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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Blessed Sacrament August 5, 2018

MASSES:

Saturday: 8:00AM; 5:00 PM (Vigil) Sunday: 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 6:00 PM, (Spanish Mass 4:00 PM)

Weekdays: Tuesday-Friday 8:00 AM (Mondays: 8:00 AM Communion Service) Holy Days & Special Services: see bulletin

RECONCILIATION: Saturdays, 4:00 PM

PERPETUAL HELP NOVENA: Tuesdays 8:30 AM

MARRIAGES: Those wishing to be married must contact the priest at least 9 months before date of marriage.

4540 El Cerrito Dr. San Diego, CA 92115

Parish Office: 619-582-5722

Parish Website: www.blessedsacrament-sandiego.org Parish E-Mail: [email protected]

Pastor: Fr. Jose Goopio, SVD Deacon: Tony Albers Deacon: Herb Kelsey

Parish ID # for United Way Contributions………..…..9753

BAPTISM INFORMATION…………………………619-582-5722

RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) ……….619-582-5722

FAITH FORMATION, grade 1-8.….........619-582-5722, ext. 124 Coordinator: Kerwin Molina

CONFIRMATION, Teens…………………………...619-582-5722 Justine Coliflores

ST. KATHARINE DREXEL ACADEMY…………...619-582-3862 Principal: Anne Egan School Website: www.skda-sd.org

Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church August 5, 2018 — Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time


From Fr. Jon Kirby

Back to Epicureanism?

(Adapted from: “Paul’s witness” by Ruth Glendhill. An inter-view with N.T. Wright. 2 JUNE 2018 | THE TABLET | 13)

“Unless the West reconnects with its ancient Chris-tian narrative it faces catastrophe.” These words of wisdom are from one of the greatest New Testament scholars of our age, Tom Wright (N.T. Wright). He is the former Anglican Bishop of Durham, professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Univer-sity of St Andrews in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the author of over 80 books. He was raised “in the con-text of middle Anglicanism”. He is forthright, engag-ing and at times passionate as he expresses his alarm to Ruth Glendhill at the direction that our society is taking. “Ten years ago,” he says, “when Pope Bene-dict addressed the UN General Assembly in New York, he said the contemporary post enlightenment secular world was – and this is my phrase, not his – living on borrowed time. He pointed out that the modern human rights movement is rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and if you cut off those roots the fruits will go bad, and society will collapse into a cacophony of competing special interest argu-ments. And that’s exactly the point we’ve reached now.” “WE LACK a clear idea of what a modern civil soci-ety ought to look like. And that’s dangerous. Europe has torn itself apart twice in the past hundred years. I don’t think we can say that secularism is the great gospel that is necessarily going to triumph. On the contrary, it seems to me that secularism, if you’re not careful, leads to a pretty dark place. It’s the same dark place that much ancient philosophy was in be-fore the arrival of Christianity. Because, basically, secularism is a modern form of Epicureanism.” Wright, the attentive teacher, explains. “Epicurus was the ancient Greek philosopher who believed that pleasure was the greatest good. And here’s the inter-esting thing: Epicureanism says, if the gods exist, they are a long way away; they don’t bother about us so we don’t need to bother about them. What we have to do is just make ourselves as comfortable as we can. And that’s fine if you are reasonably well off and have got good slaves and a nice little vineyard. But for most people, life is very different.” “Western Europe and North America has been an Epicurean society for the last 200 years,” Wright goes on. “Thomas Jefferson said, ‘I am an Epicure-an.’ The Epicureans were never a majority in ancient Greece, but they have become a majority in the Western world. And, as Benedict pointed out, we have been living on borrowed time, feasting on the fruits of other people’s labor. But the worm has turned. Now the people who we have exploited and

