Palm Sunday - March 25, 2018 St. Francis Catholic Church & School 15651 SW Oregon St, Sherwood, OR 97140 503-625-6185 stfrancissherwood.org Mass Schedule Saturday Vigil 5:30 pm Sunday 8:00 am 10:30 am & 5:00 pm For daily Mass schedule see the Parish Calendar inside the bulletin. Sacrament of Reconciliation Wednesday 5:00-5:45 pm Saturday 4:00-5:00 pm and by appointment Perpetual Adoration 24 hours a day in the Chapel Parish Rosary 4th Thursday 7:00 pm Parish Mission Statement Jesus calls us to conversion and discipleship. Because we believe in Jesus, we the St. Francis Parish Family minister to each other and to the larger community in holiness and justice. Our celebration of the sacraments helps us to be Spirit-filled and challenges us to enable each person, each family and the parish and world communities to promote the kingdom of God every day. Pastoral and School Staff Administrator Fr. James Herrera 503-625-6185 frjamesherrera@gmail.com Pastoral Assistant Deacon Bill Bloudek 503-625-6185 bill@stfrancissherwood.org Parish Secretary Mimi Urmini 503-625-6185 church@stfrancissherwood.org Business Manager Sheila Polowicz 503-625-6185 sheila@stfrancissherwood.org Faith Formation Coordinator Violet Wanner 503-625-6187 violet@stfrancissherwood.org Care Ministry Coordinator Jennifer Mirek 503-625-6185 jennifer@stfrancissherwood.org Social Action/Youth Ministry Anna Wilson 503-625-7067 anna@stfrancissherwood.org Music Coordinator Jeananne Bloudek 503-625-6185 jeananne@stfrancissherwood.org Adult Faith Formation & RCIA Linda Blackwood 503-625-6185 linda@stfrancissherwood.org Wedding & Rental Coordinator Susan Ludwig 503-998-7085 touch.of.love@comcast.net Maintenance Dave Cookson 503-625-6185 church@stfrancissherwood.org School Principal Will Summer 503-625-0497 wsummer@stfrancissherwoodschool.org School Administrative Assistant Gretchen Brown 503-625-0497 gretchen.brown@stfrancissherwoodschool.org 1
Parish Calendar Monday, March 26 8:30 am Mass (Kati Allard+) Chapel 10:00 am Strong for Life 2.0 P.C. 1:30 pm Senior Study Group P.C. Tuesday, March 27 12:05 pm Mass (Scott Evans+) Chapel 7:00 pm RCIA P.C. Wednesday, March 28 9:00 am Food Pantry/Clothes Closet Old Hall 9:00 am Quilting Old Hall 10:00 am Strong for Life 2.0 P.C. 5:00 pm Food Pantry/Clothes Closet Old Hall 5:00 pm Reconciliation Chapel 6:00 pm Mass (Willimay Morrissey Seibold) Chapel 7:00 pm Choir Practice Church 7:00 pm Insights P.C. Thursday, March 29 9:00 am Food Pantry/Clothes Closet Old Hall 7:00 pm Holy Thursday Mass (Daniel Bustle) Church Friday, March 30 12:00 pm Stations of the Cross Church 7:00 pm Veneration of the Cross Church Saturday, March 31 8:30 pm Easter Vigil Mass (Pierre Cortat+) Church Sunday, April 1 Easter 8:00 am Mass (Emery & Antoinette Carter+) Church 10:30 am Mass (Richard & Juanita Dicker+) Church 5:00 pm Hope Diner St Paul Lutheran Team Old Hall Fasting and Abstinence Guidelines All Catholics 14 years and older must abstain from meat on the Fridays of Lent, Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. All Catholics between ages 18 and 59 are to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. To fast means to eat one full meal. Two smaller meals may also be taken for good health but together they should not equal a full meal. Eating between meals is not permitted; however, liquids including coffee, milk and fruit juices are allowed. Financial News Received Giving Target 3/17 & 3/18 $8,959.35 $12,814.25 Year to date $432,662.92 $486,941.50 Archdiocesan Loan Balance $81,990.93 Next Sunday's Readings Acts of the Apostles 10:34a, 37-43 Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8 John 20:1-9 Lent and Easter Triduum Schedule: Local Reconciliation Services Our Lady of the Lake Tuesday, March 27 at 7:00 pm Holy Thursday Mass: March 29 at 7:00 pm Good Friday: March 30, Stations of the Cross at noon Good Friday: March 30, Veneration of the Cross at 7:00 pm Easter Vigil Mass: Saturday, March 31 at 8:30 pm Easter Sunday Masses: April 1 at 8:00 am & 10:30 am (there is NO 5:00 pm Mass) Liturgical Ministers - March 29 - April 1 Readers Ushers Servers Thursday 7:00 pm Holy Thursday Mass Maurissa Fisher Keith Blau Noah LaFave Jill LaFave Kevin Moore Oliver Fisher Jeff Dennison Kay Beemer Thomas Bui Friday 7:00 pm Good Friday of the Lord s Passion Barbara Davis Giovi Paras Austin Grosso Dennis Freiburg JohnPaul Grosso Saturday 8:30 pm Mass Danielle Coughran Ed Contreras Jeffrey Manning Tricia Killinger Marilyn Sykes Nolan Manning Pat Allen Andrew Manning Steve Holthouse Megan Allen Adolf Eppich Julie Hefner Thomas Hefner Gordon Stewart Sunday 8:00 am Mass Jeananne Bloudek Collin Borla Drew Knickerbocker Geoff Horning Sal Fuoti Caitlyn Kreuzer Linda Shannon Emily Pitt Sunday 10:30 am Mass Chris Corrado Keith Blau Kathleen Mehta LeRoy Nollette KC Wilson Kenneth Conrow Ted Trecker Dylan Conrow Coffee Social Hosts - April 1 No Coffee Social Happy Easter! If you are unavailable for your scheduled time, please find a replacement Minister. 2
