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St. Hilary Catholic Church in Tiburon, CA

St. Hilary is a caring, vibrant community which believes in promoting Catholic values, love, faith, friendship, and outreach. If you are new to the area or just visiting, we welcome you and invite you to join us.  

     ~ Father William E. Brown, Pastor 

     ~ Father Matthew B. Link, C.PP.S., Parochial Vicar

 

Our priests' current message.

This Week at St. Hilary Parish :

SUPPORT SAINT HILARY SCHOOL FOR FREE!

As you do your Christmas shopping PLEASE consider using eScrip for your online purchases, which greatly helps support Saint Hilary School while costing you nothing extra. I just learned of this great deal while reading our school's weekly newsletter. To shop and get money donated to our school at the same time, just go to our school's website at: http://academie.sainthilaryschool.org/Pages/Home.aspx and click on the large eScrip logo -- then shop to your heart's content! Even if you are not enrolled with eScrip, this simple step will support Catholic education here on our peninsula, with over one thousand of your favorite online stores.
For example, 1-800-Flowers gives 12% to our school; Nordstrom gives 6%; J Crew gives 6%; Williams-Sonoma gives 3.6% as does Pottery Barn and also Barnes & Noble; Apple iTunes gives 3% and the Apple Store gives 1.2%. The list goes on and on!
Thank you very much for considering my request. I myself use eScrip as much as possible and am thrilled that my purchases help support Saint Hilary School (I used to do the same at Our Lady of Mercy School before I moved north 3.5 years ago).
God bless,
~ Father Brown
P.S. If you DO wish to register for eScrip, it's very easy -- register your credit card and your grocery loyalty card (such as Safeway) at www.escrip.com and choose the group:
Saint Hilary School
137965399
This simple act will support our school financially while you shop at Woodlands Market, Safeway, or Paradise Foods (now at the Cove Shopping Center), and many other stores!

CONGRATULATIONS,

SOPHIE DEVINCENTI and ALEX BLATT!

 

From a recent email to Dr. Suzy Gray, teacher aide at Saint Hilary School (8th grade):
"The St. Thomas More Society of San Francisco is pleased to announce that Sophie Devincenti has won first place in the essay contest this year, and Alex Blatt has won third place. Please notify Sophie and Alex and extend our sincere congratulations to them. Sophie, her parents, and teacher are invited to attend our luncheon at noon on December 11, 2013 at the Family Club, located at 545 Powell St., San Francisco. Sophie will be asked to read her winning essay at the luncheon. Sophie will receive a check for $500, and Alex a check for $100. St. Hilary School will receive a check for $600. There were many excellent essays submitted this year. We very much appreciate your school’s participation in the essay contest. Thanks, Bob Zaletel"
The 8th Grade students submitted their essays under the sponsorship of Suzy Gray. Dr. Gray was told that this is the first time that two students from the same school won awards in the essay contest. The St. Thomas More Society of San Francisco is an indispensable voice in the Bay Area legal community and beyond whenever issues of public moment are analyzed and debated. Membership includes judges, lawyers, public servants and officials of all faiths. For more information about the Society, use this link:

  http://www.stthomasmore-sf.org/
http://www.stthomasmore-sf.org/redmass.html
http://academie.sainthilaryschool.org/Pages/Home.aspx

READ MORE ABOUT OUR TEEN GROUP!

 

Marin County high school students & adult mentors in San Francisco's Tenderloin Oct. 21 for the kickoff event of the students’ Teen Service Corps – an outreach inspired by 2 catechists for St. Hilary Parish, Tiburon, confirmation program.              

 

http://m.catholic-sf.org/news_select.php?newsid=22&id=61994

REST IN PEACE

Mr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela - 1918-2013

 

We join the people of South Africa in mourning the death and celebrating the beautiful legacy of Mandiba, who performed what many people thought a genuine miracle in the fall of apartheid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h01eu7XxNg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKDrRdfvUg8

http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-pays-tribute-to-nelson-mandela

http://www.romereports.com/pg154998-nelson-mandela-met-twice-with-brother-john-paul-ii-pope-sends-condolences-en

http://ncronline.org/news/people/mandela-was-ever-mindful-church-role-south-africans-struggle

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Archbishop Cordileone's beautiful letter regarding his three days at St. Hilary Parish!
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SUPPORT CATHOLIC EDUCATION HERE THROUGH OUR SCHOOL'S "Angel Fund!"
http://academie.sainthilaryschool.org/Pages/Angel-Fund.aspx

We are all aware that children today face many unique challenges. They have the traditional challenges of learning and striving for academic success to have every opportunity to best succeed in a competitive learning environment. They also have new social pressures brought on by tech and social media. Now, more than ever, it is critically important ...to provide our children with faith-based learning. As our children face increasing peer social pressure, we know that a foundation of faith-based values is one of the best gifts we can provide them to ensure they will be equipped to make the best choices at this critical time of their lives. 
Saint Hilary School is dedicated to academic excellence and faith-based learning. The school culture for the students and the families is one of community and values. Our belief is that educating for life success is an education based upon academic excellence and faith-based values.

