SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CHURCH 424 Souwe Mill Street - Portland, OR 97201 Parish 503.228.8629 Fax 503.827.7689 Newman Center 503.419.7471 Office Hours 8:30 AM-Noon and 1 PM-4:30 PM Web Site: www.michaelportland.org dal 1894, la parrocchia nazionale italiana di Portland...nel cuore della città. FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT DECEMBER 20, 2009 P A R I S H S T A F F FATHER JAMES MAYO, PASTOR Paor@michaelportland.org GLENN RYMSZA, CAMPUS MINISTER CampusMinier@michaelportland.org ROSEMARY RETTIG, SOCIAL SERVICES SocialServices@michaelportland.org DEACON CHUCK AMSBERRY, PASTORAL ASSOCIATE PaoralAssociate@michaelportland.org MEGHAN JACKSON, MUSIC COORDINATOR MusicCoordinator@michaelportland.org JERRI SCHULTZ, SECRETARY & BOOKKEEPER Secretary@michaelportland.org FATHERS IGNATIUS KISSEL, OSM & FRANCIS NJAU - SUPPLY PRIESTS ROBERT GOWAN, MAINTENANCE PHILIP AUSTIN, FRIDAY MAINTENANCE NORA SCHRECK - PRAYER MINISTRY - 503.841.6257 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 Contact Deacon Chuck if you would like Communion brought to you at home. If you are having surgery or are seriously ill, call e Paor 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 Paor or Deacon for information. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Celebrated as needed. Classes are asked of e Parents & Godparents. Call e Deacon for information.
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20 FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT 8:30 a.m. Sunday Mass 10:00 a.m. Sunday Mass 12:00 p.m. Sunday Newman Mass 1:15 P.M. CHRISTMAS DECORATIN G FOR MONDAY CHURCH & HALL DECEMBER 21 SAINT PETER CANISIUS 11:30 a.m. Confessions and Daily Mass Readings Luke 1:39-45 nd TUESDAY DECEMBER 22 ADVENT DAY 11:30 a.m. Confessions and Daily Mass Readings Luke 1:46-56 MASS INTENTIONS Sunday (8:30) +Zacarius & +Juana Lagasca Sunday (10:00) Pro Populo Sunday (12:00) +Jerome Eluh & Henriette Eluh Monday +Louise LaPointe Tuesday Bonaventure & Bona Oh Family Wednesday +Mariella M. Gamolo Thursday Fr Mayo s Parents Pro Populo Friday Parish Benefactors +Sr M. John Denise +Jack & +Marion Phelan Saturday Stephen SeChan Park Family Call if you d like a Mass celebrated. WEDNESDAY rd DECEMBER 23 SAINT JOHN OF CANTY 11:30 a.m. Confessions and Daily Mass Readings Luke 1:57-66 THURSDAY DECEMBER 24 VIGIL OF THE NATIVITY OF JESUS CHRIST 5:00 P.M. Vigil Mass of e Nativity Matew 1:1-25 10:00 P.M. Solemn Mass of e Nativity FRIDAY Luke 2:1-14 DECEMBER 25 SOLEMNITY OF THE NATIVITY OF JESUS CHRIST 8:30 a.m. Chrimas Mass at Dawn Luke 15:20 10:00 a.m. Chrimas Mass during e Day John 1:15-20 12:00 p.m. Chrimas Mass during e Day Joh n 1:1-18 PARISH OFFICES CLOSED VOTIVE CANDLES +Betty Ann Conrad +Ralph Granato +Mary Pat Marsh +Gwen Mason +Jack Phelan +Leonard Stone +Donal Sullivan +Charles W. Spence +John Roberti +Gilda Roberti +Walter Wilson +Patrick Spence Louis Iorio Moran Family Bonaventure Oh Family Isabella Paik Family Joachim Chung Family Altar Guild Members Living & Deceased +Frank & +Margerite Terraglio Murty Family - Living and Deceased Call Jerri to have a large votive lit for your intentions. SATURDAY 3:30 p.m. Confessions DECEMBER 26 SAINT STEPHEN THE FIRST MARTYR Readings Matew 10:17-22 4:30 p.m. Vigil Mass for Holy Family SUNDAY DECEMBER 27 HOLY FAMILY SUNDAY Readings Sirach 3:2-7, 12-14, Colossians 3:12-21 and Luke 2:41-52
END OF YEAR DONATIONS Before e end of e calendar tax year, we would ask you to consider Saint Michael Parish and/or Sandwich & Food Box Miniry/Social Concerns as possibilities for donations. We are happy to receive funds you would be giving e IRS anyhow. Beginning next November wi e 1 Sunday of Advent, we will have a new translation of e prayers at Mass. Paors are encouraged to help eir flocks become familiar wi and comfortable wi e changes in e English we use. Our USA Bishops website has an article which might be helpful to you. We urge you to visit is site and begin to udy and perhaps memorize e new prayers. The site is: http://www.usccb.org/romanmissal/ FINANCIAL NEWS Weekend of December 12 & 13 Received Budgeted La Sunday* $8,543.91 $6,052.69 La Week $150.40 $178.40 Holy Day $1,000.50 Year-to-date $144,317.95 $149,474.80 SYMPATHY: To Frances Shimel, whose husband DON SHIMEL, was buried la Tuesday. May Frances be consoled and her husband see Chri e Lord face to face. M