Mass Intentions Mar.13 - Mar.21 Intenciones de Misas

Saturday 3/13 5:00 pm Margaret Calderon (+)

Sunday 3/14 8:00 am Timothy Reznick

9:30 am Gemma & James Burnett

11:15 am Aurelia Rodriguez (+)

Monday 8:00 am Pepita Alvarez

Tuesday 8:00 am

Wednesday 8:00 am Michael Devaney (+)

Thursday 8:00 am

1–7 pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Friday 8:00 am Walter Callahan (+)

7:00 pm Stations of the Cross

Saturday 3/20 8:00 am

12:00 pm El & Marta Madrigal 25th Ann.

5:00 pm Vernon Huth (+)

Sunday 3/21 8:00 am Dolores Rubalcava (+)

9:30 am Angie, Richard & Family

11:15 am Margarita Granados (+), Jose Jasso(+)

Francisco Granados (+)

Bulletin & SHARED GRACE on line: www.rc.net/losangeles/holycross

The Tidings on line: www.the-tidings.com

Archdiocese of Los Angeles: www.archdiocese.la

California Conference of Catholic Bishops: www.cacatholic.org

U.S.Conference of Catholic Bishops: www.nccbuscc.org

Vatican: www.vatican.va

Religious vocations: www.religiousministries.com

Josephite Fathers: www.Josephiteweb.org

Mesa Community: www.ourmesaneighborhood.com

Dear Parishioners,

All are invited to be Irish this Wednesday.

All are invited to be a Josephite associate, though, on Friday, March 19, Feast of St. Joseph. Because it coincides with a Friday in Lent and with the Anaheim Rel.Ed. Congress, our Josephite community will celebrate their patron saint on April 30, eve of May 1, Feast of St.Joseph, Worker, and 193^rd anniversary of the Josephite foundation in 1817 in Flanders, by this young diocesan priest Constant Van Crombrugghe.

Have a blessed, joyful and productive Lent!

Fr. Ludo

NOW!!!!!!!!!!! CRS Fair Trade

Sunday, March 14^th: Help make the economy work for every one, especially poor and low-income-families overseas: participate in the Fair Trade Sunday. Buy coffee, chocolate or handcrafts for which talented artists and farmers receive a fair price.

In the parish family …

…we pray for the sick and homebound: Ray Cano, Olympia Marquez, Margaret Herrera, Harriett & Larry Tupper, Josephine Reed, Ida Hollopeter, Phoebe LaRoche, Lilia McAustin, and for whom else?¿Por quiénes más?

Confessions

Mar. 20, 4-4:30pm Fr. Alfred ; Mar. 27, 3:30-4:30pm Fr.Ludo

Tue.,March 30,7-8pm Fr Alfred ; Wed.,03/31,6-7pm Fr Ludo

Green Cross Tidbit For any social event in our parish hall, bring your own china & silverware. Don’t use Styrofoam or throw-away utensils, etc.

Lenten Days of Recollection

“By Your Cross and Resurrection”

Every Wednesday March 10, 17, 24, 31

Mission S.B. Renewal Center, from 9:30am-2:00pm

Presentations/Reflection/Eucharist/Lunch led by Frs. Richard,Howard & Angelo,ofm and Sr.Susan Blomstad,osf.

Suggested donation: $20. Call 682-4713,x133.

The Yale Whiffenpoofs Gentlemen Songsters

At Bishop Garcia Diego High School Main Gymnasium. Monday, March 15^th 7pm $10. All advance sales are via website www.tix.com

Wed.,March 17^th St. Patrick’s Dinner Party

still only $5.00!

Everyone is Irish at Our 22^nd Annual St. Patrick’s Party. Hayes Hall becomes a magic Irish gathering place on Wednesday, March 17^th. There will be Irish step dancing, lots of Irish music, Irish comedy and Irish coffee. If at all possible please bring Corned Beef and Cabbage, and eating utensils or a favorite dish for the potluck which starts at 6:30pm. Dessert will be Provided. Beer, Wine and Soft Drinks will be available for purchase. And don’t forget to be’ wearin’ The Green’, the color of Ireland.

Bring your friends!!

The TAMALES are coming…..

The TAMALES are coming…..

