Pastoral Staff
Tel: 503-266-9411 Fax:503-263-2293
Pastor: Fr. John Waldrom email: stpatricks@canby.com
Pastor Associate: Sara Creel
Deacon: Rev. Mr. Jerry Giger
Director of Rel. Educ: Sue Unger
email: stpatrickreligiouseducation@yahoo.com
Aministrative Assistant: Debbie Newbury
email: dnewbury@canby.com
Maintenance: Heriberto Aguilar
email: haguilar@canby.com

Rectory Office Hours
Monday thru Thursday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
We are closed for lunch between 12:00-1:00 p.m.

Bulletin Policy
Items for the bulletin are due in the Parish Office no later than Wednesday of each week. Email your items to dnewbury@canby.com

Prayer Needs
If you have prayer needs, please call St. Patrick prayer chain. Contact Kathy Usher, 503-266-2485

Social Service Ministries
St. Vincent dePaul Food Bank:
Bill & Delores Piller: 503-701-9135

Sacrament
Infant Baptisms:
Registered parishioners are expected to complete a Baptismal Preparation program prior to scheduling a baptism. Baptismal preparation programs are offered 3 times a year. For information and /or registration, contact Sara 503-266-9411.
Next Baptismal Prep Class: September 28, 2006

Adult Baptisms:
Adults seeking baptism are expected to participate in the RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.) RCIA begins in the fall with the reception of the Sacraments of Initiation in the Spring (Easter). For information and/or registration contact Sara at 503-266-9411.

Marriage Policy:
Our parish is a signator of the Clackamas County "community marriage policy", that is a multi denominational agreement for common standards for marriage preparation. Please contact the Pastor at least six months prior to the wedding to ensure adequate time for these preparations.

Fourth Sunday of Easter
April 27, 2008

SECOND COLLECTION ~ TODAY
CATHOLIC CHARITIES 2008 ANNUAL CAMPAIGN
For 75 years, Catholic Charities has been providing help and creating hope for poor and profoundly disadvantaged people in western Oregon. Please contribute generously to the Catholic Charities 2008 Annual Campaign. Your help provides critically needed services for tens of thousands of people in western Oregon each year.

SOLEMNITY OF THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD
normally scheduled for Thursday, May 1 has been transferred to Sunday, May 4.

SPECIAL THANK YOU
We would like to give our special thanks to Andy & Helen Krzmarzick for hosting Coffee and Donuts for the year. Have a great summer off. You deserve it.

SPECIAL THANKS TO ST. PATRICK PARISHIONERS
“We can’t begin to thank each of you in the church family for all you have done for our family at this very difficult time. For all of the support, food, cards, flowers, phone calls, hugs, and help you have given us, we truly thank you. Mom was very proud to be a member of St. Patrick Parish. May God bless you all.” The family of Joyce Carroll

For the “NO!” of those “terrible twos” to the rebellion of adolescence to the independence of adulthood, we like to assert our own wills. Part of coming to maturity is learning how to submit our own wills to those of others for the good of all. Life can’t simply be about always getting what we want! This principle seems so simple, yet for some people putting their own will aside for others seems all but impossible. These people think of commandments as burdensome and restrictive. The gospel this Sunday shows us another way to look at commandme3nts-as expressions of our love for God. Keeping commandments must always be within the context of love. Commandments cannot be isolated laws kept for their own sake; if so, this only tends to breed resentment and anger and fear. Jesus suggests that we keep his commandments because our love for him has established a deep and intimate relationship between us that spills out into acts we know will be pleasing to the Beloved. Thus, love is revealed in a threefold action: Jesus loves his disciples by revealing himself to them, the Father shows love by sending the Spirit to dwell with disciples always, disciples love Jesus by keeping commandments. Thus, Jesus assures us we are not alone, we are not orphans. We are the beloved of God. In order to love Jesus, we must know the Spirit. When we open ourselves to the presence of the Spirit within us and God’s loving us first, keeping commandments is as natural as loving. We tend to think and work out of our love for God. The surprise of the gospel is that we really need to begin with God’s unfathomable love for us. Rather than burdensome laws, then, commandments are concrete expressions of our reciprocated love for God and each other. God has already given us the example: God’s love for us is so great that the only-begotten Son was sent as our Savior to live among us, die for us, and be raised to new life for us. Our love for God should be so great!

