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PARISH OFFICE
The Parish Office will be closed this Monday, March 29.
GOOD FRIDAY COLLECTION
On Good Friday, April 2, 2010, our parish will take up the annual Good Friday Collection for the Holy Land. Your financial contribution helps to support the struggling Christian community and to protect Christianity’s holiest places. Please be generous.
HOLY WEEK REHEARSAL SCHEDULE
The rehearsal for lector’s, altar servers and those who will be having their feet washed on Holy Thursday, and lector’s and altar servers scheduled for Good Friday is this Tuesday, March 30 at 7:30pm in the church. The rehearsal for lector’s, altar servers and all RCIA Elect and Candidates for Holy Saturday is Wednesday, March 31 at 6:30pm.
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This Sunday is unusual for so many reasons: we begin the holiest of Christian weeks; we wear red vestments even before we put away for another year the red-violet ones for Lent: we fill the sparse environment of Lent with fresh greens; we have two gospel proclamations; we carry palms in procession; we proclaim a passion account. But perhaps most unusual is that in Luke’s passion account Jesus hands himself over, not to his executioners, but to his Father: “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” This is the utter confidence of an innocent man. On five occasions in Luke’s passion account Jesus is declared innocent. Jesus died, not because of guild, but because of his infinitely compassionate love for us. Even in the midst of great suffering, he extended his compassion to others. His compassion was so total that he willingly emptied himself “to the point of death.” We enter into this holiest week of the year, praying that our self-emptying for the good of others could be so total! We pray that our compassion might increase and abound so that we have the same utter confidence in God’s presence and care as did Jesus. The first reading from Isaiah challenges us to allow the word to “rouse us. The word that rouses us is no less than the power of innocence and compassion. As we’ve moved through the Lenten season we’ve been invited to lay aside more and more of our sinful ways, repent and change our lives, and so come to a new innocence before God and each other. The second reading reminds us that Jesus laid aside his divinity and even his life for our sake. Jesus lays down high standards for us! Jesus’ innocence conditions how he approaches others with compassion. His innocence is an invitation and challenge for us to take up our own cross and participate in self-emptying dying-not just during this holiest of weeks, but during every week of our lives. The real pity of this Holy Week would be that we miss the opportunity to empty ourselves, take up our own crosses, and follow Jesus through death to new life. The real triumph of this week would be that we are roused to self-emptying, humility, obedience, mercy and compassion that confess in our everyday lives and in all our actions that “Jesus Christ is Lord” and thereby witness to and glorify God.
OUR PRIVILEGE, OUR RIGHT, AND
OUR DUTY
As it is written ‘Even if these forget, yet I will not forget you.’ (Is 49:15):
We in the Catholic Church in the Community of St. Patrick remember, hold in our memory, and pray for the men and women who serve in the Armed Forces especially: Cody Amick, Ryan Thomas Blackwood, Douglas Bower Jr., Ryan Bridges, Lonnie Brown, Nathan Brown, Jeremy Burke, Carlos Bustamante, Adamm Creel, Isaiah Creel, David Davis, Loyd Davis, Kenny Doleac, Brad Dunn, Brian Dykeman, Bill Ellis, Adam Ferrell, David Hannon, April Kennedy, Patrick Kirsch, Mike Krzmarzick, Jessica Krzmarzick (wife of Michael Krzmarzick) Johnny Lugo, Adam Lulay, Alex Martin, Jordan Morelli, John Nguyen, Robert Nolan, Daniel Olsen, Robert Selner, Tarl Spencer, John Suchanek, Leah Sundquist, Brian Thomas, Kenneth Thorpe, CJ Trillo, Jonathan Turner, William Walsh, Erik Wiesehan, Ivan Wilson and John Zagyva, may they be servants of Christ through service to those in need, and may they be kept safe from all harm.
PARISH SPAGHETTI DINNER SATURDAY,
APRIL 10, 5-8PM
In order for this parish event to be successful we will need many volunteers to help put on the dinner and many hungry appetites to eat the dinner. Please mark your calendar and invite your family and friends. Also, please sign up for the part of the dinner that you and your family would like to help with. Sign up sheets are in the back of the church. Questions, donations? Call Verlene Patton at 503-266-2476.
MASS INTENTIONS OF THE WEEK
March 30-31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
+Walt Malanowski by Delores Dominiak
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Special Intention for Lil O’Callaghan by Phil Baird
PARISH SUPPORT
Parishioners of St. Patrick through the Sacrificial giving Program gave to God the gift:
March 21, 2010
Funds Collected for Others
Cemetery $
St. Vincent dePaul $
Catholic Relief $10.00
Retirement Fund Rel. $7.00
Total: $17.00
Collection Parish Operating Expenses
Envelopes’ $6142.00
Loose $357.50
Children’s $
Poor $25.00
Unemployment Fund $100.00
Building Fund $38.15
Total $6662.65
FIRST EUCHARIST PARENT/CHILD MEETING-APRIL 5
First Eucharist Parent/Child meeting April 5. Look for an email for information regarding meeting discussion. Thank you for your commitment to your children’s faith building!
2010-2011 CONFIRMATION MEETING IN APRIL
Students wishing to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation next year should plan on attending (with your parents) a meeting to discuss the program for next year. We will meet in the Parish Center following the 11:00am Mass; Lunch will be served. Please mark your calendar and look for information to come in the mail.
