Be the Change You Wish to See in the World.....

“Be the Change”Holy Spirit’s Re-usable Grocery Bags

Join our community’s partnership by making a commitment to care for God’s Creation.

Start using these re-usable grocery bags in place of paper and plastic bags. The bags are sturdy, lightweight and washable with a stabilized base and two comfortable handles. Storage is easy because they lay flat! Holy Spirit is making these environmentally friendly bags available at a cost of $2.50 a bag.

Get your supply at weekend mass. Bags will be on sale after all masses for the next 3 weekends or until our initial supply is gone. Please contact Barbara Kelly-Pedersen @ 293-8062 with questions.

Together, we can make a difference
"Just one person at a time.”

Feb 19--Living Out Loud....Theology on Tap with Fr. Brendan McGuire or LOL...TOT with FBM

Fr. Brendan McGuire had much to say about Catholic Social Justice teaching as the lived sign of our Christianity as we live in this fast paced, intense, rapidly evolving technological hotbed of the world--Silicon Valley...

Fr. Brendan's conversion story regarding catholic social justice teaching was inspiring.
He said that he had been critiqued as not preaching enough on justice. He felt that he needed to understand the Church's teachings on social justice from a personal point of view before he felt ready to preach about it. He did this through a kind of "examination of conscience" and through this understanding was able to make some significant changes in his life and actions.

Some changes: -no more shopping at Wal-Mart which does not treat its workers with
justice
-no need to purchase more than he needs
-being conscious that some of what he wears and owns may have been
made with the sweat of people working in slave-labor conditions

Feb 19--Fr. Brendan at TOT

Beliefs: One person can make a difference
Together we can make a differnce one person at a time


Action of a Community: Be the Change Bags!

Feb-19 Fun people from Holy Spirit Parish!

Feb 19--Scruffy Murphy's TOT fans get settled

Feb 19--Alex Vo, YA leader, keynoter, and YMC at St Maria Goretti

Feb 19--Young Adults at the LOL talk for TOT sponsored by SVYA

Feb 19--San Jose State University Catholic Campus Ministry

The chapel at SJSUCCM has begun it's renovation with the commissioning and blessing of the new Christ Crucified-Resurrection image. The image is beautiful and life sized, seemingly suspended in mid-air. The artist Tom Walsh was commissioned to ceate the image, paid for by a generous donor.

Feb 19-- The piano man during the Mass

Feb 19--The music was exceptional--the happy music makers...

Feb 19--Fr. Jose Rubio--chaplain

Feb 19--Bishop Patrick McGrath presided at the SJSUCCM celebration.

Feb 19-- Another view of the Image

Feb 17-18--The Youth Ministry Internship Coop Training Experience

"The Youth Minitry Internship Coop provides professional youth ministry training for Young Adults ages 20-39, who are engaged in paris youth ministry programs that serve multi-ethnic and socio-economically diverse Catholics in order to strengthen and expand the Church's outreach to these underserved youth."

Over 30 interns in training have been participating in the intense training provided by the member parishes of this deanery since August 2005. This past weekend, the group trained Friday through Saturday evening. The training focus was on multi-culturalism and evangelization for youth provided by Marcos Martinez of MACC, the Mexican-American Cultural Center out of San Antonio; and Catholic Social Teaching and faith presentation for adolescents provided by CST specialist Sean Lansing from the Center for Ministry Development. I learned so much on Friday evening in a simple exercise that Marcos led us through. Sean is absolutely passionate about his love for Catholic Social Justice Teaching. I have personally learned more about CST from the passion of the people who work in this ministry than any methodology or text I have ever read, and Sean is no exception!

The following photos are of this diverse group of young adults whom I worked with and learned so much with this past weekend. Best Practice at its Best!!!!!
For information about the work of the coop please click on the following web address:
http://www.coopdsj.org/Docs/Files&Docs/Internship%20Youth%20Ministry%20040404.pdf

Feb 18--We gather around the table for a blessing before lunch on Saturday

Feb 18--Marcos Martinez from the MACC Organization

Marcos shared some great definitions of the following terms:

Ethnocentrism: a room full of mirrors--the assumption that one's cultural view is central to all reality...

Ethnorelativism: a room full of doors--cultures are relative to each other...

Culture is the Collective Soul of a People: a gift handed down to us by our ancestors...

Culture encompasses how and who we are, how we think of family, how we celebrate, what we eat, how we eat...

Culture is our inner clock--how we communicate, how we relate, what we believe, how we feel about God...

Culture can be compared to an iceberg...
the tip of the iceberg is the external cultural comprised of our behaviors, dress, customs, language, foods;
the iceberg below the surface is much more massive and comprised of our attitudes, values, mindsets, thought patterns, perceptions, myths...

Feb 18--We break up into small groups from of the learning exercises.

Feb 18--We worked hard!

Feb 18--Sean Lansing--passionate about Catholic Social Justice Teaching!!!

Feb 18---Fr. Tim Kidney introduces the interns at Mass Saturday evening. Can you see it?

Feb 18--morning break...

Feb 18-- interns Denise and Ashley

Feb 17--one of the younger interns muses on what she is hearing..

Feb 17--Marcos' powerpoint on multiculturalism was excellent

Feb 17--YM Internship Training Friday-Saturday at St. John Vianney Parish

PFeb 17--Interns in Youth Ministry, David, left, and Patrick, smile for the camera

Welcome to Bernard Nemis, our new administrative assistant!

Welcome to our new administrative assistant, Bernard Nemis. Bernard is the assistant for Diana Macalintal, Associate for Liturgy, and myself. He is doing so much to help me organize my office and ministries and he has hit the ground running!!! So if you notice a more organized DSJOYYAM, you know who it is making it happen. When you come by to visit please make sure you give him a big welcome. He will be happy to meet you and assist you!!!

Feb 12--young people during the Eucharistic Prayer...

Feb 12--Andrew Brown, YMC at Holy Family Parish shares youth happenings with the assembly after Mass...

Feb 12--Many young people were present at the youth mass at Holy Family Parish, 6 pm...

Fr. Matt Stanley, Pastor at Holy Family Parish addresses the young people...

Feb 12--Youth wait for liturgy to begin--it was great to see so many young people...

Jan 29-The dragon dances for us at a reception after Mass

Jan 29-a close of the picture of the ancestors and the communion of saints

Jan 29-Bishop Mc Grath during the ritual for the honoring of the ancestors

Jan 29-The young adults of the San Jose Catholic Chinese Community gift us with beautiful music

Jan 29-The ritual honoring the ancestors of the community

Jan 29-places the tile in the cross during the liturgy

Jan 29-The Chinese Catholic Community at St. Clare Parish place their tessera in the Jubilee cross

Jan 29-Chinese New year with the San Jose Chinese Catholic Community