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ From the desk of Father James today we enter into the most holiest of weeks in the year. We often might say the holiest of weeks in the Church year, but whether we look at this day from the Church s liturgical perspective (Advent (December) to Christ the King (November), the Civil perspective of January to January or we look at our fiscal year which runs from July to July, this upcoming week IS THE HOLIEST WEEK OF THE EN- TIRE YEAR. Let us pray that our days during the season of Lent have put our souls into the proper disposition to fully embrace the blessings and graces that flow into our hearts and lives... Palm Sunday of the Lord s Passion this Sunday we begin our celebration hearing proclaimed the story about Jesus entering the temple, how all the people cry out, Hosanna in the Highest! Hosanna to the Son of David! Yet, this joy is soon turned into great sadness as the soldiers come while Jesus is in the garden praying to arrest him. This incident triggers a series of events to take place that ultimately leads us to witness Jesus last earthly breath Holy Thursday this Thursday at 7:00 pm, March 29 we gather here in the church to celebrate the Mass of the Lord s Supper. The institution of the Eucharist, where Jesus gives us His sacred Body and Blood, so that we can be brought more deeply into the Mystical Body of Christ. We also see in the action of the priest Washing the Feet of our brothers and sisters from our community, the example of how each and every one of us is called to serve our brothers and sisters with humility and love. Concluding this first part of the Sacred Triduum, the Blessed Sacrament, that has been reserved for distribution to the dying and for communion during the Good Friday Liturgy, will be transferred from the Church to an altar of repose that we have located in the Parish Center. Please plan to spend a bit of time in prayer with Jesus before departing for the evening Good Friday on Friday, March 30 at noon, we with gather for the traditional Lenten devotion of the Station of the Cross, I will lead a group in the church and Deacon Bill will lead a group outside. We will gather as a community for the Good Friday Liturgy at 7:00 pm in the Church, where we will again hear the reading of the Passion of Jesus, this time from John s perspective. We will take time to venerate the cross, the cross which lifted high the Savior of the world, the Savior which died, so that we might have eternal life. We will also have the opportunity to receive Holy Communion. This is the only day in the year in which there are no Masses celebrated in the Church Holy Saturday is an extremely quiet day in our Church. Our Lord has been laid in the tomb. I am always amazed at how still the world seems to be this day. Maybe not at a cursory glance, but we have to listen and look more closely. Everything is still as we wait for the Lord to rise from the dead. We gather Saturday evening at 8:30 pm and begin this great vigil with the Liturgy of Light, where we light the Easter Candle and begin our great vigil into the night, anticipating His resurrection. We hear the ancient story of our salvation history and we culminate this night by welcoming two men that have been preparing for this day for a very long time into full communion in the Catholic Church EASTER He is Risen! Alleluia! He is Risen indeed! Alleluia! Alleluia!... **A reminder that on Easter Sunday, we will only have Mass at 8:00 am and 10:30 am. There is NO 5:00 pm Mass on Easter Sunday** I would invite and encourage all of you to join us on this amazing journey through these liturgies that make up the Triduum, the three most important days in our Church year!! Blessings to you and your family as we enter into Holy Week 2018! 3
BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH Soon we will celebrate the great feast of Pentecost celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit and marking the birthday of the Church. The first in our Book-of-the-Month series is The Holy Spirit, Fire of Divine Love Fr. Wilfrid Stinessen Ignatius Press ISBN# 9781621641117 Acclaimed spiritual writer Fr. Wilfrid Stinessen presents insightful reflections on the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, emphasizing the importance of the Spirit in the life of a Christian. He illustrates that the Holy Spirit desires to live in us so that we can love God and others with God s own love. As the Holy Spirit descended upon the early Church at Pentecost to set the world ablaze with the fire of divine love, so He wants to do with us. Available through CatholicCompany.com Questions? Call Linda at 503.625.6185 Save the Date: IT S FINALLY HERE! ADULT faith formation SPRING SERIES UNTOLD BLESSINGS THREE PATHS TO HOLINESS Presented by Bishop Robert Barron of Word on Fire Media Sherwood Peace Village Day Camp Date: July 9 13th Ages: Ages 1st - 8th grade (Fall 2018) Location: St. Francis Church St. Francis Catholic Church is partnering with Sherwood Rotary and other community organizations and businesses to host a Sherwood Peace Village Day Camp. The video series begins on Wednesday, April 4, 7:00-8:30 in the south classrooms and continues on subsequent Wednesdays until May 23. QUESTIONS? CALL LINDA IN THE PARISH OFFICE 503.625.6185 4
Care Ministry Grief Share Grief Share is a 13 week grief support group that is facilitated by lay ministers. We are starting a group at St. Francis that will be led by Jennifer Mirek and Stephen Ministers. Grief Share is a Christian based program used by churches all over the country. Each week, we will view a video clip about a topic essential to recovering from the hurt of grief and loss. A group discussion about the video, as well as a general support time, follows. Each participant also receives a workbook with a daily Bible study, grief processing tips, exercises, helpful articles and resources. Please feel free to join us if you have experienced a loss of a family member or friend through death, no matter when the loss occurred. We will meet on Mondays (April 2-June 25): 6:30-8:30 pm in the south classroom of the parish center. The cost is $15 for the workbook. Please call Jennifer Mirek in the parish office with any questions or to register. Weekly topics: Is This Normal? Challenges of Grief The Journey of Grief (Part 1 and 2) Grief and Your Relationships Why? Guilt and Anger Complicating Factors Stuck Lessons of Grief (Part 1 and 2) Heaven What Do I Live for Now? The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully Discussion Group Donna Vande Kieft is a Board Certified Hospice Chaplain who lives in Sherwood. She is a volunteer coach for Strong for Life at St. Francis and also volunteers at the Sherwood Senior Center. She loves working with seniors and is interested in aging gracefully herself and welcomes others to join the conversation on the Aging Journey. She is facilitating a discussion group around Sister Joan Chittister's book, The Gift of Years. The group will meet from 11:00-noon on Fridays, April 6-May 25 in the parish center south classroom. Please RSVP to Jennifer Mirek in the parish office if you are interested in joining the group. Please purchase the book prior to the first group meeting, if possible. Amazon has new and used copies. Anna Wilson Social Action Coordinator anna@stfrancissherwood.org 503-625-7067 Food Pantry Hours: Wednesday 9-11am & 5-7pm Thursday 9-11am Pantry needs: peanut butter, canned fruit, canned veggies, canned soup, toilet paper, flour, sugar, and evaporated milk Hope Shelter guest count of March 18: 30 Hope Diner host: Respect Life Team 5
Respect Life Since the Lord wanted to undergo death in full knowledge, the Christian desires to imitate Him in that. The Church asks that the dying should not be deprived of consciousness if possible, so that they can make peace with God, say a last prayer and last words to loved ones, etc. To frustrate them is an act repugnant to Christian sentiments. It is even simply inhumane." ~Pope Pius XII, 1957 Catholic Corner Does the seal of confession oblige anyone other than the priest? The seal of confession strictly obliges anyone who may accidentally overhear or come to know matters dealt with in the confession of another person. St. Paul Family Catechism. Next Week: Is it ever permitted to read the letters or private writings of others? Logo Committee Logos have long been a key element of marketing for schools, and are becoming more essential for churches as well. Recognizing our need to update the current school logo, Fr. James has commissioned a committee that will provide direction for a new logo, one which unifies both the school and parish, and that will help us move forward together into this next century, and beyond. This will be a unique logo that represents both the church and school. As such, the committee is composed of members of both the school and church: Fr. James Hererra, Parish Administrator Mr. K.C. Wilson, BS degree and 30+ years experience in graphic design; parishioner for 25 years; usher, Knights of Columbus, Hope Shelter, et al. Mr. Keith Blau, retired music teacher; parishioner for 49 years; Parish Pastoral Council, et al. Mr. Will Summer, School Principal Mrs. Leanne Contreras, BS degree in marketing & organizational management; parishioner for 4 years; Parent Service Organization President; School Advisory Council; SAC Marketing Committee; Auction Committee, et al. Mrs. Sally Green, BA degree in art; teaching certifications in art and P.E. teacher; 13 years at St. Francis School We have begun working with the Archdiocese's Office of Communications and their Creative Director (and graphic designer), and are on track to complete our goal to present a new logo to the parish in May. 6
