Reponsorial PsalmLord, send our your spirit, and renew the face of the earth
Dear Parishioners of Our Lady of La Vang, Today is the birthday of the Church, the Feast of the Pentecost. On Tuesday of this week, our parish, 61 students of our confirmation program of our parish have received the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The Confirmation Mass was celebrated by Bishop Daniel W. Walsh, the former Bishop of the Diocese Santa Rosa in Northern California. Together with Father Bao Thai and the entire parish, we want to congratulate to 61 confirmation students and their families. May the Holy Spirit continue to inspire you with His gifts so you always live out your faith and love. Regarding our capital Campaign, I am very happy to report to all of you that for the last two weeks our parishioners have pledged over $ 300,000 dollars. We still have a long way to go yet. Please consider your pledge for Christ Cathedral and our new building Campaign. Please send in your pledge card and donations. Remember you can pay up to 4 years installments. Please consider $ 3,000 dollars per family for 4 years. May God through the intercession of Our Lady of La Vang reward each one of you for your love, support and generosity to our diocese and our parish. Pentecost literally means 50th. It is a feast celebrated on the 50th day after the Passover feast by the Jews and a feast celebrated on the 50th day after the feast of the Resurrection of Jesus by the Christians. For Christian Pentecost marks the end of the goal for the Easter season. For Christians, is it a memorial of the day of the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles and the Virgin Mary in the form of fiery tongues, an event that took place fifty days after the resurrection of Jesus. The feast also commemorates the official inauguration of the Christian Church by St. Peter’s apostolic preaching, which resulted in the conversion of 3000 Jews to the Christian faith that very day. In celebrating the feast of the Pentecost, we need to permit the Holy Spirit to take control of our lives, by constantly remembering His holy presence, and behaving well. We have to pray for His daily anointing so that we may fight against our temptations and controls our evil tendencies, evil habits and addiction. We need to ask the His daily assistance to pray well, listening to God through meditative reading of the Bible and talking to Him. Lastly, we also ask the Holy Spirit to come and renew the face of the earth. Amen
Your humble servant in Jesus Christ and Our Lady of La Vang
Pastoral Services Appeal (PSA) Update
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8:30 am — Thứ Hai, Thứ Tư, và Thứ Sáu — Vietnamese 8:30 am — Martes y Jueves — Spanish Saturday Masses / Lễ Thứ Bảy/ Misa del Sábado 8:00 am — Vietnamese 6:00 pm — (Vigil) Vietnamese & English 8:00 pm — (Vigilia) Neo-Catechumenal Spanish Sunday Masses / Lễ Chúa Nhật / Misas Dominicales 6:30 am — Vietnamese 8:30 am — Vietnamese 10:30 am — Vietnamese 12:30 am — Spanish 4:30 pm — English - Lifeteen 6:30 pm — Vietnamese
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Mother’s Day Flower Sale Sunday, May 12th is Mother’s Day. Our parish will have bouquets of flowers for sale. It will be a perfect gift to all mothers. Please support our parish! |
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Novena for Mother’s Day Mother’s Day this year will fall on Sunday May 12, 2013. We invite you to enroll your mother and other loved ones in our Solemn Novena to all Mothers beginning on Friday, May 3 to Saturday, May 11. All those enrolled will share nine days of remembrance at the masses and in prayers. Please take a Novena for Mother’s Day envelope at the end of the church or in the office and return to us. Thank you very much! |
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Ending Ceremony The Vietnamese Bilingual Religious Education program will have an ending ceremony on Saturday 5/11/13 at 12:30 PM. We invite all parents and children to attend. |
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Recycling Our parish will continue to receive cans, glass bottle, and recycling goods to fundraise for our parish. Please bring your recycling goods to the recycling storage house by the patio. Please place your recycling goods in bags and put in front of the recycling house or toss them over so they can be inside the storage. Thank you for your donation. |