Mass Intentions Nov. 28 – Dec. 6 Intenciones de Misas

Saturday 11/28 5:00 pm Jesus Oliva (+) & Teresa Ramirez (+)

y Jose Herrera (+)l

Sunday 11/29 8:00 am

9:30 am Cipriana Cisneros (+)

11:15 am Jesus Arce, RodolfoDiaz & Maria Diaz (+)

Monday 8:00 am Patricia Klock (+)

Tuesday 8:00 am

Wednesday 8:00 am

Thursday 8:00 am

1 – 7 pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

First Friday 8:00 am

12:10pm For the sick of the parish

Saturday 12/05 8:00 am Henry Bergmann (+)

12:00 pm XV Stephaine Rangel

2:00 pm boda Gabriela Diaz & Julio Mendoza

5:00 pm Mamie Sztuk

Sunday 12/06 8:00 am

9:30 am

11:15 am Fernando Fernandez (+)

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,

Welcome! Welcome to the new liturgical year, technically called the Year C or the Year of Luke, because he will be our main evangelist for the Sunday readings in our three-year cycle. Many Christians like Luke most because he gives more attention to Mary and other women, to the sick and the poor. He alone tells us of the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, Lazarus & Dives, Zacchaeus, the sisters Martha & Mary and their brother Lazarus, the repentant thief. Luke portrays Jesus more as enjoying table fellowship. Luke emphasizes more than the other synoptics, the working of the Holy Spirit, especially in his book of the Acts of Apostles.

Welcome! Welcome to Advent, preparing us for the first great mystery, the incarnation of the Son of God. The better we prepare, the more graces we can reap in the Christmas season.

Advent at home

** Do you have the basics to make your home advent wreath ? If not, we can provide you with a brass ring + four Advent candles for $8.00. You may add some evergreens.

** Today, you received a booklet Daybreaks for daily prayer at home. It’s written by the well-known Fr. Ron Rolheiser (see weekly column in The Tidings). Use it! Or give it away to somebody who will use it.

** If soon, you feel the urge to buy a ---tree for your home, decorate it as an Advent tree with blue-purple ribbons and with names of the Jesse tree. Decorate it with your Christmas stuff only after the 4^th Advent Sunday (Dec.20), please. Similarly, wait for a complete nativity scene until Christmas. Of course!

** For us Catholics, the observance of our liturgical year is an essential element of our proper spirituality. That’s why Catholic individuals and Catholic organizations don’t talk of “Christmas” parties while in Advent. Similarly, we don’t have Easter celebrations during Lent.

May the first Advent candle brighten our homes and our parish.

Fr. Ludo

In the parish family …

…we pray for the sick and homebound: Ray Cano, baby Eliana Georges, Serafina Cantero, Margaret Herrera, Valery Cuthbert, Harriett & Larry Tupper, Josephine Reed, Ida Hollopeter, Clem Creaturo, Phoebe LaRoche, Lilia McAustin, and for whom else? ¿Por quiénes más?

Confessions: Saturdays 4 – 4:30pm

Dec. 5 Fr Frank Colborn Dec.12 Fr Ludo

Mary during this Advent Season

· Dec. 3^rd Latino families start their novena of rosaries in preparation of Dec. 12^th

· Dec 6^th (First Sunday of Advent)

Annual inter-parochial Our Lady of Guadalupe Procession 5:15pm Gathering at De La Guerra Plaza. Please bring a (protected) candle. 5:30pm Bilingual rosary.

Holy Cross parishioners & Confirmandi please gather around our Holy Cross banner.

6pm Start of Procession through State Street towards Our Lady of Sorrows Church with bilingual rosary & songs.

At arrival: enactment of the apparitions. Closing prayers with Bishop T. Curry & deanery priests.

· Dec. 8^th Feast of the Immaculate Conception Patroness of the USA - Day of Obligation

Mon., Dec. 7^th 7pm English Vigil Mass

Tue., Dec. 8^th 8am English Festive Mass

7pm Spanish Feast Day Mass

Tue., Dec.8th 8pm – Midnight: At Holy Cross:

Inter-Parochial 20^th Annual National Night of Prayer for Life

Please join us for Eucharistic Adoration, Rosary, Chaplet of Divine Mercy & Prayers of Reparation. The purpose is to unite our prayers with Catholics through out the country in an effort to turn hearts towards Christ thus bringing an end to abortion & the destruction it causes to all those involved. This is a nation-wide effort with National Hour of Unity at 9pm Pacific time. At this critical time in our Nation’s history, please come to pray for the awakening of our nation to the evil of abortion so that the innocent babies will have the right to be born.

