Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

August 23, 2015As for me and my household,

we will serve the LORD.— Joshua 24:15b

KEEPING OUR COMMITMENTSIn the musical Fiddler on the Roof, the husband,

Tevye, whose marriage was arranged years and years before, wants to know if his wife really loves him. Was their marriage just an arrangement, a deal? Did his wife, after all these years, ever love him? Does she still?

We need to know if our loving commitments stick. We need to be reminded and reaffirmed. In the first reading, Joshua, Moses’ successor, needed to know if the people would remain faithful to their covenant with the Lord. Joshua was going to lead them to a new life—a settled life. Would they be faithful?

Jesus, who identified himself as the very life of his disciples’ life, needed to know: Will you also go away or will you stay? We do not often see Jesus this vulnerable. Peter and the apostles chose to stay. What will we do?

Question of the WeekThis week, what concrete action on my part will show unequivocally that I have decided to stay with Christ in eucharistic discipleship?

BLESSEDIf you have sight, you are blessed. If you have

insight, you are a thousand times blessed.

THE WAYIt’s hard to train a child in a way the parents

don’t go themselves.

SPECIAL OBSERVANCESWEEKLY READINGS AND MASS INTENTIONS

8/22 Saturday: The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary Readings: Ru 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17; Ps 128:1b-5;

Mt 23:1-12 Mass Intention: 5:00pm (M) Michael & Nancy Davis (SI)

5:00pm (AR) + Gerda Schmitt 7:00pm (AC)

8/23 Sunday: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading: Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b; Ps 34:2-3, 16-21;

Eph 5:21-32 [2a, 25-32]; Jn 6:60-69 Mass Intention: 8:30 (M) +Paul Raggio 8:30 (C) William Stout (SI) 10:00 (AR) Mary Ann Meeks (SI) 10:15 (AC) Intentions of the Parish

8/24 Monday: St. Bartholomew Readings: Rv 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-13, 17-18;

Jn 1:45-51 Mass Intention: 8:00am (AC) Fr. Rolly (SI)

8/25 Tuesday: St. Louis; St. Joseph Calasanz Readings: 1 Thes 2:1-8; Ps 139:1-6; Mt 23:23-26 Mass Intention: 8:00am (AC) Eddie Santos (SI)

8/26 Wednesday: Readings:1 Thes 2:9-13; Ps 139:7-12ab; Mt 23:27-32 Mass Intention: 8:30am (M) Susan Buis (SI)

8/27 Thursday: St. Monica Readings: Jgs 11:29-39a; Ps 40:5, 7-10; Mt 22:1-14 Mass Intention: 8:00am (AC) +Johannes Blackenhorn

8/28 Friday: St. Augustine Readings: 1 Thes 4:1-8; Ps 97:1, 2b, 5-6, 10-12;

Mt 25:1-13 Mass Intention: 8:00am (AC) Ramon Gordis (SI)

8/29 Saturday: The Passion of St. John the Baptist Readings: 1 Thes 4:9-11; Ps 98:1, 7-9; Mk 6:17-29 Mass Intention: 5:00pm (M) Theresa Stevenson (SI) 5:00pm (AR) + Grover Anderson 7:00pm (AC)

8/30 Sunday:

Reading: Dt 4:1-2, 6-8; Ps 15:2-5; Jas 1:17-18, 21b-22,

27; Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

WEEKLY SCHEDULE

MONDAY 1:00 - 3:00pm St. Patrick’s Helping Hands Distribution, Angels Camp 4:00 - 5:30pm Children’s Faith Formation, Murphys (Sept.-May) 5:00 - 6:30pm High School Confirmation, Angels Camp

TUESDAY 8:30 -12:00pm St. Patrick’s Preschool, Angels Camp (Sept.–May) 9:00 -10:00am O.L.S. Helping Hands Distribution, AR 10:00 - 11:00am Perpetual Novena, Arnold 10:00 - 1:00pm Seniors Meeting, Angels Camp

