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1 nd 2 SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JANUARY 18, 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 the Third Sunday at 2:00 p.m. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Monday through 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 with baptism, confirmation, marriage and anointing of the 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 th nd SUNDAY JANUARY 18-2 SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Masses at 8:30, 10:00 AM & Noon 11:00 A.M. Children s Religious Education MONDAY th JANUARY 19 - FERIAL DAY Readings Hebrews 5:1-10 & Mark 2:18-22 TUESDAY th JANUARY 20 SAINTS FABIAN AND SEBASTIAN 11:00 A.M. Eucharistic Adoration Readings Hebrews 6:10-20 & Mark 2:23-28 st WEDNESDAY JANUARY 21 SAINT AGNES 6:30 P.M. RCIA Readings Hebrews 7:1-17 & Mark 3:1-6 THURSDAY nd JANUARY 22 FERIAL DAY 6:30 P.M. Finance Council Meeting Readings Hebrews 7:25 8:6 & Mark 3:7-12 FRIDAY rd JANUARY 23 SAINTS VINCENT & MARIANNE COPE Readings Hebrews 8:6-13 & Mark 3:13-19 SATURDAY t JANUARY 24 SAINT FRANCES DE SALES 3:45 P.M. Confessions 4:30 P.M. Vigil Mass, ANOINTING ALL MASSES Readings Hebrews 9:2-14 & Mark 3:20-21 th rd SUNDAY JANUARY 25 3 SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Readings Jonah 3:1-5, 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 & Mark 1:14-20 MASS INTENTIONS Day Presider Mass Intention Sun. P. Mayo Pro Populo Sun. P. Ignatius Mary Murty Sun. P. Ignatius +Maristella M. Gamolo Mon. P. Ignatius Sawyer-Morrison-Bernards Family Tue. P. Mayo Joyce Ironside Wed. P. Mayo Kitty Yuen Thu. P. Mayo Virginia & Barb Shipp Fri. P. Ignatius +Gertrude Metz Sat. P. Mayo +Tom Cunningham Sun. P. Ignatius +Helen Alford Sun. P. Ignatius +Rosa Pham Sun. P. Mayo Pro Populo Call if you would like a Mass celebrated. VOTIVE CANDLES +Pauline Clift-Jones +Marion Garbarino +Josephine Granato +Dorothy Johnson +Richard Lucey +Maybelle Macdonald +Patricia O Keefe +Oscar Quoidbach +Edward Walsh +Dorothy Wilson +Elizabeth Baker Brian Jackson James Joseph Mountain Virginia & Barb Shipp Healing Business Success Better Health Bill Hunt Sawyer-Morrison-Bernards Family Success of the 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. PARISH MISSION STATEMENT Saint Michael the Archangel Parish, located in the heart of Downtown Portland's University District, is a welcoming community of Roman Catholic faithful. This Italian National Parish sacramentally proclaims the Gospel of Jesus Christ through a commitment to Evangelization, Education and the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. 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!

3 FINANCE NEWS BAPTISM OF JESUS CHRIST th th January 10 & 11 Received Budgeted Last Sunday $8,037.70* $6, Last Week $228.00* $ Year to date $190, $192, For the Poor $1,735.00* $1, Candles $227.64* $ Flowers $25.00* $84.00 *Includes ACH & E-giving To donate to St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church using your credit or debit card, go to: DECEASED CLERGY PARISH NEWS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATION COLLECTION [CCC]: The CCC communicates the Gospel through Catholic social media activities & enriches our faith through podcasts, TV, radio, & print media. Half of your donation stays in our archdiocese to support local communication needs. The CCC is how we share our experience of faith, worship, & witness. CONTRIBUTION STATEMENTS: This month, as in the past few years, we ll send contribution statements VIA E- MAIL, unless we don t have one for you OR you request we send yours via post. ARCHDIOCESAN YOUNG ADULT RETREAT: Catholic Young Adults are invited to the annual Archdiocese of Portland Young Adult Retreat on January 23-25, 2015 at the Canby Grove Christians Center in Canby, OR. This year s theme is Our Lives with the Saints. Enjoy a weekend of fun, faith and reflection with other Catholic young adults. Participants must be between the ages of 18-40, out of high school, and may be single or married. For more information, visit or FINANCE COUNCIL MEETING: This coming Thursday at 6:30 P.M. in the Bliven Conference Room in the Rectory Gardens. MONDAY Father John Clare, CssR 1962 Father Cathal Brennan 2013 TUESDAY Father John Costelloe 1959 Father Daniel O Connell 1971 WEDNESDAY Father Warren Waitt 1938 FRIDAY Father James Patrick Ofklynn 1980 SATURDAY Father Louis Rodakowski 2010 SUNDAY Father Martin Stravens 1920 Msgr. Charles Smith 1958 Father Henry LaCerte, OSB 2006 Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." Marcus Tullius Cicero Saint Agnes, Pray for us! Amen!