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 Ryan Thomas Blackwood, Ryan Bridges, Lonnie Brown, Nathan Brown, Douglas Bower Jr., Carlos Bustamante, Adamm Creel, Isaiah Creel, Brad Dunn, Brian Dykeman, Bill Ellis, Adam Ferrell, Rob Gamble, Andrew Gibby, David Hannon, April Kennedy, Mike Krzmarzick, Jessica Krzmarzick (wife of Michael Krzmarzick) Johnny Lugo, Alex Martin, Ryan McInnis, John Molamphy, John Nguyen, Tarl Spencer, Leah Sundquist, Kenneth Thorpe, CJ Trillo, Jonathan Tuner, William Walsh, Erik Wiesehan and Ivan Wilson, may they be servants of Christ through service to those in need, and may they be kept safe from all harm.

PARISH SUPPORT
Parishioners of St. Patrick through the Sacrificial giving program gave to God the gift: April 20, 2008

Building Fund $3945.00
Cemetery $25.00
Envelopes $7343.00
Loose $631.47
Children $2.00
Poor $

Total $11,946.47

MASS SCHEDULE

TUESDAY, April 29, 2008
+Larry Housen by Rose & Bill Judge

WEDNESDAY, April 30 , 2008
+Karen Brough by Jeannette Schumacher

Thursday, May 1, 2008
+Virginia Carroll by the Carroll family

Friday, May 2, 2008
For the Living and Deceased families of the Tileston/Roy families by Odette Tileston

EVENTS AROUND THE AREA

4th ANNUAL ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER DINNER
A benefit for St. Joseph Shelter - Sunday, May 4, 2008
St. Mary Parish Hall, 565 E College Street, Mt. Angel
Social & Silent Auction ~ 5pm
Prime Rib Dinner & Program ~ 6pm
$50 per person; $500 to sponsor a table for eight
(includes 2 bottles of complimentary wine)
RSVP by April 28th
Call Fritz Hostetler at 503-632-1993

ICONOGRAPHIC ARTS INSTITUTE
We are privileged in the NW to have an institute of this caliber developing Icons throughout the world. The institute is at Queen of Angels Benedictine Community and run by Master teachers Kathy Sievers, Mary Katsilometes and Claudia Coose. They have a Beginner/Inquiry session from June 17th –June 25th Intermediate/Advanced June 27-July 5th and a new session this year Introductory Illuminated Manuscript from June 27-July 3. This is an opportunity for prayer, silence, simple meals, information and fellowship occurring in a combination retreat/workshop with the cycle of the Divine Office. Presentations include theology, spirituality, and technique. In addition to conferences by institute instructors, guest speakers have included teachers and members from Queen of Angels Monastery, Mt Angel Abbey and Seminary, the Franciscan Sisters of Philadelphia, the Oregon Province of Jesuits, and other noted individuals. For more information and registration go to their website at www.iconinstitute.org or contact Sue Unger.

SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
John 14:15-21

The Accuser, Who Accuses Us Day and Night,
Has been Deposed
(Revelation 12:10)

