All Saints Day November 1, 2015

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1 All Saints Day November 1, 2015 Mass intentions Sun. Nov. 1 All Saints Day Mon. Nov. 2 All Souls Day Mass at 7 pm Tues. Nov. 3 Novena Wed. Nov. 4 Novena Thurs. Nov. 5 NO DAILY MASS Fri. Nov. 6 Novena Sat. Nov. 7 Novena Sun. Nov. 8 Sunday Masses Mon. Nov. 9 No morning Mass Tues. Nov. 10 Novena Wed. Nov. 11 All Veterans Thurs. Nov. 12 Jeff Cook Fri. Nov. 13 Cheryl Keiffer+ Sat. Nov. 14 Safraz Juan Family HOSPITALITY IN SULLIVAN HALL November 1 Oh when the School comes marching in, Oh when the School serves after Mass, Oh I want to be in the Hall when the School serves treats for us. November 8 This one is totally open. We no longer have our Cub Scouts to serve donuts, so what about your group or committee? It s easy you just stand there and say Good Morning! Talk to your fellow committee members. FREQUENTLY REQUESTED NUMBERS Boy Scouts: Dennis Halpin (206) Knights of Columbus: Jim O Sullivan (206) St. Vincent de Paul: Mary Kay Snedden (206) Heaven Guild: Barbara Arnesen (206) Ladies Guild: Lynn Waterson (206) Funeral Reception Volunteers: Gini Harmon (206) Marriage Help: Retrouvaille (206) Seniors & Friends: Judy Parsons (206) Holyrood Cemetery: (206) Beck s Funeral Home: (425) Harvey Funeral Home: (206) Weekly Amount Needed $ 15,137 Online Giving STEWARDSHIP The Sunday Collection through 10/25/2015 Last Week's Collection $ 13,331 # Online Givers All Funds: 32 Needed Year to Date $ 257,329 calendar Sun. 11/1/15 Daylight Saving Time Ends All Saints Day Party in Gym, 10 am Mon. 11/2/15 All Soul s Day Mass at 7 pm Boy Scouts, 7 pm, Cafeteria Tues. 11/3/15 Confirmation, 7 pm, Sullivan Hall Wed. 11/4/15 Heaven Guild, 11:30 am, Sullivan Hall First Penance Meeting, 6:15 pm, School RCIA, 6:30 pm, Sullivan Hall St. Gianna Molla Women s Reading Group, 7 pm, Parish Center Sat. 11/7/15 Prayer Vigil Northgate Planned Parenthood, 9:45 am Sun. 11/8/15 Simbang Gabi practice, 8 am, Gym Third Order of Mary, 1 pm, Parish Center Mon. 11/9/15 Family Rosary, 6:30 pm, Church Boy Scouts, 7 pm, Cafeteria Light Weigh, 7 pm, Sullivan Hall Tues. 11/10/15 Veterans Day Assembly, 1:45 pm, Gym School Math Night, 6:30 pm, Gym K of C Meeting, 7 pm Actual Given Year to Date $ 262,044 St. Vincent de Paul, 7:30 pm, Library Wed. 11/11/15 RCIA, 6:30 pm, Sullivan Hall St. Gianna Molla Women s Reading Group, 7 pm, Parish Center Sun. 11/15/15 Knights of Columbus Pancake Breakfast after all Sunday Masses Simbang Gabi practice, 8 am, Gym Rel Ed Classes, 10:10 am, School Surplus Year to Date $ 4,715 Amount Collected Online: $ 1,351

2 Pastor s Letter: a reflection on All Saints All Saints The Holy Men and Women of Every Time and Place Pray for Us! We Need Strange Saints by Dr. Tom Neal What attracts us to the saints, compelling us to venerate them? We venerate them because they are exemplars of discipleship. They show us what living in Christ looks like in every age, in every state of life, and so on. They fought the good fight, and whenever we think of them we are inspired to imitate them. And to imitate them is, as St. Paul says (1 Cor. 1:11), to imitate Christ. We venerate them because they love us and manifest that love by serving as intercessors with Christ in the heavenly Kingdom. They cheer us on as we strive to witness to Christ (Heb 12:1-2). We venerate them because some of them desire to become our intimate friends. Patron saints are not just the God-commissioned benefactors assigned to our unite category of need, but men and women of risen flesh and blood who wish to befriend us. I can personally attest to this with vehemence. All that said, Eamon Duffy, in his book Faith of Our Fathers, argues a really assaulting point. He says that saints in the pre-modern world were mostly venerated not because they were good examples but because they were wholly other wild prodigies and awe-inspiring miracle workers. Unlike most contemporary saintly portrayals, Duffy argues, the more saints of times past were unlike the rest of us, the better. In other words, odder = better. Saints bring to our common lives the uncommon and dissonant mystery of God. Saints allow ordinary folks to see and touch the Transcendent in reliquaries filled with bones, blood, flesh, hair, and clothing. They reveal to us that the stuff of this world is, bit by bit, being translated into

