NEWMAN HALL HOLY SPIRIT PARISH · To heal divisions in our church and world, ... & wine and good...

NEWMAN HALL - HOLY SPIRIT PARISH

We Gather, To hear God’s word,

To taste Jesus’ life in Eucharist, To be a community of God’s love

for one another and for all We Are Sent,

To relish learning that enriches all lives, To heal divisions in our church and world,

To participate in the world’s quest for justice and peace

A Ministry of the

Staff

Rev. Ivan Tou, CSP (Pastor) [email protected]

Rev. Paul Rospond, CSP (Assistant Pastor) [email protected]

Colleen Lenord (Music & Liturgy) [email protected]

Frances Rojek (Faith Formation) [email protected]

Elizabeth Kristos (Administrative Assistant) [email protected]

Peg McGowan (Administrative Assistant) [email protected]

Christine Dalton (Sacristan) [email protected]

Rev. George Fitzgerald, CSP (Pastor Emeritus) [email protected]

Rev. Steve Bossi, CSP (Paulist in Residence) [email protected] (arriving Sept 2017)

Mass Schedule Sunday Saturday: 5:00pm (Vigil) Sunday: 7:30am, 10:00am, 5:00pm, 10:00pm (candlelight) Weekdays Mon-Sat: 12:10pm Thursday: 9:00pm (candlelight)

Regular School-Year Building Hours Monday-Friday: 9:00am-9:00pm Saturday: 9:00am-6:00pm (1st Sat until 7:00pm) Sunday: 7:00am-11:00pm

Reconciliation Saturday 3:30-4:30pm, Thursday 8:00pm or by appointment

Eucharistic Adoration Mon-Fri: 9am-10am 1st Friday: 9am-12pm Thursday: 8pm-9pm Baptisms and Marriages Call the receptionist for more information. For marriages, please notify the church 6 months prior to your marriage.

2700 Dwight Way, Berkeley, California 94704 Phone: (510) 848-7812 Website: calnewman.org

FAX: (510) 848-0179 E-mail: [email protected] Follow us on FB/Instagram/Twitter @calnewmanhall

August 20, 2017 –Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

COMING UP AT NEWMAN (Student activities in bold)

Sunday, Aug 20 10:00am Playgroup Program 11:00am Coffee & Donuts Monday, Aug 21 9:00am Food Not Bombs 12:10pm OA 1:00pm Writing Group 7:00pm Ice Cream Social 7:30pm Meditation Group Tuesday, Aug 22 1:00pm Tuesday Theology 7:00pm Seekers Bible Study Wednesday, Aug 23 8:00pm Rosary Group Thursday, Aug 24 7:30pm Emmaus Group 7:30pm Summer Theology Reading Group 8:00pm AA 8:00pm Adoration 8:00pm Confession/Benediction 9:00pm Mass (candlelight) Friday, Aug 25 12:10pm OA 7:00pm Light Up the Night 7:30pm AA Saturday, Aug 26 3:30pm Reconciliation 3:30pm Al-Anon

REGULAR BUILDING HOURS START

SATURDAY, AUG 19TH

Monday-Friday

9AM-9PM

Saturday

9AM-6PM (1st Sat 7pm)

Sunday:

7AM-11:15PM

LOSE SOMETHING AT NEWMAN–Please ask the front desk about your lost item. We have several items missing their owners. They may be waiting for you to bring them back home.

SCRIPTURE READINGS (Year C: Cycle II) Sunday, Aug 20- Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 56:1,6-7; Ps 67:2-3, 5-6, 8 Rom 11:13-15, 29-32; Mt 15:21-28 Monday, Aug 21- St. Pius X, Pope Jgs 2:11-19; Ps 106:34-37, 39-40, 43ab, 44; Mt 19:16-22 Tuesday, Aug 22-The Queenship of the BVM Jgs 6:11-24a; Ps 85:9, 11-14; Mt 19:23-30 Wednesday, Aug 23-St. Rose of Lima, Virgin Jgs 9:6-15; Ps 21:2-7; Mt 20:1-16 Thursday, Aug 24-St. Bartholomew, Apostle Rv 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-13, 17-18; Jn 1:45-51 Friday, Aug 25-St. Louis; St. Joseph Calasanz, Priest Ru 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22; Ps 146:5-10; Mt 22:34-40 Saturday, Aug 26- BVM on Saturday Ru 2:1-3, 8-11, 4:13-17; Ps 128:1-5; Mt 23:1-12 Sunday, Aug 27- Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 22:19-23; Ps 138:1-3, 6,8; Rom 11:33-36; Mt 16:13-20

STEWARDSHIP Weekly Collection

for August 13 Sunday Collections

thru June 2017

Sunday $5,881.38 Income $278,930.74

Online $3,285.00 Goal thru May $298,500.02

Total $9,166.38 Deficit -$19,569.28

Weekly Goal

$11,480.77

Debt to Diocese $244,021.50

Thank you for your continued generosity and support!

