St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church

SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Catholic Church
LLC Series
65 East 500 North ▪ Orem, UT 84057
#221
Phone:801-221-0750 ≈ Fax: 801-221-0759
Website: www.oremstfassisi.4lpi.com
PASTORAL STAFF TEAM
Pastor,
Rev. David Bittmenn
Associate Pastor,
Rev. Jose Rausseo
Administrative Assistant, Thania Meza
Business Manager,
Janice Hauzen
Parish Coordinator,
Julie Boerio-Goates
Religious Education,
Luis Velasco
PARISH OFFICE
Ext. 14
Ext. 19
Ext. 10
Ext. 12
Ext. 11
Ext. 16
Mon—Fri 9:00 am. to 5:00 pm.
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DEADLINE FOR BULLETIN:
Monday at 2:00 p.m. Announcements can be emailed to:
Email: [email protected]
CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK
Sunday, January 8th, 2012; The Epiphany of the Lord Isaiah 60:1-6, Ephesians 3:2-3, 5-6, Matthew 2:1-12
Masses, 8:30 a.m. (English)
10:30 a.m. (English)
12:30 p.m. (Spanish)
3:00 p.m. (Spanish)
Monday, January 9th, 2012; The Baptism of the Lord Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7, Mark 1:7-11
Masses, 9:00 a.m. (English)
6:30 p.m. (Spanish)
Confessions, 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012; 1Samuel 1:9-20, Mark 1:21-28
Masses, 9:00 a.m. (English)
6:30 p.m. (Spanish)
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012; 1Samuel 3:1-10, 19-20, Mark 1:29-39
Masses, 9:00 a.m. (English)
6:30 p.m. (Spanish)
Thursday, January 12th, 2012; 1Samuel 4:1-11, Mark 1:40-45
Masses, 9:00 a.m. (English)
6:30 p.m. (Spanish)
Friday, January 13th, 2012; 1Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22, Mark 2:1-12
Masses, 9:00 a.m. (English)
6:30 p.m. (Spanish)
Saturday, January 14th, 2012; 1Samuel3:3-10, 19 , Mark 2:13-17
Vigil Mass, 5:30 p.m. (English)
7:30 p.m. (Spanish)
Confessions, 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 15th, 2012; Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 1Samuel 3:3-10, 19, 1Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20, John 1:35-42
Masses, 8:30 a.m. (English)
10:30 a.m. (English)
12:30 p.m. (Spanish)
3:00 p.m. (Spanish)
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
The Epiphany of the Lord
JANUARY 8, 2012
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In “the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,
saying, „Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star at its rising
and have come to do him homage.”
-Matthew 2:1-2
The Diocesan Stewardship program: Please remember to
complete your commitment cards and place them in the basket
near the hallway entrance to the church. If you didn‟t receive a
commitment card, there are extras in the bookrack in the hall.
With your help we‟ll build the parish both physically and spiritually.
A bilingual rosary will be held at 2:00 pm on Sunday, January
22, 2012 on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade at Mt. Calvary
Cemetery, 275 U Street, Salt Lake City at the Monument to the
Unborn near the mausoleum. In case of inclement weather, the
rosary will be in the mausoleum.
The Committee Hispano will meet at 7:30 p.m. this Wednesday
in the Dominguez Room. The Valentine‟s dance and preliminary work on Cinco de Mayo celebrations will be the focus of
the meeting.
The Parish Council will meet next week, January 19 at 7:30
p.m. in the Dominguez Room. The dedication of the new
church, grounds keeping, the 8:30 a.m. Sunday Mass, gym painting, and a financial report will be on the agenda.
Multiculturalism Conference - Dr. Arturo Chavez from the
Mexican American Catholic College (MACC) will be presenting
“The Heart of Multiculturalism: Challenges and Opportunities
for Catholic Education in the 21st Century” at a workshop for
Catholic School Educators on January 13, 2012 at Saint Vincent
Holy Family Hall from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm. If anyone other
than Catholic school educators is interested in attending, let the
Catholic Schools Office know ([email protected]) so we can
get an accurate lunch count.
