Text Box: Message and Devotion, participating in Divine Mercy retreats, conferences, and symposia. 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; Martha Tork; Lianne Claver; Juan & Nancy Duenas; Frank & Imogene Martin; Ted Price; Harry & Betty Garland; Anthony Krzyzanski; Giovanni & Elisa Mancarti; Titus Ekanem; Robert Dale; Jeanette Zugnoni; Vivian Tuma; Patricia Campos; Theresa Dinh; Dora Martinez; Isadora da Silva; Concha Marina; Bill Hayney; Arden Glass; Chuck Jessel; Myrna Lanzar; Carole Gottstein; Clare Cortright; Cyrus Nassiri; Rick Patton; Carmen Rodriquez; Bob Baker; Athena Ateshian; ............. 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: Dr Ralph M. McInerny; Maria Chan; Ethel “Aggie” Allen; ........ and for all the faithful departed, especially for all the Poor Souls in Purgatory. 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 tel. at 888-253-4358. Please patronize our advertisers. HOLY MASS INTENTIONS We have empty spots for Holy Mass intentions at the beginning of June, 2010. If you would like to have Holy Mass celebrated for your intentions or your loved ones (l. or d.), please contact the parish: stmargaretm@yahoo.com. or tel. 510-482-0596. PRAY FOR OUR SERVICEMEN & SOLDIERS: Robert Hoops, Thomas Campana, Connor O’Keefe, Matthew Valenzuela, Steven Mayer; John Molinari & other American soldiers and servicemen. DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BEGINS: This year, the next weekend, March 13/14; please remember to turn your clock 1 hour forward to wake up one hour earlier. LECTORS NEEDED Do you like to read aloud, and would you like to proclaim the readings, psalm, and Prayer of the Faithful at Mass to the congregation? If so, please give Father Zak (stanzak7@yahoo.com) or the Lectors Coordinator, Lynn Suer: (lynnsuer@aol.com), 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! EASTER LILIES Donations for Easter flower decorations can be made by using special forms envelopes which are on the table next to the Parish Bulletin. These donations may be made in memory, or in honor of, Text Box: family or friends, living or dead. Easter offerings for flowers enable St. Anne’s Guild to decorate throughout the season of Easter. May God reward all our benefactors. EASTER PARADE This year we will once again participate in St. Vincent de Paul’s Easter Parade project which provides new clothes for low income children in our diocese for Easter. In the vestibule of the church, near the choir loft door, is the familiar “clothes line” with tags for children’s clothes. Just take a tag, purchase either a dress for a girl, or pants and shirt for a boy in the size written on the tag. Then bring the clothing back before March 28, Palm Sunday. Volunteers from our parish will take all the items to the Oakland St. Vincent de Paul center before Good Friday. Thank you for your generosity in providing a new Easter outfit for a needy child. Want to help with the Easter Parade project at our parish? We need helpers after the 12:30 Mass each Sunday to take the clothes to the parish hall and store them in a closet there. If you can help, please contact Bill Duffy at (510) 758-6158. A LIST OF “GIVE UPS” FOR LENT Give up bitterness; turn to forgiveness. Give up hatred; return good for evil. Give up negativism; be positive. Give up complaining; be grateful. Give up pessimism; be an optimist. Give up harsh judgments; think kind thoughts. Give up worry; trust Divine Providence. Give up discouragement; be full of hope. Give up anger; be more patient. Give up pettiness; be more mature. Give up gloom; enjoy the beauty around you. Give up jealousy; pray for trust. Give up gossiping; control your thoughts. Give up sin; turn to virtue. SPIRITUAL BOUQUET: following his Regensburg Address in September 2006 discussing Moslem-Christian relations, we became concerned for the safety of our Pope. In response, we started a Spiritual Bouquet dedicated to Pope Benedict XVI: that he will grow in wisdom and strength, that his health be safeguarded, and for the conversion of his enemies. Each month we collect pledge-offering prayers, and send them as a Spiritual Bouquet card to his Holiness from St. Margaret Mary. These efforts have been recognized by Rome in the form of letters of gratitude from the Papal Nuncio. If you would like to help, please send prayer offerings by phone to Arlene Maderious: (510 799-4678) or by e-mail to Allen Kuhl: kuhl2@llnl.gov. To learn more visit the parish web-site: www.stmargmaryoak.org CAN YOU HELP A PARISHIONER?