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Are you looking for something positive to
do for Lent? Join the many parishioners and others throughout the
world who are trying to help combat world hunger. This site enables
you to donate a cup of food every day for the world’s poor. Add this
site to your “favorite places” and make this donation a daily ritual.
www.hungersite.com
Send an special Lenten message
e-card to those you love.
Click here.
Find out how to send food to the hungry
simply by clicking a button and then find out more about how we can
help those in need.
Click here. Lenten Food Collection
Please bring your nonperishable food items to Mass
during Lent and place your offerings in the food bins provided.
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Prayer
The Little Black Book
All parish families will have the opportunity to receive a daily
Lenten prayer booklet at Mass prior to Lent.
You are invited to use it for individual and family prayer throughout
the season.
Suggestions for
Prayer
·Use or purchase a bible or
borrow a book of Lenten prayers and meditations to use during Lent.
·Meditate on the call
of each week’s Gospel. For readings, go to
http://www.dailygospel.org.
·Go
to Mass daily.
·Commit to 20 minutes of prayer each day
·Participate in soup suppers and/or walk the
Stations of the Cross in the Chapel or the Memorial Garden.
Fasting
Fasting is an ancient
spiritual practice that still has profound relevance today.
Through fasting we not only recognize more fully our mortality and
dependence on God, we also empathize with our brothers and sisters who
hunger for food and justice.
As Catholics (ages 18-58) we are
required to fast (one full meal, two light meals, no eating between meals
for those 18-58 years) on
Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Fasting
is appropriate throughout Lent (particularly on Fridays).
Abstinence
As a sign of penance, Catholics (ages 14 and older) abstain from
all meat on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays in Lent.
Suggestions for Almsgiving
·Operation Rice Bowl – Program begins the
weekend of February 3rd and ends Holy Thursday.
·Prepare Sandwiches for the homeless after
the 10:30 AM (1st & 4th Sundays) and 12:30pm Masses (2nd & 3rd
Sundays).
·Bring toiletries and/or food donations to
Sunday Mass each week
·Donate to the Francis fund “Yellow
Envelope” for those in need.
·Volunteer for bread packaging and
distribution after daily Mass
What is Operation Rice Bowl?—Catholic social
teaching tells us that all humanity has been made in the image of God.
Through our actions, we, as Catholics, must express that each person
is precious and the lives and welfare of all people are priorities.
That is why our community supports Operation Rice Bowl so strongly
during Lent. We pray, fast, and give alms so that others may eat.
Begins the week of Feb 3 and ends Holy Thursday. Bread Project
Barbara & Gene Gerwe
After Mass daily
Packaging bread for those in need.
Sandwiches-R-Us
Prepare Sandwiches for the homeless after the 10:30 AM (1st & 4th
Sundays) and 12:30pm Masses (2nd & 3rd Sundays). The
Villages Group also prepares sand-wiches at 1:30PM on the 3rd Thursday
of each month. All are welcome to help.
ADVOCACY
·Welcome the stranger
·Participate in the citizenship
process – ·REGISTER and VOTE
·Help reduce poverty
·Care for God’s creation – our
environment
·Pray and speak out for Peace. |
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Frequent Questions
About Lent |
Know Your Catholic Lingo!—Here
are some terms you will hear used often during Lent:
Fully Initiated: a Catholic who has received the 3 Sacraments
of Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist is fully initiated.
The Elect: unbaptized adults and children over the age of 7 who
are coming to full initiation at the Easter Vigil through the Rite of
Christian Initiation (RCIA).
Candidates: already baptized adults (Catholic or other
Christian denominations) preparing to receive the sacrament of
Confirmation
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Why Do Catholics...?
Why do Catholics not sing or say "Alleluia" during Lent? Lent is a
penitential and somber season. Therefore the "alleluia" as an
expression of joy and exultation is not used. The "alleluia" will
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Daily Mass Schedule |
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Monday thru Saturday |
8:30 AM |
Chapel |
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Fridays |
9:00 AM |
Villages |
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Ash
Wednesday
February 6, 2008 |
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This is a day of both fast and abstinence. |
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AM |
Chapel
- Mass & Ashes |
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AM |
Chapel -
Mass & Ashes |
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Villages - Mass & Ashes |
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Chapel - Prayer Service (Liturgy of the Word) & Ashes |
| 5:30
PM |
Chapel
- Mass & Ashes |
| 6:30 PM |
Gathering Space |
| 7:30 PM |
Chapel - Mass & Ashes |
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Soup
Suppers & Prayer Activities
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Fridays in Lent @
6:00PM
Simple Dinner
in the Gathering SpaceWhat is a
Soup Supper?
