Text Box: 3rd ANNUAL “OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL PARISH BBQ”—SUNDAY, JULY 13 Summer is near and so is Our Lady of Mt. Carmel’s 3rd Annual Parish Potluck Picnic! Mark your calendar for Sunday, July 13th, 2008 at 2 p.m. at St. Margaret Mary's Parish Hall. There will be lawn games for children starting at 3 p.m. Dinner will be served  between 4-5 p.m. $15/family and $5/individual + potluck dish to share. RSVP no later than Thurs., July 10th, by filling out Picnic RSVP form found in vestibule or in parish hall or by contacting Mary Sullivan by e-mail: Jacksullivan55@sbcglobal.net. or by phone: (510)521-9243. Hope to see you all there! Text Box: NEW CATHEDRAL TOUR If you like to see how our new Cathedral looks. Tour will take place on Sunday July 20, after all Masses. Please sign up in the lists in the vestibule of the church. More information to be announced next week.

Fourth All-night-Adoration 

 

Friday, July 25th, 7:00 pm until

Saturday, July 26th, 7:00 am

Picnic

The Seminary Society and Friends are sponsoring a picnic on Saturday, August 16 at Castro Valley Community Park. All are welcome! Please contact Fr. Wiener by phone or email (father.wiener@institute-christ-king.org) or Mrs. Diana Henriksson at dhenriksson@comcast.net.

Conversations

By St. Francis de Sales

Let your words be kindly, frank, sincere, straightforward, simple and true; avoid all artifice, duplicity and pretence, remembering that, although it is not always well to publish abroad everything that may be true, yet it is never allowable to oppose the truth. Make it your rule never knowingly to say what is not strictly true, either accusing or excusing, always remembering that God is the God of Truth. If you have unintentionally said what is not true, and it is possible to correct yourself at once by means of explanation or reparation, do so. A straightforward excuse has far greater weight than any falsehood.

It may be lawful occasionally to conceal or disguise the truth, but this should never be done save in such special cases as make this reserve obviously a necessity for the service and glory of God. Otherwise all such artifice is dangerous; and we are told in Holy Scripture that God's Holy Spirit will not abide with the false or double-minded. Depend upon it, there is no craft half so profitable and successful as simplicity. Worldly prudence and artifice belong to the children of this world; but the children of God go straight on with a single heart and in all confidence;--falsehood, deceit and duplicity are sure signs of a mean, weak mind.

In the Fourth Book of his Confessions, Saint Augustine spoke in very strong terms of his passionate devotion to a friend, saying that they had but as one soul, and that after his friend's death his life was a horror to him, although he feared to die. But later on these expressions seemed unreal and affected to him, and he withdrew them in his Retractations. You see how sensitive that great mind was to unreality or affectation. 

Liturgical Calendar

for the

Trad. Latin Mass

Extraordinary Form

of the Roman Rite

Sunday July 6

EigHth Sunday after Pentecost

Epistle: Rom. 8:12-17

Gospel: Luc. 16:1-9

Monday July 7

SS. Cyril + Methodius

Bishops + Confessors

Tuesday July 8

St. Elizabeth of Portugal

Queen + Widow

Wednesday July 9

Feria

Thursday July 10

Seven Holy Brothers

Martyrs

SS. Rufina + Secunda

Virgins + Martyrs

Friday July 11

St. Pius IPope + Martyr

Saturday July 12

St. John Gualbert

Abbot

First Mass in Oakland

On Wednesday, July 23rd, at 6:00 pm, the newly ordained priest of the Institute, Abbe Henrique Fragelli, will celebrate his First Mass at St. Margaret Mary and impart his blessing on all faithful present. Please come and greet Father Fragelli and join us afterwards in the parish hall!