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2569 W Victoria Drive
Alpine, CA 91901
Office: 619.445.2145
Fax: 619.445.9682
Website www.queenofangels.org
Holy Sacrifice of The Mass
Saturday
5:30 pm
Sunday
8:00 am & 10:30 am
Daily Mass 8:00 am: M, W, Th, F
Holy Days
Please see The Messenger
First Saturday to Honor
the Immaculate Heart of Mary Mass 9:00 am
First Friday to Adore the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Exposition/Adoration 10:30 am-11:15 am
(Benediction follows) Confessions
10:35 am-11:15 am Mass 11:30 am
Confession
Sat. 4:00 to 5:00 pm
or by appointment
Baptism
4th Sunday of the Month
Contact Fr. Timothy Mary, Queen of Angels, Pray for Us!
Clergy
Rev. Timothy Deutsch, Pastor: [email protected]
Parish Office Staff
Dorie Arietta, Office Manager: [email protected]
Sandy Dioli, Office Assistant: [email protected]
Katrina Thornton, Catechetical Ministry: [email protected]
Darlene Ames, The Messenger: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
The Mission of Queen of Angels Church is to:
Grow in our relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
Strengthen our faith by living and teaching the Gospel.
Serve God’s People in our parish, our community, and our world.
Church is Handicapped Accessible
Table of Contents
Church Directory Pg 1
Weekly Readings Pg 2
Mass Intentions Pg 2
Announcements Pg 3
Pastor’s Page Pg 4
If you’re worried about an unplanned pregnancy, you may be experiencing a personal crisis full of concerns about your future. Pregnancy Care Clinic can assist you. www.unplannedparenthood.org, 619.442.4357
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STEWARDSHIP OF TIME & TALENT
GOSPEL READINGS & MASS INTENTIONS NOVEMBER 17-25, 2018
Sunday: Mk 10:46-52 Monday: Lk 18:35-43 Tuesday: Lk 19:1-10 Wednesday: Lk 19:11-28 Thursday: Lk 9:41-44 Friday: Lk 19:45-48 Saturday: Lk 20:27-40 Next Sunday: Jn 18:33-37
DATE
Saturday, Nov 17 Sunday, Nov 18 Sunday, Nov 18 Monday, Nov 19 Tuesday, Nov 20 Wednesday, Nov 21 Thursday, Nov 22 Friday, Nov 23 Saturday, Nov 24 Sunday, Nov 25 Sunday, Nov 25
TIME
5:30 pm 8:00 am
10:30 am 8:00 am 7:30 am 8:00 am 9:00 am 8:00 am 5:30 pm 8:00 am
10:30 am
INTENTION
For the People †Christine Lauffer †Steven Whetstine †Richard Deutsch Rosary Lon Ficke
†Bob McIver
†Robert Fisher For the People †Steven Whetstine †April Williams
Stewardship of Treasure November 11, 2018
Envelopes used 94 Envelope collections $ 4,517.00 Plate collections $ 529.36 TOTAL $ 5,046.36
Continue to Keep in Your Prayers and Hearts those on our Healing and Deployed Military Lists.
Amen, I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, It shall be granted to them by my heavenly father.
