1 SUNDAY OF LENT OTHER STAFF FEBRUARY 22, SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CHURCH 424 SW Mill Street + Portland, OR 97201

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1 st 1 SUNDAY OF LENT FEBRUARY 22, 2015 SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CHURCH 424 SW Mill Street + Portland, OR Office Fax Newman Center 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 STAFF DEACON CHUCK AMSBERRY, PASTORAL ASSOCIATE PastoralAssociate@stmichaelportland.org SAINT JOHN SOCIETY & SOCIETY OF MARY - CAMPUS MINISTERS CampusMinister@stmichaelportland.org CHRISTINA SELF, MUSIC COORDINATOR MusicCoordinator@stmichaelportland.org JERRI SCHULTZ, OFFICE MANAGER OfficeManager@stmichaelportland.org ROSEMARY RETTIG, SOCIAL SERVICES SocialServices@stmichaelportland.org MARY PETRY, BOOKKEEPER Bookkeeper@stmichaelportland.org

2 THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH nd st SUNDAY FEBRUARY 22-1 SUNDAY IN LENT Masses at 8:30, 10:00 AM & Noon 11:00 A.M. Children s Religious Education MONDAY rd FEBRUARY 23 - LENTEN DAY SAINT POLYCARP Readings Leviticus 19:1-2, & Matew 25:31-46 TUESDAY FEBRUARY 24 - LENTEN DAY 11:00 A.M. Eucharistic Adoration Readings Isaiah 55:10-11 & Matew 6:7-15 WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 25 - LENTEN DAY 6:30 P.M. RCIA Readings Jonah 3:1-10 & Luke 11:29-32 THURSDAY FEBRUARY 26 - LENTEN DAY 6:30 P.M. Finance Council Meeting Readings Eser C:12-25 & Matew 7:7-12 6:30 P.M. FINANCE COUNCIL MEETING FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27 - LENTEN DAY Readings Eze. 18:21-28 & Matew 5:20-26 SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28 LENTEN DAY 3:45 P.M. Confessions 4:30 P.M. Vigil Mass Readings Deuteronomy 26:16-19 & Matew 5:43-48 SUNDAY st nd MARCH 1-2 SUNDAY OF LENT Readings Genesis 22:1-2, 9-18, Romans 8:31b- 34 & Mark 9:2-10 PARISH MISSION STATEMENT Saint Michael e Archangel Parish, located in e heart of Downtown Portland's University District, is a welcoming community of 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. MASS INTENTIONS Day Presider Mass Intention Sun. P. Mayo Pro Populo Sun. P. Mayo +Vernice Hamilton Sun. P. Ignatius +Joseph Cruz Mon. P. Ignatius +Arur Brown Tue. P. Mayo Stephen Chang-Seop Oh Wed. P. Mayo +David Mazzocco Thu. P. Mayo Michael Chinnavaso Fri. P. Ignatius +Gertrude Metz Sat. P. Mayo +Gilda Roberti Sun. P. Ignatius +Zacarias & +Juana Lagasca Sun. P. Mayo +Maria Hoang Sun. P. Mayo +Pro Populo Call if you would like a Mass celebrated. VOTIVE CANDLES +Pauline Clift-Jones +Josephine Granato +Doroy Johnson +Richard Lucey +Maybelle Macdonald +Kaleen Martin +Patricia O Keefe +Oscar Quoidbach +Karyn Scott +Doroy Wilson James Joseph Mountain Family Heal & Peace Streng in Difficult Times Job Success Success of e Building Project Altar Guild Members Living & Deceased +Frank & +Margerite Terraglio Murty Family - Living & Deceased Call if you would like a 6 day Votive Candle lighted. A HOPE FOR THE FUTURE By making a pledge to include Saint Michael e Archangel Parish in your estate planning, you ensure at future generations will receive e worship, sacramental and community services you and your family have received during your time here. What a wonderful gift you will give em after your dea! To learn more, please contact our pastor, Faer Mayo, by or telephone. Thank you!

