Joyful CNY & Watermark Pictures

Dear brothers and sisters,
This week, we are happy to present to you two sets of joyful pictures from the Chinese New Year celebration, Watermark Retreat and Watermark 2011 Tijuana Mission preparation! If you have pictures to share, please contact us at webteam@sjccc.org. Here are the highlights of this week at http://www.sjccc.org:

• 四旬期避靜: Mark the calendar: 3/19, information to come.
• 神修與分享: 疏效平弟兄講習會 (4/8-4/9): 天主的國臨近了，你們悔改，信從福音罷！.
• 聖城通訊雙月刊: this week's featured articles in Jan/Feb Web Edition. Please read and share with a friend by email or by Facebook: 紹穎的枯葉逢春憶主恩, 黃崇文及詹芳郁的地中海遊輪朝聖記, and 劉洪昌的天主的廣闊高深.
• 回味中國新年慶典 (NEW): 照片之一 and 照片之二. Wow, so many smiling faces!!
• Watermark: (NEW) TJ2011 為幫助小兄弟造房子的準備 and Watermark Retreat 照片.

See SJCCC.org website for other news including:

• 成人慕道班: RCIA - topic for 3/7 is 『聖秩與婚配聖事』. See the RCIA program schedule. Please continue pray for evangelization.
• 本周更新: This week's Gospel Reflections
• 祈禱: please pray for 李哲修神父.
• 禮儀輔祭組徵尋組長: Are you called to lead the Altar Servers ministry? Please contact Jonathan Lin, Tien Chia Huang(天佳) or Angie Wang (恩琪).
• 神修資訊: 應以新的心神事奉天主 - 講習會錄音(MP3) and 『救恩的故事』 CD.
• 甘神父的八天神操避靜: 3 sessions of 8-Day Spiritual Exercises by Fr. Gan, please register online to reserve your spot. (請把握時機爭取到僅有的六~八個名額.)

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

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

TJ2011: st all hands meeting - Reminder

Final reminding of the meeting Saturday morning at 10:00AM.

See you all there,

Vincent

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Vincent Lau <vin120856@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all TJ2011 participants,

As of today, we have a total of 30 people (including 2 from LA) will join the trip.  This June, instead of building a house, we will have 2 extension projects which will be very challenging, and since we have quite a few participants went last year, I am very confident that we can finish the projects within 5 days.  Since not everybody knows who's who, let's have our 1st all hands meeting in order to meet face to face and start out group bonding.

Time:  Saturday 2/26/11 from 10:00 to noon

Place:  St Clare room 3 (Fr. O, please open the door for us on that day)

Agenda:  1.  Project sharing - Vincent

              2.  Fund raising activity as a group (individual fund raising still encouraged) - John M.

              3.  Hands on training schedule - Vincent

              4.  Safety - Stephen W.

              5.  Q & A - All

We are all "TEAM PLAYERS", so mark your calendar and please try your best to be there in person since lots of information will be shared, and don't want to see anybody being left behind.

Note:  Again, if you haven't pay yet (no exception except Fr. O), please bring the check with you (pay to SJCCC), otherwise, your name will be removed from the list.
Vincent Lau

Upcoming Seminar; Photos from Marynoll Party & Fr. Aldrich's Seminar

Dear brothers and sisters,

Praise and thank God for a very blessed completion of the Watermark Youth Group and Young Adults Retreat, especially for the Confirmation class! If you were touched by the Lord, please share your experience in our Holy City like Henry Shu have done. you have pictures to share, please contact us at webteam@sjccc.org.
Here are the highlights of this week at http://www.sjccc.org:

• 神修與分享: 疏效平弟兄講習會 (4/8-4/9): 天主的國臨近了，你們悔改，信從福音罷！.
• 聖城通訊雙月刊: this week's featured articles in Jan/Feb Web Edition. Please read and share with a friend by email or by Facebook: 徐錦堯神父的信仰是什麼？, 海霞的鮮活的朝聖之旅, and 與李家同教授一席談─福傳方向.
• 福傳機會: 張開雙手福傳音樂會 (Open Our Hands Evangelization Concert) on 2/27. Free tickets available, please contact Simon Liao.
• 團體相簿 (NEW): Chinese New Year at Marynoll (2/12) and 艾神父 Senminar (2/12).