Like most Catholic schools, the true cost to educate each child exceeds the revenues from tuition. Each year the school operating budget depends upon voluntary giving from the school families, typically between $1,500 and $2,000 per student. Every year the school starts with a need for additional revenues that only come from donations. At Saint Hilary School the Angel Fund was created as a way for our school families to practice the value of voluntary giving and by donating to the Angel Fund to close the gap between tuition revenues and operating budget needs.
 
Funding the operating budget ensures our ability to continue to provide our children with an education consistent with educating the entire child. Although the Angel Fund was designed primarily for the school families, we encourage all friends and families to be part of the Angel Fund giving. By donating to the Angel Fund, you will help ensure the fiscal stability of our school and secure its commitment to our students, our teachers and our children's future.

As you plan your giving, please consider the wonderful impact you can have on our most precious resource: our children. We encourage you to visit the SHS website http://academie.sainthilaryschool.org/Pages/Home.aspx and our page on Angel Fund giving.  Also, please consider asking for a campus tour to see our children, our class structure, and truly appreciate the beauty of what we accomplish at SHS. God bless you!
~ Dr. Steven McConnell, Chairman of the 2013-2014 Angel Fund Drive

THANK YOU,

ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE JOSEPH CORDILEONE!


We were most honored this past weekend (Nov. 2 to 4) to have the Archbishop as our house guest in the rectory for three days, during which he met with the leadership of the parish and school, visited the Sunday School classes, presided at Mass, administered the Sacrament of Confirmation Sunday night, and then visited each of our school classrooms on Monday. His wonderful pastoral visitation, the very first in the entire Archdiocese of San Francisco, concluded with a gorgeous lunch in Tarantino Hall with the faculty and staff members of the school and rectory. Archbishop Cordileone enjoyed his time here so much, he said of one classroom he visited: "Bill, I could have stayed there all day!" May God bless him and the people of the Archdiocese whom he serves and shepherds. To learn more about our Archbishop and our Archdiocese, check the following links.

 http://www.sfarchdiocese.org/about-us/archbishop-cordileone/

http://www.sfarchdiocese.org/about-us/archdiocesan-history/

http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcordi.html

http://www.catholic-sf.org/files/digital_paper_201209263822.pdf

WEEKLY CATHOLIC T.V. MASS

 

Produced for viewing by the homebound and others unable to go to Mass.

 

Mass is broadcast Sundays at 6:00 a.m. on the Bay Area’s KTSF Channel 26 and KOFY Channel 20, and in the Sacramento area at 5:30 a.m. on KXTL Channel 40. It is produced for viewing by the homebound and others

unable to go to Mass by "God Squad Productions" with Monsignor Harry Schlitt, celebrant.

Catholic TV Mass, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109, (415) 614-5643, Janschachern@aol.com.

CALLING ALL TEENS! 
 
Do you want to make a difference in the world around you? Join TSC: "Teen Service Corps." TSC is a faith-based community service group for post-Confirmation teens and high school students who want to work alongside their friends to make the world a better place, one person at a time. Upcoming service projects include: a tour of the Tenderloin given by a formerly homeless man who will tell us what it's like to be homeless and take us to a homeless shelter, a day center for children, a soup kitchen and a workplace training program (Oct. 21); an outdoor  "Open Cathedral" service with the homeless in San Francisco, followed by a meal that we will prepare and serve (Nov. 10); REST night at St. Hilary's Tarantino Hall, where we will cook and serve a meal to the homeless in our community (Dec. 10).
For more information, please contactSamantha Walravens sam@walravens.com or Stacee Christen stacee@christeninteriors.com this week!

Pastor e-Mail Alerts  -  from Father William e-Brown

 

Would you like to receive emails from Father Brown when one of our dear parishioners passes away, or when a special event is taking place here at St. Hilary, or when a disaster strikes and we will take up a second collection for those impacted? If so, please send a brief message to:

BillBrown@StanfordAlumni.Org

Rest assured that all messages are sent as a "blind carbon copy," so that others cannot access your email address.