SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

Confessions will be heard

Saturday, August 7

4:00 p.m.—4:45 p.m.

St. Patrick Rosary Group
 next gathering

Thursday, August 5
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Meeting Room 

 We would love to share this evening of community, praying the rosary, and making rosaries with you!

If you have questions, please call Barbara Cavalier 924-9272

You are cordially invited to join “Bridges of Promise” 

Tanzania Tea Social

Saturday, August 14, 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the Garden and Art Studio of
Millicent Tomkins
31 Shell Road
Mill Valley 

Suggested Donation of $25.00 is Requested
(please feel free to bring your own special tea cup) 

Please RSVP by August 9

Sandra 415-336-5128 or Karen 415-806-1123 

Donations benefit school tuitions for the Orphans in Rulenge, Tanzania 

REGISTER NOW!
For Saint Patrick Parish
COMMUNITY FAITH FORMATION

Registration FORMS and CALENDARS are AVAILABLE on the Parish Website and in the Parish Office 

PARISH OFFICE:  924-0600 (Hours:  9:00 a.m.—3:00 p.m., Monday—Friday) 

CFF (PreK-5th Grade and Adults - SPIRIT QUEST (Grades 6-8)

We are looking for Volunteers for Spirit Quest and for CFF.  These programs will not be possible without sufficient volunteers.  Please call or e-mail the Office of Religious Education to volunteer or for more information regarding training dates and requirements for these programs.

TO VOLUNTEER CONTACT   OFFICE OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION:  
Phone 924-3719
or
e-mail:  webelongtogod@yahoo.com

SPECIAL COLLECTION
MISSIONARY APPEAL

Saturday, July 31, and Sunday, August 1

Reverend Alexis R. Fernando, M.A., (Fordham)
Mission Coordinator, Diocese of Kandy, Sri Lanka

Father Fernando will speak to us about the Diocese of Kandy located in the central hill country of Sri Lanka.  Sri Lanka is an island off the southern coast of India with an area of 25,000 square miles.  Sri Lanka is an island nation known for its tea.

The Diocese has a population of two million where only three and one-half percent are Catholics.  The majority of the Catholics in the Diocese belong to the ethnic group called the Tamil Tea Plantation workers.  This socio-economic community is of Indian origin and is politically and economically a marginalized sector of the population.  Some live in “line rooms” which is a row of rooms in one long building.  Their access to health care and education is limited.  Malnourishment is prevalent especially in children.

While ministering to their spiritual needs, the Diocese has also initiated many self-help projects to improve the quality of life of the people.  Various programs for village development, for youth, for women, for the elderly, for dying destitute, for human rights, and for communications, help keep the commitment of the Diocese in their social and economic upliftment.  The Bishop, the 45 Priests, the 225 Religious and about a 100 full time lay Catechists invites you to join hands with them in their service to this little community in Sri Lanka.  Your prayers and your generous financial assistance will help them in their missionary effort and supplement their meager and limited resources for which they will be very grateful.  God will certainly bless your generosity.

St. Patrick's Thrift Shop is looking for Volunteers

Can you spare three or four hours a month, or more?
St. Patrick Thrift Shop would be grateful for your help.

We are looking for volunteers to staff the shop

      Shop Hours:

 Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m.
Weekday shifts:  Three Hours
Saturday shift:  Four Hours 

You choose your shifts
No retail experience necessary
Substitute and on-call volunteers most welcome

Please call Lorraine Urban 924-1357

BYZANTINE ICONOGRAPHY CLASS

Father Damien Higgins has taught Byzantine Iconography (with tempura and gold leaves) all around the world for more than 25 years.  Father Higgins will conduct a class Thursday, September 9; Friday, September 10; and Saturday, September 11 in Healy Hall. 

The cost is $300.00 (payable to Father Higgins) with a maximum of 12 students. 

Eight students have already signed up.

If you are interested, please e-mail Maria Helena Good at honolark@aol.com

YOUNG AT HEART GROUP
St. Sebastian Church, Kentfield
Looking for New Members 

The YOUNG AT HEART invite anyone 55 years or older to become a member.  Annual dues are $15.00 per year.  Current members are from all parts of Marin, Southern Sonoma, and San Francisco.  Lunch and entertainment are scheduled in St. Sebastian Church Hall, usually, the first Tuesday of each month.  We will be offering some great trips for your pleasure this year.

Our first meeting is September 7 
St. Sebastian Hall, Kentfield

Come join us 

For membership, call Donna Boyd - 415-453-3383 

HELPING HANDS

If you know of anyone who is homebound or sick in our Parish and would like to receive the Eucharist, please call Helping Hands 924-0600.  Eucharistic Ministers are available to visit.  Anyone desiring the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick, may call for a home visit.

ESTATE PLANNING

We ask that you consider remembering St. Patrick Church in your Will.
For further information, please call Father Paul - 415-924-0600 

VALUES TO LIVE BY

Today’s scriptures contain some catch phrases that are still quite familiar in our world: “All is vanity,” and “Eat, drink, and be merry” are both scriptural in origin. In the same way that it is easy to pray last week’s Lord’s Prayer thoughtlessly, it is easy to let the potent passages of scripture that are built on these common sayings glide right off our slick ears.

Last week’s scriptures instructed us to listen attentively to the Lord, so that we might pray carefully. Our listening and our prayer are intimately connected.  In the same way, this week we learn that our values and our living are connected as well. It has become quite common to ask, “Do you own your possessions or do they own you?” Like the familiar maxims from today’s readings, we might be tempted to quote this saying flippantly, and think that in the quoting of it we have truly considered it, perhaps lived it. Not true, Qoheleth, Paul, and Jesus tell us today. It is not wrong to treasure or cherish things of earth or of our own humanity; it is only wrong when those things we cherish are not of God, are not of the self-giving Christ.

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