Happening this Week: Parish Announcements: Announcements Daily Mass this Monday, March 26 will be at 8:30 am rather than the regular time. Holy Thursday Mass is this Thursday, March 29 at 7:00 pm Good Friday, March 30, Stations of the Cross will be at noon. Father James will lead the stations in the church and Deacon Bill will lead them at the outside stations. The Good Friday Veneration of the Cross will be at 7:00 pm in the church. Easter weekend Mass times are as follows: Easter Vigil Mass on Saturday, March 31 is at 8:30 pm. Easter Sunday, April 1 Mass times are 8:00 am and 10:30 am; there will be NO 5:00 pm Mass. Spring Adult Faith Formation begins Wednesday, April 3 at 7:00 pm in the south classrooms. Bishop Robert Barron presents the video series Untold Blessings, Three Paths to Holiness. All adults are welcome. See the Faith Formation section of the bulletin for details. St. Francis is starting a grief support group on Monday evenings after Easter. Anyone who has experienced a loss through death is welcome, no matter when that loss occurred. Please see the bulletin for more information. Please join us for a book discussion group on the joys and challenges that accompany aging. The group is facilitated by Donna Vande Kieft, a Board Certified Hospice Chaplain. The book she is discussing is The Gift of the Years. More information can be found in the Care Ministry section of the bulletin. The Youth Group is hosting their annual Spaghetti Dinner on Saturday, April 14 at 6:30 pm. Please join us for a fun evening of dinner and dancing. Tickets will be sold after Mass this weekend. All proceeds will go to help pay for the youth attending the Steubenville Youth Conference in July. The Care Ministry needs your help bringing Christ and community to our parishioners who can no longer attend Mass. If you are interested and would like more information, please contact Jennifer in the parish office. The tile wall will be repaired this spring once we have some warmer weather. Many tiles will need to be reset and a few more tiles that have been ordered and paid for will be placed. We are currently in the bidding process for a new tile contractor. Please contact the parish office if you have questions. Out of Parish: The St. Paul Knights of Columbus welcome you to their 58th Annual Chicken BBQ Dinner at the Community Hall, 20239 Main ST, St. Paul, OR on Palm Sunday, March 25 from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, or while chicken lasts. Full dinner with dessert $11, children $7. Dinners or chicken to go available. Walk of the Cross for Peace and Justice on Good Friday, March 30, 10:00 am to noon. Christians from every denomination are invited to join together for a short pilgrimage through downtown Beaverton, beginning at Bethel Congregational UCC (5150 SW Watson Avenue) and ending at St. Cecilia Catholic Church (5th and Franklin Ave). Carrying a large cross to remind us of the cross Christ carried 2000 years ago, participants stop at several stations. At each station we reflect, pray and share stories of injustice in our world and witness to Christ s power for transformation and resurrection. Together we can better understand our role in carrying out Christ s mission of Peace and Justice in our day. All are welcome! Oregon Right to Life Conference: Together We Advocate is on Saturday, April 7 from 8:45 am to 5:30 pm at the Portland Airport Holiday Inn. One of the featured speakers is former Associate Director of the Secretariat of Pro- Life Activities for the USCCB, Richard Doerflinger, a leading expert on end-of-life and bioethics topics. Early Registration before April 1 is $40 for adults and $30 for seniors/students. Call 503-463-8563 or go to www.ortl.org for more details and to register. The 83rd Annual Archbishop's Seminary Tea is Wednesday, April 25 from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm at the Portland Golf Club. The Mission is to provide spiritual and financial support through educational opportunities to seminarians who will serve in the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon. Admission is $38. All are welcome! 7
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