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1 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time January 29, 2012 Homily Next Week: Father John D. Whitney, S.J. Readings for February 5, 2012 First Reading: Job 7:1-4, 6-7 Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, Gospel: Mark 1:29-39 Weekend Mass Schedule Saturday - 5 pm Sunday - 9 am, 11 a.m., 5:30 pm Weekday Mass Schedule Monday - Friday - 7 am Arrupe Room, Parish Center Reconciliation Saturday - 3:30-4:15 pm in the Church or by appointment Parish Center Hours Monday-Friday - 8 am - 4:30 pm Saturday - 9 am - 1 pm th Avenue East, Seattle, WA Fax: (206) Parish Receptionist (206) Parish Staff (206) Pastor Rev. John D. Whitney, S.J. x107 Senior Priest in Residence Rev. Jack O Leary, S. J. x101 Deacon/Pastoral Associate Steve Wodzanowski x106 Pastoral Staff: Dottie Farewell, Dir. Religious Ed. x112 Dennis Gentele, Facilities x110 Renée Leet, Admin Assistant x100 Courtney Lilly, Development x103 Bob McCaffery-Lent, Liturgy & Music x109 Caprice Sauter, Administration x102 Greg McNabb, Admin Mgr x108 Randy Novak, Communications x114 John Stuntebeck, Accompanist x105 St. Joseph School th Avenue East (206) Main Office George Hofbauer, Principal Rick Boyle, Academic VP Patrick Fennessy, Vice Principal Bulletin Cover: St. Joseph School Principal, George Hofbauer x210 x213 x215 x218 St. Joseph Community extends its prayers and hopes for the following intentions: For the well-being of those who need shelter and help recovering from life s storms - both figurative and literal. For Katherine, happiness and safety as she starts a new life in a new city. For Rachel, who starts college this month after recovering from an accident that delayed her education, creativity and strength. For Dana and Joan, that the cancer touching their families is battled with strength and dignity. Do not let kindness and truth leave you. Tie them around your neck. Write them upon your heart. ~Proverbs 3.3 Please say a prayer in memory of Herman Barr and Maynard Schumacher, and for those who love them. For Brandy, Holly and Amber, whose grandmother Foltz passed away this week, less than a month after they lost their mother, Sandy. May you also remember all of the people who have been dear to you in your lives, and be grateful for the time spent with them that allows them to live on in dear memories. May they rest in peace. Calendar Monday, January 30 Tuesday, January 31 Wednesday, February 1 Friday, February 3 Altar Server Training For those youth in grades 4th and higher who would like to serve during the Saturday 5 pm or Sunday 11am Masses, there is only one training left: Sunday, January 29 at 12:30 pm. The training will take about an hour and we begin at the front steps of the altar platform in the church. Serving begins in February. This is a great way to earn service hours too! To sign up, contact Dottie Farewell at dfarewell@stjosephparish.org or Sacred Silence, Church, 7:00 PM RCIA, Church, 7:00 PM Pathfinders, Mother Teresa Room Parish Center, 6:00 PM Choir Practice, Church, 6:30 PM The VOICE, Arrupe Room Parish Center, 7:00 PM Eucharist Adoration, Loyola Parish Center, 7:30 AM

