July 15, 2018 Saint Patrick Catholic Church Canby, OR 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 WELCOME Please welcome Fr. John Buffington who will be our presider for all the Masses this weekend. Please take a few minutes after the Masses to make Father feel welcome. CONGRATULATIONS We welcome and congratulate Joshua Martin Marguardt, son of Jack Marguardt & Yesenia Zamora and Daniela Ramirez Olvera, daughter of Oswaldo Ramirez & Miriam Olvera who celebrated their baptisms at St. Patrick. PRAYERS FOR OUR PILGRIMS The time is finally here and several of our parishioners along with Fr. Arturo as their spiritual director will leave for Medjugorje. Please keep all our pilgrims in your prayers as they make this very special journey. SO, YOU COULDN T GET TO MEDJUGORJE? You can join Father Arturo as he celebrates Mass in Medjugorje by attending a prayer service here at St. Patrick's! If this intrigues you at 1a.m. Canby time, July 19th, (10a.m. Medjugorje time) Deacon Jerry will hold a prayer service if many are willing to join him. Please contact Deacon Jerry at Gigerjdg@yahoo.com right away if you will be joining him. RSVP TODAY to Gigerjdg@yahoo.com MASSES FOR HOPE VILLAGE OR RACKLEFF PLACE There will be no Masses this month at Hope Village or Rackleff Place. Masses will resume in August. BUY A CHAIR CAMPAIGN We are so very close to meeting our goal. We only need 35 more chairs to finish this campaign. Please consider this opportunity to help St. Patrick facility look so much better and safer. Any donation is gratefully accepted. Please put your check or cash in an envelop on the display table in back of church. Fill in your name and address if you want credit for your donation. Put the envelop in the box by the poster or put in the collection basket. Every little bit helps. Blessings and thank you for your generosity. Discipleship is a word tossed out quite often in Christian circles. The word disciple connotes follower and being a follower is not something that is praised in our modern culture, which puts a premium on leadership, executives, and alpha types. For a Christian there is only one alpha, who is Jesus. No disciple of Jesus ever takes the place of the master. The disciples are always just that, disciples, followers. Even though the disciples will never achieve the rank of master, in the Gospel of Mark today Jesus gives the Twelve authority. He sends them on mission in six groups of two. The very word mission means to be sent. This will be the model for Christian evangelization. They travel light, without bread, bag or money. They rely solely upon the kindness and generosity of those they meet. They are to remain in one house until they leave, not trading up as it were the longer they stayed. Their preaching is basically that of John the Baptist and the early days of Jesus himself, Repent. In their preaching the disciples also exercised their authority over evil, over the demons, over sickness, and over the unclean spirits. The authority that Jesus shared with his disciples for this mission meant that they too, like him, were agents of inclusion. They brought those from the margins into a relationship of wholeness. Like him, their deeds were couples with preaching. The demand was not received well by all, as Jesus instructions for shak[ing] the dust off your feet indicate. Not all disciples were chosen for this mission, but only the Twelve. The mission is to go out preaching and performing works of mercy. This probably doesn't sound much like a parish plans today for the new evangelization. But this is the mission of the Twelve and we might find something worthy of emulation here. Living Liturgy year B
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH ST. PATRICK AND SOCIAL MEDIA St. Patrick is now on Instagram. You can download Instagram in the App Store or on Google Play for your phone or ipad. We will be adding photos and videos of all the parish activity and events. We currently have pictures of confirmation, the widow and widowers dinner, the new entry way of the church and a few pictures of the Father s Day/Fr. Arturo s Anniversary celebration of his Ordination. This is another great way to stay in touch with what is going on in our parish. Stay tuned for more great pictures, video s and messages. Follow us @Stpatcanby. Don t forget we also have a Facebook page or you can also visit us on our webpage at www.stpatrickcanby.com. COMING SOON! FLOCKNOTE! St. Patrick will be using a program called Flocknote starting in August. St Patrick via Flocknote can connect with our parishioners by email or text message important information regarding activities, reminders, emergency situations just to name a few. More information will be coming soon. To sign up today via text, you may text Blessed18 to 84576. In Spanish, text Blessed18 to 2027653441 to join now. Sunday, July 15, 2018 11:00p.m. Choir practice [Spanish] 1:00p.m. Rosary before Spanish Mass 3:00p.m. Spanish Kid s choir practice Monday, July16 2018 2:00p.m. Prayer Shawl Ministry meeting 6:00p.m. Choir practice 7:00p.m. Bible Study 7:00p.m. Charismatic Prayer Group Tuesday, July 17, 2018 7:00p.m. Bible Study [Spanish] 7:00p.m. Liturgy of the Word 7:45p.m. Spanish Bible Study Wednesday, July 18, 2018 8:00a.m. Liturgy of the Word 5:00p.m. Choir practice 6:30p.m. Maintenance committee mtg Thursday, July 19, 2018 8:00a.m. Liturgy of the Word 12:00p.m. Eucharistic Adoration 8:15p.m. Rosary [Spanish] 9:00p.m. Benediction Friday, July 20, 2018 7:00a.m. Marian Prayer Group 8:00a.m. Liturgy of the Word 7:00p.m. Hispanic Prayer Group LIVING THE PASCHAL MYSTERY How important is it for us to have a friend, a life partner, a spouse? A friend can be there to urge us on when the going is tough, to celebrate our victories and accomplishments with us. A friend is someone in whom we can take joy by celebrating their well-being. And when a friend suffers, we too suffer. A friendship is a gift of God. Jesus too recognizes how important it is to have a partner. He sends the Twelve out two-by-two. These disciples are not lone wolves; they are not renegade rangers. They travel with one another for mutual support, which will likely form a bond of friendship if it were not there already. Being called to be in a relationship with Jesus is to be also in a relationship with other disciples. None of us is on this path alone, and thank God for that. The Christian life can never be a Jesus and me relationship. It always, and by necessity, involves other Christians, if not other people altogether. Even the Twelve, chosen by name to be with Jesus in a more intimate relationship with him and one another, are not sole actors. They travel together two-by two. Who are my partners? Who travels with me two-by two? This might be a good day to thank God and thank my partner.
