St. Robert's Catholic Church

1380 Crystal Springs Road, San Bruno, CA 94066

Tel: (650) 589-2800

PARISH BULLETIN
June 17, 2007
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

School is out and the question is, what do we do with our children for the next two months? I know that there are some of us who cannot afford the expense of summer camps and hopefully our children will find lots of fun things to do and not get too bored.

On Father’s day it will be my 2nd anniversary as a deacon and yet I still have a lot to learn. I love what I do in my ministry and hope that you will continue to allow me to serve you for many more years to come.

Today’s gospel reminds me of the story of the cookie thief. A woman at the airport waiting to catch her flight bought herself a bag of cookies, settled in a chair in the airport lounge and began to read her book. Suddenly she noticed the man beside her helping himself with cookies from the cookie bag between them. Not wanting to make a scene, she reads on, ate cookies, and watched the clock. As the daring “cookie thief” kept on eating the cookies she got more irritated and said to herself,

“If I wasn’t so nice, I’d blacken his eye!”

With each cookie she took, he took one too. When only one was left, she wondered what he would do. Then with a smile on his face and a nervous laugh, he took the last cookie and broke it in half. He offered her half, and he ate the other. She snatched it from him and thought,

“Oh brother, this guy has some nerve, and he’s also so rude, why, he didn’t even show any gratitude!”

She sighed with relief when her flight was called. She gathered her belongings and headed for the gate, refusing to look at the ungrateful “thief.” She boarded the plane and sank in her seat, then reached in her baggage to get her book, and what she saw made her gasp with surprise. For there, in front of her eyes were, her bag of cookies. Then it dawned on her that the cookies they ate in the lounge was the man’s and not hers, that the man was not a thief but a friend who tried to share, that she was the rude one, the ungrateful one, the thief.

The cookie thief story reminds us, as we see in today’s gospel, that it often happens that the one pointing the accusing finger turns out to be the guilty one, that the complainant sometimes turns out to be the offending party.

God Bless,
Deacon John

As a spiritual gift to your father, you will find cards in the vestibule of the Church to have him remembered in the Holy Sacrament of the Mass offered at St. Robert’s in observance of Father's Day. No donation is required.

Monday - June 18
Readings: 2 Cor 6:1-10     Mt 5:38-42

Tuesday - June 19
Readings: 2 Cor 8:1-9     Mt 5:41-48

Wednesday - June 20
Readings: 2 Cor 9:6-11     Mt 6:1-6,16-18

Thursday - June 21
Readings: 2 Cor 11:1-11     Mt 6:7-16

Friday - June 22
Readings: 2 Cor 11:18,21-30     Mt 6:19-23

Saturday - June 23
Readings: 2 Cor 12:1-10     Mt 6:24-34

Sunday - June 24
Readings: Is 49:1-6     Acts 13:22-26     Lk 1:57-66,80

As a Parish Community we pray …may Jesus bless them and fill them with wisdom, compassion and an abiding love for their families.

WE CONGRATULATE THE NEWLY MARRIED

Christina Segovia and Robert Ramirez

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.

Our sincere sympathy to the family of
Americo Tonegato
who died recently

THE FILIPINO FAITHFUL OF THE ARCHDIOCESE

are invited to attend the Solemn Pontifical Mass to be celebrated by Cardinal Rosales at St. Anne of the Sunset church on Thursday, June 21st at 6 p.m.

For directions to St. Anne’s and other details, please call Fr. Raymund Reyes: (415) 665-1600 or email Fray129@aol.com.

Check www.masstimes.org for Mass schedules in other cities.

THANK YOU FOR THE GIFT OF SIGHT

We were so blessed with the glasses we received. Thank you for your generosity.

As I leave St. Robert’s and return to Ireland, I wish to thank you for your love and support since I came here in 1970. Thank you, too, for all your tokens of appreciations especially in the past few weeks. I will remember you all with gratitude.

Sincerely-Sister Mary

     
St. Robert’s School is collecting Box Tops for Education coupons and Labels for Education UPC codes. Send your collection to the school or rectory. Visit the websites below for product information. Any questions please call Christine Peterson.

www.boxtops4educaiton.com
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GRADUATES

Tara Alvergue/University of Oregon
John Ballas/Nortre Dame de Namur University
Christine Barbieri/California State University/Chico
Jennifer Cuddy/California State University/Sonoma
Danielle Donohue/College of San Mateo
Domenic Finocchiaro/California State University/Chico
Carol Galletta/Cal Poly/San Luis Obispo
Gian Geniali/California State University/Chico
Danielle Giuseponi/Skyline College
Ashley Grotz/California State University/Chico
Camille M. Hawkins/Johns Hopkins University
Joanne Heckenberg/California State University/San Jose
Lauren Jauregui/Santa Clara University
Danielle Katches/Devry University
Noura Khoury/University of California/Davis
Karl Lowood/Kenyon College
Kyle McLoughlin/California State University/Sonoma
Jessica Mitchell/College of San Mateo
Bailey Rodriguez/California State University/San Francisco
Michael Rollin/College of San Mateo
Marco Santiago/University of San Francisco
Sean Semeniuck/University of San Francisco
Kelly Young/Skyline College

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