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A Catholic University Church
Serving UCR & RCC Since 1971

January 3, 2021 V The Epiphany of the Lord

Newman Center Office
105 W Big Springs Road
Riverside, CA 92507
Phone: 951-682-8751
Fax: 951-682-3513
E-mail: newman.riv@sbdiocese.org
Parish office hours
Monday-Friday: 10 am – 4 pm
Mass Schedule:
All Masses are livestreamed.
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday: 5:30 pm
Tuesday: 8:30 am
Saturday: 5:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30 am
9:00 am
11:00 am
7:00 pm
Confessions are held on Saturdays from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm in the Amphitheatre, or by appointment.
Adoration: At this time, we are not offering Adoration hours.
Visit us on our website at
https://www.sanccatholic.org/
and join us on
YouTube for live Masses at
https://bit.ly/sancyoutube

Rev. Cyriacus A. Ogu
Administrator
E-mail: cyaoguh@gmail.com
Rev. Alwyn B. Anfone
Parochial Vicar
E-mail: aanfone@sbdiocese.org

Newman Center Staff
Susan Toledo
Office Manager
E-mail: drevolunteer.standrewsnc@sbdiocese.org
Eddie Garcia Custodial/Liturgical Assistant E-mail: edongarcia@sbdiocese.org
Volunteers/Staff
Susan Toledo
Religious Education
E-mail: drevolunteer.standrewsnc@sbdiocese.org
Leslie Ann Webster
Rite of Christian Initial of Adults
E-mail: lesliewebster02@gmail.com
Megan Hays
Edge Coordinator
E-mail: megan.hays7@gmail.com
Isabella Lopez
Life Teen
E-mail: lopez.isabella00@icloud.com
Newman Center Leaders
Pastoral Council/ Facilitators
Benjamin Sharp
E-mail: bensharp@msn.com
Gloria Lopez
E-mail: gloria.lopez1934@gmail.com
Finance Council, President
Ed Ridder
E-mail: eridder@aol.com
Ministry Leaders
Newman Sponsors, President
Carmen Marmo
E-mail: marmoposta@yahoo.com
951-780-2729
Dominican Laity
Paul Stempel
E-mail: Stempel_family@att.net
760-536-3376
Prayerline
Rita Bladow
951-788-4417
Ministry to the Sick
Sian Ormsby
951-780-5270
Social Justice Ministry
Michael Kinsman
E-mail: mkinsman@earthlink.net
BISHOP BARNES DIRECTIVES ABOUT COVID-19 CRISIS
https://www.youtube.com/embed/
YFO5UCeMyHA
This Barcode leads you to our website for registration, online giving etc.
STUDENT LEADERSHIP TEAM
(UCR)
Jair Rosas Cano
President
jrosa019@ucr.edu
Alejandra Rodriguez
Vice President
arodr157@ucr.edu
Amor Perez
Secretary
apere108@ucr.edu
Evan Naranjo
Treasurer
anara016@ucr.edu
Jason Merthan
Victoria Naser Sarvia
Social Chair/ Outreach Coordinator
jmert001@ucr.edu
vnase001@ucr.edu
Victoria Zamora
Praise & Worship
vzamo012@ucr.edu

January 3, 2021 pg. 2

Student Leadership team (UCR contd.)
Elizabeth Valdovines
Elleana Ornelas
Music Coordinator
evald012@ucr.edu
eorne002@ucr.edu
Vanessa Hernandez
CCamp Coordinator
vhern042@ucr.edu

Student Leadership team (RCC)
Josue Garcia
President
garcia.josue.d10@gmail.com
Ashley Vicente
Secretary/Treasurer ashley.vicente2@gmail.com

What we do…
Our mission is to strengthen the faith of these groups and develop their gifts so that they may grow into passionate, faithful disciples of Christ, leaders of the Catholic Church.

Who we are...
St. Andrew Newman Center is a campus ministry that complements the secular education provided at University of California at Riverside and Riverside Community College. We provide home for the students, members of the university and college communities, and others who choose to join in our mission.