See SJCCC.org website for other news including:

• 成人慕道班: RCIA - topic for 2/27 is Reconciliation and Anointing of Sick. See the RCIA program schedule. Please continue pray for evangelization.
• 本周更新: This week's updates on Gospel Reflections and Prayer Intentions
• 祈禱: Pray to Saint Clare (本堂主保聖女佳蘭).
• 禮儀輔祭組徵尋組長: Are you called to lead the Altar Servers ministry? Please contact Jonathan Lin, Tien Chia Huang(天佳) or Angie Wang (恩琪).
• 神修資訊: 應以新的心神事奉天主 - 講習會錄音(MP3) and 『救恩的故事』 CD.
• 甘神父的八天神操避靜: 3 sessions of 8-Day Spiritual Exercises by Fr. Gan, please register online to reserve your spot. (請把握時機爭取到僅有的六~八個名額.)

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



May God bless you and your family with a joyful week and a very blessed year,

San Jose Chinese Catholic Community

Web: Joomla "Prev/Next" Navigation setting

We have the "Navigation" turned on in Joomla by default, which means at the bottom of the article, Joomla automatically provides <Prev> and <Prev> (or in Chinese <前一個> and <下一個>).  This is a very useful feature for the users to navigate to another article after reading the current one.  This is also useful to automatically provide internal links for search engine.
This is done by setting the Navigation in Article Manager->Parameters to Show, and by setting the Navigation in all the menu items to Use Global.

Question:

Sometime, this automatic navigation in Joomla does not make sense. For example, this page: http://sjccc.org/index.php/finance.html should point to earlier finance report instead of next community announcement.  What do you suggest?

Answer:
This "<Prev> and <Prev>" feature basically go to the prev/next article in a Category, so if you group all the financial articles into a category, then it would behave like what you'd like.

If you would like to turn this particular one off, since it's a menu item, you can select "Menus" on the top, and pick "團體". edit the article '財務 Finance', on the right rail, click "Parameters (Component)", and change "Show Navigation" from "Use Global" to "Hide", and Save.

Holy City Jan/Feb Web Edition

Dear brothers and sisters,
Thank you all for a very beautiful and blessed tri-lingual celebration today with 7 priests and a deacon! What a blessed new year for this Chinese Catholic community! If you have pictures from the Mass, culture activities and receptions to share, please contact us at webteam@sjccc.org. Here are the highlights of this week at http://www.sjccc.org:

• 聖城通訊雙月刊 (Updated): Holy City Magazine Jan/Feb Web Edition is now available! Is there an article you want to share with someone? Click on these articles and send to a friend by email or by Facebook, such as: 臺灣主教團教友年牧函, 四旬期若望故事：水、光及生命 (活水編譯小組), Retreat Reflections (Henry Shu)
• 神修與分享: Watermark High School Retreat 2/18-2/10: Spiritual Warfare, 認識天主教信仰(星期六, 2/19, 7:30 - 9:30PM) 分享短暫死亡中的經歷.
• 團體相簿 (NEW): Watermark & Parents Potluck (2/12).

See SJCCC.org website for other news including:

• 祈禱: Rose Diep Kao (葉玫瑰女士) funeral announcement, Pray to Saint Clare (本堂主保聖女佳蘭).
• 禮儀輔祭組徵尋組長: Altar Servers have been given a divine privilege above all earthy honors in being permitted within the sanctuary to serve at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Please contact Jonathan Lin, Tien Chia Huang(天佳) or Angie Wang (恩琪) if you would like to serve.
• 成人慕道班: RCIA - topic for 2/20 is Baptism. See the RCIA program schedule. Please continue pray for evangelization.
• 本周更新: This week's updates on Gospel Reflections and Prayer Intentions
• 神修資訊: 應以新的心神事奉天主 - 講習會錄音(MP3) and 『救恩的故事』 CD.
• 甘神父的八天神操避靜: 3 sessions of 8-Day Spiritual Exercises by Fr. Gan, please register online to reserve your spot. (請把握時機爭取到僅有的六~八個名額.)

