Friday 5-10

Saturday 12-10

Sunday 12-8

Fun for the entire family!

Rides, Games, Prizes, Food, Refreshments, Entertainment,

Opportunity Drawing, NEW Boutique!

VISIT our NEW BOUTIQUE

Friday, May 18 - Ciao Bella - jewelry * Cherish Them - hair accessories * Devine Designs - clothing *  Good Life Apparel - cool, trendy t-shirts with religious themes * Jewels by Jodi - jewelry * Madonna Arts - religious art * Rocket & Rosie - home, gifts, jewelry, fashion * Scentsy - wickless candles * Silpada - jewelry * Stella & Dot - jewelry * Tiny Lotus Jewelry - handmade jewelry * True Desire - clothing * Twigs Jewels - religious jewelry * Willow and Ash - clothing, accessories

Saturday, May 19 - aCCents - wine bottle candles, trendy reusable bags * Ciao Bella - jewelry * Cherish Them - hair accessories * Fashion Ali - fashion * Jewels by Jodi - jewelry * Jordan’s Home Goods * L’Marie - belts, crystal jewelry * Rocket & Rosie - home, gifts, jewelry, fashion * Scentsy - wickless candles * Sea Urchins Swimwear - girls swimwear * Silpada - jewelry * Silver Sisters - jewelry * Specialty Accessories - hats, purses, wallets * Stella & Dot - jewelry * Thirty-One Gifts * True Desire - clothing * Willow & Ash - clothing, accessories

Sunday, May 20 - Arbonne - health and wellness * Cherish Them - hair accessories * Designs by Camilla and MJ’s Rosaries - handmade rosaries * Devine Designs - clothing * Forget Me Knot Boutique * Jennifer Sage Designs - baby accessories, hair clips...* Jewel Kade - personalized jewelry * Rocket & Rosie - home, gifts, jewelry, fashion * Scentsy - wickless candles * Silpada - jewelry * Stella & Dot - jewelry * True Desire - clothing * Twigs Jewels - religious jewelry

OPPORTUNITY DRAWING & MORE

1st prize: $5,000   2nd prize: $3,000   3rd prize:  $1,000

Please visit the Raffle Booth for extra raffle give-aways - week-long vacations, B&B weekends and lots of local fan fair...                                            

CAKES for CAKEWALK

Home-baked cakes graciously welcomed!  Please deliver to the cakewalk booth during Fiesta.      

ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, May 18

6:00-10:00   Fat Maggie (Classic Rock)

SATURDAY, May 19

12:30 – 1:30   Folklorico Dancers     

2:00 – 3:00   Funky Bunch (Teen Rock)

3:30 – 4:30   Whiplash Kids (Teen Rock)

5:00 – 6:30   Jenna Mish (Christian Music)

7:00 – 10:00   BIG (Old School, R & B, Funk)

SUNDAY, May 20

12:00 – 1:00   George Lawton (Folk, Blues)

1:00 – 1:30   Capistrano Community Mariachi Program

1:30 – 3:00   Dangerous Propensities (Classic Rock)

3:00 – 3:30   Aniar Academy Irish Dance

3:30 – 5:30   Another Fine Mess (Classic Rock, 80’s)

6:00 – 8:30   Cheap Date (Classic Rock)

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Have a Job Opening?

Want to promote your business?

Registered with St. Edward or San Felipe? *

If you answer "yes" to any of these questions, please join our LinkedIn Group. Whether to network professionally with your fellow parishioners, seek or offer employment, the St. Edward the Confessor LinkedIn Group is for you. 

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Birth Choice has partnered up with Chick-fil-a for one night on Tuesday, June 5^th from 5pm to 8pm at the Laguna Niguel/Crown Valley location! On that evening, anyone can go to that location and SAY “Birth Choice Health Clinics” when ordering and 20% of the proceeds will go to Birth Choice!  This is such a fun, quick, and easy way to support the ministry and Birth Choice! 

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Dear Fellow Parishioners;

At last, I get my apartment back! Actually it has been fun having a roommate in Fredy and I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Please wish him well as he looks forward to being ordained a deacon in July and God willing, a priest for the Diocese of Orange next year!

Together in Christ;

Fr. Ogre

Pastor

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Dear Parishioners,

Can you imagine eating, sleeping and living under the same roof as your boss? All the while knowing that your boss will write an evaluation about you for your university? Not possible you say. I have done it and believe me it has been a valuable experience. In the beginning I had many doubts and fears but once we began to know one another I realized that Father Steve is not an "ogre boss” which sometimes we believe or imagine.

