Text Box: will focus on the sacred musical treasures of the Church and will sing at the Sunday 10:00am Mass and other events and holy days.   Auditions are open to anyone with a love for sacred music and who is able to make the necessary rehearsal and time commitments.  Contact Director of Music Rudy de Vos at 510-496-7227, rdevos@oakdiocese.org. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola have helped many to fulfill their desire to grow in knowledge and love of Jesus and so to follow him in greater freedom. Ignatius planned that the complete Exercises (sometimes offered as a 30-day silent retreat) also be offered as a retreat in everyday life, extended over six months or more. In following this form, the retreatant meets with an individual director weekly and prays an hour and a half daily. Doing the Exercises entails a serious commitment of both time and energy and is appropriate for those already cultivating a generous life of prayer and in regular spiritual direction. If you have an interest in doing the complete Spiritual Exercises in everyday life, our staff would be happy to help you to discern the Spirit’s call and will recommend a director when that is timely. Please contact Fr. Tom Carroll (tcarroll@jrclosaltos.org) at The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos for more information. “Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself . . .if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.” John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis The Respect Life offices of San Francisco and Oakland are hosting a one-day Gabriel Project workshop on Sept. 12 at the Cathedral of St Mary ( 1111 Gough St ) in San Francisco .McConn, founder of the Gabriel Project in Houston , will show us how to work within our parishes to provide personal, practical and immediate help to women in crisis pregnancies. All N California dioceses will be represented. Program starts at 9:30am (breakfast at 8:30), $20 (scholarships available), includes lunch, and ends at 2:30.  Contact Vicki Evans Vicki Evans at 415-614-5533 or evansv@sfarchdiocese.org. for more information. Text Box: Reading 1 Is 35:4-7a Thus says the Lord: Say to those whose hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not! Here is your God, he comes with vindication; with divine recompense he comes to save you. Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of the deaf be cleared; then will the lame leap like a stag, then the tongue of the mute will sing. Streams will burst forth in the desert, and rivers in the steppe. The burning sands will become pools, and the thirsty ground, springs of water.