June 3, 2018 Saint Patrick Catholic Church Canby, OR The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Sacraments: Adult Baptism Adults seeking baptism are expected to participate in the RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults). RCIA begins in the fall with the reception of the Sacraments of Initiation in the Spring (Easter). For information call the Office 503-266-9411 Infant Baptisms: Registered parishioners are expected to complete a Baptismal Preparation program prior to scheduling a baptism. Baptismal preparation programs are offered 3 times a year. Next class: Sacramental Prep Policy: In compliance with Archdiocesan policy and recommendations for the preparation and reception of the Sacraments, St. Patrick requires that any candidate receiving the Sacraments of Confirmation, First Reconciliation and First Eucharist must be actively involved in age appropriate Religious Education for a minimum of 1 year prior to beginning preparation for the Sacraments. The candidates must have regular attendance in our programs. Additionally, it will be expected that each candidate will continue to be involved in age appropriate classes and regularly attend weekend Mass during the period of Preparation for the Sacrament. Marriage Policy Please contact the Pastor at least six months prior to the wedding to ensure adequate time for these preparations. St. Patrick Catholic Church Mission Statement: As a Catholic faith community united in Christ s Gospel and Sacraments, we strive to bring all people to know, love and serve God and one another. Are You New to St. Patrick? We welcome you to St. Patrick Catholic Church. At St. Patrick we know that we are all individual parts of the mystical Body of Christ. Working together, we find great joy in doing God s work here on earth. We invite and encourage you to stop by the parish office Monday through Thursday and our Administrative Assistant, Debbie Newbury looks forward to meeting you and would be happy to assist you in registering with the Parish. HEARTBEATS OPTION LINES Answers the calls of women facing an unexpected pregnancy, providing help and support, and connecting them to their local pregnancy help organization. 24-hour Emergency Helpline 800-712- HELP (4357) - https://optionline.org. Parish Office Information Parish Office: 503-266-9411 Fax: 503-263-2293 498 NW 9th-PO Box 730, Canby, OR 97013 Parish Office Hours: Monday-Wednesday-Thursday 9am-5pm; Tuesday: 9am-6pm Closed for lunch 12-1:00pm. Closed on Fridays. Website: www.stpatcanby.org Email: stpatricks@canby.com. Please like us on facebook. Mass Schedule Daily Mass: Tuesday Evenings 7:00pm Wednesday~Friday 8:00am Confession Schedule Saturdays 4:00-5:00pm Sunday Liturgy Saturday Vigil: 5:30pm Sunday: 8:30am & 11:00am & 1:30pm Mass in Spanish St. Vincent DePaul Food Bank Gretchen McCallum: 503-701-9135 PO Box 754, Canby, OR 97013 Prayer Needs: If you have a prayer need, please contact Kathy Usher, 503-266-2485 after 9:00am Sunday Bulletin Bulletin deadline: Monday morning of each week. Please email your article to: dnewbury@canby.com. Heartbeat s OptionLine.org & 24 Hour emergency helpline: 800-712-4357
REFLECTING ON THE GOSPEL PRAYERS AND BLESSINGS We ask for your almighty hand to be upon all those who graduate this Friday, June 8th. Bless their lives from this day on with goodness and love. Help them to stay true to their dreams, to use their gifts wisely, and to walk into the future with faith, hope, and great love. Amen. Please keep all of our St. Patrick High School graduates in your prayers this week. BUY A CHAIR CAMPAIGN St Patrick's Women's Group has started "Buy a Chair" campaign. With the arrival of 20 new tables for the auditorium, there is a need to replace the very old chairs with stronger more stable white ones. We need 224 chairs. You have the opportunity to make this happen. Each chair costs $35. The total cost was averaged which includes carts to stack chairs. Someone will be available after each mass to take your check or cash and you can put your name on a square, representing a chair, which will be glued on the poster chart. Make the check payable to St Patrick Church and put "chair" on description line. If you provide cash, please put your name and address on an envelop available so you receive credit for your donation. If you have questions, you may contact: Karen Hunt, 503-702-3732, Verlene Patton, 503-481- 3619 or Ellen Hannan, 503-819-8331. Thank you for helping update our facility. WIDOW AND WIDOWERS DINNER SCHEDULED Save the date: June 10th beginning at 4:00p.m. for the Widow and Widowers dinner put on by the Knights of Columbus. You can call Paul Crawford for more information at 503-680-8924 or by email: paul57@canby.com. ST. PATRICK S FAMILY CAMPOUT JULY 12-15 There will be a meeting of all those attending the family campout following the 8:30am mass in the Parish Center on Sunday, June 3rd. This is an