ay his soul and all e souls of e faiful departed re in peace. SYMPATHY: To e family, friends and associates of MAYBELLE CLARK MACDONALD, 93, who died is pa week. Maybelle s extraordinary generosity to hundreds of ousands of Oregonians, to educational initutions and to our parish will live long in our memory. May God be merciful to her and show her His Son. May she re in peace. Religious Retirement $2,202.62 For e Poor $5,101.00 $787.85 Candles $91.47 $175.96 Flowers $138.32 $70.96 *Incl s $8,241.91 Sunday collection & $302 Parish Operating Budget envs PARISH NEWS 2009 CONTRIBUTION STATEMENTS: As we did la year, we ll send contribution atements via email in January. Of course, if we do not have an email address for you, we ll send by po; & if you prefer to receive your atement in e mail, please let Jerri know ASAP. Thanks!! CHURCH AND HALL DECORATING: We decorate our church THIS SUNDAY after 12:00 Mass, i.e. about 1:15 P.M. Please come and help! We have e Chrimas Creche, garland, ribbons, ornaments, & lights to put up. Thank you. SNOW REMOVAL PLAN: Do you live nearby? Are you able-bodied? In e event of snow, could you help us clear our sidewalks & eps wi e snow shovel and scatter chemicals to melt e ice to make it safe for people to enter our buildings? If so, please call e office. NEW TRANSLATION OF THE MISSAL PRAYERS: COLLEGE STUDENT NEWS NEWMAN CLUB MEETING: We will not meet over Chrimas Break. Our next meeting will be on Friday, January 8 at 6:30pm in e Newman Center. I hope everyone has a Merry Chrimas and Blessed New Year!! CAMPUS MINISTRY: Our Miniry Center is a place to relax, meet oer udents, eat lunch, udy on e 2 nd floor of Parish Offices please ring e doorbell on e Mill Street entrance. Glenn Rymsza s cell is 503.419.7473 & email is CampusMinier@ michaelportland.org. Our Caolic Student Association website is www.csa.pdx.edu.
SOCIAL MINISTRY NEWS SUNDAY FOOD COLLECTION: Donations dropped into e Veibule Food Basket really do make a difference to e shoppers at our Emergency Food Pantry. Because Oregon Food Bank has been experiencing a short supply of basic fooduffs, e following items are very much needed right now: 15oz canned vegetables, fruit, beans, and chili. Paa, boxed macaroni meals, hot chocolate packets and tea bags are also welcome. On e fir Sunday of January, we will be accepting fresh loaves of sandwich bread for e sack lunch program and emergency food boxes. We use about 75 to 80 loaves of sliced bread each week. Look for purple bins to hold e loaves of bread. Faer Ceelli suffered two tragedies: The fir was a fire in 1905 at deroyed St. Michael s rectory and everying in it including his valuable library. He was enveloped in flames, badly burned and spent several mons in e hospital. He never did fully recover and resigned from active parish work to become chaplain at St. Vincent Hospital. A second tragedy took his life. In 1916, he was killed while driving a jitney at was crushed between two reet cars. It was Faer Ceelli who built e present St. Michael Church, and he is said to have done some of e physical labor himself. The parish owes is heroic paor an immense debt of gratitude! He came close to literally giving his life for his flock when e rectory burned and ose burns caused him to have to retired and die not long afterwards. DECEASED PRIESTS MONDAY Fr. Jerome Wespe, OSB 1954 TUESDAY Fr. Alexander Ceelli 1916 WEDNESDAY Fr. James Brady, CSC 2005 THURSDAY Fr. Arur J. Sullivan 1959 SATURDAY Fr. James Hallqui, OFM 1979 SUNDAY Fr. John Ryan, OP 1980 Faer Ceelli, was paor of St. Michael before Faer Balera came. From our centennial book e following is said about him: Faer Ceelli was born in Sanspolcro near Fiesole in Tuscany on September 26, 1840. He was ordained May 30, 1863, and shortly became a professor of moral philosophy at e Greek College at Grottaferrata. In 1883 at e earne solicitation of Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul, Minnesota, he came to e United States and for 12 year was professor at St. Thomas Theological Seminary in St. Paul and for five years held a similar position at e Pontifical College Josephinum of e Propagation of Fai in Columbus, Ohio. Later as a gue of Archbishop Chriie, he visited Portland and resolved to ay here to minier to e Italian people. The Archbishop appointed him paor of St. Michael on May 2, 1901. EDUCATION NEWS THE RCIA (RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS) ON WEDNESDAY EVENINGS: This group includes ose praying, udying and discerning wheer to join e Caolic Church is next Eaer time. We also have ose learning more about our wonderful Caolic fai, and ose adults preparing to receive e Sacrament of Confirmation next May. All are welcome. We meet from 6:30 to 8:45 P.M. in e Newman Center. We will not meet on December 23 and 30, but resume on January 6, 2010, wi e topic of What is a Sacrament? Please contact Glenn Rymsza or Deacon Chuck if you are intereed in joining our community and journey in e Lord. Please do pray wi/for us. WEDNESDAY NIGHT BIBLE STUDY: Some parishioners are continuing eir grow in e Lord by meeting, sharing e Scriptures and life, and praying for God s help, from 7 to 8:30 P.M. on Wednesdays in e Rectory Conference room. All are welcome to be a part of is. Please contact Deacon Chuck for furer information. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FOR 2009-2010: We are nd preparing 2 graders to receive eir 1 Confession and 1 Communion is year. Classes are 11 A.M. until about noon in e rectory conference room. We also have home udy materials for parents & you in oer grades. Please contact Deacon Chuck for more information.
CHILDREN S LITURGY OF THE WORD: Offered during every 10 A.M. Sunday Mass. Ages 4 to 9 welcome. Children leave after e opening prayer, share e Scriptures at eir own level, en return at Offertory time. Please contact Rosemary Rettig, Catechi for is gaering, at e church office. A REMINDER IN TIME OF SWINE FLU At Saint Michael s Church, we will follow e following guidelines and rules. Thank you for considering em! The Precious Blood in e chalice will not be offered at Mass. The Sign of Peace can be offered rough a NONcontact geure such as a bow. We ask you not to shake hands. You are asked, if possible, to receive e Ho into your hand and not your tongue so as to not jeopardize oers heal. Please use prudential judgement about coming to Mass if you are sick. Stay home if sick! Faer Mayo - Paor passing into eternity, on e fea of a man, like him, so very close to e Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Juan Diego, in e middle of e city he loved, whose citizens ill smile at e mention of his name, usually quick to share a ory of an encounter wi him. It is in is sanctuary at, on October 2, 1979, Pope John Paul II embraced him and called him e preacher to e world only nine weeks before his dea, and it is here he was interred on December 13, 1979, in e crypt below e main altar, where he awaits e resurrection of e dead wi two oer servants of God -- Pierre Toussaint and Cardinal Terence Cooke -- in company of previous archbishops and bishops of New York. (Ju so you know, ere is also space for Cardinal Egan and a space-and-ahalf for me ) What a blessing to have wi us today so many of his family, friends, admirers, and ose we may call clients, who look to him ill wi love and gratitude, eager for e wisdom he so effectively imparted, always in e name of Chri Jesus, whom St. Paul reminds us today, is e very wisdom of God. As members of a supernatural family, e Church, we gaer to ank God for him, eager to swap ories about a particular episode, a witty comment, a word of advice, a particular quote, his hypnotic eyes, his sooing yet challenging voice, or an occasion when we were wi him. How good at we would have wi us e Bishop of his beloved home diocese of Peoria, e Mo Reverend Daniel Jenky, CSC,, and his successor as national director of e Society for e Propagation of e Fai, Monsignor Kozar. HOMILY ABOUT BISHOP SHEEN On e Occasion of e 30 Anniversary of Dea of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in Saint Patrick s Caedral in New York, New York on December 9, 2009 by Archbishop Dolan. Eminent Cardinals & broer bishops, broer pries & deacons, consecrated women & men religious, broers &siers all in Chri Jesus: Praised be Jesus Chri for e life, teaching, and example of Fulton John Sheen! Welcome to is caedral so dear to his heart! How appropriate at we would gaer for is greate of all prayers, e Holy Sacrifice of e Mass, e very heart of his life, which he celebrated so faifully every day of his sixty years of priesood, on is irtie anniversary of his Would at we could return to at innocence and simplicity extolled by e Maer in is evening s gospel, as we gratefully recall liening to him on e