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Saint Patrick's Catholic Church 498 N.W. 9'th, P.O. Box 730, Canby, OR 97013 503-266-9411 Fax:503-263-2293 website: http://www.stpatcanby.com email:webteam@stpatcanby.com |
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Parish Mission statement "St. Patrick's Parish is a community of the heart, where all nourished and given oppurtunities to serve, love, forgive, and celebrate Christ's love."  Masses Daily: Tuesday evening: 7:00 p.m. Wednesday thru Friday: 8:00 a.m. Saturday Vigil: 5:30 p.m. Sunday: 8:30 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. Mass in Spanish: 4:00 p.m. Confession Schedule Saturday 4:00-5:00 p.m. |
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The Fourth Sunday of Lent |
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WELCOME SECOND COLLECTION MEN’S CLUB MEETING MEN’S CLUB BREAKFAST LENTEN SOUP SUPPER AND STATIONS OF THE CROSS
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Jesus is present in this Sunday’s gospel only at the beginning and end of the story. In the larger, center portion of the story, Jesus is not present at all; the focus is on the blind man who can now see. It is telling that the name of the pool where the man washed the mud off his eyes and regained his sight is “Siloam,” which means “sent.” It is the man born blind who is “sent” to bear the Good News, comes to believe, and witnesses to Jesus as One who comes from God. In their first encounter in the gospel, Jesus gives the blind man physical sight. But only in their second encounter are we told that Jesus gives the man much more: the eyes of faith by which he sees Jesus as the Son of Man. In both encounters Jesus comes to the man, who is open to what Jesus has to offer. Yes, recovery of physical sight was more easily accomplished; spiritual insight is more difficult. Jesus seeks out and asks, “Do you believe. . .?” The restoration of the blind man’s physical sight culminates in the spiritual insight (faith) that Jesus is the “Son of Man” worthy of worship. But getting to that point is difficult: he is unrecognized by friends, challenged by authorities, unsupported by parents, expelled from the synagogue. Yet with each obstacle his vision of faith is sharpened and his resolve is strengthened. Only spiritual insight attains the goal of faith: worship of Jesus. Jesus’ disciples see the blind man and raise a theological issue-“Rabbi, who sinned?” Jesus, on the other hand, sees the blind man and responds to him as a true “shepherd” and restores his sight. The man’s blindness is not the consequence of human choice (sin), but is simply a fact of the human condition. The man represents all human beings; we are all born “blind.” Christ is the light who opens our eyes to see. Like the man, we can choose to see what Christ has revealed or, like the Pharisees, we can choose not to see and that is the real sin. Sin does not cause physical blindness; sin does cause spiritual blindness. The blind man’s story is the story of every Christian: we grope for faith in the midst of adversities; and Jesus comes to find us. This is our work during Lent: to be open to Jesus, who comes to us and helps us to see, brings us to deeper faith. All this, so that we can worship God with renewed fervor. |
OUR PRIVILEGE, OUR RIGHT, AND OUR DUTY As it is written ‘Even if these forget, yet I will not forget you.’ (Is 49:15): Building Fund $92.00
The Lord is my shepherd;
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MASS SCHEDULE SPECIAL BULLETIN NOTICE LAP TOP NEEDED PICTURES FOR THE MILITARY BOARD RWANDAN SISTER TO GIVE LENTEN TALK ON FORGIVENESS AND HEALING |
OUR LADY OF PEACE HOLDS RETREATS March 28-30 Men’s Retreat FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT A Room with a view “The Signora had no business to do it,” complained Charlotte Bartlett in E.M. Forster’s 1908 novel A Room With a View. She promised us south rooms with a view...instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a courtyard.” Miss Bartlett had good reason to be upset. As chaperone to her cousin, Lucy Honeychurch, it was her job to ensure that Lucy’s first trip to Italy and her current sojourn in Florence would be a pleasant change from foggy old England. And yet here they were, assigned to lodging that looked out not upon a panorama of Florence domes and towers and ancient bridges but upon backyard. Miss Bartlett’s complain was overheard by Mr. Emerson, an old fellow who shared their breakfast table. “I have a view,” he said brusquely. “This is my son...He has a view, too...What I mean is that you can have our rooms. We’ll change.” Well, much as she disliked their assigned rooms, Miss Bartlett had no wish to be under obligation to total strangers.
