5 SUNDAY OF EASTER MAY 2, 2010

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1 5 SUNDAY OF EASTER MAY 2, 2010 P A R I S H S T A F F FATHER JAMES MAYO, PASTOR Pastor@stmichaelportland.org GLENN RYMSZA, CAMPUS MINISTER CampusMinister@stmichaelportland.org ROSEMARY RETTIG, SOCIAL SERVICES SocialServices@stmichaelportland.org DEACON CHUCK AMSBERRY, PASTORAL ASSOCIATE PastoralAssociate@stmichaelportland.org MEGHAN JACKSON, MUSIC COORDINATOR MusicCoordinator@stmichaelportland.org JERRI SCHULTZ, SECRETARY & BOOKKEEPER Secretary@stmichaelportland.org FATHERS IGNATIUS KISSEL, OSM & FRANCIS NJAU - SUPPLY PRIESTS ROBERT GOWAN, MAINTENANCE PHILIP AUSTIN, FRIDAY MAINTENANCE NORA SCHRECK - PRAYER MINISTRY T H E S A C R A M E N T S EUCHARIST Monday rough Friday at 12:05 p.m. Saturday Vigil at 4:30 p.m 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. SACRAMENT OF THE SICK Call Deacon Chuck if you would like Communion brought to you at home or are willing to bring Communion to homebound parishioners. If you are having surgery or are seriously ill, call e Pastor to be anointed. Also celebrated at all Masses one weekend during January, April, July and 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

2 SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CHURCH 424 Souwest Mill Street Portland, OR Parish Fax Newman Center Office Hours 8:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. & 1:00 P.M. - 4:30 P.M. Web Site: dal 1894, la parrocchia nazionale italiana di Portland... nel cuore della città. MASS INTENTIONS Sunday (8:30) Pro Populo Sunday (10:00) +James E. Chase Sunday (12:00) +Domingo & +Dolores Enriquez Monday +Marianne Strobel Tuesday +Richard McGonigle Wednesday Agaa Sonu & Family Thursday +Jesus & +Elisea Loanzon Friday Bonaventure Oh Family Saturday +James Bybee Call if you d like a Mass celebrated. VOTIVE CANDLES +Jerome Eluh +Marilyn Kruse +Maybelle Clark Macdonald +Mary Pat Marsh +Gwen Mason +Duane Peters +Jack Phelan +Donald D. Shimel, Sr. +Marianne Strobel +Walter Wilson +Ralph Wright Louis Iorio Success in New Job Peace in Family Altar Guild Members Living & Deceased +Frank & +Margerite Terraglio Murty Family - Living and Deceased Call Jerri to have a large votive lit for your personal intentions, for an anniversary of dea, marriage, as a gift to someone else. THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH nd SUNDAY MAY 2 5 SUNDAY OF EASTER 8:30 A.M. Sunday Mass 10:00 A.M. Sunday 12:00 P.M. Sunday Newman Mass MONDAY rd MAY 3 SAINTS PHILIP AND JAMES APOSTLES Readings 1 Corinians 15:1-8 and John 14:6-14 TUESDAY MAY 4 EASTER WEEKDAY Readings WEDNESDAY Acts 14:19-28 and John 14:27-31a MAY 5 EASTER WEEKDAY 6:45 P.M. RCIA Mystogoggia Gaering 7:00 P.M. Holy Hour in Church Readings Acts 15:1-6 and John 15:1-8 THURSDAY MAY 6 EASTER WEEKDAY Readings Acts 15:7-21 and John 15:9-11 FRIDAY MAY 7 EASTER WEEKDAY 7:00 P.M. Talk on People of e Middle East Readings Acts 15:22-31 and John 15:12-17 SATURDAY 3:45 P.M. Confessions MAY 8 EASTER WEEKDAY 4:30 P.M. Vigil Mass for Sunday Readings Acts 16:1-10 and John 15:18-21 SUNDAY MAY 9 6 SUNDAY OF EASTER Readings Acts 15:1-2, 22-29, Revelation 21:10-14, and John 14:23-29 SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL PARISH MISSION STATEMENT Saint Michael e Archangel Parish, located in e heart of Downtown Portland 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 and e Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.

