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November 1, 2020 Solemnity Of All Saints When we are united with Christ through his body and blood in the Eucharist, our works live too through him. My Parish is composed of people like me. I help make it what it is. It will be friend- ly, if I am. It will be holy, if I am. Its pews will be filled, if I help fill them. It will do great work, if I work. It will be prayerful, if I pray. It will make generous gifts to many causes, if I am a generous giver. It will bring others into worship, if I invite and bring them in. It will be a place of loyalty and love, of fearlessness and faith, of compassion, charity, and mercy, if I, who make it what it is, am filled with these same things. Therefore, with the help of God, I now dedicate my- self to the task of being all the things that I want my parish to be. Weekly Mass Intentions Saturday 10/31 4:00pm People of Holy Family Thursday 11/05 8:00am Larry & Kay Michael & Sunday 11/01 9:00am Joyce Flerchinger † Family Monday 11/02 8:00am Mr. & Mrs. McRae & Friday 11/06 8:00am Ginny Acey † Family Saturday 11/07 4:00pm Pam Kuther † Tuesday 11/03 8:00am No Mass Sunday 11/08 9:00am People Of Holy Family Wednesday 11/04 8:30am Wayne & Georgia Burnam

Parish Office Office Hours Confessions 1102 Chestnut St. Monday - Friday Wednesday Thank You For Supporting Clarkston, WA 99403 8:30am - 12:00pm 9:30-10:30am Holy Family School 509-758-6102 1:00pm - 4:30pm Saturday 3:00 -3:30pm

Scan this QR code with the QR Email: [email protected] code reader on your phone and it will direct you to our Website: hfparish.com parish website. Pastor Pastoral Assistant Parish Office Rev. Jeff Core Danielle Paris Holy Family Catholic School Staff: [email protected] [email protected] 1002 Chestnut Street School Principal: Sharon Hunt Phone: 509-758-6621 Email: [email protected] Bookkeeper Web Page: holyfamilyclarkston.com Follow us on Facebook and Instagram! If you are in need of a Sheri Sargent meeting with the parish staff and are [email protected] Bazaar not able to make it up the steps at the parish This Week Thursday, November 5th: Thank you for your tremendous support of our Parish Bazaar. Students sold $25,938 of raf- fle tickets with a combined total with the parish of $34,783. Over 900 meals were sold which office due to a disabil-  Mass 8:00am ity, please call and we Monday, November 2nd: is amazing! We would like to thank everyone for supporting your child(ren) by selling tickets, purchasing will be happy to meet  Mass 8:00am Friday, November 6th: turkey dinners, and volunteering. Student prizes will be sent home today for K-7 and tomorrow for PK3 & with you at the church  Rosary Makers 8:45am  Mass 8:00am PK4. The raffle drawing winners are attached! 758-6102.  Ladies Prayer Share Group 8:45am Saturday, November 7th: School Goal Tuesday, November 3rd:  Confessions 3:00-3:30 The pessimist sees  Students earned a class movie by selling over 13,500 raffle tickets!   Mass 4:00pm difficulty in every No Morning Mass opportunity. The Wednesday, November 4th: Sunday, November 8th: Top Sellers optimist sees the  Mass 8:30am  Mass 9:00am 1. Nora Johnson 1,245 ($100 gift card & extra recess for class) opportunity in every  Holy Hour 9:30-10:30am 2. Myles & Logan Gehring 1,012.50 each for a total of 2,025 combined ($50 gift card each) difficulty.  Confessions 9:30-10:30am 3. Emma Aceveda 924 ($50 gift card) Winston Churchill  RCIA 6:30pm Parish Office Top Class  Mrs. Gehring 4,959 (Mrs. Gehring will have lunch made for her and a guest by Father Jeff Core) Special Collections November - Building Maintenance Fund, School & CCD Collection, Christmas Flowers Emergency Substitute Teachers Needed If you have your weekly/monthly donations automatically taken out of your bank account, here is a list of the “special collections” you may not know of.  