ignored are – quite literally – being washed up on our shores. It is becoming clear that our freedoms and our sophisticated modern comforts have been purchased at a terrible cost for people in many other parts of the world.” “When Paul talked about Jesus as Lord,” Wright goes on, “people’s lives changed. It is too easy to forget how much was changed for the better. I studied an-cient history before I studied theology. And the an-cient Roman world was a pretty brutal place.” Wright reminds me that many of the things we tend to take for granted – that it is right for a society to care for the poor and the sick, and to provide children with an education – are a legacy of a Christian civilization that, in turn, had picked up the Jewish imperative and translated it into something for everybody. In a sense, it was Judaism for the masses.” He says, “again and again through history, it’s been remarkable how, from a Christian point of view, God has raised up people to speak new words. Think of Pope Francis. Nobody saw that coming. Think of Mother Teresa. Nobody saw that coming.” If Paul were to come back today, Wright observes, one of the things that would most shock and alarm him would be the disunity of Christians, particularly in the Unit-ed States, where there are literally thousands of dif-ferent Christian denominations. But what would astonish him more is the insouciance of Christians towards their bitter divisions. “If the Church is not united, why on earth should the world take any notice of what it says?” Wright asks. The root of the prob-lem, he believes, is that “we in the western Churches have, since the eighteenth century, colluded with the Enlightenment idea that religion is a purely private matter, and that it has nothing to do with public life.” “We simply have no narrative to make sense of this,” Wright says. “When the Arab spring happened, there was an assumption among some in the West that all that was needed was to topple a few dictators and then a tolerant, liberal democracy would somehow spring up automatically. The last seven years have shown that that’s simply not how things work. Life is more complicated than that.” “Unless we reconnect with the ancient Christian narrative,” he says, “we will never understand what is happening, let alone to come through to the other side.” “I think if we said to Paul now, looking back in retro-spect: ‘How did you turn the world upside down?’ he would instantly say: ‘It wasn’t me, it was Jesus who did it.’ What Paul is doing is making it happen, mak-ing it work.” Regarding the IT revolution as a vehicle for Christian evangelization, Tom says, “What does the trick, in communicating in Christian terms, is meeting a real human being, who can look at you and pray with you and hug you and smile with you and weep with you.”


Weekly Mass Intentions Sat. Sun. Mon

Aug 4 Aug 5 Aug 6

Tues. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat.

8:00am 8:00am 8:00am 8:00am 8:00am

Aug 7 Aug 8 Aug 9 Aug 10 Aug 11

Leo Heid † Jan Heid, int. Maria Hoa Phan † Fr. Jerry Hamperzonian † Fr. Andrew Tran †

5:00pm 8:00am 10:00am 6:00pm 8:00am

Fr. Jerry Hamperzonian † Jennie Sardo † Baldassare & Caterina Ferrara † Parishioners Virginia Grasso †

Quarters & Cans Collection

This weekend is our monthly Quarters and Cans Collection. All quarters and designated monies will be given to Kairos Outside to help pay the costs of their week-end retreats. Kairos Outside is a ministry designed for women impacted by incarceration. It helps the recently re-leased as well as those with a loved one doing time inside. All non-perishable food, can openers and personal care items will be given to Catholic Char-ities College Area Center to help our neighbors in need.

Bring your donations to the altar after the bread and wine are presented. Thank you for your support!

FINANCIAL UPDATE 2018

July 29 weekend: $4,919.50

Thank you for your continued support.

PARISH OFFICE HOURS CHANGE

The parish office will have limited hours from August 7 through 10th. Tues 10am to 3pm Wed 10am - 2:30pm Thurs 10am - 2:30pm Friday 10am - 3pm

Faith Formation, Teen Confirmation & Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA)

Classes Begin Sept. 16

All Classes REQUIRE Baptism Cert. & $35 Fee More Info: Kerwin Molina (619)582-5722 ext. 124

Faith Formation is for ALL children grades 1-8. Give your child the gift of learning about God & their faith. Parents attend the Faith Parenting Program.

Teen Confirmation is a 2 year program to help them see the presence of the Word in their lives.

RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) is a class for adults to become members of the Catho-lic Church. (there is no charge for RCIA).

Catechist Needed for Children’s Faith Formation. Share the Good News!

So what are you waiting for? Become a catechist for Faith Formation (grades 1-8) on Sundays from 8:45am-llam. This includes Mass attendance with children. Encourage our youth to a deeper faith and relationship with God!

Catechists must be older than junior status in high school to be considered.

Classes begin September 16

Contact Kerwin Molina at (619)582-5722 ext. 124 OR [email protected]

Our Youth need YOU!!!


Interested in joining a ministry group? Contact the person listed below or church office.

(area codes are (619) except were listed)

Adoration Chapel…………………………………………………..582-5722

Altar Servers: Church Office……………………………………………………..582-5722

Cares For Kids-Blessed Sacrament Teresa Markey……………………………………………………..582-2141

Contemporary Choir: (10:00 am & 6 pm Masses)……………………………………….582-5722

Culture of Life: Margie Morrison……………………………………………………582-8651

Eucharistic Ministers: Church Office………………………………………………………582-5722

Knights of Columbus: John Agoh…………..…………………...…………..…………….278-8405

Lectors: Church Office…………………………………………………...…582-5722

BSPS Parent-Teacher Group (PTG): Kristen Crisostomo (President)…….………………[email protected]

Traditional Choir: Patti Burch (8 am Mass)………………………………………….735-6330

Ushers: Church Office…………………………………………….………...582-5722

Women’s Club: Pat Luebbers…………………………………………………….…262-8522

Youth Ministry (High School Students): Parish Office…………………………………………………..…...582-5722

PARISH MINISTRIES & GROUPS

PARISH EVENTS

July & Aug. - No Cares for Kids Mtg.