3 DECEASED CLERGY FINANCE NEWS MONDAY Fr. John McKeon, OP 1965 TUESDAY Fr. Florian Matuszewski 1933 Fr. Samuel Coogan, SJ 1941 Fr. Ronald Holdorf, CSSR 1988 WEDNESDAY Fr. Hugh McDevitt 1940 Fr. Joseph Vanderbeck 1980 Fr. James Sullivan 1986 SUNDAY Fr. Edward Spear, OSB 1991 Weekend of April 24 & 25 Received Budgeted Last Sunday* $7, $6, Last Week $ $ rd 3 Wednesday ACH $ Year-to-date $265, $278, Caolic Charities $ (loose cash only) For e Poor $65.00 $ Candles $ $ Flowers $29.00 $70.96 *Includes $7, Sunday Collection envelopes and $30 from e Operating Budget envelopes COLLEGE STUDENT NEWS NEWMAN CLUB MEETING: We will be gaering is Friday, May 7, at 7:00 P.M. in Balestra Hall for our Newman Club Meeting. We will be having a movie night!! We will be popping popcorn and having refreshments. EDUCATION NEWS nd CAMPUS MINISTRY: Our Ministry Center is on e 2 floor of Parish Offices please ring e doorbell on e Mill Street entrance. Glenn Rymsza s cell is & is CampusM inister@ stmichaelportland.org. Our Caolic Student Association website is at RCIA JOURNEY: The Mystagogy time of reflection continues. We reflect on becoming and being Caolic, and how e Lord is calling us to serve His holy Church and world. Our concluding pot-luck is on Wednesday, May 19. The session at 6:45pm, Wednesday, May 5, is My Conversion Story, shared by Dr. Auur Henry. For all who wish to pray and grow deeper in our Caolic fai. Contact Deacon Chuck. Please pray for/wi us. ADULT CONFIRMATIONS: Adults preparing to be confirmed at e Caedral on May 28 are: John Bastian, Cailin Murphy, Joseph Tarricone & Adam Villarreal. Please pray em forward furer into God s love and grace. THE LAND & PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE Dr. Peter Bechtold, Director of e Middle East Studies Center at PSU, will be speaking on is topic from an academic point of view on Friday, May 7, at 6:30 P.M. The talk and gaering will be held in Balestra Hall. Bo students and parishioners are invited to come listen to is expert in Middle East studies. Dr. Bechtold is also a parishioner here at St. Michael.

4 PARISH NEWS MONTHLY HOLY HOUR: Beginning on May 5, e Wednesday Night Bible Study Group is beginning a monly Holy Hour time. This will be on e first Wednesdays of e mon, 7-8 P.M., in e parish church. The Eucharist will be adored in Exposition, e Rosary prayed togeer, Intercessions, and concluding Benediction and Blessing. The oer Wednesdays of e mon e Bible Study continues in e Garden Conference Room. Please call Christine Lee-Ro, , for more information. GROTTO VISIT PLANNED: Saturday, May 22 nd, we will have our Spring Parish Pilgrimage Spring to e Portland Grotto, e National Sanctuary of our Sorrowful Moer. Our Supply Priest, Fr. Ignatius Kissel, OSM, is a Servite Friar ere. We will leave at 9 A.M., and return to e church parking lot at 3 P.M. Tour of lower and upper levels, bookstore browsing, lunch ere, visiting wi Fr. Ignatius, etc. We will car pool. Please call Deacon Chuck ASAP to register for is good trip. BIRTHRIGHT CARNATION SALE FOR MOTHER S DAY: We again will be selling carnations for you to take to your moer or perhaps put on her grave if she has died. These are sponsored by Birright, a group which supports moers and babies and life. Please help eir ministry by buying one or more on e church porch after Masses. A PLEA ABOUT ALTAR FLOWERS Faer Mayo would like to assemble a group of men and women who are willing to provide e weekend flowers for our parish church. Training will be given you. It would involve preparing e flowers on Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, watering em during e week if able, and removing e dead flowers. Would you please call him and say at you ll help? The beauty of nice flowers touches someing inside us and helps us glorify God. Thank you! THE ORDINATION CLASS OF 2010 These are some of e statistics for e ordination class of 2010, possibly numbering about 440, from e United States Caolic Bishops website. The average age of ordinands for e Class of 2010 is 37. More an half (56 percent) are between e ages of 25 & 34. Almost one-ird (31%) of ordinands were born outside e United States, wi e largest numbers coming from Mexico, Columbia, e Philippines, Poland, and Vietnam. FOUR FLOWER BEDS Soon it will be watering time for our shrubs and flowers. There are four (4) beds which need attention. They are: 1) Facing 4 Avenue; 2) On Montgomery Street; 3) On 5 Avenue by e Trolley; 4) On Mill Street. W ould ere be one or more...maybe