 [Located in the Diocese of Sacramento, CA]
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ST. PAUL CATHOLIC
CHURCH
8720 Florin Road, Sacramento, CA 95828 |
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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS NEWS AND EVENTS
Join us for donuts on this Sunday
morning September 5th, beginning around 7:30 am and then we'll have breakfast from 10:00—11:00am. The
cost of $3.50 makes this a great bargain. Please come and join us, and
socialize with friends and neighbors. Hope to see you there! ANNUAL SOCCER CHALLENGE
The
Knights of Columbus Annual Soccer Challenge will be held during the
“Fall Festival” — All you kids get ready for this! Winners at
parish/local level are competing to advance to state level competition.
Festival Day - same day!
- come and visit our 'Sausage and Beer Booth' - enjoy the food - let the
kids compete and play at our other booths. There will be something for
everyone!
Mini
Raffle – One of our Grand prizes for the Mini Raffle is a 20” Mac
computer in addition to the IPods!!! More min-raffle donations needed!
New items only please! Dinner ticket winners: Week
1 - S & K Pucchinelli Proceeds of the festival go toward our 'Field of Dreams' Click here to review the plan.
Individuals or businesses sponsors to be honored -
click here for
details. Can’t help our at the festival? Put a theme basket together at home and deliver it to the rectory.
No time to make up a theme basket? Put a $25.00 check or more in a
marked envelope with your name and “theme basket” and we’ll put a basket
together for you. Questions? Call Linda 681-4943. BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP 8
Weekly Sessions on Grief and Loss. Tuesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. CYO
Hall — September 7—October 26. Each session will begin promptly at 7:00 p.m. and last for one and a half hours. You are encouraged to attend all eight sessions. There is no charge for support group attendance, but donations to cover expenses will be gladly accepted. Register at the first meeting. For
additional information call Clara Heimericks 916-689-3932, or Joe
Monteagudo 682-6397. OKTOBERFEST 2010 Mark your calendar for October 30th this year. We will have our Oktoberfest again — with German food and German beer. Tickets will be $15.00 or $25.00 per couple, and $10.00 for children. See the flyer here. |
TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY
IN
FIRST READING Who can ever know God's counsel unless God gives wisdom and sends the Holy Spirit from on high? —Wisdom 9:13-18b PSALM In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge. ―Psalm 90 SECOND READING Paul asks Philemon to accept back his slave Onesimus, not as a slave but as a brother. — Philemon 9: 10, 12-17 GOSPEL To be a disciple of Jesus one must carry one's own cross and renounce all possessions. —Luke
14:25-33 EMBRACING YOUR CROSS We often speak of the “crosses” we must carry in life. These can range from loss of a job to a serious or terminal illness to unhealthy relationships, and so on. The cross has become the wide-ranging metaphor for the trials, ills, and discomforts that are part and parcel of every human life. While we all understand this use of the word “cross,” it does a disservice to what the Jesus of the Gospels means by it. For him, a “cross” is not something that fate, bad luck, or unfortunate circumstances foists upon one. It is, instead, something one chooses, something one embraces. For Jesus, carrying the cross in discipleship was the rejection of earthly possessions or status, it was the sundering of bonds of kinship or friendship. It was, above all, the necessary kind of self-sacrificing, self-surrendering choice one had to make in order to be a true disciple. When life hands us a “cross,” we pray to the Lord to give us strength to bear it. If we are to be true disciples, we must also pray for the strength to reach out and willingly accept a cross as well. To bear
up, with God’s grace, under the burdens that are not of our own choosing
does take a strong faith. But to walk willingly under the weight of the
cost of discipleship shows an even stronger desire to spread the gospel
of Jesus Christ. C. F. F. CLASSES BEGIN
Classes begin: AUGUST 29TH - Registration has closed, however, you
may still be able to register your child for classes by completing an
application form and paying a $50 late-registration fee.
Click here
for more information re: the 2010-2011 CFF year.
Click here for a printable class and event schedule.
SAINT PETER CLAVER
Nearly two hundred years before the Declaration of Independence proclaimed “that all men are created equal,” two hundred fifty years before the Emancipation Proclamation mandated an end to slavery, three hundred fifty years before Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”, and four hundred years before the election of an American president boasting African heritage, Peter Claver left his native Spain behind to volunteer for the Jesuit missions in Colombia. There, he was horrified both by slavery as an institution and by the inhuman brutality inflicted upon the slaves. He solemnly vowed to become “the slave of the slaves,” and lived that vow heroically for close to forty years. Not knowing their language, Peter began his ministry among the slaves by using the universal language of practical charity, providing medical care and a tangible though wordless assertion of their human dignity: “We spoke to them not with words but with our hands, kneeling beside them, bathing their faces and bodies, encouraging them with friendly gestures” (see Liturgy of the Hours, Volume 4, p. 2018). Then came evangelization and baptism. Holiness as human wholeness: Peter Claver’s enduring witness. |
For our priests, who have dedicated
themselves to God - that they may be strengthened by our prayers and
gratitude to remain faithful to the promises made on the day of their
ordination.
The
parish office will be closed Monday, September 6th, in observance of the
Labor Day holiday.
"Fill us at daybreak with your kindness, "that we may shout for you and gladness all our days." ―Hebrews 12:22a
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