Church of the Transfiguration 4000 E. Castro Valley Blvd., Castro Valley, CA 94552-4908

(510) 538-7941 Fax (510) 538-7983 E-mail: transfig_office@sbcglobal.net Website: www.transfigchurch.com June 24, 2018

Rev. Mario L. Borges, Pastor ● Rev. Terence O’Malley, Parochial Administrator Deacon John A. Mignano ● Deacon Timothy L. Moore ● Deacon Burton J. Rigley

LITURGICAL MINISTRY: Eucharistic Ministers, Stephen and Carina Kowalewski Lectors, Barbara Mehan Altar Servers, Clarence Decano

FINANCE COUNCIL: Chairman, Mark Zaleski

PARISH ORGANIZATIONS: Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), 60 Plus or Minus Club, Cursillo Group

SAINT VINCENT de PAUL SOCIETY: (510) 274-0830 Serving our community.

SICK & HOMEBOUND MINISTRY: Claudia Paquette, (510) 537-8986

STEWARDSHIP: Chairperson, Ed Coelho, (510) 881-5705 WINGS “Women in God’s Spirit”: Trish Ferrari, (510) 329-9407 HALL MANAGER: Pat Ballinger, (510) 537-1502

HALL RENTAL MANAGER: Monica Corona, 510-239-7941

YOUTH MINISTRY: Alfonso Corona III transfig.oasis@gmail.com PARISH OFFICE: Phone: (510) 538-7941 Fax: (510) 538-7983 Hours: 8:00 a.m. — 4:30 p.m., Monday-Thursday (Closed between 12:00 & 1:00 p.m.) Friday, 9:00a.m. — 12:00 Noon - Saturday & Sunday—Closed Secretary, Gloria Meeker Secretary/Bookkeeper, Phyllis Moore

SCHEDULE OF MASSES Saturdays 4:00 p.m. Sundays 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. (Except First Fridays - 9:30 a.m.) Communion Service - Saturdays, 8:00 a.m. CONFESSIONS Saturdays 3:00-3:45 p.m. BAPTISMS: Pre-baptismal class is required. Class is held the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. in the Rectory. Please call the Parish Office, (510) 538-7941, to register. MATRIMONY: Six months advance notice required. Please call the parish office. WEDDING COORDINATOR: Mel Speed (510) 909-9334 or melspeed@live.com FUNERALS: Please contact the funeral home of your choice and then the parish office. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Director, Patrice Ballinger (510) 537-1502 or TransfigCCD@aol.com RCIA: Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults Please call the parish office. MUSIC MINISTRY: Director, Alexander Katsman (510) 538-7941, Ext. 302 or Transfig_Music@sbcglobal.net

Mission Statement: “Transfiguring Our Community Through Faith”

Nativity of Saint John the Baptist June 24, 2018

“Behold, one is coming after me; I am not worthy to unfasten the sandals of his feet.”

—Acts 13:25

Mass Intentions (June 23-30, 2018) Sat. 4:00 p.m. Chester A. Kuta Sun. 7:30 a.m. Fr. John Crumlish 9:00 a.m. For the People 11:00 a.m. Eugene Cooper Mon. 8:00 a.m. Carmelina Gonzales Tues. 8:00 a.m. Special Intention for Connie & Frank Lucas Wed. 8:00 a.m. Walt Meyer Thurs. 8:00 a.m. Augusto & Eduina Silva & Family Fri. 8:00 a.m. Charles Romero Sat. 4:00 p.m. Alice & Jerry Sullivan

Stewardship Corner The collection total for the weekend of: June 16th & 17th—$8,180.00 (compared to $12,000 average weekly stewardship goal) Thank you for continuing in your stewardship role of providing for the upkeep of our parish community.

We extend a warm welcome to new parishioners. Please pick up a registration form in the vestibule of the church and return it to the Parish Office. This helps us to serve you better.

Remember Transfiguration in your Will and Living Trust

The next Baptism Class will be Tuesday, July 10, 2018.

Please call the Parish Office to register.

Transfiguration Catholic Church

Mark & Bee Medders will be hosting coffee and donuts this Sunday after the 9:00 a.m. Mass. Stop by and enjoy the fellowship.