four...people who would take on one or more beds and water em at least once a week? The plants would ank you, Faer Mayo would ank you and all who look at our flowers will say Gosh, ey take such good care of eir property...ey must care a lot! Would you please call Faer Mayo and say at you ll help...and which day/time would be best for you? We will get it coordinated, etc. On average, responding ordinands who were born in anoer country have lived in e United States for 11 years. Between 20-30% of ordinands to diocesan priesood for each of e last 10 years were born outside e United States. Before entering e seminary, ree in five ordinands completed college (60%), and one in five received a graduate degree (20%). Among ose who completed college before entering e seminary, seven in ten entered e seminary at e pre-eology level & 19% entered at e eology level. 1 in 3 (34%) report entering e seminary while in college. Ordinands of e Class of 2010 have been active in parish ministries, wi about half to ree-quarters indicating ey served as an altar server, lector, and/or Eucharistic minister in eir parish. One-fif (19%) participated in a World You Day before entering e seminary. More an 9 in 10 ordinands (92%) report some type of full-time work experience prior to entering e seminary, most often in education. Less an one in ten has served in e U.S. Armed Forces. One in six (16%) report at eier one or bo parents were career military. Two-irds of ordinands report regularly praying e Rosary

5 (67%) and participating in Eucharistic Adoration (65%) before entering e seminary. On average, responding ordinands report at ey were about 18 when ey first considered a vocation to e priesood. About 8 in 10 (78%) were encouraged to consider e priesood by a priest. Between 40 and 50% report at friends, parishioners, or parents encouraged em to consider priesood. Half of responding ordinands report at someone discouraged em from considering e priesood. Respondents are more likely to cite a friend or classmate, or a parent or family member as discouraging em. Relatively few ordinands say at TV, radio, billboards, or oer vocational advertising were instrumental in eir discernment. 2 in 5 (42%) participated in a Come and See weekend before entering e seminary. 8 in 10 (85%) report at ey have seen e Fishers of Men DVD published by e USCCB. To e Class of 2010, may God bless you as you prepare for ordination to e priesood. FINANCE COUNCIL FOR APRIL MINUTES APRIL 22, 2010 Present: Pastor Fr. James Mayo, Chair Gerry Mildner, Dave McDermott, George Battistel, Erick Dennis, Joe Salinas, Secretary Bud Caro, and Secretary/Bookkeeper Jerri Schultz.Excused: Ryan Courtney and Dan Dzuiba. Preliminary: At 6:30 PM, Faer Mayo opened e meeting wi a prayer. Bud Caro hosted. Minutes: The Minutes of e March 18, 2010 meeting were approved as submitted. Financials and Budget: The Council reviewed e March 2010 Year-to-Date financials. Offertory Collections were 3% below Budget, but Total Income was 5% better an Budget as Gifts and Bequests exceed Budget by $15,898. Overall Operating Costs are in line wi Budget. Faer Mayo said at attendance at e Easter Services was e higher an usual in our Parish, as well as in oers. Faer also said e he expects to receive e M acdonald Fund Bequest in September or October. These funds are earmarked for Parish Facility Maintenance and will be deposited in investment accounts. The Council recommended at e Investment Account No be renamed Facility Maintenance. The Council reviewed e Annual Budget prepared by Jerri Schultz. The Council noted at e projected Salaries & Wages did not include any increases and at e anticipated income from investments was less an current financial forecasts. After some discussion, e Council agreed at e Salaries & Wages budget reflect a cost of living increase, at e Annual Budget reflect equal Income and Expense, and at e Investment Income be increased to e extent necessary to balance e Annual Budget. Wi ese changes, e Council approved e Budget and recom-mended at it be presented to e Pastoral Council for approval. Pastor s Comments: Faer Mayo is concerned about mold building up in e nor wall and oer places where water intrusion has occurred in e past. He is investigating use of special dogs trained to identify mold in walls and floors. It may be necessary to perform some remedial maintenance before e Church building is renovated. The Archdiocese s Capital Campaign for an Endowment Fund may be scheduled for next year and will be