Please join us so that we may thank you!!!!

We continue to ask each week that parishioners pray for the chronically ill of our parish. If you have a friend or loved one in need of our parish prayers please call the Rectory at 589-2800.

Also, please remember our Emergency prayer network that prays for specific intentions that require a concerted effort due to their critical nature. To facilitate the network, please call Michele Pipinich. The network people then pray frequently for the next 72 hours. We would appreciate a return call with the outcome so we can praise God for His faithfulness.

SANCTITY OF LIFE

“Acknowledgment of the worth and dignity of every human being and the sacredness of human life is the common thread, the principle, upon which individuals and society itself will ultimately thrive. For it is in protecting, nurturing and sustaining life that we live.”
(U.S. Catholic Conference, 1990)

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

We might ask ourselves: “Who the Eucharist is, not what the Eucharist is”. Cardinal Jozef Tomko, at the opening of the Eucharist Congress said: “Devotion to the Eucharist is needed in a world shaken by the dark shadows of wars both known and forgotten…(and by) the ideological attacks on marriage, the family and on human life from its conception.”

Eucharistic Adoration will take place in our Church on Saturday, November 4th, and on every First Saturday of each month, following the 8:30 am Mass and continuing until Benediction at 10:00 am. Spending time with Jesus in silent prayer can bring about the changes our world so desperately needs.

AIDS LUNCH
November 8th

We are scheduled for the 2nd Wednesday of each month. If you can prepare a favorite cookie, snack or lunch item for 10 to 12 people, please drop it off at the Children's Chapel, in the back of Church, by 9 a.m. on November 8th. Please pack the items in a non-returnable container. Frozen items are ok!

5TH SUNDAY MIXER AT THE 5 P.M. MASS

Join us for light refreshments after the 5 p.m Mass TODAY, October 29th, sponsored by the 5 p.m. choir. Come and mingle with fellow parishioners.

PERMANENT DIACONATE INFORMATION NIGHT
November 13th, 7 p.m.

Single men or married men with their wifes are invited to attend this informational evening, Monday, November 13th at 7 p.m. at the Archdiocese Pastoral Center, 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco. There is plenty of free parking.

ATTENTION LECTORS

The workbooks for the new liturgical year beginning in Advent are here! Please pick yours up in the sacristy and check your name off.
Thank you.

If you’d like to serve the parish as a lector, Sr. Sheral will be happy to talk with you about this ministry! Please call her at the rectory.

TEACHING TOLERANCE

The website for the Southern Poverty Law Center, www.tolerance.org, has excellent suggestions for parents, teachers and other adults to counteract stereotypes and cultural misinformation. Some of their suggestions to nurture tolerance in young people are the following:

1. Talk about tolerance. Let your children know that no subject is taboo.

2. Identify intolerance when children are exposed to it. Point out stereotypes in movies, computer games and other media.

3. Challenge intolerance when it comes from your children. “How do you think so-and-so would feel about that joke?”

4. Support your children when they are the victims of intolerance. Provide emotional support and brainstorm constructive responses

5. Foster a healthy understanding of group identities. Remind them that pride in our own group doesn't mean disrespect for others.

Our parish will celebrate the All Saints this Wednesday with Masses at 6:30 am, 8:30 am (with the school children) and 6 pm. Masses for All Souls Day, this Thursday will be at 6:30 am, 8:30 am and 7:30 pm. The evening Mass will include a simple ritual remembering those who have died during the past year and will be followed by coffee and cookies. If you have lost a loved one recently, please come; if you haven’t, please come to offer your support and prayer for those who have.

MEN'S CLUB

WOMEN'S GUILD

All women of the parish are cordially invited to attend the St. Robert's Women's Guild Annual Crafts Night, being held Thursday, November 9th, in Hennessy Hall, doors will open at 6:30 p.m., cost is $10.00, please remember to give yourself plenty of time for browsing and shopping all the wonderful items for sale.

MARRIED COUPLES
Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend
November 3rd-5th in Burlingame

Scripture says about married people that “Two shall live as one.” How often do you find yourselves living as two? A Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend can help you get back to basics in this complicated day and age. For more information, go to or call Paul and Yvonne at 650-366-7093.

