Text Box: ST. ANNE’S GUILD CORNER: Scheduled upcoming events, please mark your calendars! Sunday, July 19 @ 3 pm; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel BBQ. Sunday, October 4; Harvest Bake sale, after all Masses. Sunday October 18; St. Margaret Mary Feast Day Dinner- @ 3 pm Sunday, December 13, Gaudete Bake Sale; after all Masses. SAVE THE DATE for the 4th Annual Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish Potluck BBQ - Next week! When: Sunday, July 19, 2009 Time: 2p.m. - 6p.m., starting with lawn games for the children and dinner served at about 4p.m. Who: parish families, individuals and friends Cost: $15/family (parents + non-adult children), $8/individual. PLUS a dish to share: A-L dessert; M-Z side dish. Steak, chicken and drinks will be provided! How do I make reservations and how can I help? make your reservations by stopping by the table after Mass or by contacting Mary Sullivan at (510)521-9243 or jacksullivan55@sbcglobal.net. There are many ways to help so stop by the table to inquire. COME and share in the FUN, FELLOWSHIP, and FEASTING with family and friends in Christ! (now say that 5x fast!) DOMINICAN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY & THEOLOGY (DSPT) 2nd Annual Golf Tournament Each one of our students has a unique vocation - a life-long work they are called to - and it is our mission to provide them with a solid academic foundation so they can fulfill that work. Support our mission today by sponsoring the 2nd Annual Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (DSPT) Golf Tournament on Monday, September 21st at the Oakland Metropolitan Links. Sponsor the event or gather your friends for 18 holes, a great meal and the fellowship of a community that makes a difference for our future. Your sponsorship will promote your business to hundreds of people from the greater Bay Area as you broadcast your logo at the event. Sponsorship levels range from Table Sponsor for $250 to Title Sponsor for $5,000. Registration is $150 per player. Substantial discounts are available for 2 or more foursomes. Please visit us at www.dspt.edu or call 510-883-2085 for more details. HOLY MASS INTENTIONS We still have empty spots for Holy Mass intentions at THE BEGINNING OF SEPTEMBER. If you would like to have Holy Mass celebrated for your intentions or for your loved ones (living or dead), please contact the parish office. Text Box: NINERS (The poem about Novena of First Fridays of the month, by Father Don McDonnell): If to Communion you will go; For nine First Fridays in a row; With Christ forever you will be; And God forever you will see. MONTH OF JULY DEDICATED TO THE PRECIOUS BLOOD The Precious Blood (feast of the Precious Blood; first Sunday of July). This devotion was propagated by Bl. Caspar Buffalo (d. at Rome, 28 Dec., 1837), founder of the Congregation of the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ. Indulgences, for public devotion: seven years and seven quarantines each day; Plenary indulgence on any day in July or 1-8 August, after having assisted eight times at a public function under the usual conditions; if the devotion be held privately three hundred days each day with plenary indulgence on 31 July, or 1-8 of August (Pius IX, 4 June, 1850). For this practice, any other month or any period of thirty days during the year may be chosen. During the month of July, we shall recite the Litany to the Most Precious Blood of Jesus after daily Holy Masses in our church. PLEASE PRAY WITH US THE LITANY OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS, OR PRIVATELY IN YOUR HOME, IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO COME TO CHURCH. PRAY FOR OUR SERVICEMEN & SOLDIERS: Robert Hoops, Thomas Campana, Connor O’Keefe, Matthew Valenzuela, Steven Mayer; John Molinari & other American soldiers and servicemen. PRAY FOR THE DEAD: For the deceased members of our families, friends, parishioners & benefactors of our parish: Bill Leitao; Harry Winkler; Inetta Calori; Michael Smith; those who died recently: Edward Markovits; Joel Barrios; ............................. and for all the faithful departed, especially for all the Poor Souls in Purgatory. PRAY FOR ALL THE SICK: For all who are sick: Members of our families, friends, parishioners, and especially: Fr Vladimir Kozina; Fr. Joseph Fiedorowicz; Fr. Theo Palis; Msgr. Robert Adams; Sister Antoinette Fong; Titus Ekanem; Donald Braten; Martha Tork; Lianne Claver; Juan & Nancy Duenas; Jose Isidro; Frank & Imogene Martin; Paul Valerovski; Harry Garland; Anthony Krzyzanski; Giovanni & Elisa Mancarti; Ted Price; John Kachmash; Myrna Lanzar; Truyen Ha; Robert Dale; Rachel Ott; Maureen Nassiri; Freddie Martinez; Carlos Rodriguez; Johnny Michaiel; Michael Henriksson; Chris Clark; Andy Ferreira; Jeremy Bedig; .............................................. ................... and those whose names are written in the Book of the Sick, and all sick people in the entire world. BLESSING OF CARS. On Saturday, July 25 at the 5pm Holy Mass and Sunday July 26 at the 8:30 & 10:.30 Masses, cars will be blessed in front of the Church.