St. Veronica Church 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080

Phone: 650-588-1455 www.stveronicassf.com Fax: 650-588-1481

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St. Veronica Parish Rectory Office Hours

Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Phone: 650-588-1455 Fax: 650-588-1481

Parish Staff Fr. Charles Puthota, Ph.D., Pastor Fr. Linh Nguyen, Parochial Vicar Fr. Joe Walsh, In Residence

http://rico50.blogspot.com Deacon Roger Beaudry Deacon Joseph LeBlanc Sandy Kearney, Parish Manager Patricia Spiteri, Parish Secretary Karen Guglielmoni, Faith Formation & Wedding Coordinator Christopher Lindstrom, Music Director 209-952-0209

St. Veronica Catholic School Phone: 650-589-3909

Kathryn Lucchesi Janet Burke Principal Vice Principal

Rectory email: churchoffice@stveronicassf.com

Please remember the sick and the care-givers in our community.

Pray that they may find comfort and healing in Christ.

Please contact the rectory office if Homebound Eucharistic services are needed.

SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION

Sacrament of Baptism Baptismal Preparation classes are held once a month.

Call the Parish Office 588-1455

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) Classes from October through Pentecost.

Call the Parish Office to register 588-1455

Faith Formation: 650-588-1455 Catechetical instructions (1st to 8th grades)

2011 Confirmation Classes: 588-1455

Reflection on Our Cover

At our baptism, we became God’s adopted sons and daugh-ters. We pray to God as beloved sons and daughters, asking that God will be “well pleased” with us, and that God will direct us in the way of serving the needs of others so that we may “do good” and bring healing to a wounded world. • Do you think of your baptism as committing you to a life

of service?

Mass Intent ions WEEK of January 9 , 2011

Sun 01/09 6:45 † Cesar M. & Rosario M. Cerdena, Jr. 8:00 † Steven Dub 9:30 † Emanuel Borg 11:00 † Mary O’Neill 12:30 People of St. Veronica

Mon 01/10 6:30 † Branch & Ries Families 8:30 † Patrick Dunleavy Tue 01/11 6:30 † Rev.. Jim Misfud 8:30 † Rev. John Coghlan Wed 01/12 6:30 Thanksgiving 8:30 † Patrick Dunleavy Thu 01/13 6:30 † Fernando Ocampo 8:30 † Maria Salazar Fri 01/14 6:30 † Ricardo Moreno 8:30 † Daniel Carey Sat 01/15 8:30 † Florentina Umipig 5:00 † William Rueter Sun 01/16 6:45 † Maria Salome Tanjutco 8:00 † Attilio Campodonico 9:30 † Alfonso S. Cariaga 11:00 † Americo Tonegato 12:30 People of St. Veronica

Living the word

Mass Schedule

Saturdays: 8:30AM & 5:00PM Sundays: 6:45, 8:00, 9:30, 11:00AM, and 12:30PM

Holy Days: 6:30, 8:30AM, & 6:30PM Monday—Friday: 6:30 & 8:30AM

Confessions

Saturdays: 4:00—5:00PM

Liturgy of the Hours Monday—Friday: Morning Prayer at 6:00AM

Eucharistic Adoration

Monday—Friday: 9:00AM—9:00PM Sunday: 1:30 PM—9:00PM

Parish Registration

Please complete and return form to the parish rec-tory, or simply drop it in the collection basket.

Kindly print all information

Name(s) ____________________________________

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Address ____________________________________

City & Zip ___________________________________

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E-mail: _____________________________________

Updating Current Parish Registration

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Next Baptismal Class will be January 11, 2011 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at St. Veronica Church

Next available baptismal date is Saturday, March 5, 2011

Saturday 01/01 5:00PM 969.25 123.00 1092.25

Sunday 01/02 6:45AM 694.00 146.00 840.00

8:00AM 1104.00 114.00 1218.00

9:30AM 1542.00 242.00 1784.00

11:00AM 1218.00 232.00 1450.00

12:30PM 1312.00 270.00 1582.00

TOTALS: 6839.25 1127.00 7966.25

Day Mass Time 1st. Collection 2nd. Maintenance Totals:

Thank You for your generosity and support for the Christmas Collection of $24,657.00

Collection Total for December 18 & 19, 2010 = $6,653.50

WELCOME TO ST. VERONICA PARISH

We extend a warm welcome to our new parishioner

Vicki Pekarek

We are blessed to have you in our midst.