How we do it…
We are a place of welcome, a worshipping community, a place of generous hospitality, and a resource for those seeking to learn about Scripture, the sacraments and Catholic tradition. We are a place where we reach out to others with love and an informed sense of justice.

Sacraments @ St. Andrew’s Newman Center
Sacraments of Initiation Sacrament of Reconciliation
Call the office. Posted times and by appointment.
Infant Baptism-Contact the office.
Sacrament of Marriage Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick
Contact the Office. Contact the Office.

St. Andrew Newman Center pg. 3

The Epiphany of the Lord

Readings for the Week
Sunday: Is 60:1-6/Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-13, /Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6/Mt 2:1-12
Monday: 1 Jn 3:22—4:6/Ps 2:7bc-8, 10-12a /Mt 4:12-17, 23-25
Tuesday: 1 Jn 4:7-10/Ps 72:1-4, 7-8 /Mk 6:34-44
Wednesday: 1 Jn 4:11-18/Ps 72:1-2, 10, 12-13 /Mk 6:45-52
Thursday: 1 Jn 4:19—5:4/Ps 72:1-2, 14,15bc,
17/Lk 4:14-22a
Friday: 1 Jn 5:5-13/Ps 147:12-15, 19-20
/Lk 5:12-16
Next Weekend: Is 55:1-11/Ps 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6 /1 Jn 5:1-9/Mk 1:7-11

Prayer for the Faithful Departed
Good and faithful God,
you have given us so many people in our lives
that have given us joy and solace.
On this day we ask you to remember
our dearly departed, especially (name of the dearly departed).
Keep them close to you as we all wait
for that day when we all will come
and worship in your presence.
We ask this through your Son,
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP - RECOGNIZE GOD IN YOUR ORDINARY MOMENTS
Wise Men See God in the Simple Things
If you’re on social media, you have probably seen a meme going around that features this quote: “God has a plan for your life. The enemy has a plan for your life. Be ready for both; just be wise enough to know which one to battle and which one to embrace.”
There were certainly two competing plans for the Magi: God’s and Herod’s. And, wise as they supposedly were, it wasn’t entirely easy for the Magi to discern which was which.
After all, Herod posed as a friend. He offered the Magi hospitality and kindness. Though the Gospel doesn’t say so, he probably flattered them and appealed to every moral weakness he could observe in them. In his palace, they must have felt great physical comfort — rest and tables of plenty on what was an otherwise long and treacherous journey.
But if the Magi were honest with themselves, I’ll bet they would have admitted that, regardless of Herod’s charm, they felt a gnawing sense of doubt while in his presence. When they looked upon the Christ Child, born in a stable without any of the comforts of the world or protections of wealth, they probably felt the opposite. They probably felt safe.
The Magi were lucky enough to have the right plan spelled out for them in a dream, but for the rest of us, it’s enough to remember this: God’s plan is often the one that leads us to places of great simplicity, great humility and great love. Let’s have the wisdom to view power with suspicion, and innocence with admiration.
— Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS

Save the Date
January 10th, 2021
3:00 pm
Join Bishop Alberto Rojas celebrating his first Migrant Mass in his new role here in the Diocese of San Bernardino.
Live-stream and RSVP links for in-person attendance are forth coming

January 3, 2021 pg. 4

Newman Center
News and Events

Catholic Student Fellowship
Students' Bible and Doctrinal Classes are now scheduled for Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. instead of Thursdays at 7:00 p.m.
1st Wednesday of the month—Doctrinal Classes.
2nd Wednesday of the month—Bible Study.
3rd Wednesday of the month—Doctrinal Classes.
4th Wednesday of the month— Bible Study.
The link is: https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95536978425?pwd=Y25WMUtoeldTcm8zSDFRdEkyZTJYQT09#success
Come and join us. All are encouraged to ask questions about their faith, practices of the church, your understanding of the Bible or the church or even on religion in general.
You remain in our prayers. Please invite a friend.