It has been nine months since my arrival at St. Edward and San Felipe de Jesús. When I arrived I knew very little about this community other than the good things Father Mario had relayed to me. There have been so many wonderful experiences and great moments for me here at St. Edward and if I were to describe them all Saundra would not be able to publish the extent of my writing in the bulletin.

Therefore I wish to express in these few lines my deepest heartfelt gratitude to the entire community of St. Edward and San Felipe de Jesús for having allowed me to travel this fascinating journey of our faith with you.

In today's Gospel we hear the great commandment that Jesus has entrusted to us, "love one another as I love you." All of you, the clergy, staff, leaders and volunteers from the various ministries and parishioners have been an authentic example to me of that love which the Gospel speaks to us today. Thank you, thank you very much for allowing me to mature in my priestly vocation and learn from you so many wonderful things that will help me in my future ministry.

If someone were to ask me what is one thing I will miss I would say Father Steve’s coffee in the morning, even if it wasn’t Colombian coffee!

Sincerely,
Fredy Mancilla
Seminarian

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Queridos feligreses,

¡Por fin, ya tengo mi apartamento de regreso! En realidad, ha sido divertido tener un compañero de apartamento; Fredy y yo hemos disfrutado de la experiencia. ¡Por favor, deseemos le lo mejor mientras esperamos su ordenación como diácono en julio y si Dios quiere, un sacerdote para la Diócesis de Orange el año que viene!

Juntos en Cristo, 

Fr. Ogro

Pastor.  

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Queridos feligreses, 

¿Alguna vez se han imaginado comer, dormir y vivir con el jefe bajo el mismo techo? ¿más aun sabiendo que su jefe va a escribir un reporte a cerca de ti para tu universidad?  ¿Imposible de hacer? No, yo lo hice y crean que ha sido una valiosa experiencia para mi. No lo niego, al inicio tenia muchas dudas y temores, pero un vez que iniciamos a compartir y a conocernos el uno al otro me di cuenta que el Padre Steve no es como la imagen del “jefe ogro” que a veces creamos o imaginamos.

Ya han pasado nueve meses desde mi llegada a San Eduardo y San Felipe de Jesús. Cuando llegue conocía muy poco a cerca de esta comunidad sólo las maravillas que el Padre Mario me había contado antes de llegar. Son tantas las experiencias y buenos momentos vividos que me faltaría líneas para describir todo aquello, tanto, que estoy seguro que Saundra no publicaría en el boletín mi escrito por lo extenso.  

Por consiguiente deseo expresar en estas cortas líneas y de todo corazón mis más profundos agradecimientos a toda la comunidad de San Eduardo y San Felipe de Jesús por haber me permitido recorrer con ustedes este fascinante caminar de nuestra fe.

En el evangelio de hoy escuchamos el gran mandamiento que Jesús nos ha encomendado: “amarnos los unos a los otros como Él nos ha amado”. Es precisamente ese amor mi más grata experiencia vivida a lo largo de este tiempo en medio de ustedes. Todos ustedes, el clero, el personal de trabajo, los lideres y voluntarios de los diferentes ministerios y los feligreses, me han enseñado a vivir con intensidad ese amor del cual nos habla hoy el evangelio. Gracias, muchas gracias por permitirme crecer en mi vocación sacerdotal y aprender de ustedes tantas cosas maravillosas que me ayudarán en mi futuro ministerio.

Si alguien me preguntara que extrañaré, yo diría sin duda: ¡el café del Padre Steve en las mañanas a pesar que no era café colombiano!

Sinceramente,  

Fredy Mancilla

Seminarista

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Knights of  Columbus

Charity, Unity, Fraternity, Patriotism

Golf Tournament

with John 'Blue Moon' Odom

Talega Golf Club • September 10, 2012

Pre-Register HERE

$125.00 single  $25 Dinner Only

Contact Jim Shipe at 413-7672 

Join a Cause Bigger than Yourself

(1.8 million brothers have)

Catholic gentlemen from 18 & up can help our community.

Please contact Tim Kosor, Membership Director, 949-378-1599

Visit our website

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* Reported are as of May 3, 2012 and includes gifts and pledged donations made to Fund-a-Need to Sponsor our Students.

NOW SHOWING!

Thanks to Cox Communications, subscribers can now watch Father Greg Boyle and Ken Blanchard as well as the entire conference OnDemand™ in the Free Zone on “Cox 3” titled “OCF.” If you are not a Cox subscriber we made it fully accessible on our website at www.oc-foundation.org/cbevideos.

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Imagine kids trusting God forever…the sky's the limit!

