Sunday

Continental Breakfast after the 9am Mass.

Monday Next Grief Group Meeting is 1/ 4 at 7 pm in the Rectory.

Wednesday

Thursday No Morning Masses-Christmas Eve Masses 5Pm-Children’s Liturgy, 8pm and 11pm

Sunday No Continental Breakfast after 9 am Mass.

Friday Christmas Day -Masses at 7:30 am & 11 am. No evening Mass. Merry Christmas

Saturday Mass at 8 am, Confession 4-4:45 pm 5pm Mass NA Meeting tonight.

Tuesday The next Ladies Guild meeting is 1/ 12 at 1 pm in the Fr. Jim Community Center meeting rooms. NEW MEMBERS ALWAYS WELCOME .

Dec. 20, 2015 - Dec. 27, 2015

Sunday 7:30am 9:00am 11:00am 5:00pm

Thanh -Ha T. Le † Susai Mary † Frances Fitzsimons† For Our Parishioners

Monday 6:30 am 9:30 am

No Intention Marilyn Rauchele †

Tuesday 6:30 am 9:30 am

B & D Families Letty Quizon ( birthday)(living)

Wednesday 6:30 am

9:30 am Bernadine Wilkes † Joe & Annie Mendoza (34th anniv.)

Thursday

5:00pm 8:00pm 11:00pm

For Our Parishioners John & Farelyn Lehane & Family Choi Family (living)

Friday 7:30 am 11:00am

Pete Barulich † Tony & Alice Himan†, Maitoza Family †

Saturday 8:00 am 5:00 pm

Ngoc Teresa Pham † B & D Families

Sunday 7:30 am 9:00 am 11:00 am 5:00 pm

Patrick Wang (living) Stephen Horkay† Nguyen Vu families For Our Parishioners

ASCENT EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM

Hours of operation closed Monday and Friday. Open Tuesday through Thursday , from 9 am until 2 pm 408-257-8302 FAX Number 408-257-4600 Web Site: www.ascent-jobs.org PO Box 9604, San Jose CA 95157. Ascent is also looking for winter coats. Please leave at the last garage. Thank you!

Weekly Stewardship Report Collections for 12/13/2015 $ 15,717 Collections 7/1/15 to 12/13/15 $ 240,428 Budgeted 7/1/15 to 12/13/15 $ 254,803 Variance $ (14,374)

Please note the budgetary shortfall: To help keep the parish within its budget please prayerfully consider increasing your weekly contributions by $2-$3. Thank you for your continued support !

The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is a religious formation program for adults and for children 7 years or older,

who are interested in joining the Catholic Church. Participants explore their faith while

learning about the Catholic tradition. To learn more call 408-255-9950 or email kman-ning@dsj.org

Dec. 20, 2015 - Dec. 27, 2015

Social Justice CORNER

In the Gospel today we learn that Mary is with child and visits Elizabeth to share her joy. Her joy has overcome her initial worry and she exults in the coming birth of Jesus. We wait during Advent as Mary awaited the birth of the Savior. What a blessed time! Christmas is the ful-fillment of all our hopes. That precious child reminds us that all children are precious. We think of those young women who do not have the support of family at a time like this, women who are struggling on their own with their pregnancy. We hope they can turn to someone in their need or turn to Birthright, whose members will be right by their side to support them. Our Birthright office in San Jose is available to all women, of all faiths. If you know of any young woman in need of support call Birth-right at (408) 241-8444.

Social Justice Committee

The Queen of Apostles Children Choir has been leading the assembly in song for 15 years. We will be singing at the 11:00 am Mass on Christmas morning and would like to invite any interested Children’s Choir Alumni to join us! The Children’s Choir invites all children in grades 3 and up to join us. Alumni and new members: please email Becky at(nanosmom@hotmail.com if you are interested in joining us or talk with us after Mass

Fourth Sunday of Advent

Dear Parishioners,

A total of 65 miles! That’s roughly the distance from Nazareth to Judea. That means that Mary, in her delicate condition probably spent at least three days trav-elling dusty roads to get to her cousin’s house. (And you thought fighting traffic at the mall was bad!) Mary must be tired and probably grubby, and yet the reunion was clearly a joyful one.