This Sunday kicks off National Migration Week. In the immigration debate several questions arise regularly: Why don‟t
the estimated 11.1 million unauthorized immigrants presently in
the United States stand in line with the rest of the immigrants
seeking to enter lawfully? If some of the ancestors of current
citizens arrived in the country legally, why can‟t the current
group of immigrants do the same thing? The U.S. Bishops offer
responses to these questions at http://
www.justiceforimmigrants.org/documents/issue-brief-why-dontthey-come-here-legally-final.pdf. Some of their points:
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Beginning with the last question first, why can‟t current
immigrants enter legally as did immigrants of old, the Bishops note, “until the 1870‟s, the federal government did virtually nothing to restrict immigration to the United States.
In most cases, immigrants who arrived to the United States
in search of work or a new life simply settled in the country
and became citizens after a period of time. In …. 1882,
Congress promulgated the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882,
restricting immigration of Chinese laborers. Congress eventually expanded these restrictions on Chinese immigration
to exclude Asian immigrants generally. However, immigration by those arriving from non-Asian countries was not
significantly restricted until the 1920‟s, by which time many
of our immigrant ancestors had already arrived.
“In 1921, beginning with the Emergency Quota Act, the
United States began to restrict immigration through the use
of national origins quotas. The quota system was restructured multiple times in subsequent years, leaving some regions of the world at a disadvantage at certain points. In
1965, amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act
of 1952 abolished the quota system, prioritizing instead
family-based immigration. Subsequent immigration laws
have been increasingly restrictive. For instance, in 1986,
the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was
passed to control and deter unlawful immigration to the
United States, making it unlawful to knowingly hire unauthorized immigrants and increasing border enforcement.
Ten years later, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) created penalties
for those who had been „unlawfully present‟ in the country,
establishing three and ten year bars to lawful reentry.
The first question asks why illegal immigrants can‟t get in
line or participate in the legalization process like other immigrants. The U.S. Bishops note under “the current immigration legal framework, lawful immigration to the United
States is restricted to only a few narrow categories of persons.” These categories include: (1) Qualified family
members in the United States may petition to bring a foreign-born family member to the country lawfully. The
foreign-born family member must also meet eligibility requirements. There are also numeric limitations on most of
these family-based categories, resulting in backlogs for
entry that often range anywhere from five years to nearly
two decades. (2) “immigrants fleeing political persecution
or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of
their race, religion, membership in a particular social group,
political opinion or national origin may seek political asylum in the United States or qualify for refugee status. To do
so, they must meet a high evidentiary burden. Even if they
do qualify for refugee status, there is an annual cap on the
number of refugee admissions to the United States, which is
set annually and is typically between 70,000 and 80,000.”
Most immigrants are simply fleeing bad economic conditions and would have an extremely hard time qualifying
under this second category. (3) immigrants may be sponsored by a U.S.-based employer to come to the United
States to work and live lawfully. Yet those who can be
sponsored are “multinational executives and professors;
those with advance degrees, the exceptional in the arts, sciences or business; and narrowly-defined, specialized work-
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
ers. Today‟s unauthorized immigrants are largely lowskilled workers who come to the United States for work
to support their families…. [T]here are only 5,000 green
cards available annually for low-skilled workers to enter
the United States lawfully…. The only alternative to this
is to secure a temporary work visa through the H-2A
(seasonal agricultural) or H2B (seasonal non-agricultural)
visa programs which provide temporary status to lowskilled workers seeking to enter the country lawfully.
While H-2A visas are not numerically capped, the requirements are onerous. H-2B visas are capped at 66,000
annually. Both only provide temporary status to work for
a U.S. employer for one year.”
So we‟re left with many people drawn by better wages and job
opportunities in the U.S. and don‟t have much in the way of
legal avenues. It seems we‟re left in a situation where economic law, or the draw of economic possibilities, is in conflict
with political/legal laws.
