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St. Philip Neri Parish: Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 8 2012
St. Philip Neri Parish: Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 8 2012
St. Philip Neri Parish: Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 8 2012
2408 SE 16 Avenue | Portland, OR |97214-5334 www.stphilipneripdx.org Parish Office 503.231.4955 | Fax 503.736.1383 Committed to the mission of Jesus and dedicated to be welcoming to all, we the community of St. Philip Neri strive to reach out, to reconcile and to promote unity for all of Gods creation through worship, education, and service toward the common good.
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Cookbook!
Calling
all
Cooks:
We
are
gathering
recipes
for
a
parish
cookbook
to
celebrate
our
centennial.
Do
you
have
a
favorite
family
recipe
or
one
that
is
always
expected
at
family
dinners?
Submit
them
along
with
a
note
about
the
history
and
or
reason
why
it
is
special
to
you.
We
would
like
to
include
recipes
to
celebrate
the
different
cultures
in
our
parish.
You
can
drop
them
off
in
the
box
in
the
back
of
the
church,
send
them
to
the
office,
or
e-mail
them
to
rosew@stphilipneripdx.org
orbarbarah@stphilipneripdx.org.
Our
goal
is
to
have
them
all
submitted
by
late
October.
Religious Freedom Presenter Professor James Harrison
Pantry
Donations
Food
Pantry
always
in
need
of
sundry
items
(diapers,
toothpaste,
toilet
paper,
shampoo,
soap)
and
non-perishable
items
like
cans
of
tuna,
chili,
soup,
fruit,
packages
of
macaroni,
spaghetti,
rice.).
When
you
go
to
the
store
think
about
picking
up
just
two
extra
items
to
share.
It
really
does
make
a
difference.
Religious Freedom Prayer Service and Presentation
Recycled
Cartridges
Are
you
a
person
who
likes
a
challenge?
We
are
looking
for
someone
to
sort
and
prepare
the
ink
jet
cartridges
to
mail.
This
is
a
very
tedious
job
that
requires
attention
to
detail
and
lots
of
patience.
If
you
are
interested
in
being
a
big
help.
Please
contact
the
parish
office
(503)
231-4955
Monday: 9:00 am to 12:00pm Tuesday thru Friday: 9:00am to 4:00pm Parish Staff Pastor Director of the NW Paulist Center Fr. Charlie Brunick, CSP, x.117 frcharlie@stphilipneripdx.org Associate Pastor Fr. Michael Evernden, CSP, x.111 mecsp@mac.com Associate Pastor Fr. Jim McCauley, CSP, x.109 jrpaulist@aol.com Director of Adult Faith Formation Barbara Harrison, x.107 barbarah@stphilipneripdx.org Business Manager Jeanne McPherson, x. 103 jeannem@stphilipneripdx.org Secretary/Receptionists Angelica Liharik, x. 101 angelical@stphilipneripdx.or Rose Wolfe x. 101 rosew@stphilipneripdx.org Building & Grounds, Maintenance Edward Danila edwardd@stphilipneripdx.org Bulletin Announcements Must be submitted by 12pm Tuesday before target weekend to angelical@stphilipneripdx.org
According
to
Archdiocesan
Guidelines,
any
family
seeking
a
subsidy
from
the
parish
must
be
a
registered
member
actively
involved
in
parish
life
and
activities
as
well
as
a
regular
attendee
of
Masses
in
the
parish.
They
also
must
give
regular,
identifiable
financial
support
to
the
parish,
e.g.
via
the
use
of
parish
contribution
envelopes
or
checks
or
automatic
deposits
via
Vanco.
Pastoral Corner
July 8th, 2012
I was thinking last weekend, our church should be full. It obviously isnt. It should be full not because of some rule, or guilt but because life needs to be celebrated and our faith is a joyous gift to be shared. Im feeling it is more like a flat tire; oh it can still roll but not very well. We all need to put some serious thought into reigniting the fire, pumping up the tire. It was not always this way and so the question. On January 16, 1875, the first Paulist missionaries to California set sail from New York, traveling around the horn of South America. They were Father Adrian Rosecrans, Father Joshua Bodfish, Father George Deshon, Father Walter Elliott, Father William Dwyer and Father Edward Brady. Other missions followed in rapid succession. Within the first year, missionaries had traveled to New York City, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Michigan, and even Quebec. The New York newspapers took note of the quality of preaching that drew overflow congregations: "As early as four o'clock every morning the streets of San Francisco in the vicinity of St. Mary's were literally alive with crowds of men and women advancing towards the church. On a mission, over the course of one or two weeks, an instruction was given every morning at 5:30am and a formal sermon preached at 7:30pm in the evening. The sick were visited; school children encouraged; confessions heard. The mission journals note that sinners repented, rum sellers reformed, children were baptized. The community grew in numbers, and by 1875 they were preaching missions in California and Nevada. In Utah, for nearly 100 years after the area was first settled in 1848, there were no Catholic churches between Salt Lake City and Ogden. Bishop Duane G. Hunt invited the Paulist Fathers, who had been conducting trailer missions in the Uintah Basin since 1938, to move their operations into Davis County. Their schedule was an extremely busy one. They celebrated masses and gave instructions at various sites throughout the county including the American Legion Hall in Bountiful, the Layton Town Hall, schools, private homes in Clearfield, Arsenal Villa and Anchorage. They also held trailer missions in the Sahara Village and Hill Field, as well as missions in the Salt Lake City area. Here come the sisters; the Paulists were assisted by the Missionary
"They really restore your faith in the country," Mary McAndrews, a retired French teacher, told AFP, a French news agency covering the Tour referring to the Sisters. Ms. McAndrews was attending a packed session organized by the nuns Thursday night in the chocolate-producing Pennsylvania town of Hershey. The times and the issues are different but the message is the same, one of hope for the hopeless, a healing hand and the image of Christ among the people. We all need to do a lot more of this. Thank you sisters for reminding us of our missionary mission to our own people. We really need to do some serious thinking outside the box.
$15 adults $10 seniors (62+) $10 youth (6-17) Children under 6 are free
Prayer Partners
Our
parish
community
likes
to
pray.
If
you
are
interested
in
being
a
part
of
a
prayer
group----please
consider
either
of
the
following:
Prayer
Partners
pairs
two
people
who
pray
together
(over
the
phone/email)
weekly.
Please
contact
Kait
Skyler
to
sign
up
(KaitSkyler@msn.com).
Prayer
Tree
is
an
online
prayer
group
who
prayer
for
the
requests
of
parishioners.
Please
contact
Sisters of Our Lady of Victory and a vigorous lay apostolate Barbarah@stphilipneripdx.org
headed by the Senior and Junior Legions of Mary.
What we Paulists use to do from trailers; Nuns on a Bus are doing now. The National Catholic Reporter described the turnout for Nuns in South Bend, Ind., as the same sort of enthusiastic crowds that often greet Notre Dame teams coming home after big wins on the road. When they rolled into Cleveland, they were cheered like rock stars by more than 400 mostly gray-haired women squeezed into St. Joseph Center.
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