· Dec. 12^th Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas

6am Singing of “Mañanitas”

6:30am Spanish Mass, followed by typical breakfast in hall

7:30am Daily Morning Prayer

8am English Mass of the Feast

5pm English Vigil Mass of 3^rd Advent Sunday

7pm “Nochecitas” rosary procession, evening serenade &

prayers (no Mass)

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in Santa Barbara (Updated)

Sundays: Poor Clares Chapel, 8am-4pm

Monday & Tuesday: Chapel of Bishop High School 8am-8pm.

Wednesdays: at Our Lady of Sorrows, 12:45-6pm

Thursdays: Holy Cross, from 1-7pm. We start the Exposition

at 1pm with the noon prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours;

at 5:30pm we’ll pray the daily liturgical Evening Prayer,

at 6:50pm close with the usual Benediction.

A few parishioners are to sign up and commit for an hour of prayer (for example, for vocations) on Thursdays p.m.

Fridays: at the Santa Barbara Mission, 1pm-5pm. At Our Lady of Guadalupe, 6pm-8pm

Our Mesa Neighborhood

Dec. 11: Friday Nights by CandleLight at The Gathering Place (grassy area behind the hall, access from Meigs) Groups of Peace Hearts Circle.

Dec. 12: The fourth Art on the Mesa (Holiday Marketplace) this year by Cliff’s and Co and Fuel Depot.

Thanks to Your Generosity

Campaign for Human Development (11/22) $ 1,335.00

Catholic Charities (Thanksgiving 11/26) $ 410.00

Only Two more days!! What will be your Christmas

gift to your fellow parishioners?

Answer: Your article or artwork for SHARED GRACE, Dec.2009 !

Share with us, for examples, the graced story of a past Thanksgiving or St. Nicholas Day; anecdotes of the faith practices in your family; a memory from the early years of Holy Cross Church on the Mesa: your expectations while it was being built in 1959; or a story about the St. Joseph Chapel;

You may email directly to jbuckley@earthlink.com

“Jesus - free to do God’s will and work”

Dec. 2 at Mission Renewal Center, Old Mission SB, 2009 Days of Recollection. Schedule: 9:30am Gather, 10am Session I, 11am Mass, Noon Lunch, 1pm Session 2, 2pm Conclude.

Church Women United (Christmas) Tea

All women are invited to celebrate with Church Women United at a Christmas Tea. Friday, Dec. 4^th at 2pm Goleta Presbyterian Church, 6067 Sherrell Way, Goleta. If you decide to bring a goody to share, thank you! Bring your friends. No reservations needed. Directions: from 101 take Fairview exit. Go north, cross Calle Real & turn left on Sherrell Way. The first street past the shopping center.

Inactive Catholics

Come Home for Christmas DIALOGUE Turn hurts into HEALING To share feelings, wrongs & grievances To offer understanding, apology & mending. Please pass the word along, better yet, bring a friend. Tuesday, Dec. 15^th at 7pm Our Lady of Sorrows Rectory, 21 E. Sola St.

Festival of Lights:

Celebrating the December Holiday as One Community

Join in for a unique & interactive celebration of: the Jewish Celebration of Hanukah, the Hindu Celebration of Diwali, the Mexican Christian Christmas tradition of Las Posadas, the Islamic tradition of Eid al-Adha, and the African American Celebration of Kwanzaa. Evening moderated by: Anti-Defamation League & Just Communities. Thursday, Dec. 17^th 6pm to 9pm Faulkner Gallery (SB Downtown Library) 40 E. Anapamu. An event for the Entire Family RSVP to: info@justcommunitiescc.org or 966-2063 (helpful but nor required)

“Beginning Experience”

