This Sunday, December 3, 2023, our Catechumens, who decide to begin the process of becoming a member of the Catholic Church through baptism and Candidates, who had been baptized in another faith or had been baptized as children but never catechized in the Catholic faith will receive the Rite of Welcome and Acceptance before the congregation.

Our Advent Community Penance Service will be on December 14, Thursday at 7:00 PM in the church.

Priests from our deanery will be coming to assist and to hear confessions. This is your chance to prepare your hearts and souls to receive Christ in his second coming and the celebration of his birthday on Christmas day.

If your schedule does not allow you to attend our parish community Penance Service, you may avail yourself to the the Penance Services of the neighboring parishes. All of them have the service at 6:30 PM except St. Paul. Here is the schedule:

St. Peter/All Hallows - Sacramento (December 4
St. Joseph - Elk Grove (December 5)
St. Charles Borromeo - Sacramento (December 6)
Vietnamese Martyrs - Sacramento (December 6)
St. Maria Goretti - Elk Grove (December 7)
St. Rose - Sacramento (December 11)
Good Shepherd - Elk Grove (December 13)

Give in gratitude. A donor to the Retirement Fund for Religious writes, “I still remember the lessons the sisters gave us and how they instilled in us the love of our faith.” Show your thanks for the prayerful service of elderly Catholic sisters, brothers, and religious order priests.

Your gift to next week’s second collection (December 9 & 10) helps provide care, medicine, and more. Please be generous.

The Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary on December 8, Thursday is a HOLY DAY of Obligation. The masses will be the following 8:30 AM English and 6:30 PM Spanish.

In behalf of the Knights of Columbus Mother Seton Council 6922, we thank you, all St. Paul Church parishioners, for your generous donations to the ID (Intellectual Disability) Drive held during the weekend of Nov 11th and 12th. After all five Masses, we collected over $1,945.00. This annual drive will go a long way in helping children and adults with special needs.

Brent Baginski
Grand Knight
Mother Seton Council 6922

• Dinner will be from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM.  The menu will be Spaghetti, Salad, Roll, Dessert and a drink for $15.00.  Santa will be there as well. 

• Breakfast will be served from 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM.  The menu has not been decided yet.  
• Lunch will be from 11:30 AM to Approximately 2:30 PM.  The menu has not been decided.  

• Dinner will be from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM.  The menu will be Spaghetti, Salad, Roll, Dessert and a drink for $15.00.  Santa will be there as well. 

• Breakfast will be served from 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM.  The menu has not been decided yet.  
• Lunch will be from 11:30 AM to Approximately 2:30 PM.  The menu has not been decided.  

Here’s an easy way to share the Sacramento Diocese vision for the Eucharistic Revival. It’s as easy as presenting these brief and informative diocesan videos at your upcoming parish council and Eucharistic Revival committee meetings.

You can find them at https://www.scd.org/eucharist For more information please contact deacon Kevin Staszkow [email protected].

November 18, 2023 from 10:00am-1:00pm; St. Ignatius Loyola Parish located on 3235 Arden Way, Sacramento. The Office of Youth & Young Adults is excited to invite all those who serve youth and young adults for a day of formation on the Relevance of the Eucharist to the Young Church on Saturday, our guest speaker, Fr. Bong Rojas, will focus on how we can reconnect the significance of the Eucharist to the lives of young people.

Following the keynote will be a process for small group conversations using the open space model to discern and identify practical applications that can be implemented in your ministry. Whether you’re a youth ministry coordinator, a volunteer on the core team, a middle/high school teacher, a catechist for Confirmation, and/or a young adult ministry volunteer, this Open Space Dialogue is for you. Lunch will be provided.

To ensure hospitality can be prepared accordingly, please register by Wednesday, November 15 at https://bit.ly/openspaceyya2023. For further information, please contact Alejandro Barraza (916) 733-0134 [email protected] or Steve Do (916) 733-0151 [email protected].

This year of Eucharistic Revival is an excellent opportunity to grow in relationship with Jesus and His church. What better way than forming yourself to Christ? We are pleased to share the following resources with you. Franciscan Catechetical Institute: The Sacrament of the Eucharist.

To sign up go to: www.franciscanathome.com and go to Partnering Diocese. Select the Diocese of Sacramento and sign up for free through your parish. This workshop can be done at your own pace. Bread of Life: The Eucharist in Galilee.

If you have a subscription to www.formed.org The Bread of Life series is an excellent resource to grow in knowledge of the eucharist.

This year, we will continue our “SIMBANG GABI” – a Catholic traditional religious nine-day novena in preparation for Christmas.

