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MASS SCHEDULE Saturday/Vigil: 4:00pm

Sunday: 8:00am, 10:30am, 12:00pm (en español)

Weekdays: Monday - Friday 8:00am

Holy Days: as announced in bulletin

Adoration: Wednesdays & First Friday

8:30am - 12:00 Noon

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION/CONFESSION

Friday—5pm to 6pm

BAPTISMS Monthly—2nd Saturday 2:00pm

En Español—primer domingo 1pm

WEDDINGS Please make appt with Fr Michael at

least six (6) months in advance

September 4, 2016 Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

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855 E. Floradora Avenue Fresno, CA 93728

(559) 268-6388 Fax: (559) 268-0852 Office Hours: Tue - Fri: 8:00am - 4:00pm

Email: info@shrineofsttherese.org Website: www.shrineofsttherese.org

Religious Ed Office/Educación Religiosa

(559) 485-2199

STAFF

Rev. Michael A. Burchfield, Pastor

Rev. Flordito (Dhoy) Redulla, Sacramental Priest, Sunday Noon Mass

Cheryl Sershon, Parish Manager Cheryl@shrineofsttherese.org

Tuesday & Friday

Toni Walterman Office Asst/Wedding Coordinator

toni@shrineofsttherese.org Wednesday & Thursday

Maria Elena Cortes, Sacramental Preparation Coordinator

(en español) Mariaelena@shrineofsttherese.org llamar los miercoles, jueves, y viernes

Sheila Ryder, Sacramental Preparation Coordinator

Sheila@shrineofsttherese.org (English program) Wed, Thurs & Fri

Welcome/Bienvenidos

If you have not registered or would like to update registration information, please fill out this form. Please place in the collection basket or mail or drop off at the Parish office. Envelopes are sent only if requested.

Si no está registrado, o si desea actualizar la información de registro, por favor, rellene este formulario y coloque en la canasta de la colecta o entregarla en la Oficina Parroquial. Los sobres se envían sólo se solicita.

Name/Nombre

Address/Dirección/ Zip/Phone/el teléfono

Nuevo Feligrés New Parishioner

Request Envelopes

Por favor retire

Mon 9/05 8am In Loving Memory of Daryl Leacock

by Patty Fenton

Tues 9/06 8am

Rudy Facio by the Korth Family

Wed 9/07 8am

Mildred Lauder by Marcella Smith

Thurs 9/08 8am

Sharon Machado by Pat & Linda Mastro

Fri 9/09 8am

Della Smith & Raymond Smith by Marcella Smith

Sat 9/10 4pm

Mary Elena Amoruso by Toni Walterman

Sun 9/11 8am

Barbara DePrima by Emil DePrima

10:30am

Richard Lopez & Arthur Sanchez by Marcella Smith

12:00pm

Reading & Mass Intentions

Calendar

Eucharistic Adoration – Wednesdays & First Friday of the month Blessed Sacrament Chapel

8:30am - noon

Senior Luncheon 3rd Tuesday at Noon

Guadalupe Hall Call Barbara: 237-4855

Silver Threads Sewing Circle Will resume 2nd Thursday in September

Guadalupe Hall Call Eva: 486-4031

Senior Bible Study Fridays at 10:30am Guadalupe Hall Call Eileen: 229-0972

The St Therese Parish Guild 1st Wednesday of the month at 7pm in the Guadalupe Hall

Shrine of St. Therese Council 15122 Monthly Meetings 2nd Wednesday

Serving our Parish and Our Community Contact Theo Bluhm 559-276-7711

Grupo De Eventos Hispanos 1st Sunday at 1:15pm (following noon Mass) Guadalupe Hall Call Isais Zuniga: 558-7420

or Eva Casas: 486-4031

Matrimonia Encuentro Friday evenings

Call Angelica o Jose Medina 304-2319

Youth Group Follow the Light -Sigue la Luz

Every Friday at 6:30pm in Room 6 Miguel: 241-4453; Jorge: 475-2370;

Carlos: 304-0712

Talleres De Oración y Vida Todos los Miercoles 6:30pm—8:30pm Salon #2

Llamar a Rosalina Figueroa 907-9541 Virginia Ramirez 433-7823

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 1 Cor 5:1-8; Ps 5:5-7, 12; Lk 6:6-11, Tuesday: 1 Cor 6:1-11; Ps 149:1b-6a, 9b; Lk 6:12-19 Wednesday: 1 Cor 7:25-31; Ps 45:11-12, 14-17; Lk 6:20-26 Thursday: Mi 5:1-4a or Rom 8:28-30; Ps 13:6; Mt 1:1-16, 18-23 [18-23] Friday: 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22b-27; Ps 84:3-6, 12; Lk 6:39-42 Saturday: 1 Cor 10:14-22; Ps 116:12-13, 17-18; Lk 6:43-49 Sunday: Ex 32:7-11, 13-14; Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 17, 19; 1 Tm 1:12-17; Lk 15:1-32 [1-10]

Prayer Line Kathleen 473-9127 Línea de Orations Eva Casas 486-4031

Altar Flowers are in Memory of the Renna, Lombardi & Cecaci families

by Stephanie & Stuart Renna

Thank you for your offerings

August 28, 2016 $6,324.00 Budget: $6,857.00 Difference: ($533.00)

Gracias por sus ofrendas

The Sister Disciples of the Divine Master will facilitate a Day of Retreat for young

Single Women ages 18- 35.