In the book of Job we are given a clear picture of what makes Satan diabolical. There he sits at God’s celestial cabinet meeting. God has just expressed admiration for his earthly servant Job. And Satan sneers, “Sure, Job looks good but how deep does it go? How can you be certain he’s not a fraud?” Like Shakespeare’s Iago (possibly the most diabolical villain in all literature), Satan stirs the pot. His name means “Adversary” and he exists to accuse us of anything he can ferret out.
And all the while we thought Satan’s role in history was to entice us to do wicked things. On the contrary, his role has been to accuse us of evil until we’re so browbeaten, we doubt we are of any worth at all, become bilious, desperate and give up-at which point Satan smiles his subtle smile of success.
Of course, you can’t see Satan, but he’s really present wherever the spirit of accusation dominates our lives. That’s just about everywhere, if you read the papers. I mean, before we’re five years old, we’re being summoned before the tribunal of parents, siblings, teachers, and peers for not measuring up to expectations.
It’s not long before the din of such criticism becomes so loud that we internalize it, so that in the absence of anyone else to accuse us, we’re quite ready to accuse ourselves: “why don’t you get your life together? When will you ever learn? Where did you get that hat?” Feeling up against the wall under such a barrage of judgment, we lash out, engage in counter accusations, and pretty soon we’re caught up entirely in that battle royal otherwise known as the politics of human experience. And Satan’s smile broadens-the spirit of accusation holds us ever more firmly in his closed fist.
The New Testament is about God’s decision to break the accuser’s enervating grip upon us. Look at the behavior of Jesus in so many Gospel scenes. When questioned as to why he dines with sinners, he says it’s because they are ill. You don’t drag illness into a courtroom-your treat it with compassion. Again we see him interfering with the execution of a woman caught in adultery. As her advocate he says, “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”
Again we see him in the house of Simon the Pharisee (who under his breath finds fault with the party crasher at Jesus’feet).

“Let me tell you something,” says Jesus. “This woman has made mistakes but they carry little weight when balanced against her enormous love. You, Simon, might learn from her by curtailing your criticism just long enough to show minimum courtesy to your guests.”
And in the parable about the prodigal son, the forgiving father (embodying the Spirit of Christ) says to his judgmental older son”: “Give us a break. He was dead and now he’s alive; we lost him and now he’s back. Stow the vindictiveness and come, celebrate his existence and your own.”
It’s because Jesus is aware of the persistent shadow of the prince of darkness, this spirit of accusation that belabors us, that in today’s Gospel he promises to send us the Advocate, somebody to stand up for us, to remind us of the grace of God when we feel battered by accusations of failing to measure up. Amid such juridical bedlam we may find consolation in the signals of God’s own public defender within us saying, “Don’t worry. Your fate will not be determined before the judges of this world, but within the realm of a God of whom Scripture says, ‘If God is for us, who can be against you?. . . Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us. Who will condemn?” (Romans 8:31-33).
From: Living the Lectionary: Links to Life and Literature

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RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FOR GRADE SCHOOL
Our classes are nearing the end for the year. Our final session is May 4th. Children will meet in their classes at 9:45 am. We will have a crowning of Mary with a litany at 10 am in the Church. All are welcome to join us and honor our Spiritual Mother Mary. Following the 11am Mass there will be a party for all parishioners. There will be food, fun, and games. Come and help us celebrate the end of the Religious Education year. We ask all families to bring veggie trays, or fruit trays, or finger desserts. Drinks and Hot Dogs will be provided.

NEEDS FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Running a program needs lots of different kinds of things. For our final fun Friday we need door prizes we could store or restaurant gift certificates, tickets for movies, tickets for sporting events, games, balls, sporting equipment, MP3 players, Christian Rock CD’s, or anything that youth from 11-18 would enjoy. For youth ministry we are still hoping for a Wii system. Also we need someone who could repair our ping pong table. It has had a lot of use in the last two years and it is becoming almost impossible to use. We also would like to get a tool to help us with bulletin Boards. The Camera we have been using for the last 2 ½ years is beginning to show it’s age. We could use a new digital camera. The one we would like is a Nikon that has add on features. If you would like to help with any of these wishes please contact Sue Unger.

SUMMER NURSERY
Nursery will be open during the summer. We will put out a Nursery schedule in the next week for the summer. We always need volunteers to help with Nursery for youth and adults. Youth must be at least 13 yrs. old. We do have an active Nursery during the 11 am mass. We could always use more volunteers to make this happen. This ministry is a real gift for young families wanting to be able to fully participate in the Mass. For more information contact Angela Baker, Sara Dietz, or Sue Unger.

