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1 st 31 SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME OCTOBER 31, 2010 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@stmichaelportla.org MEGHAN JACKSON, MUSIC COORDINATOR MusicCoordinator@stmichaelportla.org JACQUELINE NGUYEN, CAMPUS MINISTRY ASSOCIATE CampusMinister@stmichaelportla.org ROSEMARY RETTIG, SOCIAL SERVICES SocialServices@stmichaelportla.org JERRI SCHULTZ, SECRETARY & BOOKKEEPER Secretary@stmichaelportla.org ROBERT GOWAN, MAINTENANCE PHILIP AUSTIN, FRIDAY MAINTENANCE FATHERS IGNATIUS KISSEL, OSM & FRANCIS NJAU - SUPPLY PRIESTS NORA SCHRECK - PRAYER MINISTRY T H E S A C R A M E N T S EUCHARIST Moay rough Friday at 12:05 p.m. Saturday Vigil at 4:30 p.m Suay at 8:30 a 10:00 a.m. a 12:00 p.m. Ionesian Mass on e Third Suay at 2:00 p.m. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Moay 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 homebou parishioners. If you are having surgery or are seriously ill, call e Pastor to be anointed. Also celebrated at all Masses one weeke during January, April, July a 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 Portla 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 a e Corporal a Spiritual Works of Mercy.

2 SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CHURCH 424 Souwest Mill Street Portla, 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 Portla... nel cuore della città. THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH SUNDAY st st OCTOBER SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 8:30 A.M. Suay Mass 10:00 A.M. Suay Mass st 11:00 A.M. 1 Communion Preparation Class 12:00 P.M. Suay Newman Mass MONDAY st NOVEMBER 1 SOLEMNITY OF ALL THE SAINTS 11:30 A.M. Confessions a ALL SAINTS MASS 5:15 P.M. ALL SAINTS MASS Readings Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14, I John 3:1-3 & Mattahew 5:1-12a MASS INTENTIONS Suay (8:30) Pro Populo Suay (10:00) +Mary Pat Marsh Suay (12:00) +Domingo & +Dolores Enriquez Moay +Jesus & +Elisea V. Loanzon Pro Populo Tuesday +Abbot Bonaventure, OSB Pro Populo Wednesday +Maristella M. Gamolo Thursday Fries & Relatives of Loanzon Family Friday Bonaventure Oh Family Saturday Nayan, Patricia & Baby Call if you d like a Mass celebrated. VOTIVE CANDLES +Ralph Dwyer +Marilyn Kruse +Maybelle Clark Macdonald +Maurine Hill +Mary Pat Marsh +Thomas Murray +Duane Peters +Maria Raschio +Donald D. Shimel, Sr. +Delight Smi +Walter Wilson +Ralph Wright +Nancy Glass Nicole Ellis Robert & Roselle Robb Louis Iorio Altar Guild Members Living & Deceased +Frank & +Margerite Terraglio Murty Family - Living a Deceased VOTIVE CANDLES Please call Jerri to light a large votive for your personal intentions, for an anniversary, or as a gift. TUESDAY NOVEMBER 2 SOLEMN COM- MEMORATION OF ALL THE FAITH- FUL DEPARTED 11:30 A.M. Confessions a ALL SOULS MASS 5:15 P.M. ALL SOULS MASS 5:30 P.M. Newman Students Simple Supper 7:00 P.M. Newman Students Bible Study Readings Wisdom 3:1-9 & John 6:37-40 rd WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 3 ST. MARTIN DE PORRES 11:30 A.M. Confessions a Daily Mass 7:00 P.M. Bible Study 8:00 P.M. Newman Mass Readings Philippians 2:12-18 & Luke 14:25-33 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 4 ST. CHARLES BORROMEO 1:30 A.M. Confessions a Daily Mass Readings Philippians 3:3-8a & Luke 15:1-10 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 5 FERIAL DAY 11:30 A.M. Confessions a Daily Mass 6:30 PM Newman Club Gaering Readings Philippians 3:17-4:1 & Luke 16:1-8 SATURDAY 3:45 P.M. Confessions NOVEMBER 6 FERIAL DAY 4:30 P.M. Vigil Mass for Suay Readings Philippians 4:1-19 & Luke 16:9-15 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 7 32 SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Readings 2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 19-14, 2 Thessalonians 2:16 3:5 & Luke 20:27, 34-38

