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Pray for peace in Ukraine and for all those who suffer worldwide from this war.

May 29, 2022   Ascension Sunday
No Coffee & Donuts today after Mass today.


Good morning! Our live stream links will be active at about 9:20 AM.
Click 
HERE to watch Mass Online. Or search StAndrewPDX on Facebook or YouTube.
Click 
HERE for the daily readings.


Music

  • Gathering Song: All The Ends of the Earth (Dufford) BB #555
  • Gloria: Glory To God – Mass of St. Mary Magdalene (Hart) BB #935
  • Responsorial Psalm: God Mounts His Throne (Alstott) R&A
  • Gospel Acclamation: Easter Alleluia (Haugen) Verse 3
  • Intercessions: Lead Us To Act Justly (Prendergast)
  • Presentation of the Gifts: We Remember (Haugen) BB #503
  • Eucharistic Acclamations: Misa de las Americas (Hurd/Bridge)
  • Communion: Be Not Afraid (Dufford) BB #435
  • Mediation: Why Stand Staring (Huijbers)
Why stand staring at what has gone before?
Don’t get lost in things of the past.
I, says he, will begin something new;
It’s beginning already, haven’t you heard?
  • Closing Song: I Am the Bread of Life (Toolan) BB #326


Prayers
For peace throughout the world, for an end to the war in Ukraine, for an end to the hostilities in Palestine and in Africa; we pray.

For peace in our streets, for an end to racism and gun violence; for those who were injured and killed recently in mass shootings in Texas, New York, and California; we pray:

For the sick and suffering, and for all who have requested our prayers, especially, Marie Ades, Jim Anderson, Barbara Baker, Florence Balog, Annette “Memere” Boucher, Kelli Calderwood, Dorothy Caruso, Mike Caruso, Judy Casey, Daniel CHOL, Jerry Deas, Gordon Dickey, Nancy Grotton, Edna Hicks, Bob Hughley, Gary Kasper, Carol Kelley, Mary Jo Lackoff, Rosemary Lyons, Chuck Maggio, Roger McLain, Jim Natseos, Linda Neace, Brian O’Neill, Marie Podlas, Leslie Prasch, Gabriel Royer, Chris Ryan, and Ruth Talbot; for those suffering from COVID, and for all the sick; we pray.

For all the dead, who seek to dwell in the house of the Lord: especially Jerry Bitz, Jack Stretch, Marie Therese, Gass, Jean Russmore, and Betty Wood; for those who have died due to COVID; for those who have died due to gun violence, may their names never be forgotten; we pray.

For the prayers we hold in the silence of our hearts. May they be lifted up with those of our patron, Andrew, and all the saints in the heavenly glory; we pray.


Funeral Mass
Jerry Bitz' funeral Mass will be June 4th at 11 AM at St Andrew Catholic Church with a luncheon following in the Community Center.
We will host a market of Ukrainian baked goods and crafts after Pentecost Mass on June 5th in the Community Center.
The proceeds support the Ukrainian Foundation.
Ruth Traut
Gregory Alan Hoffart
Martha Carrillo
Victor Salazar
Bryan Carmona
Camille Elena Galvan-Villasana
Kelsey Poox Castillo
Rebecca Mischel
Maria Gabriela Ruiz
Litzi Magdalena Carrillo
Fernanda Ruiz Rodrigues
Kathy Harvey
Ian Malkasian
Chris Boyce
Francis Manzalena Werth
Ethan Delfino Hernandez
Louisa Ford
Nancy Press
Socorro Reyes
Eileen Summit
Karen Stein
Mark Stein
Barbara Warner
Lars Erik Larson
Tom Rinehart
Isabel Perez - Gijada
Julio Cesar Montejo
Annick Luther-Oberlander
M. Angela Hernandez
Edith Cruz Avendaño
Noah Adler
Lori Watson
Pablo Angel Suarez
Miguel Ansel Campos
Patrick Michael Denney
Ryan Penaloza
Aoife Daly
Bernard Bernie Casey
Tracy Wright
Rita Jimenez
Paul Ian McKean
Yolanda Nuñez
Sebastian Gonzalez
Jennifer Castillo R.
Juliana Judith Santiago Hernandez
Isabella Yamileth Mandujano
Happy Anniversary!
 
Carol Kelley and Tom Phillips
Nancy Love and Charles Amberson
Stephanie and Philip Stanton
Louise and Gary Kasper
Graduation Sunday, June 26th

Who is graduating this year from 8th grade, high school, college, graduate school, or vocational program?
We want to celebrate all graduates at the Graduation Mass on June 26th.
Send Jessica Chapman your graduate's photo and information as shown below ASAP!
jchapman@standrewchurch.com


Name:  Rachel Hambuchen
Graduating from St. Mary's Academy
Plan for next year:  Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Thank you St Mary's Academy students!
St Mary's Academy students and staff volunteered at St Andrew this week. They pulled weeds, washed the gym walls, and cleaned the church pews! We're grateful to be the recipients of their community service!
 
