SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER April 7, 2013

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1 SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER April 7, 2013 SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CHURCH 424 SW Mill Street + Portland, OR Office Fax Newman Center dal 1894,la parrocchia nazionale italiana di Portland...nel cuore della città. EUCHARIST Monday - Friday at 12:05 p.m. Saturday Vigil at 4:30 p.m OTHER 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. BAPTISM, MATRIMONY, ANOINTING OF THE SICK Please contact Parish Office for assistance wi baptism, confirmation, marriage and anointing of e sick. OFFICE HOURS Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. to Noon 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. PARISH WEBSITE FATHER JAMES MAYO, PASTOR Pastor@stmichaelportland.org PARISH STAFF DEACON CHUCK AMSBERRY, PASTORAL ASSOCIATE PastoralAssociate@stmichaelportland.org FATHER MAXIMO STOCK, CAMPUS MINISTER CampusMinister@stmichaelportland.org CHRISTINA SELF, MUSIC COORDINATOR MusicCoordinator@stmichaelportland.org JERRI SCHULTZ, OFFICE MANAGER OfficeManager@stmichaelportland.org ROSEMARY RETTIG, SOCIAL SERVICES SocialServices@stmichaelportland.org CONNOR P. SAVAGE, CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR CampaignDirector@stmichaelportland.org

2 THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH ND SUNDAY APRIL 7 2 SUNDAY OF EASTER Masses at 8:30, 10:00 & Noon MONDAY APRIL 8 ANNUNCIATION 11:30 A.M. Confessions and Daily Mass Readings Isaiah 7:1`0-14, 8:10, Hebrews 10:4-10 & Luke 1:26-38 TUESDAY APRIL 9 - EASTER DAY 11:00 A.M. Weekly Eucharistic Adoration 6:30 P.M. Fragua Gaering Readings Acts 4:32-37 & John 3:7b-15 WEDNESDAY APRIL 10 EASTER DAY 6:30 P.M. RCIA - Mystagogy 7:00 P.M. Faer Barron Study Readings Acts 5e:17-26 & John 3:16-21 THURSDAY APRIL 11 - ST. STANISLAUS Readings Acts 5:27-33 & John 3:31-26 FRIDAY APRIL 12 EASTER DAY 11:30 A.M. Confessions & Mass Readings Acts 5:34-42 & John 6:1-15 SATURDAY APRIL 13 EASTER DAY 3:45 P.M. Confessions 4:30 P.M. Sunday Vigil Mass Readings Acts 6:1-7 & John 6:16-21 RD SUNDAY APRIL14 3 SUNDAY OF EASTER Readings Acts 5:27-32, Revelation 5:11-14 & John 21:1-19 MASS INTENTIONS Day Presider Mass Intention Sun. P. Ignatius Kenne Burnham Sun. P. Bruce +Becky Marie Wright Sun. P. Maximo Pro Populo Mon. P. Ignatius Sophie & +Santo (Sam) Porco Tue. P. Maximo Christopher Chang-Han Oh Wed. P. Ignatius +Pamela Hopper Thu. P. Maximo +Cecelia Allen Fri. P. Maximo +Al & +June Stoltz Sat. P. Maximo +George & +Josephine McKiel Sun. P. Maximo +Zacarias & +Juana Lagasca Sun. P. Ignatius +Pamela Hopper Sun. P. Ignatius Pro Populo Call if you would like a Mass celebrated for your or someone else s intentions. VOTIVE CANDLES +Betty Captein +Jeanne Fronk +Maybelle Clark Macdonald +Ede Gaul +Walter Wilson +Louis Iorio +Cecelia Allen Continued Employment James Joseph Mountain Family Peace & Healing Altar Guild Members Living & Deceased +Frank & +Margerite Terraglio Murty Family - Living and Deceased Call if you would like a 6 day Votive Candle lighted. NORA SCHRECK, PRAYER MINISTRY prayer@stmichaelportland.org RACE FOR THE ROSES SUNDAY, APRIL 14 To help you plan your trip to church next Sunday, here s e course map: ace4eroses/fy13/race4roses_maps_2013. pdf

