“Listen to Jesus and follow him.

That’s the message of the Transfiguration.”

— Pope Francis

MARIA REGINA PARISH 2150 W. 135th Street, Gardena, CA 90249 Office: (310) 323-0030

After-Hours, Emergencies/fuera de horas, emergencias: (323) 400-4809 (call/text)

office@MariaReginaGardena.net www.MariaReginaGardena.net

Pastor: Rev. Sang Van Tran

Pastor Emeritus: Rev. Msgr. Thomas M. Acton

Sunday Mass: Rev. Amaechi Ugwu, S.J.

Permanent Deacons: Dn. Matthew Van P. Nguyen

Dn. Ramon Nuñez

Special Ministry: Jül Marie Hermosísima

Receptionist: Manuela Castañeda

School Principal: Mrs. Lynnette Lino

School Office: (310) 327-9133

Mass Schedule English: Monday through Saturday, 7:00am Saturday, 5:30pm • Sunday, 8:00am & 10:00am Adoration: 1st Friday each month, 7:00-9:00pm. Spanish: Domingo (Sunday), 12 noon/Medio Dia Viernes Oracion— Crecimiento en la Fé, 6:30pm Hora Santa: Cada primer Martes del Mes a las 7:30pm. Vietnamese: Saturday, 7:00pm Thursday, 6:30pm Prayer Group, after morning Mass on Saturday

Confessions: Saturday 4:00pm or anytime by appointment. Baptism, Marriage, Quinceañera: Please call the office. Sick Calls: Please call the office.

Stations of the Cross Fridays during Lent

7:00 PM in the Church

Via-Crucis Los Martes de Cuaresma

7:30 PM en la Iglesia

Đàng Thánh Giá

6:30 PM Thứ năm

Collect Prayer

O God, who have commanded us to listen to your beloved Son, be pleased, we pray, to nourish us inwardly by your word, that, with spiritual sight made pure, we may rejoice to behold your glory. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Roman Missal

Second Sunday of Lent

February 25, 2018

If God is for us,

who can be against us? Romans 8:31b

Fast & Abstinence

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK Saturday, February 24 7:00am Jane Perez † 5:30pm Guadalupe Tabarez † Ev. Winson Ernest † 7:00pm Francis Acton † Baby Apollo Son DeSario (Health) Sunday, February 25 8:00am Sr. Phuong-Thao Dao (Birthday) 10:00am Children & Grandchildren (Thanksgiving) 12:00 Noon Fausto Figueroa † Monday, February 26 7:00am Francis Acton † Baby Apollo Son DeSario (Health) Tuesday, February 27 7:00am Baby Apollo Son DeSario (Health) Wednesday, February 28 7:00am Baby Apollo Son DeSario (Health) Thursday, March 1 7:00am Vocations 6:30pm Baby Apollo Son DeSario (Health) Friday, March 2 7:00am Baby Apollo Son DeSario (Health) Saturday, March 3 7:00am Dolores Ventura † 5:30pm Anthony Barone † 7:00pm Francis Acton † Baby Apollo Son DeSario (Health)

Prayers for the Sick

Baby Apollo Son DeSario

HAVE YOU REMEMBERED YOUR PARISH IN YOUR WILL, TRUST, OR ESTATE PLANNING?

You may wish to name your parish as a beneficiary on an insurance or other financial instruments. Our legal title: For the Sole Benefit of Maria Regina Church 2150 West 135th Street, Gardena, CA 90249

Thank you for your consideration.

Thank you for your support!

Ash Wednesday, February 14, 2018……………………….$3,326

Sunday Collection, February 17-18, 2018…..………....…..$6,742

Thank you for your generosity to Maria Regina Church. Gracias por su generosidad a la Iglesa Maria Regina.

