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CLERGY AND STAFF Pastor Fr. Christopher Fadok, O.P. cfadok@straymondmp.org Parochial Vicar Fr. Augustine Hilander , O.P. ahilander@straymondmp.org In Residence Fr. Nathan Castle, O.P., Fr. Xavier Lavagetto, O.P., Fr. Patrick O’Neil, O.P., Fr. Eugene Sousa, O.P., Fr. Allen Duston, O.P., Fr. Emmanuel Taylor, O.P. Permanent Deacon Deacon Tom Kelly Permanent Deacon Deacon Charles Seagren, O.C.D.S. School Principal Dr. Tara Rolle Religious Ed. Coordinator Stephanie Virag Confirmation, Youth Minister and Pastoral Assistant for Development Christine Augulis Director of Music John Iosefa Office Manager Ronnica Hagy Sacristan Mirna Esquivel Facilities Supervisor Pedro Hernandez Groundskeeper Javier Hernandez

MINISTRY COORDINATORS Liturgical Altar Servers Bonnie Morey Altar Society Elizabeth Haynes Extraordinary Ministers Charles Seagren Lectors Charles Seagren Prayer & Faith Formation Adult Faith Formation Christine Galvez Bible Study Charles Seagren Children's Liturgy Debbie Pinkston Confirmation/Youth Minister Christine Augulis Couples Bible Study Camilo Colorado Legion of Mary Bobbie Seagren RCIA Fr. Christopher Fadok, O.P. Religious Ed Stephanie Virag Rosary Social Outreach Homebound & Sick Bobbie Seagren Homeless Family Fund Sally Cesario St. Vincent de Paul Bob Caletti Parish Community Donuts & Coffee Doug Farel Seniors Together Lisa Casentini, Karyn Leahy, Ginny Tendrup, & Jill Latham Clubs Men’s Club J.T. Sison Mothers’ Club Mary Coyle Finance Council James Precobb, Cat Westover, Maureen Hamer and David Mount Pastoral Council Lori Mirek lmirek@hotmail.com Barbara Murphy murphystroth@yahoo.com Mike Brown brownm@sfarch.org Chris Terndrup chris.terndrup@ravenswoodsolutions.com Christine Augulis caugulis@straymondmp.org Karyn Leahy leahyfamily@msn.com Tim Connors tim@connors.org

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord March 20, 2016

Holy Week and Easter 2016 Schedule Monday, March 21

6:00 pm: Penance Service & Dinner Holy Thursday: Thursday, March 24 6:00 pm: Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Good Friday: Friday, March 25 Noon to 3:00 pm: Tre Ore

6:00 pm: The Lord’s Passion Holy Saturday: Saturday, March 26

8:15 am : Tenebrae 8:00 pm : Vigil Mass

Easter Sunday: Sunday, March 27 Mass: 8:00 am, 10:00 am, & 6:00 pm

Easter Egg Hunt: following the 10:00 am Mass

Grounded in Faith, Growing to Serve

MASS SCHEDULE Weekends

Saturday Vigil: 5:15 pm Sundays: 8:00 am, 10:00 am and 6 :00 pm

Weekdays Monday thru Saturday: 8:15 am

Holy Days: 6:00 pm Vigil, 8:15 am, 12:10 pm & 6:00 pm Confessions

Saturday: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Sunday: 30 minutes before Mass or by appointment