Dear Parishioners, A special thank you to Steve and Carina Kowalewski for their service of ten years in training and scheduling our Eucharistic Ministers for all of our Masses. We are grateful for their time, talent, enthusiasm, and dedication building up this ministry. We now welcome Elmer Serrano to continue with this Ministry beginning in July. We also thank our 2018 high school graduates, Arden Fortaleza, Kaela Antonio, and Jazlene Trinidad, for their service as Altar Servers. We wish them well! Yours in Christ, Fr. Mario L. Borges

Adult Bible Study Monday evening, June 25, 2018 in the Marian Room, Parish Hall, 7:00-8:30 p.m. No sign-up required, just drop in. Free will offering.

Pancake Breakfast There will be no Pancake Breakfast in the months of July and August. We will resume in September.

JOHN THE BAPTIST Since June 24 falls on a Sunday this year, the Church has the opportunity for a more intense celebration of the birth of John the Baptist, who is often described as the last of the Old Testament prophets and the bridge between Juda-ism and Christianity. More commonly, John is known as the “precursor” of our Lord Jesus Christ. All the Gospels report John’s basic message: Repent, the kingdom is near at hand. One greater than I is coming. Though he was a wandering preacher who dressed in cam-el skins and ate grasshoppers, John’s legacy is one of true royalty. His origins are similar to those foretold by God through the prophet Isaiah: “You are my servant, he said to me, Israel through whom I show my glory” (Isaiah 49:3). John’s humility—“I am not he”—was surpassed only by that of his Lord Jesus, the humble servant who followed. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

For Your Information The Parish Office will be closed on

Wednesday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day.

Your Prayers Are Requested for the Repose of the Soul of: Mary Jane Geist (Mother of Carolyn Willkie)

Peter’s Pence Collection Next weekend, we will have the Peter’s Pence Collection, which provides Pope Francis with the funds he needs to carry out his charitable works around the world. The proceeds benefit our brothers and sisters on the margins of society, including victims of wars, oppression, and disasters. For more infor-mation, please visit: www.usccb.org/peters-pence.

Credit, Debit, and Electronic Check Offerings If you would like to make your Sunday offering by credit or debit card, or electronic check, please go to our website: transfigchurch.com, and click on the “Donate” tab. From there, click on the “Donate Now” button to be taken to a secure website to complete the setup of your offering.

TODAY’S READINGS First Reading: Isaiah 49:1-6

Second Reading: Acts 13:22-26 Psalm:139—Gospel: Luke 1:57-66, 80

The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, Interna-tional Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 2 Kgs 17:5-8, 13-15a, 18; Ps 60:3-5, 12-13; Mt 7:1-5 Tuesday: 2 Kgs 19:9b-11, 14-21, 31-35a, 36; Ps 48:2-4, 10-11; Mt 7:6, 12-14 Wednesday: 2 Kgs 22:8-13; 23:1-3; Ps 119:33-37, 40; Mt 7:15-20 Thursday: 2 Kgs 24:8-17; Ps 79:1b-5, 8, 9; Mt 7:21-29 Friday: Vigil: Acts 3:1-10; Ps 19:2-5; Gal 1:11-20; Jn 21:15-19 Day: Acts 12:1-11; Ps 34:2-9; 2 Tm 4:6-8, 17-18; Mt 16:13-19 Saturday: Lam 2:2, 10-14, 18-19; Ps 74:1b-7, 20-21; Mt 8:15-17 Sunday: Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24; Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-13; 2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13-15; Mk 5:21-43 [5:21-24, 35b-43] SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: The Nativity of St. John the Baptist Monday: Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time Wednesday: St. Cyril of Alexandria Thursday: St. Irenaeus Friday: Ss. Peter and Paul Saturday: The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church; Blessed Virgin Mary

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San Damiano Retreat Center 710 Highland Dr., Danville

A free Children’s Summer Book Series with Jan Stegner will be offered on the Mondays of July from 10:00 a.m. to noon at San Damiano Retreat Center. For more information, call 925.837.9141, Email: katerik@sandamiano.org, or visit SanDamiano.org.