OUR COMMUNITY GIFT FOR AUGUST A portion of our August collection will support ‘A Friendly Manor’, a program of St. Mary’s Center, transitional housing and day shelter for homeless

women.

AS YOU PLAN YOUR WILL, the impact you want to leave behind when you enter into Heaven, please do not forget to include your parish. After taking care of family and other important needs, there will always be others after us who will

need the spiritual support of Newman, especially future CAL students. Your foresight and planning can make the difference for a future generation in need.

A N N O U N C E M E N T

GRAD STUDENTS- We wish to invite you to a twilight retreat this Friday, August 25th from 6pm to 9:30pm. We hope you can join us for some prayer, food & wine and good company. Please leave your name and contact number at the front desk or send it to Fr. Paul at [email protected].

CHRISTIAN MEDITATION -‐ Hungering for a deeper sense of prayer and stillness in your chaotic life? Join us in contemplative prayer, every Monday at 7:30pm, Gallery Room.

EMMAUS GROUP – Come join other permanent and student parishioners to reflect on the upcoming Sunday readings on Thursdays at 7:30pm.

SUMMER THEOLOGY READING GROUP -‐ Enliven your prayer and foster a deep love of God by learning more about Him and His Church! This group meets every Thursday at 7:30 am in the Gallery. Bring along any friends, be they Catholic, Christian, or anything else - all are welcome!! Contact Dave Korenchan (email [email protected] or call 630-723-7340) for more information.

RCIA-Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults-Begins Thursday, September 14, 7:30pm in the Lounge. Invite friends and family who have expressed an interest in our faith to attend the Thursday evening sessions. Better still-BRING THEM! Consider

becoming a sponsor for one of the candidates making the journey. This is an excellent opportunity to re-invigorate your own faith commitment. For more info contact Dan Cawthon at [email protected].

GETTING MARRIED? First-congratulations! Part of getting married is attending a Marriage Preparation program, and Newman’s next one is scheduled for Saturday, October 28 (with a welcome dinner on Friday evening, October 27). More than anything, it’s a great opportunity to understand where each of you has come from and where you want to go together. For more info, contact Katherine at [email protected].

WOMEN IN CONVERSATION - Women in Conversation is an on-going Newman program focused on supporting women in their spiritual growth. We meet five times a year. For more

information, contact Peg at [email protected].

9/30/17. SAVE THE DATE. MARK YOUR CALENDARS. On the evening of September 30th we’ll celebrate 50 years of parish life in the Mario Ciampi building at 2700 Dwight Way. The evening’s festivities will begin with a Mass at 5pm in the Chapel and continue upstairs from 6 until about 9pm with food, a silent auction, entertainment, fun facts, and opportunities to renew friendships and reconnect with parishioners you’ve not seen for a while. A committee is busy at work planning the festivities. If you’re interested in helping with publicity, entertainment, food, cleanup, or the silent auction contact us at [email protected]. Coming soon: links on the Newman website to volunteer and RSVP. ST. AUGUSTINE FAMILY FESTIVAL-Sunday, Aug 27th from 12:00Noon to 2pm, 400 Alcatraz at Colby St,