3 FINANCE NEWS DECEASED CLERGY 6 Ordinary Sunday February 14 & 15 Received Budgeted Last Sunday $3,950.84* $6, Last Week $304.07* $ Year to date $220, $224, For e Poor $401.00* $1, Candles $116.07* $ Flowers $45.33* $84.00 *Includes ACH & E-giving To donate to St. Michael e Archangel Caolic Church using your credit or debit card, go to: SOCIAL SERVICES SOUP & SANDWICHES MENU DURING LENT also observes traditional Friday abstinence by making tuna salad and egg salad sandwiches which e beneficiaries love! A culinary reminder of e Caolic/Christian roots of e ministry. EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY ITEMS NEEDED: Still need packets of hot chocolate and black teas, jars of peanut butter and jars of jam. Please make make sure e Bestby-Dates are less an 1 year past. Thanks for your prayers & generous support. MONDAY Faer Leonard Mazurk, OSM 1984 TUESDAY Faer James Nibler 2008 THURSDAY Faer Cornelius J. Linehan 2011 CAMPUS MINISTRY FRAGUA: If you have questions about fai in general, such as Why have fai? & Why did Jesus die for us? or questions about e Caolic fai, Fragua is for you! We meet at 6:30 P.M. on Tuesdays at Tito s Burritos (6 Avenue across from Ondine). MONDAY NIGHT PANCAKES: Join us at e Newman Center on Mondays at 7 P.M. to eat breakfast for dinner, enjoy social time, & study e Bible. THURSDAY SILENT STUDY: The Newman Center is a study retreat Thursdays from 6 to 10 P.M. FIND US ON THE WEB: Our ministry website is pdxcaolic.org,. On Facebook: Newman Staff. LENTEN REGULATIONS Abstinence: All persons who have completed eir 14 year are bound by e law of abstinence. Fasting: All adults are bound by e law of fast from e beginning of eir 19 year up to e beginning of eir 60 year. Explanation: Abstinence means at a person is bound to abstain beginning e day after one s 14 birday. Fasting means at adults are bound to fast from e day after eir 18 birday until e end of e day of eir 59 birday. Application: Abstinence forbids e eating of meat and food prepared wi meat or meat by-products. Fasting allows only ONE full meal & TWO lighter meals in e course of a day, and prohibits eating between meals. In e US, Ash Wednesday & Good Friday are days of fast and abstinence. All oer Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence only. Pregnant women and persons who are sick are not bound by e law of fast.

4 FRED MEYER REWARDS CARD EARNS GIFTS FOR OUR PARISH 58 households who shopped at Fred Meyer & used eir Rewards Card between 10/1/2014 & 12/31/2014 have earned us a donation of $251.72! Thank you, supporters! Sign up for Community Rewards program by linking your Fred Meyer Rewards Card to St. Michael e Archangel Caolic Church, Portland, Oregon at You can search for us by our name or by our non-profit number: # Every time you shop and use your Rewards Card, you are helping St. Michael Church earn a donation! You still earn your Rewards Points, Fuel Points, and Rebates. If you do not have a Rewards Card, ey are available at e Customer Service desk of any Fred Meyer store. For more information, or to sign up, please visit PARISH NEWS STATIONS OF THE CROSS & SOUP SUPPERS: Join us in e church on e following Wednesdays of Lent for Stations of e Cross at 5:30 P.M. wi a Soup Supper at 6:00 P.M.: March 4 hosted by RCIA; March 11 hosted by Pastoral & Finance Councils; March 18 hosted by KKIOR/Indonesian Community and March25 hosted by e Newman Center & Staff. LENTEN PENANCE SERVICE: All of us sin and fall short of God s glory. When we do at, we must be reconciled wi God and e community. Our Lenten Penance Service will be on Saturday, March 14 at 10:00 a.m. in e church. LENTEN DAILY MASS: Monday ru Friday at 12:05 P.M. we have a Lenten Daily Mass. Perhaps add at Mass to your Lenten preparation for e Resurrection. NORA SCHRECK, PRAYER MINISTRY prayer@stmichaelportland.org If you have a need for which you d like prayer, Nora and her prayer partners will pray for you! STABAT MATER Composed by Giovanni Pergolesi in 1736, e duet for soprano and alto voices and piano will be performed by our cantor, Jocelyn Thomas, and friend, Rebecca Sacks, on Wednesday, February 25 from 5:30-6:15 P.M. in e church. The first part of e piece describes e anguish of Mary, standing at e foot of e cross on which her son was dying, while e latter part constitutes a prayer to e Virgin Mary. Translations of e Latin text will be available. The performance will be followed by a simple soup supper in Balestra Hall. A free will offering will be taken. Please consider including is beautiful music to your Lenten journey. MEMORIAL GIFTS A number of families and individuals have made donations for a particular item in our newly restored parish church. One family gave funds for 3 new bells which will be lovely. Items like e ALTAR, TABERNACLE STAND, PRIEST & SERVERS CHAIRS, PULPIT, MAIN ARTWORK IN THE SANCTUARY (Cross, Mary & St. Michael on e wall), STAINED GLASS WINDOW RESTORATION, etc. are still available. All ese ings will have a bronze memorial plaque on em. Should you be interested, please call Faer Mayo or Cheryl Scarcelli and ey will help you secure e item you would like. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!

