St. Timothy Bulletin For October 18, 2009

SAINT TIMOTHY CATHOLIC CHURCH 10425 W. PICO BLVD PICO & BEVERLY GLEN BOULEVARDS, LOS ANGELES, CA 90064 PARISH OFFICE: (310) 474-1216 WWW.STTIMOTHYLA.ORG

PASTOR: REVEREND PAUL E. VIGIL DEACON COUPLE: TOM AND CARRIE SABOL REV. EMMANUEL P. BANICO, RESIDENT PRIEST

Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 18, 2009 Through his suffering, my servant shall justify many. -- Isaiah 53:11b

OFFICE 10425 W. Pico Blvd. Phone: (310) 474-1216

CONFESSIONS Saturday: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. First Friday: Before 7:30 a.m. Mass

MARRIAGES, BAPTISIMS, SPECIAL SERVICES & MASSES

PLEASE CALL THE RECTORY

WWW.STTIMOTHYLA.ORG

SCHOOL Iselda E. Richmond, Principal 10479 W. Pico Blvd Phone: (310) 474-1811 WWW.STTIMOTHY.ORG

MASS SCHEDULE Saturday Vigil: Sunday Masses: Daily Masses: Holy Day Masses:

5:30 p.m. 7:30, 9:00, 10:30, 12:00 p.m. 7:30 a.m. Vigil: 5:30 p.m., 7:30 a.m., 12:10 p.m.

DEVOTIONS Monday following 7:30 a.m. Mass, Miraculous Medal Novena. 1st Friday After 7:30 a.m. Mass. First Saturday of the month following 7:30 a.m. Mass, Our Lady of Fatima

October 18, 2009

St. Timothy

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday: Saturday: Sunday:

Rom 4:20-25; Lk 12:13-21 Rom 5:12, 15b, 17-19, 20b-21; Lk 12:35-38 Rom 6:12-18; Lk 12:39-48 Rom 6:19-23; Lk 12:49-53 Rom 7:18-25a; Lk 12:54-59 Rom 8:1-11; Lk 13:1-9 Jer 31:7-9; Ps 126; Heb 5:1-6; Mk 10:46-52

Saturday, Oct. 24th; Sunday, Oct. 25th;

5:30 Vencet & Mario Cornachia (D) 10:30 Keta Carrasco (D) 12:00 Dolores Albanes (L)

Do you like to sing? Share your talent with your community. Join the St. Timothy Choir! Rehearsals are: Thursday evening from 7:15 – 9:00 p.m. , we sing at our 10:30 a.m. Mass Sundays. We’re beginning to rehearse for an exciting Christmas concert in December. Come be part of this uplifting ministry. For more information, please contact Dana Howell or Elisabeth Maza or call the parish offices. Today, October 18th, is World Mission Sunday. The Society for the Propagation of the Faith is responsible for supporting the church in Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Latin America. There are over 1,050 mission dioceses that depend on the Society for their daily needs and the necessary financial assistance to continue their ministry. The Missions depend upon your generous support. Please use the Envelopes in the pews and place them in the collection with your regular Sunday offering.

Our Sincere Gratitude Thanks to Steve Arce for his donations of office supplies to our Religious Education Programs. Thanks to Bonita Haller for her office help.

STS Halloween Carnival-Come join us at St. Timothy School for FRIGHT KNIGHT, our annual Halloween Carnival. Saturday October 24th from 6:30-10 p.m. There will be yummy food booths, fun games and prizes, a wine/beer garden, a haunted "school" house, and even a Ninja slide. All are welcome! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle St. Timothy School is committed to protecting the environment. Throughout the playground, we have new blue recycling bins to collect plastic water bottles. We invite our church community to reduce, reuse and recycle. Join us! Environmental Tips: *Pack a lunch in re-usable lunch boxes instead of paper sacks. *Use re-usable containers instead of individually wrapped food items. *Buy in bulk. About 1/3 of all garbage in landfills is packaging. Save money and reduce waste! School Cents is on! Do you shop at the Westside Pavilion? You can help raise money for our school without spending any additional money of your own! Simply visit Guest Services on Level 2 of the mall to have your receipts logged. Doing so will earn our school points for every dollar you spend. School Cents runs all school year. Ronald McDonald House- Please save your pull tabs for the RONALD Mc DONALD HOUSE of PASADENA. This house provides families of critically ill children a home away from home, blocks from their child’s hospital. Save as many pull tabs as you can throughout the year and drop them off at the school office anytime during the school year. Thanks for your support and for recycling! St. Timothy School Website! Visit us at sttimothy.org . There are many areas of interest for prospective parents and students, St. Timothy students, parents, alumni and much more. The school calendar, sports schedules, links to our hot lunch program and other valuable information is now available online. Watch for new areas to develop as well! St. Timothy School Improvement Fund. St. Timothy School is in the process of raising money for the School Improvement Fund. Our planned improvements include renovations for a new alley fence to match the fence along Pico Blvd., maintain state of the art technology program, musical instruments, new lunch tables and sports equipment storage room. To donate, please fill out the School Improvement Fund envelopes found in the pews or contact the school for more information.

