For it is in giving that we
receive.. (St. Francis of Assisi)
The St. Ignatius Community
Assistance Ministry operates a Furniture locker (located
on site) and provides emergency assistance with food,
rent, utilities, and gas. We also provide food baskets
and hygiene items at Christmas and Easter for 250
families though our Feed- A-Family program. We need you!
Many hands make light work!
Our first task in approaching
an other people, another culture, another religion, is
to take off our shoes, for the place we are approaching
is holy. Else we may find ourselves treading on people’s
dreams. More serious still, we may forget that God was
here before our arrival. (Max Warren)
This ministry reaches out to Christians and members of
other faiths, by listening and learning, sharing
beliefs, respecting diversity and learning about our
faiths. It’s accepting others’ rights, respecting their
beliefs, and appreciating our common ground. It’s
celebrating our mutual ideals, praying together as we
have in the Week of Christian Unity, serving together in
Sharing God’s Bounty, learning together as we have in
Sacramento Area Congregations Together.
The gifts are distributed and shared out to everyone,
and those serving take them to those who are absent
– Justin Martyr ca. 150 B.C.E.
Xavier Ministers are those commissioned to bring
Communion to the homebound. Whether visiting individual
homes, or care facilities, the Xavier Minister helps to
keep those who are unable to worship with us connected
to the community and Christ through the Sacrament. Many
Xavier ministers work in teams or with partners and
often conduct Communion services.
We have all known the long
loneliness and we have learned the only solution is
love,
and that love comes with community (Dorothy Day)
The mission of this ministry is to bring spiritual and
emotional support to the confined elderly in the privacy
of their residence. Currently we have 20 fully trained
members serving in this ministry. If you are in need of
an EVM, or have a family member or friend who could
benefit by this ministry, please call voice mail ext.
*174.
For I will restore you to
health; of your wounds I will heal you, says the Lord
(Jeremiah 31:17)
We sponsor the Parish Blood Drive, which averages 40
units, and provide Blood Pressure Screenings to
approximately 30 parishioners every other month. Our
nurses staff the Ask –A – Nurse table at our Sharing
God’s Bounty Dinners for the hungry and answer health
related questions, provide health care resources, and
provide a bag of personal hygiene items to our
guests. Our nurses also collect glasses for the Lyon’s
Club during Lent. Health Ministry meets the 2nd
Tuesday in January, May, and September in the Parish
Offices.
Together we can do something
beautiful for God. ((Mother Teresa)
Martha Ministers assist parishioners in providing a
luncheon to family and friends after a funeral in St.
Ignatius Church. They shop, cook, set up, serve, and
clean up after a luncheon or light reception held in the
Parish Center's Garden Room. Food is both purchased and
donated, and the average size of group served is 60-80.
A typical luncheon requires two-hour shifts beginning
about 10:00 am and lasting until 2:00 pm or later, and
linens are laundered by the volunteers.
If one contends, as we do that
the right of every fetus to be born should be protected
by civil law and supported by civil consensus, than our
moral, political and economic responsibilities do not
stop at the moment of birth. Those who defend the right
to life of the weakest among us must be equally visible
in support of the quality of life of the powerless among
us. (Cardinal Joseph Bernardin)
Ministry members commit themselves to the protection of
life which is threatened by war, the arms race,
abortion, poverty, racism, capital punishment and
euthanasia. Our parish believes that these issues are
linked under a consistent ethic of life. The ministry
meets the 4th Monday of the month at 9:00am in
the Church Rose Room.
For I was hungry and you gave
me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger
and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me; Amen, I
say to you whatever you did for one of these least
brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. (Matthew
25:35, 40)
Hot dinners are provided for anyone who is hungry on the
fourth and fifth Wednesday for every month at 6:00 pm.
Over the past year, more than 5,000 meals have been
served. We also have clothing, books, and bags filled
with nutritious and fresh food staples for our guests in
need. The “Ask a Nurse” table is very successful. And,
after our dinner, guests and volunteers alike enjoy
BINGO games.