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION It’s midsummer day! We have the advantage of celebrat-ing one of the great hidden treasures of our liturgical cal-endar on a Sunday this year. There are only three “nativity” feasts on our calendar: for the Lord, the Blessed Mother (September 8), and today’s birth of the Baptist. Today’s date is anchored by the Annunciation (March 25), when Mary learns not only of her own child’s advent, but of Elizabeth’s child. We are exactly half a year away from Christmas Eve. There are strong traditions around this feast. Just as the winter solstice provides a rich vocab-ulary for Christmas, so does the abundance of light at midsummer inform this celebration. Just as at Christmas, a religious festival spills over into culture. As summer light reaches its peak, the sun-drenched zones of northern Europe see people staying up all night, lighting “St. John’s fires” in the long summer twilight. Bonfires seem to be the unifying force in all these celebrations, kindled along the shores of the St. Lawrence in Quebec and Mon-treal, with harbor illuminations in France. You may be most interested in the custom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Baptist’s own city. People there will leap into the sea between midnight and dawn to honor John. Why not find your way to a pool, a lake, or a sandy beach today and plunge in to recall your baptism? It’s a tradition! —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat is a special place to renew and redeem hearts broken by the loss of a child through miscarriage, abortion, and Sudden Infant Death (SIDS). The retreats are for women and men who are grieving the pain and loss and seek healing. The re-treat weekend offers a supportive, non-judgmental environ-ment to transform the pain of the past into love and hope. The next retreat is June 29 - July 1. Spaces are limited; sign up now! Contact Kim at 209.465.5433 or Gloria at 510.485.2584 or by email at AftertheChoice@OakDioAdmin.org. All in-quiries are confidential.

Dress-A-Girl Ministry This ministry of making dresses for girls around the world has been active since 2012 in our parish. Typically we send out hundreds of dresses each year to various places in the world, mostly with someone traveling to that place. If you happen to know someone who travels and could take some dresses, please call the number listed. Currently Fr. Narcis Kabipi, who was in our parish for 2 years as he studied at GTU, is taking 50 dresses to his home village in Tanzania. Our group meets occasionally to put the kits together with all the parts needed for a dress. It's a fun time and needs no sewing skill. Any one who would like to join us ...our next meeting is Tuesday, June 26 at 1:15 PM in the Holy Family Room in the hall. Please park in back of the hall to enter. For anyone wanting to sew, come to the meeting or call Dorothy. If anyone has fabric for dresses who would like to donate...or for any information about the project, please call Dorothy Giammona...510-881-5326.

Sixty Plus or Minus Club Please join us for our continental breakfast and meeting in the Hall following the 9:30 a.m. Mass on Friday, July 6th. Our hosts will be June Rigley, Kay McCann, Carol Moss, Elena Jiminez, and Elsie Boyd. Bingo will be played after the meeting. Non-members are always welcome. Please sign up today if you plan to attend.

LETTER FROM POPE FRANCIS THE “JOY OF THE GOSPEL” CONTINUED...

The Proclamation of the Gospel—#242

Dialogue between faith, reason and science.

Dialogue between science and faith also belongs to the work of evangelization at the service of peace. Whereas positivism and scientism “refuse to admit the validity of forms of knowledge other than those of the positive sci-ences”, the Church proposes another path, which calls for a synthesis between the responsible use of methods prop-er to the empirical sciences and other areas of knowledge such as philosophy, theology, as well as faith itself, which elevates us to the mystery transcending nature and human intelligence. Faith is not fearful of reason; on the contra-ry, it seeks and trusts reason, since “the light of reason and the light of faith both come from God” and cannot contradict each other. Evangelization is attentive to scien-tific advances and wishes to shed on them the light of faith and the natural law so that they will remain respect-ful of the centrality and supreme value of the human per-son at every stage of life. All of society can be enriched thanks to this dialogue, which opens up new horizons for thought and expands the possibilities of reason. This too is a path of harmony and peace.

Fr. Terry’s Remarks—You are all aware by now what it is like when a fervent supporter of one political party meets a member of the opposing party. All is light and understanding, right!!! Well something similar is at play when people of faith begin to dialogue with persons who prize reason or science. Each feel, speak and think in a different language. So it takes time, patience and diligence for each of them to learn and come to terms with new concepts, new ways of seeing and understanding. That's why nearly every time a new breakthrough is made in science or medicine, we automatically feel it is some kind of threat to our faith beliefs. And a scientist who does not have any concept of faith finds it almost impossible to comprehend where we are coming from. Of course there are scientists who have faith and faith people who practice science and even reason at times. These find it much easier to dialogue fruitfully and can translate for the rest of us, if we are willing to listen.