Must have bachelors degree or higher Eileen Jeffreys  Send resume to Sharon Hunt at [email protected] God Answers Prayers... Week 3 Robert Jensen Jennifer Bershaw Gift Card Orders Week 1 Dave Massaro Don Fox We are stocked up with gift cards for the holidays. This is a great fundraiser for the school. Place an order Shirley Tillea Karen Davis Dallas Dodd today! Contact Danielle Paris with any questions or orders [email protected]. Bob Sheppard Gene Kaufman John Kucera Articles to Read Dona McCann Mike Elsensohn Vivian Piatt If you would like Gerald Behler Tom Stapleton Anne Holmes All Hallows' Eve: Recapturing the Spirit by Janelle Peregoy https://bit.ly/3kCIm3m Doug Richardson Carol Stegner Debbie Wilkinson someone on the prayer This article gives a brief history of Halloween and its Christian Roots. Joan Sperry Eleanor Kuther Jim Kappel chain please provide What My Zombie Apocalypse Experience at the Mall Taught Me About Filling Our Lives With Christina Fox Gail Anderson Ellen Babino by Moira https://bit.ly/3251Tm7 Caleb Parry Bev Appleford Beth Anderson first and last name. This article puts into perspective our lives in a pandemic and how to focus on Jesus. Marilyn Ally Epling Della Rimmelspacher Thank you! Connie Riemler Cliff Kauffman Rosemarie Schutte Volunteer Opportunities. Karen Michael Cheek Paula Polumsky & Family We pray for the needs and  Tree/bushes trimmed around school Tim & Justine Osborne Bernie healing of these members,  Rake leaves at school and parish Jeremy Purcell Marjorie Hillman Week 4 friends and family of our community: Please contact Dale Funke Sue Ahlers Cheryl Fuqua at 758-6936, Week 2 Lee Wimer Tom Harvey Linda Wolf at 758-6690 or Jan Beirl Linda Babino Gordon & Delores Rubenthaler the parish office at Melva Boyle Tim Wanta Gloria Nemeth 758-6102 or email to Holy Family Catholic School Foundation is a 501c non-profit charitable corporation created to attract, receive, Sheila McDougall Janet Forner Michelle Stapleton [email protected] if steward, invest and manage permanent funds for the benefit of Holy Family Catholic School in Clarkston WA. All Agatha Cumming Pam Ellis Dona Fuchs you would like someone to gifts are tax– deductible. The Foundation was created to accept gifts of cash, investments, property or memorials. Wessels Family Ruth & Bob Carpenter Orlan Ranstron be added. Please remember us in your estate planning. What’s Happening at Holy Family? Ministries for Next Weekend: WE ONLY NEED 1 EMOHC AT THIS TIME Bazaar News: Ministries for Reader Extraordinary Ministers Servers  This year’s Bazaar was a success! We sold over 900 dinners and ran out of food. We also sold June 16/17th Even Month of Holy Communion 35,102 raffle tickets which is a record beating last years 25,000. Thank you for your unending support of Holy Family Parish and School even during this difficult COVID time. Saturday Vigil Brian Shinn Lynette Ausman Murray Broemeling 4:00pm  Thanks to all, friends and family for the success of our assembly line productions in the pie, cranberry and coleslaw corner. Monetary donations for pies were incredible. The young November 7th people that helped the pie table became pros. Our gratitude goes to the set up committee. In sincere appreciation and thanks to all of you, ~ Carol & Betty Sunday Marvin Entel Thomas Stapleton Emma Aceveda 9:00am November 8th St. Vincent De Paul Social Services is looking for donated blankets. They are in high demand this time of year especially for the homeless in our area. If you have any blankets laying around that your are willing to donate please take them to the Social Services Department or call 758-8361. Thank you! Advertiser of the Week Stewardship: A Way of Life! Are you looking for ways to Volunteer this Holiday Season? Interlink is a volunteer based program that Thank you for advertising Talent: with us! helps elderly and disabled in our valley. They help them with transportation, minor home modifications, Thank you to ALL of the volunteers that helped at and wheelchair ramp building. If you would like to help as a volunteer driver, or to help build wood Please help support our advertisers who make this this years Bazaar. Because of your dedication this wheelchair ramps please contact Jackie Wahl at 509-552-0249. bulletin possible. year’s Bazaar was the best one we have had yet! If you would like to advertise Treasure: Sunday’s Readings Youth Group - We are having youth group this Sunday, with us please call The collection for the week of 10/25/2020: Reading I: Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14 November 1st from 3-4:30pm! We will be starting a new video 758-6102 Actual: $3,177 Responsorial Psalm: 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 series call “The Search” and making blankets for the homeless! We would love to have lots of help and can mark off some com- Reading II: 1 John 3:1-3 Beauty Nails Gospel: Matthew 