3 PRAYER TO SAINT MICHAEL Saint Michael e Archangel, defe us in battle; be our defense against e wickedness a snares of e devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; a do ou, O prince of e heavenly host, by e power of God, cast into hell Satan a all e oer evil spirits who roam about e world, seeking e ruin of souls. Amen. Prayer Ministry If you have a situation which might need prayer or know of one, please call e number below a our Prayer Chain will keep your need(s) in prayer. Remier is is not a number to fi out Mass times, directions, etc. Those would be on e parish number listed inside e bulletin cover. SOCIAL MINISTRY PANTRY NEEDS THIS WEEK: Owing to e change in season: Black tea bags a instant hot chocolate! Also, Rice-a-Roni type box meals, instant oatmeal, small jams & jellies. May God continue to bless e work of our has! VOLUNTEERS: A few hours here, a few hours ere, can really make a difference! You can support e food ministries work of our parish wi behi e scenes tasks such as packaging packets of rice, re-shelving food, or help Pat Guss organize e hygiene/toiletry items. Please call Rosemary at e Parish Offices for more information. FIRST SUNDAY BREAD COLLECTION: On e first weeke of each mon we collect bread to use for sawiches. If you are buying bread, how about buying an additional loaf a bringing it to Mass wi you? The homeless will be grateful! The Prayer Chain number is: AUTOMATIC OFFERTORY GIVING Known as ACH/Automated Clearing House, Direct Deposit, & Electronic Fus Transfer/EFT, e process directs e movement of fus between accounts. For offertory giving, an amount you specify would be transferred once or twice a mon from your checking or savings to St. Michael. It s as easy as completing & returning e bright green auorization form. Contact Jerri at e parish offices for more information. ALL SAINTS & ALL SOULS DAYS st M oay, November 1 is e Solemnity of All The Saints. Masses at day will be at 12:05 P.M. a 5:15 P.M. Tuesday, November 2, is e Solemn Commemoration of All e Faiful Departed. You have written down e names of ose you wish remembered on your All Souls Envelope a put it on e altar where it will remain for e mon of November. Masses at day will be at 12:05 P.M.a 5:15 P.M. Come a pray for ose you love who have died & ose who have no one to pray for em. PARISH HALL USE We let Balestra Hall be used for various purposes by various iividuals a groups some in e parish a some outside e parish. We generally do not charge for its usage unless it s a group outside e parish. Parishioners have paid for it a its upkeep a can use it for certain purposes. Lately we have had e hall not be taken care of our new carpet had a hot pot placed on it which burned a large circle where e pot sat. We have had groups not return chairs a tables to e place where ey should be for a future group s usage. We have photographed how e hall should be fou a how it should be left. This photo a a diagram are on e bulletin board outside e kitchen. In e future, a group which abuses e hall risks losing e ability to meet a gaer here. Thank you for making e hall welcoming, keeping it clean a inviting! Faer Mayo - Pastor

4 DECEASED CLERGY MONDAY Fr. John G. McGrenra 1946 TUESDAY Fr. Henri Arata 1982 Fr. Gregory Gage 2007 WEDNESDAY Msgr. Arur P. Lane 1941 THURSDAY Fr. Jim Crunican 2007 FRIDAY Fr. Ignatius Groeger, OSB 1991 SATURDAY Abbot Adelhelm Odermatt, OSB 1920 SUNDAY Msgr. Thomas J. Tobin 1978 FINANCE NEWS FRIDAYS - 6:30 P.M. - NEWMAN CLUB MEETING: On November 5, we will have a question a answer session: Stump e Priest. Bring all questions to Fr. Lucas a he ll answer all inquiries! PARISH NEWS GUILD WANTS YOUR STUFF! If you have woerful items you no longer use, donate em to e Guild for eir Autumn White Elephant Sale. Leave em uer e coat rack in e Hall. No cloing, appliances, books, or electronics! GUILD BAKE SALE/WHITE ELEPHANT SALE: Please bring your favorite baked goods to donate Suay, November 14, & en pop down to e Hall after Mass to purchase a treat & peruse e salable treasures. THANKS: To ose who worked on e October Dinner Dance. Your labors are appreciated a helped make it e lovely evening of amiability at it is! God bless you all! rd Weeke of October 23 & 24 Received Budgeted Last Suay $4, $5, Last Week $ $ rd 3 Wednesday ACH $ Year-to-date $100, $103, For e Poor $ $ Cales $ $ Flowers $30.00 $70.19 FAITH FORMATION RCIA: Considering reviewing, renewing, or joining Caolicism? We meet on Tuesday evenings, 6:30 to 8:30 P.M., in e Rectory Gardens Conference Room. The topic for November 2 is The Creed - e Caolic Fai in a Nutshell. Please contact Deacon Chuck if questions. COLLEGE STUDENT NEWS CAMPUS MINISTRY CENTER is on e 2 floor of Parish Offices ring e doorbell on e Mill Street entrance. Faer Lucas is CampusMinister@ stmichaelportla.org. TUESDAYS - 7:00 P.M. - BIBLE STUDY: Fr. Lucas Laborde will lead is study on e Gospel of Luke. Bring your Bible. THURSDAY 7:00 PM - GAME NIGHT: Join us at e Smi Union cafeteria to play board games.