Where: Sister Disciples of the Divine Master Convent

3700 N. Cornelia Avenue Fresno, CA 93722

When: Saturday, September 17th, 2016 from 9:30am - 3:00 pm.

Please bring Sacklunch, notebook & pen. For Registration: Please call Sr. M. Margaret at

(559) 275-9978. Donations accepted

Young Ladies’ Institute

Flapjack Fundraiser Held at Famous Dave’s 7603 Blackstone Ave

Saturday, October 1, 2016 8am—10am

$10/ticket Includes: 2 pancakes, syrup, butter, scrambled

eggs, bacon, oj and coffee Guadalupe Avila 240-5501 by 9/16 No tickets will be sold at the door

Adoption . . . A Loving Choice

Have you considered building your family

through adoption? Join us the second Tuesday of each month at 6pm at our Fresno Office for a free Adoptive

Parent Orientation and learn all about the beauty and benefits of Voluntary,

Domestic Infant Adoption. Please call 447-3333 or email

info@infantofprague.org 6059 N Palm Avenue

FOLLOW YOUR PATH You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. —Abraham Lincoln

Free Talk at St Joachim’s Church-Madera “Finding a Friend in Jesus” by Gary Zimak

Join us Saturday, September 10th at 9:30 @ St. Joachim Parish Center.

A great talk on how and why Jesus wants to be the friend you turn to not just in “bad” times but every day. Attend Morning Mass @ 8am and have a lite breakfast or just come to the Talk. This is a very special presentation and you don’t want to miss it.

Have questions call St. Marello Bookstore 559-662-0682

Mother Teresa

canonized September 4,

2016

Jubilee Year of Mercy September 4, 2016 “If anyone comes to me without hating . . . father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his [or her] own life” (Luke 14:26). Hating? Can anyone imagine a less appropriate Gospel for the Jubilee Year of Mercy? But scholars call this Semitic hyperbole. Jesus exaggerates to jolt us into confronting life-changing challenges. Faced with conflicting loyalties, disciples must reorder priorities, even relationships, to give Jesus and the gospel’s demands first place. Today’s second reading presents a real-life example. Paul challenges his wealthy convert, Philemon, to welcome back Philemon’s runaway slave, Onesimus, whom Paul has baptized in prison. Not only with unconditional forgiveness but with a counter-cultural, world-shattering change of status—as an equal. No, even more—a beloved brother in Christ. What in my life does the Jubilee Year of Mercy challenge me to “hate”—meaning reform, redo, even utterly revamp—so I can give everyone, no conditions, no exceptions, shockingly Christ-like love? —Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — Who can ever know God’s counsel unless God gives wisdom and sends the Holy Spirit from on high? (Wisdom 9:13-18b). Psalm — In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge (Psalm 90). Second Reading — Paul asks Philemon to accept back his slave Onesimus, not as a slave but as a brother (Philemon 9-10, 12-17). Gospel — To be a disciple of Jesus one must carry one’s own cross and renounce all possessions (Luke 14:25-33). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

INVITED The Good News is that we have all been invited—invited to the Kingdom, invited to be disciples. It’s a life-changing invitation, and like so many other such invitations, it requires a great deal of deliberation and discernment. Whether we choose marriage, ordination, single life, or community life, we know the serious planning and consideration that accompany these profound decisions. Like the tower-builder in the Gospel, we have weighed both the monetary and emotional cost. We have pondered and planned our lives in the direction to which we believe God has called us. And while we pray for guidance and acceptance of God’s will, we often fail to understand so much. Like Solomon, we turn to God for wisdom and counsel in our life-changing decisions. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

40 DAYS FOR LIFE is an annual pro-life campaign that has mobilized over 700,000 people worldwide, saved the lives of more than 11,796 babies in the womb, led to the

conversion of 133 abortion workers, and seen 73 abortion facilities close.

Please join us for an hour in prayer and fasting at a peaceful prayer vigil in front of

Planned Parenthood’s Fresno abortion facility (650 N. Fulton St.).

FROM September 28 TO November 6 The Central Valley is uniting with hundreds of

other cities around the world in this vigil; representing one of the largest and longest coordinated pro-life mobilizations in history.

