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Our Parish Priests
Monsignor H. Gerald McSorley, Pastor
Monsignor Patrick McNulty, Pastor Emeritus
Rev. Paul Henson, O.Carm.

Church Office
2500 West Avenue 33,
Los Angeles, California 90065
(323) 255-6142 | Fax: (323) 255-2351
Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to noon; 1 p.m. to 7: 30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
stbernardla [at] stbernardla.cc

St. Bernard School
Margaret Samaniego, principal:
3254 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, California 90065
(323) 256-4989
stbernardschool [at] stbernardla.cc

Religious Education
Remy Baluyut, director:
2515 West Avenue 33, Los Angeles, California 90065  
(323) 256-6242
religious.ed [at] stbernardla.cc

Administrative 
Berna Gurule, parish manager:
2500 West Avenue 33, Los Angeles, California 90065
(323) 255-6142 | Fax: (323) 255-2351
berna.gurule [at] stbernardla.cc

San Fernando Pastoral Region
Ministry With Young Adults
www.sfmya.org
youngadults [at] sfmya.org
First Communion

For more information on first communion classes,
call Director of Religious Education Remy Baluyut at (323) 478-0001.
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First Communion

How does the Eucharist
help us become the Body of Christ?

We gather together in worship, not to "refuel" lives devoid of grace, but because we need to celebrate all the grace-filled moments of our lives, which are so easily overlooked or ignored. We gather at Eucharist to be challenged to deeper awareness of what God is doing in our lives, in this world, all week long.

We have to keep remembering to ask the questions: "Who is at the table? Who is around the table?" as well as the question, "Who is on the table?" The Catechism of the Catholic Church quotes a moving passage in which St. Augustine relates the Body of Christ in the Eucharist (on the altar) to the Body of Christ that is the Church (at and around the altar).

Says Augustine at the turn of the fifth century: "If you are the body and members of Christ, then it is your sacrament which is placed on the table of the Lord; it is your sacrament that you receive. To that which you are, you respond: 'Amen' ('Yes, it is true!'), and by responding to it you assent to it. For you hear the words 'The Body of Christ,' and respond 'Amen.' Be then a member of the Body of Christ that your Amen may be true" (No 1396).
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