We continue to ask each week that parishioners pray for the chronically ill of our parish. If you have a friend or loved one in need of our parish prayers please call the Rectory at 589-2800.

Also, please remember our Emergency prayer network that prays for specific intentions that require a concerted effort due to their critical nature. To facilitate the network, please call Michele Pipinich. The network people then pray frequently for the next 72 hours. We would appreciate a return call with the outcome so we can praise God for His faithfulness.

THIS WEEK WE PRAY FOR:
Mary Ann Snyder

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

On Saturday, October 7th, following the 8:30 am Mass and on every First Saturday of each month, closing with Benediction at 10 am, we have the privilege of adoring Jesus in His Blessed Sacrament. Spending time with Jesus in silent prayer can bring about an end to terrorism, violence and war. In the Presence of the source of Love and Mercy, we will receive the peace that only Jesus can give.

RESPECT LIFE SUNDAY

Today, in parishes throughout the United States, Catholics are celebrating Life from the first moment of conception till the last breath is sighed. Our faith calls us to open our hearts to hear God’s Word and to act upon it. Faith is God’s gift—so also is Life! Human life deserves respect. Let us affirm the goodness of God’s creation by valuing the unborn, providing for the poor, rooting out the causes of violence and war and protecting the elderly and infirm. The RED ROSE imprinted upon our Pro-Life banner hanging in our Church symbolizes the sanctity of life at all its stages. May it help raise our consciousness about the wonder and awesomeness of all human life.

If someone you know is experiencing a difficult or unexpected pregnancy, there is a sheet with names, addresses and phone numbers of various resources available in the pamphlet rack at the main entrance of the Church. Help spread the word that a pregnant girl or woman does not have to face the challenges that pregnancy brings alone.

Gr. 6-8—Alternate Tuesday evenings 6:45-8pm
Classes BEGIN THIS Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Due to the lack of enrollment there
will be no classes on Thursdays this year.

MEN'S CLUB MEETING
October 2nd

Yes that’s right!!! TOMORROW NIGHT, Monday October 2nd in Hennessy Hall, Doors open at 6:15. All men of the parish are welcome, come enjoy our Octoberfest celebration.

WOMEN'S GUILD
October 12th

St. Roberts Women's Guild would like to invite you to an early Halloween dinner on Thurs. October 12th. Doors open at 630pm. All Women of the parish are welcome.

AIDS LUNCH
October 11th
We are beginning our 15th year!

We are scheduled for the 2nd Wednesday of each month. If you can prepare a favorite cookie, snack or lunch item for 10 to 12 people, please drop it off at the Children's Chapel, in the back of Church, by 9 a.m. on October 11th. Please pack the items in a non-returnable container. Frozen items are ok!

Thanks to all who contributed their time an energy.

BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS
Saturday, October 7th at 11 a.m.
in the large Church parking lot
Bring your pets

THIS YEAR'S FESTIVAL
PORTS OF CALL

HIGH ROLLER RAFFLE WINNERS
First Prize - Rena Fenech
2nd Prize - Ed Delatorre
3rd Prize - Mars Cadiz
4th Prize - Julio Bolivar
5th Prize - Bernadine Fornesi

RAFFLE WINNERS
Grand Prize - Paul and Linda Ruggiero
1st Prize - Federico and Maria Nuti
2nd Prize - Mrs. Mary Rollin
3rd Prize - Rob Lapuyade
4th Prize - Jose Oliva
5th Prize $100 - Barbara Sena
6th Prize $100 - Joan Semeniuk
7th Prize $100 - Mary Alice O'Reilly

COMPUTER CLASSES
October 14th-November 17th

Saint Robert’s will be offering Computer Classes again this year. But this year will offer two sessions each Saturday. One for those with virtually no previous knowledge of computers and one for those who are computer literate.

Classes will continue in the spring. There is no charge. If you are interested in Computer classes, please call the rectory at 589-2800 or Sister Patricia at 589-0104 to register.