5:1-12a munity service hours for you! 502-504 Bridge St Next Sunday’s Readings  We have also been invited to join The Hunt for Adventure “Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re again this year! I know everyone who attended last year Clarkston, WA 99403 Reading I: Wisdom 6:12-16 worthless, but because they’re priceless.” had TONS of fun! I posted more information on the youth 509-751-0738 Responsorial Psalm: 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 – Sherry Anderson Reading II: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 or 4:13-14 group FB page. It is November 13th from 7-9:30 and they have adjusted it to make things COVID safe but still safe Gospel: Matthew 25:1-13 this year. Let Evan or Nichole know ASAP if you are inter- Pavers - Have you noticed how nice the pav- (Proud Parishioners & Supporters of ers (bricks) look outside by the columbari- Ministry Schedules: The Ministry ested and register on the youth group fb link! Holy Family Parish and School ) um? Our goal is to get the floor complete Schedules for November are now in with engraved pavers. If you missed our big the south entry. Please make sure you HAVE YOU MOVED? OR HAVE YOU RECENTLY push to purchase one at the end of 2019, take one, and call the parish office Get FORMED! CHANGED YOUR PHONE NUMBER? you are in luck! Please find a Paver Form in Don’t forget to let the parish office know. It is all too with any questions. the back of church, on our website, or stop The Catholic Faith on Demand! common that you might be waiting for a call or This revolutionary online platform provides access to the important information from our office and we are by the parish office to purchase one today. If St. Joseph Regional Medical Center best Catholic audio talks, movies, e-book, and video-based calling or mailing it to the wrong place! Take a mo- you have any questions please call Danielle will have Mass on Thursday, November studies from trusted providers like the Augustine Institute, ment and drop your new information in the collection at 758-6102. 5th in their Chapel. 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In addition to your web browser, iOS and An- Preferred Method of Weekly Offering: (Please circle one) Envelopes or Automatic Deduction our website. It is beautiful! droid, we now offer Roku and your SMART TV! (Movie Please return with any changes to collection basket, Nights just got more exciting!) to the parish office, or email to [email protected] Message from Fr. Jeff The Year of the Eucharist 2020-2021 Explanation for adults: At the Last Supper Jesus instituted the Eucharist by saying “This is my Body 1 November 2020 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time and This is my Blood. Do this in memory of me”. Jesus knew he was going to sacrifice his body and Sainthood blood on the Cross of Calvary for our salvation. Why did he need to offer us his same body and blood

Greetings, “at table” in the upper room in Jerusalem even before he gave them up on the Cross? So, that way, the sacrifice of Calvary will be present to every generation through the Eucharistic table. That is why you Today is the Solemnity of All Saints, the day we celebrate the faithful departed who have gone before us, having lived lives of heroic virtue and sanctity. This is a day of great celebration for the Church because it is a reminder of God’s great mercy and love for all of us and His see in every sanctuary of the Catholic Church “the Table” (Altar) and “the ” (Cross). Each time desire to have us with Him in Heaven for eternity. As we ponder on the lives of the Saints we are called to reflect on what brought them to we celebrate Mass and share in the Eucharistic table, Jesus’ sacrifice on Calvary is sacramentally present such a state of holiness. The answer is a simple one, our Baptism. to us. So, the sacrifice of the Cross is present to us each time we celebrate the sacrifice of the Mass (or Eu- Every one of us has the potential for sainthood. In fact, it is what is expected of us by irtuev of our baptism. When we receive the Sacra- charist). So, they are not two different “sacrifices” -the “Table” (or Eucharistic celebration or Holy Mass) ment of Baptism, we first enter into the mystical Body of Christ and also receive the graces necessary to live a holy and virtuous life. It has been often said that saints are merely