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President’s Message for June 2022
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Before coming to the next Men’s Club meeting, you will have to make a choice. Of course, you want to attend the Men’s Club meeting on the first Tuesday of the month, but first, make sure you vote; then you can make it to the Church Hall 7:00 on the 7th for our June meeting.
The Men’s Club has been very supportive of the Parish community in the last month. We have served lunch for the 4th grade Mission Run, selected an essay winner for the 6th grade class, and participated in the Parish Clean-up Day. However, our next event will be even more visible to the local community, and may require a few more hands. This will be the 225 Pancake Breakfast on Sunday morning, June 12 on the Mission Patio. Time and details will be presented at the meeting.
Outstanding member this month is Lou Zenzen for procuring and replacing the leg bracket on the tall bar table that broke right before the Vaqueros BBQ. The repair is as good as new. Thanks again, Lou.
Plan to be there, and I’ll see you at the June meeting.
-Greg
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This week, we are celebrating Pentecost. The Church teaches that this is the day the Church was founded. This brings back a lot of memories. One of the most difficult times of my life was when I left home to go to college in Boston. Until then, I had lived in a very Catholic environment, including 12 years of Catholic school. I was not surprised to find atheists and agnostics in a secular college, but I was shocked at how many there were, and at the number who were malicious, attacking the Church. The first one I met was arguing in a public forum that the Church did not exist until several hundred years after Christ died. I took up the debate with him but did not convince him.
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Another reason why I was so shocked was that many of the atheists were among the best and the brightest -- certainly much brighter than I was. I had naively assumed that God had spread His gifts more thoroughly among His faithful. Later on, I read the autobiography of Dr Richard Feynman, the Nobel laurate who chaired the commission of why the space shuttle Challenger blew up on takeoff. He was a non-malicious atheist and one of the brightest men in the world who was very successful. His private life was not the most refined and he made no excuses about it. It was thus that I found Jesus saying in the Bible, "He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." (Matt 5:454), and I had to yield to His way and hidden Wisdom. Blessed be God and blessed be His holy Name!!!
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A third reason why I was shocked was that the three priests in our Newman Club chaplaincy were having their own doubts of faith and failed to support me in my faith. It was a terrifying time as I struggled to keep my faith. We have all seen in our lives people who have not supported us in ways that they had an obligation to do so. I ask that each of you spend a few moments in quite prayer for those who have failed us and may have passed on already and be in special need of prayer. But moving on to the "other side of the coin", let us continue and spend a few more moments of prayer, in tremendous joy and gratitude, for those who have been faithful and guided us, especially in view of Mission 225, Saint Junipero Serra, Fr Lasuen, and our own local clergy.
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The St. Joseph Men’s Club would like to thank our Mission 225 Vaqueros BBQ table sponsors
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Founder’s Weekend June 10th, 11th & 12th 
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Mission San José’s Founder’s Weekend on June 10th, 11th & 12th represents the pinnacle of this jubilee year. We begin Friday evening with Franciscan Friars singing Solemn Vespers in the Mission Church on this eve of the 225th Anniversary. Saturday begins with Morning Prayers sung by local Women Religious in the Mission Church. Saturday evening Bishop Michael Barber, SJ, presides over a multi-lingual Mass at 5:30pm in the Mission Church and live streamed into St. Joseph Church.
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Bring your families both Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 5pm to enjoy food, live music & entertainment, arts & crafts, kids’ activities, beer & wine, as well as a raffle for a 1st place cash prize of $2,000. Join one of our knowledgeable Docents for a guided tour of the Mission. Shop for everything from olive oil and olive wood products to educational material, apparel, and souvenirs. See our Schedule of Events at www.mission225.org/founders-weekend-festival. Funds raised from the Founder’s Weekend Festival will be used for the preservation and restoration of Old Mission San José.
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Year at a Glance
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Here is a link to our "Year at a Glance" calendar:
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