Anointing of the Sick First Thursday of every month following the 8:15 am Mass

or by appointment Eucharistic Adoration

Saturday: following the 8:15 am Mass

THE PASTOR’S CORNER

MISSION STATEMENT

St. Raymond Parish is a community united by our Catholic Faith as disciples of Jesus Christ. We seek communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit through ongoing personal and communal conversion to Christ and a deeper commitment to the mission Jesus gives each of us to preach the Gospel. The Sacred Scriptures and sacraments of the Church sustain us. We dedicate ourselves to Truth and strive to grow in love of God and neighbor through community, prayer, study, and service, as we work by grace to build up in one another and share freely with others the abundance of magnificent gifts God has given us.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Grace to you and peace. As children, some of my best friends and I entered into a relationship called “blood brothers.” I don’t know how it got into our heads, but the idea was that we could create a powerful bond among ourselves by cutting our fingers with a penknife or poking them with a pin to draw blood; we would then unite those bloody finger tips, smearing the little drops of blood together, and swearing brotherhood for life. Usually such rituals would occur at the initiation of yet another secret club in yet another awesome clubhouse that would last forever. As it turns out, the clubs, the clubhouses, and the bonds never amounted to much and they certainly didn’t last. Yet it was good to dream. It was good to dream that we could be bound together, that we could share our lives and that it could last forever. As children we had tapped into the ancient mystery of the relationship between blood and life. Numerous passages in Old Testament books like Genesis, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy readily identify blood and life. “Blood is life” says Deuteronomy; “the life of the flesh is in the blood” says Leviticus; and Genesis speaks of this vital fluid with one word, calling it “lifeblood.” The Jewish celebration of Passover recalls that night of great destiny for our elder brothers and sisters, and indeed all of humanity, when lifeblood sprinkled on the doorposts of the Hebrew’s homes would grant them the Lord’s protection from “the destroyer,” the one who was to bring death to the firstborn of the Egyptians. Jesus himself observed the Passover in Jerusalem as the time of his passion and death approached, so we remember it well during Holy Week. In fact, we remember it well every time we celebrate Mass together. We call our Eucharist a celebration of the Paschal Mystery. The word “paschal” started out as the Hebrew word “pesach,” meaning “pass over,” and referring to Israel’s experience in Egypt when the angel of death passed over their homes, sprinkled with the blood of a slain lamb, thus preserving their lives (Exodus 12:21-24). When the Hebrew scripture was translated into Greek, “pesach” became “pascha,” and the meal at which the slain lamb was eaten came to be called the paschal meal. Jewish people annually celebrate the paschal meal—Passover—and by it mark the relationship—the covenant—with God that promises passage from slavery to freedom, from darkness to light, from death to life. For Christians, Easter, the Feast of the Resurrection, is our annual festival of this passage. But we celebrate the Paschal Mystery at every Mass. Daily we recall that Jesus is the Paschal Lamb whose blood is our passage from death to eternal life. The mystery of bloodshed that leads to life is the Passion, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus. The Paschal Mystery remains sacramentally present for us today and every day when the Eucharist is celebrated. In the Eucharist, the sacrifice of the cross is perpetuated as a

Vision Statement St. Raymond Parish is a family. As disciples of Jesus, we are “children of God” and “brothers and sisters in Christ.” Jesus himself says, “Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother” (Matthew 12:50). We welcome all to belong to our Catholic family and to inherit with us in Christ the mission to preach the Gospel!

memorial to the death and resurrection of the Lord who said, “Do this in memory of me,” and as a sacred banquet through which we share the benefits of the Paschal Mystery and renew the new covenant of life which God has made through the blood of Christ (Cf. Eucharisticum Mysterium 3). The Eucharist doesn’t simply recall the Paschal Mystery as a reminder of things past; the Eucharist makes it truly present. Jesus’ real presence in the Eucharist is his greatest gift to the Church. “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; if anyone eats if this bread, he will live forever . . . He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and . . . abides in me, and I in him” (John 6:51, 54, 56). (If you are interested in the Jewish roots of our Mass, I’d recommend: Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper by Brant Pitre.) The blessings of the Paschal Mystery cannot be kept inside our church doors. In a letter to priests in 2004, Saint John Paul the Second recalled the many ways in which we might share the life God gives us by the blood of his Son. He said, “I think . . . of the tragedy of hunger which plagues hundreds of millions of human beings, the diseases which afflict developing countries, the loneliness of the elderly, the hardships faced by the unemployed, the struggles of immigrants. We cannot delude ourselves: by our mutual love and, in particular, by our concern for those in need we will be recognized as true followers of Christ (cf. Jn 13:35; Mt 25:31-46). This will be the criterion by which the authenticity of our Eucharistic celebrations is judged.” As we prepare ourselves for the fifty days of Easter that begin next week, let’s commit ourselves to authentic Eucharist. Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord! Fr. Christopher, O.P.

