St. Mary’s Cathedral

Sunday, August 30th 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Welcome to St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Clergy: Most Reverend Alexander K. Sample, Immaculate Conception Archbishop of Portland Msgr. Patrick S. Brennan, [email protected] Deacon Scott Kolbet [email protected]

Cathedral Parish Life: Jennifer Overbay, Business Manager [email protected] Alex Chan & Mary Jo Gornick, Receptionists [email protected] Sr. Connie Furseth, OSF, Neighborhood Liaison [email protected] Since its dedication in 1926, St. Mary’s Cathedral Andrew Hickey, Development Coordinator has stood as the mother church of the Archdiocese [email protected] of Portland in . The cathedral belongs to the 400,000 Catholics of the archdiocese and serves as Paulette Peynet, Director of RCIA a place of ceremony and celebration for those who Stephanie Fisher-Hunt, Director come here. The cathedral is also a parish church, and Religious Education as such it is home to its parishioners and a welcoming Angela Westhoff-Johnson, Music Director place for all visitors. You may have noticed the Seung Min Oh, Organist beautiful rose design on our doors as you came in. This rose represents Mary, Our Blessed Mother, as Shared Leadership: well as Portland, the City of Roses. Barrett Brooks, Pastoral Council Chair Jil Morby, Finance Council Chair All Are Welcome! Mark Boshears, Knights of Columbus Grand Knight [email protected] Please Consider a Charitable Bequest to St. Mary’s Cathedral in your estate planning. Cathedral School: Amy Biggs, Principal Give Via Weshare Susan Hatley, Administrative Assistant [email protected] WeShare is simple, and helps our Cathedral by saving time and labor. Contact St. Mary’s Cathedral Parish Mission Jennifer Overbay with any questions. St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is a To give, click maryscathedral.weshareonline.org community of Christians in the Roman Catholic Tradition. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, and through the intercession of Prayer Requests: the Blessed Virgin Mary, we continue the mission of Jesus Christ through liturgy, prayer, education and service toward Deacon Scott Kolbet our neighbor. As the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Portland, [email protected] [email protected] and as a parish community, we offer hospitality to all visitors, celebrate archdiocesan events and witness the joy of the Gospel to the City of Portland. A Word From The Pastor

to us in “many and varied ways” but through his Son. Jesus is the perfect witness upon whom belief can be based. As we come to know Jesus, we also come to know his message—belief in a person, and belief in his message. Thus, in the history of salvation, there is a progressive deepening of God’s self-revelation, culminating in the person of Jesus Christ.

Faith, then, is the free, human acceptance of God’s gracious invitation to share the divine life and love. This is why we say that faith is a gift: God takes For the last few years, in these waning days of summer, the initiative and offers it to everyone. It is upto I have given a series of columns on a single topic. us to accept or reject this gift. Acceptance of this Last year, I did a series on the early history of the gift may come in various ways. For some, faith may in Oregon. This year, I would like to be based on sound arguments. For others, there may do a three-part series on the theological virtues: faith, have been an experience of God’s presence. And for hope, and charity. St. Paul unites these three in his still others, the weight of tradition, the witness of the First Letter to the Corinthians: “So, faith, hope, love saints, the beauty of Catholicism—all of these might remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love” have convinced someone that “faith” is preferable to (1 Cor 13:13). Unlike other virtues, the theological “non-faith” or agnosticism. virtues are not acquired by personal effort but are received as gifts. But like other virtues, they require Ultimately, the gift of God—faith—is fully perceived exercise to be perfected and can be squandered by and accepted when we move beyond these reasons neglect. So, let’s take a look, beginning with faith. to a personal relationship with God. Our faith is reasonable; and reasons (or reason itself) may strengthen our faith—but cannot give it. Faith is We use the word “believe” in many different ways ultimately a gift of grace that God freely offers to each (“Do you believe the news story?”; “I believe they of us—and we freely receive it. In the end, what all will arrive shortly,” etc.). Belief in its strict sense of us desire most is to shorten the distance between means to regard something as true on the testimony believing (faith) and knowing (sight). Now, we walk of someone else. Thus, belief demands two separate by faith; then, by sight. actions: belief in the person (the “witness") and belief in the message. Msgr. Patrick S. Brennan

When we move from belief to religious belief, we Monsignor Patrick Brennan is a native Oregonian who attended high school and college at Mount Angel Seminary take a bit of a leap: the someone on whose testimony (1965-1973). He studied theology at the North American the religious believer accepts a matter as real and College and the Gregorian University in Rome (1973-1977; true is God. The challenge, of course, is that we are 1979-1980). He later studied Canon Law at The Catholic asked to accept as real and true something (e.g., the University of America (1983-1985). Msgr. Brennan was Incarnation) that we can in no way examine—from ordained in 1977 and has held a number of positions in the archdiocese: president-rector of Mount Angel Seminary, Vicar a witness that we cannot meet as we do our human for Clergy, and presently, Judicial Vicar. He was appointed counterparts. Philosophers and theologians tell pastor of St. Mary’s Cathedral in 2011. His interests include us that it is possible to come to know God, at least Scripture, travel, architecture, photography, and swimming. partially, through creation. God’s revelation then fills the void—God freely revealing himself and giving himself to us. In Jesus Christ, God no longer speaks Parish Life

