Text Box: two months before your reserved marriage preparation program. Your program reservation will be considered confirmed only when your payment is received. Once confirmed, you will receive a confirmation letter, including directions and other pertinent information, which will be sent to you about three weeks before your program is scheduled to begin. 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 Antonette Fong; Martha Tork; Lianne Claver; Juan & Nancy Duenas; Frank & Imogene Martin; Ted Price; Harry & Betty Garland; Anthony Krzyzanski; Giovanni & Elisa Mancarti; Titus Ekanem; Truyen Ha; Robert Dale; Rachel Ott; Dale Sherry; Peter McDonough; Albert Hill Sr; Jeanette Zugnoni; Vivian Tuma; Patricia Campos; Zofia Leszowska; Theresa Dinh; Tito Tayco; Sara Zendejas; Josie Martinez, Dora Martinez; Joseph Fiedorowicz Sr; Isadora da Silva; Fr Jorge da Silva; ........................ and those whose names are written in the Book of the Sick, and all sick people in the entire world. PRAY FOR THE DEAD: For the deceased members of our families, friends, parishioners & benefactors of our parish: Bill Leitao; Inetta Calori; Michael Smith; those who died recently: Fr Bill Macchi; Bishop Marian Przykucki; .................. and for all the faithful departed, especially for all the Poor Souls in Purgatory. HOLY MASS INTENTIONS We have empty spots for Holy Mass intentions in the 2nd part of December. 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 at: 510.482.0596, or email: stmargaretm@yahoo.com PRAY FOR OUR SERVICEMEN & SOLDIERS: Robert Hoops, Thomas Campana, Connor O’Keefe, Matthew Valenzuela, Steven Mayer; John Molinari & other American soldiers and servicemen. CATHOLIC - A Church for All People. 10/11 - Pope Benedict XVII elevated five Catholics to sainthood. Father Damien - Belgium-born Joseph De Veuster, who was assigned to Hawaii and became involved with the island of Molokai, where ostracized to a colony of ostracized patients of leprosy. It was in this work that Fr. Damien contracted the disease and died of leprosy in 1889. Sr. Jeanne Jugan, French, who was proclaimed by the Pope as “an authentic Mother Teresa ahead of her time,” as she worked with impoverished old people with her order of the Little Sisters of the Poor, who now are an order in care of old people throughout the world. She died in 1879. Bishop Zygmunt Szeczesny Felinski, who defended the Catholic faith during the Russian annexation Text Box: of Poland. On the Tsar of Russia's orders he spent 20 years in exile at Jaroslaw on the Volga, without ever being able to return to his diocese. In every situation he retained his steadfast trust in Divine Providence and prayed: "O God, protect us not from the tribulations and worries of this world... only multiply love in our hearts and obtain that in deepest humility we may keep our infinite trust in your help and your mercy". He lived in the 19th century. Fr. Francisco Colt y Guitart, Spanish, who founded an order of founded the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of the Anunciata in the 19th century. Rafael Arniaz Baron, Spanish, a Spaniard, who renounced an affluent life at age 22 to live in a strict monastery. A 20th century saint. National Catholic Conference 2009 November 19-21, 2009, Kansas City, Missouri The 2009 National Catholic Youth Conference will bring together over 23,000 high school-aged Catholic youth for three days of speakers, catechetical sessions, music, prayer, liturgy, and fun! We hope to bring a large delegation from the Diocese of Oakland to Kansas City for NCYC. This year’s theme is:” Christ Reigns In Us, Among Us, Through Us.” Deadlines for the Diocese of Oakland NCYC Delegation: Send the following documents and payments to Joe Murray at the Diocese of Oakland, 2121 Harrison St., Oakland, Ca 94612. Contact: Joe at 510.267.8389 or jmurray@oakdiocese.org with your questions From www.NationalCatholicRegister.com: Polish Treasure Black Madonna Points to Her Son at Jasna Góra Monastery. BY Angelo Stagnaro November 1-7, 2009 Issue There were very few stops on my pilgrimage more anticipated than seeing the Black Madonna of Czestochowa (Polish: Matka Boska Czestochowska). History attributes the icon to St. Luke the Evangelist, who supposedly painted it on a plank of cypress wood from a table top from the house of the Holy Family. This is rather unlikely, as the Madonna is depicted with robes decorated with fleur-de-lis, a common design in the Middle Ages to depict royalty. Further, the painting is created in the traditional composition and style associated with Orthodox iconography. Historical and artistic analysis points to 14th-century Jerusalem as its origin. It was the brought to Czestochowa via Constantinople and Belz, Ukraine, in August 1382 by Duke Władysław Opolczyk. The difficulty in dating the icon stems from the fact that the original image was painted over after being badly damaged by Hussite raiders in 1430. Had the icon’s medieval restorers been familiar with the encaustic method (paint made from pigment mixed with melted beeswax and resin and after application fixed by heat), they would have realized that unless the icon’s old paint was prepared, the new paint over it would simply slough off. According to the medieval chronicler Risinius, the