To sign up or get more information visit: www.40daysfresno.org or

E-mail: juancarlos@rtlcc.org

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: Labor Day Thursday: The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Friday: St. Peter Claver Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary

Año Jubilar de la Misericordia 4 de septiembre de 2016 “Si alguno quiere seguirme y. . . prefiere. . . más a su padre y a su madre, a su esposa y a sus hijos, a sus hermanos, . . . más aún a sí mismo” (Lucas 14:26). ¿Qué es lo que estamos prefiriendo en este Año Jubilar de la Misericordia? Esta frase de Jesús es una exageración que nos estremece para enfrentar desafíos que cambian la vida. Enfrentando un conflicto ante quien ser leal, los discípulos deben reordenar sus prioridades, aún sus relaciones, para poner en primer lugar a Jesús y al Evangelio. La segunda lectura presenta un ejemplo de la vida real. Pablo desafía a un rico recién converso al cristianismo, Filemón, a recibir nuevamente a Onésimo no como su esclavo y además fugitivo que era sino como hermano en Cristo. Además de pedirle que le otorgue la libertad y que deje de tener la posición de esclavo, le pide que lo acepte como un hombre libre y más aún como hermano en Cristo. ¿En este Año Jubilar de la Misericordia a qué estamos siendo desafiados por ser discípulos de Jesús? —Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

LECTURAS DE HOY Primera lectura — ¿Quién puede saber los caminos de Dios a menos que Dios le dé sabiduría y le envíe el Espíritu Santo de lo alto? (Sabiduría 9:13-18b) Salmo — Tú eres, Señor, nuestro refugio (Psalm 90 [89]). Segunda lectura — Pablo pide a Filemón que acepte a su esclavo Onésimo como hermano (Filemón 9-10, 12-17). Evangelio — Para ser discípulo de Jesús uno debe cargar con su cruz (Lucas 14:25-33). Salmo responsorial: Leccionario II © 1976, Comisión Episcopal de Pastoral Litúrgica de la

INVITADO La Buena Nueva es que todos hemos sido invitados –invitados al Reino, invitados a ser discípulos. Es una invitación que cambia nuestra vida y, como tantas otras invitaciones, requiere mucha consideración y discernimiento. Así escojamos el Matrimonio, el Orden sagrado, la vida célibe o comunitaria, sabemos la seria planificación y consideración que requieren estas importantes decisiones. Como el constructor de la torre en el Evangelio, hemos sopesado los costos tanto monetarios como emocionales. Hemos reflexionado y planificado nuestra vida en la dirección en la que creemos Dios nos ha llamado. Y mientras oramos por orientación y aceptación de la voluntad de Dios, con frecuencia no comprendemos muchas cosas. Como Salomón recurrimos a Dios para pedirle sabiduría y consejo al tomar decisiones que cambiarán nuestra vida. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

40 DÍAS POR LA VIDA es una campaña anual pro-vida que ha movilizado a más de

700,000 personas en todo el mundo, ha salvado la vida de más de 11,796 bebés en el

vientre, dio lugar a la conversión de 133 trabajadores de las clínicas de aborto, y ha

visto 73 centros de aborto cerrar sus puertas. Por favor, únase a nosotros para una hora en

oración y ayuno en una vigilia de oración pacífica en frente de la clínica de aborto

Planned Parenthood (650 N. Fulton St. en Fresno)

Del 28 de Septiembre al 6 de Noviembre El Valle Central se unirá a

cientos de otras ciudades de todo el mundo en esta vigilia; representando una de las movilizaciones coordinadas pro-vida más

grandes y más largas de la historia. Para inscribirse o para más información, visite:

www.40daysfresno.org or E-mail: juancarlos@rtlcc.org

LOS SANTOS Y OTRAS CELEBRACIONES Domingo: Vigésimo Tercer Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario Lunes: Día del Trabajo Jueves: La Natividad de la Santísima Virgen María Viernes: San Pedro Claver Sábado: Santa María Virgen

1956 60th 2016

Diamond Jubilee The Shrine of St Therese

Honoring Reverend Monsignor E. James Petersen

Posthumously

Saturday, 1st October 2016

Social &

Silent Auction Following 4pm Mass

7pm Dinner

$75 per person $750 per table

St Therese Rose Garden

855 East Floradora Avenue Fresno, CA 93728

Please RSVP by September 15, 2016 Name:____________________________________________________ Number of Tickets: _____________ @ $75.00 ea Total : $_____________ Donation to sponsor a priest or religious member to attend the Diamond Jubilee: $____________ Please include the names of our table quests: 1.__________________________________ 2.__________________________________ 3.__________________________________ 4:__________________________________ 5.__________________________________ 6.__________________________________ 7.__________________________________ 8:__________________________________ 9.__________________________________ 10.__________________________________