8 SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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1 8 SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FEBRUARY 27, 2011 FATHER JAMES MAYO, PASTOR FATHER LUCAS LABORDE, CAMPUS MINISTER P A R I S H S T A F F DEACON CHUCK AMSBERRY, PASTORAL ASSOCIATE PastoralAssociate@stmichaelportland.org MEGHAN JACKSON, MUSIC COORDINATOR MusicCoordinator@stmichaelportland.org JACQUELINE NGUYEN, CAMPUS MINISTRY ASSOCIATE CampusMinister@stmichaelportland.org ROSEMARY RETTIG, SOCIAL SERVICES SocialServices@stmichaelportland.org FATHERS IGNATIUS KISSEL, OSM & FRANCIS NJAU - SUPPLY PRIESTS JERRI SCHULTZ, SECRETARY & BOOKKEEPER Secretary@stmichaelportland.org DAN BENEDICT, MAINTENANCE PHILIP AUSTIN, FRIDAY MAINTENANCE NORA SCHRECK - PRAYER MINISTRY - nora.schreck@gmail.com T H E S A C R A M E N T S EUCHARIST Monday rough Friday at 12:05 p.m. Saturday Vigil at 4:30 p.m Sunday at 8:30 and 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. Indonesian Mass on e Third Sunday at 2:00 p.m. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Monday rough Friday at 11:30 a.m. Saturday 3:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. SACRAMENT OF THE SICK Call Deacon Chuck if you would like Communion brought to you at home or are willing to bring Communion to homebound parishioners. If you are having surgery or are seriously ill, call e Pastor to be anointed. Also celebrated at all Masses one weekend during January, April, July and October. SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY Six mons notice is needed as well as marriage preparation classes. Please contact e Pastor or Deacon for information. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Celebrated as needed. Classes are asked of e Parents & Godparents. Call e Deacon for information PARISH MISSION STATEMENT Saint Michael e Archangel Parish, located in e heart of Downtown Portland s University District, is a welcoming community of all Roman Caolic faiful. This Italian National Parish sacramentally proclaims e Gospel of Jesus Christ rough a commitment to Evangelization, Education and e Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.

2 SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CHURCH 424 Souwest Mill Street Portland, OR Parish Fax Newman Center :30 A.M. - Noon & 1:00 P.M. - 4:30 P.M. Web Site: dal 1894, la parrocchia nazionale italiana di Portland... nel cuore della città. THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH SUNDAY FEBRUARY 27 8 SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 8:30 A.M. Sunday Mass 10:00 A.M. Sunday Mass 12:00 P.M. Sunday Newman Mass MONDAY FEBRUARY 28 FERIAL DAY Readings Sirach 17:20-24 & Mark 10:17-27 TUESDAY st MARCH 1 FERIAL DAY Readings Sirach 35:1-12 & Mark 10:28-31 MASS INTENTIONS Sunday (8:30) +Zacarias & +Juana Lagasca Sunday (10:00) +Gilda Roberti Sunday (12:00) Pro Populo Monday Ron Ewan Tuesday +Robert Alexander McKeague Wednesday Agaa Sonu & Family Thursday +Ralph Granato Friday Bonaventure Oh Family Saturday Romy Rey Call e Parish if you d like a Mass celebrated. VOTIVE CANDLES +Ralph & +LaVerne Dwyer +James Heade +Maybelle Clark Macdonald +Maurine Hill +Walter McCary +Thomas Murray +Duane Peters +Maria Raschio +Marianne Strobel +Walter Wilson Louis Iorio +Gilda Roberti Nicole Ellis Robert & Roselle Robb Altar Guild Members Living & Deceased +Frank & +Margerite Terraglio Murty Family - Living and Deceased nd WEDNESDAY MARCH 2 FERIAL DAY 6:30 P.M. RCIA Gaering 7:00 P.M. HOLY HOUR PRAYER IN CHURCH Readings Sirach 36:1-5a, 1-17 & Mark 10:32-45 THURSDAY rd MARCH 3 ST. KATHERINE DREXEL Readings Sirach 42:15-25 & Mark 10:45-52 FRIDAY MARCH 4 ST. CASIMIR 6:30 P.M. Newman Gaering Readings Sirach 44:1, 9-13 & Mark 11:11-26 SATURDAY 3:45 P.M. Confessions MARCH 5 FERIAL DAY 4:30 P.M. Sunday Vigil Mass Readings Sirach 51:12c-20 & Mark 11:27-33 SUNDAY FEBRUARY 7 9 SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Readings Deuteronomy 11:18, 26-28, 32, Romans 3:21-25, 28 & Mattahew 7:21-27 VOTIVE CANDLES Please call Jerri to light a large votive for your intentions, for an anniversary of marriage of dea, or oer needs.