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

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

TJ2011: Fremont BART Construction Site tour for 2011 TJ Mission participants

Vincent:

I have set up a construction site tour at the BART subway project at Fremont Central Park (part of the Warn Springs Extension) with BART's Community Outreach Program.  I told them we have a total of around 20 people interested seeing the construction. My company is working on the excavation steel shoring system installation and removal on this project.

Date : Feb 21, 2011 (Presidents' Day, a school holiday )

Time: 10:00 am
Location : 1320 Stevenson Blvd, Fremont

Hardhat Tour (that can walk inside the actual fenced-in construction site) for 16 years or older in age

12 spaces available

 Fence Line Tour (that can see the site but not actually walk inside) for kids younger than 16 years of age.

 8 spaces or so available. 

There will be an overview project orientation for both tours at the site trailer.

Both tours will start at the same time and finish at about the same time 

The whole thing will take about 1 to 1-1/2 hour.

I will be there and Need at least another 2 or 3 parents 

Spaces are limited so get back to me ASAP if you are interested in going.  

Give me your name and age

No tennis shoes !  Proper safety shoes are required ( we will need that for TJ mission trip anyway !)

Stephen

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Stephen,

Thank you very much to set this up, and we usually don't have this opportunity to visit this kind of construction site.  Quite a few of TJ2011 participants are living fairly close to the construction site, and since it's on Monday, I am not sure how many parents are getting that day off (at least I have to work). 

Hi all TJ participants,

Anybody interested in going?  This is a very rare opportunity, and do reply back to me ASAP, and again, we need another 2-3 adults.

Thanks,

Vincent Lau
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Hi all,

 

Just confirmed with Stephen that he will have an oral surgery on this Friday, and in order to make sure Stephen can have enough rest for speedy recovery, so we decided to cancel this construction site tour.  Have a wonderful long weekend.

 

Thanks,

 

Vincent

TJ2011: 1st all hands meeting - Mandatory

Hi all TJ2011 participants,

As of today, we have a total of 30 people (including 2 from LA) will join the trip.  This June, instead of building a house, we will have 2 extension projects which will be very challenging, and since we have quite a few participants went last year, I am very confident that we can finish the projects within 5 days.  Since not everybody knows who's who, let's have our 1st all hands meeting in order to meet face to face and start out group bonding.

Time:  Saturday 2/26/11 from 10:00 to noon

Place:  St Clare room 3 (Fr. O, please open the door for us on that day)

Agenda:  1.  Project sharing - Vincent

              2.  Fund raising activity as a group (individual fund raising still encouraged) - John M.

              3.  Hands on training schedule - Vincent

              4.  Safety - Stephen W.

              5.  Q & A - All

We are all "TEAM PLAYERS", so mark your calendar and please try your best to be there in person since lots of information will be shared, and don't want to see anybody being left behind.

Note:  Again, if you haven't pay yet (no exception except Fr. O), please bring the check with you (pay to SJCCC), otherwise, your name will be removed from the list.
Vincent Lau

February 2011 Council Meeting

Dear SJCCC Team Leaders and Members,

You are cordially invited to attend the February council meeting.
 