Come and join us this summer for Vacation Bible School 

Beginning May 29^th, you can register your children online for this fun and popular week at the parish. Look for more information in the bulletin and on our blog.

 WHO:    Children in grades K-5

WHAT:  Five days of morning sessions from 9:00 – 12:30

WHEN:  THE WEEK OF JULY 9^TH 

WHERE: St. Edward the Confessor Church, Dana Point

COST:    $75 per child

 We need volunteers!  Middle & High School students may earn Christian service hours by helping us run this awesome program. We need adult leaders too. If interested contact:  Caitlin Malec, Coordinator.

ALL ARE WELCOME!

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View Testimonials on Stedcast, CLICK HERE

This ministry is a seminar series where St Edward the Confessor and San Felipe de Jesus parishioners make brief presentations about how their faith life impacts upon and helps to structure their professional life.

Read more about the Ministry, Where Profession Meets Faith, CLICK HERE

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Do you need employment? 

Do you have a job to offer?

(there is no cost to post a job on our group!)

Join our St. Edward and San Felipe

LinkedIn Group 

Find out how HERE

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In his homily on April 29th, Fr. Chris Heath offers insight into the much debated and very important topic for Catholics around the world, Religious Freedom and Catholic Citizenship. 

View Fr. Chris's homily on StedCast, CLICK HERE.

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USCCCB, April-May 2012

THE MOST CHERISHED OF AMERICAN FREEDOMS

Past and Present

In 1634, a mix of Catholic and Protestant settlers arrived in Southern Maryland from England aboard the Ark and the Dove.  They had come at the invitation of the Catholic Lord Baltimore, who had been granted the land by the Protestant King Charles I of England.  While Catholics and Protestants were killing each other in Europe, Lord Baltimore imagined Maryland as a society where people of different faiths could live together peacefully.  This vision was soon codified in Maryland’s 1649 Act Concerning Religion (also called the “Toleration Act”), which was the first law in our nation’s history to protect an individual’s right to freedom of conscience. 

Maryland’s early history teaches us that, like any freedom,religious liberty requires constant vigilance and protection, or it will disappear.  Maryland’s experiment in religious toleration ended within a few decades.  The colony was placed under royal control and the Church of England became the established religion.  Discriminatory laws, including the loss of political rights, were enacted against those who refused to conform.  Catholic chapels were closed and Catholics were restricted to practicing their faith in their homes.  The Catholic community lived under this coercion until the American Revolution.

By the end of the 18th century our nation’s founders embraced freedom of religion as an essential condition of a free and democratic society.  So when the Bill of Rights was ratified, religious freedom had the distinction of being the First Amendment.  Religious liberty is indeed the first liberty.  

This is our American heritage, our most cherished freedom.  If we are not free in our conscience and our practice of religion, all other freedoms are fragile.  If our obligations and duties to God are impeded, or even worse, contradicted by the government, then we can no longer claim to be a land of the free.

Is our most cherished freedom truly under threat?  Among many current challenges, consider the recent Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate requiring almost all private health plans to cover contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs.  For the first time in our history, the federal government will force religious institutions to facilitate drugs and procedures contrary to our moral teaching, and purport to define which religious institutions are “religious enough” to merit an exemption.  This is not a matter of whether contraception may be prohibited by the government.  It is not even a matter of whether contraception may be supported by the government.  It is a matter of whether religious people and institutions may be forced by the government to provide coverage for contraception and sterilization, even when it violates our religious beliefs.

What can you do to ensure the protection of religious freedom? To learn more about our first freedom, and to send your message to HHS and Congress telling them to stand up for religious liberty and conscience rights, go to www.usccb.org/conscience today!  Thank you for joining the effort to end this unprecedented government coercion of conscience and intrusion in religious affairs. 

USCCCB Abril-Mayo 2012

LA MÁS PRECIADA DE LAS LIBERTADES AMERICANAS  

Pasado y Presente

En 1634 un grupo de colonos católicos y protestantes llegaron de Inglaterra a la isla de St. Clement, en el sur de Maryland, a bordo de los buques Ark y Dove. Habían venido invitados por el católico Lord Baltimore a quien el rey protestante, Charles I de Inglaterra, le había entregado 

Maryland con el fin de que allí se estableciera una sociedad donde personas de diferentes credos pudieran convivir en paz. Esta idea pronto fue legislada en Maryland en 1649, y conocida como el Decreto sobre la Religión (también llamado Decreto de Tolerancia), y que fue la primera ley que se decretó en nuestra nación para proteger los derechos de libertad de conciencia del individuo.

