St. Lorenzo Ruiz Catholic Parish Community

747 N. Meadow Pass Road, Walnut, CA 91789

909-595-9545 saintlorenzo.org

And Zacchaeus was at Home!

Come Down Zacchaeus...

“When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and

said to him, Zacchaeus, come down quickly for I

must stay at your house today. So Zacchaeus

hurried down and received him joyfully.”...

Looking at him, Jesus said, salvation has come to

this house today…” (Lk. 19, 5-6; 9)

And Zacchaeus

was at Home and

home is Jesus!

A Christmas message from our Pastor

To our Parishioners, Friends and Benefactors:

It is my great joy to greet all of you as we welcome our Lord, “the Word made Flesh”, the real “bread of life” this Christmas. Sensitive to the presence of our

Lord as ‘Emmanuel’ through our being ‘priests, prophets and kings’ amidst our diverse traditions, may we journey closer to our mission and vision in bringing

our Faith Home. Let us go ‘small’...be nourished by ‘the Word’...be conscious of how we are ‘graced’ and become a ‘grace’ to each one… ‘be continually formed

and grow’...and ‘Welcome Home’ one another embracing each one who comes

to us with the heart of the father.

With our Blessed Mother as model of discipleship, let us long to “be faithful to the teachings of the Apostles, a common life of sharing, the breaking of the bread and prayer” (Acts 2:42) ...as we not only share bread with each other but rather

become bread for one another.

Feast of the Holy Family! One Parish, One Family...Let our families be at home…and

our home be our families. Let us through the intercession of St. Lorenzo the Family

Man, model our families by the Holy Family—Jesus, Mary & Joseph.

This is our embrace of our three year sojourn Zacchaeus Come Down--- a call

to bring the Faith Home. Like Zacchaeus, let us Welcome Jesus Home.

I thank all our parishioners, benefactors, friends and fellow sojourners who are

always there with us. I am most grateful to our volunteers, Core Group, the staff, the many stewards and leaders of our Parish, in particular the new pastoral leaders of our Parish as we embark on a 3-year sojourn of discipleship: Come

Down Zacchaeus.

As we remember you in our prayers this Christmas season, we thank the Lord for having brought you into our lives. We pray that amidst the ‘restlessness’ and ‘homelessness’ of the world these days, particularly of what we go through this

pandemic, the newborn Savior comes to the ‘rescue’ and bless your families with His peace throughout the New Year. With Fr. Martin, Deacon Brian & Deacon

Steve and the priests who help and serve us,... a blessed Christmas and Welcome Home…to ‘where Earth kisses Heaven’ – hopes to a very fruitful New

Year.

Welcome Home to our Pastoral New Leaders

Parish Core Team

W E S T Y

Ron & Amy Orlando & Ana Francisco & Tere

Education

Alvin Sunga

Service

Lalap Mamangun

Temporalities

Fernando Perez

Youth

Emily Acuna & Mary Anne Garcia

Worship

Ralph & Mary Lopez

Our journey with SLR began when our daughter, Camille, wanted to become an altar server. Soon after, we volunteered as Altar Server Coordinators and thereafter, our son, Lawrence, became an Altar Server as well. We seek to share more of God’s gifts & blessings to us by joining the CANA Ministry, Knights of Columbus, and as Eucharistic Ministers of the Eucharist (EME). Fr. Tony asked us to lead the 2016 Pentecost celebration, the 2019 Lenten season and later part of 2019, as Worship Lead . . . the "W" for FT's vision for the Church to go WESTY. And now we said YES to another opportunity to serve the SLR community, to be part of the CORE group. - Ronamy

Come Down Zacchaeus is a 3-yr sojourn to

‘reimagine’ the celebration of our Faith. Let us

celebrate our Faith at Home. Let us as a Family

pray together; walk with our children to learn the

Faith together via Zoom...

“My wife Teresa and I, Francisco

Vargas started attending Saint

Lorenzo Ruiz Church in 1996. It

was not until 2014 that we joined

the Spanish choir. Then we

continued to volunteer in other

ministries to support the Spanish

community as well as our Parish

needs. We currently serve as

Sacristan, EMEs, Our Lady of

Guadalupe Devotion, Mass

Coordinator for Spanish Mass,

Lector, Knights of Columbus and

the CANA Ministry.”