Retirement Blessings and Prayers
Bishop Gerald Barnes!
Exactly 25 years to the day after Bishop Gerald Barnes was appointed to be the second Bishop of San Bernardino, the Vatican announced that his retirement has been accepted by Pope Francis and his successor, Bishop Alberto Rojas, now assumes leadership of the nation’s fifth largest diocese.
Barnes, who has led the diocese for 25 years, announced in August 2019 his intention to retire at the age of 75, when diocesan bishops are required by Canon law to submit their resignations to the Pope.
Barnes was appointed as an auxiliary bishop of San Bernardino in 1992. In 1995, he was made ordinary bishop. The San Bernardino Sun described him in December 2019 as the longest-serving bishop at a U.S. diocese.
“The next 12 months will be a year unlike any other in recent memory in our diocese. It will be a time of ending, of new beginnings and, for me, a time of transition.” - Gerald Barnes

Faith Formation
Are you interested in learning more about the Catholic Church? Have you been a Catholic all your life but do not really understand why we need the sacrament of Reconciliation or what the anointing of the sick is all about? Have you wondered about the meaning of some of what is done during Mass? Have you felt like you know and you want to know more about Jesus or would like to know more about how to pray or even the meaning of prayer?
Are you thinking about getting married but have not received the sacrament of confirmation? Did you just think being confirmed was unnecessary and now you are wondering what you missed? Are you a Catholic who is marrying someone who is not a Catholic? Maybe, your fiancé would like to learn more about the Catholic Church or Tradition.
Do you feel that you lost your faith and someone or something is nudging you to revert or convert? You do feel you have someone you can recommend for this process? Why wait further? Your move can start a whole process to faith gain or renewal.
Join us for RCIA/Adult Confirmation program. RCIA means Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. Through the RCIA/Adult confirmation process, you are guided through the fundamentals of the Catholic faith in order to open your life more fully to Jesus Christ through his Church. There is no charge and all are welcome.
All classes are scheduled on Thursday evenings between 6:30 and 8:00 PM. Students are asked to register for classes at times which will accommodate the RCIA schedule. If you are interested but you are not sure if you can make it to the Thursday evening classes, please let us know. Due to COVID-19 it is likely we will be using Zoom/Skype and/or other platforms for classes for an indeterminate period of time; pending when things normalize. Our program is an expedited one that takes less that one year.
You remain in our prayers as you discern. This is the moment of salvation. Let us make the best use of it.
For more information, please contact Leslie Webster at St. Andrew Newman Center, (951) 682-8751, ext. 104 or lesliewebster02@gmail.com.

St. Andrew Newman Center pg. 5

SOME IMPORTANT LINKS FOR EASY ACCESS TO SITES
SAINT ANDREW NEWMAN CENTER, RIVERSIDE CA
· For weekly sign-up for Sunday or weekend Holy Masses, please use this:
https://www.sanccatholic.org/mass-signups
· For our online giving, please use the link below:
https://sanccatholic.churchgiving.com/
DIOCESE OF SAN BERNARDINO
This Live Stream link from the diocese will be for all of the Daily Masses at 8:00am, but not including Sunday Masses:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkh70Ts7bDd0bO2W83ahCzCPYQuJAI-nN
This link is for all of the upcoming Sunday Masses at 11:00am in English: Sunday Mass:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkh70Ts7bDd1xKUlzGvTIsPkTPVC2ft62

Saturday	1-02	5:30 PM	John Estel (+)
Sunday	1-03	11:00 AM / 7:00 PM	John Estel (+) / Pro Populo
Monday	1-04	5:30 PM	John Estel (+)
Tuesday	1-05	8:30 AM
Wednesday	1-06	5:30 PM
Thursday	1-07	5:30 PM	Alex Candelaria (+)
Friday	01-08	5:30 PM	Mary Grace Ott (+)