For the poor will never cease
out of the land; therefore I command you, you shall open
wide your hand to your sister and brother, to the needy
and the poor, in the land. (Deuteronomy 15:11)
In 2004-2005 our parish formed sister relationships with
two international Jesuit ministries, Chikuni Mission in
Zambia and Parroquia Oscar Romero in Bonito Oriental,
Honduras. Fr. Bob Glynn, S.J. who served with us at S.I.
has just returned to Africa. Fr. Jack Donald, S.J. is
the pastor of our sister church in Honduras
The struggle against injustice
and the pursuit of truth cannot be separated nor can one
work for one independent of the other. (Ignacio
Ellacuria, SJ. Martyr- El Salvador)
We provide catechesis around contemporary local and
global issues in light of the Gospel and Catholic Social
Teaching. We have hosted Fr. Loren Riebe, S.J. from
Chiapas, Mexico, Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J. from HomeBoy
Industries in Los Angeles, Fr, Pete Neeley, S.J. from
the Jesuit Refugee Services, Fr. Ray Bourgeois, S.J.
leader of SOAW , representatives from Wellspring Women’s
Center, and Loaves and Fishes.
Praised
are you, O God, our loving creator and giver of
all good gifts. Bless our parish, strengthen our
faith and grant us the spirit of Christian
stewardship so that we may give generously of
our time in worship and prayer, our talent, and
our treasure to the spread of Your kingdom here
in our Church and throughout the world. This we
ask through Jesus Christ, Your son, our Lord,
who lives and reigns with You and the Holy
Spirit, one God now and forever. Amen.
What you have received from the
Lord, give as gift. (Matthew 10:8)
We promote active involvement in parish ministries and
the wider community. We organize or sponsor events such
as our Parish Multi-Cultural Food Sampling, Ministries
Fair, and Annual Renewal Campaign. We support all parish
ministries and help create personal connections between
the Parish and its members. Our goal is to help our
community connect their faith with their daily lives and
to see St. Ignatius Parish as a community of people, not
just a place to attend mass.
The U. S. Bishops’ Pastoral Letter entitled
“Stewardship--A Disciple’s Response” calls us to become
Christian stewards. It challenges each of us to embrace
stewardship as a way to become a disciple of Jesus--to
follow Jesus and imitate his way of life. Stewardship is
the work of the Spirit in our lives. When we accept our
lives as sheer gifts, the Spirit can use us as
instruments for spreading the Gospel. All that we are
and all that we have are gifts from God. In Thanksgiving
for God’s blessings we give back joyfully a portion of
our time, talent, and treasure. A Christian Steward:
“Consider this: Whoever sows
sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever
sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each must
do as already determined,
without sadness or compassions, for God loves a cheerful
giver…”
(2 Corinthians 9:6-7)
Thomas A. Edison Elementary
School Tutoring
"Every educator needs a firm hope, because the teacher
is never the one who truly reaps the fruits of the labor
expended on the students." (Lay Catholics in Schools:
Witnesses to Faith, 1982, #72)
St. Ignatius Loyola Parishioners began tutoring at
Thomas A. Edison Elementary School September 2008. The
school is in our parish neighborhood and is located at
1500 Dom Way.
Because
of our church's reputation for community outreach, the
principal of Thomas Edison Elementary, Todd Lindeman, a
St. Ignatius Parishioner, and Lou Fifer, Point West
Rotary Member, our partners in tutoring, contacted our
parish to ask our help in tutoring students who are
seriously struggling with basic math and reading
principles.
Tutors needed: During the school day, before and after
school. Make a difference in the education of a young
student who needs assistance in his/her formative years!
Youth Ministry
Click for Expanded Information: If God is God, that means he
created every single person on earth, out of love, for a
reason.
Every single person is your brother or sister.
To
be announced Fall 2011.
Catholic Social Teaching
Click for Expanded Information:
Volunteers Give not to see the results,
but out of love for God. We each have real and
meaningful treasures to give: our heart, our hand, our
smile, our advice, our knowledge, our skills, our
imagination, our comfort, our time, our peace, our
words, to convince those who have to give to those who
have not. To whom shall we give? Look around. Give to
that sick man in the hospital, that widow who is always
alone, that friend who is so discouraged because he
didn’t do well in school, that person terribly concerned
about being out of work, your little brother who needs
help, that friend in prison, that new person on the job
who feels a little lost. Christ is waiting for you in
them.
(Adapted from Living City magazine)