August / September Mass Intentions This Week at Cathedral 31 5:30pm: Msgr. Patrick Brennan Saturday Vigil Mass 5:30pm September Sunday: 7:30, 9:00 & 11am Mass 1 7:30am: Parishioners of St. Mary’s Cathedral 5:30pm: In Memory of Thomas & Maria The 11am Sunday morning Mass will no longer be Brennan livestreamed on a regular basis. We invite you to join 2 7:30am: Kenneth Steiner Msgr. Brennan in person for any Sunday Mass. Please 5:30pm: In Memory of Ray Fisher click here for Mass reservations. 3 7:30am: Fr. Freddy Ocun 5:30pm: The Unemployed 4 7:30am: Fr. Jon Buffington Msgr. Pat’s Vlog: Msgr. Pat has been posting a daily 5:30pm: The Dying vlog (video blog) “In Time of Virus” at 5 7:30am: Blanchet House https://monsignorpat.com/index.html. Join him for a 3 minute reflection of the day.

Financial Report for August 23, 2020 Celebrations in our Parish WeShare 97 Funeral Envelopes 35 Fred Horstkotte

Sunday Envelope $ 2,640 Wedding Loose $ 351 Marc Gilfry & Mariel Wuilloud-Aguas WeShare $ 5,332 Total Parish $ 8,323 Seminarian Appeal Mass, 11am, September 20: School $ 94 The Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon invites you to Social Services $ 25 celebrate vocations. Join Archbishop Sample for Mass honoring vocations and praying for those called to Him We are grateful for your contributions to may hear and answer the call. A live Q & A with our St. Mary’s Cathedral! Seminarians will follow the Mass. Virtual seats are open for all!

Scripture Readings For September 6, 2020 Seminarian Encouragement: "It really can feel like a Ezekiel 33:7-9; Romans 13:8-10; storm of uncertainty in our life, in our faith. I just want Matthew 18:15-20 to encourage all the faithful to trust in the Lord."

Meet, via video, Seminarian Dustin Busse who shares words of encouragement for us all during these challenging times.

Join us in the coming weeks as more of our seminarians share their stories of faith.

Learn more about the culture of vocations at the Archdiocese of Portland: https://archdpdx.org Cathedral School

22nd Sunday of with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen. Ordinary Time First Reading Jer 20:7-9 August 30, 2020 You duped me, O LORD, and I let myself be Entrance Antiphon duped; you were too strong for me, and you Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry to you all triumphed. All the day I am an object of the day long. O Lord, you are good and laughter; everyone mocks me. Whenever I speak, forgiving, full of mercy to all who call to you. I must cry out, violence and outrage is my message; the word of the LORD has brought me Opening Hymn derision and reproach all the day. I say to myself, Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the king of I will not mention him, I will speak in his name creation! O my soul, praise him, for he is your no more. But then it becomes like fire burning in health and salvation! Come, all who hear, Now my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary to his altar draw near, Praise him in glad holding it in, I cannot endure it. adoration! Responsorial: Praise to the Lord, who shall prosper our work My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. and defend us; Surely his goodness and mercy shall daily attend us. Ponder anew What the Second Reading Rom 12:1-2 Almighty can do, Who with his love will befriend I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of us. God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, Praise to the Lord – O let all that is in us adore holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. him! all that has life and breath come now with Do not conform yourselves to this age but be praises before him! Let the Amen! Sound from transformed by the renewal of your mind, that his people again – Gladly with praise we adore you may discern what is the will of God, what is him! good and pleasing and perfect. Gloria Gospel Mt 16:21-27 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to people of good will. We praise you, we bless to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly and on the third day be raised. Then Peter took King, O God, almighty Father. Lord Jesus Christ, Jesus aside and began to rebuke him, “God only begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to of the Father, you take away the sins of the world, you.” He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind have mercy on us; you take away the sins of the me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are world, receive our prayer; you are seated at the thinking not as God does, but as human beings right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For do.” you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ,

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes Offertory/Communion Hymn to come after me must deny himself, take up his O breathe on me, O Breath of God, Fill me with cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to life anew, That I may love the things you love, save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life And do what you would do. for my sake will find it. What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his O breathe on me, O Breath of God, Until my life? Or what can one give in exchange for his heart is pure; Until my will is one with yours, To life? For the Son of Man will come with his do and to endure. angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay O breathe on me, O Breath of God, My will to all according to his conduct.” yours incline, Until this selfish part of me glows Creed with your fire divine. I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker O breathe on me, O Breath of God, So I shall of heaven and earth, of all things visible and never die, But live with you the perfect life For all invisible. I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the eternity. Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father Communion Antiphon before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, How great is the goodness, Lord, that you keep consubstantial with the Father; through him all for those who fear you. things were made. For us men and for our Closing Hymn salvation he came down from heaven,

At the words that follow, up to and including and became man, all bow For all the saints who from their labors rest, Who you by faith before the world confessed, Your and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Name, O Jesus be forever blest. Alleluia, alleluia! Mary and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death O blest communion, fellowship divine! We and was buried, and rose again on the third day in feebly struggle, they in glory shine; Yet all are one accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into within your great design. Alleluia, alleluia! heaven and is seated at the right hand of the The golden evening brightens in the west; Soon Father. He will come again in glory to judge the to the loyal faithful comes their rest; Sweet is the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no calm of Paradise so blest. Alleluia, alleluia! end.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic

Church. I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world Excerpts from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of to come. Amen. America, second typical edition © 2001, 1998, 1997, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC. Used with permission. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from the English translation of Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation, (ICEL); excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, ICEL. All rights reserved.