If you're new to St. Robert's, we ask that you complete a registration form found in the vestibule of the church. Drop it either in the collection basket, the mail, or at the parish office. We will send you a New Parishioner Packet with information about the parish, its organizations and groups. If you chose, you can register online at: www.saintroberts.org.

SUNDAY COLLECTION

    
SIGN UP FOR E-CONTRIBUTIONS

Go to www.saintroberts.org and click on the e-contributions button. The first page explains the details. There is a button to take you to the e-paluch registration page. You can register online using either your checking account or credit card.

There is no cost to you for this service.

ANNUAL APPEAL

I know that many thanks have been given to all whose “blood, sweat and tears,” not to mention nearly sleepless nights, went into making our parish festival a wonderful, exciting, delicious occasion! Expressing that we are a community of believers is something we do every time we gather for the Eucharist and building that community outside of the Mass is essential. If we don’t share lumpia, steak sandwiches, garlic fries, and drinks, and don’t share our stories, how can we be a community? They are connected: our everyday life and our spiritual life. Many thanks to all of you who helped that happen!

This month is traditionally the time when we focus on Respect Life issues. From abortion to the war in Iraq, we are asked to reflect on how we respect the dignity of persons from the moment of conception to natural death. As Catholics, we acknowledge that all people share a common Father; therefore, our concerns cannot be narrow ones, but must be global ones. We may be tempted to choose one aspect or another to focus upon but, as Catholics, we are faced with the difficult challenge of looking at all the life issues: embryonic stem cell research; health care, just wages, and equitable education; capital punishment; how we view those born with physical or mental difficulties; our responsibilities to our children and grandchildren. How do we want our government to interact with the leaders of the rest of the world? How do we judge the effects of globalization? Does my job help the human family in some way or hurt the environment we all, ultimately, share? How much do our religious beliefs inform our political beliefs? We celebrate the Feast of St. Francis, patron of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, on Wednesday. A little-known fact about his life is that in the midst of one of the crusades, when Moslems and Christians were brutally killing each other, he visited the Sultan Al-Malik with words of peace. Perhaps, Francis can intercede for us to help us treasure each person as well as the creation God has given us. Peace, S. Sheral

“To choose life involves rejecting every form of violence: the violence of poverty and hunger, which afflicts so many human beings; the violence of armed conflict; the violence of criminal trafficking in drugs and arms; the violence of mindless damage to the natural environment. In every circumstance, the right to life must be promoted and safeguarded with appropriate legal and political guarantees, for no offense against the right to life, against the dignity of any single person, is ever unimportant. Rather, we must recognize Christ in the poorest and the most marginalized, those whom the Eucharist –which is communion in the body and blood of Christ given up for us – commits us to serve. As the parable of the rich man, who will remain forever without a name, and the poor man called Lazarus clearly shows, in the stark contrast between the insensitive rich man and the poor in need of everything, God is on the latter’s side. We, too, must be on his side.” Pope John Paul II, 1999 World Peace Day Address

ST. ROBERTS CENTERPLATE TEAM NEEDS YOUR HELP

AT THE UPCOMING 49ER GAMES
Call the Rectory at 589-2800 or sign-up on the web site at
www.saintroberts.org/centrplt.htm to help

Centerplate 2006 Schedule

Name:_________________________________Home Phone:___________________

Cell Phone:_______________Email:_______________________________________

Dress Code: Full length black slacks, (jeans or spandex are not permitted), white shirt with collar, closed toe comfortable shoes (preferably black or white).

We will car pool from the rectory. For those working in San Francisco, you can meet the group at the gate. Volunteers between 16-21 years of age must provide a copy of a picture id which includes his/her birth date.

Our Centerplate totals:
Baseball: $24,693.65
49er Training Camp: $7,282.71
49er game (8/11): $2,015.46
for a total of: $33,991.82
Thanks to the many people who have volunteered.