PALM SUNDAY REFLECTION
Passion Play
While watching the Passion Play put on by our parish on Palm Sunday, and especially while listening to the loud hammer blows as the players nailed Jesus to the cross, I couldn’t help but think how morbid all this might seem to
some visiting nonbeliever. “What are these people doing?” he might think. “These Christians are surely sadomasochists to make a man’s execution the central feature of their religion - to display constantly before their congregations the image of a man suspended on a cross, crowned with thorns, blood flowing from hands, feet and side. How gloomy can you get! Why don’t they contemplate something more sublime and whole-some like spring time and fertility, life instead of death?”
I’m glad I let that rebellious thought cross my mind, because it forced me to justify and appreciate our focus on the crucifixion of Jesus.
Christianity refuses to be an escapist kind of religion, a provider of pleasant fantasies that distract from what we are. Christianity displays before our eyes the death of a Poet, and not only that- it reveals our involvement in that death. It is we who say this Poet is expendable, a nuisance. It is we who cry out, “Crucify the Poet!” It is we who prefer the “tough guy,” Barbabbas, to the Poet, Jesus, It is we who, even if we feel a passing compassion for the Poet, tolerate (like Pilate and Peter) his destruction.
Christianity tells us loudly and clearly what’s wrong with us as individuals and a society. We kill poets. We kill people who envision and insist upon a world of mutual forgiveness and therefore Beauty. We are embarrassed by human beings like the poet Shelley who sense how
The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats, though unseen, among us; visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower
- who call this Power: Beauty, God, Father, the Holy Spirit, and dedicate their own powers to its service.
In repudiating those visionaries, who for us are all summed up in Christ, we repudiate the very Creator of the universe-the original Poet who articulates this marvelous world we live in- and even ourselves as potential poets, purveyors of beautiful deeds. Week in and week out, Christianity confronts us with the consequences of such perversity by displaying above our altars the crucifixion of that Poet whose death is repeated over and over again in the assassination of a Martin Luther King, and Archbishop Romero, and in our own “execution” every time we repress an inspiration to be
forgiving, caring, extravagantly generous-to behave beautifully.
But Christianity, having made us face up to this self-destructive tendency, then declares in the resurrection of Christ the inevitable victory of the Poet and of the poetic in us. We cannot erase moral beauty altogether. It will return again and again like the California poppies of spring. The Poet within and among us will win out. That is our ultimate creed, for which reason in ancient churches the crucified Christ was often portrayed not hanging life-less and naked on a cross but robed in splendor, his eyes wide open and arms outstretched in all-embracing love and on his head a golden crown of victory-after all.
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CHRISM MASS
Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Portland are invited to join the Archbishop, the priests and seminarians for the Celebration of The Chrism Mass on Monday, March 29 at St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (NW 18th & Couch Streets) at 7pm. At the Chrism Mass the Holy Oils are blessed for use the following year. The Oil of Catechumens is used to anoint those preparing for the sacraments of initiation. The Oil of the Sick is for those seeking healing of body, mind and spirit. The holy Chrism Oil is used in the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, in the ordination of a priest or bishop, and it is also used in the dedication of a church or altar. The oils will be distributed to each parish for use throughout the year. The Chrism Mass also celebrates the unity between the bishop and the priests of the diocese as they serve the mission of the Church. This year being the Year of the priest, this relationship is made even more apparent. The priests of the Archdiocese will renew their promise of obedience to the Archbishop and his successors, and renew their commitment to pastoral ministry and service. Come and join us for this special Mass.
CHILDREN’S CHOIR
Children of the parish are invited to gather once again to practice for two upcoming liturgies: First Communion on Sunday, April 25 at 1:00pm and Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 9 at 11:00am. Rehearsals will be on the following Sundays: March 28; April 11 and 18; May 2 from 12:20-1:05pm (or as soon as the 11:00am Mass is finished and lasting for about 45 minutes). Please come and help beautify these liturgies with your singing, especially if you have siblings, relatives or friends who are receiving their First Holy Communion. I’m looking forward to seeing you again! For more information, call Lora Heli at 503-263-3840.
CHAPLET OF DEVINE MERCY
We will gather on April 11 at 9:45am after the 8:30am Mass to recite the Chaplet of Devine Mercy in the church. The novena starts Good Friday, April 2. All are welcome!
LOST
The family of Alfred Green has lost a hearing aid last week. This would be skin colored and small. If you have found such an item, please contact Alfred Green at 503-263-1557. The family would greatly appreciate it.
COMING EVENTS FOR
ST. PATRICK ‘RELAY FOR LIFE’ TEAM:
*CASSEROLE BREAKFAST
On Sunday, May 23 from 9am-1pm at St. Patrick Parish Center, come and enjoy a wonderful breakfast of baked ham, egg casserole, potato casserole, homemade cinnamon rolls, fruit and drinks. Prices will be determined soon. Come and support a very worthy cause.
*LUMINARY BAGS
Luminary bags to honor your loved ones will be lit on June 25. Bags will be available for you to decorate after the 1st of May. For more information please contact Thelma Kriegshauser, 503-263-8750.
PARISH HAPPENINGS |
March 28-April 3, 2010
My God, my God,
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