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Basilica E-News
November 14, 2019
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Parish Family are invited to participate at the above event to share in the diversity of our Parish and the Vietnamese traditions. Please note that incense will be used during Mass.
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St. Joseph Parish Survey is closed. Thank you for your participation.
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Recent Passing:
It is with sadness we announce the passing of long parishioner, Marina Cango Amaguin (mother of Jocelyn "Joy" Felix).
Funeral Details:
Tuesday, 11/19/19
Rosary: 5 pm, St. Joseph (SJB)
Vigil: 5:30 pm, SJB, with viewing to follow
Funeral Mass: Wednesday, 11/20/19, 11:30 am, SJB
Burial at St. Mary's Cemetery following funeral.
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her.
May she rest in peace. Amen
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Parish Collections
Week November 9/10
Weekly Goal: $13,500
Cash/ check : $7,669
Faith Direct: $3,245
Total Giving: $10,914
Under: ($2,586)
Collections Update:
Maintenance: $2,626
All Saints: $2,323
All Souls Day: $4,362
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Preparing For Advent Party
Advent begins December 1, so families are invited to get ready for the Advent Season on Sunday, November 24, from 10:45 to noon in Notre Dame Hall. Create a Jesse Tree or ornaments for your Christmas tree, and enjoy snacks, stories, and a blessing of Advent wreaths. Sensory-friendly spaces will be available. Feel free to bring a treat to share. All children and their families are welcome! (Children MUST be accompanied by adults.) Co-sponsored by the Special Needs Inclusion Ministry. For more info contact the Parish Office at 510-522-0181. For more details here
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Christmas Eve Family Mass
Rehearsals start next week
Young people are invited to tell the story of Christ's birth through drama, song and movement at the 4pm Mass on December 24. The Gospel will be enacted, angels will sing, and the world rejoices. CIA Christ in Action will prepare angels and anyone else interested in singing and movement (age 4 to 13) with rehearsals 4:15 to 5pm on Tuesdays; the speaking roles and narrators will practice 4 to 5pm on Wednesdays starting Nov 20.
Full schedule, who to contact and other details available
here.
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Tonight..... Thursday, Nov 14
Grief Support Ministry Monthly Gathering
6:30 - 7:30 pm, Damien Room
Our Grief Support Ministry provides a monthly support group for those in bereavement over the death of a loved one. This is a safe place to share your feelings with others in similar situation. The Group meets the second Thursday of each month. Drop ins are welcome and if you or if you know of someone who is suffering from a loss of any kind, please feel free to invite them to come with you!
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This weekend.....
Friday, November 15.. Taize, 8pm, Basilica
(please note change in date for November)
Saturday, November 16
Special Mass for Seniors, 10;30 am, Basilica
Annual Senior Luncheon, 11:30 am, Notre Dame Hall
"Blessings Bags for the Homeless", 6:30pm, Notre Dame Hall
This event is in cooperation with Covenant of Love, Young Adults Group and Young Families ministries at St. Joseph Basilica. We will be putting together Blessing Bags for the Homeless. We will also have a potluck dinner after we are done with the bags. You will be taking home some of the bags and keeping them in your car to give away to our homeless brothers and sisters when you see them at traffic lights, on the street, or wherever. See the full event details here
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Young Families November Newsletter
here
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C
atholic Young Adults Group
events and weekly newsletter available
here
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Highlight: A Conversion with Sister Asha, Nov 20, 7:30 - 9:00pm, Parish Center
Young Adults Group invites you to meet Sr. Asha, our Director of Pastoral Care in sharing her vocation story with us and providing guidance on how to discover our own vocation. Drop ins are welcome.
For More Upcoming Parish Events
here
View last week's bulletin
here
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News around the Block
St. Joseph Notre Dame High School...
Flight Plan weekly newsletter
here
St. Joseph Elementary School weekly news
here
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Thanksgiving Day Masses
Thursday, November 28, 2019
8am & 10:00 am
Blessing of Food after Mass
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33rd Sunday Reading's Reflection:
LIFE IS HARD, BUT HAVE NO FEAR
Today's readings take a fearless look at reality and reach a conclusion that we all know: life is hard. The prophet Malachi preaches fire and brimstone, warning us that evildoers will perish in flames. Saint Paul offers his own warning to the Thessalonians: keep busy, but never become a busybody. He reminds Christians that the apostles themselves worked in "toil and drudgery" as a model for how we ought to contribute to our community. The Gospel returns to the apocalyptic tone of Malachi, describing the utter chaos of the end-times. We will know the end is near when violence, catastrophe, and hatred dominate the earth. But we must not fear! God's saving plan brings peace to our hearts. Malachi speaks of the sun's "healing rays," and Jesus himself promises to protect every hair on our heads.
Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
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Children's Faith Formation. Classes for children age 4 through Junior High on Sunday mornings after 9:30 am Mass. For details
here. Or email Anne Marie,
afourre@sjbalameda.org
Enrich your spiritual life through FORMED; register at
www.sjbalameda.formed.org.
Downloading the app? Use Access Code 79QKNH.
Interested in becoming Catholic and/or preparing for sacraments? The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adult (RCIA) is available year-round. Click
here for information.
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