One Day only!!! – March 21^st – pick-up 1pm – 4pm

Where: Hayes Hall

Chicken and/or Pork Tamales $20 a dozen

Pre-sale Order Form available

Sponsored by the Holy Cross Altar Society. For more information call Henriette @ 845-1978.

PLEASE PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS

For all travelers: Mass Times provides a national & International directory of mass times and other parish information online www.MassTimes.org or call 1-410-676-6000 Travel and vacation in Christ’s company!

Is the Holy Spirit Calling you?

Catholic Engaged Encounter needs MARRIED couples to help prepare engaged couples for marriage. Whether you’ve been married 2 months or 22+ years, we need your help. Call Tom & Diane Krause at (310) 316-4857 we’d love to talk with you – OR visit www.CEEofLA.org

During this 50^th Church Anniversary Year…

Feb/March

Lenten Soup Friday’s followed by Stations of the Cross

March – December

On Donut Sunday after Masses Parish Ministries will exhibit & explain what they do so as to invite new members

March 14^th Fair Trade Fair

March 17^th St. Patrick’s Day Potluck

March 22, 23, 25 and 26^th Lenten Mission “Changed by His Glory” directed by John and Katrina Rae.

April 11^th Spanish Prayer Group Potluck Dinner

April 25^th Spaghetti Dinner put on by the Confirmation Class

May 9^th Spanish First Communion at the 11:15am Mass

May 16^th English First Communion at the 9:30am Mass

May 23^rd Confirmation in the Church at 3pm.

August any Holy Cross kids want to be in the SB Old Spanish Days Fiesta Children Parade representing Holy Cross Church?

September 12: the annual Holy Cross BBQ on the Sunday closest to the Feast of the Holy Cross (Sept.14). Possible boat trip to see the Holy Cross Church on Santa Cruz Island.

October a Holy Cross Talent Show: all you singers, actors and musicians, sign up with Jim Garland.

Sometimes we say, “I can’t figure things out.”

But in Prov 20:24 we read that God guides human steps.

Always Our Children

The Catholic support group for parents of Gay and Lesbian Children from the SB and Ventura area meets on the 4^th Monday of every other month. We will be meeting on Monday, March 22, at 7:30pm. For more info call Kathie & Joe Schneider 687-4338

“Wisdom (True & False)”

The Santa Barbara Area-wide Catholic Prayer Groups invite you to attend and join in a Healing Retreat on March 19^th through March 21^st at the St. Raphael Church Parish Multipurpose room. Registration begins on Friday, March 19^th at 6:30pm and at 9am on Saturday and Sunday. Cost is $30

Attention prayerful single men!

The Marist Fathers & Brothers, in Berkeley CA. are hosting several days of vocational discernment on the days of April 24^th & May 15^th. Also, the Holy Trinity Trappist Monastery in Huntsville, Utah will be hosting a “Live-In Experience” vocational retreat. The monks are on a scenic 2000 acre farm. Work & pray with the monks & enjoy the vocational talks. The group Live-In is: April 7^th – 11^th. (Individual dates available at your convenience.) There is no cost for the retreat. Call toll free 1-800-221-1807. If you take a bus or plane to Salt Lake City they will pick you up at no cost. Take a free online test at www.vocationsplacement.org to see if you are called to be a monk, nun, or priest (over 750 people have reported applying & entering religious).

St. Barbara Young Adults

The young adults at St. Barbara Parish (the Old Mission) meet for spiritual service and social activities and would like to invite the young adults of all parishes to join. This group is geared toward people ages 21 and up, both married and single. Meetings are the 2^nd Wednesday of the month and weekend for social activity. For more info (blog & calendar) sbya.blogspot.com or call Andrea Duda 682-4151 X201 or adrea@suscipe.com

Holy Week Silent Retreat – April 1-4, 2010 “Behold the Word from the Cross – Behold the Word in New Life” Mission San Luis Rey Retreat Center in Oceanside is offering a three-night Holy Week Silent Retreat with Father Philip Garcia, OFM. Retreat begins with Thursday dinner & ends after brunch on Easter. For more info or to register (760) 757-3659 or www.sanluisrey.org

Holy Week Retreat:

Experiencing the Passion & Resurrection of Jesus with the Gospels of Luke and John with Fr. Felix Just, SJ