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. PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL NEWS As you can see, many things are happening here at St Patrick Church. Our old and new ministries are hard at work on projects and future plans. The Pastoral Council is consultative or advisory in nature and we are here to fulfill that responsibility. We are here to be informed, learn, share, listen and be prepared. Most of all we are here to witness and pray for our church. MASS INTENTIONS OF THE WEEK Tuesday, July 17 - July 20, 2018 - Liturgy of the Word Saturday, July 21, 2018 5:30p.m. +Joan Riley by Stuart and Karen Hunt Sunday, July 22, 2018 8:30a.m. +Rosemary Assink by Gordan and Kathy Jeskey 11:00a.m. +Felipe Valdivia by Rodriguez family 1:30p.m. +Eufrocina Becerra Magana, +Ruperto Becerra, Librada Magana by Ruth Becerra SPECIAL BULLETIN DEADLINE If you wish to place an article in the bulletin for July 14/15 and July 21/22, please send your item to Nancy Patton at pattbrat@aol.com. The bulletin deadline for Sunday s Bulletin, July 14/15 is Monday, July 9 and for Sunday s Bulletin July 21/22 is Monday, July 16. Nancy will be publishing the bulletin while Debbie is away on Vacation. 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. Thank you! VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Are you tired or have an hour in the morning to help your neighbors in need? Your St. Vincent de Paul Food Bank needs volunteers to pick up donated product at Fred Meyer. The specific need is for Friday mornings 9:00a.m. but we d also like to have back-up drivers. It helps to have an SUV or small truck and IS A GREAT ACTIVITY FOR COUPLES. If you are interested in helping, please call Gretchen McCallum at 503-989-8121. LEAVE A LEGACY Everyone s circumstances change; wealth may increase or decrease, new children may be born while others reach adulthood and you could be widowed or divorced and remarry adding the complications of a second family. It is important to take the time to regularly review your estate plan and make revisions-consider including St. Patrick s youth education programs in your will as one of those revisions.
St. Patrick Religious Education Programs VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL Children, teens and adult volunteers had a fantastic time at Vacation Bible School this past week! There were many fun activities, and kids learned that Jesus will come to their rescue when they are struggling with all of life s difficulties. We would like to thank all families who registered their children for this enriching event. VOLUNTEERS ARE A GIFT If you have not seen our Parish Center, come and take a look to see how it has been transformed into and Island adventure! Many parishioners came to help decorate for VBS and it looks amazing! We would like to thank the following people for their time, talent and hard work: Adriana, Sydney and Titus Baurer, Deacon Jerry and Maureen Giger, Francisco Jimenez, Jack Joyce, Sheila Kessler, Nathaniel Knight, Brian and Sue Masterson, Joe and Sophia Patershall, Verlene Patton, Connie Bilton-Smith, Gina and Alicia Thomas, and Jesse and Patty Villarreal. Again, thank you all very much. VBS could not have taken place without you! WOW! WE HAVE GREAT TEEN VOLUNTEERS! We would like to thank and recognize all the teen volunteers that helped with Vacation Bible School. We received many compliments on our volunteers this year; parents you should be very proud! Thank you and job well done: Sydney Baurer, Titus Baurer, Berenice Cruz, Donají Garcia Cruz, Kody Giger Bland, Sol Gomez, Jose Idesales, Francisco Jimenez, Jack Joyce, Natalie Kern, Nathaniel Knight, Orion Lee, Eric Lopez, Kayla Méndez Cruz, Elvis Mendoza, Luz Ornelas Cruz, Sophia Patershall, Joe Patton, Sarah Patton, Ahna Petersen, JP Phan, Mireya Ramos, Trenton Richie, Diana Rodriguez, Gonzalo Rodriguez, Brooklyn Trapp, Finley Trapp, Gracie Vandeberghe, and Aubri Wohlers. THANK YOU We would like to thank all our parishioners who donated supplies or money toward our VBS program. We appreciate your support! RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REGISTRATION Registration forms for the 2018-2019 religious education programs can be found in the vestibule of the church and the parish office. We invite all children and teens to come and grow in relationship with God, learn more about our faith, and get to know others from our community here at St. Patrick! For further information, please contact the following individuals: Frances Parker at: fparker@canby.com Middle High/HS Program (Wednesday Evening) Heriberto Aguilar at: haguilar@canby.com Hispanic Elementary Program (Thursday Evening) Jody Patershall at: jpatershall@canby.com English Elementary Program (Sunday morning)
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