The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Viajen por el mundo y experimenten la Misa y oración en diferentes países, estados, y ciudades durante este tiempo en que no podemos asistir a Misas publicas.  Se encuentran Misas en diversos lugares en la televisión y por la red.  Asistan a Misa con el Obispo Barron por clic arriba.

Travel the world and experience the Mass and prayer in different countries, states and cities during this time.  Television and Internet allows us to pray with the universal church during this time.  You are encouraged to experience Mass and prayer in different places until we are able to have public Mass in our parish again.  Attend Mass with Bishop Baron by clicking above.
 

There are still some blessed palms available outside of the main doors of the church for you to take home.

Todavia hay palmas benditas fuera de las puertas
de la iglesia si gustan. 
 

Reflection on Sunday's Gospel below.    

                         Vean la reflexion para el Domingo de Ramos. 
Clic arriba donde dice ESPANOL

Confession / Confesión
in the confessional behind the curtain only
solamente en el confesionario detras de la cortina
Good Friday / Viernes Santo                  11:00am - 1:00pm
Holy Saturday / Sabado de Gloria         3:00pm - 4:00pm
Call the Parish Office (983-8868 leave a message) or send an email (dgarcia@archdiosf.org)
for an appointment for another time

Llamen a la oficina parroquial (983-8868 dejen un mensaje) o manden un
correo electronico (dgarcia@archdiosf.org) si necesitan una cita a otro tiempo para la confesion.

The Adoration Chapel is now closed until we can have public Mass once again.
La Capilla de Adoracion Perpetua esta cerrada hasta que podamos tener MIsa publica de nuevo. 

                     Lean este mensaje en Espanol por clic arriba donde dice ESPANOL

April 4, 2020
To begin our Lenten journey on Ash Wednesday, we heard Jesus in the Gospel teach; 
“But when you pray, go to your inner room,
close the door, and pray to your Father in secret.
And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.” (Matthew 6:6)
Who would have known that we would have to take these words literally given our in a worldwide experience of pandemic?  Lent has been a very different experience this year, however, as I heard someone say on Catholic Radio the other day, it has been a very “lenty” Lent.  Giving things up for Lent has taken on a whole new meaning. 
 
In the last few weeks, we have all had to learn to pray behind the closed doors of our homes, without our parish community, without the great prayer of the Mass, with our families, “in secret” as we heard Jesus teach.  I pray that we take comfort in the next line, Jesus promises, “And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.”
 
Not only has Lent been an extraordinary experience, but as Holy Week arrives, it is clear that Holy Week will also give us an opportunity to go to our inner room and to pray to the Father in secret.  While this might seem to be a challenge, and very different from any experience that any one of us may have had before, it is also a beautiful opportunity to pray through Holy Week at home, united to the Passion of Christ, not depending on anyone but the Lord.
 
Our homes are to be the holy place to live-out the experience of Holy Week.  (This in facts, is what Archbishop Wester has called us to do as an Archdiocese). 
 
I remember when I was a seminarian; I had the opportunity to go to Medjugorje during Holy Week one year.  I had always desired to go to Medjugorje and we were given the opportunity that year to spend Holy Week outside of the seminary.  I traveled with a priest and a deacon who were students with me at the North American College. 
 
My experience of Medjugoje was a blessed and Our Lady’s presence was certainly present, but I have to admit that I was soon disappointed to be away from the seminary, away from home, and in such a distant land during the holiest of weeks.  The local parish celebrated Holy Week like the rest of the universal church, but it was, at least from my perspective, a personal parish experience.  We were certainly welcomed as pilgrims, but the customs of the local community, the times in which the rites of the Triduum were celebrated was just different.  I felt like a fish outside of water.  And yet, it turned out to be a blessed experience, challenging me to pray through the events of Holy Week on my own, depending on my memory of past Holy Weeks celebrated in my home parish of and in the seminary.  I remember using my Magnificat missal to read the readings and pray through all of the rites, Masses, and rituals of Holy Week. 
 
I can barely imagine how I will celebrate Holy Week without you.  I will celebrate for you and with you in spirit and we will be united in prayer as the Church and carrying with me the for years that I have had the privilege of celebrating Holy Week with your in our beautiful parish.  We will depend on the gift of the sacraments and the fact that their effectiveness does not depend  on the number of participants present, and that their effects are for the whole Church, thanks be to God.  The effects that Christ intends to bring to us is not dependent on our attentiveness or presence. 
 Your homes this year will be Jerusalem on Sunday welcoming Jesus with palm branches. 
Your homes will be the upper room where Jesus celebrated the Last Supper, washed the feet of his apostles and instituted the Eucharist.

Your homes will be the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus sheds blood as his agony begins, where he is arrested, and betrayed. 
Your homes will be the place where Jesus is tried before the religious authorities and before Pontius Pilate. 
Your homes will be the place where Jesus is scourged, crowned with thorns, from where he will take up his cross on the Via Dolorosa. 
Your homes will be the place of Golgotha, his crucifixion. 
Your home will be the place where your receive Mary as John received her at the foot of the cross. 
You will have to be Joseph of Aramathea, and take Jesus off the cross, lay him in the arms of his sorrowful mother, and in the tomb, in your home. 
Your home will be the place of mourning of Good Friday and Holy Saturday. 
Your home will be the place where the Light conquers the darkness and the Easter Fire is lit, then the Easter Candle, then sing “Christ the light.”
Your home will be the place where Jesus rises from the dead. 
You will be the choir singing “Alleluia” and rejoicing in the Risen Lord on Easter Sunday.

 
Maybe, Holy Week won’t be so bad after all.  Your home will be the place where the holy mysteries of the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus unfold.  It will be different, but it will be good, holy, and transforming.  The key word is ‘holy’.  I believe that we are all going to come out different, better, and I dare say ‘holier’ after these experiences. 
 
While I will celebrate the rites and Masses of Holy week alone, know that I celebrate them with you in my heart and mind, united to you in faith and prayer.
 
One of my personal ritual for Palm Sunday is to prepare by reading and reflecting on one of the readings by St. Andrew of Crete from the Office of Readings in the Breviary for Palm Sunday.  I share it with you as we begin our holy journey of Holy Week: 

Let us go together to meet Christ on the Mount of Olives.  Today he returns from Bethany and proceeds of his own free will toward his holy and blessed passion, to consummate the mystery of our salvation.  He who came down from heaven to raise us from the depths of sin, to raise us with himself …
Let us run to accompany him as he hastens toward his passion, and imitate those who met him then, not by covering his path with garments, olive branches or palms, but by doing all we can to prostrate ourselves before him by being humble and by trying to live as he would wish.  Then we shall be able to receive the Word at his coming, and God, whom no limits can contain, will be within us.  …
So let us spread before his fee, of garment or soulless olive branches, which delight the eye for a few hours and then wither, but ourselves, clothed in his grace, or rather, clothed completely in him… Let our souls take place of the welcoming  branches as we join today in the children’s holy son:  Blessed is he who coming in the name of the Lord.  Blessed is the king of Israel.

 
 
 
 

 
I placed the relics of the saints on the main altar of the main church, asking the saints to intercede for us in this time.  Please know that I pray for you and remain with you in prayer.  Pray for and remember the elderly and those in our parish with health issue that are most vulnerable.  The Blessed Sacrament is in the Santuario, the Main Church, and in the Adoration Chapel. 

The Adoration Chapel remains open at this time.  It has been a difficult decision in keeping it open, since most things have closed.  I carefully read through the Governor’s decree and there is an exception for gatherings.  I have asked however, that only 5 people remain in the chapel at any given time.  Should we decide to close the chapel, we will call all of the regular scheduled adorers and partners.   
 
I encourage you to go to visit our parish website on a regular basis for the most current information, and as a regular practice.  I have been posting notes and news related to the current pandemic and the parish on the website.  I have not been printing a weekly bulletin while Sunday Mass is suspended, using the website instead.  The website usually contains the weekly parish bulletin and more information about our parish.  Please take a look at our website and get in the habit of visiting it often.  The website will be updated immediately when we resume Mass.
 
You can also use the parish e-mail; guadladysf@aol.com to communicate. 
Sign up above to receive email and or text messages from me, especially during this critical time of prayer.
 
I am grateful to those of you have kindly mailed-in and dropped of your offering envelopes in the mail slot at the parish office.  While we depend on your offering envelopes, I trust that you will be responsible in sending in your offering to make sure that the parish can continue to operate.  

Let us continue to pray for one another.

.A Prayer for a Spiritual Communion:
Jesus, really present in the Most Holy Sacrament of the altar,
since I cannot now receive thee under the sacramental veil,
I beseech thee, with a heart full of love and longing,
to come spiritually into my soul
through the Immaculate Heart of thy most Holy Mother,
and to abide with me, thou in me, and I in thee,
in time and in eternity. Amen.