July & Aug. - No Women’s Club Mtg.

July & Aug. - No Soup & Salad

Aug. 12 - Diocesan African Mass & Gathering 1pm

Aug. 15 - Feast of the Assumption of Mary Masses: 8am & 6pm

Sept. 3 - Labor Day holiday

Sept. 8 - Fr. Jon’s Anniversary Mass & Dinner

August 5 – 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

A Vocation View: We are challenged today to seek what will last. Give Jesus, the Bread of Life, your

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Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Wednesday, August 15th

Mass 8am & 6pm

This is a holy day of obligation.

Fr. Jon 50th Anniversary of his Profession of Vows

Sat. Sept. 8 Mass 5:00pm in Church

Dinner in Parish Hall After Mass

Come celebrate with Fr. Jon! All are invited. We are asking for a minimum donation of $10 per

person for the dinner.

Buy tickets after the weekend Masses

If you have any questions, want to volunteer or donate?

Contact: Annemarie Brennan 619-265-0319


Daily Prayer for Our Priests O Jesus, I pray for your faithful and fervent priests; for your unfaithful & tepid priests; for your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields; for your tempted priests; for your lonely & desolate priests; for your young priests; for your dying priests; for the souls of your priests in Purgatory. But above all, I recommend to you the priests dearest to me: the priest who baptized me, the priests who absolved me from my sins, the priests at whose Masses I assisted & who gave me Your body & blood in Communion, the priests to whom I am indebted any other way especially (name….) O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart, and bless them abundantly in time & in eternity. Amen. --St. Therese of Lisieux

Monday ~ August 6 Rev. Kirk Davis, OSA

Tuesday ~ August 7 Rev. Ben Davison

Wednesday ~ August 8 Rev. Alexander De Paulis

Thursday ~ August 9 Rev. George Decasa

Friday ~ August 10 Rev. Thomas Dekaa

Saturday ~ August 11 Rev. Kenneth Del Priore

Sunday ~ August 12 Rev. Nicholas Dempsey

Monday: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9; 2 Pt 1:16-19; Mk 9:2-10 Tuesday: Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22; Ps 102:16-21, 29, 22-23; Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2, 10-14 Wednesday: Jer 31:1-7; Jer 31:10, 11-12ab, 13; Mt 15:21-28 Thursday: Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51:12-15, 18-19; Mt 16:13-23 Friday: 2 Cor 9:6-10; Ps 112:1-2, 5-9; Jn 12:24-26 Saturday: Hb 1:12 -- 2:4; Ps 9:8-13; Mt 17:14-20 Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:4-8; Ps 34:2-9; Eph 4:30 -- 5:2; Jn 6:41-51

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Congratulations to our Newly

Baptized & Their Families

Elena Sofia Coronado Minallah Martin Gowolo

Aug 11 Love Our Priests Prayer Group Mass & Potluck Luncheon - 10am, Ascension Catholic Church, 11292 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego 92124. Rev. Luke Buckles, O.P. Prof. Dominican Pontifical University, Rome will give the Homily “Mary, Mother of the Lord & Hope of Christians”. Hear his amazing story of conversion and call to the priesthood. Bring a friend and a dish to share! Sept 7-9 Retrouvaille Weekend - There is HOPE for your Marriage. Not willing to let go of your marriage? Many couples continue to struggle in a marriage, but are not willing to give up on each other. Retrouvaille is a program designed to help strug-gling marriages regain their health. It begins with a weekend program that can help get your relationship back on track. It is an effective program that has worked for thousands of couples and it can work for your marriage. INFO: Charles & Charlene 951-259-9474 | Spanish- Eric & Anna Rubio 760-294-4028 Oct 12-14 Beginning Experience Weekend; Prince of Peace Abbey, Oceanside. Heal and move beyond grief in a supportive and caring environment. Share this with others that are going through and have gone through similar events. For those who have losta a spouse through death, divorce or separation and for the children of this loss. If you know someone who is in the pain of grief, Beginning Experience can help. INFO: Rose Sheenan | 619-504-4410; Spanish -Nish Carmendy | 330-607-8774

AROUND THE TOWN

TODAY'S READINGS

First Reading -- I will rain down bread from heaven for you (Exodus 16:2-4, 12-15). Psalm -- The Lord gave them bread from heaven (Psalm 78). Second Reading -- Put on the new self that has been created in God's way (Ephesians 4:17, 20-24). Gospel -- Whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst (John 6:24-35).

The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass (c) 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

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