5 SOME HUMOR The Picnic A Jewish Rabbi a a Caolic Priest met at e town's annual 4 of July picnic. Old fries, ey began eir usual banter. "This baked ham is really delicious," e priest teased e rabbi. "You really ought to try it. I know it's against your religion, but I can't uersta why such a woerful food should be forbidden! You don't know what you're missing. You just haven't lived until you've tried Mrs. Hall's prized Virginia Baked Ham. Tell me, Rabbi, when are you going to break down a try it?" The rabbi looked at e priest wi a big grin, a said, "At your wedding." The Usher An elderly woman walked into e local country church. The friely usher greeted her at e door a helped her up e flight of steps. "Where would you like to sit?" he asked politely. "The front row please," she answered. "You really don't want to do at," e usher said, "The pastor is really boring." "Do you happen to know who I am?" e woman inquired. "No," he said. "I'm e pastor's moer," she replied iignantly. "Do you know who I am?" he asked. "No," she said. Good," he answered. ey struck up a conversation. The twenty-dollar bill reminisced about its travels all over e country. "I've had a pretty good life," e twenty proclaimed. "Why I've been to Las Vegas a Atlantic City, e finest restaurants in New York, performances on Broadway, a even a cruise to e Caribbean." "Wow!" said e one-dollar bill. "You've really had an exciting life!" "So tell me," says e twenty, "where have you been roughout your lifetime?" The one dollar bill replies, "Oh, I've been to e Meodist Church, e Baptist Church, a e Caolic Church." The twenty-dollar bill interrupts, "What's a church?" Goat for Dinner The young couple invited eir elderly pastor for Suay dinner. While ey were in e kitchen preparing e meal, e minister asked eir son what ey were having. "Goat," e little boy replied. "Goat?" replied e startled man of e clo, "Are you sure about at?" "Yep," said e youngster. "I heard Dad saying to Mom, 'Today is just as good as any to have e old goat for dinner." NEW CARDINALS Show a Tell A kiergarten teacher gave her class a "show a tell" assignment. Each student was instructed to bring in an object to share wi e class at represented eir religion. The first student got up in front of e class a said, "My name is Benjamin a I am Jewish a is is a Star of David." The seco student got up in front of e class a said, "My name is Mary. I'm a Caolic a is is a Rosary." The ird student got in up front of e class a said, "My name is Tommy. I am Baptist, a is is a casserole." A prelate wi e mi of Ratzinger a e heart of Roncalli by John L Allen, Jr. February 8, 2010 National Caolic Reporter While ere are uoubtedly many ways to capture what s notewory about Italian Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, President of e Pontifical Council for Culture, here s one from my experience just is week. The Best Way To Pray A priest, a minister a a guru sat discussing e best positions for prayer, while a telephone repairman worked nearby. "Kneeling is definitely e best way to pray," e priest said. "No," said e minister. "I get e best results staing wi my has outstretched to Heaven." "You're bo wrong," e guru said. "The most effective prayer position is lying down on e floor." The repairman could contain himself no longer. "Hey, fellas," he interrupted. "The best prayin' I ever did was when I was hangin' upside down from a telephone pole." The Twenty a e One A well-worn one-dollar bill a a similarly distressed twenty-dollar bill arrived at a Federal Reserve Bank to be retired. As ey moved along e conveyor belt to be burned, Tuesday morning, I was on my way to e Paul VI Audience Hall to listen to a talk by Ravasi at a conference organized by e Pontifical Council for Heal Care Workers. I bumped into a priest frie in e Vatican, who, it s fair to say, would probably be seen as falling on e conservative side of many church debates. When I told him I was headed to see Ravasi, his eyes lit up. He s always giving speeches, he said, but he always has someing interesting to say. Later at day, I lunched wi a lay church-watcher in Rome, who conventionally would be regarded as at least somewhat liberal. When I mentioned I had spent part of e morning listening to Ravasi, she too was animated.

