SAINT TIMOTHY CATHOLIC CHURCH

PICO & BEVERLY GLEN BOULEVARDS, LOS ANGELES, CA 90064

PASTOR: FR. PAUL E. VIGIL
DEACON COUPLE: TOM AND CARRIE SABOL
PARISH OFFICE: (310) 474-1216 WWW.STTIMOTHYLA.ORG
SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
JULY 26, 2009

The eyes of all look hopefully to you,

and you give them their food in due season.
-- Psalm 145:15
July 26, 2009 St. Timothy
MASS SCHEDULE
Sunday Masses: Saturday Vigil: 5:30PM
Sunday: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30,
12:00PM
Daily Masses: 7:30AM
Holy Day Masses: Vigil: 5:30PM, 7:30AM, 12:10PM
CONFESSIONS
Saturday: 4:00 to 5:00PM
First Friday: Before 7:30 AM Mass
READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday: Ex 32:15-24, 30-34; Mt 13:31-35
Tuesday: Ex 33:7-11; 34:5b-9, 28; Mt 13:36-
43
Wednesday: Ex 34:29-35; Jn 11:19-27 or Lk
10:38-42
Thursday: Ex 40:16-21, 34-38; Mt 13:47-53
Friday: Lv 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37; Mt
13:54-58
Saturday: Lv 25:1, 8-17; Mt 14:1-12
Sunday: Ex 16:2-4, 12-15; Ps 78; Eph 4:17,
20-24; Jn 6:24-35
Sunday School for pre-k to 8th grade
Please send in your completed registra-
tion for our coming fall term. We have a
team of wonderful and caring teachers
this year! We welcome all new and re-
turning students from pre-kindergarten to 8th grade to be a
part of this engaging, spiritual and formative program.
Our children need to continue their Catholic education
after their First Communion. We share with our children
stories of Jesus, teaching people, healing people and feed-
ing people. Please call Deborah at the rectory or email her
at dshraibati@gmail.com for a registration form.
Is God calling you to spread His
word? Be a teacher for our Religious
Education programs! We need vol-
unteer teachers and assistants for our
Sunday School and Confirmation Pro-
gram. St. Timothy's Religious Education programs
need your support and help to teach classes. It is re-
warding to work with children or teenagers, you can
make a difference to our future generation of Catho-
lics. Please contact Deborah at 310-474-1216 or
dshraibati@gmail.com for more information.
DEVOTIONS
Monday following 7:30 AM Mass,
Miraculous Medal Novena
MARRIAGES, BAPTISIM,
SPECIAL SERVICES & MASSES
PLEASE CALL THE RECTORY
Sunday, July 26th: 9:00am Edward & Lilia Luter (D)
10:30am Marcel Dubach (D)
12:00pm Felicidad Fabila Kerr (D)
Monday, July 27th: 7:30am Felicidad Fabila Kerr (D)
Sunday, August 2nd: 9:00am Nora Rodriguez (D)
10:30am Stanley Walecki (D)
12:00pm Reno Petrella (D)
Please drop off your food donations
before our 9am and 10:30am Mass in
the Chapter Room. Our children will
bring the food to the altar during our
gift procession. The children love to be
little disciples in helping the poor and the needy.
Anthony Shao-Yuan Ip
And
Christina Tsai-Li-Ku
July 25, 2009
The Sacrament of Confirmation
confirms the presence of the bap-
tismal gifts in a person. The effect of the Sacrament
of Confirmation is the full outpouring of the Holy
Spirit. The confirmed person is empowered to wit-
ness to the faith by openly professing and living out
the Gospel message. We are forming a new group,
classes will be offered for adults and teenagers in
October. Please call Deborah or e-mail at dshrai-
bati@gmail.com for more information.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to The Knights of
Columbus, St. Timothy School, The Women’s Club,
and Parishioners and Staff for your warm welcome
to me as the new Pastor after all the Sunday Masses
last weekend. A few of you from each of the groups
named above were present most of the day and did a
lot of the work so a special thanks to you-you know
who you are. Another “thank you” is in order for the
feedback from last weekend’s bulletin. Everyone
who spoke to me about the bulletin was open and
positive regarding it and the “pastor’s letter.” Since
so many people favor a “pastor’s letter,” I would like
to make a disclaimer right up front! I will happily
write for the bulletin with the following exceptions:
if I am away, on vacation, sick, too busy or other-
wise indisposed, or if I need a rest or it becomes too
difficult to write or it is not useful or helpful or peo-
ple want to throw stones at me (sounds funny but I
don’t want to die over a letter!). Indeed, the purpose
for writing is to help us all become more like Jesus
through our sharing in the Body of Christ, the
Church, especially, our Church here at St. Timo-
thy’s. I might also add, perhaps, to “hold your
horses” since the reader may not always agree or
want to hear (rather, read) what the writer is writ-
ing. Let me illustrate what I mean: the Gospels
(Mathew, Mark, Luke and John), overall portray
Jesus and God the Father as forgiving, loving, and
accepting of us human beings (dare I say sinners).
On the other hand, the Gospels also “challenge” us
to leave everything behind, so to speak, and follow
him: to love Him with all our hearts, with all our
minds, and with all our souls, and to love our
neighbor as ourselves. The latter is the challenging
part; the former is the consoling part. So with my
letters, the tone would be two-sided like a coin:
consoling, challenging.
Thanks to your reception too about how the bulle-
tin works including the advertisers. In fact, two
proprietors from our parish approached me in the
hall last weekend, introduced themselves and
showed me their ads in the bulletin. I went back to
my home parish yesterday, picked up a bulletin, and
noticed that my father still advertises (he has been
doing so for as long as I can remember-he has his
own business). Again, the bulletin still has some
glitches and we are working in the office to elimi-
nate those and make it as user friendly and helpful
as possible. Since the Business Manager, Yolanda,
Continuation…..
left last month we are trying to put together a team
to do as good a job as she did on the bulletin (she
was the bulletin editor). Another person who will
be leaving this month is the Music Director, Frank
Echeverry, who has also been part of St. Timothy’s
for many years. We thank him for his service here
at the parish and wish him the best in his musical
pursuits. Every three years or so the readings at
Sunday Mass during the summer for five weeks in
a row are taken from the sixth chapter of the Gos-
pel of John. This weekend is the beginning of that
cycle and the readings are sometimes referred to as
“the Bread of Life” readings since the theme in the
readings is Jesus as the “Bread of Life.” The image
on the front of the bulletin highlights today’s read-
ing about the multiplication of the bread: a few
loaves of bread, giving thanks to God, asking God’s
blessing turns a few loaves into thousands and
thousands of loaves to provide bread, food, for the
crowd of thousands. The profundity of the readings
gives us pause to reflect on these universal themes
and look to the Bread of Life for sustenance. Have a
great week!
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LITURGICAL MINISTER SCHEDULE
August 2, 2009
Lectors Communion Ministers
5:30— Hall’s 5:30— Galonska; Gerski;
Harner; Rooney
7:30— Manshardt 7:30— Aclan; Morrison;
Owen
9:00— Bean’s 9:00— Rowe; Saucedo;
Svoboda’s
10:30— Jean– Pierre; 10:30— Ermert; Jean-Pierre
Masciale Nodjoumi; Page
12:00— Simmons 12:00— Gallant; Handforth;
Leyva
Sunday, July 26th:
Children’s Liturgy of the Word 9 am Mass
Monday, July 27th:
Legion of Mary 7:15 pm in the Rectory
Sunday, August 2nd:
Children’s Liturgy of the Word 9 am Mass