St. Patrick Mass Registration
Please click below to register for weekend Masses for August 8th/9th.   It is not necessary to register for Daily Masses, but please sign in on the clipboard.
Registration for Mass will close at 5:00 pm on Friday, 7th.
Please remember that masks are required when attending Mass.
St. Patrick Mass Registration

Dear Family,
 The current “troubles” seem inescapable, statues of Fr. Serra being toppled throughout the state, statues of the Holy Mother of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, have been desecrated.  Recently at St. Isidore Parish in Yuba City, their outdoor Stations of the Cross were desecrated and the image of Christ on the Cross at the 12^th Station, the Crucifixion was torn down. Pray, God, this nonsense ends soon. Maybe I’m a cynic, but I don’t think we’ve seen the end of this. I suspect this is part of a larger movement at hand. 
These evil attacks on the sacred is nothing more than an attack on the Church and therefore on God Himself. An attack which is meant to wipe the Gospel and Jesus Christ out of sight and out of mind. It is an attempt to change the story of humanity and to reshape society and culture and therefore it is one we must resist. Slowly the idea of freedom of religion has morphed into freedom to worship and that is wrong, that is bad.
The other day I saw a snippet of a talk given by Fr. Mike Schmidt. Fr. Schmidt is a very prominent figure in social media and gives many inspiring talks at conferences. The part that I saw was about religious liberty and he made a particularly good point. In summary he said that the end of religious liberty would end not with us being prohibited from going to Mass or taking children to Faith Formation or participating in groups,  but that religious liberty will end when we can no longer publicly be Catholic. 
Worship is something that we do because of who we are. The great saint, Thomas Aquinas, summed up the philosophical principle behind this with the axiom “being follows doing.” We worship God because we are His, He made us, He redeemed us. Our Catholic worship has been given to us by Him through the Church. For 2,000 years the Church has held fast to the words of the Lord, given to us by St. Paul “As often as you do this you do it in memory of me.”  (1 Cor 11:24) We worship God in the Mass and through the Sacraments not because we’ve made up a nice way to pray but because we are Catholic. To worship this way is who we are. 
And so, it is with the rest of our lives. How we treat the needy and the poor, the good works we do, our involvement in the community. How we vote, where we shop and what we buy, how we process and analyze the issues at hand and the information that is given to us. It should all go through one filter, our Catholic identity. 
Catholic identity is more than devotions, no meat on Friday, processions, and ashes on Ash Wednesday. It is a radical understanding of the world through the reality of the Sacraments, the truth of the Gospel and who Jesus Christ is, and the teachings of the Catholic Church which safeguards the truth and helps us live it. Religious liberty is our right to live that identity out, for our engagement with the world and understanding of human existence to be informed, above all, by the saving Death and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
With all my love,
Your Father in Christ,
Fr. Estrella

We, the parish of St. Patrick Church, being one community growing in faith and proclaiming our belief in the message and mission of our Lord Jesus Christ, invite all to open their hearts, hear His call, and become one with the Body of Christ.

Tuesday, August 11th thru
Thursday, August 12th

• NO Daily Masses
• Parish Office will be Closed
• NO Confessions on Tuesday, 8/13

Special Trial Subscription Offer to Magnificat
As our parish continues to seek ways to establish a new rhythm of liturgy, worship, and parish life, Father Estrella is  encouraging the faithful to adopt the habit of using a personal missalette for both liturgical and personal prayer.  Magnificat is a great resource to use as your daily prayer companion.
With this in mind, Magnificat is offering  $5 trial subscription offers to make the transition both easy and affordable, and to encourage you to read and pray with Magnificat on a regular basis.
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