3 FINANCE NEWS nd rd Weekend of January 22 & 23 Received Budgeted Last Sunday $6, $5, Last Week $ $ rd 3 Wednesday ACH $1, Year-to-date $225, $218, For e Poor $3, $ Candles $ $ Flowers $49.00 $70.19 WinCo and Costco); bulk packages of Ramen Noodles (10 pack or more), boxes of Healy Snack Bars, crackers like Ritz or Saltines; boxes of Instant Oatmeal (8 or 10 packets to a box). Then ere are small jars of jams, jellies, and condiments (ketchup, mustard...). We also need bo red and white wine for dinner and e pre-prandials. If you can donate a bottle, please bring it to Mass and give it to e ushers who will know where to put it. We recommend Italian red and whites. Thank you so very much! From e St. Joseph s Table Planning Committee LITTLE BLACK BOOKS PREPARATION HELP NEEDED: If you can help wi e Lenten Little Black Book mailing beginning at 9 A.M. Tuesday, March 1, in e conference room, please let Jerri know. Thanks!! FAITH FORMATION SOCIAL CONCERNS RCIA: Considering reviewing, renewing, or joining e Caolic Church? We are meeting on Wednesdays, 6:30 to 8:30 P.M. in e Newman Center. We will be sharing on nd March 2 about The Blessed Virgin Mary and e Saints. Contact Deacon Chuck wi questions. May God bless us! ADULTS NEEDING, SEEKING CONFIRMATION: If you are an adult or young adult who has not been confirmed yet, is is your chance! Contact Deacon Chuck ASAP to join in classes and prayer to prepare to receive is wonderful sacrament. Adult Confirmation will be on Friday evening, May 13, 2011, at e Caedral wi Archbishop Vlazny. FOOD PANTRY CONTRIBUTIONS are always appreciated! We are e only public shopping site in downtown Portland for e Oregon Food Bank. Oer participating agencies, usually churches, are located in Nor, Norwest, Soueast, Noreast, and Souwest Portland. All pantries receive subsidies and/or purchase food in bulk from The Oregon Food Bank to offer about 2-3 days wor of food or lbs. Tasty additions which parishioners can donate are canned gravies, Progresso-type hearty soups, and condiments like sugar, ketchup, hot sauce for beans and rice! GIFT OF WARMTH: The season continues for new or gently used, clean hats, mittens, gloves & socks primarily men s Please send cloing donations to Goodwill, Downtown Chapel or Rose Haven Women s Day Shelter. May God continue to bless e work of our hands! PARISH NEWS SAINT JOSEPH S TABLE: On Saturday evening, March 19, after e Vigil Mass, we will have our 3 Annual Saint Joseph s Table Dinner. Proceeds go to support our Food Box & Sandwich Ministries. We have space for 100 people. The dinner will be Italian in nature...beginning wi wine and antipasti, en dinner, en dolce and coffee. Soon we will let you know how you can reserve a table for is fun evening which supports one of e works Jesus Christ loves. The dinner is free, but we would suggest e following possibilities as donations: Shrink-wrapped packs of 15 oz Progresso or Healy Choice Soups, Chili, Ravioli or Spaghettios (usually 6 or 8 to a pack can be purchased from rd DECEASED CLERGY TUESDAY Fr. Pius Brazauskas 1990 WEDNESDAY Fr. James Aerden, OP 1896 SATURDAY Fr. John Mitchell 1975 May ese priests rest in peace!

4 COLLEGE STUDENT NEWS nd CAMPUS MINISTRY CENTER is on e 2 floor of Parish Offices ring e doorbell on e Mill Street entrance. Faer Lucas is CampusMinister@ stmichaelportland.org. FRIDAY at 6:30 P.M. - NEW MAN CLUB MEETING: As Winter Quarter is coming to an end students will spend is Friday night meeting in prayer wi adoration to e Blessed Sacrament. Afterwards, dinner will be served for all students. DO YOU KNOW? The Caolic Church educates 2.6 million students everyday at e cost to at Church of 10 billion dollars, and a savings on e oer hand to e American taxpayer of 18 billion dollars. The graduates go on to graduate studies at e rate of 92%. The Caolic Church has 230 colleges and universities in e U.S. wi an enrollment of 700,000 students.. The Caolic Church has a non-profit hospital system of 637 hospitals, which account for hospital treatment of 1 out of every 5 people - not just Caolics - in e USA today. CONFESSIONS From Fr. Zuehlsdorf s Blog written for someone who is inking of going to confession...how to allay e anxiety some have, etc. Before anying else, I am very glad at you are aware of your need to go to confession and you are striving to do it right. Please know, friend, at going to confession is not supposed to be like being stretched on e rack. Yes, it is hard. Yes, you accuse yourself of sins. Yes, you should be orough and at can be painful. But ink of e relief afterward. Even if you don t ink you are wholly knowledgeable about what to do, go anyway. The priest can help if you get stuck. 99.9% of priests are going to be pretty careful wi you. Just explain at it has been a long time and at you are nervous. He ll hear at. One: There is no specific meod of confessing or of examining your conscience, which is more to e point. You can use e commandments. That is a standard way. You can go wi virtues and vices. I ink examens using e Decalogue, e Ten Commandments, are pretty complete. Perhaps at would be e easiest. You could simply say at you sinned against e, say, 4 Commandment X times. However, sometimes you may need to add details or circumstances at made it worse. For example, you can sin against e 7 Commandment by stealing a candy bar, stealing Bill Gate s Porsche, or stealing a little old widow s monly pension. If you are starving, running from an Islamic terrorist hit squad, or well I can t ink of a good reason to steal a widow s pension at e moment, unless it is to buy Mystic Monk Coffee no not at eier ese are details at need to be included. Also, if you stole a candy bar once or 634 times, at is someing you need to mention. Get e idea? Two: 2) It is necessary to confess sins in kind and number, what e sin was and how many times you did it. The number does make a difference. That said, we have bad memories. Just do your best, friend and don t torture yourself. Ten years is a long time. If you can t ink of numbers of times, go wi someing like an frequency, or an average per mon, per year. Someing like at. If you still can t get at it, use someing like very rarely, really often, constantly. That sort of ing. God knows at you are doing your best and, in examining your conscience, you are still giving yourself and e priest a sense of e problem you may or may not have wi a particular sin. Three: Sometimes when a sin is deeply ingrained or habitual ere is a sense in which e guilt of at sin can be a bit less. That doesn t mean at you are not committing a sin. Furermore, when you know at you are sinning, you have e responsibility to do someing about it. We can t excuse ourselves saying, I can t help it!, and en continue as if it suddenly is okay to do it because we struggled over it for a little bit. This is one of e hard parts of e spiritual life: we have to be willing to suffer, plain and simple. Saying no to ourselves can make us suffer. But knowing at we are going to suffer ahead of time could help us get our heads into e right place and make some plans before hand, so when e hard part starts, we are not just twisting in e wind. If you know at X is a big problem and at you had better stop X-ing, make a plan so at when you recognize you are on e verge of X-ing, your pre-arranged plan will kick in and you will Y instead. This can help. Finally, it really does help to memorize a regular patter or routine for what to say. That structure will make it easier!