coordinated wi e Parish Campaign. The Archdiocese may accept pledges to be paid over years. Faer Mayo says he has been approached by e fund raising firm hired by e Archdiocese to manage e Parish Campaign. A combination will have some economic benefit to e Parish. A decision will be made at a future date. Building Project: A review of e history and e current status of e Project Present drawings by our architect show at e requirements of bo St. Michael & St. Mary can fit on our existing land, including open space for a cloister. Since it is becoming more apparent at e motel is not available, e Building Committee is recommending at we move ahead wiout e motel property. Faer Mayo will be in discussion wi St. Mary s. The Committee would like to schedule a Parish wide meeting at e appropriate time. Outreach/Evangelization: The committee is ready for e design and printing of cards, flyers, etc. which will invite our neighbors to join us in worship activities. Oer Business: Four members are retiring in June and we need replacements. Members were asked to give Faer Mayo names. Adjournment/Next Meeting: The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 PM. Next meeting is Thursday, May 20, 2010, in e Rectory Conference Room. Erick will host. Submitted by Bud Caro, Secretary

6 SAINT JOSEPH S TABLE RECAP Faer Mayo would like to invite ose who worked on or are interested in next year s St. Joseph s table to meet wi him to evaluate what we ve done e last two years and plan for e March 19, 2011, Dinner. We will meet on May 16 after e 10:00 A.M. Mass, i.e. about 11 A.M. in Balestra Hall. Please come and help! Thank you. Caolic Church made and makes concerning e Tru and Tradition put it in permanent opposition to e forces of Progress, which wished and continue to wish for e Church s end. Bottum makes a partially insightful point when he speaks of e Christian roots of what he sees as anti-caolicism: Christianity spread across e world e Bible s new idea of history born from e vision at God is a God who entered time, and time is moving toward a goal. Even modern nonbelievers still somehow believe is part; in important metaphysical ways, eir progressive view of e world remains Christian, albeit wi Christ stripped out. SOCIAL MINISTRY NEWS Social Service Volunteers as well as Ministry Guests get eir needs met when ey come to spend time in our parish ministries. Recently we welcomed a Marylhurst student doing research for her MBA; a Portland State student from Saudi Arabia doing e same for her spirituality class; a moer and her teenage son looking for a reality check; and a retired professor tired wi retirement! FROM AMERICA MAGAZINE Contact Coordinator Rosemary Rettig to learn more about our social services. Pantry needs is week: condiments (like mustard, salad dressing, individual jams); tea bags ( we re all out ), and hot chocolate packets (if you donate a 2# can of ground coffee we will re-bag it into smaller serving sizes.) May God continue to bless e work of our hands! The Church, Sexual Abuse, and "Anti-Caolicism" by John W. Martens There is an important article by Joseph Bottum at The Weekly Standard.com on e recent odd hysteria, at is, e media s response and role in e recent and revived claims regarding sexual abuse by priests and cover-ups of is abuse by some in e Church s leadership. That Bottum calls it an odd hysteria does not mean at he considers claims about sexual abuse in e Church to be concocted nor at he feels ere have not been grave errors made by e Church hierarchy, only, in my words, at e Caolic Church has been made to bear far more of e weight of e sin of sexual abuse in our culture an for which it is responsible. As I read Bottum, and as e article is titled, Anti-Caolicism, Again: The Permanent Scandal of e Vatican, he believes at ere is a deep animus against e Caolic Church on display in e odd hysteria, at has its roots in e Protestant reformation and at was imported across e Atlantic Ocean to e USA centuries ago. More an at, in e wake of e Enlightenment, e claims at e Innumerable books have been written about e good effects of is forward-aiming view of history, from Christopher Dawson s old Progress and Religion to Rodney Stark s recent The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. Perhaps not enough has been said, however, about one of its bad effects. As we wait for e Second Coming or its many secular stand-ins an odd, hysterical impatience can take hold. We worked so hard, and still e change in human nature