S T AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH 185 N Oak Harbor Street, Oak Harbor, WA 98277 (360) 675-2303 Rev. Paul Pluth, JCL, Pastor Parish Office Tuesday - Friday 9:00 am - Noon, 1:00-4:00 pm Parish E-mail: Information@StAugustineOH.org; Visit us on the web at www.staugustineoh.org PARISH MINISTERS MASS Pastor Administration Sacramental Prep & Adult Faith Formation Religious Education Director of Music Administrative Assistant Rev. Paul Pluth, JCL Mary A. Waters Peggy Smith Rowena Harless Kathleen Dodge-DeHaven Ruth Joy Abrea Saturday Vigil Filipino Music 5:00 pm 2nd Saturday St Augustine Spanish 1st Saturday 7:00 pm St Augustine Sunday 8:00 am St Augustine 9:30 am St Augustine 11:15 am St Mary Thu, Fri & 1st Sat 9:00 am St Augustine Thursday 12:10 pm St Mary ANOINTING OF THE SICK & HOLY COMMUNION Please call the Parish Office CONFESSION Friday 8:30 am St Augustine Saturday 4:00 pm St Augustine 3rd Sunday 12:15 pm St Mary Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 4 February 2018 Ash Wednesday February 14 A Day of Abstinence, Fasting & Repentance SERVICE OF REPENTANCE & ASHES SAINT AUGUSTINE OAK HARBOR 9 AM, 12 NOON, 6 PM Ashes available throughout the day Let us change our garments to sackcloth and ashes. Let us fast and weep before the Lord, that our God, rich in mercy, might forgive our sins. Joel 2:17, Esther 4:17 Ash Wednesday Antiphon MASS WITH IMPOSITION OF ASHES SAINT MARY COUPEVILLE 12:10 PM Palms Needed for Ash Wednesday Please bring in your blessed palms from last Palm Sunday to be burned for the Ash Wednesday ashes. Palms needed by Wednesday, February 7th Please place palms in the box in the Church Vestibule
David the King by David Barron Lent Adult Education Every Monday, February 12 - March 19. 9:30 am -11am and 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm in classroom 1. Books are $23; checks should be made out to St Augustine. Sign-up in the Vestibule after weekend Masses or in the parish office. Getting More Out of Prayer Every Thursday, February 15 - March 22 at 10am (after Divine Mercy) in classroom 3 and at 6:30 pm (after Soup Supper) in classroom 3 and every Friday, February 16 - March 23 at 10am (after Stations of the Cross) in classroom 3. Booklets are $4, and can be used by parents with children or individual reflection at home and by RCIA. We need over 50 booklets to be purchased to receive the $4 price. LENT ONLINE Sacred Space - Daily Devotions Computer - sacredspace.ie Smart Phone/Tablet - Sacred Space app Pray As You Go - Devotions, Examen Computer - pray-as-you-go.org Smart Phone/Tablet - Pray As You Go app Rice Bowl- Family Activities, Devotions Smart Phone/Tablet - CRS Rice Bowl app LENTEN FASTING & ABSTINENCE illustrated FASTING is One Regular Meal and Two Small Meals ABSTINENCE is No Meat No Poultry x Fish is okay x ASH WEDNESDAY & GOOD FRIDAY are Days of Fasting AND Abstinence BUT NO ALL FRIDAYS IN LENT are Days of Abstinence SNACKS! Who does this affect? CATHOLICS 14+ are obliged to practice ABSTINENCE CATHOLICS 18-58 are required to FAST Those outside the age limits, as well as pregnant and nursing women, manual laborers, diabetics, and the ill are excused from the requirements of fasting and abstinence, and vegetarians and vegans are excused from abstinence. ALL these are encouraged to take up some other act of penitence or work of piety or charity.
EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS End of Year Tax Statements were emailed to our parishioners with email and mailed to those without email on January 17, 2018 Feb 3 Sat 3:30 pm Guadalupe Film, ST 4:00 pm Confessions 5:00 pm Vigil Mass (Bob Morrison, INT; Rosemary Morrison, INT) 7:00 pm Spanish Mass (Harold Weis, RIP) 8:00 pm Spanish Potluck, PH/K Stations of the Cross, every Thursday during Lent starting February 15 at 5:00 pm, led by our Youth, and every Friday during Lent following the 9am Mass, led by Adults. Lent Soup Supper, every Thursday during Lent starting February 15 at 5:45 pm in the Parish Hall. Please bring your own bowl and spoon. All donations go to Rice Bowl. Feb 4 Sun 8:00 am Mass (Our Parishioners, INT) 9:00 am Pancake Breakfast, PH/K 9:00 am Blood Pressure Readings, CR1 9:30 am Mass (Hector Doctor, RIP; Edmundo Verganio, RIP; Maria Theresa Salak-Borja, RIP) 10:30 am Coffee & Donuts, PH/K Lent Confessions, every Thursday during Lent, 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm, in the Church. Please bring your own sins. Donate your guilt to Jesus Christ. Come early in Lent for the shortest line and wait time. Feb 5 Mon Office Unavailable 4:30 pm Agape, PH/K 5:30 pm Ensemble/Schola, CH Spring Baptisms, April 21 with mandatory classes on Tuesday, March 20 at 6:30 pm and Saturday, March 24 at 10:00 am. Please call 360-675-2303 to register. Feb 6 Tue 7:45 am POETS, CH 4:30 pm Fitness Group, PH/ST 6:00 pm Filipino Choir Rehearsal, CH The Ladies of St Elizabeth Guild would like to extend their deepest gratitude for all who sponsored the 9-day Novena in their homes and who helped with the Santo Nino feast in the parish hall. Maraming Salamat Po! EUCHARIST TO THE HOMEBOUND Do you know someone who is unable to come to Mass and would like to receive Communion whether on a temporary or long-term basis? If so, please call the parish office at 360-675-2303 to arrange a visit. Interested in sharing your faith? Consider being a sponsor for one of our adult candidates being received into the Church. Call Peggy Smith at 360-675-2303 for more information. RCIA is a Journey of Faith for Adults and For Children 7-17 years RCIA is also our program for further adult education in our parish. We invite you to come and take a refresher course or just drop in once in a while. During Lent we will be looking at the Cardinal Virtues of Faith, Hope & Love, the Lord s Prayer and the Creeds. We meet Thursday s at 6:30 pm in Classroom 1/ 2. Please Call 360-675-2303 x 5 to register. Please Pray for Our Family & Friends Bernadine Arbuckle, Lynn Brown, Josephine Chittum, Tomasa Dagdagan, Raymond Ernest, Michael Gerrity, Virginia Gracey, Cassie Head, Esther Hinojosa, Elizabeth McWilliams, Michele Mercer, Bob Morrison, Rosemary Morrison, Morris Nelson, Kathryn Nienhuis, Sharon Osorio, Loretta Railing, Brian Sloan, Don Stubenrauch, Madeline Yakubchak Permission is required from the individual prior to adding their name to the prayer list. To include a loved one s name, please call the Parish Office at 360-675-2303. Feb 7 Wed Feb 8 Thu Feb 9 Fri Feb 10 Sat 4:00 pm RE Elem, ALL 5:30 pm Spl. Sacrament Class, CR 1 6:30 pm Confirmation Class, PO 6:30 pm RE MS/HS, ALL 9:00 am Mass (Madeline Yakubchak, INT) 9:30 am Divine Mercy Chaplet, CH 10:00 am Ladies Prayer Group, CR3/4 10:00 am St Maria Guild, CR 1/2 3:30 pm RCIS-C/SS; PO 4:30 pm Fitness Group, PH 5:00 pm Pastoral Council Mtg., PO 6:30 pm RCIA, CR 1/2 6:30 pm Spanish Choir, CR5 7:30 pm Adoration 8:30 am Confessions 9:00 am Mass (Sonia Ramos, RIP) 9:45 am Adoration 5:30 pm Bunco, K/CR 1&2 6:00 pm Pro-Life Meeting, CR 3 No morning activities Books of 20 Forever Purple Heart postage stamps are available for sale in the Parish Office. Each time you use a stamp, please say a prayer for our military men and women who are in harm s way. Thank you for your Stewardship of Treasure! Weekly Expenses: $12,764 January 28: $7,762 NW Catholic Magazine: $2,393 Please write your envelope # on your check.
Ladies Bunco Night brought to you by the Parish Health Ministry...because laughter is good for your heart! Come and spend time with other women, make friends, have fun, eat, drink, laugh! A chance to share, support and enjoy! Friday February 9 5:30 pm Parish Hall Bring a potluck salad or dessert. We ll have dinner and then play a round or two of Bunco. Don t know the rules? Don t worry. It s silly and fun and easy to learn! Bring a friend! Questions? Please call. R.S.V.P. Nancy at 360-675 675-8711 or nktheune@gmail.com
Lenten Thursday Soup Bowl Nights: Thursday Soup Night during Lent promotes fellowship and charity. Attendees are asked to donate the amount they saved on dinner that night for the Rice Bowl Charities. Soup Night follows the Stations of the Cross in the Parish Hall on February 15, 22 & March 1,8, 15, and 22. HOW TO PARTICIPATE: BRING SOUP ON A THURSDAY IN LENT Sign up now for one of the Thursdays to bring soup in a crockpot to serve at least 8 people. Sign-up sheets in the vestibule... ATTEND SOUP NIGHT Plan to attend soup night. You bring your own bowl and silverware. You donate what you saved in not making dinner that night. Money goes to Rice Bowl collection which gives our parish grants for Agape and Food Pantry programs.
