10:00 a.m.

Sat., March 12 & Sun., March 13: St. Veroni-

ca Confirmation Retreat

Mon., March 21: Lenten Penance Service, 7:00

p.m. in Church

Thurs., March 24: Holy Thursday Mass of the

Lord’s Supper, 6:30 p.m. followed by Eucharis-

tic Adoration until 10:00 p.m.

Fri., March 25: Good Friday - Stations of the

Cross, Choir Cantata, & Liturgy, 12:00-3:00 p.m.

Thank you for supporting St. Veronica Parish and its works.

Day Mass Time 1st Collection Maintenance Totals

Saturday 02/20/16 5:00PM 1172.00 207.00 1379.00

Sunday 02/21/16 7:00AM 1015.00 254.00 1269.00

8:30AM 1484.00 267.00 1751.00

10:00AM 1516.00 282.00 1798.00

11:30AM 1616.00 315.00 1931.00

Spanish Mass 6:00PM 328.00 186.00 514.00

TOTAL IN-PEW DONATIONS: $7,131.00 $1,511.00 $8,642.00

Other Contributions 431.00 n/a 431.00

Envelopes received in the First Collection:

February 06 & 07: 305

February 13 & 14: 267

February 20 & 21: 346

If you currently receive envelopes but do not use them, please

prayerfully consider using your envelopes and placing them with your

donation in the collection basket.

Welcome New Parishioners! Our parish continues to be blessed and enriched

by the presence of new parishioners:

Matthew, Linnea and Ryder Coccellato

Brian, Danielle, Lucy & Eloise Krol

May St. Veronica Church become a spiritual home where your

faith and fellowship may be nourished with inspiration for you

to live a life of service and generosity toward God and others.

From the Pastor’s Desk Dear Parishioners,

Archdiocesan Annual Appeal (AAA): This week-

end we are starting the last week of the month-long

campaign for the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal. Our

goal is to raise $64,622. Last year, we had to raise

$49,500. This year it has gone up by about $15,000.

So please do donate at a higher level than you did

last year. We need to keep the vision in mind: Jesus

asks us to preach the good news and share his life

with others. The Archdiocese carries out that very

mission by reaching out to people at different levels

of life and needs. Understanding this basic vision of

the Archdiocese will help us toward generosity for

God’s work. So let us participate in AAA from the

perspective of faith and mission. Our parish benefits

directly from the different services that the Archdio-

cese provides. Our AAA donation to the Archdiocese

is directly connected with the spiritual, liturgical,

sacramental ministries and other services connected

with property, human resources, education, legal, etc.

that the Archdiocese provides for our parish. Last

weekend at all the Masses, Ron and Marie Derenzi,

our longtime and active parishioners, spoke encour-

aging everyone to participate as a way of sharing in

the life of the Archdiocese. I thank them for their

time and spirit of generosity. If everyone participates

soon, we will be able to complete this goal of

$64,622 within a month. Our parish has achieved this

goal in the past seven years. I am highly hopeful

we’ll be able to do the same this year as well.

Lent: We are moving along through the “desert” of

Lent. Jesus was in the desert for forty days. The peo-

ple of Israel were in the desert for forty years. So our

forty days of Lent is connected with those biblical

events. Jesus was tempted in the desert. He spent the

time in prayer and fasting. He was getting ready for

his public ministry during that time in the desert. He

had ahead of him an awesome mission of saving the

world from the clutches of evil and sin. The desert

experience was a perfect time of preparation for how

he will go about bringing us the new life through his

preaching, teaching, good works, healing, driving out

the demons, calling people to true meaning of reli-

gion, suffering, dying, and rising from the dead. The

Israelites in their desert experience were tempted and

strayed from God’s ways, but God encountered them

in various ways and helped them understand his love

for them and the promise of new life in “the land

flowing with milk and honey.” In light of these bibli-

cal events, our own Lenten days could be an occasion

for us to reassess our priorities, renew our relation-

ship with God, repent of our lack of love and com-

passion for others in words and deeds, and re-emerge

as a covenantal people sealed by the death and resur-

rection of Jesus, the Paschal mysteries at Easter.

Pope Francis’ Lenten Quotes: “Fasting makes

sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a

consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us

cultivate the style of the good Samaritan, who bent

down to his brother in need and took care of him.”

“Although the life of a person is in a land full of

thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which

the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.”

“Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We

have to encourage people to move towards what they

think is good ... Everyone has his own idea of good

and evil and must choose to follow the good and

fight evil as he conceives them. That would be

enough to make the world a better place.” “A little

bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more

just.” “Wretched are those who are vindictive and

spiteful.” “The confessional is not a torture chamber,

but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us

to do better.” “We all have the duty to do good.”