We pray for the dearly departed “Eternal Rest Grant Unto Them O Lord…”

Rosalina Abad

Katherine Battaglia Paul David Molinare

Eufemia Nisperos Nora Ricard Felipe Torres

A Prayer for our St. Veronica Athletes

God our Father, You have created us to strive for the best.

Grant to all athletes, coaches, and fans, strength to pursue excellence

during this season, and in all that they do.

We pray for the safety of these athletes; protect them from injury and harm. And finally, we pray for your grace,

that you would provide us with the endurance to pursue our heavenly prize:

eternal life in Your Son. Amen David Bennett

PASTOR’S VISIT TO CONFIRMATION HOME GROUP

I had the pleasure of visiting one of the Confirmation Home Groups on Tuesday January 04, 2011. Tammi Grigg who runs this group as their catechist had invited me weeks before to join the cooking and the dinner at her home. I accepted the invitation readily and arrived at her elegant home. The Confirmation candidates in this group who were present were: Rebecca (Tammi’s daughter), Kim, Andrew, Angelique, Gabriella, Jackie, and her sister Jessica. The candidates helped Tammi with cooking a delicious meal. It was a meal they were all working together on. I can assure you that in this case the many cooks didn’t spoil the broth! Cooking a meal together seemed both social and spiritual at the same time. Is that why the Kingdom of God is always referred to as a banquet? Look at the number of times Jesus feeds the hungry and speaks about meals in his parables and teachings. Perhaps families should turn their TVs and computers and cell phones off in the evenings and sit together for the sacred time of family dinners. This might help and heal everyone and im-prove communication dramatically. It’s my opinion that cooking is one of the most creative things in the world. One of my secret wishes is to become a chef and a bartender! Maybe, in the next life! Do you think God might grant me these desires in the heavenly banquet? The advantage is that when you cook a meal for others, you make them happy. When you see others happy, you are happy yourself. When you fix a cocktail for someone, it seems to make you more happy than those enjoying the drink. At dinner (caprese salad, chicken scaloppini with mushroom sauce, pasta, stringed beans, olive bread, polenta, brownies, and ice cream), everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. I was impressed with these young people’s quality of life. When I asked each of them to make a short prayer to Jesus, they made beautiful prayers of thanks for gifts given to them and for the meal. The prayer Tammi Grigg made to Jesus about how pre-cious these young Confirmation candidates are moved me to tears. She also expressed the conviction that these young peo-ple will always be part of her life. I also met Tammi’s husband Eric and son Brian---all of them gracious hosts indeed. I chatted with each of the candidates and got to know them. We also spoke about continuing the Faith and Masses after the Confirmation is completed. Also we shared about how their parents are the ones who love them truly for who they are, and consequently how grateful these young people need to be to their own parents for all the blessings.

They were all excited about receiving the sacrament of Confir-mation on February 13, 2011. In preparation, they will have the retreat on January 29 and 30th on our campus. I wish all the Confirmation candidates an enjoyable journey of discovering themselves and their faith and values during the preparation period. I also would love to see them in church AFTER they have received the sacrament. If they could see a bit more clearly that the Catholic faith is one of the influential ways in which they could be human and spiritual, it would be a most wonderful gift to them. I know the parents are busy with many things, but nourishing their children’s faith by bringing them to church needs to be one of the priorities. I also wish to thank the catechists and Karen Guglielmoni for sharing their own faith through the home groups and other activities. I invite the whole parish to keep in their prayers these young women and men who will receive Confirmation on February 13. May the fire of the Holy Spirit set their hearts on fire! Your friend and pastor,

Father Charles Puthota

New Parent Information Night Thursday, January 20, 2011

7:00 p.m. Falcon Hall

St. Veronica Catholic School Campus

Is your child ready for Kindergarten? Are you think-ing of St. Veronica Catholic School as a new begin-ning for your child’s education? If you answered yes, you are cordially invited to an informational session to learn everything you need to know about enrolling your child(ren) at St. Veron-ica Catholic School. An application packet will be available at this time or can be downloaded from our website, www.stveronicacatholicschool.org. Please note: If you are thinking of enrolling your child for a grade other than kindergarten, availability will be determined after Easter. Please come to information night for an update. St. Veronica Catholic School, mindful of its mission to be witness to the love of Christ for all, admits students of any race, color, and national and/or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded to or made available to students at this school. St. Veronica Catholic School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, and national and/or ethnic origin, age, sex, or disability in administration of education policies, admis-sions policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletic and other school-administered programs.