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. Watch the bulletin or contact Molly or Liz or Sue Unger for more information. Our next Youth Mass is Saturday, May 3rd . We can use more singers and volunteers to help with the different ministries. On May 16th Johannin Christian Rock Band will be here for a concert. We will start with dinner at 6 pm invite friends for a night of music, fun, door prizes and food. $10.00 per person.

YOUTH MINISTRY AND JR HIGH MINISTRY
The Journey in Faith (6th- 8th grade) group meets on Wednesday night at 7 pm. Our last class for the year will be May 14th . I hope you have enjoyed the year and we look forward to seeing you back at class next year. Our next Fun Friday is May 16th (change of date) at 6 pm please come and join us to celebrate and play. We will have dinner to start at 6pm. We have invited the Christian Rock Group Johannin to entertain that night for our last fun Friday of the year. This night will be for all Jr High and Sr High Parishioners and friends. The cost will be $10.00 per person. If you are not signed up in classes please bring a parent to sign a permission slip for you to participate.

YOUTH MINISTRY FUND RAISERS
One way to support Youth Ministry is by supporting the Knights of Columbus fundraisers. They are very supportive to our Religious Education programs. We also have a new opportunity through Safeway to get a percentage of their profit to support our Religious Education programs. If you shop at Safeway and have a Safeway card, St Patrick Religious Education can get a percentage of what you spend. You need to register your card through the company. You can call at 1-800-400-7878 or email at sbucher@escrip.com. They will guide you through the registration. This can help support the many programs without the extra work of a fundraiser. Contact Sue Unger with any questions about the program. St Patrick Safeway group ID # is 163944105.

Youth Ministry is collecting cans to support the 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.

BACCALAUREATE MASS FOR 2008
Baccalaureate Mass for graduating Seniors of 2008 will be Saturday, May 31st at the 5:30 pm Mass. All seniors are invited to the special blessing. Please bring your cap and gown and meet in the vestibule at 5:15 PM to line up to process into church. A cake and coffee reception will follow in the Parish Hall following Mass. Contact Sue Unger to let her know that you will be present for the ceremony.

Religious Education News

SPRING CLEANING IS COMING
The Youth Ministry and Religious Education programs will be sponsoring a garage sale in late spring to help with buying bibles and sending the youth to Spokane for a Youth Conference. Also it will support Vacation Bible School. We will need volunteers and a co-coordinator to make this happen. Please call Sue Unger at the office. I generally am available by phone on Monday –Thursday. Sundays I am in the office but generally do not take messages.

SACRAMENT PREPARATION CLASSES
Our next gathering for Eucharist will be Saturday, April 26th at 10am for rehearsal. We will go through the different parts of the Mass to know what to do for first Communion. Contact Sue Unger

Our next Confirmation gathering will be May 4 at 4pm. Be sure you have your Saint paper and Social Justice paper and your Service hours completed and ready to hand in. Be prepared to make your interview appointment with a member of the team. This will need to be completed by May 15th. For those that missed the Holy Spirit retreat you will need to write a paper for that event. There has been a change for the Confirmation Ceremony. The Archbishop has requested for us to have our ceremony here at St Patrick. St James in Molalla will be with us. The ceremony will be on May 21st and rehearsal will be 7 pm on Tuesday May 20th. Bishop Steiner will be celebrant. We will meet in the parish hall to line up for rehearsal. You and your sponsor will need to attend. If you or your sponsor cannot attend please contact me right away for instructions on how to work this out. Contact Sue Unger for more information.

ADULT SCRIPTURE REFLECTION
We welcome all adults or young adults who would like to reflect on scripture to join our Wednesday night group at 7 pm. This is an opportunity to think about scripture in my life and how I can follow God’s lead in my life. No scripture knowledge is required just willingness to learn and share. Jerry Giger is the leader of the group. For questions contact Sue Unger.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL TEAM
All parishioners interested in working on Vacation Bible Study are welcome to our meeting on Sunday, May 18th at 10 am. We will meet in room 7. Contact Sue Unger for more questions. In the next few months we will be painting murals to decorate the rooms and halls for our theme for a Rain Forest. If you can help with any of the decoration or able to volunteer the week of VBS contact Sue Unger.