3 FINANCE NEWS st Weekend of March 30 & 31 - Easter Received Budgeted Last Sunday $14, $5, Last Week $ $ Year to date $270, $247, For e Poor $ $ Candles $ $ Flowers $ $66.35 We remain ever grateful for your continued, generous sacrificial giving. SOCIAL CONCERNS NEEDED THIS WEEK: Tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, and canned gravy simple menu additions which make a difference. Thank You! DECEASED CLERGY WEDNESDAY Faer Albert Bauman, OSB 1989 THURSDAY Faer Constant De Latte 1900 Faer Gabriel Knauff, OP 1962 Faer Urban Keber, OSB 1976 Monsignor Theodore J. Bernards 1980 FRIDAY Faer Armand J. Gelinas 1973 Faer Louise McKean 2005 SATURDAY Archbishop Alexander Christie 1925 Faer Hamilcar Bianco 1997 PARISH NEWS FATHER MAYO GONE: Faer Mayo is taking some holiday time, returning on April 16. Please call e office if you need assistance. Messages and s will, for e most part, be returned after he returns. ANOINTING OF THE SICK OFFERED APRIL 13 & 14: Our quarterly Sacrament of Anointing of e Sick will be given after all Masses next weekend. Come receive Christ s wonderful healing touch for serious illnesses or challenges, for upcoming surgeries, etc. Pray about is, and also invite oers you ink would be blessed by is Sacrament. Thank you! CONFIRMATION OFFERED END OF MAY: Do you wish to prepare for and receive is wonderful sacrament, giving e gift of e Holy Spirit in a stronger way in our lives? It will be offered by our Archbishop at our st Portland Caedral on Friday evening, May 31. Please contact Deacon Chuck ASAP. WANTING TO BECOME CATHOLIC, OR TO GROW MORE DEEPLY IN OUR CATHOLIC FAITH? Come and join our RCIA community as we seek e Lord and His love and ways in our lives. We meet on Wednesday evenings until early May. Please contact Deacon Chuck. SEEKING LITURGICAL MINISTERS Is God calling you to help at Mass as a greeter, usher, reader or Eucharistic Minister? It is a joy to serve in ese ways. Contact Deacon Chuck for more information. Should you find yourself inking, I can t do is, please talk to e Deacon or Fr Mayo before finally deciding! NEWMAN NEWS FRAGUA NIGHTS: Every Tuesday at 6:30 P.M. at e Newman Center, Fraguas I-IV gaer for Fragua Nights: dinner, music, prayer, talk and discussion. Don t miss it! LADIES BIBLE MEDITATION: Join us 8:30 A.M. Wednesday mornings at e Newman Center for a cup of coffee and meditation on e daily Gospel wi oer young ladies. Reading about and praying wi e life of Jesus is a great start to e week! MEN S BOOK-STUDY GROUP: Join oer young men from e Newman Center & Fr. Maximo 7:30 A.M. Wednesday morning at Seattle s Best coffee shop, to read and discuss books relating to fai.

4 THEOLOGY SCHOOL NIGHTS: Join us Thursday evenings at e Newman Center, 6:30 P.M., for eier a movie, talk, or presentation by a guest speaker, followed by great group discussions! POPE FRANCIS Homily for e Vigil of Easter Dear Broers and Sisters, E A S T E R F L O W E R S Donations for Easter flowers have been given in honor/ in memory of e following people: Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Babal Mr. & Mrs. Joe Sabado Ercole & Odelia Battilega Rita Melonas Antonio, Nancy & Jack Fazio Giuseppe & Mary Ponta Johanna & Tom Cushing Faer Jerome Young, O.S.B. James A. & Evelyn R. Hearn Christine Shuback Abel Archer Marie Fritz Hedy Quoidbach Deaver & Driscoll Families Al Rohr Walter McCary Gilda & John Roberti, Sr. James E. Mountain, Sr. Dee Lindstrom Bill Haven Naomi Hughes Marie Steele Kenne Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Antonio Avena Madeleine Cremer George Reynolds Deceased Members of e Henry & Karpowicz Families In e Gospel of is radiant night of e Easter Vigil, we first meet e women who go e tomb of Jesus wi spices to anoint his body (cf. Lk 24:1-3). They go to perform an act of compassion, a traditional act of affection and love for a dear departed person, just as we would. They had followed Jesus, ey had listened to his words, ey had felt understood by him in eir dignity and ey had accompanied him to e very end, to Calvary and to e moment when he was taken down from e cross. We can imagine eir feelings as ey make eir way to e tomb: a certain sadness, sorrow at Jesus had left em, he had died, his life had come to an end. Life would now go on as before. Yet e women continued to feel love, e love for Jesus which now led em to his tomb. But at is point, someing completely new and unexpected happens, someing which upsets eir hearts and eir plans, someing which will upset eir whole life: ey see e stone removed from before e tomb, ey draw near and ey do not find e Lord s body. It is an event which leaves em perplexed, hesitant, full of questions: What happened?, What is e meaning of all is? (cf. Lk 24:4). Doesn t e same ing also happen to us when someing completely new occurs in our everyday life? We stop short, we don t understand, we don t know what to do. Newness often makes us fearful, including e newness which God brings us, e newness which God asks of us. We are like e Apostles in e Gospel: often we would prefer to hold on to our own security, to stand in front of a tomb, to ink about someone who has died, someone who ultimately lives on only as a memory, like e great historical figures from e past. We are afraid of God s surprises; we are afraid of God s surprises! He always surprises us! Dear broers and sisters, let us not be closed to e newness at God wants to bring into our lives! Are we often weary, disheartened and sad? Do we feel weighed down by our sins? Do we ink at we won t be able to cope? Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: ere are no situations which God cannot change, ere is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him. But let us return to e Gospel, to e women, and take one step furer. They find e tomb empty, e body of Jesus is not ere, someing new has happened, but all is still doesn t tell em anying certain: it raises questions; it leaves em confused, wiout offering an