sinners who are aware of their weakness and choose to live in spite of them. St. Augustine struggled re-enacts the “Cross” (or the sacrifice of Calvary). The sacrifice of the Cross is made present to us, and to with chastity before becoming a Christian, a bishop, and ultimately, a saint and Doctor of the Church. St. Therese of Liseaux struggled with all generations, in the Eucharist. This was the intention of Christ for instituting the Eucharist at his Last - self centeredness and anger before deciding to focus her energies on things outside of herself, praying for other people and the whole Supper and giving us his body and blood even before he went up to the Cross. world as she lay dying at a young age, also being named a Doctor of the Church for the depth of spirituality in her writing. St. Francis of Assi- si lived a “life of dissipation” and seeking glory for himself before realizing that God was calling him to live the Gospel in service to the Explanation for children: At every Mass, we see the altar and the cross. The altar reminds us of Jesus’ Church and the poor. St. Theresa of Calcutta couldn’t feel the presence of God in the last years of her life but never neglected her life of prayer and service. table at the Last Supper. He gave us the Eucharist at the Last Supper so that each time we receive the Eucharist (Communion) we will remember and share in the sacrifice Jesus made for us by dying on the Each one of the above named saints (and every saint for that matter) was born into the world with the exact same opportunity for holiness as each one of us. From their diverse backgrounds, each one of them made the choice for holiness and then lived accordingly. Blessed Car- cross and rising from the dead. The table and the cross remind us of His sacrifice. Watch this video lo Acutis, the first beatified Millennial, was known for saying, “My life plan is to serve God”. The key component is in choosing to live a holy which recalls the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL8R158Ujp4 life and keeping at even in the face of failure. Saints would be the first to admit that they are not perfect but lived to follow the example of perfection set for us in the person of Jesus Christ. As this month’s activity, set up a home altar, a special place set aside for Jesus in your home. Be sure to include a table and a cross to remind us of the Eucharist. Here are some ideas of how to set up your fam- Finally, one of my favorite aspects of All Saints Day is that I am reminded that all of the saints in Heaven pray for us without ceasing around the table of God’s heavenly banquet that we share when we receive the Eucharist. It is an astounding thought that we get to share in such ily altar, it can be as simple or complex as you would like: https://www.catholicicing.com/how-to-set- a magnificent event and it gives us the strength and encouragement to stand strong in the face of sin and evil, living our lives, not for our- up-a-home-altar-catholic-home-altar-ideas/ As we journey through the Year of the Eucharist, your fami- selves, but for the God who made and loves us. ly altar can be a special place for family prayer. I would love to see pictures of your family altar. Please Blessings, email them to us at [email protected].

Fr Jeff Core

Working with the Word

Focusing the Gospel Key words and phrases: theirs is the kingdom of heaven [2x], children of God, Rejoice and be glad To the point: The promise of the Beatitudes is that certain ways of living (poor, meek, merciful, etc.) surely lead to inheriting a place in the heavenly kingdom. The challenge of the Beatitudes is to embrace these ways of living and thus make present in the here and now God’s reign. The “land” of inheritance is both heavenly and earthly, both future and now always God’s gift to “God’s children now” (second reading) who are the blessed ones, the saints. Connecting the Gospel … … to the First Reading: The rejoicing and gladness and great reward in heaven mentioned at the end of the Beatitudes is expressed most sublimely in heavenly worship where there is an unending chorus of blessing and giving glory to God. … to experience: While the Beatitudes are a challenging blueprint for Christian living, they are not an impossible goal. We all know people who have fruitfully taken up the challenge of the Beatitudes and thus inspire us to saintly living.