THINGS NEEDED FOR VBS
Swim noodles
Stuffed puppets about 18” tall Toucan, Macaw, Frog, Monkey, Birds, Jungle Animals
Blow up animals or stuffed animals same as above
Pringle cans
Quart plastic containers size of Pringle cans
Stickers of Tropical plants and animals
Plastic Baby food containers with snap on lids
Feathers
Golf ball size foam (not Styrofoam) balls
Butterfly Net
Empty coffee cans 3 lb size
Dowels ¼ - 1/8 size
Shoe boxes small women’s and children’s
Plastic toy rainforest animals and plants
Artificial tropical flowers large
15 med to large youth jersey’s green for games
Spanish/craft moss
Tacky glue
Craft glue 6000 (brand name only)
Tiny plastic plants (real tiny)
Plain white sheets and green sheets
These donations help us keep the cost of the program manageable. Contact Sue Unger if you have ideas or time to help. Vacation Bible School is scheduled for July 14- 18th

CONFIRMATION CEREMONY
The Confirmation ceremony for St Patrick group will be here at St Patrick Church on May 21st at 7 pm. Bishop Steiner will be presiding. St James Church of Molalla will be here to celebrate with us. For questions or concerns contact Sue Unger.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPONSOR A CLASSROOM PRAYER TABLE?
Prayer is part of the fabric of our Catholic faith. Fostering a sense of prayer is an important part of the Religious Education programing of St. Patrick. An important aspect for our life of prayer is the establishment of “holy places,” in our homes and in our classrooms. We are in the process of creating such places of prayer for each classroom in our parish center. Each room will have a corner prayer shelf with a standing icon and a prayer candle. The shelves have already been completed and have been installed in most of the classrooms. We are now ready to purchase the individual standing icons for each room. The cost for each 11" x 14" icon, which includes matching stand and shipping charges is $60.00. We have 14 classrooms and meeting rooms we are preparing prayer tables for. If you would like to sponsor an icon for a classroom contact Sue Unger or Sara Creel at the parish office. The icons still available are; St. Patrick, Sts. Peter & Paul, St. Mark, St. Luke, St. John, St. Vincent dePaul, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Blessed Juan Diego, The Good Shepherd, and the Twelve Apostles at Table.

SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
The Knights of Columbus and Men’s Club Scholarship Program will provide joint scholarships to current high school graduates who are members of St. Patrick Church in Canby. The Scholarship is for post secondary education and may be used at any accredited college or university. The Scholarship application is available at the Parish Office. The application needs to be filled out and returned to the Parish Office no later than May 12. The scholarship will be awarded at the Baccalaureate Mass scheduled for Saturday, May 31st at the 5:30pm Mass.

SIGN UP TO WALK OR PLEDGE YOUR SUPPORT FOR PR0-LIFE
Come and walk and/or pledge your support for our local Pregnancy Care Centers’ 11th Annual “Steps for Life”. The walk will take place on Saturday afternoon, May 10th in Molalla only. Registration is between 1-1:30pm. This easy 2-mile stroll is sponsored by the Pregnancy Care Centers of Canby, Molalla, and Woodburn, in order to raise funds to support this ministry. It’s easy to raise pledges so plan to get involved. Pledge forms are available after Mass. Help the Pregnancy Care Centers of the North Willamette Valley provide alternatives to abortion and share the love of Christ with women and teens who are unprepared for Pregnancy. Call Jerry Hunt at 503-266-4180 or Janet Ritchey at Canby PCC (503-266-8591) for more information, or talk to one of our representatives after Mass today. Come and join us and support this great cause.

SPECIAL THANKS
Thank you for your kind support of the Retirement Fund for the Religious Collection that was taken up on December 8-9, 2007. The people of this archdiocese have been remarkably generous throughout the 18 years this collection has been taken. St. Patrick gave a total of $2,134. Our Archdiocese has provided $215,721.88 this year to support retired religious men and women. You are remembered in the prayer of these priests, brothers and sisters. May God continue to bless you for the support you have provided. Sister M. Grace Schonlau, Sister Jane Lord.