didn t come. Still heaven didn t get built on ear. Evil must have intervened, and since e past is e evil against which progress fights, what more obvious villain an e Caolic Church, at last-surviving remnant of e ancient darkness? It is insightful because I believe, wi him, at even modern nonbelievers still somehow believe is part; in important metaphysical ways, eir progressive view of e world remains Christian, albeit wi Christ stripped out. I ink he has put his finger on a deep impulse in our culture, at remains more Christian an it knows. I say partially insightful because I am not certain at most people see e Caolic Church as e last-surviving remnant of e ancient darkness or at recent newspaper reports reveal "anti-caolicism." I believe at ere is in fact lurking in all of is an inchoate longing for e Tru at e Caolic Church proclaims. If e Church truly bears e Tru, and if we as Christians believe it to be so, how can people, all created in e image of God, not respond in some deep way to e bearer of is Tru? Our culture is confused in many ways about e very nature of Tru and so e response to e Church, and in is particular case e sexual abuse crisis in e Church, will take many forms, some ridiculous and some unjust, but e reason e Church remains at e heart of e story is at most people expect e Church to live up to its claims to be different, to be better, to be set apart. In fact ey need e Church to be better. I ink e focus on e Church is not indicative of people considering Caolicism as e last-surviving remnant of e ancient darkness, but on e Church being e beacon of light and e Hope of e world, even if is cannot be expressed coherently by many of e Church s supposed enemies. For it is one ing to pretend at chaos and noingness, as our culture does, it is quite anoer to grasp it and live it and revel in it. People seek Tru. The Church offers Tru. The failings of e Church to live up to its call and e Church s inability, from e point of view of many, to deliver on e Tru frightens a culture at is unmoored. It needs e Church more, I ink, an most in e Church know. Related to is is e oer ing at frightens us in our culture: If noing is true an everying is permitted, especially in e realm of sex, as Bottum discusses. Again, is sort of cheap hedonism is

7 easy to chirp in cafes, nightclubs and while sharing a joint wi a friend, but ere are deep concerns regarding e turn our culture has taken wi respect to sex and, again, rightly so, if we believe at e Church s teachings regarding sex are true. If ey are, en even when e Church s teachings are mocked and rejected, ey ought to speak at e deepest level even to ose whose own practice of sexuality defies e teachings of Christianity. The culture defies, however, only to a point. Bottum says, The current hysteria over e Caolic sex-abuse scandal derives at least in part from e same source at fed e panic over rape at preschools and day care centers 20 years ago. These are, in is one respect, two chapters of a single story e story of a culture whose views of sexuality put its children at risk. That risk is real. Our contemporary understandings of sex are a jumble of contradictions and insanities, and e young are among ose paying e price. The news reports about e Caolic scandals have purchase on us precisely because ey echo down e canyons of our cultural anxiety. And to account for at anxiety to localize and personalize its causes Caolicism is far more useful an outlandish charges of Satanism ever were. For some of e commentators on e current scandals, any stick is a good one if you can poke it at religion. Most people, however, are just looking for an explanation. They worked so hard to build e life e contemporary world demands, and still ey are anxious. They rejected e sexual strictures of e past, just as ey were taught to do, and still eir children are in danger. Easy relativism runs up against e reality of e sexual abuse of children, in our homes, schools, childcare centers, and institutions like e Church and in oer religions. Relativism crumbles in e face of reality. We know it is wrong to sexually abuse children, but we have dismantled most of e arguments against sex wi anyone. This is why e Church faces e most anger of any oer institution, ough, not "anti-caolicism": e Church ought to be better, it ought to hold e line on sexual behavior, and it ought to root out is sinfulness in a more forceful manner an any oer institution. Raer an "anti-caolicism", I would say at e cultural response to