4 CAMPUS MINISTRY TOUCHING STORY FRAGUA: If you have questions about faith in general, such as Why have faith? & Why did Jesus die for us? or questions about the Catholic faith, Fragua is for you! We meet at 6:30 P.M. on Tuesdays at Tito s th Burritos (6 Avenue across from Ondine). MONDAY NIGHT PANCAKES: Join us at the Newman Center Mondays at 7 P.M. to eat breakfast for dinner, enjoy social time, & study the 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 pdxcatholic.org, and is updated each week. Find us also on Facebook: Newman Staff. ACTION ALERT: IRS MAILING The IRS informed the Archdiocese of Portland that, in an effort to assist those potentially affected by tax fraud, it is attempting to issue an Identity Protection PIN (IP PIN) number to every individual who had a criminal background check processed through the former background check vendor for the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon and the Archdiocese of Seattle, regardless of when, or for which parish, school or other organization. The IP PIN number has been or will be sent by the IRS via US Mail by early January The IP PIN must be included on your 2014 tax return. The IRS will not process returns that do not include this IP PIN number in an effort to protect people from having a fraudulent return filed in their name for the 2014 tax year. Please read important information posted about this IP-PIN mailing on the Archdiocesan website: Click on Action Alert on the first page. If you have questions, please contact the IRS Identity Protection Special Unit at or visit a Taxpayer Assistance Center. Please do not contact the Archdiocese. The Archdiocese has no information on the issuance of IP-PINs. On the first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being. She said, 'Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm 87 years old. Can I give you a hug?' I laughed and enthusiastically responded, 'Of course you may!' and she gave me a giant squeeze. 'Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?' I asked. She jokingly replied, 'I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids...' 'No seriously,' I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. 'I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!' she told me. After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this 'time machine' as she shared her wisdom and experience with me. Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up. At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, 'I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.' As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, 'We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are 19 years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn 20 years old. If I am 87

5 years and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn 88. Anybody, can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.' She concluded her speech by courageously singing 'The Rose.' She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives. At the year's end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those months ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over 2,000 students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be. REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROW- ING UP IS OPTIONAL. We make a Living by what we get. We make a Life by what we give. SOCIAL SERVICES NEEDED IN THE FOOD PANTRY: Hot chocolate packets and peanut butter basics for solo householders. NOTE: make sure best-by-dates are less than 1 year. Thanks for your prayers & generous support. TO THINK ABOUT... Father George Rutler is pastor of the Church of Saint Michael in Manhattan. He posted this on his parish website s pages as this time of year we remember the 1972 decision of our Supreme Court on abortion, Roe.v.Wade. Perspective helps with things... There was a theologian who, when discouraged, would keep repeating to himself, I have been baptized. Since the Prince of Lies has discouragement as his chief strategy and purpose, the Rite of Baptism includes an exorcism: an explicit renunciation of Satan, and all his works, and all his empty promises. Jesus our Encourager did not have to be baptized, for he had no sin to wash away, but by plunging into the waters of the Jordan and rising up, he was setting an example of dying and rising, which in daily life is played out by overcoming obstacles and refuting naysayers. This is modeled in the famous legend of the Scottish king, Robert the Bruce. As Sir Walter Scott told it, the Bruce withdrew to a cave after six defeats in battle, and one rainy day, deeply depressed, he watched a spider weaving a web. Six times the spider s thread broke, and six times the spider resumed its weaving until it succeeded the seventh time. The Bruce rallied and won his great victory at Bannockburn, and the crown of Scotland along with it. Ever since the legalization of abortion in our country, the Church has resisted the temptation to discouragement in defending innocent life. January 22 will mark the 41st annual March for Life in Washington. The March has gone on in weather fair and foul, whether government administrations have been friend or foe. In those years, more than 56 million babies in our country alone have been destroyed in their mothers wombs. We lament the loss of at least 110 million soldiers and civilians worldwide in the two World Wars, and can barely imagine with what talent and invention so many of them might have endowed the arts and science. The same dirge can be intoned for all those babies. Last year at this time, I cited a statistical abstract using the ratio of professions to population and the number of infants aborted. The resulting estimate showed that in the last 35 years, those lives destroyed could have included: two U.S. presidents; seven Supreme Court justices; 102 U.S. senators and 589 congressmen; 8,123 judges; 31 Nobel Prize laureates; 328 Olympic medalists; 6,092 professional athletes; 134,841 physicians and surgeons; 392,500 registered nurses; 70,669 clergy, including 6,852 Catholic priests and 11,010 nuns; 1,102,443 elementary and high-school teachers; 553,821 truck drivers; 224,518 maids and housekeepers; 33,939 janitors; 134,028 farmers and ranchers; 109,984 police officers; and 39,477 firefighters. None of those infants lived to be baptized, and they are entrusted to the mercy of God. Our nation now has the lowest birthrate in its history, and may be approaching the demographic winter that is destroying many other countries. The good news is that contending for life year in and year out has raised consciences, and the rate of abortions is at an all-time low. So when facing Satan and all his works and all his empty promises, say with good courage: I have been baptized!

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