radio or watching him on TV as children or you, a man who, while indeed clever and wise, ill realized he was at his be when but a child in e arms of his blessed moer, or on his knees for an hour before e Real Presence of e Way, e Tru, and e Life, magnetic eyes closed, and renowned voice reduced to a sigh. It was a damp winter day in 1973 when I was walking rough St. Peter s Square, en a seminarian at e Nor American College, only to see a small but excited crowd near e obelisk. Over I went only to see in e middle of e dozens of excited people himself, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Among e handshakes, flashbulbs, and autographs, someone shouted, What are you doing in Rome, Archbishop Sheen? I ju came from an audience wi Pope Paul VI, he replied. What did e Holy Faer say to you? inquired anoer in e crowd. Archbishop
Sheen blushed a bit and replied, The Holy Faer looked at me, took my hand, and said, Fulton Sheen, you will have a high place in heaven. W hat did you say back? peered anoer. Well responded our man wi at familiar sparkle and grin, I replied, Your Holiness, would you mind making at an infallible atement? Which I propose to you is e key message of Fulton J. Sheen: He wanted to get to heaven; he wanted to bring e world wi him. During is Year for Pries, Pope Benedict XVI has suggeed at we reflect on e life of e patron saint of pries, St. John Vianney, e Curé of Ars. Remember e ory of Faer Vianney s arrival in Ars? He got lo in e hills getting ere, only to come across a little fellow on e pa. Little boy, asked e Curé, do you know how to get to Ars? Sure, e child replied. I live ere. Well, remarked e Curé, I tell you what: You show me how to get to Ars, and I ll show you how to get to heaven. Voilá, Fulton J. Sheen. All of his philosophy and eology, all of his radio and TV, his avalanche of books and articles, his tapes, retreats, and conferences all for one purpose: to help us discover e purpose of life -- eternal union wi God. As he was fond of saying, he d give up all his degrees, his agregé, his honorary doctorates and awards, his Emmy and e high ratings, as long as he could cling to e ird Q & A from e Baltimore Catechism he had learned from Sier Alexene in second grade at St. Mary s grade school in El Paso, Illinois. Why did God make you? God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in is world, and to be happy wi Him forever in e next. As he would have read from St. Auguine in e Divine Office on e very day he died, God has promised humanity divinity, mortals immortality, sinners mercy, e poor glory. There it is, folks: e righteousness, sanctification and redemp-tion spoken of by St. Paul in is evening s Liturgy of e Word. The fir time I was able to go on pilgrimage to e Holy Land, I asked ree renowned scripture scholars at The Caolic University of America to recommend what ey considered to e be book on Jesus. Each one responded immediately, Fulton Sheen s Life of Chri. When asked why his TV show got higher ratings an Milton Berle s, Bishop Sheen answered, Because I have better writers: Matew, Mark, Luke and John. The Life of Chri, e gospels e person and message of Jesus wi his voice Fulton J. Sheen gave us e ory of Jesus, e greate ory ever told, e way e ained glass windows of e medieval caedrals, or e brush rokes of a Raphael, a Fra Angelico, a Giotto once did. teaching, ill healing, ill leading us to heaven, because, you see, e incarnation was ill going on: The Word was ill taking flesh; God was ill becoming man so is Jesus is as alive in His Church, so faifully handing-on His teaching, as He was on e shores of e Sea of Galilee; So is Jesus is as tenderly available now in e arms of His Moer Mary, to whom he had such a deep devotion, as He was in e crib of Belehem; So is Jesus is as present in e Mo Blessed Sacrament, before whom He knelt in prayer for an hour every day of His priely life, as He was at e La Supper; So is Jesus is as discoverable in e faces of e poor, hungry, and suffering of e world as He was so wretched on e cross. So is Jesus is ill inviting, as He does in is evening s gospel, Come to me come to me Come to me for peace, for meaning, for purpose, for salvation. Come wi me forever to heaven! And no one, my broers and siers, more effectively extended at sacred invitation in is land an Fulton J. Sheen. May Jesus Chri be praised! A FAMILY CHRISTMAS EVE Families participating in e 5:00 P.M. Vigil Mass on Chrimas Eve are invited to bring wi em from home eir creche or nativity set figurine of e Baby Jesus. Children and families will bring ese figurines up at e end of Mass for a special blessing. All coming are welcome to participate. MASSES FOR CHRISTMAS Chrimas Eve, December 24 5:00 P.M. Family Mass 10:00 P.M. Midnight Mass Chrimas Day, December 25 8:30 A.M. Chrimas Mass at Dawn 10:00 A.M. Chrimas Mass during e Day 12:00 P.M. Chrimas Mass during e Day New Year s Day, January 1 10:00 A.M. Mass for Mary Moer of God. For him, is Jesus was alive, ill active, ill powerful, ill
