January 19, 2020

 St. James School will be hosting a Transitional Kindergarten and Kindergarten Information Night on Thursday, January 23 at 6:00 pm. Our Transitional Kindergarten and Kindergarten programs are all day. Transitional Kindergarten students must be 4-years-old by September 1, 2020. Kindergarten students must be 5 -years-old by September 1, 2020. Following the 9:30 am Catholic Schools Week Mass, St. James School will be hosting our Transitional Kindergarten through Eighth Grade Open House Sunday, January 26 from 11:00am-12:30pm. Please share these dates with your family and friends. We hope to see you there! ~Heather Church, Principal

Pastor

January 19, 2020

Our Parish wishes to recognize our parishioner's milestones in their lives!  All Parishioners are invited to call the Parish office with the date of their wedding anniversary! At the first weekend Masses each month, these parishioners will be recognized in an announcement. Please contact the office at (530) 756-3636.

January 19, 2020

How fortunate we are in our parish that we have the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Every Monday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 the Blessed Sacrament is exposed for our adoration in the Chapel. Also Thursday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m. Jesus is present, waiting for adorers. Eventually more days will be available as the need for other days become apparent. Many holy people and saints have gone before us who made time to spend silent and prayerful times with Jesus. For example, St. Alphonsus Liguori from the 18th century was often rapt in ecstasy before the Blessed Sacrament. He made frequent visits. One of his simple but favorite prayers was: “O my God, my Love, O everlasting Love, I love Thee!” During his life he wrote many prayers for Adoration which were translated into numerous languages. He often said that next to Holy Communion that no act of worship is so pleasing to God and none so useful as the frequent visit to our Lord Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament dwelling upon our altars. All people are invited for worship – the young and the old. Some entire families have been seen in our chapel during Adoration. What an excellent example for the young! If Jesus were actually visible in our church, everyone would run to welcome him, but he remains hidden in the Sacred Host under the appearance of bread, because he is calling us to faith, that many may come to him in humility. “The Blessed Sacrament is the “Living Heart” of each of our churches and it is our very sweet duty to honor and adore the Blessed Host, which our eyes see, -the Incarnate Word, whom they cannot see.” (Pope Paul VI).

St. James Families,

Is your child old enough to altar serve?  Altar serving has been a very old tradition of the Church and if there is true, active, and conscious participation from our servers, it gives our children a great opportunity not only to encounter fully our Lord Jesus Christ but also to serve Him at the Altar.  More so, it provides a special place for our children to discern their own vocations in front of our Lord himself, may it be in the religious or married life.  So if your child has already received his/her first communion and you believe him/her to be capable of taking upon the duties of an altar server, please consider being an altar server!  Children need to have received First Holy Communion. Entering 4th grade or be a responsible 3rd grader.  Contact Karey Spivey at kareyrn@prodigy.net or 530-867-0783. 

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January 19, 2020

“Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness” (Psalm 96:9)

Each session starts with Morning Prayer at 8:30 and concludes with Evening Prayer at 3:45.

The series will take place at Divine Mercy,  2231 Club Center Drive, Sacramento (Natomas)

#4 – Mar. 14 – Medicine of Mercy: Sacraments of Healing

#5 – April 25 – The Joy of the Gospel: Sacraments of Mission

A certificate in liturgy specialization will be given at the end of the series, provided that the individual has completed Basic Certification -  https://www.scd.org/family-and-faith-formation/basic-lay-formation-certification

register online, here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/worship-the-lord-in-the-beauty-of-holiness-tickets-63487987279

January 19, 2020

On September 16, the Independent Compensation Program (ICP) will begin accepting registrations. The Diocese of Sacramento is joining those in Los Angeles, Fresno,  Orange, San Bernadino and San Diego in a program that brings compensation and justice to those who were sexually abused as minors by diocesan priests. All claims, regardless of how long ago they may have occurred, will be considered by the program. The ICP is independent, outside the control of any diocese. For more information, including how to submit a claim, please visit www.CaliforniaDiocesesICP.com. Let us always remember to pray for the victims of priest sexual abuse. As their pain is ongoing, so must our prayers for them be.