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The Easter season lasts for fifty days, ending with Pentecost (from the Greek pent ekoste, “fiftieth”). BLESSING OF EXPECTANT MOTHERS Will be May 3/4 weekend during Sat. 5.00PM, Sunday 8.30 & 10.30AM Masses. 91st ANNIVERSARY OF FATIMA APPARITION Every year from May to October in many Catholic Parishes around the world Catholics celebrate the anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady to three |
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Portuguese children: Francisco, Jacinta and Lucia. We plan to celebrate Fatima Services in our Church every month with Holy Mass, the Rosary in different languages, and a candlelight procession. The first service will be on Tuesday, May 13th 2007 at 7.30PM. Please come and invite others. If you speak other languages, please contact Fr Stan (510-482-0596) FIRST HOLY COMMUNION On Sunday, May 18, at 10.30, the children of our Parish receive, for the first time in their lives, Holy Communion. Please pray for our children waiting for their VERY IMPORTANT DAY, when they receive, for the first time, Jesus in the Holy Eucharist; |
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Learn more about the Insititute of Christ the King The Institute of Christ the King has been serving our parish since 2005 when Bishop Vigneron appointed Fr. Wiener chaplain to the Traditional Latin Rite community at St. Margaret Mary and his Delegate for the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite in the Oakland diocese. The work that has been done here in these three years and that continues to develop the constantly growing traditional community, now and in the future, is specifically characterized by the Institute’s spirituality. It seems therefore important for the whole parish to learn more about this spiritual character of Fr. Wiener’s community in which he has been trained for the priesthood and which continues to be his spiritual root and family. We present in this and in the following issues of our bulletin the Institute and its specific spiritual identity: Worldwide Institute This period of apostolic charity has already led the Institute to different tasks in various countries. We have not only our seminary near Florence and a formation house near Salzburg on the German side, we have parishes, chapels, and aposotlates all over Europe, apostolates in the United States, and we have schools and military chaplains and also missions in Africa. The mentality and the culture of the people is certainly different everywhere, but their spiritual needs and the openness of their souls to the Divine Gifts is also similar everywhere. More and more young people continue to join our apostolates, and we are delighted to see how many of these families show a profound appreciation of the gift of life. If only for the many children that frequent our churches, we could already be sure that the liturgical tradition of the Church will survive in the future. Quite a few of our vocations have already recruited themselves out of these families, and we are sure that others will soon follow. The diversity of the apostolic tasks of our members shows very well that the Institute is not closed in a corner of the Church but it lives with the grace of God in Her very heart. Our faithfulness to the Roman Pontiff and the "Romanity" of the spirit of the Institute are equally an inheritance of St. Francis de Sales. We want to make sure that the faithful in contact with the Institute are "feeling with the Church" because this "sentire cum Ecclesia" has always been a very important distinction mark of Catholic tradition. [To be continued] |
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Pope Benedict XVI. during a meeting with young people at Saint Joseph Seminary, Yonkers, New York on April 19, 2008 The manipulation of truth distorts our perception of reality, and tarnishes our imagination and aspirations. I have already mentioned the many liberties which you are fortunate enough to enjoy. The fundamental importance of freedom must be rigorously safeguarded. Yet freedom is a delicate value. It can be misunderstood or misused so as to lead not to the happiness which we all expect it to yield, but to a dark arena of manipulation in which our understanding of self and the world becomes confused, or even distorted by those who have an ulterior agenda. |