Mass Intentions & Event Calendar

Saturday, March 19, 2016 Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary

5:15 p.m. Carmen Le Fevre †

Sunday, March 20, 2016 Palm Sunday of The Passion of the Lord

8:00 a.m. Rosa Maestrini † 10:00 a.m. Coby Locsin

6:00 p.m. St. Raymond Parish

Monday, March 21, 2016 8:15 a.m. Roy Twitty

6:00 p.m. Penance Service Supper & Reflections 7:00 p.m. Penance Service Vespers & Confessions

7:25 a.m.-Morning Prayer-Chapel 7:40 a.m.-Office of Readings-Chapel

Before 8:15 a.m. Mass -Rosary-Chapel

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 8:15 a.m. Aloisio Mateo †

7:25 a.m.-Morning Prayer-Chapel 7:40 a.m.-Office of Readings-Chapel

Before 8:15 a.m. Mass -Rosary-Chapel 9:15 a.m.-Legion of Mary-Parish Center

11:00 a.m.-Bible Study-Parish Center

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 8:15 a.m. Larry Johnston †

7:25 a.m.-Morning Prayer-Chapel 7:40 a.m.-Office of Readings-Chapel

Before 8:15 a.m. Mass -Rosary-Chapel 7:00 p.m.-Choir Practice

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Holy Thursday 6:00 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Friday, March 25, 2016

Good Friday of The Passion of the Lord 8:15 a.m. Tenebrae (Morning Prayer)

Noon-3:00 p.m. Tre Ore (Three Hours) Come and go as you please during Tre Ore.

Noon: Stations of the Cross 12:45 p.m. Litany of the Passion

1:00 p.m. Preaching the Seven Last Words 6:00 p.m. The Lord’s Passion

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Holy Saturday 8:00 a.m.-Tenebrae (Morning Prayer)

As a parish community we pray for the sick among us:

Lynn Bacon, Roger Barth, Kayte Roach, James Roach, Bernice D’Arcy, Jill Gretch, Joan Briggson, Eleanor Jekot, Margaret McSweeney, Javier Ramos, Juan Esteban

Gonzalez Marin, Karen Lundberg, & Catherine Matsakis.

HOMELESS FAMILY FUND

This Week’s Readings Isaiah 50:4-7 Psalm 22:8-9, 17-20, 23-24 Philippians 2:6-11 Luke 22:14-23:56

A First Step for Families Case Manager asked for our assistance for his client, a 39-year old single mother with three children, two boys aged 10 and 2 months and a girl aged 2. She had been living in an apartment for three years and working as a medical assistant in a doctor's office. When she was laid off, she fell behind in her rent and was evicted. She had been in the shelter for three months. She found a full-time job as a nurse's aide in the hospital out of the area earning $3,000 per month. She also found an apartment close to work for $700 per month. She needed $1,400 for last month's rent and security deposit and had saved $400 towards it. We were pleased to provide the balance of $1,000. She does not receive any government assistance, but does get $500 per month in child support. Her immediate goal is to save money for a "rainy day" and also explore educational possibilities which will enable her to earn more money. They were so grateful for our help which provided them a home of their own. Thank you for your generosity which allowed our Homeless Family Fund to bring glad tidings to this family. "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for He sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor." Please make your donations payable to St. Raymond Homeless Family Fund. They may be placed in the collection basket, sent to the parish office or through the St. Raymond website (e-contributions).

Next Week’s Readings Acts of the Apostles 10:34a-43 Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 Colossians 3:1-4 John 20:1-9

St. Raymond Rummage Sale 2016 We are excited to announce the 5th Annual World Famous St. Raymond Rummage Sale which will take place the weekend of April 8, 9 and 10, 2016. This year’s sale will benefit the Parish Youth Program. So start to clean your closets and garages and begin to collect your gently used items in anticipation of this worthwhile event. A full list of accepted items will be on the flyer at the back of the church and inside this bulletin. We also need hangers, plastic or paper bags and cardboard boxes. If you have access to wagons or clothing racks please let us know. All donations are tax deductible. Volunteer today at http://vols.pt/Ec1hRE. For questions, please contact: Karyn Leahy at leahyfamily@msn.com or Veronica Buxton at vmbuxton@me.com.

Second Collection This Sunday, March 20th For Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

(Formerly American Bishops’ Overseas Appeal)

Give the Gift of Music St. Raymond School is seeking a donation for a Spinet or Studio-Type Piano for our music program. Please contact the school office at (650) 322-212 for more information. Thank you.

St. Raymond Mother's Ministry EASTER EGG HUNT! The Easter Egg Hunt for the children that attend the 10am mass on Easter Sunday is being sponsored by the St. Raymond Mother's Ministry. Please commit to bring 3-4 dozen pre-stuffed plastic eggs to the church the week before Easter Sunday. We need over 700 eggs to make it a great hunt for the kids. Thank you!

