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28th Week in Ordinary Time Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015

Today’s Gospel: Jesus too must have been sad. He says, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” He then explains to the surprised disciples what he meant. Simply put, possessions can control your life. However much you have not let go of, that much will stall your journey to the highest value there is in life, God. — John Foley, S.J. St. Luis University

Please pray for our brothers and sisters

Who Are Ill or in Pain: Jimmy McCarthy, Jr., Maureen Shaw, John Hoffman, Margie Heil, Mary Tamargo, George Shorb, Art McNulty, Don Covello, Louis Baros, Bill & Joanne Rodgers, Gary Wood, Mary Helen Carpenter, Helen Murphy, John Beamon, Phil Mohardt, Larry Gomme, Sara Bardoni, Abbey Moreno, Alicia Bicoy, Maureen O’Rourke, Valerie Jones, Mel Jones, Andy Jones, Mike Wilson, Erling Ribbing, Janice Miller, Victoria Donnellan, Kevin O’Shea, Chuck Lee, Rosa Maria, Don LaPlante, Tom, Maggie Nelson, Jennifer McGlynn, ,Sylvia, Deacon Ruben Sanchez; Sandy requested by George; Mario, Beverly Donnellan, Bruce & Trish, Nina Giacometti, Sarah & David, Ed Botta, Sam Britton Johnson, Ed Fulwider, John R. Sanchez (cousin of Denis Danzart Britton), Alan Carson, Carol Kimbal, Vicki Gonzalez

Who Have Been Called to Eternal Life: Frank Danzart II, son of Frank Danzart, brother of Denise Britten; Holly Stefens, Tom Joyce, Jeanie Torr, Ila Donovan, Peg Canelis, Glenn Lynch, Lola Flores, Ethelreda Breig (Cantor Eric Lindenberg’s aunt.)

OFFERINGS: Sept 26 & 27, 2015 St. Elizabeth $ 1,019 St. Catherine of Siena $ 193 St. Colman $ 92 $2,304 Thank you for your generosity!

READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF Oct. 11, 2015 2015 Oct 11 SUN: TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIMEWis 7: 7-11/ Ps 90: 12-13. 14-15. 16-17 (14)/ Heb 4: 12-13/ Mk 10: 17-30 2015 Oct 12 Mon: Ordinary Weekday Rom 1: 1-7/ Ps 98: 1. 2-3ab. 3cd-4/ Lk 11: 29-32 2015 Oct 13 Tue: Ordinary Weekday Rom 1: 16-25/ Ps 19: 2-3. 4-5/ Lk 11: 37-41 2015 Oct 14 Wed: Ordinary Weekday/ Callistus I, pp, mt Rom 2: 1-11/ Ps 62: 2-3. 6-7. 9/ Lk 11: 42-46 2015 Oct 15 Thu: Teresa of Avila, v, r, dr M Rom 3: 21-30/ Ps 130: 1b-2. 3-4. 5-6ab/ Lk 11: 47-54 2015 Oct 16 Fri: Ordinary Weekday/ Hedwig, r/ Margaret Mary Alacoque, v Rom 4: 1-8/ Ps 32: 1b-2. 5. 11/ Lk 12: 1-7 2015 Oct 17 Sat: Ignatius of Antioch, bp, mt M Rom 4: 13. 16-18/ Ps 105: 6-7. 8-9. 42-43/ Lk 12: 8-12 2015 Oct 18 SUN: TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Is 53: 10-11/ Ps 33: 4-5. 18-19. 20. 22 (22)/ Heb 4: 14-16/ Mk 10: 35-452015

MASS INTENTIONS: Oct. 11 9 AM Saratane Cebula†, requested by Roxanna Rosel Oct. 11 11 AM James Binion†, requested by Mike Nichols Nov 8, 9 AM Buzz Korn†, requested by Fran Korn

UPCOMING DATES: Oct. 14, Wed 4:00 PM Finance Council Meeting St. Hubert’s Hall Nov. 1, Sunday, All Saints Day Nov. 2, Monday All Souls Day Nov. 26, Thurs. Thanksgiving Day Dec. 5, Sat. 7:00 PM Parade of Lights

Russian River Rotary in conjunction with the Russian River Fire Protection District, Cazadero Volunteer Fire Department and volunteers from El Molino HS raised $3,000 for Valley Fire victims at the pancake breakfast Oct. 3. Thank you for this generous community effort! The slate of officers for St Elizabeth's Guild have been chosen. President Francine Korn, Vice President Gina Asaro-Busalacchi, Secretary Sharilyn Parmeter and Treasurer Jean Koutz. Voting will take place at the November meeting on November 4. If anyone would like to be considered for an office and is an active member of the Guild, please contract Francine Korn at 869-9341. Join the fun! We are planning a float for the Parade of Lights Dec. 5th ! Contact Irene Deem 707-486-9683 if you want to help!

