OUR LADY STAR OF THE SEA CHURCH
515 FREDERICK ST.
SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062
PHONE: (831) 429-1018 FAX: (831) 429-5832
Parish Office Hours
Monday, Wednesday - Friday
10:00 am -12:00pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Through God's grace: may we live gratitude, proclaim his word,
love one another and be a voice of hope!
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We would like to take a moment to
thank all of those that participated and came to celebrate Our Lady Star of the Sea Day! Blessings to our wonderful community. |
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2016 AMA Campaign has begun...
We would like to take a moment to thank those that contributed last year. With your contributions we not only reached our 2015 AMA Diocesan goal we were able to raise $20,000 for the painting of the church.
Please support our parish by helping us meet our $35,000 2016 goal. With the funds we will be able to pay our required contribution to Diocese of $15,000. The excess funds will be allocated to meet our parish needs. |
Words from the Pope
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Prayer of Pope Francis for the Jubilee
Lord Jesus Christ, you have taught us to be merciful like the heavenly Father, and have told us that whoever sees you sees Him.
Show us your face and we will be saved. Your loving gaze freed Zacchaeus and Matthew from being enslaved by money; the adulteress and Magdalene from seeking happiness only in created things; made Peter weep after his betrayal, and assured Paradise to the repentant thief. Let us hear, as if addressed to each one of us, the words that you spoke to the Samaritan woman: “If you knew the gift of God!” You are the visible face of the invisible Father, of the God who manifests his power above all by forgiveness and mercy: let the Church be your visible face in the world, its Lord risen and glorified. You willed that your ministers would also be clothed in weakness in order that they may feel compassion for those in ignorance and error: let everyone who approaches them feel sought after, loved, and forgiven by God. Send your Spirit and consecrate every one of us with His anointing, so that the Jubilee of Mercy may be a year of grace from the Lord, and your Church, with renewed enthusiasm, may bring good news to the poor, proclaim liberty to captives and the oppressed, and restore sight to the blind. We ask this of you, Lord Jesus, through the intercession of Mary, Mother of Mercy; you who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen. |
Daily Readings
Memorial of Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church
Lectionary: 459 1st Reading The LORD addressed Job out of the storm and said: Have you ever in your lifetime commanded the morning and shown the dawn its place For taking hold of the ends of the earth, till the wicked are shaken from its surface? The earth is changed as is clay by the seal, and dyed as though it were a garment; But from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm of pride is shattered. Have you entered into the sources of the sea, or walked about in the depths of the abyss? Have the gates of death been shown to you, or have you seen the gates of darkness? Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Tell me, if you know all: Which is the way to the dwelling place of light, and where is the abode of darkness, That you may take them to their boundaries and set them on their homeward paths? You know, because you were born before them, and the number of your years is great! Then Job answered the LORD and said: Behold, I am of little account; what can I answer you? I put my hand over my mouth. Though I have spoken once, I will not do so again; though twice, I will do so no more. ~ JB 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5
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