2 Catholic Schools Week: In Thanksgiving What they undertook to do They brought to pass; All things hang like a drop of dew Upon a blade of grass. -W.B. Yeats, To Unknown Instructors- The education of youth is the reconstruction of the world. -An Unknown Jesuit of the 16th Century- I can remember most of them with ease: Mrs. Wolfe, who sat her kindergarteners in a circle and spoke to us gently the day that President Kennedy was shot; Sr. Patrice who doubled as principal, and wore the black habit of the IHM Sisters until Vatican II let her show her hair (much to our surprise) in the middle of the year and her aide, Miss Gabriel, who seemed always joyful in the midst of the 50 first-graders lined up but squirrelly in our desks. There was Miss Morrissey, who opened the world of art to 4th graders; and Sr. Joan Marie, who opened with a bit more rigor the world of mathematics to us in 5th. I remember Miss Alef, in 7th grade, who seemed so young and who left, at the end of the year, to marry; and Miss Braun, whom the eight grade boys used to try to impress, without looking like they cared. Most of all, I remember Mrs. Brady, who taught me twice in 6th grade and in 8th and who encouraged me to write and to lector at church, who helped me learn what a psalm is and taught me that knowing something mattered little if you didn t share it with someone else. In a stereotypical post-war suburb, in a parish school that my parents helped to found, these women sowed seeds and nurtured hearts; they taught not just subjects, but students; and they changed the world, one child at a time, bringing us all just a little bit closer to the kingdom of God. As we celebrate Catholic Schools Week, we can think with pride about the great school we have at St. Joseph, and about the wonderful faculty and curricula all of us even those without children help to support. We can give thanks for the wide-array of Catholic high schools available here: Holy Names and Seattle Prep, O Dea and Bishop Blanchet, Kennedy Catholic and Archbishop Murphy, Eastside Catholic and Forest Ridge; and we can rejoice that we live in a region where Catholic education managed to survive the hard times of the last few decades. We can look with consolation at all the great women and men who bring the values of Catholic education into our Catholic Faith Formation program; and those who help spread the humanistic values, nurtured by our Catholic faith, to the public elementary and secondary schools. We can be humbled by the generations that have built up Catholic schools, and perhaps a little intimidated by the work we have yet to do; so that all our children despite resources or origins, despite language or immigration status, despite all the forces working against them will have the chance for a Catholic education and an opportunity to benefit from this history of grace. But as we think of all these sweeping programs and the grand history of our Catholic schools, as we consider the future and all the work yet to do, let us never forget that, at its root and in its zenith, all Catholic education is about one teacher loving, supporting, nurturing, and educating a single child, by the power and grace of Jesus Christ. The school buildings and the endowments, the foundations and faculties, the structures and the policies, the computers and the ipads, and the smart-boards and the websites: all these trappings of the modern educational enterprise as beautiful and important as they are are just means to that ineffable and irreducible encounter of heart with heart, of mind with mind, of the human desire to know and the equally powerful and divinely inspired desire to make known. As it has been from the beginning, so it is now: Catholic Schools are about love nurturing knowledge. One teacher, opening the mind and heart of one student, is a sacrament. Let us bow our heads and give thanks. Praying the Gospel of John Join Deacon Steve Wodzanowski and the Ignatian Spirituality Center to deepen your experience of Ignatian ways of praying.14 Mondays, beginning Februray 6th. For more information or to register, contact Emily or emily@ignatiancenter.org

3 Formation February Family Mass & Dinner is coming up! Please join us on Saturday, February 4th, at the 5pm mass and then for dinner afterwards in the Social Hall. We will have table activities for the children. Cost is $20 per family or $5 per person; please bring a dessert or drink to share. For more information or to RSVP, please contact Dottie Farewell at or dfarewell@ stjosephparish.org. ICatholic Professionals Come and join other Catholic professionals as we learn about Imago Dei Psychotherapy, the first and only fully integrated Christian psychological conceptualization. Therapants engage in life-changing treatments for mental disorders, familial & marital distress, and other moral and spiritual issues. Our speaker is Dr. G.C. Dilsaver, PsyD, MTS. Date: Friday February 3, Members $20, non-members $35. Purchase tickets 48 hours in advance, online: org Check-in at 6:30 am, Mass at 7:00 am followed by breakfast and our speaker. Event ends at 9:15 am. Location: UW Catholic Newman Center - 20th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA. Contact: Sheldon Sweeney (425) Catholic Professionals of Seattle offers faithful support for men and women from all walks of business and professional life. Parish Holy Hour Thursday, February 2nd, 7-8 pm St. Joseph s Choose Life Ministry is sponsoring a monthly Rosary with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. It will take place on the 1st Thursday of the month from 7-8 pm. In the Chapel located on the first floor of the Parish Center. All are welcome. For info contact Jackie Quinn at , Tom Cannon at or Mary Ott at An Inspiring Evening Matt Barrett has been homeless for much of his adult life and most recently a resident of Tent City III that was hosted by St. Joseph s Church this past summer. On Monday, January 30, from 7-8:30 pm, Matt will share his incredible life story around homelessness, his medical challenges and his inspiring efforts to live his life as fully as possible. With the help of some friends, Matt has recently published a book entitled A View from the Street and will share some of his favorite readings. This gathering will be in the Arrupe Room at the Parish Center. Refreshments will be served. Questions, call Dave and Marti Spicer St. Joseph s Couples Weekend Feb 3-5, 2012 La Conner Country Inn ONLY 2 SPOTS LEFT! Cost $300 per couple, Partial Scholarships available, register with Deacon Steve or stevew@ stjosephparish.org Seniors On The Go Friday, February 3rd - Healing Mass 11:30 am, followed by luncheon in the Parish Center Tuesday February 14th - Seniors Monthly Planning Meeting 11:30 am - 12:30 pm in the Parish Center, bring a brown bag lunch. Followed by, Afternoon at the Movies 1:00 pm. This month s featured film The Dead. Directed by John Huston and starring his daughter Angelica. Bring a beverage or snack to share. Tuesday February 28th - Seniors Monthly Potluck 6:00 pm in the Social Hall. Call Mary Ott or Dolores Dorn for details. Please remember to include St. Joseph Parish in your estate plans. Collection: January 22, 2012 Total Needed Weekly to Meet Budget: $15, Total for Masses and Gifts mailed In: $9,175.42