YOUR R EFRIGERATOR D OOR GUIDE TO LENT p l e a s e p o s t i n y o u r h o m e f o r l e n t The Season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, February 14. During the 40 Days of Lent, while individuals in our parish and around the world enter their final preparations for their Baptism at the Easter Vigil on Easter Eve, baptized Christians prepare themselves for their Renewal of Baptismal Promises at the Easter Masses. We prepare for our renewal by making use of the Three Disciplines of Lent: Prayer & Repentance, Fasting from Food and Destructive Actions, and Almsgiving (Works of Charity). This insert describes ways to practice the Three Disciplines of Lent. R e p e n t a n c e : T r y C o n f e s s i o n i n L e n t! ST AUGUSTINE Fridays 8:30 am Thursdays 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm February 15 - March 22 following Youth Stations of the Cross Saturdays 4 pm ST MARY Sundays, 12:15 pm February 19 - March 18 There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future. St Augustine F a s t i n g F r o m F o o d & D e s t r u c t i v e A c t i o n s FASTING & ABSTINENCE Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, are Fast Days. Catholics 18 to 58 years old are bound to the spiritual obligation to fast on these two days. On a Fast Day, one full meal is allowed. Two smaller meals, or snacks, may be taken but are not to equal a full meal. Ash Wednesday, and every Friday of Lent including Good Friday, are Days of Abstinence. Catholics 14 years and older are not to eat meat and poultry on these Days of Abstinence. Vegetarians, Vegans, and others who customarily do not eat meat and poultry, should choose another sacrificial practice on Days of Abstinence. Pregnant and nursing women, and those in ill health, or for other reasons, e.g. diabetes, are not bound by the obligations of abstinence and fasting. They are urged to substitute another form of self-denial suitable to their condition. Christ Died for Our Salvation on Friday For this reason, Friday itself remains a special day of penitential observance throughout the year, not only during Lent. Friday should be to each week what Lent is to the entire year. It would bring great glory to God and good to souls if Fridays found our people doing volunteer work in hospitals, visiting the sick, serving the needs of the aged and the lonely, instructing the young in the Faith, participating as Christians in community affairs, and meeting our obligations to our families, our friends, our neighbors, and our community, including our parishes, with a special zeal born of the desire to add the merit of penance to the other virtues exercised in good works born of living faith. Penance & Abstinence, 1983, US Bishops Feelings of Unworthiness Bitterness Destructive Speech Negativity What To Give Up for Lent? People Pleasing Guilt Ungratefulness Your Comfort Zone Worry Envy Comparison and much more
Rice Bowl: For Lent, For Life The Stations of the Cross are prayed at St Augustine on Thursdays in Lent at 5 pm, and at St Mary on Wednesdays in Lent at 5:30 pm. The Stations at St Augustine are led by the youth of the parish. The Stations at St Mary are led by a variety of parishioners. Stations also are prayed on Fridays in Lent at St Augustine after the 9 am Mass, and at St Mary at 5 pm before the Lenten Fish Bake or Soup Supper. Palm Sunday of the Lord s Passion Saturday, March 24 5 pm St Augustine Sunday, March 25 8 am & 9:30 am St Augustine 11:30 am St Mary special time P r a y e r & A l m s g i v i n g Stations of the Cross The Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl is a Lenten faith-in-action program, that feeds the hungry through prayer, fasting and almsgiving. The Rice Bowl is a great way for individuals and families to come together during Lent. Rice Bowl Lenten Calendars and Bowls are available at church. Visit the Rice Bowl website at crsricbowl.org to find Family Activities, Resources, and Recipes in English and Spanish. Download the free Rice Bowl Mobile App for your phone or tablet. 25% of Rice Bowl donations return to local ministries that include our Works of Mercy (Agape, Food Pantry, Outreach). #4Lent4Life Individuals who participate in the Stations of the Cross, go to Confession, receive Holy Communion, and pray for the intentions of the Pope - all within a few days time - receive a Plenary Indulgence, the complete remission of all time earned in Purgatory, to be applied for themselves or for one who has died. Holy Week & Easter Holy Thursday, March 29 Mass of the Lord s Supper 2 pm St Mary 6 pm St Augustine Good Friday, March 30 2 pm Lord s Passion St Mary 3 pm Stations St Augustine 6 pm Lord s Passion St Aug We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. The Vigil of Easter Saturday, March 31 7:30 pm St Augustine Easter Sunday, April 1 8 am St Augustine 9:30 am St Augustine 11:30 am St Mary special time