SAINT TIMOTHY CATHOLIC CHURCH

10425 W. PICO BLVD PASTOR: REVEREND PAUL E. VIGIL

PICO & BEVERLY GLEN BOULEVARDS, DEACON COUPLE: TOM AND CARRIE SABOL
LOS ANGELES, CA 90064 REV. EMMANUEL P. BANICO, RESIDENT PRIEST
PARISH OFFICE: (310) 474-1216
WWW.STTIMOTHYLA.ORG

Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

October 18, 2009
Through his suffering, my servant shall justify many.
-- Isaiah 53:11b

OFFICE CONFESSIONS MARRIAGES, BAPTISIMS, SPECIAL SERVICES & MASSES

10425 W. Pico Blvd. Saturday: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Phone: (310) 474-1216
WWW.STTIMOTHYLA.ORG
SCHOOL
Iselda E. Richmond, Principal
10479 W. Pico Blvd
Phone: (310) 474-1811
WWW.STTIMOTHY.ORG
First Friday: Before 7:30 a.m. Mass PLEASE CALL THE RECTORY
MASS SCHEDULE DEVOTIONS
Saturday Vigil: 5:30 p.m. Monday following 7:30 a.m. Mass, Miraculous
Sunday Masses: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30, 12:00 p.m. Medal Novena. 1st Friday After 7:30 a.m. Mass.
Daily Masses: 7:30 a.m.
Holy Day Masses: Vigil: 5:30 p.m., 7:30 a.m.,
First Saturday of the month following 7:30 a.m.
Mass, Our Lady of Fatima
12:10 p.m.
October 18, 2009 St. Timothy
READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday: Rom 4:20-25; Lk 12:13-21
Tuesday: Rom 5:12, 15b, 17-19, 20b-21; Lk 12:35-38
Wednesday: Rom 6:12-18; Lk 12:39-48
Thursday: Rom 6:19-23; Lk 12:49-53
Friday: Rom 7:18-25a; Lk 12:54-59
Saturday: Rom 8:1-11; Lk 13:1-9
Sunday: Jer 31:7-9; Ps 126; Heb 5:1-6; Mk 10:46-52
Saturday, Oct. 24th; 5:30 Vencet & Mario Cornachia (D)
Sunday, Oct. 25th; 10:30 Keta Carrasco (D)
12:00 Dolores Albanes (L)
Do you like to sing? Share
your talent with your
community.
Join the St. Timothy Choir! Re-
hearsals are: Thursday evening from 7:15 – 9:00 p.m. ,
we sing at our 10:30 a.m. Mass Sundays. We’re begin-
ning to rehearse for an exciting Christmas concert in
December. Come be part of this uplifting ministry. For
more information, please contact Dana Howell or
Elisabeth Maza or call the parish offices.
Today, October 18th, is World Mission
Sunday. The Society for the Propagation
of the Faith is responsible for support-
ing the church in Asia, Africa, Oceania,
and Latin America. There are over 1,050
mission dioceses that depend on the
Society for their daily needs and the
necessary financial assistance to continue their minis-
try. The Missions depend upon your generous support.
Please use the Envelopes in the pews and place them
in the collection with your regular Sunday offering.
Our Sincere Gratitude
Thanks to Steve Arce for his donations of office
supplies to our Religious Education Programs.
Thanks to Bonita Haller for her office help.
STS Halloween Carnival-Come join us at St. Timothy
School for FRIGHT KNIGHT, our annual Halloween Carnival.
Saturday October 24th from 6:30-10 p.m. There will be yummy
food booths, fun games and prizes, a wine/beer garden, a
haunted "school" house, and even a Ninja slide. All are wel-
come!
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
St. Timothy School is committed to protecting the environment.
Throughout the playground, we have new blue recycling bins to
collect plastic water bottles. We invite our church community to
reduce, reuse and recycle. Join us!
Environmental Tips:
*Pack a lunch in re-usable lunch boxes instead of
paper sacks.
*Use re-usable containers instead of individually
wrapped food items.
*Buy in bulk. About 1/3 of all garbage in landfills is
packaging. Save money and reduce waste!
School Cents is on! Do you shop at the Westside Pa-
vilion? You can help raise money for our school without spend-
ing any additional money of your own! Simply visit Guest Ser-
vices on Level 2 of the mall to have your receipts logged. Doing
so will earn our school points for every dollar you spend. School
Cents runs all school year.
Ronald McDonald House- Please save your pull tabs for
the RONALD Mc DONALD HOUSE of PASADENA. This house
provides families of critically ill children a home away from
home, blocks from their child’s hospital. Save as many pull tabs
as you can throughout the year and drop them off at the school
office anytime during the school year. Thanks for your support
and for recycling!
St. Timothy School Website! Visit us at sttimo-
thy.org . There are many areas of interest for prospective par-
ents and students, St. Timothy students, parents, alumni and
much more. The school calendar, sports schedules, links to our
hot lunch program and other valuable information is now avail-
able online. Watch for new areas to develop as well!
St. Timothy School Improvement Fund. St. Timothy
School is in the process of raising money for the School Im-
provement Fund. Our planned improvements include renova-
tions for a new alley fence to match the fence along Pico Blvd.,
maintain state of the art technology program, musical instru-
ments, new lunch tables and sports equipment storage room.
