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Meetings
This Week
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Sunday,
December 7
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11:00 am RH RCIA
12:30 pm CAF Immaculate
Conception Reception
1:00 pm OKH SCC
5:00 pm DR Spanish Marriage
Encounter
6:00 pm OKH Knights of
Columbus
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Monday,
December 8
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Holy Day
of Obligation
1:00 pm KIT Over 50
5:30 pm CRY Legion of Mary
7:00 pm RH Finance Council
7:30 pm OKH St.Vincent de
Paul
8:00 pm DR Grupo Progreso
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Tuesday,
December 9
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10:00 am OKH Over 50
5:00 pm RH Youth Ministry
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Wednesday,
December 10
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7:00 pm CH School Christmas
Concert
7:00 pm OKH Spanish Marriage
Encounter
8:00 pm DR Grupo Progreso
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Thursday,
December 11
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6:30 pm CRY Epiphany of the
Lord Prayer Group
7:00 pm OKH Grupo Oracion
7:00 pm CAF Italian Catholic
Federation
7:30 pm CHP Choir Rehearsal
8:00 pm DR AA (English)
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Friday,
December 12
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3:00 pm CAF Grupo
Hispano
7:30 pm OKH English Baptismal
Preparation Class
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Saturday,
December 13
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9:30 am CH Faith
Formation
10:00 am CAF Confirmation
4:00 pm CH Confessions
8:00pm DR Grupo Progreso
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Sunday,
December 14
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11:00 am RH RCIA
4:00 pm DR Spanish Marriage
Encounter
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Mass
Intentions
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Sunday,
December 7
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6:30 am People of the
Parish
8:30 am The Cordes Family
10:00 am Thanksgiving: Jesus
Rimon
11:30 am Guadalupe, Aurora, Jose
& Tomasa Diaz Arina
1:00 pm Teresa Villanueva &
Francisco Sanchez
5 :30 pm John Quattrin
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Monday,
December 8
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6:30 am Miguel
Madali
8:00 am Community
Mass:
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Birthday: Marc
Herrera
Salvador Abad,
Intention: Jeffrey
Fuentes
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11:00 am People of
the Parish
5:30 pm Savtore &
Frank Amuzzi
7:30 pm Bert C. &
Mary L. Ohlander
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Tuesday,
December 9
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6:30 am Nemesia &
Godofredo Villarente
8:00 am TonniChico
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Wednesday,
December 10
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6:30 am Amelia O. Lumba
8:00 am Felix Crisologo
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Thursday,
December 11
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6:30 am Anita Maria
Cordero
8:00 am Intention: Cordes
Family
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Friday,
December 12
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6:30 am Joe Twyman
8:00 am Intention: Desmond
Family
7:00 pm Albert D. Jones
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Saturday,
December 13
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8:00 am Edith Gannon
5:30 pm Mario & Mary
Balestrieri
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Sunday,
December 14
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6:30 am Rizalino, Alfonso
& Arturo Briones
8:30 am Cathlyn Bantug &
Jerome Flores
10:00 am Enrique Roman
11:30 am Intention: Maria
Espinosa
1:00 pm Maria de Jesus
Gonzales
5 :30 pm Ricardo & Lourdes
Alcaras
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Pray
for the
Sick
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Arnold &
Allyson Artes, Odet
Atiya, Angela
Aviles-O’Shea,
Richard Anduha, Mabel
Baker, Magdalena Blanco,
Elfrida Byrd, Timoteo
Bohol, Faustino
Buenaventura, Delia
Carrasco, Nathan Carzon,
Krystal Chan, Winnie
Cheung, Vickie Crivello,
Abdon A. David,
Magdalena David, Dawn
Devenere, Aurora
Escalona, Editha
Esparza, Con Fahey,
Marilyn Fletcher Jacob
Garcia, Bob Gardner,
Dennis Gillikin, Filmon
& Sally Gotaj,
Narcisa Gonzales, Samuel
Gutierrez, Vilma
Gutierrez, Fran Hartle,
Linda Ibarra, Rosie
Joseph, Leonard
Huddleston, Armando
Lanza, Gemma Lavapiez,
Leona Lawrence, Remigio
Leonardo, Diana Leung,
J.R. Litehiser,Frank
Loomis, Margie Lopez,
Luis Lopez, Ray Lopez,
Olivia Lumapas, Elisa
Mangabay, Deveda
Martinez, José
Rene Mena, Marilyn
Menjivar, Celeste
McFarland, Julia
Miranda, Josie Moggia,
Lorena Morales, Lou
Nardi, Victor Negron,
Ramona Pinkerman,
Dorothy Peter, Peg
Philpott, Dolores
Quattrin, Remedios
Ramos, Edwin R. Ramos,
Elsa & Max Ramos,
Evelyn Rosales, Tom
Repetto, David
Ruport,Sr., Richard
Ryan, Father Franc
Shifrar, Baby Natalie
Solis, Tina Strebel,
Conrado, Sr. &
Victorina Uy Joe
Valerga, Ruby Vasquez,
Peiling Ye.
