2nd Sunday of Easter April 15, 2012

This Weeks Calendar and Mass Intentions

Monday April 16 Tuesday April 17 Wednesday April 18 Thursday April 19 Friday April 20 Saturday April 21 Chapel Sunday April 22 8:00am Mass 8:00am Mass 8:00am Mass 8:00am Mass 12:10pm Mass 8:00am Mass ( Nellie Parks <B>) Chapel ( Melissa Roesing) Chapel ( for the deceased) Chapel ( Brandon Lopez <A>) Chapel ( Agnes Karvola) Chapel ( Mark & Margaret Mary Alacoque Lee) Church Church Church Chapel

4:00pm Mass ( Giulio & Stella Donadini) 8:30am Mass (People of the Parish) 10:30am Mass (Familes of missing children) 1:30pm Deaf Community Mass

Call the office if you would like a Mass celebrated for you, for an anniversary of death or marriage, birthday, etc. Church cleaning, Apr. 1622: Priscilla & Jerry Stewart

Office

Parish Office Hours Addition We are also happy to announce that while the hours for the Parish Business Office will remain Tuesday through Friday from 9 AM to 4 PM, the Secretary/Receptionist Front Office will be open from 9 AM to Noon on Mondays, as well as from 9 AM to 4 PM Tuesday through Fridays.

Earth Day
In the spirit of the theme of Earth Day 2012, Mobilizing the Earth, Interfaith Network for Earth Concerns is encouraging congregations to use Earth Day - or if it works better for your schedule, World Environment Day on June 5 - to launch an action campaign on a theme of food, energy, or land and water. Your campaign may be as short as a few weeks or as long as a year. Please Call Interfaith Network for Earth Concerns at (503) 221-1054 ext 210 for speakers and DVDs for your campaign or Earth Day service or event.

Litter Pick-Up
NEW SEASONS GREEN TEAM invites us to participate in their Earth Day activities. Specifically, they are planning a COMMUNITY LITTER PICKUP ON APRIL 18 AND 19 FROM 2-4 P.M. Anyone who would like to join in this is invited to show up at 7 Corners New Seasons around 2. Bags, gloves, etc. will be provided.

Film and Discussion

Communion And Confirmation

This weekend at the 10:30 Liturgy we congratulate the 16 young people who are making their First Holy Communion. They represent the following families: Capulong, Dixson, Ernst, Grether, Holton, Houston, Johnsen. Kelley, Kruse, Makimica, Suhr, Stiverson, Oh. High School Confirmation: Twelve High School students are almost at the end of their Confirmation preparation. Two dates remain: Sunday, April 22, Retreat 11:45-3:30 Carvlin Hall. Sunday, April 29, 4pm Holy Family Parish, Confirmation Liturgyall are welcome.

Dying to Live is a profound look at the human face of the migrant. It explores who those people are, why they leave their homes, and what they face on their journey. This explores the places of conflict, pain, and hope along the US Mexico Border. It is a reflection of human struggle for a more dignified life and search to find God in the midst of it all. Join us Sunday, May 6th 1-3pm In the Paulist Center for light refreshment, conversation and the viewing of this 33 minute film. A free will offering is to benefit the Oregon New Sanctuary movement.

New Receptionists

New Office Secretary/Receptionists We are happy to welcome Angelica Liharik and Rose Wolfe to the Parish Staff as our new Secretary/Receptionists. Until we are able to set up individual parish emails for each of them, please use the email address: secretary@stphilipneripdex.org

2nd Sunday of Easter April 15, 2012

Pastoral Corner
Greetings! FR. Michael Evernden, CSP

Thank You
Thank you, thank you to all the volunteers who helped with Holy Week! You are a truly giving community of people! Several visitors commented on the warmth and goodness that they felt in sharing the Triduum with us. You have succeeded in letting people know that God indeed is present among us! And we especially say Thank you to Bari Columbari who stepped in (as music coordinator/pianist/organist) and arranged all of the Holy Week music. Generous donations for the Memorial flowers in the Sanctuary: Pat Storms for Cris Bell MaryJane Navarra for Sal Navarra MaryEllen Doshes for Berger/Doshas families Altar Society for deceased members of the Altar Society Michael Jacobs for Patti Seldal Paul/George Raab Frances Brady Antonette Amato Rose/Louis Wolfe

Grace is everywhere
Love can happen only in realms of freedom. Without inner freedom on both sides there can be no true love relationshiponly duty, fear, or obligation. So it is all a matter of growing in freedom, which could be called growing in grace. Gods love is perfectly free. It is not coerced by any of our good actions, nor can we lose it because of our bad actions. We are stuck with it and cannot increaseor decreaseGods love for us by anything we do or dont do. This is Gods eternal covenant with the soul. God does not love us because God has to; God loves us because God wants to. This frees us to simply receive that love, rather than feverishly try to make ourselves worthy of it. All you can pass on is what you have become; that is your blessing and gift for your children, your loved ones, your neighborhood, and the next generation, grace upon grace (John 1:16). Divine love bestowed is repaid by love alone. Our lives seem small and insignificant, yet one life is a significant piece of the eternal and cosmic Christ, a short moment of Incarnation that is building up the Body of God. You belong to Gods universe because everything belongs. Every part of you belongs, and no part need be rejected or denied, but only educated, healed, forgiven, and set free in new form. . . . Nothing is ever wasted in Gods economy. All is transformed. Grace is everywhere.

Health & Nutrition

In partnership with Ecumenical Ministries of Oregons Interfaith Food and Farms Partnership project, this week we are focusing on Food Justice Food Justice seeks to ensure that the benefits and risks of where, what, and how food is grown, produced, transported, distributed, accessed and eaten are shared fairly. It represents a transformation of the current food system, including elimination of disparities and inequities, and seeks to ensure that we care for our neighbors and for our land. The most basic form of care to ensure that the food we grow and the land we use is treated with respect to guarantee its capability to grow an abundance of food. The harvest of our land is a gift that is meant to be shared with one another, not just a privileged few.

Peace, Fr. Michael Evernden, CSP

LET US PRAY FOR:

Carla Gonzalez and her family, whose mother recently passed away.