Announcement Board

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STATEMENT ON MORAL ACCEPTABILITY OF COVID-19 VACCINES / DECLARACIÓN SOBRE LA ACEPTABILIDAD MORAL DE LAS VACUNAS DEL COVID-19

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Ages 65 and above and those frontliners are encouraged to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Watch out the Riverside University Health System website to get the appointment. / Se alienta a las personas de 65 años o más y a los que están en primera línea a que se vacunen contra COVID-19. Esté atento al sitio web del Sistema de Salud de la Universidad de Riverside para obtener la cita.

FREE CONVALIDATION WEDDING

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Attention: To all who are civilly married and want to sacramentally convalidate your wedding may apply in our office for a free convalidation wedding on June 26, 2021. This is only for those who have already completed their Sacrament of initiations - Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Eucharist. 

Application date: The February 21 - March 31: When you apply please bring all the requirements - The Certificates of the 3 Sacraments for both, husband and wife, and your Civil Wedding Certificate. Complete the 4 witnesses' for freedom to marry.

Pastor's Interview: The whole month of April

Pre-Cana Seminar: The pre-Cana seminar will be done on May (Schedule will be determined soon)

Wedding planning: In June with the Commission on Family Life.

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LENTEN RETREAT / 

Retiro de Cuaresma

Extension of these parish office/ministry restrictions:

Bishop Rojas has authorized the further extension of these parish office/ministry restrictions for an additional 2 weeks through MARCH 1st, 2021. This is due to the increased public contacts and parish activity during Ash Wednesday services and Lenten schedules. Our hope is that things will improve by March 1st, and that we can add office/ministry services for our people. Procedures for added services will be sent to you before March 1st.

The following are the parish office/ministry restrictions that will continue through MARCH 1st:

1. Close ALL parish offices, allowing bare minimum of critical staff only (maximum of 3 persons), to work on-site, and only for tasks that cannot be completed remotely. Various staff can be staggered throughout the week.

2. Cancel ALL in-person meetings of ANY type and of ANY number (parish staff; clergy/deacons; all parish committees; all training sessions), including meetings of ministry services, ministry programs, etc. The permission for meetings of up to ten (10) persons is rescinded and prohibited until further notice. You should conduct any and all types of meetings by ZOOM or other remote technologies.

3. Conduct all parish business, ministry coordination remotely – via Zoom or other remote communication.

4. Food pantry distribution, a critical social justice service, is also permitted in accordance with previously distributed COVID 19 guidelines.

5. Seasonal projects such as charitable collection and distribution, special donations and fund-raisers may continue, but only if operated OUTDOORS, via drive-thru or pick-up ONLY, and only if staff/volunteers follow rigid COVID precautions. (masks; sanitizing; temperature taking; gloves; distancing, etc.) This applies to any Lenten fish fry dinners and Stations of the Cross soup suppers. You CANNOT host these inside the parish hall; all items must only be prepared for parishioners to take the items to their homes.  

Church Opening starts on Feb. 13

Bishop Alberto Rojas acting on the Supreme Court decision regarding the opening of the Churches for public worship has instructed all the Parishes in the Diocese to open the Churches for public worship. 

Our Church in Dunlap will be opened for public worship starting Saturday (2/13) at 4:00 pm Mass. I am adding Mass participants to 150 this weekend only. All Masses in person will be done inside the Church with a limit of 25% of the total seating capacity. The resumption of the original 8 Masses during weekends will be deferred this time considering of the time constraint for cleaning/sanitizing the pews.

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El obispo Alberto Rojas, actuando sobre la decisión del Tribunal Supremo sobre la apertura de las Iglesias al culto público, ha dado instrucciones a todas las parroquias de la Diócesis para que abran las Iglesias al culto público.

Nuestra Iglesia en Dunlap estará abierta para el culto público a partir del sábado (13/2) a las 4:00 pm Misa. Estoy agregando a 150 participantes de la Misa solo este fin de semana. Todas las misas en persona se realizarán dentro de la Iglesia con un límite del 25% del aforo total. La reanudación de las 8 misas originales durante los fines de semana se aplazará esta vez teniendo en cuenta la limitación de tiempo para limpiar / desinfectar las bancas después de cada misa.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE!