A HELPFUL WEBSITE www.newadvent.org is a very helpful website for information on Caolicism, about e Scriptures, church hiory, moral issues, etc. It is kept up to date and can be counted on as an accurate portrayal of e Church s beliefs and practices. PASTORAL COUNCIL MINUTES Members Present: Faer James Mayo, Jay Johnson, Brigid O Callaghan, Deacon Chuck Amsberry, Rosemary Rettig, Ellen Fargas, Glenn Rymsza, Chriine Ro, Dess Sabado, Joe Schreck, Meghan Jackson. Absent: Giselle Rincon, Eddy Tumewu, Cheryl Scarcelli. Minutes of October Meeting approved by members present Election of Paoral Council Secretary Council approved a job-share ructure for e position. Rosemary Rettig to assume role of annotator for January meeting, Brigid O Callaghan assigned for February. Social Services Report Rosemary Rettig Need to be careful wi food diribution. Food bank currently running low on inventory. Currently need more 15 oz. cans of fruit and vegetables for emergency food boxes. Seeking help from e parish for donations for ese items. Music Report Meghan Jackson Musicians have been hired for all Chrimas Masses. 12:00 Mass now has a college udent association (CSA) choir, featuring Glenn as soloi. Response has been positive. Campus Miniry Report Glenn Rymsza Newman club exploring new way to fund-raise. St. Michael logo merchandise (T-shirts, mugs, etc.) was discussed. The upcoming Parish survey could be a way to gauge parishioner intere. e mission and vision of e church. There is a current mission atement, Fr. Mayo will diribute to e council for review and potential changes and modifications will begin in e January meeting. Building Project Update Fr. Mayo Colliers, International, a real eate firm has been hired, wi incentives agreed upon for meeting building project objectives. Paor s Comments Fr. Mayo Discussion on keeping e October Dinner Dance versus some new parish activity. The dance is expensive to put on, and attendance has dropped. St. Joseph s table was very successful and well attended la year and Council will explore new activities. In addition, Faer Mayo mentioned at e Newman Center will be run and operated by e St. John s Society, a religious community of pries from Argentina who also run e Newman Center at OSU in Corvallis, effective July 1, 2010. Unclear at is time what role St. Michael will play wi e Newman center and Campus Miniry. Time, Talent and Treasure Meals As a way of increasing parish participation (currently at 26%) in e annual Time, Talent and Treasure weekend queionnaire, a simple meal will be served in Balera Hall following each mass next year during TTT weekend, where parishioners can fill out e forms while not feeling rushed, as well as having representatives of each miniry on hand to answer any queions. Paoral Council member will speak at services prior to e weekend to promote is upcoming event. Parish Survey Council to explore ways to write an effective survey to obtain parishioner input on Music, Greeting, Appearance, Preaching, Liturgy, hospitality, etc. Next Council Meeting Scheduled for January 16, 2010. Dess Sabado to provide hospitality, Deacon Chuck to provide e Prayer. Submitted by Jay R. Johnson Paoral Council President Paoral Assembly Recap (November 21 & 22) Attended by Deacon Chuck, Joe Schreck and Jay Johnson. Had e opportunity to meet e leaders of e oer parishes in e downtown vicariate, of which St. Michael is a member. Discussion on possible collaborative service projects. Faer Mayo is currently e head chair of e downtown vicariate. An effort will be put for by e St. Michael Paoral Council to connect wi e oer member parishes, since each parish presents unique talents, opportunities and resources. Paoral Council Mission Statement Council to work on crafting a mission atement defining