If you would like to be added to the Mother's Ministry email Distribution list to receive reminders and information please contact Stephanie Virag at stephanievirag@me.com or Sarah Gonzalez at bergersb@gmail.com. Come as you are to Thrive with other moms.

CATHOLIC YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM Immaculate Conception Academy, an all-girls, College Prep Catholic High School in San Francisco has implemented a work-study program and is looking for organizations to sponsor their students.

How it works: A team of 4 students works at an organization to cover one full-time position, rotating work days. The students are employees of the ICA Corporate Work Study Program. Operating as essentially a small, outsourcing staff agency, ICA enables organizations to fill entry-level clerical positions without hassle, while the organization’s sponsorship helps lower the tuition cost of college preparatory education.

For more information please contact Sister Lilly at 415-824-2052 ext. 28 or visit ICA’s website at www.icacademy.org.

Religious Education (Kinder-6th grade)

The Religious Education team wishes each family a Happy Easter! We will not have class on March 27th to observe Easter Sunday. Class will not take place the first two weekends of April (3rd and 10th) because of Spring Break. Have a wonderful break and see you April 17th. If you have any questions about Religious Education for Kindergarten through 6th grade please contact Stephanie Virag via email at svirag@straymondmp.org or via phone at 650-323-1755.

Meditation on Today’s Readings Christ is risen! The rejected stone has become the cornerstone, the foundation that gives us strength and hope. But sometimes we doubt; our hope seems to be an empty tomb. Christ is dead, the end of the story, and we wander off to Emmaus, disappointed and confused.

But it doesn’t end there. On the road, in all our confusion, Christ draws near. We may think we know more than he knows, we may not recognize him, but he is here, walking beside us. Our hearts are slow to believe, but he opens the Scripture, he breaks the bread. And our eyes are opened, our hearts burn within us. Stay with us, Lord, it is almost evening. In the sign and silence of the empty tomb is the hope of all humanity, the hope of each of us, to be raised with Christ in glory. This is the day the Lord has made. Let us celebrate the feast of the Risen Lord. He will not disappoint us. Christ is risen indeed!

Dominican Pilgrimage Deadline Approaching

The April 5th registration deadline for the Dominican 800th Jubilee pilgrimage to Spain, France and Italy is fast approaching! This pilgrimage is a fantastic opportunity to enrich your faith, visit renowned holy sites, and have a wonderful time with friars and friends from

around the province, all while celebrating St. Dominic and the 800th Jubilee of the Order. The “In the Footsteps of St. Dominic” pilgrimage runs June 3-12 with an optional extension to the 17th. Prices start at just $3,520 (airfare included). If you’d like to participate in this incredible experience, please visit opwest.org/jubilee/pilgrimage for more information and to register, contact Fr. Augustine at 650-323-1755, or call Canterbury Pilgrimages at 1-800-653-0017.

THE DOMINICAN CORNER Spring and Easter are times for important celebrations around the globe for Dominicans, for at these two times we make solemn professions and are ordained as deacons and priests. Dominicans are different from secular priests in a fundamental way. Dominicans take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. We also signify this by the wearing of distinctive garb called habits. These vows are received in the times around Pentecost. We lay down our lives literally, by lying on the floor and being prayed over. We then put our hands into the Provincial's hands and profess our vows. Here is the formula when I took solemn vows. "I, brother Augustine Hilander, make profession, and I promise obedience to God, to blessed Mary, to blessed Dominic, and to you, brother Carlos Aspiroz Costa, Master of the Order of Friars Preachers and to your successors according to the rule of blessed Augustine and the Constitutions of the Friars Preachers that I will be obedient to you and to your successors, until death." It changes if the person receiving the vows is delegated by the Master General or if one is taking simple vows, meaning for only a certain number of years. Many Dominicans are also ordained to the priesthood by a bishop. You can tell the difference between a vows ceremony and an ordination, because one has a bishop and one does not.

The Dominican Friars of the Province of the Most Holy Name

of Jesus cordially invite you to the

MASS OF SOLEMN PROFESSION of Br. Bradley Thomas Elliott, O.P. & Br. Thomas Aquinas Pickett, O.P. Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 10:00 a.m.