A workshop will be held at the Holy Spirit Retreat Center in Encino Jan 15-17, 2010 for those who’ve experienced the loss of a spouse through death or divorce/separation. This weekend program helps the person move from the darkness of grief into the light of a new beginning with renewed hope. Beginning Experience is part of the Office of Family Life in the Archdiocese of L.A. Website is www.beginningexperience.org For more information, please call Brenda Mikhail (818) 352-5265 or email brendamikhail@msn.com For Spanish, call Arcie Vargas (909) 599-3662 or Maria Rojas (310) 365-0186

Historical Rosaries, passport to virtual shrines, Dec. 8-11 Chatsworth. Bishop Gerald Wilkerson, San Fernando Pastoral Region has announced in an Oct. 7^th letter a virtual “Family Rosary Pilgrimage: Around the World with Mary,” to be held 8am to 6pm, Dec. 8^th – 11 at Rancho San Antonio School, Chatsworth. This approximately two-hour experience is sponsored by Holy Cross Family Ministries, organizer of The Rosary Bowl in 2007. Get your passport stamped at eight virtual Marian “shrines” and gain a deeper understanding of Mary’s timely messages and the Rosary. Call (800) 299-7729 ext. 2023 or email FamilyRosaryPilgrimage@hcfm.org for more details.

Global Gift Faire

Mark your calendar! Sunday, Dec. 6^th, 8:30 to 1:30, St. Barbara Parish at the Mission. Purchase a unique, one of a kind gift for the ones you love WHILE supporting meaningful causes that are working to bring about a better, more just world.

Anyone out there wanting to dig in the dirt??

Holy Cross is discussing the use of the vacant land around Hayes Hall to be used as a Community Garden. Are there any Parishioners who might be interested in helping with planning or better yet in working a plot for themselves? Call Alma Vaja 284-4567 if interested or just for more information.

Did You Know?

Ensuring Your Child’s School Is Safe

Every teacher, coach, & volunteer who works with children in the LA Archdiocese’s parishes & schools must have a background check before he or she is permitted to work in any school or parish related job or activity that involves contact with children. But many of our children attend non-Catholic private or public schools. What steps do these schools take? Talk with school administrators & find out what steps they take to protect children from harm. Suggest that they review other abuse prevention programs to ensure that their policies & practices are up to date. And demand that all employees & volunteers who work in the school be properly screened, including background checks, before they are allowed to be near your children. For more info, please call the Archdiocesan Safeguard the Children office: (213) 637-7227. For particular help, you may call Assistance Ministry at (213) 637-7650.

2010 Regional Anniversary Masses with Bishop T.Curry

for World Marriage Day

Sunday, January 31^st at 2:30pm

Sacred Heart Church, 10800 Henderson Rd.,Ventura

Or

Sunday, Feb. 14^th at 2:30pm

St. Louis de Montfort Church, 5075 Harp Rd.,Santa Maria

Sign-up form is available at the rectory office.

Calendars for Lompoc Prison

Over 300 men are incarcerated in Lompoc. Once again we are accepting 2010 Calendars. No plastic binding. Calendars can be of scenery, buildings, planes, etc No bathing suit photos! Also, any religious reading material is very welcome. Drop off at the rectory. Thank you

In this FLU Season…

Regardless whether it’s swine or chicken flu, we are recommended to take extra precautions to protect ourselves and others. For example:

· Always cover your coughs or sneezes

· Wash hands frequently. Do not steal the soap from the church/hall bathroom

· Be understanding of people who prefer not to shake hands, not even for the sign of peace.

· Receiving communion in the hand instead of on the tongue minimizes direct contact. The same is true for abstaining from the communion cup (temporarily), especially when you show symptoms of possible influenza – stay home for 24 hours.

A 34 page H1N1 Flu Guide for Community and Faith-based Organizations, published by US Department of Health & Human Services is available for your perusal at the Rectory Office.

Sign up for a night or two to serve at Casa Esperanza, Homeless Shelter, 800 Cacique St. in this winter season.

You are encouraged to have at least once the privilege of serving food in the main SB soup kitchen. Many Holy Cross parishioners enjoy it over & over. Sign up on the poster in the church vestibule for 5:30 – 7pm. Or call the Community Kitchen Director, 884-8481. Or just show up any day at 5:45pm. For more information talk to our experienced parishioners Chris Bastian or Joanne Stoltz.

www.casa-esperanza.org/communitykitche

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