Keeping Our Parish Clean: 

A Call to Action from our EC

**After receiving reports on rodent sighting in the Parish Hall**

As we come together in fellowship, it’s important that we also take responsibility for maintaining the cleanliness of our church environment. After each event, ESPECIALLY those involving food, please ensure that all trash—whether it be compost, recycling, or regular waste—is disposed of properly. Trash and compost bags must be tied securely and placed in the designated dumpsters before leaving.

By keeping our spaces clean and free from waste, we not only protect the health of our community by preventing pests, but we also avoid costly clean-up fees. Let’s all do our part to preserve the beauty and safety of our parish for everyone.

Be on the lookout for the Ecology Committee's (EC) waste management tutorials, coming soon! 

Stop by their table to sign up for more information during this weekend's ministry fair. 

Thank you for your cooperation!

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Fridays of Lent (unti April 11)

6:30 pm

SAC FAITH FORMATION FOOD SALE

GET YOUR MINI PANCAKES ON A STICK!

9:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Outside the Parish Hall

All proceeds will go toward the parish hall renovation.

COMMUNAL LENTEN PENANCE

With Individual Confessions

Tuesday, April 8th at 7:00PM

Please save the date.  We shall be holding our Communal Lenten Penance on Tuesday, April 8th at 7PM.  There'll be an opportunity for INDIVIDUAL CONFESSIONS.  Thirteen (13) other priests have confirmed their coming to help and hear confessions that evening.  

Please encourage family members and friends to come and celebrate this gracious sacrament of healing and renewal.

CONFESSIONS are also available on Fridays (4:30-5:00pm) and Saturdays (3:30-4:15pm).  For Confession by appointment, please call (650) 873-2282.

HERE IS SAC'S 

HOLY WEEK & EASTER SERVICES (Revised)

ENTER  THE 4 HOLY DOORS IN ROME

Gain Plenary Indulgence

SAC Jubilee 2025 

Pilgrimage of Hope

May 18 - June 1, 2025

During the 2025 Jubilee Year, the Catholic Church allows pilgrims to obtain a Jubilee Indulgence when traveling on a pious pilgrimage.

SAC is hosting a 15-day Jubilee Pilgrimage from May 18-June 1, 2025 to Italy and Switzerland. 

For more inquiries, please call Patricia at (650) 873-2282.

Last Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Our Liturgical Arts, St. Joseph Ministry (the Josephines), and Italian Catholic Federation (ICF) decorated the St. Joseph Table with loaves of bread and lemons. Setting the St. Joseph Table is a tradition from the Sicilians. St. Joseph interceded for them to stop a devastating famine. In gratitude, they prepared an elaborate feast to share with the poor. Bread, a symbol of sustenance, symbolizes the end of hardships. Lemon, common in Sicilian orchards, represents fidelity in the Catholic Church.

Father Ray Reyes, assisted by Deacon Emil Lucero, celebrated the Feast Day Mass. Preceding the Feast Day, Paraliturgy and the Josephines hosted a 9-Day Novena, with themes of Hope honoring the journey of St. Joseph as Patron Saint of Families and Working Men. Deacon Emil, other men, sons, brothers, and devotees to St. Joseph led the daily novena prayers. The Weekday Pilgrims Choir of the Legion of Mary kicked off the prayers daily with their joyful rendition of "O Blessed Saint Joseph," replacing the four-year recorded version!

The Feast fell on a weekday, but the church was full! A singing procession followed the Mass to the image of St. Joseph where Father Ray led prayers, including the Jubilee Prayer to St. Joseph.

Following the Italian theme, the Valdez family sponsored the reception with home-made Frutti Di Mare, Spaghetti Marinara with Meatballs for those allergic to seafood, Raspberry Salad, Toasted Focaccia, and freshly baked Italian Crème Cupcakes. 