3 the World to Come. The body of a saint is a locus of an unpredictable and supernatural power that threatens to, at any moment, rip open the veils of time and space. Duffy contends that the new model of sainthood as moral hero runs the danger of either fostering Pelagianism which he defines as a wearisome emphasis on good deeds and moral effort that makes of the saint a prig and puritan or rendering saints so much like us that we fail to look on them in stunned amazement. In his view the older model is truer to a faith founded on the Resurrection, offering us saints who are celestial tightrope walkers, ascetic stars, brutally tortured martyrs and eccentrics who dare to transgress the Inaccessible Light that threatens to transubstantiate not only the bread and wine but the whole cosmos. Even the litany of faithful saints found in Hebrews 11:29-38 seems to betray all propriety: "By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as if on dry land; but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given friendly welcome to the spies. And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated of whom the world was not worthy wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth." While some of the change in tone has resulted from a more critical historical scholarship that excises the legendary elements of traditional hagiography, the deeper roots of this shift, Duffy argues, are to be found in modernity s exclusion of the supernatural and miraculous from the acceptable horizons of empirical reason. It s easier to talk to 21st century rational empiricists about saints who were great humanitarians than it is to speak of saints who levitated, raised the dead, lived on the Eucharist alone, or who had bleeding holes in their hands. Unless the data of faith is allowed into the purview of critical reason, we lose all of the explanatory power required to make any sense of supernatural events and persons that seem only to violate nature or to stand as unsolved remainders awaiting future developments in science that will finally explain them exhaustively in empirical terms. For people of faith, however, miracles are not merely anomalies or violations of the laws that govern nature, but are proleptic intimations of the ultimate destiny of a cosmos that is being re-created in the risen and exalted Christ (cf Rom. 8:19-20). While all of the Catholic reasons for venerating saints need to be balanced, maybe we need to attend more to the God of the Odd and the Christ of Folly. Maybe such veneration will restore to our faith a more vertical orientation, and punch some sizable holes in modernity s silicon ceiling and linoleum floor. Dr. Tom Neal presently serves as Academic Dean and Professor of Spiritual Theology at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans.