4 Community This Week On the Willis Henry Smart ( ), who composed Andante Grazioso, was an English organist and composer. He was regarded by his peers to be one of the finest organists and composers, but after his death, he fell into obscurity and today is only known to few choral singers and organists. Elegy was composed by Charles Harford Lloyd ( ), an English organist and composer who was organist during his lifetime at Gloucester Cathedral, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and Chapel Royal, St. James as well as a teacher for a time at Eton College. The recessional this weekend, Postludium, was composed by the German, Lutheran organist Gustav Merkel ( ) who during his life served as the organist at one of the main Catholic churches in Dresden. John Stuntebeck, Principal Organist and Pianist EcoJustice Words to reflect on: The world is not something indifferent, raw material to be utilized simply as we see fit. Rather, it is part of God s good plan, in which all of us are called to be sons and daughters in the one Son of God, Jesus Christ (cf. Eph 1:4-12). The justified concern about threats to the environment present in so many parts of the world is reinforced by Christian hope, which commits us to working responsibly for the protection of creation. The relationship between the Eucharist and the cosmos helps us to see the unity of God s plan and to grasp the profound relationship between creation and the new creation inaugurated in the resurrection of Christ, the new Adam. Benedict XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis, 2007, no. 92 Action you can take: One positive step in Caring for Creation was Initiative 937, our state's renewable energy standard. But efforts are underway to weaken I-937. Contact your state legislators (find them at and tell them to remove provisions in SB 6396 and HB 2654 that would weaken 937's clean energy standards. For Those Who Cannot Eat Gluten An Invitation to Eucharist If you have celiac disease or a severe gluten allergy, you may receive the Eucharist in a gluten-free form from the Presider, who will have the consecrated host in a pyx. Please tell him that you need a gluten-free host, and he will allow you to remove it from the pyx in a safe manner. Remember: this pyx will only be with the Presider, so go to him. Communion for the Homebound Eucharistic Ministers are available to bring Communion to the homebound. Please contact Fr. Jack O Leary or Deacon Steve Wodzanowski at or stevew@stjosephparish.org if you or someone you know would like to receive the Eucharist. Catholic Schools Week Begins The 9 a.m. Catholic Schools Mass this Sunday, January 29, followed by the school s OPEN HOUSE at 10:30 a.m. marks the beginning of the nationally celebrated Catholic Schools Week at St. Joseph School. Principal George Hofbauer will deliver the homily at Mass. Be sure to make plans to join us for this event that acknowledges the wide-reaching positive impact of Catholic education. The Parent Association will be hosting refreshments, a winter used uniform sale, and sign-ups for upcoming volunteer opportunities. All teachers will be in their open classrooms with technology and student work on display throughout the building. George Hofbauer 1975

5 February 15 th :00am 3:00pm Olympia, WA Catholic Advocacy Day Economic Justice for All AGENDA 8:30 Mass Archbishop Sartain 9:00 Registration, St. Michael Church 9:30 Prayer and Program Archbishop Sartain Legislative Briefings: Economic Justice, Housing and Healthcare Organizing Legislative Visits 11:30 Leave for Capitol 12:00 Legislative Appointments * Lunch is on your own. A brown bag is suggested. To register, contact: Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center ipjc@ipjc.org by February 1st Chartered bus for registered participants (departing from Seattle, Tacoma & Bellevue) Meet us at St. Michael Church ( th Avenue SE, Olympia, WA 98501) for our program and a legislative briefing before going to scheduled appointments with your local legislators over at the capitol. All parish members and staff, parish leadership, and Catholic service and justice organizations are invited to join us to ensure that the Gospel message to care for our brothers and sisters is heard in Olympia. Catholic Advocacy Day is sponsored by: Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center Washington State Catholic Conference Catholic Community Services Archdiocese of Seattle Pierce County Deanery St. Vincent de Paul

6 The Child Jesus in the Temple with the Elders Center Nave North Side Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father s house? Many parents with junior-high children can imagine the feelings of Mary & Joseph to the words of the sinless (though perhaps clueless) Jesus, for whom they had been looking for three days. In this window, Jesus sits on the teacher s chair, his feet not able to reach the ground and his hand held out, a sign that he is teaching. Across from him, the elders in the garb of medieval scholars take the posture of students, with book in hand and hand raised. Their wrinkles, used to indicate age, contrast with the smooth skin of the youthful Jesus. as Mary watches her beloved Son, and Joseph, behind her, sees with amazement the posture of the elders. From here, it might be noted, they returned to Nazareth, where Jesus advanced in age & wisdom (grounded, perhaps, until his 30th birthday).