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"My Sheep hear my voice."
Perseverance
in Trials
4th Sunday
of Easter
We are told that day by day life can be a joyous experience. The commercials on television assure you that it will be if you buy what they try to sell you. This is also the message of many psychologists who assert that the learning process in school, home, life, job and religion/faith should all be one joyous experience! This is fine in theory but what happens if circumstances prevent our lives from being joyous all the time?
What if gradually a school
becomes an anti-intellectual fun house? In this respect, teachers who do not dare to
challenge their students are not their friends. As for the home, here too there are unpleasant chores to be done.
And there are parents who spoil their children -- doing them a great disservice for their later life.
Even if we love our work, there is no job that does not entail unpleasant aspects as well. And as far as
religion is concerned, worship services should be a mutual inspiration, and a Christian life
of mutual love is a splendid thing; however, we cannot have that good warm feeling all
the time, neither is the church a theater where we go to enjoy "an exciting show!" Loyalty
requires sacrifice.
Today's Liturgy deals precisely with those times when life seems to be anything but a
joyous experience, when Christians have to undergo disappointment, rejection, trials; and
it set forth the reserves that they can call upon to help them persevere. Can everything
we mentioned above continue to be a joyous experience in such circumstances?
To a certain extent, yes, if we have learned the joy of sharing and of service, based on a firm
faith in Someone who chares. Paul and Barnabas of the First Reading are encouraging
examples for us.
The Annual SJV Fiesta Committee invites you to join us for three days of fun and excitement on Friday, May 18 to Sunday, May 20. Hours are the following:
- Friday, May 18, 5 PM to 11 PM
- Saturday, May 19, 11 AM to 7 PM
- Sunday, May 20, 11 AM to 9 PM
Enjoy a fun-filled day at our fiesta. Onsite there will be rides, food, entertainment, books, etc. Bring your cameras and submit your photos to be placed on the SJV website.
For more information, contact the parish office at (408) 258-7832 or contact Dave Couch at (408) 314-2393 or email dave@TheRedCarpetTeam.com
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picture" of salvation history by showing you how people, places, events
and themes of the bible fit together.
On Thursday evenings join us for a Bible Timeline course that is an overview of the entire bible. Registration is required for the course. If you are interested, pick up a registration flyer in the front of the church or call the parish office at (408) 258-7832.
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St.
John Vianney Parish Mission Statement
We, the people of St. John Vianney
Parish, 
seek to promote the Gospel through evangelization, worship and community
outreach to a diverse community in the San Jose eastern foothills. We recognize the community to be ethnically,
economically, intergenerational and domestically mixed, and therefore resolve to strive for a broad vision of this
parish's needs in light of the Gospel.
We are committed to fulfill the above goals by working together, offering supportive presence to one another, and
arriving at decision through prayer, active listening and consensus.
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