important meeting regarding meal planning and final instructions for the campout. We will also be deciding what to do for the 2019 campout. If you have any questions, please contact Bob and Dawna Hitch at 503-551-3083. A middle schooler looked over the menu of the fine restaurant. The waiter had given her a cloth napkin. That s how she knew it was a fine restaurant. As she read the headings of the menu there were some strange-sounding titles: antipasti, vegetali, pesci, carni. But under the carni heading there were some familiar dishes. But to be sure, she finally asked her mother, what s carni? It s plural for meats, but literally, carne means flesh, was the reply. That would do. She loved meat, even though she didn t like to think of it as flesh. The graphic image of body and blood comes from the ancient world where the body is flesh and blood is life. The bread and wine of the eucharistic banquet become the Body and Blood of Christ, in a transubstantive way. The gospel reading for today is Mark s version of the Last supper, which for him was in the context of the Passover meal. Even the singing of the hymn, which Mark is certain to include, is an integral part of the Passover to this very day. But according to the Synoptic Gospels Jesus gave new meaning to the Passover meal. The bread that he takes, blesses, breaks, and shares is his Body. The cup of thanksgiving that is shared is his covenantal Blood. Anyone who has been to a Jewish Seder meal likely has a profound appreciation for these symbols of bread and wine, and how they were appropriated in the Christian tradition. The Passover meal, which commemorated the people s delivery from Egypt, would now commemorate Jesus death and ultimate delivery from death to resurrection. Our participation in consuming the bread and wine is a participation in the life, death, and subsequent resurrection to Jesus. We who gather around the table of the Eucharist are fed by Christ and become one in him. The eucharistic feast actually causes the unity, which is why it is scandalous to have disunity at such a meal, as Paul reminded the Corinthians. The celebration of the Body and Blood of Christ is much more than the celebration of something to be revered. By necessity, the solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ causes the unity shared by Christians by their participation in the eucharistic feast. That unity was Jesus own desire expressed by his prayer to the Father. May we be instruments of that unity by our own share in that same Eucharist. Living Liturgy year B
FUNDRAISING THANK YOU Thanks to the many donations made by parishioners, St. Patrick's relay team was able to turn in over 2000lbs. of items to the ARC. This will be over $400 that we will receive to be used to help with cancer research and support programs. If you have not had a chance to make a donation, there is still time. We will continue collecting through mid-august. Just leave items in the barrel in the vestibule or call Rose for pick-up or questions. 503-266-4482. Many, many thanks! ST. PATRICK IS NOW ON INSTAGRAM St. Patrick is now on Instagram. You can download Instagram in the App Store or on Google Play for your phone or ipad. We are in the beginning stages and will be adding photos and videos of all the parish activity and events. This is another great way to stay in touch with what is going on in our parish. Currently we have some pictures of the Confirmation ceremony on May 6, 2018 along with a couple of pictures. Stay tuned for more great pictures, video s and messages. Follow us @Stpatcanby. CONGRATULATIONS We welcome and congratulate Illiana Luciana Garcia Torress, daughter of Gustavo Garcia & Yahaira Torress on her baptism, Saturday, June 2, 2018 and Greyson H.C. Jackson, son of Brandon & Jessica Jackson on Sunday, June 3, 2018. MEDJUGORJE PRAYER REQUEST If you would like to submit a prayer request to The Blessed Virgin, Mike Zagyva is the point of contact. You can send him your prayer requests at m.zagyva@canby.com or you can drop them off at the Parish Office in a sealed envelope. During the last pilgrimage to Medjugorje a number of the rosaries when blessed by Our Lady turned gold. Mike Zagyva would be more than happy to carry your rosary. LIVING THE PASCHAL MYSTERY Catholicism is a sacramental faith. We are an earthy people, needing to touch, taste, see, smell, and feel. Is it any wonder that the way we connect with the incarnation of God is to consume the Body and Blood of that incarnation? Rather than merely listen to the word of God, we consume that Word of God made flesh. The sacramental reality reaches something deep within. Our faith is not simply a head trip, or the summary of what can be learned in books. Our faith is something we experience with our senses. We taste bread; we drink wine. By consuming this sacramental meal we participate in the life of Christ and his paschal mystery. The very word