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To
keep these names on the
list, please notify us
every 2
weeks.
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Pray
for the
Dead
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All
those who have
died from
violence this
past
week.
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Richard
Barrett
Amelia O. Lumba
Gladys Tarantino
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News
from the Church of the
Epiphany
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Coming
Up Soon
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The
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed
Virgin Mary
The
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of
the Blessed Virgin Mary will be observed
on Monday, December 8th. This is a holy
day of obligation. Masses will be held at
6:30am, 8:00am, 11:00am, 5:30pm and 7:30pm
in Spanish.
Our Lady
of Guadalupe
The
Grupo Hispano-Americano invites everyone
to the celebration of Our Lady of
Guadalupe on Friday, December 12th at
7:00PM. After the mass, a reception will
follow in the cafeteria. Donations are
welcome.
Please contact Maria Elena Herrera at
(415) 585-7878 for information.
Thank
You!
On
behalf of the Jubilee Choir of Epiphany we
want to thank everyone who made it to
their 10th year anniversary fund-raising
concert. We continue to share our music
ministry in hopes of bringing God’s
word in sanctuary music to all we
encounter. In gratefulness we will offer
Christmas songs to our parishioners before
the 5:30pm Mass on Sunday, December 28th.
Thank you for making the concert a great
success!
The
Giving Tree
Please
choose an ornament from the Giving Tree in
the church. You may bring an appropriate,
new, unwrapped children’s gift or a
donation for a plant for the homebound to
the Parish Office by December 15th. Thank
you for your generosity.
Announcements
School
Christmas Concert
Everyone
is invited to our school’s annual
Christmas Concert on Wednesday, December
10th at 7:00pm, in our church.
Christmas
Gifts
With
unemployment and poverty increasing, many
families may not be able to afford
Christmas gifts for their children this
year. If you need help with presents for
your children, please phone the parish
office and leave your name, phone number
and address and the names, ages, and
gender of your children before December
13th. Our St. Vincent de Paul Society will
deliver the gifts from the Giving Tree
before Christmas.
Novena of
Masses (Simbang Gabi)
“Journeying
as Workers in the Vineyard of the
Lord” is the theme of our Novena of
Masses for Christmas, which is being
coordinated by the Spiritual Life
Commission. It begins Monday, December
15th at 7:00pm until the culmination on
Tuesday, December 23rd.
Each
evening will consist of a faith testimony,
a homily by the celebrant, one of our
choirs singing and a reception in the
cafeteria. Let us all come together and
prepare for the coming of the PRINCE OF
PEACE, THE KING OF KINGS and THE LORD OF
ALL! For information, please
call:
- Dante
G. Tayag (415) 334-5964
- Maria
Elena Herrera (415)
585-7878
Morning
of Reconciliation
Deanery
Two & St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish
Family welcomes you in the
“spirit” of Advent to a Morning
of Reconciliation on Saturday, December
13th, at 9:30am to 11:30am. St.
Elizabeth’s Pastor, Fr. Suan will be
the presider. St. Paul of the Shipwreck
Catholic Church is located at the corner
of 3rd Street & Jamestown
For
Your Information
The
Church will be Closed
We will
be closing the church on Thursday,
December 11th after the 8:00am Mass
because the sanctuary floor is going to be
waxed. Thank you for your patience.
Children’s
Ministry
Liturgy
of the Word for Children will not be
celebrated on Sunday, December 28th.
Christmas
Mass Schedule
Christmas
Eve
Wednesday,
December 24th
6:30am
8:00am
5:30pm Children’s Mass
9:00pm
11:00pm Caroling
12:00am Midnight Mass
Christmas
Day
Thursday, December 25th
6:30am
8:30am
10:00am
11:30am Spanish Mass
1:00pm
NO 5:30pm Mass
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Today’s
Second Collection:
The
second collection is for our Parish
School.
Next
Week’s Second
Collection:
The
second collection will be for the
Archbishop’s Annual Appeal.
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Last
Week’s Collection
Totals
Sunday’s Offering:
$8,588.99
Second Collection:
$2,928.71
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Reflections
GOSPEL:
Mark 1:1-8
In this gospel reading Mark
introduces John the Baptist as the
messenger of the Messiah, sent by God to
prepare his path. John preaches a baptism
of repentance and the forgiveness of sins
in the desert by the River Jordan. The
coming Messiah will baptize with the Holy
Spirit. He is mightier than John or any of
the prophets before him.
Let us prepare for Jesus’
coming as John taught the people to
prepare: with repentance for our sins,
with welcoming hearts, with unselfish
love, and with generosity for one
another.
1.) Why does Mark’s gospel
begin with the story of John the
Baptist?
2.) How does Mark connect John and
Jesus to the Hebrew scripture?
3.) John has sometimes been called
the last Hebrew prophet. Where did he
preach and baptize? To whom did his
preaching point?
4.) What does the last verse of
John’s gospel mean when it says,
“I have baptized you with water, he
will baptize you in the Holy
Spirit?”
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