[Watermark] Rec Day!

Hi Watermark!

Our first Rec Day is coming up soon!  As we've been announcing for the last two weeks, the Dioceses of Northern California are sponsoring the ONFIRE NorCal Jam 2010 featuring Matt Maher.  It will be all day on Saturday, October 16 and will be our Rec Day event (that means no Boom Sizzle).  

The details can be found on our blog: http://sjccc.org/groups/watermark/rec-day-onfire-norcal-jam-2010/

Because we will be traveling and buying tickets together, the deadline to register for this event will be Sunday, October 3.  Please turn in permission slips (which are attached) to Pat.  Beyond this deadline, you will be responsible for your own rides and your own tickets.  If you have any questions, please email Pat at patrick.ku @ alumni.usc.edu.

God Bless!

9/26: Consolation Ministry, Adoration, Pictures from Rite of Acceptance

Dear brothers and sisters,
Here are some new/updated articles on the San Jose Chinese Catholic Community website:

• Ministry of Consolation: Friday Workshops on 10/1, 10/8, 10/15 & 10/22.
• Adoration: Saturday 10/2 Adoration & Holy Hour - first Saturday at 7:30pm.
• 9-day Novena for Evangelization: 9/22-9/30 to St. Teresa of Lisieux, 10/1 is the feast day for St. Teresa of Lisieux and the canonized date for the Martyr Saints of China.
• Urgent Prayer Requests: Teresa Lai's Mom
• RCIA: 10/3 topic is "What is Church." See the program schedule. Please invite friends and pray for evangelization.
• Prayer/Book Club: Starting 10/4 for people interested in evangelization, especially if your spouse is not yet a Catholic.
• Pictures: Rite of Acceptance into the Order of Catechuments on 9/26/2010.
• Spiritual: Sister Li sharing China Mission after Mass on 10/5.
• Reflection: 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
• Other Announcements: See SJCCC.org website including Hospitality location move and 2011 Calendar sale.

If you have community pictures to share, or you would like to help us, please send email to webteam@sjccc.org, thank you!

May God bless you and your family with a joyful week,
San Jose Chinese Catholic Community

9/19: Prayer Request, Book club, pictures from Watermark Parents meeting

Dear brothers and sisters,
Here are some new/updated articles on the SJCCC website:

• Prayer Request for Evangelization: 9-day Novena 9/22-9/30 to St. Teresa of Lisieux.
• Prayer Group: Saturday 9/25 Praising, healing, and sharing - 2nd & 4th Saturdays at 8pm.
• RCIA: 9/26 topic is "Meaning of Resurrection of Jesus." See the program schedule. Please invite friends and pray for evangelization.
• Prayer/Book Club: Starting 10/4 for people interested in evangelization, especially if your spouse is not yet a Catholic.
• Ministry of Consolation: Workshops on 10/1, 10/8, 10/15 & 10/22.
• Pictures: Watermark Parents met during the first Watermark gathering. Find out more about Watermark Ministry at Watermarkministry.com.
• Sacred Heart School: Chinese & CM classes started on 9/19. See details!
• Prayer: Prayers of the Faithfuls for week of 9/19/2010.
• Reflection: 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

If you have community pictures to share, or you would like to help us, please send email to webteam@sjccc.org, thank you!

May God bless you and your family with a loving week,
SJCCC Web Team

PS, The bulletin in pdf format can be viewed/printed at the SJCCC Website (http://www.sjccc.org), by clicking on:每週通訊 on the left.

9/19 同工派遣禮 makeup

Dear all,

There will be commissioning of the Sacred Heart School teachers during the Union Sunday Mass on 9/19.

We shall also take this opportunity to perform commissioning of the following group members who did not get commissioned on 8/15.

(1)     New group or new group members since 8/15. Such as new members of Choir group, new Faith Sharing group etc.

(2)     Members in your group that were missed last time.

(3)     Members who were absent on 8/15 and they prefer to be present when they are commissioned.

Please send me their names so that they can participate in this important process.

Thank you very much.

God bless,

Kam Chow

[Watermark] First Boom Sizzle and a Volunteer Opportunity

Hi Watermark!

Though summer is over, Boom Sizzle(TM) is back and in full force!  As usual, for the first one of the year, we go big and do it potluck style.  This year, however, the main dish will be provided.  All high schoolers are invited to come and join in on the fun.  Parents are invited as well.  We will be having a separate Parents Meeting during the course of the festivities.

To essentials:

Who: High Schoolers and Parents

What: First Watermark Boom Sizzle of 2010-2011

When: Saturday, 9/18 from 6:30PM - 10:00PM

Where: St. Clare's Lower Church

 

Food Assignments:

Seniors - Desserts

Juniors - Appetizers

Sophomores - Desserts

Freshmen - Drinks

and here's a volunteer opportunity for anyone who's interested:

Place: M.T. Liang Senior Center, Self-Help for the Elderly, 1050 St. Elizabeth Drive, San Jose CA 95126
Time: 8am-1pm, Oct. 9, 2010

Schedule:
         All Groups: 8-9am: Set up tents, tables and chairs.

         Group 1: 9~10am Traffic Patrol, 10~11am Leading Walk, 11am~12pm Serve Lunch

         Group 2: 9~11am Registration Table, 11am~12pm Serve Lunch

         Group 3: 9am~12pm Restroom Patrol

         Group 4: 9am~12pm Lunch Preparation

         All Groups: 12-1pm: Lunch & Clean up

Community Service: 5 hour Certificate

Anyone who is interested please email Lina Pan (linap @ selfhelpelderly.org) to sign up by Sep.17 noon.