JANUARY

KAMILA RAE ARRIETA DIAZ

JANELLE AVERY SARMIENTO RAMOS

FEBRUARY

ARLO JOHN LEONES

PALOMA ESTELLE GUERRA

ANGELIQUE HERMOSILLO VILLEGAS

LUCAS JAMES ZABLAN

VAUGHN CHARLES PUNZALAN

BRODERICK TONNER PUNZALAN

CAYLEN LEE JOHNSON PERALTA

RICHARD VALENTINE NOE IV

OLIVIA INEZ ENCINAS

AUGUST

NATALIE KAY VARGAS

BELA NICOLE NABONG

GILBERT FUERTE II

DELILAH FERNANDEZ

ANDREW CABRERA BROKING

SEPTEMBER

ZOEY ANN TERZIAN FERRER

RYU ROXAS OCAMPO

OCTOBER

CAMILA ABIGAIL AYLLON

NIKO GREY ONGPIN

ALYSSA GRACE BUI CUEVAS

JAREN ELLIOTT LLAMAS

MEILANI REINA RAMOS

COOPER LEE

CAYDEN LEE

LUAS ALBERT BOQUIREN

NOVEMBER

ELIAS TOSHIRO GARCIA

PRESTON XAVIER MANALO

ASHER IGNATIUS MANALO

RYAN JOAN BOMBANE QUINTO

CALADIN FRUSHOUR

CRISELLE ORTIZ LONTOK

ENRIQUE KING PENA III

LUCAS MICHAEL STRADLING

JUSTIN JAMES MANANSALA CAIDEN MATTHEW ROQUE DECEMBER IVANKA DANIELLE VELASCO AVEA REI BRYANT ACUESTA KATTALEYA NAIROBI DIAZ

Our Servant Leaders of Ministries…

Lectors Youth & Confirmation

Buda Emily Mary Anne

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Wilhelmino Ramos Estrella Tukay

Nathaniel Gapasin Benjamin Acuna

Ester Mancilla Jorge Dextre

Teodora Pangilinan Arcadio Reveche

Mercedes Martinez Rolando Luna

Virginia Cendejas Richard Salazar

Jose Reynoso Lourdes Lopez

Frenita Agbayani Elena Cabayan

Noreen Lispi Ramiro Garcia

Leticia Keaton Jonathan Kenneth Santos

Virgil Vasquez Jerome Clayton

Gregorio Rocero Rodolfo Alcaraz

Jacinto Leano Jr. Antonia Jimenez

Alfredo Arceo Angelina Cay

Benita Rosales Carmen Ines

Paul Teczon Natsuko Tana

Henrrieta Lopez Krishna Aguilar

Shelby Lopez Wendy Cendejas

David Encinas Rodolfo Ruiz

Eduardo Gozun Norma Cortez

Jesus Paragas Cesar Resplandor

Lorna Gunewardena

Romeo Giron

Hector Santana

Romeo Florendo

Jimmy Enriquez

Lit Miranda

Connie Francisco Manzo

The Giving Tree

Once again, our dear St. Lorenzo

Ruiz Parish Community will

have the opportunity to share its

blessings with other brothers and

sisters less fortunate —the need of

giving ritualized as the Giving

Tree.

Due to the specified guidelines

due to Covid this year, we are

allowed to make monetary

donations through the Venmo app or Faith

Direct (Online Giving) or you may also bring

your Gift card donations to the Parish Office.

For many people the holidays are extremely difficult. Let us put together our efforts and celebrate Advent Time in a beautiful and special way by manifesting the love of God to these families.

Let us remember what St. Mother Teresa of

Calcutta once said:

"At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a

warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and

serving others with God’s own love and concern.”

Please continue

praying and caring

for our sick family

members, friends,

neighbors &

parishioners.

Cesar Resplandor

Hans Joachim Herbst

Noel Bascon

Margarita Panaligan

Susana Sancho

Reflectionsbybob.weebly.com

Dec. 27, 2020 - Holy Family Sunday May you be blessed as you continue to gather with your loved ones during this season of love, joy, and peace.

Most people see Christmas as a time for fami-lies to gather together and share gifts as sign of their love for each other. It is a particu-larly “familial” season. That is because we celebrate GOD being born into a human fam-ily and allowing us to become members of the family of GOD, through the birth, life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Je-sus. Being a family is truly joyful, but it also demands a giving of ourselves in loving ser-vice of one another.

The personal question/action for today: The personal question/action for today: How is the Lord Jesus calling me to be a diakonos – servant/minister? In what ways can I proclaim the GOoD News by my acts of assisting others? How have I given witness (martyrizo) to the GOoD news? As I continue the celebration of Christmas and spend time with family and friends, how can I proclaim the reason for the season – GOD’s Love becoming incarnate for our salvation?

Sponsors of Light

Norma Jean & Jimmy Peguero In loving memory of Angel G Perez & Elena

Ralph & Ofelia Peguero

Enrique & Lecha Perez

Sponsors of Eucharistic Wine

Aggabao FamilyA

In loving memory of Antonio Aggabao

Thank you to our December Liturgical Sponsors

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Parish Code: CA839

Together in Mission

As of Nov 16, 2020

Parish Goal: $ 89,375.00

Amount Pledge:$ 76,082.66 85.1%

Amount Paid: $ 65,749.60 73.6%

Difference over/under goal $23,625 -26.4%

A special thanks to

Benny & Anita

Deacon Ray & Connie

for our kneeling pads

Budi & Siska

Ken & Lillie

for our projects

Did you know you can use the Venmo App

to donate to church? Just scan to download.

Visit the SLR bookstore &

gift shop!

Open Sundays

8:30am-12:00nn

Join us to promote our

Program

“Come Down Zacchaeus

— bring the Faith Home!”

Use “Zacchaeus masks” and kneeling pads -

ask our volunteers.

Simbang Gabi (Dawn Mass) @ SLR….

Thursday, Dec. 17 @ 7:00pm with Bishop Dave, Fr. Tony,

Fr. Francis, Deacon Brian and our lovely volunteers.