Salt Lake City will play host to a U.S. Bishop‟s conference
on immigration January 11-13. Topics include: Secure Communities enforcement program, 287(g) enforcement program,
employer verification bills, Arizona copy cat legislation,
developing a proactive state or local strategy, legal rights in
an enforcement context, communications/ messaging, building a local coalition and network, local initiatives/know your
rights, parish organizing and education, voter I.D./driver‟s
licenses, and laws which impact the Church‟s mission. To
register, go to http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org/
index.shtml.
National Vocation Awareness Week is celebrated in the
United States January 9-14 this year. Discerning a vocation
to the religious life isn‟t always easy, but there are a few
things to look at: Does your relationship with God sustain
you, enliven you, and invigorate you in such a way you want
to share the good news of Jesus Christ with others? Do you
have a desire to serve others more? Is the work you do in
weekly ministry more fulfilling than your 40-hour work
week? Do you feel called to give more or be more? Do you
long for more? Does the idea of becoming a brother, sister,
or priest keep coming back time and time again? Do you
have a sneaking suspicion you are on the brink of a major life
decision? Answering yes to these questions may confirm that
you hear the call to discern your vocation to the priesthood or
consecrated life. More information may be found at http://
www.foryourvocation.org/. Talking to one of the priests or
Deacon Moises is also a great way to proceed.
Please ask Our Lord for more dedicated, holy priests, deacons
and consecrated men and women. May they be inspired by
Jesus Christ, supported by our faith community, and respond
generously to God's gift of a vocation.
JANUARY 8, 2012
COLLECTION, December 31-January 1
Loose Cash
$2376.00
Loose Checks
$1005.00
Envelopes
$1120.00
Total
$4501.00
New Budget
$5665.00
Below Budget
-$1164.00
2nd Collection Building Fund
$3871.00
MASS INTENTIONS
SUNDAY, January 8th
8:30 AM Ints. Gene Majers by Dottie Majers
10:30 AM +Corine Hummel by Jean Hummel
12:30 PM Parishioners
3:00 PM +Porfirio Alvarado & Maria de los Angeles Aguiar
MONDAY, January 9th
9:00 AM Our Benefactors
6:30 PM +Porfirio Alvarado
TUESDAY, January 10th
9:00 AM Those In Need
6:30 PM +Porfirio Alvarado
WEDNESDAY, January 11th
9:00 AM +Margaret Portmann & Ester Grahl
6:30 PM All Faithful Departed
THURSDAY, January 12th
7:00 AM Ints. John Houle by Joe & Janice Hauzen
6:30 PM +Juan Betancourt
FRIDAY, January 13th
9:00 AM Those Needing Spiritual Guidance
6:30 PM +Maria Elena Cervantes
SATURDAY, January 14th
5:30 PM +Jim Skelton by Carol Skelton
7:00 PM +Sara Ortiz de Niño
Today on the Epiphany of the Lord we seek the desire and the
drive of the Magi who sought the King of the Jews through a
long and arduous journey. We seek to stay close to the Lord
when Jerusalem and his own people, then and now, grow unsure and suspicious. We seek to offer the Lord the talents we
have. We seek to follow the light that is Christ through the
darkness's that accompany us from time to time. May this day
be one of blessing and peace for everyone.
The Knights of Columbus will be having their regular meeting
on Monday, January 9, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. in the Knights Room.
All our Military Troops, C.P.O. John Richardson, Msgt. B. Blecha, Carl Marchesi, Jodee & Pat Zaccardi,
Particia & Patrick Kennedy, Msgt. Jason Hindmarsh, Barbara & Burt Slavens, Randy Jahner, LaRae Bunting,
Carmen Carrillo, Freddy Corrales, Ercilia Velasco, Melany G. Bowen, Madaline Alispach, Fred Chavez, Ana
Schooler, Juan & Mary Ruiz, Mary Ann Liddiard, Max Keele, Jade Lucero, Don Baker, Kiki Brown-White, Pedro Ortiz-Valle, Jackie Briggs,
Sidlow Family, Citlali Gomez, Hardy Family, Carlson Family, Dallas Kummer.
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