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Community Assistance Ministry

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!


Ecumenical and Interreligious Ministry

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.

Communion To The Homebound
(Xavier Ministry)

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.

Elderly Visitation Ministry (EVM)

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.

Health Ministry

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.

Martha Ministry

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.

Respect Life

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.

Sharing God’s Bounty

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.


Sister Parishes

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

Social Concerns

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.


Stewardship
Stewardship

Stewardship Prayer

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)

TEES Tutoring

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
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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
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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)

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