La antigua historia de Maryland nos enseña que, al igual que cualquier otra libertad, la libertad religiosa requiere vigilancia y protección continua, de lo contrario puede desaparecer. Pero el experimento de tolerancia religiosa de Maryland terminó unas pocas décadas más tarde. La colonia de pobladores fue colocada bajo la autoridad del rey, y la Iglesia de Inglaterra se convirtió en la religión oficial. Se implantaron leyes discriminatorias, incluyendo la pérdida de derechos políticos contra los que se negaran a cumplirlas. Se cerraron las capillas católicas, y los católicos fueron restringidos a practicar su fe solamente en sus hogares. Bajo estas condiciones vivió la comunidad católica hasta la Revolución Americana. 

A finales del siglo dieciocho, los fundadores de nuestra nación adoptaron la libertad religiosa como una condición esencial de una sociedad libre y democrática. Por lo tanto, cuando se ratificó la Declaración de Derechos, la libertad religiosa se distinguiera en ser la Primera Enmienda. La libertad religiosa es, indiscutiblemente, la primera de las libertades.

Esta es nuestra herencia Americana, nuestra más preciada libertad. Si no tenemos libertad de conciencia para practicar la religión, todas las demás libertades se vuelven frágiles. Si nuestras obligaciones y deberes para con Dios son impedidos, o peor aún, contradichos por el gobierno, entonces no podremos seguir afirmando que ésta es la tierra de la libertad.

¿Está siendo amenazada la más preciada de nuestras libertades? Entre los retos actuales, considere el recientemandato del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS, sigla en inglés) que requiere que casi todos los planes privados de seguros médicos cubran la anticoncepción, la esterilización y las drogas abortivas. Por primera vez en nuestra historia, el gobierno federal obligará a las instituciones religiosas a facilitar y pagar por algo que es contrario a sus enseñanzas morales, pretendiendo definir cuáles instituciones religiosas son “suficientemente religiosas” como para ameritar la protección de su libertad religiosa. Esto no es un asunto de que si el gobierno deba prohibir la anticoncepción. No es siquiera un asunto de que si la anticoncepción deba ser apoyada por el gobierno. Se trata de que si las personas e instituciones religiosas deben ser forzadas por el gobierno a proveer cobertura de anticonceptivos o esterilización, aun cuando estas prácticas violen sus creencias religiosas.

¿Qué puede hacer para asegurar la protección de la libertad religiosa?¡Para más información sobre nuestra primera libertad y enviar una mensaje a HHS y al Congreso pidiéndoles que defiendan la libertad religiosa y los derechos de conciencia, visite www.usccb.org/conscience hoy!  Gracias por unirse a los esfuerzos para ponerle fin a este esfuerzo sin precedentes de la coerción de la conciencia y la intromisión en asuntos religiosos por parte del gobierno. 

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Registration available in late May

Imagine kids trusting God forever... the sky's the limit!

WHO: Children in grades 1-5

WHAT: Five days of morning sessions from 9:00 – 12:30

WHEN: THE WEEK OF JULY 9^TH

WHERE: St. Edward the Confessor Church, Dana Point

COST: $75 per child

We need volunteers!  Middle School and High School students may earn Christian service hours by helping us run this awesome program. We also need adult leaders so if interested, please let us know ASAP. Contact:  Caitlin Malec, Coordinator – cmalec@stedward.com

ALL ARE WELCOME ~ Look for registration information coming in late May.

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Need a Job?

Have a Job Opening?

Registered with St. Edward or San Felipe? *

If you answer "yes" to any of these questions, please join our LinkedIn Group. Whether to network professionally with your fellow parishioners, seek or offer employment, the St. Edward the Confessor LinkedIn Group is for you. 

Start a discussion!  Post a Job! Tell your friends!

Need a LinkedIn Profile?  CLICK HERE

Not a registered parishioner? CLICK HERE

* Employers wishing to post an open position do not need to be registered parishioners and it's free to post an open position on our Group. CONTACT US! 

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Assist the Catholic Social Justice Ministry to hear and heed the Church’s call to serve those in need and work for justice and peace.  Join in our next meeting on May 8, 2012, at 7:00pm in the Church Meeting Room.

“You can be sure that whoever gives even a drink of cold water to one of the least of these my followers because he is my follower, will certainly receive a reward." (Matthew 10:  42).

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Circle your calendar on Thursday, May 3rd, for an evening of “Living Catholic Marriage”, a series of topics to enrich marriage by helping husbands and wives communicate better and grow stronger in their faith.  We will meet at 7:30 PM in St. Edward’s School, 2^nd floor Parish Room.  Come join us!  For more information, call Bob & Mary Dausch at 481-1102

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