July 25, 2000
Let's Welcome Fr. William Vaughan - our new Parochial Vicar!
Father William L.Vaughan was born and raised in San Francisco, one of six
children. He attended Star of the Sea Parochial School, St. Ignatius
Prep, and San Francisco State University. He then received a scholarship
to study music (organ performance)at Southern Music Methodist University.
After graduate school, Fr. Vaughan began to study for the priesthood at
the Angelicum in Rome. Following his philosophy studies in Italy, he was
accepted at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, and for some time
commuted from San Francisco where he was caring for his ailing parents.
Due to Mrs. Vaughan's advancing cancer, Archbishop Quinn decided to
ordain Fr. Vaughan a few months earlier than planned, and at his home
parish of Star of the Sea, which made it possible for his mother to
attend; she died shortly afterwards. Fr. Vaughan's dad died two years
ago.
In addition to his work as a parish priest, Fr. Vaughan also serves on
the Archbishop's Liturgical Commission, and as a chaplain in the Air
Force Reserves; he was promoted to the rank of captain in May. The
promotion celebration at Travis Air Force Base included many friends from
parishes where he has served, including St. Pius (Redwood City) and St.
Raphael (San Rafael) where he has been the associate pastor these last
five years.
Through music school, seminary and priesthood, Fr. Vaughan has traveled
around Europe and the United States giving organ concerts. He is very
excited to be joining OLM, a beautiful, diverse and vibrant parish.
OLM Choir Debuts on Christmas Eve
The OLM Choir under the combined guidance of Teresita Ventosa, Father Rudy, and Father Curso
gave a spectacular presentation last Christmas Eve in their rendition of a Christmas Cantata,
a collection of songs and hymns to accompany the Nativity pageant. They were dressed in full
regalia and sang in wondrous harmony to the delight of the attentive congregation. Congratulations!
September 20, 1998
Pictures!!!
view pictures of the September Family Mass (first Sunday of September) and the
first Westlake Catholic Women's club meeting in September.
September 6, 1998
New Updates!!!
visit the Parishioner AND Staff Member of the month for September!
August 24, 1998
Father John's Log Starts Today
Do you want to know where Father John is right now? You can check Father John's
and read about
his travels and adventures (with pictures, too!) on his way to Rome, Italy for his
Sabbatical. (Remember to press Reload when you get there). He will be uploading his updates regularly for our enjoyment. So check here often!
Father John welcomes feedback, so email him!
August 1, 1998
New Parish Center
Check out pictures of Parish Center Cleaning
Beginning this month, parish meetings and gatherings will take place
in the new OLM PARISH CENTER - formerly the CONVENT!!!!
july 26, 1998
Parishioners of Month for August
Meet Tom and Wanda Jovick, the Parishioners
of Month for August!
may 20, 1998
Even MORE Colorful Windows To Adorn Our Church!
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click here
to see the new faceted glass art (Leaded and Stained Glass) being planned
for installation in OLM in the latter part of 1998. sponsor
one of these beautiful windows and you will never regret it! just look
at the vibrant colors of the image shown here (click on the image to see
the picture in full dimensions). and there's more! |
may 8, 1998
Join OLM in Renew 2000!
that's what our splash page (a.k.a. index page, cover page, top page)
invites you to do! notice that slick button bar under the picture? (courtesy
of father john, by the way) simply click on it to enter our new Renew
2000 page. Try it:
please visit the page and participate in the survey. as you can see,
we're just starting, so check here often for more developments.
also, if you have ideas, concerns, suggestions and questions regarding
Renew 2000, don't hesitate to contact us through our normal feedback
mechanism. we need your feedback and we need your participation!
april 22, 1998
More Colorful Windows To Adorn Our Church!
click here
to see the new faceted glass art being installed at our church this month.
our artists have been busy. come and admire the childrens' own rendition
of some of the windows.
BTW (that's by-the-way in net-lingo), all these new art pages were brought
to you by our very own HTML-author-in-residence, Father
John Glogowski!
visit this page (WHATSNEW) often to learn more up-to-date information
about events in our parish - including Renew
2000 activities.
april 3, 1998
New Updates!!!
visit the parishioner of the month for April!
december 15, 1997
New Updates for the Holidays!
visit the parishioner of the month for December!
and check out the new pictures in our staff page
(pretty!).
you can see the Christmas Day mass schedules in the december
calendar or the mass schedule page.
don't forget the holiday activities planned by the school
this month in the new announcements.
can you find the Prayer for Renew 2000 at our website? (Hint
- what word means prayer and starts with W?)
september 21, 1997
Learn HTML!
do you want to know the language behind web pages? learn about HTML
(hyper text markup language) from the web directly. we have posted some
links to get you started (these are just the first few links resulting
from an Alta Vista search
for 'HTML tutorial' - you should get more from Yahoo).
Free Calendar!
you can get your own calendar by entering the month and year in this
calendar generator form. after you
get your calendar, simply click on File...Save As... and you have a nicely
formatted calendar in perfect HTML to upload to your own personal web site!
september 18, 1997
father john - web author!
father john has been studying HTML coding for the past few weeks and
has created two pages (2 so far but more to come) that have already been
uploaded to our website. Can you find them? (Hint - they are truly eye-catching
pages and have their own distinctive style. Another hint - this is all
educational for father john!)
the school web site is growing
check out the school's web site often as more
and more interesting material is being added to it almost every day by
rob fife, son of the school principal,
mrs. arlene fife.
try our guestbook
we've provided the guestbook so you can
leave your thoughts and impressions about our church and our school, for
the community to read.