If we were to review your checkbook what would it say about your priorities? Would it paint the picture of a self-centered or an other-centered person? Would it inform a biography of a person focused on living well-off, or a follower of Christ intent on living a life of loving service to others? So we get on our knees and ask, "Good Lord, what must we do to share in the only True Source of the Good life?" "Come, follow me," says the Lord. Come follow Christ our Lord and place yourselves in one another’s service. Shift your focus from your bank account to your eternal account. If you do this, "you will have treasure heaven." Peace and Blessings! Fr. Luis LITURGICAL MUSIC CORNER by our Music Director, Rebecca Brown Oct. 11, 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time “Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart.” When my husband was confirmed as an adult, his prayer was this: “Lord, I’ll take any gift you want to give me, but if I have my preference, please give me wisdom”. (Wisdom is one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, conferred on us through the Sacrament of Confirmation). Our first reading today, from the book of Wisdom, states, “I preferred her to scepter and throne, and deemed riches nothing in comparison with her…because all gold, in view of her, is a little sand…” Let us pray today for wisdom, that gift which helps us to see the truth, to love the truth, and to act on the truth, for there are many things in today’s society which try to muddle and obscure the truths of God and draw us away from Him. May we always desire wisdom, more than gold! Songs for the 9 am Mass: Gathering Song: Holy Wisdom, Lamp of Learning # 521 Gloria in excelsis Deo, gloria, gloria! Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra, terra pax. Additional words to the Gloria are found in your Breaking Bread hymnal, p. 6. Psalm 90: Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy. Preparation of Gifts: More Than Gold Lord, I love your commands, more than gold is your word, so precious to me. Communion: In Every Age # 469 Recessional: Come Let Us Sing With Joy to the Lord ss

PASTOR’S DESK In his best-selling book, "Emotional Intelligence," author Daniel Goleman asserts that "since the beginning of the last century, each generation has lived with an increasing risk of suffering a major depression -- not just sadness, but a paralyzing listlessness, dejection, self-pity, and an overwhelming feeling of hopelessness." Just reading that is very depressing, but it's also very important. It's important because it affects so many of us. The "overwhelming hopelessness" that Goleman describes results from the feeling that one is unable to overcome this impoverished emotional state -- on either the individual or the global level. According to Goleman, the "age of anxiety" that characterized the last century is now evolving into an "age of melancholy." In "Man’s Search For Meaning," the psychiatrist and educator Viktor Frankl claimed that this kind of bankrupt emotional state is widespread, and lamented the fact that 60% of his American students felt that they lived in a state of "inner emptiness -- a void within themselves." Yet the situation today is worse than it was in 1950 when Frankl wrote his book. A more recent survey of students entering American Colleges may help to explain why. Eighteen years after Frankl's book was published, college freshmen were asked what their personal goals were: only 41 per cent said they wanted to make a lot of money. But the overwhelming majority also wanted to develop a meaningful philosophy of life. The pattern was significantly different recently when 75 per cent of college freshmen said their goal was to be very well-off financially, while only 41 per cent wanted to develop a meaningful philosophy of life -- the exact opposite finding from the previous generation. As more-and-more people come to perceive material wealth as an end in itself, and as more individual members of society are unhappy, society as a whole nears this same state of "emotional bankruptcy." Sadly, the end result has created some of our most disturbing social problems including drug and alcohol abuse. In our material world, we worship the material. Wealthy people are revered by virtue of their material possessions, as if net worth is an apt measure for how worthy a person is. We measure the worth of a day or a week according to how productive we are and how much we get done. As someone has said, "Society tells us the only thing that matters is matter -- the only things that count are the things that can be counted." And just reading that is very depressing. Yet, as Christians, we are a people of hope. As a people of hope, what matters most are the things that accrue to our "eternal account" as we read in today' Gospel Lesson . . .