6 He s amazing brilliant, but wi an incredible ability to speak to real people, she said. In oer words, Ravasi, 67, is one of ose rare birds who somehow manages to transce e normal left/right divides. Perhaps it s because he s a Biblical expert, a hence usually manages to take a topic back to its eological a spiritual roots, to a point before ideological spin takes over; perhaps it s because he s a popular essayist in secular Italian newspapers, a knows how to reach a widely diverse audience. Whatever e case, a sou-bite way of making e point is at, at his best, Ravasi seems to have bo e mi of Ratzinger a e heart of Roncalli. That is, he exudes e compassion, openness to e world, a basic optimism of Pope John XXIII, as well as e intellectual lucidity a comma of Christian tradition of Benedict XVI. Given all at, Ravasi sometimes seems like e E.F Hutton of e current crop of senior Vatican officials when he talks, people listen. His subject on Tuesday morning was Pope John Paul II s 1984 document Salvifici Doloris, On e Christian Meaning of Human Suffering, e anniversary of which is part of e motive for e Council for Heal Care Workers gaering Feb Ravasi opened wi a premise, which he expressed as e symbolicity of pain. By at, Ravasi meant at pain is more an a physical or emotional experience, but in some ways it symbolizes what is essential to e human coition our limits, our finitude, even our guilt. Pain, Ravasi said, is our identity card as a creature in a fallen world. (In a vintage touch, Ravasi wasn t content simply wi asserting at on e basis of e Bible or Caolic teaching. He also cited a secular auority, in is case Susan Sontag a her 1978 classic Illness as Metaphor. Throughout e speech, Ravasi s allusions caromed from e Berlin Papyrus to Saul Bellow to Dostoyevsky.) Ravasi said he inteed to paint a verbal diptych, consisting of two images. The first concerned pain as e primary source of a crisis of sense, of meaning. It s e reaction of e doctor in Camus The Plague, Ravasi said, who insisted at he could never believe in a God who could permit such suffering. In at sense, Ravasi said, illness a suffering is e bulwark of aeism. Unsurprisingly, is line of ought led Ravasi to dwell at leng on e Biblical book of Job, perhaps e treatise par excellence in scripture on e mystery of human suffering. Among oer points, Ravasi noted at Job never seems as miserable as when his so-called fries try to justify his agony in terms of some hidden sin. That insight led Ravasi to quote e famous quip of Kierkegaard: Job could put up wi everying, until e eologians showed up to explain it to him. The seco panel of e diptych concerned e revelation of e meaning of suffering in God, particularly e Christology of suffering. Ravasi stressed ree separate movements in Christ s encounter wi human pain: e way he drew close to e sick; e way he entered into human suffering; a finally, his transformation of it rough his dea a resurrection. In e e, Ravasi argued, e Christology of suffering was best expressed by e French Caolic poet Paul Claudel, who said at Christ did not come to explain our suffering but to fill it wi his presence. To drive e point home, Ravasi told a story of a well-known Italian aeist, a writer named Ennio Flaiano who auored some of Fellini s screenplays. (Ravasi said he knew Flaiano s wife, since bo of em hail from Lombardy.) Though Flaiano never talked about it, he had a daughter who had been born wi a serious brain disorder, a whom he loved deeply. When he died, Ravasi said, an unfinished work was fou among his papers it wasn t clear wheer he meant it as a screenplay or a novel. In eier case, e premise of e work is at Christ returns to ear today, a is quickly swamped by TV cameras wanting to catch him in action healing e sick. He becomes annoyed, a seeks refuge on a semi-hidden side street. At e e of e street, he sees a faer wi his obviously suffering daughter. Christ approaches em, a just as he is about to lay has on e girl to heal her, e faer says: I don t want you to heal her. What I want is for you to love her. Christ s response is, Truly, at is what I can do for her. Ravasi s point was at is ferociously anti-clerical aeist noneeless grasped what is essential about e Christian uerstaing of suffering: God doesn t necessarily eliminate our pain, but loves us in a rough at pain. Of course, is wasn t a hard-hitting policy address, but in terms of an engaging a inspiring presentation of a fuamental element of e Christian message, it more or less brought e house down. That s what makes Ravasi sta out a at s also why his expected elevation to e College of Cardinals in e next consistory is, at least potentially, interesting in terms of e future of e church.