Have You Ever Thought About Becoming a Catholic Priest?

Attend a Discernment Retreat

January 14 - 16, 2011

at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University to better understand if a vocation to the ministry of

God’s priesthood is for you.

Visit www.stpatricksseminary.org for more information.

The St. Veronica Giving Tree Committee wishes to thank everyone who participated in this year’s outreach efforts. The response was absolutely over-whelming. Once again your generosity was able to bring more than a little cheer to those

in greater need from Catholic Worker Hospitality House, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Catherine’s Shelter & Women’s Shelter in San Francisco. Following is an excerpt from a postcard we received from Peter Stiehler of Catholic Worker House. “Dear Friends, Thank you for the abundance of gifts from the Giving Tree Project. It was your generosity which enabled us to provide gifts to ALL our guests this Christmas. Happy New Year.”

Planning Your Summer Wedding at St. Veronica Church?

The policy of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Fran-cisco states that arrangements for marriage are to be made at least six months in advance. These months are meant to give couples the opportunity for prayerful reflection on Christian marriage and for consideration of their future life as "two who will be made one." Your first step is to call our rectory office at 650-588-1455 to schedule an appointment to meet with a member of the clergy. During the initial meeting, preliminary information will be taken and an evaluation of your readiness to marry will be as-sessed. Other information will be provided regarding the Mar-riage Preparation Program and FOCUS questionnaire. You will also have the opportunity to set up future meetings with clergy, our wedding coordinator and music director who will all work with you in preparing your special day. Calendars fill up quickly and schedules get busy, so don't delay in setting up your initial wedding appointment.

Invite Your Friends for a night out for Wednesday Night Bingo in Falcon Hall

Doors Open at 6:30 PM Games Begin at 7:00 PM

Proceeds benefit St. Veronica Catholic School

Simbang Gabi Appreciation

The Simbang Gabi Planning Committee would like to extend a sincere “Thank You” to all the faithful who participated and contributed to the success of our Fourth Simbang Gabi Advent Novena Masses. With the support of sponsors and donors, we were able to continue offering liturgical and fellowship cele-brations in preparation for the coming of our Lord Jesus this Christmas. We are richly blessed to share with each other various cultural traditions in praising and preparing for the birth of Christ. Visit www.stveronicassf.com for pictures of the events.

Second Harvest News

Once again, we are in need of paper BAGS, which are used to fill with grocery items for the needy. Please drop them off at the rectory during regular office hours. DRIVERS: If you have a few hours to spare to help deliver food to the needy in our nearby community, please contact Mary Beaudry at: 650- 583-9120

St. Veronica Catholic School Serving South San Francisco Since 1958 New Parent Info Night January 20th 7PM

OPEN HOUSE Sunday, January 30, 2011

after 9:30 Mass Fr. Charles Puthota, Pastor Kathryn Lucchesi, Principal

Directions To St. Veronica Located one block west from

El Camino Real between Ponderosa & Country Club Road

Behind McDonald’s

St. Veronica Catholic School Building Character which fosters Christian values of Compassion, Tolerance, Justice, and Respect for the

Dignity of Life. ♦ Academic Curriculum with Learning Assistance ♦ Outstanding WASC Accreditation ♦ Spanish Language Instruction - K - 8th ♦ Elementary & Junior High Computer/Science Program ♦ Band, Rhythm & Moves P.E. Program ♦ Full Sports Program - Gym & Play Structure

434 Alida Way So. San Francisco, CA 94080 650-589-3909 email: office@stveronicacatholicschool.org

Saint Veronica Men’s Club Crab Feed

Saturday February 12, 2011 6:00p.m. – Midnight

$50 per person with hosted bar

Surf & Turf Dinner Menu

Caesar salad, Marinated Crab, Tr i-Tip with veggies, pesto pasta, & dessert

Please send in the reservation form, along with your check made out to “St. Veronica Men’s Club”. Below indicate all names in your party.

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List Names

1. _________________________________________

2. _________________________________________

3. _________________________________________

4. __________________________________________

Number of adults attending _________ x $50 = _____________

If possible, we will try and seat you with other couples of your choice:

____________________________ ___________________________

____________________________ ___________________________

RSVP is February 1st. This event sells out very quickly.

Reservations can be sent to the school office or rectory: Attention: “CRAB FEED RESERVATIONS”

If you have any questions, please feel free to email cburtonmeza@yahoo.com