Elizabeth herself is filled with wonder as she greets her cousin. “Hail Mary, full of grace! Blessed are you among women!” And then she tells her that her baby leapt for joy when Elizabeth heard Mary’s voice.

I always thought this is how we should all respond when we hear the greeting of the priest at mass each week. I mean, think about it. John was so excited to be in the presence of Jesus that he was doing summersaults within the womb!

Now, I’m not suggesting cartwheels at the consecration, but maybe if we spent some time really pondering the mystery of the Eucharist, we too would be filled with the same joy that John and Elizabeth knew. Perhaps as we wrap up this sea-son of Advent we can take a few quiet moments in prayer, focus on the manger, and consider what it all means. Emmanuel, God is with us.

Merry Christmas!

Dec.20, 2015

Family Faith Formation 408-255-9950

Office is staffed on Tues. and Thurs. 8 -3 and on weekends by appointment. Please call

before stopping by.

The Queen of Apostles School com-munity wishes you and your families

a Merry Christmas!

For more information about our school while we are on Christmas break, please see our school website at www.qofa-school.org

On The Calendar Dec. 20th Christmas Break—NO CLASSES Dec. 24th Children’s Liturgy at the 5pm Mass. Grades 3-5 participating Dec. 27th Christmas Break—NO CLASSES Jan.. 3rd Classes resume

Dec. 20th: Christmas Break—NO CLASSES Dec. 27th Christmas Break—NO CLASSES Jan. 3rd Sessions Resume Merry Christmas and Happy Healthy New Year

Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults

Diocese of San Jose - Anthony Gonzalez Phone: 408-983-0113 Fax:408-983-0147 Emergency line: 408-983-0141

HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH MINISTRY And Confirmation

ON THE CALENDAR: Dec. 18th: Caroling and Youth Overnight Time: 6pm - 10am Place: St. Thomas of Canterbury SAVE THE DATE: Jan. 15-17th: All high school retreat in Scotts Valley, CA. Registration info can be found at http://qofa.org/high-school-1.Registration info can be found at http://qofa.org/high-school-1 Youth/Young Adult Band & Choir rehearsals are every Wednesday evening. Contact jluu@dsj.org for more information. *Like us on Facebook: Queen of Apostles Youth *Follow us on Instagram: | www.qofa.org

We lovingly pray for those in our Parish and families who cannot join us at Mass especially, Linda Ann Hanson, Jim Lisins, Hans Ungelback., Tina Bowen, Venice Romiti, Ken Koenig, Please let us also pray for all our servicemen and women who serve in the Armed Forces throughout the world and remember them in our hearts today and every-day. We remember those dearly departed in our Queen of Apostles family and in our own families and special per-sons: Betty Phelps, Joan Coker

.

Thank you for your generosity and have a wonderful Christmas!

The Social Justice Committee

The Spirituality Formation Team would like to invite you to OLEM (Ordinary Lives Extraor-dinary Mission), an event that will inspire you! On Saturday, May 14th 2016, the author of OLEM, John Woods, will spend a morning with us, at Queen of Apos-tles to talk, sing and discuss the ordinary lives we live, and how we can carry out the extraordinary mission Jesus Christ has invited us to share. . We encourage you to stop by and learn more about this incredible event! In addition, you can learn more if you go to www.DynamicCatholic.com/SanJose

THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT

Santa Clara County 2015 is a safe place for young people (12 through 20) who are affected by the drinking or drug abuse of

a family member or friend. There are no dues or fees. The “Heart to Heart Freedom” Alateen group meets every Thursday evening here at Queen of Apostles School at 7:45 p.m. in room 7. Please call Jay or Venice at 408-406-7081 for more informa-tion.

Grief Group

The grief support group’s next meeting will be 1/4/2016. Please call Shirley 408-241-1209 if you have any questions or need to talk.