Even though we are opening our Church for public worship, we have to be more stringent in applying the directives. These are: Registration for weekend Mass attendance still being imposed for contact tracing; 6-foot distance will always be observed except those who are living in the same household; wearing of face mask is always be a requirement except those children under 4 years old; hand sanitizers are always available before entering and leaving the Church; temperature scan is still necessary before entering the Church. Church goers need to strictly follow the volunteers' instructions in coming to Church. - ALL THESE ARE NON-NEGOTIABLE! For your protection and the protection of your loved ones. WELCOME BACK TO OUR CHURCH!

¡POR FAVOR TOME NOTA!

Aunque estamos abriendo nuestra Iglesia al culto público, tenemos que ser más estrictos al aplicar las directivas. Estos son: El registro para la asistencia a misa los fines de semana todavía se impone para el rastreo de contactos; Siempre se observará una distancia de 6 pies excepto aquellos que vivan en el mismo hogar; el uso de mascarilla es siempre un requisito excepto los niños menores de 4 años; los desinfectantes de manos siempre están disponibles antes de entrar y salir de la Iglesia; El escaneo de temperatura todavía es necesario antes de ingresar a la Iglesia. Los asistentes a la iglesia deben seguir estrictamente las instrucciones de los voluntarios para asistir a la iglesia. - ¡TODOS ESTOS SON NO NEGOCIABLES! Para su protección y la protección de sus seres queridos. ¡BIENVENIDO DE NUEVO A NUESTRA IGLESIA!

VISION

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We, the Church of San Bernardino, are a community of believers in Jesus, the Christ, call to impact Family, Neighborhood, and Society with the Gospel so that people's lives are filled with hope.

Welcome Home!

A beautiful program for non-catholics and for those who take a furlough from the Catholic Church, we invite you to come home.

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PARISH MISSION STATEMENT

We, the Parish of St. James, the Less, are a community  of communities in communion, believers in Jesus, the Christ and in the Roman Catholic Church, as disciples and missionaries, centered in the Eucharist, the Word, and Prayer, we are moved by the Holy Spirit, to evangelize families with mercy, through the example of our Patroness, the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe, so that their lives maybe filled with love and hope, and thus build the Church on the path to holiness.

This Parish is under the Protection of Our Lady of Guadalupe

The Patron Saints

St. James the Less

Primary Patron

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St. John Paul the Great

Co-Patron

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PARISH MISSIONARY THRUST

AND DIRECTION

Embracing the 4 Core Values of the Diocese: Hospitality, Collaboration, Faith-sharing, and Reconciliation, we, the faithful of St. James the Less Parish, are clothed by both the current challenges of the modern American society and the promising opportunities of grace and a renewed joyful missionary spirit, commit ourselves to constantly enhance our relationship with God through the joyful celebration of the sacraments and faithfulness to prayers and devotion. To be disciples of Christ in carrying out our mission to educate and evangelize, to help the poor and empower the powerless, to be responsible stewards of the material possessions entrusted to us, to defend and protect creation, of God’s plan inscribed in nature, of one another and of the environment. To live and promote the culture of life. To accompany the young in their pursuit of happiness and to defend the sanctity of married life and families as the domestic Church where vocation to the priesthood and religious life flourish.

HISTORY OF THE ST. JAMES THE LESS CHURCH - PERRIS (Click here)

1351 - St James, Perris 

$35,175.00 - New GOAL for 2021

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Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

(2 Cor 9:7)

CLERGY/RELIGIOUS

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Fr. Eliseo Napiere, MSPh

Pastor (Fr. Loloy)

This Parish is being administered by the missionary priests of the Mission Society of the Philippines (MSPh) - U.S.A. District since July, 2018.

THE MSPh is the Official Missionary arm of the Philippines Catholic Church founded in 1965 by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) during the 4th centennial celebration of the Christianization of the Philippines when a Spanish-Mexican conquestador, Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, arrived in the archipelago in 1565 which started the official evangelization process of the country.

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Deacon Juan Navarro

Appointment Letter

Fr. Teodorico Tacaisan, Jr., MSPh

Parochial Vicar (Fr. Jun)

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Deacon Manuel Rivas

Appointment Letter

Sr. Rosario Flores, EEP

Parish Hispanic Mission