It will start in the evening of the 15th of December until the 23rd of December. The 2nd, 4th and last day will be bilingual to accommodate our Spanish community. There will be POSADAS after those masses. It will be a good opportunity for us to learn each other’s religious ethnic tradition rolled into one. We welcome everyone to sponsor any of the Novena days.

In connection to this, Bishop Soto will commission this Filipino Catholic Tradition (SIMBANG GABI) for the diocese of Sacramento on December 9th at 5:00 PM in St. Catherine of Siena Church in Vallejo. Our parish will have a “Grand Opening of the Simbang Gabi” on December 15 at the St. Paul Plaza by lighting the Christmas trees before the Novena.

An invitation to a Bible Study is offered to all parishioners starting November 30, 2023 in Room # 8 of the Religious Education Building at 6:30 PM.

We will study the Gospel of St. Mark, which is the gospel the we read in almost all the Sunday Masses as we start a new Cycle (Cycle B) on the First Sunday of Advent (December 3rd).

English Baptism October 28, 2023

MARIELLA AYANNA DIAZ
SANTIAGO SALVADOR DIAZ
COLIN JAMES NGUYEN

We welcome you to our Church. May your families, friends and godparents never weary to guide you in our faith as you grow with it everyday.

The TRUNK and TREAT last Sunday was well attended by quite a number of parishioners bringing their vehicles and decorating them for the event. A good number of kids also came with their parents to join the fun. Even if it was only the first time that we did it in St. Paul, it was a good turnout.

Cars were beautifully decorated according to the ingenuity and creativity of the parishioners. No one had the same style. Kids had their baskets, canisters and bags filled with a variety of candies generously given by our parishioners from their vehicles.

The Nativity Scene decorated vehicle won the contest. The little lady dressed as a Blessed Virgin Mary won the costume contest. The judges were hard up deciding for the winners because all the entries for the vehicles and the costumes were all nicely chosen, done and very pleasing.

Seeing this as a success, we will do it again next year in the bigger parking lot.

We, therefore, thank all our participants in the event: our parishioners who brought their vehicles and decorated them for the occasion. We greatly admire their patience for putting their vehicles in a short time. We thank all the families who participated and brought their kids to the event. It was a fun Sunday afternoon with good weather and the atmosphere of St. Paul family spirit.

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God bless you all.

To all parishioners: our deepest gratitude to all of you for our great teamwork in making the simple and yet elegant birthday celebration of our Pastor, Fr. Joyle Martinez last October 22, 2023. Minda Miguel, Birthday Coordinator

My joyful gratitude for all the prayers, greetings, and gifts that you extended to me on my birthday. Your thoughtfulness gives joy to my heart and soul. It inspires me to continue and be confident in my mission and apostolate as a Pastor of St. Paul. You are such wonderful
parishioners and members of the big family of God. God bless you and your families. Fr. Joyle Martinez

To date, we have the following number of students in the Spanish and English Departments respectively.

SPANISH CFF
Level/Grade                      Number Students
First Communion                       32
Confirmation                                24
Pre-Communion                         38
Pre-Confirmation                       39

English CFF

Level/Grade                               Number of Students
Level 1/Pre-Communion                       30
Level 2/Communion                                17
Level 2A/Communion                             22
Level 3                                                             12
Level 4                                                             13
Level 6                                                             19
Level 7/Pre-Confirmation                      32
Level 8/Confirmation                               13

RCIA

Level                                              Number of Students
RCIA-1 (Inquiry)                                         28
RCIA-2 (Catechumenate)                       12
RCIA-Adult                                                    15

An invitation to a Bible Study is offered to all parishioners starting November 30, 2023 in Room # 8 of the Religious Education Building at 6:30 PM.

We will study the Gospel of St. Mark, which is the gospel the we read in almost all the Sunday Masses as we start a new Cycle (Cycle B) on the First Sunday of Advent (December 3rd).

It starts this weekend. This is an annual, ongoing worldwide mobilization to pray and fast for an end to abortion.

Please pick up a flyer in the church vestibule as you leave church today for more information.

SPIRITUAL ADOPTION continues. You may begin at any time of the year by taking a Spiritual Adoption form from the stand near each Play Pen inside one of the two church (main) entrances. You will read about the baby's monthly development in the womb from the Posters.

BABY GOODS COLLECTION continues. We request only NEW items and NO furniture of any kind. The 2nd Weekend each month is our preferred donation date but anytime that works for you is OK, too. Thank you and God. Bless you for helping save the life of an unborn child.