BLOOD DRIVE
Sunday, November 5th, 8am - 1:30pm
Mark Your Calendars

Donor Requirements:
Be Healthy, weigh at least 110 lbs, drink extra fluids, eat a healthy meal, and bring identification

Sign up in the vestibule of the Church or call the rectory Monday through Friday at 589-2800.

WOMEN'S RETREAT
Saturday, November 18th

The annual parish Women’s Retreat will be held at Mercy Center, Saturday, Nov. 18 from 8:30 am to 3 pm. “Deepening Our Hope” will include presentations, quiet time, sharing and a delicious lunch. A $35 donation is requested. Registration forms are available at the church entrances or you may register online at www.saintroberts.org. Registrations must be made by Nov. 8. Please call Sr. Sheral at the rectory for more information.

If you're new to St. Robert's, we ask that you complete a registration form found in the vestibule of the church. Drop it either in the collection basket, the mail, or at the parish office. We will send you a New Parishioner Packet with information about the parish, its organizations and groups. If you chose, you can register online at: www.saintroberts.org.

SUNDAY COLLECTION

Thank you for your generous donation of $3,068.06 to the World Missions

    
SIGN UP FOR E-CONTRIBUTIONS

Go to www.saintroberts.org and click on the e-contributions button. The first page explains the details. There is a button to take you to the e-paluch registration page. You can register online using either your checking account or credit card.

There is no cost to you for this service.

All Saints and All Souls
With leaves turning and falling, the different “feel” at dusk, pumpkins and squash appearing in stores, and the time change this weekend, we know that Autumn is here. It is a time of shifting to quieter, inside pursuits, perhaps, which don’t require warm weather. Flowers have died and, underground, unnoticed by human eyes, bulbs are slowly gathering nourishment for a spring yet to come. Dying and rising, letting go that something new may come. If the leaves don’t let go, there’ll be no room for the new shoots. If we don’t let go of old ways which aren’t life-giving - old attitudes, perhaps, even old relationships which are abusive or too negative - there won’t be room in our lives for new ways, new more Christian attitudes, new relationships.

All Saints Day is a celebration of those who’ve “made it” – who’ve lived the gospel of Jesus in such a striking way that the whole Church honors them. Many of us were named for a particular saint and this day is also for all the not yet canonized saints, people like Mother Teresa, Pope John XXIII, Mahatma Gandhi and many of our grandparents and parents who taught us by their example how loving our God is.

All Souls Day reminds us of those we’ve loved “who have gone before us, marked with the sign of faith.” Please honor your beloved dead by bringing photos or their memorial cards to Mary’s Shrine where they’ll be remembered throughout the month. In front of the ambo (podium) we will place symbols of Christ as the light of the world and the water he promised the Samaritan woman would “turn into a spring inside [her], welling up to eternal life.” The names of those who’ve died since last Nov. 2 will surround us whenever we gather to pray. Pumpkins, squash and gourds, the cornstalk and haystack speak to us city dwellers of the harvest. Our loved ones, the “faithful departed,” have reached the fullness of life and now are with God; we, too, will join them one day as the readings for the last two weekends in November will remind us.

May these November days be fruitful ones for all of us!

Peace,
S. Sheral

At the church entrances, there are copies of an Election Day Checklist based on our values as Catholics. It does not, of course, tell you how to vote, but rather gives suggestions for questions you might ask yourself.

ST. ROBERTS CENTERPLATE TEAM NEEDS YOUR HELP

AT THE UPCOMING 49ER GAMES
Call the Rectory at 589-2800 or sign-up on the web site at
www.saintroberts.org/centrplt.htm to help

Centerplate 2006 Schedule

Name:_________________________________Home Phone:___________________

Cell Phone:_______________Email:_______________________________________

Dress Code: Full length black slacks, (jeans or spandex are not permitted), white shirt with collar, closed toe comfortable shoes (preferably black or white).

We will car pool from the rectory. For those working in San Francisco, you can meet the group at the gate. Volunteers between 16-21 years of age must provide a copy of a picture id which includes his/her birth date.

Our Centerplate totals:
Baseball: $26,663.20
49er Training Camp: $7,282.71
49er games: $12,391.65
for a total of: $46,337.56
Thanks to the many people who have volunteered.