To donate, please fill out the School Improvement Fund enve-
lopes found in the pews or contact the school for more informa-
tion.
Adult Enrichment, RCIA and Adult Confir-
mation sessions. Please note that our sessions
have been moved to Thursday evenings in the
rectory. Please call Deborah at the rectory for
further information.
Thursday, Oct. 22th 7pm Morality, Conscience; Fr. Paul
Thursday, Oct. 29th 7pm The Bible; Fr. Donie
Thursday, Nov. 5th 7pm Communion of Saints;
Frankie Bellizio
Thursday, Nov. 12th 7pm Vatican 2, Creed; Fr. Donie
 Continuation…..
instrumental closing, her pain finds solace and per-
haps even hope as the prevailing modal/minor key
Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3, of the previous fifty minutes changes to major,
“Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, “ with Christine bringing peaceful benediction to the final meas-
Brewer as soprano, recently caught my attention. ures.”
The CD jacket says that Gorecki was considered at My Son, my chosen and beloved, Share your wounds with
one time a avant-garde composer but then when he your mother, And because, dear Son, I have always car-
composed this Third Symphony it was clear that his ried you in my heart, And always served You faithfully,
strong Catholicism and respect for various kinds of Speak to your mother, to make her happy, Although Your
folk music had influenced the essence of his music. are already leaving me, my cherished hope… Where has
He is also the composer who composed Totus Tuus he gone, my dearest son? Perhaps during the uprising the
for Pope John Paul 11 when he returned to visit his cruel enemy killed him… Never again will I have his
native Poland in 1987. The music, for me at least, is support…he lies in his grave, and I know not where,
deeply moving, spiritual, daunting, haunting almost, though I keep asking people everywhere. Perhaps the
and mystical. Gorecki is a Polish composer and poor child lies in a rough ditch, and instead he could
here is what he says about this symphony: “I wanted have been lying in his warm bed…Oh, sing for him,
to express a great sorrow. The war…the rotten God’s little song-birds, since his mother cannot find him.
times under communism…our life today…the starv- And you, God’s little flowers, may you blossom all
ing. What madness! This sorrow, it burns inside
around, so that my son may sleep happily.
me. I cannot shake it off.” Unfortunately Poland
No, Mother, do not weep,
experienced terrible loss and sorrow but these ex-
Most chaste Queen of Heaven,
periences are universal thus the identification with
Support me always.
this piece of art. “The texts of all three symphony’s
Ave Maria, gratia plena.
movements concern the death of children and its
effect on their grieving mothers. Even the second Symphony No. 3, “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.”
movement’s doomed girl in a Gestapo cell addresses
words of comfort to ‘Mother,’ by which she may
mean the Mother of God or her own mother… En-
Fr. Paul E. Vigil
compassing pain, suffering, nobility of spirit, and in LITURGICAL MINISTER SCHEDULE
the end a hint of transcendence, Gorecki’s music em- October 25, 2009
braces universal human emotions with honesty, Lectors Communion Ministers
compassion, and greatness of spirit.” The words or 5:30— Halls 5:30— Rooney; Harner;
text of the movements are one thing but to listen Gerski
with ones ear and soul (for it moves from the ear to 7:30— Davis 7:30— Recto; Morrison; Owen
the soul like a rock thrown in the water sinks to the
bottom) is art and beauty and profound. There is a 9:00— Sabol; Schrillo 9:00— Schlossers; Dixon
time to listen to the echo of the meditative course of 10:30— Beans 10:30—Ermert; Svoboda; Page
life and time and this symphony is an instrument 12:00— Harrington 12:00— Handforth; Leyva;
(no pun intended) of that way. Fools deny the con- Simmons
templative or spiritual reality of life and this sym-
phony is not foolish! The last movement of the
Symphony begins “with a rocking motive from Welcome New Parishioners!
strings, to be overlaid by the mother’s gentle song Welcome to our parish family! If you are a newcomer to the
parish and would like to register, please complete the informa-
and punctuated by isolated notes from piano and tion below. Please clip this form and bring to the parish office
harp. The poignant lament grows more fluid and or drop into the collection basket. Thank you and welcome to
impassioned as she sings of her son’s unknown our parish!
grave, sinking back into benumbed grief as she ob- Name (s):
sessively repeats the last two lines of the poem, ‘So Address: City:
Zip: Phone:
that my son/May sleep happily.’ After a pause, she Cell Phone:
harks back to a previous verse, gently but insis- E-Mail:
tently demanding to know why he was killed, and Envelopes: Yes No
the music returns to its initial rocking. In the Registration cards are also available in Parish Office