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Pray for peace in Ukraine and for all who are suffering from this war.

June 5, 2022   Pentecost Sunday
Coffee and Ukrainian Sale after Mass 


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.


Please wear a nametag and join us after Mass in the Community Center for the Ukrainian Marketplace and Coffee & Donuts.

Prayers
For patience and fortitude 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:
Jean Baptiste Talla
Mary Haley
Holly Nakada
Scott Powers
Scott Alan Belt
Alberto Luna
Amelia Marie Ford
Judy Rau  
Bob Russell
Emily Gimba
Killeen Hanson
Liam Brennan Purkey
Mark P. Hatten
Catherine Self
Tiziano Sean Botonni
Keenan Brennan Purkey
Luis Alberto Lopez-Pimentel
Mario Alberto Garcia
Tony Jones
Juana Aviles
Jocelyn Diaz
Adan Galdeno Mellin Magaña
Yohannes Michael Glowacz
Janet Olson
Martina Gonzales
Jean McQuiggin
Patrick Henry
Lois Conroy
Rob Stewart
Agustin Calel
Maria Munoz
Jonathan Armando Valle
Charles Amberson
Maria Barrera
Margarita Flores-Hernandez
Jose Lucas Jacob
Kairi Valle Yah
Happy Anniversary!
 
Christina Wienholz and Joe Leahy
Maria Castillo and Cosme Poox (20 years!)
Carol and Jerry Bitz (Just shy of 64 years. RIP Jerry!)
Rita Jimenez and Ferderico Ramirez
Carolyn and Larry Ullman
Image by Goran Horvat from Pixabay 
 
St Andrew's Ecojustice Ministry Survey
Your responses will shape how St Andrew is part of the solution.

 
Take The Survey

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
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:  Brooklyn Ryan
Graduating from: View Ridge Middle School
Plan for next year:  Ridgefield High School

Brooklyn was baptized and received her 1st Communion at St Andrew.  In the past she has attended the Liturgy of the Word for Children, St Andrew Vacation Bible Camp (as an attendee as as a junior volunteer) and the Catechesis of the Good Shepard Sunday program for kids.  She has also participated in activities sponsored by the African American Catholic Community of Oregon (AACCO).
Name: Adriana Bobenrieth 
Graduating from: Jesuit High School
Plan for next year: University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She plans to study Spanish and if a dual major is possible International Relations.

 
Homelessness: What's the fix and who is fixing it?

Metro, The City of Portland, Nonprofits, Faith Communities, and Individuals

Watch this one-minute video for an overview of Built for Zero the approach Portland and the four metro counties have all committed to using to end homelessness. Yamhill County is also several years into the program and Clark County, Washington joined in October 2021.

Next, read this
article (approx 5 min) for more details about Built for Zero in Portland. The approach is collaborative and relational. It will take local and state governments, nonprofit housing and service agencies, faith-based organizations, and individuals pitching in to solve homelessness. There is a continuum of shelter and housing options because there are different individuals and families with different housing needs.

One of the options is the "on ramp" to permanent housing, Safe Rest Villages. To learn more go to Commissioner Dan Ryan's
website  and read Program Overview of Streets to Stability: Safe Rest Villages.

St Andrew is helping by focusing on the immediate needs of people living in poverty. In addition to our emergency services, St Andrew parishioners are cooking two to four times each week for emergency shelters and people living on the streets.  This is 145 to 245 meals every week. The ingredients are paid for with funds from our annual auction. It costs approximately $500 per month to provide these hot "church cooked" meals.

St Andrew is a founding member of the Interfaith Alliance on Poverty.  Over the last six years it has taken many actions to protect tenants, improve housing, and lobby for innovative solutions to the low supply of housing in the metro area. The Alliance worked to protect Oak Leaf trailer park from a developer takeover. It is now completely rebuilt and managed by a St Vincent de Paul of Eugene. This is the first mobile home park in Portland to be owned by a non-profit organization for the preservation of affordable housing. The Alliance also successfully lobbied the local government to allow faith-based organizations to build affordable housing on their property. This is important because organized religions own a lot of land!  And one other project to note is the work parties that helped build Agape Village, a community of tiny houses located at the Portland Central Nazarene Church in SE Portland. St Andrew youth participated in a few of these work parties.

There is a lot going on to solve this problem. It will take time but I feel hopeful and proud to be part of a parish that is actively involved.
Lisa Hatten
 
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Promoting Success 2022 Luncheon

This Tuesday, 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.
Take ACTION now to reduce gun violence in Oregon!
Go to the
Lift Every Voice website today
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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