WEDNESDAY 8:30 – 12:00pm St. Patrick’s Preschool, Angels Camp (Sept.–May) 4:00 - 5:30pm Children’s Faith Formation, K-8, Angels Camp (Sept.-May) 6:00 - 8:00pm Youth Group, Angels Camp (2nd and 4th)

THURSDAY 8:30 -12:00pm St. Patrick’s Preschool, Angels Camp (Sept.–May)

MONTHLY PARISH ACTIVITIES

ANGELS ALTAR SOCIETY 2nd Monday, 10am, Library, Angels Camp

ARNOLD WOMEN’S CLUB 1st Friday after 11am Rosary, Arnold Hall

ARNOLD MEN’S CLUB 4th Thursday, 7pm, Arnold

BINGO 3rd Saturday, 2pm, Angels Camp Hall

FINANCE COUNCIL 4th Friday, 5:00pm, Parish Office

FIRST SATURDAY MASS 9am, Chapel, Angels Camp

ITALIAN CATHOLIC FEDERATION 1ST Sunday after 10:15am Mass, Angels Camp Hall

LAY CARMELITES 1st Saturday, 9am, Chapel, Angels Camp. Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament Lay Carmelite Community meets each month immediately following Mass.

LITURGY BOARD 1st Monday, 6:30pm, Angels Camp Classroom

MURPHYS ALTAR SOCIETY 2nd Thursday 10am Murphys Hall

MURPHYS MEN’S CLUB 2nd Thurs 5pm Murphys Hall PARISH COUNCIL 2nd Monday, 6pm, Angels Camp Hall

ST. PATRICK’S ANGELS CAMP/MURPHYS HELPING HANDS 1st Monday 11:00am Helping Hands Bldg Angels Camp

ST. PATRICK’S PRESCHOOL PARENTS ADVISORY meeting, 2nd Wednesday 12:00pm, Confirmation Room, Angels Camp

Joe Symkowick, Michelle & Dave Elam, Cecilia Hegel, Amelia Orlonzit, Josepha Maza, Trevor Stotka, Sondra Clifford, Timothy Dahl, Anne Adams Helms, Lisa Lee, Sandra Juarez, Pat Stuth, L. J. Ybarra, Baby Alli Ybarra, Sam Marshall, Ellen Wiederlight, Rosendo Rojas, Cheyenne Jones, Theone Innes, Karan Newman, Alan Corell, Joel Rivera, Taylor Lowell, Tim Murray, Vernon Ratkovich, Jerry Hayner, Stephanie Dunn, Paul Mulvey, Randy McNurlin, Aurelia Meier, Amanda Soukup, Michelle Baker, Dave Finn, Karin Evans, Theresa Cummins, Peggy Rourke-Nichols, Siri Porovich, Leann Murray, Judy Robles, Fr. Lane Akiona, Chet & Lila Jaroch, Patty Chesnut, Norman Boydston, The Koval Family, Ben Quick, John Wade, Clell & Mary Grimes, Louise Larro, Mike Larro, Russ Wise, Michael Abeyta, Robbie Petterson, Mercedes Silvera, Eric Parker, Misha Larro, Kristine Camozzi, Peter Bailey, Bev Fernandez, Karl Christensen, Mary Frances Kelly, Azlyn Gates, Baby Jack Setzer, Velma Laver, David Wells, Justin Bates, Sonny Abalos, Al Arieta, Pam Alvey, Flo Vlnaty, Josh Kavanagh, Troy Williams, Aleida Robinson, Roman Maldonado, Jean Marie Peters, Grover M. Inks, Bradley J. Howard, Kelly Bloom, Nolan Hicks, Yvonne Porcella, Joshua and Colin Muilenburg, Rita Delisle and individuals on 12-step programs.

(Notify the Parish Office of any Prayer List

changes – deaths, return to good health, etc.)

