Families and Friends of Persons with Disabilities

MISSION STATEMENT
To work for the "'full inclusion" of persons with disabilities in their parish community life.

GOALS:

• Preparation of persons with disabilities for reception of the sacraments.
• Full inclusion in religious education.
• Full inclusion in their- parish liturgical life.
• Full inclusion in church and community activities.
  

OFFERS Support to persons with disabilities and their families (FFPD) with :

• Monthly information and shaving.
• Parent-to parent out-reach.
• Sharing different resources.
• Efforts to increase community awareness regarding inclusion.
  

Contact Persons:
Rene Martinez
323-256-7622

Emma Guanlao
323-259-8332

Esther Martinez
323-254-6413

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St. Dominic's Parish Health Ministry

MISSION STATEMENT
The Health Ministry is a team of Christians dedicated to empowering individuals to improve mind, body, spirit health. We make a difference in the lives of those we serve in the following ways:

• Role-modeling and practicing healthy lifestyles
• Being community by loving and accepting the Body of Christ through prayer, support, and ministering to one another
• Assisting persons to move toward their health potential, not by doing for them, but by helping them to do for themselves
• Acting as a resource for whole person health, wellness and overcoming illness.

In conclusion, we act as a presence to provide hope and to facilitate healing during difficult times. Therefore, we endeavor to achieve shalom.

"For I know well the plans I have in mind for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare, not for woe! plans to give you a future full of hope. When you call me, when you go to pray to me, I will listen to you. When you look for me, you will find me. Yes, when you seek me with all your heart, you will find me with you, says the Lord, and I will change your lot." (Jeremiah 29: 11-14)

Services Provided

For further information call: (323) 258-4255 or (323) 254-2519

Health
Health is wholeness, salvation, shalom. It is an integration to the physical, psychological, spiritual, and social aspects of the client (individual or group). It promotes harmony with self, others, the environment, and God.
Illness
The experience of brokenness or disintegration of body, mind, and spirit and disharmony with others, the environment, and God.
Healing
The process of integrating the body, mind, and spirit to achieve wholeness, healing, and a sense of well-being, even when the curing of disease may not occur
Shalom
Individual and communal wholeness, community, well-being, totality or completeness, and peace

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Hispanic Ministries

HISPANOS EN ACCION
Purpose: To promote spiritual growth as well as community service to members of the Hispanic Community in the parish. The group sponsors monthly breakfast and other activities to help fund the Food Bank and St. Vincent De Paul Society. The group meets once a month on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 7:30 p.m. in St. Mark's Room. Membership is open to all parishioners.

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Holy Name Society
Purpose: The Society of the Holy Name is a confraternity. "The primary object of the society is to beget due love and reverence for the Holy Name of God and the Holy Name of Jesus Christ. The secondary object is to suppress blasphemy, perjury, oaths of any character that are forbidden, profanity, unlawful swearing, improper language, and as far as the members can, to prevent those vices in others." (Pius IV, 13 April 1564)
History: The Holy Name Society had its origin in the Council of Lyons, in 1274, which prescribed that the faithful should have a special devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus and that reparation might be made for insults offered to it by the Albigensian heresies and other blasphemies. The Friars Preachers, i.e., the Dominicans, were preaching everywhere with the zeal of St. Dominic. It was natural then, that Pope Gregory X selected the Dominicans to preach the devotion through the efforts of Blessed John of Vercelli, the master general of the order in 1274.

Obligations of Membership:

• To receive Holy Communion with the members of the Society on the Second
• Sunday of each month.
• To abstain from every form of profane and unbecoming speech.
• To safeguard the proper observance of Sundays and Holydays of obligation.
• To be active in the affairs of the parish.

Contact Persons:

Jim Carper - (323)254-2392

Pete Cavalieri - (323)254-4357

Please join us the Second Sunday of each month at the 7:30 AM Mass.

