Text Box: parishes are trying to help parishioners who may be having difficulty finding employment in this tight job market. St. Margaret Mary parish would like to use its resources to help unemployed parishioners find another job. The parish will not function as an employment agency but as an informal network to help our unemployed parishioners in their job hunt. We ask parishioners who know of any employment opportunities, great or small, full or part-time, permanent or temporary, to send that information to our parish office to be passed on to our parishioners who are looking for work. Please notify the parish office by email at stmargaretm@yahoo.com or Lynn Suer, jobs coordinator, at lynnsuer@aol.com if you know of any available jobs or if you are in need of a job. You may also phone the parish office at 510 482-0596 or send a letter to St. Margaret Mary Church, 1219 Excelsior Ave., Oakland, CA 94610. LECTORS NEEDED Do you like to read aloud, and would you like to proclaim the readings and Prayer of the Faithful at Mass to the congregation? If so, please give Father Żak (stanzak7@yahoo.com) or Lynn Suer (lynnsuer@aol.com), the Lectors Coordinator, your contact information, and let us know which Mass you usually attend so we can make up a schedule. Also tell us when you are not available to read. God bless you! OUR PARISH BULLETIN Additional advertising support is needed to cover the expenses of printing our parish bulletin. Now we have 8 pages every week. If you are a business owner, or know of someone who might wish to place an ad, please e-mail our BULLETIN PUBLISHER: mpublications@sbcglobal.net; or call them at 888-253-4358. Please patronize our advertisers. IGNATIAN SILENT RETREAT FOR MEN Preached by priests of Miles Christi, an order devoted to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. June 5 at 4 PM to June 7 at 4:30 PM at San Juan Bautista, CA. $220 single room, $275 private. Apply Miles Christi, PO Box 701200, Plymouth, MI 48170; infousa@mileschristi.org; or contact Christine Timmerman at (209) 357-0128. 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; Abbot Eugene Hayes; 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; Richard Mansfield; Giovanni & Elisa Mancarti; Ted Price; John Kachmash; Enrique Aguilar; Myrna Lanzar; George Puff; Joseph Milton; ........................................ & those whose names are written in the Book of the Sick, and all sick people in the entire world. Text Box: 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 deceased members of our families, friends, parishioners & benefactors of our parish: Bill Leitao; Harry Winkler; Inetta Calori; Michael Smith; those who died recently: Louise Drake, Fr Frank Houdek; Frutosa Encinias; ......... and for all the faithful departed, especially for all the Poor Souls in Purgatory. HOLY MASS INTENTIONS We still have empty spots for Holy Mass intentions at THE BEGINNING OF JULY. 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. MONTH OF JUNE We are approaching the month of June dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Through the month of June, every day after the 8.00AM Holy Mass, we shall recite the Litany to the Sacred Heart followed by Benediction. PLEASE COME AND JOIN US. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is very popular around the world. After private revelations to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (patroness of our Church) in 1690 in Paray-le-Monial in France, it became popular to devote the first Friday of each month to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Parishioners would go to the Sacrament of Confession, participate in Holy Mass, and receive Holy Communion on nine consecutive Fridays out of special devotion and to receive special indulgences. It also became common for Parishioners to have an image of the Sacred Heart enthroned in their homes and to burn a candle before it on Fridays. Some have images of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary and have special devotions on each month’s First Saturday. Some parish calendars still reflect these customs. We would also like to encourage all parishioners to celebrate this devotion established by Jesus and His Blessed Mother Mary. Christians in ancient times considered Friday an especially serious day to remember the suffering and death of Jesus with fasting, prayer, and private devotions. Those who violated this tradition did so with the possibility of evil consequences. This contributed to the popular notion that Friday, especially Friday the 13th, is an unlucky day. During the month of June, we will recite Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus after daily Holy Masses. Litanies became a favorite method of praying in the Middle Ages. In modern times, so many litanies were composed some of questionable content that the Church began restricting their public