2 nd Collections August 23 Please give generously!

Our Contribution to the Diocese this year is $35, 212 and as of today our we have $30,228 to the Diocese. We need $4,984 to reach our goal by October 1, 2015.

8/16/2015 Sunday Collection $ 4594 Parish Assistance Fund $ 838 Asumption of Blessed Virgin Mary $ 458 M&R $ 51 Helping Hands $ 10 Online Giving Collection $ 120

Weekly Collection Total $ 6071

Pastor’s Note21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

August 23, 2015 Year B

This is the concluding words of the 6th Chapter of John on the discourse of the Body and Blood or we call the “Eucharist”. We can recap the whole chapter when Jesus began his mission with his chosen few, healing the sick driving out demons, curing all kinds of diseases. It ended in people looking for him because he fed them from the multiplication of bread and fish. Jesus did not stop there. He continued to bring the minds of the people to himself as the bread of life, and his blood as real drink and that anyone who eats his body and drinks his blood will have life in him, a life with God because it is only our souls that makes us in the image of God. This made so much difficulty for people to understand what he meant. Some walked away, never returned. Some with enormous doubts about what he said, and even some questioned his identity. These confusions did not bother what Jesus want them to understand and explained himself. He let them go, and turning to his disciples, asked them: “Do you also want to leave? Peter, who often puts his foot in his mouth, came across this time with the right answer: “To whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.” Many times it’s the only answer we can give to events in our lives. God’s ways are often hidden from us. God tells us he loves us, he will always be with us, but we don’t always experience that love or his presence. He tells us to love our enemies. To forgive those who have hurt us. To eat his body and drink his blood. Our faith challenges us to believe in what we cannot see or prove or perhaps not always feel or makes sense. In moments like these, we must pray. But many times the only thing we can say is: “I believe, if Jesus said it, because he speaks the words

of eternal life.” That is what faith is, pure and simple.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Every Friday 8:30am - 4:00pmHoly Hour/Benediction 4:00pmSt. Patrick’s Angels Camp Chapel

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITIONThe ministry of permanent deacons has become

an essential part of our parish life today, yet for centuries until 1967, this deeply traditional ministry had virtually disappeared. Every priest had first to be ordained a deacon, but the notion that one could actually embrace a permanent vocation to the diaconate was lost.

The primary ministry of the deacon is to the welfare of the community, especially its poor, and his role in sacraments and preaching flows from that. His principal role is to animate and promote the ministry of all the faithful. Ninety percent of permanent deacons are married, although the discipline of celibacy for clerics means that if a deacon is widowed, normally he cannot remarry, nor can an unmarried deacon marry once ordained. The deacon does not preside at Mass nor may he absolve sins. Nor, since anointing of the sick is linked theologically to penance, may he anoint.

Sometimes we are slow to engage with a tradition: Trent approved permanent deacons in the 1560s, but nothing was done until the 1960s. The vitality of the long-delayed restoration has greatly enriched the Church, particularly in the United States, where the majority of the deacons in the world serve.

Volunteer St. Patrick’s Parish is in need of a Volunteer to coordinate Pro-Life Activities in the Parish. Past activities have included the West Coast Walk for Life, the Right to Life Fair Booth and participation in the 40 Days for Life Prayer Vigil and the educational Pro-Life presentation in the Church Vestibule for the month of October. There is a meeting once a year at the Diocesan Office in Stockton with the Director Kim Fuentes.

Contact Parish Office if you can Volunteer.

“WHO WILL SPEAK FOR THE LITTLE ONES!”