e Church points to e continuing vigor of its teaching and why it is so important at e Church live up to its teachings. If not in e Church, where? What I find missing from Bottum s article and in so much of e writing defending e Church against anti-caolicism is a long view of history and e Scriptures emselves. The desire to explain everying in terms of e past 40, 50 or 60 years misses e very point at Bottum was making. The biblical tradition teaches us at history is a constant battle in which sin and evil vie against God and e goodness which is entirely God. Most utopian movements which emerged in e West are more Christian an ey know, as Bottum states, but ey run up in eir bold visions of a new world against e reality of sin, which most of em want to consign to e dustbin of history. They will try to explain sin as social or economic oppression, let s say, and so when such oppression is gone, a new world dawns. It is wrong. Yet, many Caolic commentators, Bottum included, seem to want to explain e recent scandals in e Church as a product of Vatican II, or cultural currents present in e wider culture since e 60 s, as if on e list of ings e Baby Boomers created is now sin. Read e Bible and e Church faers: all of ese sins, sexual included, were present in e early Church and e broader culture. This is a part of e never-ending battle, which will end only when God makes all ings new again, as we heard in e second reading for e Four Sunday of Easter, Revelation 7: 15-17: The one who sits on e rone will shelter em. They will not hunger or irst anymore, nor will e sun or any heat strike em. For e Lamb who is in e center of e rone will shepherd em and lead em to springs of life-giving water, and God will wipe away every tear from eir eyes. The world since Jesus life, dea and resurrection has had to account for him, e Tru of what he said and did and is, or e falsity of it. It is far easier to engage in is discussion as a dilettante when e culture is steeped in e Tru and e behavior of most people is guided more or less by Jesus teaching, and you can gain a frisson of excitement by opposing yourself to e teachings of Jesus. But when everyone wants to be a bad boy or a bad girl, all of e sudden, e game gets serious. How far are you willing to go? Is everying up in e air, even your children? Now you need to seriously consider e Tru. For his disciples, Jesus Christ is at Tru. If e Church does not bear witness to e Tru of Jesus Christ, at is e scandal at shocks e world. The scandal is not e Vatican, but a Church at is seen to behave like e rest of e world. The Church has had success in worldly terms only to e extent at it bears witness to e scandal of e cross by living up to Jesus demands for his disciples. We need to get away from short view discussions of Vatican II priests and JPII priests as e cause or solution to our problems and return to e Hope to which we bear witness in e person of Jesus Christ. When we do, we will also see e problem wi short term analyses of sexual abuse. It is not a product of a certain age. It was current in e Greco-Roman culture of Jesus' day and in fact a normal, accepted part of life. Jesus warned against e mistreatment of children because he knew it would always be a temptation to take advantage of e most vulnerable in our midst. It was a problem in e first century, in e four century, every century after, prior to Vatican II and after Vatican II, because it is a problem of sin. What we need to put in place, as I ink e Church has done in some jurisdictions, is e best procedures for vetting candidates to e ministry, e best protections for children in Caolic schools and churches, e will to be honest when such abuse happens, not to cover it up, and en to remove offending persons from ministry. It means constantly keeping Jesus' teachings about children in mind, not our own desires and whims. The odd hysteria at Bottum sees is not "anti-caolicism," but e longings of e world to know at e Caolic Church will not give lip service to e Tru but will live it out. It is e Hope of is world, wheer e world wants to admit it or not. I ink at in e challenges to e Church from ose whom we often see as despisers, we hear e cry of a lost world asking at e bearers of e Tru deliver on e Hope. This side of God wiping away every tear from our eyes it is an ongoing struggle, at began wi Adam not in e last 50 years or so, but we can fight harder and better and deep down e world knows it. The link to Joseph Bottum s Standard newspaper article is: