Steadfast, Emergence, Vision

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During Lent, in these turbulent times, how can we persevere in our work for justice with a steadfast spirit, rooted in love?

Join writers from the Jesuit and broader Catholic network as we seek to answer this question, renewing each day throughout Lent our commitment to care for both our fellow human beings and our common home. Click Here to receive daily emails during Lent.

Emergence
A Creation Care Gathering for Young Catholics

Are you a young Catholic* between the ages of 18 and 39 who...
(Please forward this to the young Catholics* in your lives.)

Cares about the climate crisis and environmental justice?
Is looking for spiritual resources to help you navigate today's challenges?
Has a desire to connect with other young people with similar concerns?
Wants to play an active role in shaping a flourishing future for this planet and those of us who call it home?

Join Catholic Climate Covenant for 'Emergence: A Creation Care Gathering for Young Catholics,' on Tuesday, February 23 from 4:30–6 p.m. Pacific Time / 7:30–9 p.m. Eastern Time. This event will serve to kick off our 2021 initiatives with our new Youth and Young Adult Mobilization program, which seeks to inspire, animate, and nourish creation care among young Catholics in the United States. Information on accessing the Zoom meeting will be sent by email upon completing your registration.

Attendees will have the opportunity to connect with one another in meaningful conversation, to learn about and engage in a prayer practice inspired by the Catholic tradition and Pope Francis' Laudato Si', and to engage in collective dreaming about the emerging possibilities for Catholic Climate Covenant's new Youth and Young Adult Mobilization efforts.

*Devout Catholic? Lapsed Catholic? Catholic-curious? Cultural Catholic? Catholic-adjacent? Our generation's relationships to Catholicism are complex, many, and varied. However you define your relationship to Catholicism, you are welcome at this event.

Please fill out this registration and you will be sent an email with the information to join the event.

Last month we hosted the Pacific University Vision Clinic. Eight people, some of whom were parishioners, received exams and went home with new eyeglasses!

Free Food Market
The Oregon Food Bank and St Andrew have partnered for many decades to offer food to people in our neighborhood. The third Thursday of each month is our Free Food Market held in the gym. Anywhere from 25 to 75 households come from around Portland to access this food. Next week we'll be open from 12:30 to 2:00 PM and we serve out of the 8th Avenue entrance to the gym. Please feel free to share this resource with your friends and neighbors.

Here is a fun activity to do alone, with your kids or grandkids.

This was conceived of by the Fossil Fuel Resistance Team at 350PDX.

Break out your pink and red construction paper -- it’s Time to Make Valentines:

Tell Portland City Council to “Break Up with Zenith”!

Portland Tribune report on Zenith expansion.

Please email Ann Turner if you do participate in this activity annturnerpdx106@gmail.com

Have you ever stayed in a relationship too long? Kept on keeping on, even when you knew it was over? Well, it’s time to show our love for future Portlanders and, as pop songs through the ages tell us…. Wash that crude right out of our hair; get off the [fossil] bus, Gus; Go your own way, Shake it out.

Since 2018, Zenith Energy’s NW Portland oil terminal has been unloading crude oil from trains, storing it in tanks, then sending it through pipes onto ships bound for the Pacific. Zenith operates under permits issued when the property was owned and run as an asphalt plant many years ago. They have been relying on regulatory loopholes to continue operating and even increase their capacity, in spite of a 2016 Portland ordinance prohibiting the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure and a 2015 City Council resolution opposing oil train traffic.

At every turn, hundreds of concerned citizens have opposed Zenith, but haven’t yet been able to stop this dirty, dangerous, climate-killing operation. But this spring, some permit renewals are due and the City of Portland has an opportunity to weigh in and possibly stop Zenith.

However. ...we have three new City Council members who may not yet be fully informed about Zenith. Also, members who were persuaded to oppose Zenith in the past (Wheeler and Hardesty) need to know how much we still care.

So let’s send all five Commissioners valentines!

We want them to know we strongly oppose Zenith, and that we will “love” them - as long as they help us stop this climate-busting operation, which threatens the safety of our neighborhoods, future generations, and life in the lower Columbia River Basin.

Break out your pink and red construction paper, or those valentines hiding in your drawer. Write a short message of love, just be sure it mentions your opposition to oil trains and to Zenith...

Recruit your friends, your kids, your neighbors.

Let’s pile the office desks at City Hall high with valentines!

Here are some ideas for messages - you can probably come up with better ones!

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Dear Commissioner,

Please be MY valentine, and break up with Zenith.

It’s a toxic relationship.

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City of Roses, home to us all

People and salmon, trees that grow tall

Our river’s at risk, oil trains run amok

Please take some swift action, we must deconstruct.

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City Council:

Love and kisses!

Kick out Zenith.

No more near misses!

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Pop your valentines in the mailbox between February 5th and February 10th to:

Mayor Ted Wheeler

1221 SW 4th Ave, Room 340

Portland, OR 97204

Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty

1221 SW 4th Ave, Room 230

Portland, OR 97204

Commissioner Mingus Mapps

1221 SW 4th Ave, Room 210

Portland, OR 97204

Commissioner Carmen Rubio

1221 SW 4th Avenue, Room 220

Portland, OR 97204

Commissioner Dan Ryan

1221 SW Fourth Avenue, Suite 240

Portland, OR 97204

Dear St. Andrew Companions,
This is a different time and so the annual Jobs with Justice Faith/Labor Breakfast will be a Zoom affair. I value the contribution of each of you. There will be small group breakout sessions so that each person's voice is heard. Below is the information for signing up.
Thank you,
Jean Eilers

Faith Labor Virtual Breakfast: We Rely on Each Other

"Unions make a difference, for workers on the job and working people in general. If you value social justice, good jobs, and healthy communities you need to support them." Marty HartLansberg, Retired Economics Professor

Tuesday, February 16 from 8 - 9am
Attendees will receive a Zoom link closer to the event
Tickets are ten dollars, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Pay admission online and REGISTER HERE.

Image by Christos Giakkas from Pixabay

Electronic Recycling Event

Are you able to spare a couple of hours? We need volunteers for 2-hour shifts to direct recyclers to the various bins. Covid Safety Protocols including social distancing and required masks will be enforced.
To volunteer click HERE (ignore food prep slots and scroll down) https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050c4bafac2aa2fb6-february

Link to the FLYER Please share the flyer link with friends and family on your social media.

When: February 20 - 21
Where: 4925 NE 9th Ave - large parking lot behind the school
Time: noon - 4:00 PM

How you can help:
Collect all the items listed below and bring them to Nativity School.

Computers ● Laptops ● TV & Monitors (all types) ● Hard drives (Secure Data Destruction Provided) ● Misc. Computer Components (floppy drives, Printed Circuit Boards (PCB), etc.) Cords/Wires/Chargers/Power strips ● Servers/Switches ● Routers/Hubs/Modems ● Networking Devices ● Communications Equipment ● POS (Point of Sale equip) ● Printers/ Scanners ● Fax/Copiers ● Keyboards/Mice ● Misc. Office Machines ● Misc. Electronics ● VCRs, DVD Players ● Cable & Satellite Equipment ● Testing Equipment ● Stereo/Audio Components ● Cell Phones (with or without batteries) ● PDAs, Handheld Games ● Cameras ● Telephones ● Returned or Unwanted Products ● Gaming Consoles/Systems ● UPS (uninterruptible power supply) and other Lead Acid Batteries ● Small/Large Appliances (which include, microwaves, toasters, blenders, etc.) ● Electric Power Tools ● Laptop Batteries, Cell Phone Batteries, Li-on batteries ● Ferrous & Non-Ferrous Metals ● Air Condi-tioners Ink/Toner Cartridges ● Media (CD, DVD, floppy, VHS, Cassette, tapes) ● Household size batteries (AA, AAA, C, D, 9V, button cell, etc.) ● Ni-CD & Ni-MH batteries, all types/configurations ● Fluorescent Tubes and lamps (All types) ● Electronic & Magnetic Ballasts (NonPCB only. Must be post 1978) ● Capacitors ● Bare Tube CRT ● PV Panels w/ frame

If you have any questions about this event before or after you sign-up, please contact Justin Scalzo at JScalzo@nativityportland.org who is running the event.

Hosted by the Nativity School and supported by St Andrew Catholic Church

KEEP SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE!!!
Bundle up this Thursday!
Come join us from 4 to 5 PM.

You may attend Mass in person.
The Sunday Mass will also continue to be live-streamed.

We are able to accommodate up to 25 people each week for Mass. We will need volunteers to check people in each week, take them to their seats, and people to stay afterward to sanitize the church. Contact Michael Prendergast if interested in attending Mass and volunteering for these tasks, mprendergast@archdpdx.org. Masks are required, with social distancing and contact tracing.

Image by acky24 from Pixabay

As the lockdown continues, St. Andrew Parish is pleased to present: St. Andrew Adult Covid-19 Support/Process Groups

With the vast array of challenges we have all encountered throughout the on-going pandemic, Covid-19 Support/Process Groups (virtual and in-person) will provide an opportunity to connect with fellow parishioners to share our experiences, gather support, and learn coping tools.

Virtual
February 24^th, March 3^rd and March 10^th, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Co-facilitators: Carolyn Ullman, MS, NCC, and Alicia Richards, LCSW
To register: email Alicia Richards at aliciarichards60@gmail.com

In-Person
February 23^rd, March 2^nd, and March 9^th, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Co-facilitators: Jill Williams, MA and Ray MacDonald, LCSW
Location: St. Andrew Parish Community Center – all CDC Safety Guidelines will be followed.
To register: email Ray MacDonald at rmsoca@aol.com

We hope you will join us! Registration deadline is February 18, 2021