Oakland. Join your neighbors at St. Augustine’s celebrate their 110th Anniversary! The “Family Feast-ival!” includes

games for the kids, BBQ and cake walk. All free, all fun! For more information, call (510) 653-8631 or email [email protected]:www.staugustineoakland.com. CATHOLIC ALUMNI CLUB OF THE SF BAY AREA – Saturday, Aug 26. Invites single, Catholic professionals to a dinner at Tomatina, an outstanding Italian restaurant, 1325 N. Main St, Walnut Creek, CA 94596. Plan to have a good time and meet new friends. Please be at the restaurant at 5:30pm. For reservations call Earle at 925-300-8811 by Thurs. 8/24 at 7:00pm. EVER THOUGHT ABOUT BECOMING A NUN?-August 25-27, 2017. The Trappist Cistercian Nuns at Santa Rita Abbey in Sonoita, Arizona invite single, Catholic women, ages 21-40, without children to a Monastic Experience Weekend. Participants will join in the Liturgy of the Hours and the Eucharist with the Sisters, learn about monastic life, prayer, and work, and have the opportunity to ask questions. For more information see http://www.santaritaabbey.org/monastic-experience-weekends/, or call the vocation director at 520-455-5595 or email her at [email protected].

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Students Welcome Week Events

Aug 21 – Aug 27 WELCOME to CAL all you new students! The Student Ministry Team invites you to come and join us for our Welcome Week events. These events are a great opportunity to learn about the different groups and activities we have here at Newman Hall-Holy Spirit Parish and to meet some wonderful people! Listed below is the schedule of events that are happening here at Newman.

SEE YOU THERE! and …GO BEARS!!!!!!!

Ice Cream Social – 7:00pm, Monday, Aug 21

Seekers Bible Study – 7:00pm, Tuesday, Aug 22

Rosary Group – 8:00pm, Wednesday, Aug 23

Adoration/Confession – 8:00pm, Thursday, Aug 24

Candlelight Mass – 9:00pm, Thursday, Aug 24

Light Up The Night – 7:00pm, Friday, Aug 25

Student Dinner – 6:00pm, Sunday, Aug 27

Small Group Bible Study – Contact FOCUS Missionary Jule Coppa ([email protected])

For more details please email: [email protected]

We become saints not by violently overcoming our own weakness, but by letting the Lord give us the strength and purity of God’s Spirit

in exchange for our weakness and misery. – Thomas Merton

Eucharist for the Sick or Homebound Contact Colleen: 510-848-7812 or [email protected] Infant/Toddler Care & Playgroup Childcare and Little Church, a faith program for 2-5 year olds, are available Sundays at the 10:00am Mass. Hospitality - Coffee & Donuts served after 10am Mass; Coffee & Treats served on the 2nd Sun, after the 7:30am Mass. Lost & Found – Have you lost a water bottle, scarf, etc. Check out the Lost & Found at the front desk. Sunday Parking – We have limited parking in the Newman

parking lot across Dwight Way from Newman. Parking is also available at UC Berkeley's Underhill Lot (west of College between Channing & Haste).

August 4 – Feast of St. John Vianney From the Catechetical Instructions by

Saint John Mary Vianney, priest (Catechisme sur la prière: A. Monnin, Esprit du Curé d’Ars, Parish

1899, pp. 87-89)

The glorious duty of human: to pray and to love

My little children, reflect on these words: the Christian’s treasure is not on earth but in heaven. Our thoughts, then ought to be directed to where our treasure is. This is the glorious duty of man: to pray and to love. If you pray and love, that is where a man’s happiness lies.

Prayer is nothing else but union with God. When one has a heart that is pure and united with God, he is given a kind of serenity and sweetness that makes him ecstatic, a light that surrounds him with marvelous brightness. In this intimate union, God and the soul are fused together like two bits of wax that no one can ever pull apart. This union of God with a tiny creature is a lovely thing. It is a happiness beyond understanding.

We had become unworthy to pray, but God in his goodness allowed us to speak with him. Our prayer is incense that gives him the greatest pleasure.

My little children, your hearts are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the soul and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun.

Prayer also makes time pass very quickly and with such great delight that one does not notice its length. Listen: Once when I was a purveyor in Bresse and most of my companions were ill, I had to make a long journey. I prayed to the good God, and believe me, the time did not seem long.

Some men immerse themselves as deeply in prayer as fish in water, because they give themselves totally to God. There is not division in their hearts. O, how I love these noble souls! Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Colette used to see our Lord and talk to him just as we talk to one another.

How unlike them we are! How often we come to church with no idea of what to do or what to ask for. And yet, whenever we go to any human being, we know well enough why we go. And still worse, there are some who seem to speak to the good God like this: “I will only say a couple of things to you, and then I will be rid of you.” I often think that when we come to adore the Lord, we would receive everything we ask for, if we would ask with living faith and with a pure heart.

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