5 SERVANT & STEWARD BLOG Faer Darren Zehnle Diocese of Springfield, Illinois Who's hungry for fish? Why do we eat fish on Fridays (in Lent)? It may well be at is time of year at e most frequently asked question of Caolics concerns e eating of fish on Fridays during Lent. First, we should recall at Caolics are obliged to refrain from meat on every Friday during e year (canon 1251). There are, ough, as is often e case wi canon law, exceptions: unless e Conference of Bishops decides oerwise or a particular Friday happens to be a Solemnity. The United States Conference of Caolic Bishops has decided to allow Caolics to eat meat on Fridays outside of Lent if and here s e kicker ey perform a different act of penance in its place. I know. You probably haven t heard is before, but now you have. And now at you know you have to follow it. Sorry. It s what I do. The second exception reminds me of an episode in e life of my favorite saint, Francis of Assisi. The Poverello loved Christmas more an any oer Feast or Solemnity and he encouraged great festivity for e Nativity of e Lord (but he still put ashes on his food so as not to enjoy it too much [I ll follow him in some ings but I won t go at far]). In e Latin, we are told to abstain from carnis, which from e most ancient of times has always meant e meat of ings at walk on e ground. Now, fish resembles meat to some extent and Caolics, being e clever folks ey often are, knew at ey couldn t eat meat but at fish were not mentioned. So ey kept e rules and ate fish. Ah, yes, loopholes are a glorious ing, aren t ey? It has absolutely noing to do wi fishmongers needing more money and talking to e Pope. That s a bunch of rubbish from people too lazy to do a bit of investigating. Caolics eat fish on Fridays because ey can t eat meat (and apparently we don t want to eat a meal of only grains, fruits and vegetables). Personally, I love fish, especially a tuna wi lemon and dill A couple of years ago I stumbled upon an intriguing explanation as to why we eat fish on Fridays but not meat, and one at I raer like. The explanation comes from I believe e fifteen century (ough it might be sixteen), from one Saint John Myre in his Liber Festivalis: For when God, for Adam s sin, cursed e ear and e land, he cursed not e water; wherefore it is lawful for a man to eat in Lent at which come of e water. Ponder at, and try at answer e next time somebody asks you about your fish sandwich! One particular Christmas one of e broers didn t ink he should eat meat at Christmas because it fell on a Friday. Francis reprimanded him severely, saying at even e walls should eat meat on Christmas and if ey couldn t (he must have been a bit delirious from lack of food) at e meat should be smeared on e walls of e rooms of e house (kids, don t try at at home). Now, if you happen to live in a parish or a Diocese under e patronage of Saint Patrick you can eat meat on his feast if it should fall on a Friday because his feast for you is a solemnity. For everybody else, you have to ask your Bishop for permission. But, really, I don t ink Patrick would mind if you didn t have corned beef on his feast day and wanted one more day. I can t understand why anybody would eat corned beef anyway, but at s just me. Where was I going? Oh, yes. Second, we should note at we are not required to eat fish on Fridays. We are merely told to abstain from meat.

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