St. Albert’s Priory 5890 Birch Court, Oakland, CA 94618 Everyone is invited, but please RSVP: http://opwest.org/solemnvows2016/

St.Raymond

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Dominicans and the Inquisition

An important note for the history of the Dominican Order is the history of the Inquisition. Our Dominican

historian, Guy Bedouelle, OP said it well in establishing this distinction between the Roman Inquisition and

the Spanish Inquisition. “We must first realize that there were two inquisitions or, to put it better, two

currents of inquisition, quite dissimilar in their origins and functions. The first, in the thirteenth century,

was the result of a long process set in motion by the popes; it is often called ‘the pontifical inquisition’.

The second answered to an initiative of the Catholic kings of Spain who, in 1478, asked the pope to

reorganize the former institution. This tool of royal absolutism - aimed at the religious minorities of Jews

and Muslims, who were being assimilated with difficulty into the national life, and at the current trends of

thought which seemed to be threatening the social order - would not be suppressed until the nineteenth

century. This was the object of ‘the black legend’, so tenacious that even today the term ‘inquisition’

immediately arouses emotional reactions and evokes concepts of fanaticism and intolerance among the

people. The kings of Spain often appealed to Dominicans like Thomas of Torquemada, but more often,

from the end of the sixteenth century on, to Jesuits.” (St. Dominic: the Grace of the Word, Ignatius Press, 1995)

Now that we see the difference between the two, we need to clarify even further. St. Dominic was not

involved in the Inquisition, even the local ones, since the earliest began in 1231 in Lombardy and 1234 in

Languedoc, while St. Dominic died in 1221. Pope Gregory IX began the inquisition with the help of the

local authorities to deal with the crime of heresy, a crime akin to treason. The Dominican inquisitor

judged if there was heresy and preached to him or her to convince the heretic of repentance. The social

order would retrieve the heretic and carry out the sentencing. The Inquisition was known as a tool of

justice rather than one of injustice, even though corruption can enter into every good thing here on earth.

Many times the Inquisition was known as the more just within the social order so that those who had

done wrong would want to be judged by the Inquisition more than they would want to be judged by their

local government.

In the Dominican Order there are saints and blesseds attached to the Inquisition. St. Peter of Verona

(Feast Day: June 4) is the most famous inquisitor and martyr, but he was not the first. Bl. William Arnauld,

OP, inquisitor for Toulouse, and his eleven companions (Feast Day: May 29) were ambushed and killed as

they were preaching the faith in the south of France in 1242. They died singing the Te Deum, a prayer of

praise to God. Peter of Verona was the inquisitor for the north of Italy and was assassinated in 1252 while

traveling to Milan. According to legend he wrote the first words of the creed, Credo in unum Deum, on the

ground as he lay dying. He was canonized in only one year. One of his murderers confessed his crime to

Bl. James of Salomoni, OP (Feast Day: May 30, patron of cancer patients) and became a lay brother: Bl.

Carino of Balsamo, OP (Feast Day: April 28).

The equally infamous Thomas of Torquemada was also a Dominican. His uncle, Cardinal Juan de

Torquemada, OP was well known for his building in Spain. Thomas is well-known for convincing Ferdinand

and Isabella of Spain to follow through on the expulsion of the Jews and Muslims from Spain. It was said

that when the queen was reluctant on the expulsion, Torquemada threw a bag of gold in front of her and

accused her of taking bribes. This brash act won him admiration from her and she carried out the

expulsion of the Jews and the Muslims. We in the United States have a hard time recognizing the difficulty

of fighting a war of independence for more than seven hundred years, but that is what Spain was doing at

the time of the Inquisition. It was only in 1492 that Spain was the country as we know it. The Inquisition

was usually just in its dealings, and they always did their trials individually. Although there was no trial

before peers and you usually did not face your accuser, the Dominican inquisitors were known for being

just in this time of war. And after the Inquisition acquitted someone or allowed them to return to the faith

through the auto-de-fe, they were reinstated to society with a cleared record. It was only after a proven

reversion that a person was killed for being a heretic. But there were complaints about Thomas and so

Pope Alexander VI appointed four assistants in June 1494 to curb some of his inquisitorial fervor.

Next month we will look at the flourishing of the Dominican Order in Italy with St. Catherine of Siena and

Bl. Raymond of Capua and also St. Antoninus, Bl. Fra Angelico, and Bl. John Dominici.

The banner

on the left is

on the

Spanish

Inquisition:

“Arise, O

Lord and

judge Your

cause.”

Psalm 73:22.

On the right

is the

banner for

the

Inquisition in

Goa, India:

“Mercy and

Justice.”