It’s still summertime; vacations are in full swing, the 17 is packed as expected as many transverse the mountain to get to the beach, and post COVID crowds are at the movies. Summer at the movies bring us a time to escape if we choose, but if we look closely into storylines of the films we can see the themes can bring us right back to our faith journey.

Everybody looks forward to summer vacations. I just had mine a few weeks back. I flew my parents back home to the Philippines. We were in the air across the Pacific for almost 14 hours. I don’t enjoy flying but there’s no other way to reach my country. I observe one thing every time I fly. I become extra prayerful–especially when there are bumps along the way!

The Outreach Department of Catholic Cemeteries is very excited to announce the first annual grief symposium, Creating a Circle of Healing. We will come together to learn, share, and build a community of grief support groups in the parishes. Saturday July 29 | 9am-3pm | St Joseph Cupertino

When I first arrived in Italy, I assumed – like other hungry foreigners before me – that Italian restaurants are basically like American restaurants. You enter the place, sit down, ask for a menu, then proceed to order. And while the results were usually at least “molto buono” with this method, I soon found that my Italian friends followed a different strategy, with very different results.

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” ~ Proverbs 29:18
The priests of our Diocese are collaborating with Bishop Cantú to develop a Pastoral Plan that will lay out a vision for our Church over the next several years. I want you to be informed of the work we are doing, so when the time comes for our parish to begin the implementation process, we will be ready.

My name is Michael Sternhagen, and I am very excited to announce that I will be joining the team at St. Nicholas & St. William Parish as the new Director of Liturgy.

World Youth Day will be held August 1-6, 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal. Pilgrims from our parish are raising funds to support their trip to WYD. World Youth Day is a worldwide encounter with the Pope, celebrated about every three years in a different country.