PARISH HELP INFORMATIONwww.CatholicsComeHome.org

*Helping Hands Angels Camp (Food & Clothing) Monday 1:00-3:00pm

*Helping Hands Arnold(Food & Clothing) Tuesday 9:00-10:00am

*Diocesan Respect Life Office 209-465-5433*Catholic Charities 24-hr Friendship Line 1-800-971-0016 

*Natural Family Planning www.CCLI.org*www.HopeAfterAbortion.com

*Crisis Pregnancy Helpline 1-888-4-OPTIONS *Door of Hope Crisis Pregnancy Helpline 754-5100

*Foothill Pregnancy Center 536-9262 *Common Grounds Senior Services (Meals on Wheels) 223-3015

Perpetual CandleHonor your loved one by having a candle lit 24 hours a day for

365 days a year at St. Patrick’s in Angels Camp. Pick up an application at the back of Church or call the Parish Office for

more information about Perpetual Candles.($150.00 1st year--$100.00 each additional year)

R.C.I.A. EnrollmentWe are now accepting enrollment for the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA). Adult returning Catholics, separated brothers in other Christian or non-Christian faiths and fallen Catholics who desire to come back to the Church can be enrolled. Please call the Parish Office at 736-4575.

Lay CarmelitesSt. Patrick’s Lay Carmelites meet the 1st Saturday of

each month after the 9:00am Mass. If anyone is interested in becoming a Lay Carmelite, please contact Ann Kelly at 728-3576 or Marilyn Hicks at 728-3549

St. Patrick's Helping Hands Outreach Ministry

Is in need of deodorant, sanitary wipes or new washcloths, shampoo, lotion, toothpaste, chap stick, packaged toothbrushes and razors for our homeless bags. Travel size would be best.We also need gallon size ziplock bags. Our homeless population has greatly increased and we would appreciate your help. Items may be left in the Helping Hands basket in the vestibule of St. Patrick’s, Angels Camp or taken to the church office Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday. We continue to be grateful to Angels Food Market and SaveMart for their weekly donations to our pantry. We also thank AO Ranch for their summer vegetable donations.

St Patrick’s Preschool has only a few openings for the 2015/2016 school year. Help spread the word and

get ministry to children and families in the community. The preschool program is a school

readiness program that will use established curriculum with creative curriculum by

Teacher/Director Salina Branson Carll. If you are planning to enroll your child, please call or come to

the Parish office or at the Preschool to pick up a registration packet. The preschool is in need of

volunteers and donations for the greatest success of the year. Please address your donation to St.

Patrick’s Preschool for any questions please call Salina @ 736-4458

St. Andrew’s Parish Family Festival and Fundraiser“Chicken-in-the-Barrel”

Sunday, September 13th at 2:30 pm$8 Children – 12 and under

$12 - Adult$35 – Family

This includes Dinner, Silent Auction, Raffle Items, Games, Live Band, etc.

Everyone is welcome! Call St. Andrew’s Office at 754-3815 for Tickets or more

information.

CFF REGISTRATION FORMS 2015-2016 Please pick up next year’s registration in the back of

the church.

Altar Server TrainingAnyone who wants to serve is welcome to join us on the first Saturday of each month from 9:00am to 11:30am in the Angels Camp Church. The time will be spent at Mass, Confession and training.

An Autumn Message About Child Protection

Autumn means back to school for children and back to work for those who have been on vacation. Amidst the hustle and bustle of this season, let us all keep sight of the importance of keeping our children and young people safe from danger. Training requirements to safeguard children have been established in parishes throughout the Diocese of Stockton. These training requirements help ensure that all children and youth experience a safe environment in all parish activities and events. The Diocese of Stockton mandates that all people who work with children and youth in our parishes and schools must undergo child abuse prevention training through the guidelines established by the United

States Conference of Catholic Bishops. This training includes being fingerprinted, background checked and completing an on-line training course entitled Shield the Vulnerable. If you are planning on helping or assisting in your child’s school, you are required to complete this training. For training information, contact your local parish/school Safe Environment Coordinator.For particular help and questions you may call: Linda Dillen, Manager of Benefits & Safe Environment for the Diocese of Stockton, at (209) 466-0636.