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Promoting Success 2022 Luncheon

June 7th, 2022    Tours start at 11:00 pm | Lunch at noon
 

Join us for our annual luncheon as we celebrate our 21st year as Oregon’s only tuition-free, private middle school. The luncheon is a great opportunity to learn about Nativity and hear from current students and graduates.

Thank you for believing in the power of education to transform the lives of our students and graduates. We could not do this work without your support.

Have questions?

Contact Sadie at swilliams@nativityportland.org or call 503-703-8823.
 

Click here to purchase tickets or donate.
 
 


 

The Alliance’s Future:

What our Clergy Think…What YOU Think!

You won’t want to miss this unique First Thursday. We look back but mostly forward toward what the Alliance has been and could be. Liz Smith Leavitt, Chris Dela Cruz, and Erin Martin, three of our faith community leaders voice their vision. And then YOU get your chance to express yours on a variety of future-building strategies.

We’ll inspire each other on the hard work of understanding and then acting on Poverty in our community. And then our leadership team will use the ideas that develop to shape our future programs and public presence. We need to hear all voices. 

So, whether you are a member of our faith communities or one of the unaffiliated participants who enriches our experience, plan to be there on June 2. We look forward to a dynamic interchange of ideas.  See you there!

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.

When: Jun 2, 2022 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0oc-yhrzsuGdeRJlob5Fu8QhUnFeBLPEUK

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting

 

LOS ANGELES — A new poem from former National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman tackles the recent mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the latest in a series of strong reactions from the young Catholic-raised activist to gun violence.

Entitled Hymn for the Hurting, the five-stanza offering was published in the New York Times on Friday evening in the paper’s opinion section.

“Everything hurts, Our hearts shadowed and strange, Minds made muddied and mute,” its opening lines read.
Continue reading the Black Catholic Messenger article
here.

Resource for families:
Restoring Sense of Safety in Aftermath Shooting
handout.


 
Take ACTION now to reduce gun violence in Oregon!
Go to the
Lift Every Voice website today
Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay
Can Electrification Change the World?

Electrification and renewable energy are the most powerful and lowest cost tools to eliminate carbon emissions. But it is easy to overlook the other amazing benefits that electrification can bring to our lives and how this transformation to a clean energy system improves our world in other ways.

Cleaner Air - burning fossil fuels is the primary cause of air pollution, smog, soot, sulfur dioxide and other toxic pollutants which harm our health.

More Water - Estimates for the amount of fresh water used by the fossil fuels energy sector range as high as 40% of our total water consumption.

A Stronger Economy - studies show that increases in renewable energy lead to higher global GDP, more jobs and increased overall social welfare.

More Equal Access to Energy - the world today is divided into the fossil fuel haves and have nots which results in concentrated power and corruption, and enormous costs for moving fuel around the world. Renewable energy is available and abundant everywhere.

Whenever we get anxious about the climate crisis, it is reassuring to remind ourselves that these co-benefits are equally worth striving for.

Check out Electrify Now's Take Action page for tips, resources and discounts to help you sign up for 100% renewable electricity, install heat pumps for space and water heating, find the right induction stove, or shop for an EV.

Thursdays from Noon to 1 PM
 Come join us.
It's a great time to catch up with fellow parishioners and Fr Dave.


"Activism is my rent for living on the planet." -- Alice Walker
THE CALENDAR IS OUR CATECHISM

Much of what we can learn about our faith is wrapped within the calendar. A good homilist at Sunday mass can teach us something, but the calendar offers us more days than Sunday to learn about our faith. Pay attention to specific religious and secular dates on the calendar and the liturgy and prayers that surround them.

Below are June’s opportunities for catechesis and witness: Attend an event, connect a Work of Mercy with a day special to your faith and life, educate your parish, and pray.

June 5 Pentecost Why It's Important: "The Spirit also tells us, 'Look to the whole.' The whole, not the part. The Spirit does not mold isolated individuals, but shapes us into a Church in the wide variety of our charisms, into a unity that is never uniform. The Paraclete affirms the primacy of the whole. There, in the whole, in the community, the Spirit prefers to work and to bring newness. Let us look at the apostles. They were all quite different. They included, for example, Matthew, a tax collector who collaborated with the Romans, and Simon called the zealot, who fought them. They had contrary political ideas, and different visions of the world. Yet once they received the Spirit, they learned to give primacy not to their human viewpoints but to the 'whole' that is God’s plan. Today, if we listen to the Spirit, we will not be concerned with conservatives and progressives, traditionalists and innovators, right and left. When those become our criteria, then the Church has forgotten the Spirit. The Paraclete impels us to unity, to concord, to the harmony of diversity. He makes us see ourselves as parts of the same body, brothers and sisters of one another. Let us look to the whole! The enemy wants diversity to become opposition and so he makes them become ideologies. Say no to ideologies, yes to the whole." Pope Francis, 2021 Pentecost Homily