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Legion of Mary

Purpose: To promote the personal sanctification of its members, who taking Mary as their model, endeavor to imitate her virtues, especially her Faith, Charity and Humility and to perform apostolic work under the direction of the spiritual director and/or the pastor. The Legion of Mary is a world wide organization of Catholics, men and women, who offer their services to their pastor to aid him in performing spiritual works in the parish. It was founded in 1921 in Dublin, Ireland and has been active in the U. S. since 1931. There are three groups according to age. Seniors, (18 years and older), Young Adults (18 to 35 years), and Juniors (under 18 years).

The meetings are:

Seniors:
Wednesday 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Lorenzo Ruiz
Wednesday 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. St. Mark's Room
Sunday 10:30-12:00 Noon Youth Cottage

Young Adults:
Sunday 10:30-12:00 Noon Lorenzo Ruiz.

Juniors:
Sunday 10:30-11:30 a.m. Family Life Center
Sunday 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. St. Mark's Room

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Lesbian and Gay Ministry

St. Dominic's Lesbian and Gay Ministry, is a parish member of the Los Angeles Archdiocese Ministry with Lesbian and Gay Catholics. Through meetings, a supportive environment and social events we provide support and a forum for those who discover they are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender Catholics and their family members and friends; and raise awareness of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender issues within our Catholic parish. We invite all parish members and those brothers and sisters united in Christ through baptism who have parted ways with the Church to participate in our events.

For further information contact:

Alonso Calderon - (323)982-0328 - acalceves@yahoo.com

Magy Perez - (323)257-7950 - perez_magaly@hotmail.com

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Music Ministry

Purpose: To provide music for Sunday Liturgies, for special liturgies throughout the year, for the Sacrament preparation programs and provide wedding music cassettes for engaged couples planning their wedding. The music team includes choir members, instrumentalists and cantors.

The Choir: "A well-trained choir adds beauty and solemnity to the liturgy and also assists and encourages the singing of the congregation."9:00 a.m.

Mass Choir (Adult Choir): Sings an eclectic repertoire, ranging from chant to contemporary.11:00 a.m.

Mass Choir (Contemporary Choir): Primarily sings contemporary style music from various Christian sources.

El Coro (Spanish Choir): Sings at our 1:30 P.M. Mass. 5:00 p.m. Mass Youth Choir): Sings music from liturgical and contemporary sources.

Children's Choirs: Leads the music on special feast days and Sundays (especially at 12 Noon Mass).

Cantors: "A trained and competent cantor can perform an important ministry by leading the congregation in common sacred song and in responsorial singing. A cantor and organist/pianist are the main musical leaders at our 5:00 p.m. Saturday and 12 Noon Sunday Masses.

Instrumentalists: "Music performed on the organ and other instruments can stimulate feelings of joy and contemplation at appropriate times." Instrumentalists play regularly with our choirs, or just on special feast days. Wedding Music Cassettes are provided at the church office to be checked out for wedding music planning.

For further information, please call the Music Office at (213) 258-9854.

(All quotes from Music In Catholic Worship - U. S. Bishops)

Religious Education Program (CCD)

Purpose: To provide instruction and opportunities for children who attend public school to experience the Good News of Jesus Christ in the context of our Catholic Faith. The current programs include:Elementary - grades 1 through 6, Saturday 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Junior High School - grades 7 & 8, Tuesdays 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
High School - grades 9 through 12 (First Reconciliation & First Communion only), Tuesdays 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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St. Dominic Youth Ministry

MISSION STATEMENT

As young Christians growing in our faith, we, the St. Dominic Youth Ministry, desire to be a people who give our lives totally to God and to doing His will. We want to be a people who love one another as Christ loves us. We desire to be servants of Christ, one another and the community. We want to be a people filled with hope and to share that hope with others. In response to God's love, we want to grow in our love for and understanding of God through daily prayer, scripture, and Christian gatherings. We desire to build a diverse community that welcomes, supports and encourages each other. We want to be generous with our God given talents, time and resources. We want to inspire others by the way we live and by the sharing of our faith. We want to experience fun and fellowship in a positive, Christian way with our peers.

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