Matthew 18:19
Healing Erika Allen Norman Banks Kelly Barker Betty Brown James Bucaro Aileen Cherry Sandy Clark Dan Contreras Nela Contreras Ruth Cope Zac Erickson Robin Florance Theresa Flowers William Fuller Grace Frasco Steve Glass Jeremey Gohranson
Margie Guerra Charlene Hacker Aida House Carmen Holt Sandra Jimenez Bernie Johnson Matthew Knez Katie Larson Francis McMeeken Sean McMeeken Theresa Moody Evelyn Peoples Robert Piehler Mark Rusinak Caroline Sardisco
Joan Smith Nancy Soto Mike Stednitz Daniel Stevens Marv Sylakowski Andrew Tompkins Chris Twardochleb Sue Twardochleb Joshua Vanderpool Richard Van Der Karr Dorothy Venancio Kailyn & Charis Whaley John Wing Jason Zdunich Barbara Zimmerman
Deployed Military
Roger Cisneros Marcus Rainier De la Cruz
Michael Hazelton Brian Hoffard
SGT Michael Ibarra Captain Kevin Kellum
Alexander Marin Chase Martin, US Army
Samantha Nungaray, USN SFC Oscar Rodriguez
ETN3 Christian Rosales, USN Danielle Rubia, USN
Miguel Torres HM3 Jacob Tweed
Mattison Underhill, USN CPL Chris Welch
Amen, I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray,
It shall be granted to them by my heavenly father. Matthew 18:19
If you have a friend or relative who is
serving in our military and is deployed or will be deployed, please contact Darlene at
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ANNOUNCEMENTS Religious Education Schedule Following is the schedule for classes during the Thanksgiving holiday:
Pre K-5th Grade: November 18: No class November 25: No class December 2: Class resumes Jr/Sr High: November 21: No class November 28: Class resumes
Thanksgiving Liturgy Please join us for this special Mass November 22, at 9:00 AM to express our gratitude to Almighty God for His many blessings. We will bless
food during Mass; if you would like food to be blessed, you may place it in front of the altar before Mass begins. You may pick up your food items after Mass.
Parish Office We will be closed Thursday and Fr i-day, November 22-23, in order to celebrate Thanks-giving with our families and friends. We will re-open at
8:30 AM on Monday, November 26. Best wishes to all for a blessed and memorable Thanksgiving.
Advent Wreath Making Party Please join in a little crafting, some seasonal goodies and fellowship for our annual Queen of Angels’ Advent Wreath Making Party. It will be held in the multi-purpose room after the 8:00
AM and 10:30 AM Masses on November 25. Supplies will be available to make a new wreath, (suggested donation of $10), or get new candles and decorations to freshen up last year’s wreath, ($5 suggested donation). Advent calendars, Little Blue Books and other materials will also be available.
Bunco Come join us in the par ish hall on Tues-day, December 4, at 5:30 PM for a special Bunco Advent/Christmas Gathering. (Please note time change). If you’ve never played the game before this evening would be the perfect opportunity to join us for a fun time. Please RSVP to Katie Ford at 619.445.5063 if you will be attending.
Queen of Angels Giving Tree November 25 - December 21
This year we continue our Giving Tree practice with its home in the back of the church. Take
an ornament or envelope off the Giving Tree and donate money or food items for the Tecate Orphanages (Salvatierra-for girls and Rancho
Nazareth-for boys) and Villa Anahuac, or monetary donations for Children of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary and East County Pregnancy Care Center.
Cash or checks accepted. Please make checks out to the group to which you are donating.
(PLEASE NOTE: Tecate Orphanages are
CASH ONLY.)
Sock Drive
Who likes icy, cold feet? NO ONE! That’s why Queen of Angels is once again having a “Sock Drive” for the homeless community served by Fr. Joe’s Vil-lages. Please bring new socks of any size and drop them in the donation boxes at the church entrances or at the office during normal business hours. The collection runs through December 21. The socks will be distributed on December 29, the next time we serve a meal at St. Vincent de Paul. Most clients are adults but there are families with small children in need as well. All donations are appreciated!