7 FINANCE COUNCIL ST MINUTES OF THE OCTOBER 21 MEETING Present: Pastor Fr. James Mayo, Dave McDermott, Ryan Courtney, Dan Dziuba, Erik Dennis, Jay Johnson, a Council Secretary Bud Caro. Excused: Chair Gerry Mildner, Joe Salinas, George Battistel, a Parish Secretary/Bookkeeper Jerri Schultz. Preliminary: At 6:45 PM, Faer Mayo opened e meeting wi a prayer. Ryan Courtney hosted. Faer Mayo chaired e meeting in Gerry Mildner s absence. Minutes: The Minutes of e September 16, 2010 meeting were approved as submitted. Financials: The Council reviewed e September 2010 Yearto-Date financials a e September Investment Report. Faer commented at St. Michael s has not experienced as drastic a fall off of contributions as oers have. Our Offertory Collections continue to more or less track e Budget a Bequests have exceeded Budget. The Time, Talent & Treasure returns include 20 new parishioners a 4 new fries of e Parish. Faer said he plans on depositing $400,000 of e bequest from e $500,000 gift from e estate of Maybelle Clark Macdonald in e Long Term Investment account a e balance in e Maintenance Account a some dollars for Masses for her soul a a 8-day vigil light each week for 50 years. In addition e Parish is a benefactor in anoer estate being settled which could result in an additional $100,000 bequest. Building Project: Faer discussed e St. Michael s a St. Mary s plans uerway to host a dinner meeting wi certain Archdiocesan personnel to inform em of e status of our Building Project. He also said at e Parish Building Committee will begin again regular meetings to prepare for Parish a oer presentations. The Council suggested at Ryan present a current financial statement of e St. Michael s Restoration Fouation at some future meeting. The Council discussed e need to have an appraisal of e current Parish property. Outreach/Evangelization: Discussion has been deferred to a future meeting. Oer Business: Dave suggested at each member of e Finance a Pastoral Councils spe one day in some Social Ministry activity. The Council agreed. Faer announced at he has appointed Kim Ferris as an Ad Hoc Member of e Finance Committee due to his oer Parish responsibilities. Adjournment/Next Meeting: The meeting was adjourned at 8:45 PM. The next meeting is Thursday, December 2, 2010 in e Rectory Conference Room at 6:30 PM. George will host. Submitted: Bud Caro, Secretary Pastor s Comments: Faer said at ere is considerable parish interest in obtaining a gra-type piano for liturgy celebrations. An appropriate instrument could cost $30,000 a would be useful in e future in our new a upgraded facilities. The existing electronic piano would be used for choir practice a children s programs. The parish musicians believe at ey can raise half e cost in e form of a Challenge Grant which would require at e Parish raise e oer half. The Council suggested at Faer fi out if ere is sufficient interest in e Parish for a special donation. A $2,500 bid was received to caulk e seams in e Four Avenue ramp. The Council agreed at is was out of line a suggested Faer ask for volunteers. The Council continued to discuss a win-win solution to fu raising for e Restoration Project a for e Archbishop s Eowment Fu.