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2019 ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE

DECEMBER 1^st, FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT

DECEMBER 3^rd—11^th, 7:00 PM, EVERYDAY

SPANISH MASSES IN HONOR

OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE

DECEMBER 6^th, FIRST FRIDAY, ALL DAY

ADORATION

* HOLY ROSARY 7:00 PM

* MASS IN SPANISH 8:00 PM

DECEMBER 8^th, SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT

FEAST OF IMMACULATE

CONCEPTION

DECEMBER 11^th, SERENADE FROM MIDNIGHT

UNTIL 5:00 AM

DECEMBER 12^th, FEAST IN HONOR OF OUR

LADY OF GUADALUPE

DECEMBE 15^th, THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT

DECEMBER 15^th—23^rd, SIMBANG GABI 5:30 AM

MASS EVERY DAY

DECEMBER 16^th EXTRA DAY OF CONFESSIONS

FROM 5:00 -7:00 PM

DECEMBER 18^th—CHRISTMAS CONCERT 7:00 PM

DECEMBER 20^th—AN EVENING OF REFLEXION

ABOUT ADVENT/ CHRISTMAS

7:00—9:00 PM

DECEMBER 22^nd—FOURTH SUNDAY OF

ADVENT

DECEMBER 21^st, 22^nd, 23^rd, 6:30 PM POSADAS

11-08-2019

Please save the following date for our upcoming Christmas Concert: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 7:00 PM

All are welcome to this free concert, featuring our St. John's English and Spanish choirs, including our St. John's Catholic School choir.

Please invite your family and friends to join us for this wonderful occasion.

For more information, please call our church office: 510/351-5050.

10-04-2019

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL DAYS AND TIMES OF SERVICE: Open: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 4 - 5 p.m. (except holidays) For appointments/questions, call: 510/940-8175. Accepting donations for food and clothing only.

11-26-2019

The members of St. Gerard Women's Club at St. John's Church are holding their famous Christmas Bake Sale and Raffle in the Community Room, 264 E. Lewelling Blvd., San Lorenzo after the 4:30 pm Mass on SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 and after all the Mass' starting at 7:30 am on SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8. There will be a Continental Breakfast available on Sunday, December 8 and the raffle will be held after the 11:30 am Mass on Sunday (you do not have to be present to win). Come, enjoy and support this event with lots of great baked goods, raffle prizes and "trinkets & treasures" table and know that all proceeds go to St. John's Church. If you like to donate baked goods, you can bring them to the Community Room throughout the weekend. For more information contact Juanita Velasquez, President @ 510-688-0669.

11-01-2019

Dear Parents, in this second week of Advent, it’s time to fill our hearts with hope and joy. We are preparing to receive Jesus in our lives. The liturgy reminds us that advent is a time to wait, not passive, but activity by praying, loving and serving our family and community. We have perfect models like the Virgin Mary, who waited for the baby Jesus with love, patience and dedication may she be our model to receive Jesus light of justice who comes to give us the love, peace and stability that we need in our homes.

Blessings to you all.

11-01-2019

“Waiting"

“The question is: Is the humanity of our time still waiting for a Savior? One has the feeling that many consider God as foreign to their own interests. Apparently, they do

not need him. They live as though he did not exist and, worse still, as though he were an “obstacle” to remove in order to fulfill themselves. Even among believers—we

are sure of it- some let themselves be attracted by enticing dreams and distracted by misleading doctrines that suggest deceptive shortcuts to happiness. Yet, despite its

contradictions, worries and tragedies, and perhaps precisely because of them, humanity today seeks a path of renewal, of salvation, it seeks a Savior and awaits, sometimes

unconsciously, the coming of the Savior who renews the world and our life, the coming of Christ, the one true Redeemer of man and of the whole of man.”

ー Pope Benedict XVI, General Audience December 20, 2006

ー Marri Galang, Confirmation Coordinator

11-26-2019

ALL SAINTS CHURCH – HAYWARD, CA Tuesday, December 4^th @ 7pm

OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY – UNION CITY, CA Wednesday, December 4^th @ 7pm

ST. CLEMENT’S CHURCH – HAYWARD, CA Thursday, December 5^th @ 7pm

ST. ANNE’S CHURCH – UNION CITY, CA Thursday, December 12^th @ 7:30pm

ST. BEDE’S CHURCH – HAYWARD, CA Monday, December 16 @ 7pm in Spanish & Wednesday, December 18^th @ 7pm in English

ST. JOACHIM’S CHURCH – HAYWARD, CA Wednesday, December 18^th @ 7pm

Extra Day for Confessions ST. JOHN’S CHURCH—SAN LORENZO, CA Monday, December 16 @ 5-7pm

10-18-2019

We have created an e-mail address specifically for bulletin announcements. If you are a ministry coordinator you are required to announce your next event or any news of your ministry, please submit the activity information to: bulletinsaintjohn@gmail.com

Friday is the cut-off for submission for the announcement to be in the following Bulletin.

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