Following an annual tradition, the Josephines will be gifting Grocery Easter Baskets to 10 poor families under the care of Saint Vincent de Paul Society St. Augustine Conference There's a widow, who is unable to work, who has three children, and relies on government assistance. One family has a special needs child. Another is a diabetic and a victim of domestic violence who is trying to get back on her feet. SVdP is also helping with a month's rent for an elderly couple, who just got evicted. We are grateful to our parishioners at the Feast Day Reception for their donation totaling $707 to help with the groceries. Similar to St. Joseph, the donors are powerful symbols of hope and support to those who face hardship or poverty.

If you are a devotee to St. Joseph and would like to support or join the St. Joseph Ministry, kindly stop by the St. Joseph table at the Ministry Fair this weekend, or contact Rosabel Achacoso Santander at belay79@icloud.com

Write-up/Photos from the SAC Communications Ministry

Last Sunday, March 16, 2025

The Praise & Glorify Choir, along with its booster team, the P&G 2, were united in extending their love to St. Augustine’s community by offering tasty home-made meals of BangSiLog, Pork/Chicken ToSiLog, LongSiLog, Shrimp Tempura over Rice and Arroz Caldo at flash sale prices despite the shortage of eggs in the market. Their menu included desserts such as Bibingka, Maja Blanca, Cassava Cakes, and Taho with Ube or Flan. Cotton candy, offered for free, was also a hit with both children and adults. 

The P&G Family is very grateful for the response of the community. Two Council members and former mayors of South San Francisco and Daly City also stopped by to support the event. What a turnout! And everything was sold out!

SAVE THE DATE

SAC'S 55th ANNIVERSARY GALA

Saturday, September 27, 2025

ADORATION & CONFESSION

Every Friday, the Blessed Sacrament is exposed for public Adoration after the 9:00am Mass until 5:00PM.  It is usually concluded with silent reposition and Benediction on First Fridays.

Also each Friday, from 4:30pm, there's an opportunity to celebrate the Sacrament of Confession.  Please note of our newly refurbished Confessional, which provides the traditional screen that separates the priest confessor from the penitent as well as the option for a face to face confession. 

Thanks to Deacon Virgil and the Liturgical Arts for making this sacred space for spiritual healing and reconciliation.

Every Tuesday at 7:00pm

An excellent way to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of Sacred Scriptures, is to understand the context, history, and message of the different Books of the Bible.  

Come and join SAC's virtual Bible Study every Tuesday from 7:00pm to 8:30pm.  Deacon Virgil and the SAC Clergy lead the study.

To host the Traveling Vocation Cross, please call Elsa Rozal at (650) 922-9618 or email her at entroz09@yahoo.com. 

The Traveling Vocation Cross (TVC) Program provides an excellent opportunity for families to...read more

THE GIVING TREE 

Third Generation Giving

An Ongoing Stewardship at Saint Augustine Church

Please call Amor or Patricia at @ (650) 873-2282

View details by clicking below

Pregnant Women in Crisis

Walking with Moms & the Archdiocese of SF

All around us there are women who are pregnant, and with small infants and children who need our help. You can join us in helping! 

Check out our webpage, sfarch.org/walkingwithmoms. Pregnant women in crisis, who are poor, struggling and often alone are helped by our Gabriel Project angels. We don't stop when the baby is born--we continue Walking with Moms. Volunteer for the Gabriel Project today! Donate to our Gabriel Project Extraordinary Needs Fund to help pay for short term rent and/or childcare assistance.

Experience the life-changing and life-giving joy of service. 

Volunteers are crucial to St. Vincent De Paul's  work to feed, clothe, house and help people in need. 

Serve a meal, sort and/or deliver donations-volunteers are always needed in order to accomplish more. 

See the Face of Christ.

Be the Face of Christ.

For more information contact Jeunesse Raymundo at jeunesse00@yahoo.com.

ONLINE PHISHING are rampant, fraudulent emails or text messages .  They use names of church leaders to reach out to their parishioners.  

Please DO NOT engage or respond to emails or texts if you are targeted for a favor, especially if you are asked for money. 

SIMPLY DELETE. 

REMEMBER 

Finances pertaining to the parish and online archdiocesan appeals are ONLY directed through OSV (Our Sunday Visitor) Online Giving.  

Always check with your church leader personally.