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Family Faith Formation
Catholic Youth Organization (CYO)
Financial Committee
Called and Gifted
Women's Fellowship
Pastoral Council
Music Ministry
Men's Spirituality
Parish Maintenance
Sacraments
Altar Servers
Men's Club
Social Justice
Greeters
Evangelization
Grief Ministry
Eucharistic Ministers
Hospitality
Faith Sharing
Lectors

There are many different ways to be involved in the community life of St. Anne's Parish. If you or a member of your family is interested in any of the above ministries please contact the church office.

Altar Servers
Help provide for the hospitality of the Sunday assembly by helping the presider, leading processions, setting the Holy Table, modeling the kind of service Jesus showed us at the last supper when he washed the disciples' feet. (from 1st Communion through adulthood.) We need those who would also help in forming and training servers.

Greeters
Welcome as Christ the members of the assembly, take up the collection and coordinate the procession of the gifts.

Eucharistic Ministers
Help with the hospitality of the Holy Table by distributing the Eucharist so that we can become that which nourishes us the body and blood of Christ.

Lectors
Proclaim the Scripture Readings so that the assembly might hear the living word of God.

I like the use of the word hospitality. Must be a hotel or country club.

Their Web site:

http://www.rc.net/oakland/stannes/

Here is what the Pope said about Archbishop Lefebvre and the bishops he consecrated, in his Ecclesia Dei letter: "The root of this schismatic act can be discerned in an incomplete and contradictory notion of Tradition. Incomplete, because it does not take sufficiently into account the living character of Tradition, which, as the Second Vatican Council clearly taught, 'comes from the apostles and progresses in the Church with the help of the Holy Spirit.'"

Of course the letter is NOT infallible. It is, in fact, wrong as well as reckless, condemning true Tradition while praising something called "living Tradition"--which he allows to be radical. What the Pope praises as living Tradition is in reality a revolution--a destruction of Tradition, stuff like this Fr. Ron's bizarre approach--which the Holy See seems to think is blessed by the Holy Spirit.

But Vatican I made it very clear: "For the Holy Spirit was not given to the Successors of Peter that by His revelation they might disclose new doctrine, but that by His help they might guard the revelation transmitted by the apostles and the deposit of faith." In other words, the Pontiff has no divine protection when he proclaims the new, but ONLY when he PROTECTS what has been handed-down already. This is what this Pontiff doesn't do.

Are you aware that the crucifix in my post that you deleted in your ignorance was carved by Michelangelo? Are we to be not allowed to post images of the noblest works of religious art in the Western tradition? What on earth are you thinking? I'm disgusted to see prudery of this sort -- grounded in a gross misunderstanding of human sexuality -- prevailing in a forum supposedly dedicated to serious religious discussion. Explain yourself and your phobic response to a reverent presentation of scriptural truth.

Pathetic.

Gee, I sure wish "Helen" would stand up tall and proud and tell us who she is. At least the Joyce Davis statements were solid.

My sister and brother in law lived in Discovery Bay.

I've attended Mass at St. Anne's a handful of times.

I found Fr. Ron to be not to my taste. I never heard him advocate anything this radical from the pulpit.

The most shocking thing to me was to hear the upper middle class ladies (the ones who were obviously involved in "ministry") refuse to use the word "man" while reciting the Creed. I couldn't believe it the first time I heard it and I paid close attention at later Masses. Political correctness trumps the Nicene Creed. Yikes!

The hosts were never unleavened.

Daily Mass was preceeded by the Rosary and the Divine Mercy chaplet.