Word of God: In the first reading from Exodus, we

have a powerful story of God meeting Moses in the

burning bush. God reveals himself to Moses and calls

him to undertake the mission of releasing the Israel-

ites from oppression in Egypt. God’s presence is giv-

en to us; God reveals himself to us. The purpose is

for us to not only contemplate the mystery and love

of God but also to be sent to bring release for so

many who suffer from so many sad things in life.

There is an insight here: our love of God needs to be

translated into love of neighbor. To help those in

need is part of our faith.

Religious Humor: A Catholic man walks into a din-

er on the first Friday of Lent. He orders the fish plate.

After the meal is finished, he pays the bill, but leaves

no tip. He repeats this every Friday during Lent at the

same diner. On the last Friday of Lent, the waitress

finally asks the man, “Excuse me sir. You’ve been

eating here every Friday, and not once did you leave

me a tip. Didn’t I provide good service to you?” The

man replies, “The service you provided was excel-

lent. But because it’s Lent, I had to give up some-

thing. So, I decided to give up tipping.”

Your Friend & Pastor,

Father Charles Puthota

THANK YOU 2016 ARCHDIOCESAN ANNUAL APPEAL SUPPORTERS

AS OF FEBRUARY 22, 2016*

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Steve & Ofie Albrecht

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Jeffrey & Dolores Olson

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acknowledged once the names

of the donors are received

from the Archdiocese Of-

fice of Development.

Reflecting on the Word

Third Sunday of Lent A cantor was practicing today’s psalm response with

her daughter: “The Lord is kind and merciful.” She

heard her daughter sing, “She Lord is kind of merciful.”

There is a big difference between being kind and merci-

ful, and kind of merciful. Which wording reflects your

experience of God?

Moses was in exile because he murdered an Egyp-

tian who abused a Hebrew slave. When he meets God in

a burning bush, God asks this murderer to lead the peo-

ple. Talk about mercy and a mercy that is constant, for

God is “I am who am,” that is, constant being.

The ever-living God took flesh in Jesus. The para-

ble about the fig tree is a statement about God’s desire to

save us. Through Jesus, the ever-living God cultivates us

and fertilizes us with mercy. When we repent, we reori-

ent our lives to live Jesus’ values and teaching. The

same God who asked a murderer to lead the Israelites

forgives and empowers us to bear fruit. Talk about mer-

cy!

The Corinthians thought they were better than any-

one else. But they were sinners like everyone else. Paul

advises them to learn from their ancestors who com-

plained in the desert; many of them were saved, though

not all. Some chose not to repent. Paul is the gardener

who offers the Corinthians another change to know God

as kind and merciful.

None of us is perfect. All of us need the gift of

God’s unconditional love and mercy. Turn to the Lord.

Learn from our ancestors. Repent. God is kind and mer-

ciful. Believe and live the kindness and mercy of God.

For prayerful consideration and discussion

When have you experienced God’s kindness and

mercy in your life?

How can you share that love and mercy in ways

that help others know God’s forgiveness?

Living and Praying with the Word

God of our Lord Jesus Christ, open my eyes to

see you in my life today, and open my heart to re-

pent so that all may know your love and mercy this

Lent. Amen. - from Living the Word

Lent Events at St. Veronica

Prayer, Reflection and Spirituality Stations of the Cross will be recited Fridays

during Lent immediately following the 8:30

a.m. Mass and again at 6:30 p.m.

A Half-day Retreat will be held on Tuesday,

March 8, at St. Veronica, 8:30 a.m. Mass -

12:30 p.m. (see below)

The Lent Penance Service will be held at St.

Veronica, on Monday, March 21, at 7:00 p.m.

Consider taking time to walk the Labyrinth lo-

cated outside the school building. Guidelines

for walking the labyrinth are located at the start-

ing point.

Almsgiving Our Parish’s St. Vincent de Paul Conference is

accepting non-perishable food items. Continu-

ing through Good Friday, March 25, items may

be placed in the baskets in the vestibule or

dropped off at the Pastoral Center.

Lenten Half-Day Retreat

When: Tuesday, March 8, 2016, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30

p.m. with lunch following

Where: St. Veronica Church

Topic: Pope Francis’ Jubilee Year of Mercy

Presenter: Father Charles Puthota

Agenda:

8:30 a.m. - Mass in Church

9:00 a.m. - Check-in and Hospitality in the

Parish Center

9:30 a.m. - Reflections

12:30 p.m. - Lunch

Cost:

$15 covers materials and

food

RSVP:

By Thursday, March 4, to

the Pastoral Center (flyers

available in the vestibule or

you are welcome to contact

the parish office to RSVP)

It is with great joy that we welcome into our

church and community the following

children who received the

Sacrament of Baptism at our Church

on February 20, 2016

Alize Ignacio Bonotano

Julianna Devina Nevarez

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