Bishop Alberto Rojas— The 3rd Ordinary Bishop of San Bernardino
A statement released by the Vatican Press Office declared that “the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of San Bernardino, United States of America, presented by Bishop Gerald Richard Barnes. He is succeeded by Bishop Alberto Rojas, until now coadjutor of the same diocese.”
Bishop Rojas takes the reins of the Diocese after a tumultuous year caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The 93 parishes of the Diocese have been unable since March of 2020 to hold Mass in their churches at full capacity. This has interrupted the traditional flow of income to the parishes and the Diocese – the weekly collections taken at Mass. As a result, some parishes and Catholic schools have had to lay off employees and the Diocese has instituted a weekly furlough program to cut costs. In his message, Bishop Rojas acknowledged the difficulties facing the Diocese as he begins his time as Ordinary Bishop. He said the dynamism of the people of the Diocese and his own experience of faith will help carry the Diocese.
“In my years of ministry, from the seminary days to serving as priest and then as a bishop in Chicago, I have encountered many new challenges,” he said. “I have always trusted in God’s plan for me to serve His Church, and that He will give me all that I need to do his work. When I reflect on this, I have great joy and hope for our future together sisters and brothers!” - Bishop Alberto Rojas

Remember: Online Giving
Continued Donor Support for Our Parish from WeShare
During these unsettling times, we want you to know that WeShare Support is available to your parishioners. Our Customer Service Team has been transitioned to their home offices for the safety and wellbeing of our employees and their families. During this time, we will be available to assist you with your online giving needs whenever the need arises.
With your parish offices closed, please be sure to take note of our Customer Service phone number and email so that we may continue to help your parishioners while you are away.
WeShare Donor Customer Service
Phone Number: 800-950-9952 (press #3 and then
press #2)
Email: weshare@4lpi.com

TO REPORT THE SEXUAL ABUSE OF A CHILD by a priest, deacon, employee, or volunteer, call the toll free Sexual Misconduct Hotline at (888) 206-9090.

Farmer Boys Fundraiser: First Saturday of each month, 2:00-10:00 p.m. Pick up a flyer.
Religious Education: March 1st, 8:00 a.m.
Dominican Laity: Meets monthly. Next meeting March 15th. St. Thomas Aquinas, 12:00 noon.
Shawl Ministry: Every 2nd Monday of the month, St. Rose of Lima Room, 7:00 p.m.
Book Club: Every 1st Tuesday of the month, St. Thomas Aquinas Room, 7:00 p.m.
Edge: Wednesday, 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
LifeTeen: Sunday, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Social Justice Meeting: Every 2nd Tuesday of the month, St. Thomas Aquinas Room, 6:00 p.m.
FCC Women’s Ministry: Every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month, Library, 10:00 a.m.
Newman Sponsors: The 2nd Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m.
RCIA: Thursdays at 6:30 p.m., Library.
Woman’s Bible Study: Every 1st and 3rd Friday, St. Rose of Lima Room, 9:30 a.m.
Choirs Meet Weekly
5:30 p.m.-Tuesdays, St. Rose of Lima Room, 6:30 p.m.
9:00 a.m.-Wednesdays, St. Rose of Lima Room, 7:30.p.m.
11:00 a.m.-Wednesdays, Chapel, 7:00 p.m. and Sundays, St. Rose of Lima Room, 9:30 a.m.
7:00 p.m.-Thursdays, St. Rose of Lima Room, 7:30 p.m.

Stewardship:
Fifth Sunday of Easter
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Remember SANC in your End-of-Year Appeal!
This year, we have all faced challenges. With an unprecedented pandemic, the adaption of working remotely, sharing bandwidth with children and neighbors, restructuring a “new” normal, and most importantly, dealing with COVID-19 and its death toll, we all have been affected in various and multiple avenues in our lives.
The effect of the virus running rampant isn’t much better; the loss of job stability, the absence of friends and family during critical moments, events, or holidays, the stress of parents having to work from home and manage their children’s education… the list can go on.
In midst of all the things going on in the world, we have our hope, joy, and trust in the newly birthed Jesus. This Holiday Season, we are reminded that when we are able to give some of our time, talents, and financial assistance to the church, we are bringing hope, help, and joy to others in need of pastoral care and support.
We are so blessed and immensely grateful for the support we have received to keep our Center operating as an essential service. We ask that the LORD continues to touch the hearts of His Faithful, for increased generosity in giving so that we may continue to live and share the Gospel with all who encounter us, and to bless abundantly those who answer.