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PASTOR’S PAGE
“When The Son of man comes, will He find faith upon the earth?” Luke 18:8
THIS 33
rd and last Sunday of the Christian liturgical year, the Gospel [Mark 13:24-32] reflects upon the Last
Day (doomsday) when Jesus, Who “…ascended into heaven and is seated at the Right Hand of The Father, will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead…”. We should therefore reflect upon this Second Coming of Christ (Parousia) and try to make sense out of the varied texts of Sacred Scripture that refer to the End Times. The beginnings foreshadow the end in regards to human history. In the beginning, Adam and Eve were creat-ed in a supernatural state, in the Image and Likeness of God [Gen 1:26]. They were the epitome of the materi-al created universe. Adam and Eve, however, fell to the Satanic temptation of wanting to be like God [Gen 3:4], but without God. The ‘Original Sin’ of trying to create their own paradise, where they could define good and evil for themselves [Gen 3:22] was also the downfall of all humanity. This temptation of creating themselves to be gods, and defining good and evil for themselves, would be the recurrent sin of pride that would afflict mankind thereaf-ter. St. Augustine would write his masterpiece about this conflict of man’s pride battling against the sovereignty of God in his epic book The City of God. Essentially man wants to establish heaven on earth. We can see this ever-present ego and arrogance of sinful men throughout history, but especially in modern times. A. Hitler and J. Stalin [Gog & Magog? Rev 20:8] epitomized the attempt to create heaven on earth without God; for Hitler the new Aryan race of the Übermensch (superman), and for Stalin the “Worker’s Paradise”. The postmodern State continues this fantasy in its attempts to cre-ate heaven on earth, a Utopia of the social reconstructionist’s dream where the redefinition of everything created takes place at the whims of the emotional desires of evil men bent on hedonistic pleasure. Indeed, to redefine human nature itself into an ever changing creation of ‘Frankenstein-ish’ proportions. This echoes Satan’s ploy “. . . and you will be like God, knowing good and evil [Gen 3:5].” Modern man simply believes that there is no unchanging natural state of things; that man himself, like his environment, is constantly evolving into something greater, and that through an ever-progressive historical ascendency we will ultimately come to establish heaven on earth! This evolution of man in the minds of the ungodly has gone on to such an extent as to redefine good and evil. What be-gan as allowing evil with the intention that good would come about [Rom 3:8] (“abortion should be safe, legal, and ra-re”), has now been turned on its head. What was held by all as evil in times past (abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, di-vorce, homosexual acts, fornication, etc.), has now, for the modern man, become positively good deeds celebrated as civil rights! Those who oppose these evil rights are hated by society, which ironically, calls them “haters”. What is more, now the ungodly are speaking of humiliating and persecuting those who do not embrace the new morality of the self-proclaimed progressives. Those who do not partake of the immorality of the ungodly are now to be ostracized and ridi-culed for their backward, intolerant ignorance. This society of the ungodly, of whom ‘In God They Don’t Trust’, has con-trol of the news and entertainment media, the arts, the government, the schools, and universities. Those who do not share the secular humanist faith of the ungodly need not apply for consideration. These things should not be altogether unfamiliar to the Christian; for we know where our status originated, Jesus said…
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all this they will do to you on My account, because they do not know Him who sent Me. (Jn 15:18–21).
Our Lord spoke these distressing words to His disciples because He knew tribulation would come [Jn 16:33]. Further-more, these trials would increase, so He left us further signs of when the world would be ready for His return on the Last Day, when He would judge all men by His Gospel. These signs are that the Gospel will have been preached throughout the world [Mt 24:14; Mk 13:10]. The full number of non-Christians would be converted [Eph 4:13; Rom 11:25], indeed there would be a major Conversion of the Jews [Rom 11:26; CCC #674]. Despite all this, there would be a Great Apos-tasy [Lk 18:8; II Thes 2:3; CCC #675-7] whereby many Christians – if not most – would lose their faith or be led astray by False Messiahs (Pseudo Messianism) [Lk 21:8; Mt 7:15; 24:11; Mk 13:22]. The Deception by the Wicked would lead many good people to embrace evil [Mk 13:22; II Thess 2:9–12]. A Great Persecution [Lk 21:12] of The Church and of all goodness, would take place. Continued on Page 5
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PASTOR’S PAGE, CONTINUED
Continued from Page 4