4 A time to heal physically, emotionally, or spiritually Jeanne Connell; Jim Roufs and Isaiah Schmitz, cousins of Nadette Yarbrough Herald Householder and Brian Abbott, friends of Steve Abele; Anna Marie Epps, grandniece of Rose Buckley Janice Valdez, friend of Diane Bunce Carol Bettinger, mother of Rebecca Anderson; Sister Anne Cornelia, sister of Cornelia Miller Pat Pethigal; Gilda Amort; John Zamberlin, brother of Rose Buckley; Joyce Koslosky Helen Stephens, cousin of Lisa Oshiro; Shari Harrison & Ron Koch, friends of Janet & Steve Abele Margie Gimness, sister-in-law of Linda Gimness; Mary Ellen Maine, sister of Karen Favero; Bob Schultz Kathi Hunter, daughter of Jean Hunter; Aliza Lyubomirski, friend of Todd & Cherie Chapman; Paz Posadas Mamie Hutson, friend of Vicki Russell Kaylee Alvarado, granddaughter of Dan & Doris Staber; Alice McCullough; Earl and Willma Calvin, parents of Laura Reed Veronica Rains; Frank Cook; Jeanett Herrera, cousin of Josie Martinez; Silvester Mendoza Don Isham, Lynette Campbell, and Rodney Campbell, friends of Julie Bandoy; JoAnne Boschee, mother in law of Trevor Schneider Grace Prueter; Myrlen Tagam; Zenaida Zimmerman; Rolando Polintan, friend of Lourdes Maganis Doris and Marvin, wife and brother-in-law of Walter Smith Don Dadula; Dorothy Munson; Greg Naputi, son of Joan Naputi; Baby Jacob Quehn, great-nephew of Joan Naputi Jean Tiberio; Bobbie Sours; Shari Amundsen; Dick Amundsen, brother-in-law of Mary Amundsen Maritza Nolasco, friend of Mary Lou Jimenez; Judy Arlene Smith, sister of Gayle Hanks Stephanie Bird, niece of Charlotte Arthur; Timothy O Neill, brother of Charlotte Arthur; Dorothy Holm, sister of Veronica Rains Neil Pearson; Susan Riley; Joe Kassuba, brother-in-law of Mary Amundsen; Lynn Waterson Angela Zamberlin, niece of Rose Buckley; Patrick Buckley, brother of Bill Buckley; Loraine Hoag, mother of Jay Hoag Kari Stockholm, friend of Julie Bandoy; Bienvenido Mendoza, father of Flordeliza Atieneza Annette and Rod Fischer; Lori Tamayo, friend of Zeny Manaloto; Donna Barlett, mother of Sheila King John Arnesen, son of Barbara Arnesen; Emilio Gonzalez, grandson of Marsha Gonzalez; Stephanie Hartung Franky San Nicholas Naputi, nephew of Joan Naputi; Christopher Lasher, friend of Janina Pacunski; Scott Halfrich Mary Schantz; Ursula Skinner, friend of Jim and Barbara Doughty; Vivian Russ, aunt of Janet Abele; Laura Alamillo Scott Strandberg, brother of Stephanie Hartung; Frank Martinez, father of Claire Becker; Jeff Cornwell Marta Cady, sister of Kathy Keck; Ann Marie Kurtz, mother of Lisa Haynes; Dolores Strandberg, mother of Stephanie Hartung Patricia Arntzen Doris Sykes; Charlene Loback; Todd Munger; Ernesto Ladrido; Danilo Taliman, friends of Julie Bandoy Bob and David Brancale, sons of Ann Brancale; Jennifer Osburn Rhonda Stegall-Webb, friend of Paul Jensen; Logan Shepard, great grandson of Ted & Harriet Miller Gloria Abiang, mother of Pauline Cruz; Cindy Stendera Gould, daughter of Bertha Stendera Walker Chapman, Sam and Don Glasnovich, nephews of Cherie and Todd Chapman; Marty Liwag, friend of Maria Arntson Randy Rains, son of Veronica Rains; Ann Gordon; Riliegh McConaughy, great granddaughter of Betty Robeson Rena Britz; Joaquin Naputi; Mary Olson; Darlene English A time to remember those who serve our country in the military 1st Lt. Owen Stratton, USA, deployed overseas, son of Tom and Cory Stratton; Andrew T. Kerrick, Airman 1 st Class USAF, grandson of Connie Hanson Ensign Dylan Thomas Jessum, USN, grandson of Tom and Mary Pat Lord PFC Isaiah Thorne, USMC, son of John and AnnaLise Thorne; David Leitzen, SPC, US Army, grand-nephew of Mrs. Elenor Loarie Schoen, and nephew of Teresa and Elenor K. Schoen Annika Jensen, IT3, USN (deployed), daughter of Paul and Maryjane Jensen Taylor Amundsen, USAF, grandson of Mary Amundsen; John E. Eaton, S/Sgt USMC, grandson of Evelyn Combe Bryant McDaniel, USAF, nephew of James and Lynn Ronald; Michael Angelo Silang, USN Mark Anthony Silang, USMC; Matthew Johnson, USAF, grandson of Helen Bradley Christopher Abele, ITC (SW/IDW) USN, son of Steven and Janet Abele Nathan Keiffer, Airman 1st Class, USAF, son of Nigel and Cheryl Keiffer; Zachary Sharp, USAR, grandson of Nigel and Cheryl A time to mourn Ray Kelly, friend of Nadette Yarbrough Stan Sifferman, friend of Julie Bandoy Arsenio Camacho May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done. Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last." J. H. Cardinal Newman