During Lent, on the parish calendar you will note that there is
an activity called “Soup Suppers.” Soup Suppers have become a
Lenten tradition at St. Francis. These suppers are sponsored by
different ecclesial communities each week and consist of soup,
bread and something to drink. The reason for the simple fare is
to heighten our awareness that during the season of Lent, we are
called to spend more time in prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
People are encouraged to share what they save on this simple
meal by helping the poor, by contributing to the rice bowl
sponsored by Catholic Relief Services. Each evening is concluded
with some kind of prayer experience. This year the emphasis will
be on the Stations of the Cross. There is great joy in walking
this Lenten experience together as a community.
Fridays, February 15 & March 14 |
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Days
of Fast |
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Those between the ages of 16 and 60 are to fast on
Ash
Wednesday and Good Friday. On those days, you may have 1
full meal and 2 light meals not equivalent to a full meal. |
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Days
of Abstinence |
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No meat on Ash
Wednesday and All Fridays in Lent
(over 14 years) |
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Sacrament of RECONCILIATION (Penance) |
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Individual
Confessions
Saturdays 4:15 PM- 4:45 PM Chapel
Lent Reconciliation Services
Wednesday, March 5 - 7:30 PM Chapel (Parish
Reconciliation)
See Deanery-wide Schedule
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Rite of Christian
Initiation |
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As Lent progresses, we ask you to keep in your prayers
our Elect. Rite of Sending
TBA
Rite of Election
TBA
First Scrutiny
3rd Sunday of Lent, February 24
Second Scrutiny
4th Sunday of Lent, March 2
Third Scrutiny
5th Sunday of Lent, March 9 |
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Other Faith
Formation/Spirituality Events During Lent |
Sacrament of the Sick
Friday, February 8, 9:00 AM Villages
Saturday, February 9, 8:30 AM ChapelAdult Confirmation Preparation
For adults over the age of 18 and out of high school.
Every Wednesday night during Lent beginning on Ash Wednesday,
Feb 6th. Please contact Julius Bercasio for info and
registration
jbercasio@sfoasj.org or
(408)223-1562 x310.
Theology Live
7:00-8:30 pm Chapel
Wednesday, February13 “God Forgiveness and the Human Person”
Fr. Joseph Benedict
Wednesday, March 12 “Some Things We Only Know by Dying” Glenn
Valois
Generations of Faith
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday (6:00 pm) and Saturday (9:00 am)
February 12,13,15,16 “We Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins”
March 11,12,14,15 “Jesus Christ, Death and Resurrection” |
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Triduum & Easter Schedule |
Palm Sunday
March 15 |
Regular Saturday and Sunday Schedule.
See Mass Schedule |
Holy Thursday
Mass of the Lord's Supper
& Washing of the FeetMarch
20 |
7:30PM
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
After he
had washed their feet, he put his cloak back on and reclined at
the table once more. He said to them:
Do you understand what I just did for
you? You address me as “Teacher” and “Lord” and fittingly
enough, for that is what I am, but if I washed your feet-I who
am Teacher and Lord-then you must wash each other’s feet. What
I just did was to give you an example: as I have done, so must
you do. John 13:12-15.
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Good Friday
March 21
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2:00PM
at Villages
5:00 & 7:30PM in the Gathering SpaceCelebration of the Passion of the Lord
"Christ became obedient for us
even unto death, dying on the cross. Therefore God raised him on
high and gave him a name above all other names." Philippians
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Easter Vigil
(Holy Saturday)
March 22 |
8:15PM - Gathering Space
Solemn Celebration of the Easter Vigil
“…I baptize you in the
name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…”for
you…“…now you are to share in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit
among us, the Spirit sent by the Lord upon his apostles at
Pentecost…”“…take this, all of you, and eat it: this is my body
which will be given up” |
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Easter Sunday
March
23 |
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Easter Masses
Schedule: 6:00AM Salubong - Chapel
Regular Sunday Schedule
(no Saturday 5:00PM Mass) |
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"Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it
was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb. She saw that
the stone had been moved away, so she ran off to Simon Peter and
the other disciple and told them, “The Lord has been taken from
the tomb! We don’t know where they have put him!” John 20:1-3 |
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