Second Sunday of Lent February 25, 2018

Daily Bible Readings

Monday: Dn 9:4b-10; Ps 79:8, 9, 11, 13; Lk 6:36-38 Tuesday: Is 1:10, 16-20; Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21, 23; Mt 23:1-12 Wednesday: Jer 18:18-20; Ps 31:5-6, 14-16; Mt 20:17-28 Thursday: Jer 17:5-10; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 16:19-31 Friday: Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a; 17b-28a; Ps 105:16-21; Mt 21:33-43, 45-46 Saturday: Mi 7:14-15, 18-20; Ps 103:1-4, 9-12; Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 Sunday: Ex 20:1-17 [1-3, 7-8, 12-17]; Ps 19:8-11; 1 Cor 1:22-25; Jn 2:13-25 Alternate readings (Year A): Ex 17:3-7; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; Rom 5:1-2, 5-8; Jn 4:5-42 [5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42]

Registering in a parish is a declaration of your desire to be part of a Catholic Community and a commitment to the life of the parish family.

Being a registered parishioner makes things much easier when it is time for infant baptism, school registration, weddings, upon being asked to be a baptismal or confirmation sponsor, and even funerals.

We are often asked to provide affidavits for baptism and confirmation sponsors.

We can only do this if a person is a registered, active, and contributing member in our parish.

If you wish to register with our parish family, please take a registration card at the Parish Office.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Stations of the Cross

Make this Lent different. Deepen your faith.

When: Thursdays during Lent Time: 7:30PM Where: Maria Regina Church/Meeting Trailer

Starts Thursday, March 1st. Led by Sr. MaryPeace.

To register/more information, call our parish office.

MARIA REGINA CHURCH

Church Ministries / Ministerios de la Parroquia

Pastoral Council: Fred Purifoy (310) 323-8396 Finance Committee: Eddie Rodriguez (310) 384-6350 Development Committee: Julio Pérez VIRTUS Committee: Jül Marie Hermosísima (310) 323-0030

Liturgy Coordinator: Dolly Pascual (310) 679-6350 Choir Coordinator: Jül Marie Hermosísima (310) 721-9214

Ushers: Team Sacristy: Assigned Sacristan Altar Servers: Martha Craft Eucharistic Ministers: Dolly Pascual (310) 679-6350 Lectors: Danita Mallett Communion to the Sick: Lorna Arceo (310) 345-4637

Altar Decoration: Fr. Sang & Committee

Quinceañera: Manuela Castañeda (310) 323-0030

Weddings - Funerals: Manuela Castañeda (310) 323-0030 Julio Pérez

Religious Education: Saturday Mornings Maria Nuñez (Spanish) Yolanda Marquez (English) Tráng Đặng (Vietnamese)

Youth Confirmation: Monday Nights (6:30pm - 8:30pm) David Sevilla (310) 323-0030

Adoration: 1st Friday each month, 7:00-9:00pm

Grupo de Oracion: Crecimiento en la Fé (310) 323-0030 Viernes 7:00pm Salon Parroqioal Leopoldo Guzman y Julio Pérez

Guadalupanos: guadalupanos@MariaReginaGardena.net

Folklorico: folklorico@MariaReginaGardena.net

Rosarios: Martes a las 7:30pm en la Iglesia

Hora Santa: Cada primer Martes del Mes a las 7:30pm

African American Ministry: Aham Nwosu (310) 701-2850

Filipino Ministry: Aida B. Abalos (310) 989-7944

Sri-Lankan Ministry: Nimali Ameresekere (310) 525-0507

Vietnamese Ministry: Hoang Tan (310) 344-8283

Second Sunday of Lent February 25, 2018

Urge kids not to keep secrets from trusted adults

Abusers often encourage their victims to keep secrets from their parents or other trusted adults, and reinforce secrecy through bribes, threats or by making it seem fun and exciting to keep a secret. Parents should talk to their kids about secrets, and teach them the difference between fun secrets like a birthday surprise and bad secrets like unsafe touches. Kids should know that adults should never ask them to keep secrets from their parents, and if an adult does ask them to keep secrets, to talk to their parents immediately.