Adult Enrichment, RCIA and Adult Confirmation sessions. Please note that our sessions have been moved to Thursday evenings in the rectory. Please call Deborah at the rectory for further information.

Thursday, Oct. 22th Thursday, Oct. 29th Thursday, Nov. 5th

Thursday, Nov. 12th

7pm Morality, Conscience; Fr. Paul 7pm The Bible; Fr. Donie 7pm Communion of Saints; Frankie Bellizio 7pm Vatican 2, Creed; Fr. Donie

Continuation….. Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3, “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, “ with Christine Brewer as soprano, recently caught my attention. The CD jacket says that Gorecki was considered at one time a avant-garde composer but then when he composed this Third Symphony it was clear that his strong Catholicism and respect for various kinds of folk music had influenced the essence of his music. He is also the composer who composed Totus Tuus for Pope John Paul 11 when he returned to visit his native Poland in 1987. The music, for me at least, is deeply moving, spiritual, daunting, haunting almost, and mystical. Gorecki is a Polish composer and here is what he says about this symphony: “I wanted to express a great sorrow. The war…the rotten times under communism…our life today…the starving. What madness! This sorrow, it burns inside me. I cannot shake it off.” Unfortunately Poland experienced terrible loss and sorrow but these experiences are universal thus the identification with this piece of art. “The texts of all three symphony’s movements concern the death of children and its effect on their grieving mothers. Even the second movement’s doomed girl in a Gestapo cell addresses words of comfort to ‘Mother,’ by which she may mean the Mother of God or her own mother… Encompassing pain, suffering, nobility of spirit, and in the end a hint of transcendence, Gorecki’s music embraces universal human emotions with honesty, compassion, and greatness of spirit.” The words or text of the movements are one thing but to listen with ones ear and soul (for it moves from the ear to the soul like a rock thrown in the water sinks to the bottom) is art and beauty and profound. There is a time to listen to the echo of the meditative course of life and time and this symphony is an instrument (no pun intended) of that way. Fools deny the contemplative or spiritual reality of life and this symphony is not foolish! The last movement of the Symphony begins “with a rocking motive from strings, to be overlaid by the mother’s gentle song and punctuated by isolated notes from piano and harp. The poignant lament grows more fluid and impassioned as she sings of her son’s unknown grave, sinking back into benumbed grief as she obsessively repeats the last two lines of the poem, ‘So that my son/May sleep happily.’ After a pause, she harks back to a previous verse, gently but insistently demanding to know why he was killed, and the music returns to its initial rocking. In the

instrumental closing, her pain finds solace and perhaps even hope as the prevailing modal/minor key of the previous fifty minutes changes to major, bringing peaceful benediction to the final measures.” My Son, my chosen and beloved, Share your wounds with your mother, And because, dear Son, I have always carried you in my heart, And always served You faithfully, Speak to your mother, to make her happy, Although Your are already leaving me, my cherished hope… Where has he gone, my dearest son? Perhaps during the uprising the cruel enemy killed him… Never again will I have his support…he lies in his grave, and I know not where, though I keep asking people everywhere. Perhaps the poor child lies in a rough ditch, and instead he could have been lying in his warm bed…Oh, sing for him, God’s little song-birds, since his mother cannot find him. And you, God’s little flowers, may you blossom all around, so that my son may sleep happily. No, Mother, do not weep, Most chaste Queen of Heaven, Support me always. Ave Maria, gratia plena. Symphony No. 3, “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.”

Fr. Paul E. Vigil LITURGICAL MINISTER SCHEDULE

Lectors 5:30— Halls

October 25, 2009 Communion Ministers 5:30— Rooney; Harner; Gerski

7:30— Davis

7:30— Recto; Morrison; Owen

9:00— Sabol; Schrillo 9:00— Schlossers; Dixon 10:30— Beans

10:30—Ermert; Svoboda; Page

12:00— Harrington

12:00— Handforth; Leyva; Simmons

Welcome New Parishioners! Welcome to our parish family! If you are a newcomer to the parish and would like to register, please complete the information below. Please clip this form and bring to the parish office or drop into the collection basket. Thank you and welcome to our parish!

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