Support World Youth Day Pilgrims

PEACEMAKERS

Jesus taught all of us how important it is to forgive those who have hurt us. His best example is His own forgiveness of the men who were crucifying Him to the Cross as they were doing so. In this Advent season we too must look to forgive one another, beginning with our-selves for being less than the person we would like to be. One of the most inspiring forgiveness stories I have heard is that of a South Afri-can woman whose son and husband were murdered simply because they were black. A white officer admitted before a special commission that he had killed a young black man simply because he could. Eight years later he returned to the youth’s home, dragged his father outside, tied him to a tree and incinerated him in front of his wife who was in the audience. Now people who confessed before this Commission to any crimes during the years of white rule, could not be prosecuted for them. Many people objected to this but President Mandela said his country needed mercy, not justice. So in this year of mercy that Pope Francis has initiated we should also focus on forgiveness. The widow was asked what she wanted and she said two things; for the officer to gather her husband’s ashes and bring them to her for burial. Second, since she no longer had a family to shower her love on she wanted this officer to visit her every month so she could shower her love on him. The audience then broke out into singing Amazing Grace. The officer fainted.

The Social Justice Committee

Christmas Caroling

Join CFM for its annual Christmas Caroling to elderly or ill parishioners. Meet at 1:45 on Sunday Dec. 20 in the Church parking lot and we will carpool from there. Be sure to bring your jingle bells and Santa hats. We will eat dinner together afterward for those who are available to do so.

World Youth Day pilgrims are 36% towards their goal to see Pope Francis with youth from all over the world in the beautiful country of Poland! The time is now to invest in our young church! Here are some opportunities you can take: 1) Send us thoughts and prayers: QofAyouth@gmail.com 2) Make an online donation: http://tinyurl.com/QofAWYD. “I am excited to go to World Youth Day because I am looking forward to strengthening my relationship with God, and to experience being with thousands of other youth who share the same faith as myself from all over the world.” Sarah Choi, Cantor and Youth Ministry Core Team Leader

Thank You

Thank you to all who donated baby outfits and blankets. We

delivered 11 boxes to the Diocesan Layette Shower plus $200.00 for the diaper fund.

PLEASE READ:

THE NEW CHURCH CALENDARS ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN THE CHURCH FOR YOU AND YOUR FAM-ILY TO PICK UP.

POINSETTIAS FOR THE CHURCH

We have purchased poinsettias for the church Christmas decora-tions. We are fortunate to have a local grower who is a school parent and parishioner. We used them last year also. If anyone would like to contribute monetarily to help defray the cost, that would be greatly appreciated. Please place your checks (notation in the memo (Poinsettias) or cash in a labeled enve-lope in the collection basket on the weekend or bring your dona-tions to the Parish Office. Thank you all for all that you do for our parish home.

Queen of Apostles Church

4911 Moorpark Avenue

San Jose, Ca 95129

Never Give Up! PASTORAL STAFF: Rev. Thuc Si Ho, Pastor Rev. Reynaldo Sarmiento, Parochial Vicar Brian McKenna, Deacon Kristie Manning, Faith Formation/RCIA Director Gregory Elsner, Accountant Mary Ann Oddo, Receptionist / Secretary Marie McCarthy, Receptionist / Secretary Klarissa Chichioco, Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry Family Faith Formation: 408-255-9950 Parish Office 408-253-7560 Open 9-5 Mon. - Friday 4911 Moorpark Ave. Closed for lunch: 12-1 San Jose, Ca.. 95129 Fax: 408-253-9530 Web Site: www.qofa.org Marty Chargin, School Principal School Address: 4950 Mitty Way 408-252-3659 San Jose, CA 95129

MASS SCHEDULE: Saturday (Vigil Mass): 5:00 p.m. Sundays: 7:30, 9:00 and 11:00 a.m., 5:00 p.m. Weekdays: 6:30 and 9:30 a.m. Saturdays: 8:00 a.m. Holy Days: (Vigil Mass) 5:00 p.m., 6:30, 9:30 a.m., 7:00 p.m. Marian Devotions: After the 8:00 a.m. Mass on Saturday SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Seminar required. Please contact Rectory for information. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Saturdays - 4:00 - 4:45 p.m. or by appointment. SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY: Contact Rectory at least SIX MONTHS prior to any proposed wedding date. INQUIRY SESSION ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: Contact number: 408-255-9950 or kmanning@dsj.org