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Her British propriety required that she refuse the offer, which she took to be a rude invasion of her privacy. “Thank you very much indeed; that is out of the question,” she replied. Mr. Emerson was not the type to give in so easily. Placing his fists on the table, he asked, “Why?” - which only made miss Bartlett redden with displeasure. Well, did she or did she not want a room with a view? Having traveled so far did she or did she not want to experience Italy? Her very choice of a place to stay in Florence makes you wonder. The Pension Bertolini was a thoroughly British “island” in the midst of Florence. All guests were genteel English ladies and proper British gentlemen. The so-called “signorina” who managed the place had a Cockney accent straight out of London. The dinning room was graced with a portrait of Queen Victor and a schedule of services at the local Anglican Church-all of which compelled Lucy to remark, “Charlotte, don’t you feel. . . we might be in London? I can hardly believe that all kinds of other things are just outside.” But before we condemn Miss Bartlett’s obvious ambivalence about truly experiencing Italy, truly leaving Britain behind, let’s consider our own ambivalence when it comes to Christ’s offering us by way of his Gospel “a room with a view.” We live such enclosed lives. We long to escape this enclosure, the confinement of our pettiness, our egocentric concerns, worries, and biases for a fresher view of reality. And along comes Christ with a Gospel that can open us up the way a view of Florence in all of its splendor might. And yet as individuals and a Church we hesitate. We cling to familiar ways; we rationalize ourselves into remaining stuck right where we are. Like Miss Bartlett, we close the shutters upon a view and a way of being too blindingly bright, too potentially wonderful (and demanding) to be tolerable. Not so with Lucy. When at last Miss Bartlett gave in to the Emersons and accepted their “rooms with a view,” while Miss Bartlett spent her first moments investigating her room’s interior to make sure all shutters and doors had locks, Lucy, yielding to her inner need to be free of “Britain” and “propriety” and “security,” flung wide the windows to her room and leaned out into the sunshine to take in the beautiful hills, the marble churches, the gurgling Arno, the crowded trams and somersaulting children, the band and comic opera soldiers, and the white bullocks coming out of an archway-life, world, people in all their wonder and worth, releasing Lucy’s repressed capacity for universal love! Is there a shuttered window within our psyches behind which, like Miss Bartlett, we repress our yearning for light and beauty, insulate ourselves from all surprise? We must let Christ open those shutters, touch our eyes-our souls-as he did Miss Lucy’s (whose name implies light) and that of the young man in today’s Gospel. To put it in an even more profoundly Lenten way: we must let him and his angels roll away the stone behind which we have lain buried for far too long. |
REGISTRATION FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION YOUTH MINISTRY AND JR HIGH MINISTRY FAITH IN ACTION (9TH-12TH GRADES) meets on Sunday evening from 5:30 pm -7 pm in the Parish Center. All High School teens are welcome to join us. Our next gathering will be March 9th. We are asking the students to fast from after lunch until class at 5:30 pm. We have a special program looking at the food distribution around the world. On March 16th the Faith in Action group will leave at 2 pm. We will be going to St Francis Dining Hall to serve dinner for the poor. Watch the bulletin or contact Molly or Liz or Sue Unger for more information. Our next Youth Mass is Saturday April 5th. The youth Mass has been changed to the first weekend of the month. We can use more singers and volunteers to help with the different ministries. 24 HOUR FAST |
YOUTH MINISTRY FUND RAISERS Youth Ministry is collecting cans to support our ministry. If you have cans please bring them to the Parish Hall side entrance next to the gym. If locked they can be left Sunday through Thursday outside the doors between the gym door and the hall door. If open please leave them just inside the gym by the door. Every little bit helps. Please be sure there is no garbage in the bags and that they are redeemable. Thanks for your generosity.
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SACRAMENT PREPARATION CLASSES Our next Confirmation gathering will be March 2nd at 4pm. Be sure to bring your folder and any paper work. Your Saint drafts are due. Please bring an outline of the plan for your paper. Adults seeking Confirmation need to contact Sara Creel for more information. It is never too late to join. We do have books left for those who would like to join in. Remember Lent is only half over. Consider joining a small group. Gathering together we make Lent a special season of renewed relationships with our God and neighbors. You can gather with Jerry Giger’s class on Wednesday at 7 pm or with either of the Bible Study groups on Monday morning about 9 am or Thursday night at 7 pm. Or contact Lora Heli who is having a group at her home. Contact Sue Unger for more information. LENTEN ACTIVITY VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL TEAM
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RCIA NOTES HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BEGINS PARISHIONER NEEDS A RIDE TO MASS
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