June 5 World Environment Day Why It’s Important: "As Catholics, we are called to a deep reverence and respect for God's creation that motivates us to address environmental problems, especially as they affect poor and vulnerable people." USCCB

June 6 Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church Why It’s Important: "When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom Let it be And in my hour of darkness She is standing right in front of me Speaking words of wisdom Let it be"

June 8 World Oceans Day Why It’s Important: "Every intervention in nature can have consequences which are not immediately evident, and that certain ways of exploiting resources prove costly in terms of degradation which ultimately reaches the ocean bed itself." Pope Francis

June 12 Feast of the Holy Trinity Why It’s Important: "God is a 'family' of three Persons who love each other so much as to form a single whole. … The trinitarian horizon of communion surrounds all of us and stimulates us to live in love and fraternal sharing, certain that where there is love, there is God. … Our being created in the image and likeness of God-Communion calls us to understand ourselves as beings-in-relationship and to live interpersonal relations in solidarity and mutual love." Pope Francis

June 12 World Day Against Child Labor Why It’s Important: “Child labor becomes a scourge that cruelly harms the dignified existence and harmonious development of the youngest children, considerably limiting their opportunities for the future, as it reduces and damages their lives to meet the productive and lucrative needs of adults. … The most profitable investment that humanity can make is the protection of children! Protecting children means respecting the period of their growth, allowing these fragile shoots to benefit from the conditions appropriate to their opening and blossoming. … Protecting children means acting in such a way that horizons are opened up for them as free, honest and caring citizens.” Pope Francis

June 13 St. Anthony of Padua: Patron Saint of the Poor Why It’s Important: “In protecting the rights of private individuals…special consideration mush be given to the weak and the poor. For the nation, as it were, of the rich, is guarded by its own defenses and is in less need of governmental protection….” Pope Leo XIII

June 15 St. Germaine: Patron Saint of People with Disabilities Why It’s Important: "Persons with disabilities…are integral members of the Christian community. All persons with disabilities have the capacity to proclaim the Gospel and to be living witnesses to its truth within the community of faith and offer valuable gifts. Their involvement enriches every aspect of Church life." National Directory of Catechesis

June 19 Juneteenth Why It’s Important: ”Where the effects of past discrimination persist, society has the obligation to take positive steps to overcome the legacy of injustice, including vigorous action to remove barriers to education, protect voting rights, support good policing in our communities, and ensure equal employment for … minorities." USCCB

June 19 Father’s Day Why It’s Important: "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." Fr. Theodore Hesburgh

June 20 Annual World Refugee Day Why It’s Important: “No one must be excluded. God’s plan is essentially inclusive and gives priority to those living on the existential peripheries. Among them are many migrants and refugees, displaced persons, and victims of trafficking. The Kingdom of God is to be built with them, for without them it would not be the Kingdom that God wants. The inclusion of those most vulnerable is the necessary condition for full citizenship in God’s Kingdom." Pope Francis

June 21 St. Aloysius Gonzaga: Patron Saint of Aids Patients Why It’s Important: ”We stand in unity with all people around the world that are waiting—waiting for a vaccine, a cure, a compassionate word of encouragement and judicial distribution of health care and medicine. In the faces of those with HIV and AIDS, we see the face of Christ in a distressing disguise." USCCB

June 22 St. Thomas More: Patron Saint of Politicians Why It’s Important: "We Catholics are expected to be political. The opportunity is a right of citizenship in this world. Catholic leaders must be nonpartisan but never apolitical. Addressing the issues that affect our moral visions, in light of Catholic teaching, is our cherished responsibility."

June 22 Religious Freedom Week: Life and Dignity for All Why It’s Important: "Religious freedom allows the Church, and all religious communities, to live out their faith in public and to serve the good of all." USCCB

June 23 St. Joseph Cafasso: Patron Saint of Prisoners Why It’s Important: "Any system of penal justice must provide those necessities that enable inmates to live in dignity: food, clothing, shelter, personal safety, timely medical care, education, and meaningful work adequate to the conditions of human dignity." USCCB

June 29 Saints Peter and Paul: Poor Man/Rich Man Why It’s Important: "In prayer, there are no rich or poor, there are sons and daughters, sisters and brothers. In prayer, there is no first or second class, there is brotherhood. In prayer, our hearts find the strength not to be cold and insensitive in the face of situations of injustice. In prayer, God keeps calling us, opening our hearts to charity." Pope Francis
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