5 Great Saints to inspire all the saints!

6 Ladies, You re Invited! The St. Gianna Molla Women s Group will resume meetings on Wednesday, November 4 th at 7:00 pm in the meeting room in the parish office building. Enter through the pre-school door and ring the bell if the door is closed. We will be reading Bible Basics for Catholics by Dr. John Bergsma, which can be purchased through the parish office for $4.00. Bring your Bible with you to the meeting as well! Year round Prayer Vigils... Abortions happen every day in our community. Striving to serve the unborn and their mothers by giving them lifesaving choices, the local chapter of Helpers of God's Precious Infants prayerful prays at local Planned Parenthood locations most Saturdays all year long. The next vigil is Saturday, November 7. Attend 9 am Mass at St. Mark then carpool to Planned Parenthood in North Seattle for the peaceful prayer vigil. Contact Helpers of God's Precious Infants at or for more details check out the "Come Pray With Us" link. Mission Statement for our parish: Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age. - Matthew 28:19-20 Vision Statement for our parish: They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers. Awe came upon everyone and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles they ate their meals with exultation and sincerity of heart, praising God and enjoying favor with all the people. And every day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved. - Acts 2:42 When we elect our lawmakers in America, we influence the moral character of this nation for better or for worse. When our laws permit violence against little babies, incidents like the Columbine High School shootings are the logical outcome. This proves what Mother Teresa said, that if there is no respect for the child in the womb, there will be no respect for any life. Hope and Healing After Abortion Bring your wounded heart on a Rachel s Vineyard Retreat and let God take the pain of your past and begin His healing. Don t live in pain any longer. The next local retreat is November For more information, contact Valerie at HOPE (4673). You are loved with an everlasting Love! Project Rachel is a program of Catholic Community Services. Links for Life Patients Rights Council PRC is committed to the principle that you have the right to know all the facts about the critical issues of life, death, and assisted suicide. Few issues are as important as the compassionate treatment and care for those who are most vulnerable. Couples to Couples League Natural Family Planning CCL is dedicated to helping couples learn natural family planning (NFP) which involves fertility awareness. The virtuous application of this technique allows married couples to either achieve a pregnancy or to postpone a pregnancy which is responsible parenthood and a great way to help strengthen marriages. Check out its recently updated site. Find a class, Learn more or Get involved. Go Green! Go NFP! Sacred Heart Radio 1050 AM Local, national and internationals news from the Universal Church. The Holy Mass and the Rosary broadcasted daily. Great call in shows. Tune in and become an engaged Catholic!

7 Bible study returns in January The beloved disciple, St John, was a special witness to the greatest events in history. He was the only person present at all three of the key events in the life of Christ: the Transfiguration, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection. In addition to this, he cared for Holy Mother Mary for the remainder of her earthly life, giving him countless opportunities to glean from her wisdom. Further, he was the only person ever taken up in the spirit into heaven, before the throne of God, and shown the coming victory of good over evil at the end times. Finally, he was the only author in the New Testament who was proclaimed a prophet by an archangel according to the Word of God. All this makes the Gospel of St John a true blessing the inside-story of Jesus Christ as revealed by God to His prophet, the beloved disciple. Please join us as we study this most profound, yet mysterious, of all the Gospels. Our bible study of the Gospel of St John will begin on Thursday, January 7, from 7 to 9 pm in Sullivan Hall, and will meet each Thursday until early June. For the first class, you will need to bring your bible and order our study guide: St John s Gospel, A Bible Study Guide and Commentary by Stephen K. Ray. You can order this from Amazon or through your local Catholic bookstore. Please read Chapter One of the Gospel and Chapters 1a & 1b from the Stephen Ray book before the first class. The book is currently selling for under $15 from Amazon (under $12 for the Kindle version), and appears to be in high demand, so you should order soon. The retail list price is $ For more information, contact the class leader, Claude Golden, claude.golden@gmail.com, or call Thank you for all your prayers and concern following my recent automobile accident. I'm truly humbled by your support. My recovery is going well; each day I feel stronger but don't have much stamina yet. It was really moving to be able to return to Mass last Sunday and to receive the Eucharist. I know that all of your prayers made that possible." Greg Teeter We have received donations to our School Endowment Fund in memory of Lori Tamayo, Charles Combe, Bill, Dorothy, and Jeremy Ogle, Serapion Arquillano, Father Lane, Margaret Osgood, Bernard McFadden, Rollie Blanchette, Dan & Doris Staber, Robert & Winona Wartinger, Robert Amundsen, Wanda Jensen, Kenny Jensen, Maribel Taguba Santos, Jennie Rogner, Camila and Eliseo, and Father Sullivan. And in honor of the 3 & 4 year olds in preschool, and in celebration of the birthday of John Louis Abellana. We want to acknowledge and thank everyone who regularly contributes to the Endowment Fund at St. Mark Parish School. (Each month you have the opportunity to increase the St. Mark School Endowment through the gold envelope included in your parish envelope pack. Your gift to the Endowment Fund at St. Mark funds the future of the school. A donation today creates a lasting legacy. Thank you!

8 VETERANS DAY ASSEMBLY NOVEMBER 10 TH at 1:45 pm IN THE GYM All parishioners, and especially all of our Veterans, are invited to join us for our School Veterans Day assembly. Activities include the Pledge of Allegiance, singing of patriotic songs, a reading of the Presidential Proclamation, acknowledgement of Veterans present, and much more! November 2 nd : Fulcrum Applications for tuition assistance accepted online at: November 6 th at 10:00 am: Speech Assembly November 10 th at 1:45 pm: Veteran s Day Assembly November 10 th from 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm: Family Math Night