5 Take it easy friend. If you forget someing, but you did your best during e confession itself, don t fret. Mentioned it e next time you go. God knows you did your best and He doesn t expect e impossible. You ll be okay. Just go. And if you ink you may need a little time, make an appointment wi e priest, even to meet at e confessional if you don t want to do e face to face ing. Give it a shot, please. A. One ousand Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers have in common? A. All were invented by women. Q. What is e only food at doesn't spoil? A. Honey At least 75% of people who read is will try to lick eir elbow! Don't delete is --just because it looks weird. Believe it or not, you can read it. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of e hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr e ltteers in a wrod are, e olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht e first and last ltteer be in e rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it wouit a porbelm. This is bcuseae e huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but e wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? A TOUCH OF HUMOR Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden'....and us, e word GOLF entered into e English language. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly an e U.S. Treasury. Men can read smaller print an women can; women can hear better. YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2010 when You accidentally enter your PIN on e microwave. Coca-Cola was originally green. 2. You haven't played solitaire wi real cards in years. It is impossible to lick your elbow. The cost of raising a medium-size dog to e age of eleven: $ 16, You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of ree. 4. You e person who works at e desk next to you. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in eir hair.. The first novel ever written on a typewriter, Tom Sawyer. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654, Your reason for not staying in touch wi friends and family is at ey don't have addresses. 6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in e groceries... Q.. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find e letter 'A'? 7. Every commercial on television has a web site at e bottom of e screen

6 8. Leaving e house wiout your cell phone, which you didn't even have e first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it 10. You get up in e morning and go on line before getting your coffee 11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : ) 12 You're reading is and nodding and laughing. 13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward is message. Seeking time to deepen your relationship wi our Lord? Please join us for our Holy Hour Wednesday 2nd March at 7pm in St Michael's Church. Holy Hour comprises of a multilingual Rosary, Shared/Quiet Prayers, Exposition & Benediction of e Blessed Sacrament. Take advantage of is time between Sundays to develop your relationship wi our Lord and pray togeer wi us. 14. You are too busy to notice ere was no #9 on is list. 15. You actually scrolled back up to check at ere wasn't a # 9 on is list THE LITTLE WAY The next time you re tempted to judge someone, perhaps remember is little bit of ought of someone from e internet. It was a person s reaction to a priest he knew who was charged wi abuse. STAFF CHANGE We have a new employee as part of our parish staff. Faer Mayo recently hired Dan Benedict as our part-time Maintenance Custodian. Dan will be familiar to many of you since he has been our Handyperson e last 4-5 years when someing has broken, etc. Please make him welcome here at our parish. You know e way at geese fly, where ey take turns flying in e draft of ose in front of em so at e work is shared? That's why we have to pray not only for priests, but for each oer, so when one of us is lacking e energy to go on, we carry at broer or sister in our own draft until we grow weary, and en ey do e same for us. In Our Lord's own words, He told us at ose who are well have no need of a physician. Out of own misery and sinfulness ere is at spark at compels us to ink of and do for oers, even while we ourselves are lacking. It's not hypocrisy to want to rescue oers from falling into Hell. It's a trick of e devil to make us ink is way so we feel we should do noing. Let's continue to pray for each oer.