5 answer. And suddenly ere are two men in dazzling cloes who say: Why do you look for e living among e dead? He is not here; but has risen (Lk 24:5-6). What was a simple act, done surely out of love going to e tomb has now turned into an event, a truly life-changing event. Noing remains as it was before, not only in e lives of ose women, but also in our own lives and in e history of mankind. Jesus is not dead, he has risen, he is alive! He does not simply return to life; raer, he is life itself, because he is e Son of God, e living God (cf. Num 14:21-28; Deut 5:26; Josh 3:10). Jesus no longer belongs to e past, but lives in e present and is projected towards e future; he is e everlasting today of God. This is how e newness of God appears to e women, e disciples and all of us: as victory over sin, evil and dea, over everying at crushes life and makes it seem less human. And is is a message meant for me and for you, dear sister, dear broer. How often does Love have to tell us: Why do you look for e living among e dead? Our daily problems and worries can wrap us up in ourselves, in sadness and bitterness and at is where dea is. That is not e place to look for e One who is alive! Let e risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, wi trust: he is life! If up till now you have kept him at a distance, step forward. He will receive you wi open arms. If you have been indifferent, take a risk: you won t be disappointed. If following him seems difficult, don t be afraid, trust him, be confident at he is close to you, he is wi you and he will give you e peace you are looking for and e streng to live as he would have you do. There is one last little element at I would like to emphasize in e Gospel for is Easter Vigil. The women encounter e newness of God. Jesus has risen, he is alive! But faced wi empty tomb and e two men in brilliant cloes, eir first reaction is one of fear: ey were terrified and bowed eir faced to e ground, Saint Luke tells us ey didn t even have courage to look. But when ey hear e message of e Resurrection, ey accept it in fai. And e two men in dazzling cloes tell em someing of crucial importance: Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee And ey remembered his words (Lk 24:6,8). They are asked to remember eir encounter wi Jesus, to remember his words, his actions, his life; and it is precisely is loving remembrance of eir experience wi e Master at enables e women to master eir fear and to bring e message of e Resurrection to e Apostles and all e oers (cf. Lk 24:9). To remember what God has done and continues to do for me, for us, to remember e road we have traveled; is is what opens our hearts to hope for e future. May we learn to remember everying at God has done in our lives. On is radiant night, let us invoke e intercession of e Virgin Mary, who treasured all ese events in her heart (cf. Lk 2:19,51) and ask e Lord to give us a share in his Resurrection. May he open us to e newness at transforms, to God s surprises so very beautiful. May he make us men and women capable of remembering all at he has done in our own lives and in e history of our world. May he help us to feel his presence as e one who is alive and at work in our midst. And may he teach us - dear broers and sisters each day not to look among e dead for e Living One. Amen. CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEWEST MEMBERS!! David Rossmiller Ben Butero Rachel Heyob Jamie Gierach Paul Ro May ey find e Church a streng and support and may ey be vital prayerful members of our parish of St. Michael e Archangel! God bless em always! Thanks, too, to e entire RCIA Staff Pastoral & Support Members! Your kindness to ese seekers is year is appreciated! CATHOLICISM This ten week series hosted by Fr. Robert Barron begins Wednesday, April 10, at 7 P.M. in e Conference Room. This week s program is Amazed & Afraid - The Revelation of God Become Man. For more information, contact Bob Grist at bobgrist@hotmail.com or Gary Haven at ghaven@earlink.net.