incarnation has carne (flesh) in its root. We can say that the incarnation of the word of God is the enfleshment of the Word of God. The graphic nature of the image might repulse us. But we are not disembodied spirits upon this earth. We are earthy, organic omnivores. Our sustenance comes from consumption, and our spiritual sustenance comes from consumption as well. The bread and wine, our sacramental meal, is our living the paschal mystery. THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH Sunday, June 3, 2018 9:00a.m. Hispanic Prayer Gr. Retreat 10:00a.m. Baptism: Greyson Jackson 11:00a.m. Baccalaureate Mass followed by Reception 11:00p.m. Choir practice [Spanish] 1:00p.m. Rosary before Spanish Mass 3:00p.m. Spanish Kid s choir practice 3:00p.m. Spanish Marriage Encounter Monday, June 4 2018 6:00p.m. Choir practice 6:30p.m. Eucharistic Minister Training [Spanish] 7:00p.m. Bible Study 7:00p.m. Catholic Charismatic Pr. Gr. Tuesday, June 5, 2018 7:00p.m. Tuesday evening Mass 7:00p.m. Bible Study [Spanish] 7:00p.m. Knights of Columbus 7:45p.m. Spanish Bible Study Wednesday, June 6 2018 8:00a.m. Daily Mass 1:30p.m. Food Bank meeting 5:00p.m Choir practice [Spanish] 7:00p.m. Medjugorje meeting 7:00p.m. KC Hispanic member mtg Thursday, June 7, 2018 8:00a.m. Daily Mass 12:00p.m. Eucharistic Adoration 8:15p.m. Rosary [Spanish] 9:00p.m. Benediction Friday, June 8, 2018 7:00a.m. Marian Prayer Group 8:00a.m. Daily Mass 7:00p.m. Hispanic Prayer Group Saturday, June 9, 2018 11:30a.m. Baptism Jasmine Barajas Ramirez 1:30p.m. Baptism Alexa N. Amerzcua Frias & Jacob Amerzcua 6:30p.m. Baptismal Prep in Spanish
PASTORAL STAFF Pastor Fr. Arturo Romero Email: aromero@archdpdx.org 503-263-1285 Deacon Rev. Mr. Jerry Giger Email: Gigerjdg@yahoo.com Pastoral Associate Sara Creel stpatrickpa@gmail.com 503-263-1290 Hispanic Ministry Heriberto Aguilar Email: haguilar@canby.com 503-263-1292 Religious Education Jody Patershall Email: jpatershall@canby.com 503-263-1287 Junior High/Senior High Coordinator Frances Parker Email: fparker@canby.com 503-263-1288 Bookkeeper Sherry Heidt Gamble sheidtgamble@gmail.com 503-263-1289 Administrative Assistant Debbie Newbury dnewbury@canby.com 503-263-1286 ST. PATRICK KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Council 3484 Monthly meetings held first & third Tuesdays of the month in the Multipurpose Room of the Parish Center at 7:00pm. LEAVE A LEGACY Would you like to make a significant gift to the parish. Estate is simply a word describing any money or belongings you have at the time of your death. Most people have an estate, even if they have a modest income. Through your will, you can continue to give back to your parish community beyond your lifetime. For more information on estate planning, contact your attorney, financial planner, accountant, or insurance agent. PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL NEWS Your Parish Pastoral Council officially started back in January 2016. For the past two years, Jesse Villarreal has actively led the council as chairperson. Sincere thanks to Jesse. Now, per our by-laws, we have selected a new chairperson. Navi Valadez has been a member of the parish for 17 years and filled a vacancy on the council last September. She comes with sincere determination to help the council fulfill our mission statement and goals for the parish. YOUR SUNDAY CONTRIBUTIONS Needed for Weekly Budget Goal $ 8,719.81 Offertory-May 26/27, 2018 $ 7,367.80 Over/(Under) $ [1352.01] Building Fund Collection $30.00 Unemployment $ Cemetery $16.67 WE SHARE Verify your existing account If you gave online thru ParishPay, the work of transferring your account to WeShar is done. Visit the ParishPay link on our church website to securely verify your account. You ll need some information on hand: 1) Your ParishPay Username, 2) last 4 digits of the bank account or credit card used for ParishPay. You will also need one of the following two options: 1) Your email registered with ParishPay OR 2) a collection name and the specific amount you donated in the last 6 months. SIGN UP TO GIVE ONLINE If you ve never donated online before, signing up is easy! 1) Visit the church website and click Give Online. 2) Click on the collection you wish to donate to 3) Click Recurring Donation, then enter your donation amount and frequency. Once you ve added your account information, donations will automatically deduct from your account. Its that easy! MASS INTENTIONS OF THE WEEK Tuesday, June 5, 2018 +Charlie Wilson by Kriegshauser family Wednesday, June 6, 2018 Intention for the Parishioners Thursday, June 7, 2018 +Tillie Herbst by Rombough family Friday, June 8, 2018 Intention for the Parishioners Saturday, June 9, 2018 5:30p.m. +Elsie Daniel by Stuart & Karen Hunt Sunday, June 10, 2018 8:30a.m. +Tillie Herbst by Jim & Kathy Currie 11:00a.m. Intention for the Parishioners 1:30p.m. Armando, Manuel, & David Lopez by Lopez family