Pray for the recovery of Fr. Rick's health

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ:

Recently, doctors have discovered that Fr. Rick, our pastor of the St. Clare Parish, has prostate cancer. He wrote an article, titled as "What to avoid when you have cancer", on the bulletin flyer of last week. While holding complete faith and trust to God, he requests our prayer to him as "God's will be done". The article expresses his deeper appreciation of what the experience may bring us a greater solidarity as a human family, let's extend our prayer for a full recovery of his health.

God Bless,
SJCCC Chair Board

Pictures from Fr. Wang's 88th Birthday

Pictures from Fr. Wang's 88th Birthday Party. See the original version at: http://picasaweb.google.com/SJCCC1/0903FrWang88#slideshow/5318124206345693474

SJCCC eNews: Easter Celebration Invitation & RSVP

Dear brothers and sisters,
Peace and Joy to you and your family!

1. All of us have been praying for the upcoming Easter Event on 4/12. This year, we will celebrate with lunch, exciting sharing from the recently baptized, praising from Choir, childcare with games, as well as egg hunt and cakes after Mass.
11:30 - 12:00 PM 接待 - Registration
12:00 - 01:00 PM 午餐招待 - Lunch
01:00 - 02:30 PM 見證分享，童玩活動 - Sharing (with Childcare)
03:00 - 04:30 PM 復活節彌撒(感恩禮) - Mass
04:30 - 05:00 PM 復活節撿蛋及蛋糕 - Egg Hunt and Cake

2. Now, it's time to follow the Holy Spirit and invite friends and family, especially those who are not yet Catholics, to join us. Here are 3 versions of the flyers that you can download and use:
簡體中文: http://www.sjccc.org/et/messages/09-03-ET-Easter-Invitation-Simplified.pdf
繁體中文: http://www.sjccc.org/et/messages/09-03-ET-Easter-Invitation-Traditional.pdf
英文標題 (great for posting): http://www.sjccc.org/et/messages/09-03-ET-Easter-Invitation-English.pdf

3. To best prepare for the lunch, the activities, and childcare, we urge you to follow up and get RSVP to 湯明昭 at 408-216-9848 or 陳惠群 at 408-272-4975 by Monday 4/6. Please feel free to contact Tony Fu (408-318-7403) if there are any questions or issues.

Thank you for your work for Christ and our Community!

May God bless you and your family always,
Chair Board

Embedded System Conference

To all,

Next week, ESC is coming to town at McEnery Convention Center 3/31-4/2. You can sign up for a free pass using the following URL. You can sign up many workshops. One of the keynote speaker is Freescale CTO Lisa Hsu, a Chinese Female officer.

ESC


Best Regards,
Joe Tang
408-505-8996(c)

Job Seeker Support: You Can Do It!

Dear brothers and sisters,
Yes, we can!

"If God is with us, who can be against us?" This was part of the Sunday reading from a couple of weeks ago. Let's continue to encourage and remind each other that God is with us.

I have just talked to Cris, and here is a reminder that we have a special support meeting this week. We have 3 speakers sharing some perspectives of the future about Green tech and computing.

Time: 3/22, 4:15-5:45
Location: Rectory
Sharing From: Joseph Teng, Daniel Wang, Tony Fu plus brainstorming and discussion

We are also arranging other topics such as financial planning and starting a small business in upcoming sessions. If you can speak to the topic or recommend someone, please let Cris know. Thank you very much!

May God bless you and your family always,
+Tony

PS, sharing this very touching and inspirational "You Can Shine" video with you.
http://www.blessed-family.org/index.php/resources/web-inspirational/79-you-can-shine-pentene.html

SJCCC Community Council Meeting minutes 3/12/09

We had a good community council meeting last night. 18 people attended.

Here are the summary of our meeting (3/12/09)
1. Easter Sunday Evangelization meeting,
4/12, St. Clare Parish Hall
11:30-12:30PM, Sandwich & Soup, (Jessica Wang )
12:30-2:30PM, Song & Testimony (Ken Wang)
3:00-4:30PM Easter Mass
4:30-5:30PM Cake & Easter Egg Hunting for Children (CM teacher & Parents)
Invitation(Joseph Ku)-Gather invitee name, arrange host
Prayer (Yvonne Chow) & Pre-RCIA (Tony Fu) – community prayer for the invitees
Logistic support (????)- name tag, table setup, clean up
Baby sitting support (????) – provide service during Testimony time
Testimony program (Tien-Bao Shih, WaterMark Youth, Choir group)
If you can offer help in any of the tasks, please contact Joseph Ku 650-283-8170
2. Tijuana Mission Trip,
We had 27 high school youths signed up, plus 2 young adults and 5 parents plus Fr. Olivera.
Currently we have 35 people plan to go. Trip time : 6/29-7/4. We'll build one house and conduct vacation bible school for the local children. They'll start orientation and fund raising activities for all the participants. They still need a few more young adults who have previous experience to participate. They'll have a backup plan in case Tijuana local violence prevents their trip.
3. Sacred Heart Chinese School
For the new school year in Fall 2009, they will have an open meeting to community on 4/26 about their new plan for the school which includes new curriculum, possible tuition raise and teacher's compensation.
4. Feb09 financial statement indicated short fall ($18018.45), Donation: $6840, Expense : $24,858.45.

Joseph Ku

Ching-Ming Mass 4/4 11:00AM Gate of Heaven

清明彌撒
時間：四月四日上午十一點
主禮：汪中璋主教
Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery
in All Saints Chapel
22555 Cristo Rey Drive, Los Altos, CA
Date: April 4, 2009
Celebrant: Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius C. Wong, J.C.D.

For Additional Information: Gate of Heaven Cemetery 650-428-3730
or Frances Carrasco Leyerle 408-258-2940 x208
Chinese Ching-Ming Mass

Sponsored by
The Catholic Cemeteries of the Diocese of San Jose
with the support of the Chinese Catholic Community
Refreshments & Appetizers following Mass