9/12: School & Watermark starting, Bible Reading Survey

Dear brothers and sisters,
Here are some new/updated articles on the SJCCC website:

• Reflection: 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
• Sacred Heart School: Welcome back! CM classes start on 9/19 with 118 registered students. See details!
• Watermark/High School: 9/18 Long Awaited first Watermark Session with a 6:30 Potluck for students & parents, more info to come.
• Bible Reading Group Survey: a new class is being planned, please provide your feedback and send to your group leaders.
• RCIA: 9/19 topic is "Meaning of Death and Coming of Jesus." See the program schedule. Please invite friends and pray for evangelization.
• Liturgy: Union Mass on 9/19, we celebrate Mass as a big family in both Chinese and English.
• Prayer: Prayers of the Faithfuls for week of 9/12/2010.
• Calendars: Please see the community calendar (or click "Calendar" on the left of sjccc.org webpage) and the Sacred Heart School calendar. For updates, please contact group leaders or send email to webteam@sjccc.org).
• Spiritual: Saturday 9/17 Taize prayer in Fremont at Dominican Sisters.

If you have community pictures to share, or you would like to help us, please send email to webteam@sjccc.org, thank you!

May God bless you and your family with a loving week,
SJCCC Web Team

Bible reading proposals Survey

Dear group leaders,

In order to enhance our faith and our Biblical knowledge, the Board has invited Mike Pan (潘齊家) to hold a Bible Reading Group. I would like to express appreciation for his willingness to contribute his effort.  

The followings are three proposals from Mike:

(1)     Read 6 pages of the Bible per day. The Bible can be read through in one year.  

(2)     Read the Sunday Mass Gospel and Readings.

(3)     Discussion of some important topics such as 救恩 復活 聖母etc.

Although we would like Mike to help in all three of above proposals for the most benefit of our community, due to time and resource limitation Mike is able to do one at a time.

We would like to know which of the above three is most appealing to everyone. Please help us by asking your team members to complete the survey form. The time shown on the form is tentative, feel free to make suggestion if there is a conflict of schedule.

Turn in the survey in hard copy or by email before 9/25 to An-Pung Yueh (ap3088 @ hotmail.com) , or to our secretary, Irene Tang (Tangmc06 @ gmail.com) , Hui-Chun Chen, or Theresa Hu.

Thank you very much for your attention and cooperation.

God bless,

Kam Chow

SJCCC Board

Survey Form: http://sjccc.org/download/2010-09-Bible-Reading-Survey.doc

September Council Meeting

Dear SJCCC Team Leaders and Members, 

You are cordially invited to attend the September council meeting. 

Date: Thursday, September 9th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Place: St. Clare's Classroom #5 

The agenda is as follows: 

1. Prayer/Faith Sharing
2. Review of August Meeting minutes
3. Practicing how to pray - 播種祈禱的種子,五週日常生活祈禱練習 ( Ana Tsai )
4. Enneagram Workshop ( Anna Tsai )
5. Faith Sharing Group ( Joseph Chiang )
6. Mike Pan's Bible Reading Format Survey
7. Ministry of Consolation Workshop ( Rosa Wang )
8. LA Congress committee update ( Joseph Ku )
9. Christmas Party Planning ( Chin-Wen Chen )
10. Financial Report ( Therese Merrill )

In Christ,
Kam Chow
SJCCC Board

Configure Dada Mail to send Chinese Emails

To Configure Dada Mail to send Emails in Chinese (Big5) by default:

1. add the Chinese char set in: ~/www/cgi-bin/dada/DADA: change Config.pm

• Change:
$HTML_CHARSET ||= 'iso-8859-1';
• To:
$HTML_CHARSET ||= 'big5';  

# $HTML_CHARSET ||= 'iso-8859-1';

• Add:

'Chinese Traditional (Big5) big5',

• Change:
charset => 'English (en) iso-8859-1',
• To:
# charset => 'English (en) iso-8859-1',

charset => 'Traditional Chinese (Big 5) big5',

2. Configure Dada Mail front end to use Chinese as default

• Select "Sending Options" on the left panel
• Select "Advanced" on the bottom
• Change "Default Character Set of Mailings " to 'Traditional Chinese (Big 5) big5'

3. It's also recommended that before you send an email, on your browser, change the  Character Encoding to Chinese Traditional (Big5), in Firefox, this is under "View->Character Encoding"

9/5: Prayer Group Meeting & Teachers' Retreat pictures

Dear brothers and sisters,
Here are some new/updated articles on the SJCCC website:

• Reflection: 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.
• Prayer Group: Saturday 9/11 Praising, healing, and sharing - 2nd & 4th Saturdays at 8pm.
• Sacred Heart School: 9/12 Parent Meeting, 9/19 classes start. See details!
• RCIA: 9/12 topic is "God's Plan of Salvation." See the program schedule. Please invite friends and pray for evangelization.
• Bible Study Groups: Contacts and Schedule (updated).
• Pictures: Teachers' Retreat with Fr. Kenan - 8/28/2010.
• Prayer: Prayers of the Faithfuls for week of 9/5/2010.
• Calendars: Please see the community calendar (or click "Calendar" on the left of sjccc.org webpage) and the Sacred Heart School calendar. For updates, please contact group leaders or send email to webteam@sjccc.org).
• Spiritual: Saturday 9/17 Taize prayer in Fremont at Dominican Sisters.

If you have community pictures to share, or you would like to help us, please send email to webteam@sjccc.org, thank you!

May God bless you and your family with a loving week,
SJCCC Web Team

PS, The bulletin in pdf format can be viewed/printed at the SJCCC Website (http://www.sjccc.org), by clicking on:每週通訊 on the left.