To help us enter more deeply into the central mysteries of our Christian faith, this retreat will focus on the two Gospels used during Holy Week this year: Luke and John. The week includes daily Eucharist, morning and evening prayer, scripture presentations, art and music meditations, time for individual prayer, sacramental reconciliation, and optional faith sharing. It culminates with the special Triduum liturgies (Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil). Cost: per person/shared $490 ($465 if paid in full before March 12) single room $575 ($550 if paid in full before March 12). Mary & Joseph Retreat Center, 5300 Crest Rd., Rancho Palos Verdes, CA . More info www.maryjoseph.org or call Jan Nowinski at (310) 377-4867 Ext. 225 or email jnowinski@maryjoseph.org

“Storms of Grace – Soaring in the Winds of Change”

A retreat for married couples at the Old Mission Santa Barbara Renewal Center, 2201 Laguna St. April 16-18, 2010. $320 per couple or $220 per commuter couple. For more information or to register: call the MRC Office 682-4713 ext. 133. See more retreats and on-line registration at www.santabarbaramission

The Last Appeal – but one

1. To submit your articles for SHARED GRACE #34 – Easter 2010 : jbuckley@earthlink.com

2. To give us a short anecdote/memory/testimony about your life as a Holy Cross Parishioner to be incorporated into our updated booklet on our Parish History.

Help decorate for Palm Sunday (March 28)

As every year, we’ll need tall green palms for inside and outside our church. Whatever fronds you, or your neighbor, can miss, please drop them off behind the church on Friday, March 26.

“I never had my feet washed…

…on Holy Thursday, that is.” Therefore, let your pastor know in time that you’re a candidate of interest because we’ll need 24 feet, regardless of their gender or age.

Senior Nutrition – Dining Rooms and Home Delivered Meals Community Action Commission’s Mobile Meals delivers hot, nutritious meals to seniors who are not able to leave their homes to shop or eat. There are 12 congregate dining centers throughout the county. Many of the centers also offer amenities and activities. Seniors who are over 60 years old qualify for the program. For more information 683-4458.

v Attend our Holy Cross Lenten mission event in this our anniversary year. Our four-night mission with the Catholic lay evangelists

John & Katrina Rae

starts Mon. March 22 and takes us through Tuesday, (not Wed.) Thursday & Friday03/26. Free love offerings.

The Mission begins on Monday night with a wonderful concert for the entire family, and continues on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights for high school age and above. These nights help us to deepen our commitment in a secular world. Katrina is an internationally known singer and song writer; has appeared on EWTN; song for Pope John Paul II. She and her husband John, ex-pilot and engineer , will be a blessing to our parishioners, with their testimony, warmth and humor.

Confessions in preparation of Holy Week, our Easter communion and our renewal of baptismal vows. You’re welcome at any of these penance services:

- Thu. 03/18, 7pm, Inter-parochial service at Our Lady of Sorrows

- Mon. 03/15 St. Mark’s – Isla Vista

· Read The Tidings with its many short educational and spiritual topics.

Extra free issues will be available to highlight the 2010 Religious Education Congress In Anaheim, March 18-21.

v 6th Annual Lenten Soup Nights are hosted by

>> Spanish Prayer Group Feb.19; Thank you!

>> Confirmation I class on Feb. 26; Thank you!

>> Altar Society on March 5; Thank you!

>> Knights of Columbus on March 12; Thank you!

Spanish Eucharistic Ministers on March 19; Thank you!

English lectors on March 26; Thank you!

Peace Demonstration March 19

Friday, 03/19, 4:45 to 6:16pm, corner of Carrillo and Chapala

Peaceful demonstration calling on the U.S. government to withdraw all military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan. Bring signs and your peaceful attitude. This is a part of a national commemoration of the tragic invasion of Iraq.

Sponsored by S.B. Veterans for Peace, e.o.

“Peace is not merely a distant goal we seek… Its is a means by which we arrive at that goal.” M.L.King,Jr

Santa Inez Mission, Feb.21

RCIA Rite of Election

From left: Julie Reed, RCIA catechist; Amy +, baby, catechumens; Ginny, sponsor of elect Debbie; Corinne, elect with sponsor Chris.

Please pray for them in these last weeks of preparation for the Easter sacraments during the Easter Vigil.