Una Oración para Hacer una Comunión Espiritual
Jesús mío, creo que Tú estás en el Santísimo Sacramento;
te amo sobre todas las cosas
y deseo recibirte ahora dentro de mi alma;
ya que no te puedo recibir sacramentalmente,
ven a lo menos espiritualmente a mi corazón.
Señor, no soy digno ni merezco que entres en mi pobre morada
pero di una sola palabra
y mi alma será sana, salva y perdonada.
El Cuerpo, la Sangre, el Alma y la Divinidad de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo,
guarden mi alma para la vida eterna. Amén.

 “Una Comunión espiritual actúa en el alma como un soplo de viento en una brasa que está a punto de extinguirse.  Cada vez que sientas que tu amor por Dios se está enfriando, rápidamente haz una Comunión espiritual”.
-San Juan María Vianney, el Cura de Ars 

The Parish Office, Gift shop and all activities are suspended at this time.  Fr. Garcia is receiving your telephone messages.  Please expect a delay in response.

All Holy Week services have been suspended.  Those who are preparing to receive sacraments of initiation will do so at Sunday Mass when Public Masses resume.  We do not have the capability of streaming Mass and Holy Week services.  You are encouraged to use one of the many resources that are being provided by the Archdiocese, EWTN, and others.  You will find a like to Bishop Barron's Mass on the right hand side of our webpage.
     
You may leave a voicemail at the Parish Office if  you have an immediate concern or question (505-983-8868).  You may also send an email to dgarcia@archdiosf.org.  We will try to get back to you as soon as possible.

The Adoration Chapel closed March 30 at the advise of the Archdiocese in order to prevent further contamination of the virus in our community.  The chapel will re-open once we are able to have public Masses
 
We continue to serve lunch to the homeless on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Todo en la parroquia queda suspendido.  La Oficina Parroquial está cerrada, pero pueden dejar un recado por teléfono.  El Padre García está revisando los mensajes.
 
Todos los servicios de Semana Santa se han suspendido.  Las personas que están preparándose para recibir sacramentos los recibirán en un Domingo cuando ya tengamos Misas Publicas de nuevo.
No tenemos la capcidad de gravar la Misa y servicios, pero pueden utlizar los muchos medios que si ofrecen la Misa y ofreceran los servicios en Semana Santa por la red en por la television.  
 
El número de la Oficina Parroquial es 505-983-8868. También pueden mandar un correo electrónico: dgarcia@archdiosf.org
 
La Capilla de Adoración Perpetua se cierro el 30 Marzo después del aviso de la Arquidiócesis para evitar el peligro de contaminación del virus.  Se abrirá de nuevo cuando podamos tener Misas publicas.
 
 

Gracias a todos quienes han enviado sus contribuciones por correo o que las han depositado en el buzón que esta a lado de la puerta de la oficina parroquial.  Como parroquia dependemos de sus contribuciones, regulares incluso en este tiempo donde todavía hay cuentas que pagar.  Confiamos que serán responsables en enviar sus contribuciones según como puedan durante este tiempo difícil.  No es necesario que usen todos los sobres que recibieron en sus paquetes durante este este tiempo. Se les recomienda que en el mes de Abril usen:

1 sobre de Domingo
El sobre para Viernes Santo “Good Friday” (para la gente de Tierra Santa)
El sobre de Pascua “My Easter Offering”
St. Vincent de Paul (para ayuda de familias en necesidad en Santa Fe)

Por favor, no utilicen su “Catholic Education” y “Building Fund” sobre sen el mes de Abril.
 

We are grateful to those of you have kindly mailed-in and dropped of your offering
envelopes in the mail slot at the parish office.  While we depend on your offering envelopes throughout the year and for the bills that continue to come at this time, we trust that you will be responsible in sending in your offering to make sure that the parish can continue to operate as you are able. It is not necessary to use all of the envelopes during this time.
For April we recommend that you use:

1 Sunday Envelope
Good Friday Envelope (for the needs of the people in the Holy Land)
1Easter Sunday Envelope
St. Vincent de Paul Envelope (to help families in need in Santa Fe)

Please do not use your Catholic Education and Building Fund envelopes in April
 
 

La mayoría de las intenciones para Misas que se han solicitado en la Oficina Parroquial se están cumpliendo por el Padre García en sus Misas privadas a lo diario.  Las intenciones que no se cumplieron serán transferidas a otra fecha cuando ya podamos tener Misas en público de nuevo.

The pastor is celebrating the Mass every day and is offering the Mass for the  Mass Intentions that have been requested and noted in the Mass Book in the Parish Office.  The majority of the intentions are being fulfilled.  The Mass intentions that are not offered will be moved to another date when public Masses are available.