Date: Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Place: St. Clare’s Classroom #5

The agenda is as follows:

1. Prayer/Faith Sharing
2. Chinese New Year mass celebration with Monsignor Francis Cilia
3. St. Clare Festival Support
4. Mass intention registration update
5. Song Book update
6. Financial Report ( Therese Merrill )

In Christ,
Kam Chow
SJCCC Board

Invite family/friends to Chinese New Year celebrations

Dear brothers and sisters,
Happy Chinese New Year!! Please remember to invite friends and family to our Chinese New Year celebrations with Sacred Heart School Culture Exhibition & Activity, Mass and 祭祖, reception, and dinner. Be the light of the world and invite a friend! Here are the highlights of this week at http://www.sjccc.org:

• 艾神父的安樂人生講座 (2/12): Fr. Aldrich's Talk regarding Euthanasia.
• 瑪莉諾會退休神父中國新年餐晚會 (1/22): Maryknoll Party 02/12/2011.
• 新年慶祝活動 (2/13): 福傳機會! Chinese New Year Celebration at SJCCC and St Joseph of Cupertino.
• 同工會 (2/10): SJCCC Council meeting at 7pm on Thursday 2/10 (agenda to follow).
• 高中生避靜 (2/18-2/20): SJCCC Watermark High School Retreat 2011: Spiritual Warfare.

See SJCCC.org website for other news including:

• 禮儀輔祭组徵尋组長 : Altar Servers have been given a divine privilege above all earthy honors in being permitted within the sanctuary to serve at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Please contact Jonathan Lin, Tien Chia Huang(天佳) or Angie Wang (恩琪) if you would like to serve.
• 成人慕道班: RCIA - topic for 2/13 is Baptism. See the RCIA program schedule. Please continue pray for evangelization.
• 本周更新: This week's updates on Gospel Reflections, Prayer Intentions
• 神修資訊: 應以新的心神事奉天主 - 講習會錄音(MP3) and 『救恩的故事』 CD.
• 團體相簿: Walk for Life(1/22), Watermark Parents Potluck (1/15) and Enneagram Seminar Advance Class(1/15).
• 主教座堂金銀婚慶典: Couples celebrating 25th or 50th anniversary this year, please contact Bishop's office asap.
• 甘神父的八天神操避靜: 3 sessions of 8-Day Spiritual Exercises by Fr. Gan, please register online to reserve your spot. (請把握時機爭取到僅有的六~八個名額.)
• 聖城通訊雙月刊: Holy City Magazine Nov/Dec Web Edition and calling for articles.

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

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

TJ2011: TJ trip 2011 Fund Raising - Lemonade

Dear SJCCC TJ 2011 participant families,
We just pulled 50+ lemons from our tree, and think it would be great if we can do a lemonade fund raising next week during the Chinese New Year festivities.

• Need volunteers:
• Make and bring 2-3 gallons of lemonade (we will give you the lemons tomorrow) - need as many as possible
  
• Make a large banner saying: "Free Lemonade by SJCCC Tijuana 2011 - Donation Welcome" 
  
• Make a large donation box
• Bing Cups, ice
  
• Set up and serve lemonade - before and after Mass
  
• I will talk to the Hospitality group to make sure if we can do this.

Please respond and let us know what you can provide and we will bring the lemons tomorrow to pass out after Mass.

Regards,
+Tony & Wendar

Bcc: Kam, AnPung, Lisa, Simon, and Fr. O.

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Dear TJ 2011 families and Watermark leaders,
We have checked with the council and decided to move the fund raising to 2/27.  This will give us time to organize and promote the fund raising.  Since the TJ mission is a community event, we'd love to have all Watermark involvement whether if you are going to the trip or not.

Idea is to provide free lemonades (8-oz, sweetened, with ice) and ask for donations.  We will need volunteers (please reply to sign up for as many tasks as you/your group can do)

• Make and bring 2-3 gallons of lemonade (we will provide lemons)
  
• Make a large banner saying: "Free Lemonade by SJCCC Tijuana 2011 - Donation Welcome" 
  
• Make a large donation box
• Bring 8 oz-Cups (need 200)
  
• Bring ice (4 bags)
  
• Set up and serve lemonade after Mass (parents needed)
  
• Announcements at Mass: Need 2 youth volunteers (upstairs/downstairs Mass)
  

God bless,
+Tony, Wendar, Brandon, Daniel

Copy: Lisa
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