To view a kid-friendly video on this topic, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWqTzelTGLY

Urja a los niños a no guardar secretos de los adultos de confianza

Los abusadores suelen alentar a sus víctimas a guardar secretos de sus padres u otros adultos de confianza, y refuerzan la secretividad a través de sobornos, amenazas o haciendo que parezca divertido y emocionante mantener un secreto. Los padres de familia deben hablar con sus hijos sobre secretos y enseñarles la diferencia entre secretos divertidos como una sorpresa de cumpleaños y malos secretos como caricias inseguras. Los niños deben saber que los adultos nunca deben pedirles que guarden secretos de sus padres, y si un adulto les pide que guarden secretos, deben hablar con sus padres inmediatamente.

Para ver un video para niños sobre este tema, visite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWqTzelTGLY.

BLOOD DRIVE American Red Cross

Where: Maria Regina Church — Parish Hall When: Sunday, March 4, 2018 Time: 8:00AM to 2:00PM Save up to 15 minutes by completing the health history and pre-donation reading before your visit: RedCrossBlood.org/RapidPass Make an appointment: RedCrossBlood.org Enter Sponsor Code: MariaRegina

National Call-In Day to Protect Dreamers February 26, 2018

Nearly 1.8 million Dreams, young people who were brought into the United States by their parents as children, may face deportation as soon as March 6th, unless Congress reaches a bipartisan deal to protect them. Please join the Bishops of the United States in calling for our legislators to protect Dreams on February 26th! All Catholics are asked to please call the Capitol switchboard two times as outlined below: 1. First Time: Dial (855) 589-5698 and press 1 to

connect to your Senators. 2. Second Time: Dial (855) 589-5698 and press 2 to

connect to your Representative in the House. Tell them: “I am a constituent and a person of faith calling to urge you to support a bipartisan, common-sense solution to protect Dreamers and their families from deportation and provides Dreams with a path to citizenship.”

LENT Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Lent is a privileged time of interior pilgrimage towards Him who is the fount of mercy.

Let us enter the penitential spirit of Lent. Let us embrace the difficulties, even crisis and “make sacred” all that surrounds us. God is present to us in the midst of helplessness and weakness. Jesus walks with us as a family and as a community: “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Mt. 18:20).

We are called to help one another to find God in the merciful face of Christ through:

Fasting and Almsgiving, together in Prayer:

• The law of fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday applies to all persons ages 18 to 59.

• All Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence. Abstinence from eating meat is to be observed on all Fridays during Lent. This applies to all persons ages 14 and older.

• The Stations of the Cross will take place on all Fridays during Lent at 7:00pm.

May this Lenten season find the whole Church ready to bear witness to all those who live in material, moral, and spiritual destitution the Gospel message of the merciful love of God, our Father, who is ready to embrace everyone in Christ.

May Mary, our Holy Mother, woman of faith and sorrows,

lead us to her Son. May our faith make us loyal and faithful to Him.

Fr. Sang Tran, Pastor

Second Sunday of Lent February 25, 2018

Together in Mission 2018:

Let Us Love

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

We thank you all for your continuous support to our parish during the Together in Mission 2017.

The theme of this year’s Together in Mission is Let Us Love.

The Archdiocese has assigned Maria Regina with the goal of $36,303.

We know this is a time of financial struggle for everybody; however, we would ask you to continue to financially support Maria Regina Church to meet this goal.

Would you consider, faithfully, a pledge of $80 per family?

This way, the burden will be light for each family to donate.

With 455 pledges, we would meet our goal, and thanks be to God.

May God reward your generosity.

Fr. Sang Tran, Pastor

Together in Mission 2018

Donation Update

Parish Goal: $36,303 ¦ # of Families: 156

Pledged Amount: $14,342

Paid Amount: $ 8,192

Needed to Reach Goal: $21,961 (in pledges)

The Together in Mission envelopes are in the

pews and at the doorways.

Thank you for your prayerful consideration

and support of our parish community and the

Together in Mission 2018 campaign.

Second Sunday of Lent February 25, 2018