The spirit of The ‘Antichrist’ [I Jn 2:18, 22; 4:3; II Jn 1:7; CCC #675-6] would appear, and remove all that holds evil back in the world [The ‘Restrainer’ removed. II Thess 2:6-7], so that evil would proliferate greatly. And because of the great evil in the world, the charity (love) of many will grow cold [Mt 24:12], the world will hate Christians [Mk 13:13] for holding to their antiquated faith in Jesus Christ. There will be wars and insurrections on earth, nation vying against na-tion, earthquakes, famines, and plagues [Mt 24:7], and mighty signs will come from the sky [Lk 21:11]. Then, just when evil and Satan has appeared to have triumphed, and all seems lost to the remaining true Christians upon earth – just when the world is rejoicing is its newfound Peace and Security “then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape [I Thes 5:3]”. The sun and the moon will be darkened, the stars will fail and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; then will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven [Mt 24:29–30]. Yes, when all seems lost then Christ will appear – on the clouds; the world will end, and all the glory of it [Mt 25:31; Mk 13:26; CCC #1001]. All the dead, from the foundation of the world, will be raised to life in a glorified body [Daniel 12:1-3; Mark 12:25; I Thes 4:16]. The Angels will gather all the elect [Mk 13:27; Mt 13:41] raising the just, body and soul, into the air to meet Christ. The unrepentant sinners will remain on the ground and be damned for eternity [I Thes 4:16ff], their names not being in The Book of Life [Philpp 4:3; Rev 3:5]. Sacred Scripture read: Matthew Chapter 24 The Beginning of Calamities. The Judgment of the Nations Matthew 25:31-46; See also I Thes 4:15; 5:1-11 and II Thes 2:1-17. The Catechism of the Catholic Church read # 673 ff Blessings,
Father Tim
Queen of Angels Women's Auxiliary December 1-2, 2018 after all Masses
If you would like to donate any baked goods, please look for the signup sheet at the entrance to the church. All baked goods will be dropped off in the multi-purpose room BEFORE the Mass you attend.
All proceeds will support and benefit our diocese’s Seminarians and other Auxiliary projects.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Opportunities Currently Available: Patient/Family Services Volunteer
Provide various forms of assistance to patients such as comfort measures and supportive services to include reading and writing for patient, sitting at bedside, and caregiver relief for families.
We are also looking for anyone who would like to volunteer their time in extracurricular activities like knitting or any type of craft and baking for us to hand out to patients/ families.
Office Services Volunteer
Assist with clerical work such as filing, answering phones, and organizing documents. Assist Volunteer Coordi-nator with scheduled extra-curricular activities or events.
Spiritual/Bereavement
Assist chaplain with spiritual and emotional support through active listening and physical presence for patients and support for families.
We are currently looking to start therapy programs and are looking for the following experienced volunteers:
Pet Therapists Music Therapists Massage Therapists
For more information, please visit our website at http://ardenthapc.com/volunteer/ or contact
our Volunteer Coordinator at (858)952-1786 or [email protected].
THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
It’s not too late to sign-up.
For more information and to sign-up visit:
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She always had a sour look on her face. I would say good morning and she would reply with “What’s so good about it?” When I first met her, my thought was to stay as far away from this “Negative Nellie” as possible. Then, one day I had a change of heart and decided to not just write her off as a chronic complainer but to really listen to what she was saying. She had a lot to be negative about; family situations, financial hardship, and per-sonal struggles. I vowed that day to be a friend to her and love her as Jesus loves her. At first, she pulled back when I hugged her but eventually she was the first one to extend her arms. A funny thing happened over time, I no longer felt the need to avoid her. I truly cared about the load she carried. And on occasion, I even got her to smile! She moved away and we have lost touch. I pray that the Lord puts other caring friends in her life to be the “arms of Jesus” to her when she needs a hug! Often at the clinic, we see people at their worst. Like my friend, their lives have been turned upside down and they are upset. We listen to their concerns and wipe their tears and then we ask them if we may pray for them and the new little life they are carrying. Often, we see hope return to their faces and sometimes even a smile as we love them the way Jesus loves them. Thank you for standing in prayer for our clients! Pray for a client who came to us for a pregnancy test and ultrasound. She has an appointment for an abortion but cried the entire time she was here. She seemed to be very unsure of what to do. Pray that she will return for another ultrasound and that the seeds of truth that were planted at her last visit take root. Pray for our marketing and advertising to reach the desired target and those considering abortion would be drawn to our
clinics instead of abortion facilities. Praise for the wonderful Fall Fundraising Banquet we had last month. We welcome many new prayer partners to our team
this month. Praise for the amazing provision and grace God has given this ministry as we have served in East County over the last 25
years and in Southeast San Diego for the last 2 years.
Happy Thanksgiving!!! May the Lord Bless You Abundantly,
Robin Brust Prayer Team Director
November 2018 Prayer Letter