COVID-19
RESOURCES OFFERED BY THE DIOCESE OF SAN BERNARDINO
https://www.sbdiocese.org/COVID-19Resources/index
.html

Live the Liturgy
Inspiration of the Week
Do we really understand how important our relationships with our brothers and sisters throughout the world truly are? Many give God’s commandment to love your neighbor and yourself a congenial glance of approval and agreement without really thinking about the implications. Sometimes it is easier to kneel in reverence before the tabernacle in a church than to kneel in reverence before the tabernacle of another person’s soul. Witnessing and being consumed by the Divine Power alive in the heart of every living being transforms not only how we see our brothers and sisters but how we see God Himself. The cries of the poor and those who are hurting must echo in our hearts. We can no longer be deaf to the world’s pain. It is no longer acceptable to judge others, unduly criticize, or marginalize, neglect, abuse, manipulate, or participate in the exploitation of anyone! We are asked to become hypersensitive to not only what we are doing, but why we are doing it. This holds true not only with regard to the daily conduct of our lives but our economic and corporate relationships and policies as well.

SANC Mass Schedule: 1st Page of This Bulletin
The link is: https://bit.ly/sancyoutube
Only 100 people are allowed per Mass. Wearing a mask is required. To ensure seating at any of the Masses, please go to our website and use the link to sign up for our weekend Masses. Thank you.

The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
Tragedy and disappointment are inevitable. What sees you through this? There will be challenges, changes, unexpected circumstances, interrupted plans, hurts, and injustices experienced by every human being at some point in their lives. We will be asked to adjust our plans, change course, and even encounter suffering and death. Where do we learn all of the lessons we need to live life well? Some of them we learn along the way but much of what we bring to life, positive and negative, comes from our early beginnings, our families. This is our early world and provides the blueprint for how we see the bigger, more inclusive world, which unfolds before us.
Our families of origin can be sources of grace, heartache or a combination of both. Families are intended to be pivotal in providing us with proper social structure and understanding, a support system, lessons about relationships and communication, and the unconditional acceptance and love we so desperately crave. They can also determine whether we have an accessible and healthy relationship with God. Many of life’s challenges can literally bring us to our knees and require that we possess a strength of character that resides well beyond the superficialities of our world. At some point we will all need three coping gifts that can be given to us only by God: faith, hope, and love. Our families help us learn that we are not the ones responsible for their creation, but God!
Our experience of early family life colors all of our relationships and what we expect to achieve from life in general. Resolving conflicts, dealing with difficulty and suffering, celebrating accomplishments, prioritizing our needs, listening to God’s call, understanding relationships, understanding disappointment, learning about the virtues and living a centered focused life are all lessons our families either succeed in teaching or do not. To succeed, as God has designed and ordered our world, is to discover his presence and then trust that Presence. The Holy Family can teach even the most dysfunctional family how to best use God’s gifts of faith, hope, and love to find him and do his will. Their simple humble example is always before us, showing us the way. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, pray for us!

Catholic Student Fellowship
Attention All College Students:
Catholic Student Fellowship is an organization rooted in helping college students grow in faith, community, and friendships in Christ.
CSF meets Monday nights at 7:00 p.m. in the Library. The next general meeting will be on Monday, March 2nd at 7:00 p.m. ?????
If you are in need of a ride, feel free to contact us via our email, csfucrnewman@gmail.com or Instagram @newmancentercsf. Bring a friend.

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