St. Mary Catholic Parish

JOIN US AS WE WORSHIP, PROCLAIM AND SERVE THE LORD – IN SACRAMENT, IN PRAYER, AND IN OUR FAMILY OF FAITH

PARISH CLERGY 928-3210 Rev. Jeffrey R. Lewis Pastor ext. 109 January 12, 2020 Rev. David Kuttner Priest in Residence 928-3210 Deacon Mike Miller 928-3210 Feast of the Baptism of the Lord Deacon Dan Glatt 928-3210 Emergency Anointing of the Sick:

Sun & Mon 720-1460 Tues-Sat. 847-9093 MASS SCHEDULE

PARISH OFFICE Saturday Mass: 5:30pm Office Hours Sunday Masses: 7:30am, 9:00am, 11:15am Monday -Thursday 8am-4pm Daily Mass: 7:30am Monday through Friday Closed for Lunch 12pm-1pm Tuesdays during School Mass is at 8:15am Friday 8am-12pm Closed Saturday & Sunday Reconciliation: Wednesdays at 4:30 & Saturday from 4:00 to 5:00pm Krista Furtney, Parish Secretary 928-3210 First Fridays from 8am-9am Marie Bricher, DRE & Faith Formation ext. 111 Sharon Greany, Business Manager ext. 107 First Friday Adoration 8am - 12noon in the church Mark VanDriel, Maintenance ext. 213 Adoration Friday 6pm- 7pm with Confessions

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Blessed Sacrament Chapel hours: 7am-10pm Greg Hanson, Grand Knight (509) 638-8535 For after-hours access, please call the parish office. John White, Faithful Navigator (509) 994-1023 Web page: stmaryspokane.org CHOIR DIRECTOR Diana Thomas (509) 385-2663 NEW PARISHIONERS Welcome to St. Mary Parish Community. If you would like to register SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL with the parish please download a form from our website, stop by the Victor Vera, President (509) 995-5987 Parish Office or call (509) 928-3210.

ST. MARY SCHOOL 924-4300 CARE OF THE SICK Ben Walker, Principal ext. 202 Communion is taken to the sick and elderly on a regular basis. Please Chelsea Weiler, School Secretary ext. 200 call Karen Grewe (Homebound Ministry) at (509)927-4941, if someone Terri Matsch, Advancement Director ext. 206 is in need.

SACRAMENTS Baptism: The family should be registered and active in St. Mary Parish. For arrangements call the Parish office, 928-3210.

Marriage: Couples must contact the parish at least six months prior to their desired wedding date.

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) or RCIC (for children over 7) Have you thought about becoming a Catholic? Do you know someone who is thinking about it? Please call Marie Bricher at 928-3210 ext. 111 for more information.

For the convenience of those with hearing difficulties, Masses at St. Mary can be heard on personal FM-band radios. Tune to 90.3 FM.

304 S ADAMS ROAD, SPOKANE VALLEY, WASHINGTON 99216 THIS WEEK AT ST. MARY FEAST OF THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD MONDAY 1/6 Recently Deceased First Reading Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7 Daily Mass 7:30am to Remember in Responsorial Psalm Psalm 29:1-2, 3-4, 9-10 Prayer Shawl 10am Prayer The Lord will bless his people with peace. TUESDAY 1/7 Second Reading Acts of the Apostles 10:34-38 School Mass 8:15am Guy Dumais Gospel Matthew 3:13-17 Exercise 9am The Holy Spirit descended on him like a dove, and a voice from Respect Life 11am May he share in the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well RCIA 6:30pm the Resurrection pleased.” Knights of Columbus 6pm of the Lord! WEDNESDAY 1/8 SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Daily Mass 7:30am First Reading Isaiah 49:3, 5-6 Women at the Well 10am Responsorial Psalm Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10 Confessions 4:30pm Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will. Religious Education 6pm Second Reading 1 Corinthians 1:1-3 Choir Practice 6:30pm Gospel John 1:29-34 Respect Life Movie 7pm John exclaimed, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the THURSDAY 1/9 sin of the world.” He continued, “I saw the Spirit come down like Daily Mass 7:30am a dove...I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God. Exercise 9am Youth Group 7pm STEWARDSHIP REPORT FRIDAY 1/10 Amount needed per month $55,975.00 Daily Mass 7:30am December 29, 2019 $11,616.60 Phoenix Club 12noon December Total to Date: $78,356.75 Adoration 6-7pm Year to Date Total: $337,807.71 Fiscal year (July - June) SATURDAY 1/11 Year to Date Budget: $332,238.00 Fiscal year (July - June) Rosary 7:30am (we need approximately $12,917.31 each week) Men’s Prayer Group 8-9am Women’s Prayer Group 8-9am You may make a donation to any of our endowments. Confessions 4pm Please contact Sharon Greany. Vigil Mass 5:30pm Family Faith Night 6:30pm SUNDAY 1/12 PRIESTS MASS INTENTIONS Masses 7:30am, 9am. 11:15am

Coffee & Donuts after 9 & 11:15am 1/6 MONDAY Paulette Lassaga + Mass 1/7 TUESDAY St. Mary School 1/8 WEDNESDAY Charles R. Shumate + 1/9 THURSDAY Catholic Charities Christmas 1/10 FRIDAY Mary Ilgen + Collection: This month, Catholic Charities kicks off our 1/11 SATURDAY Annie McCabe + annual Christmas 1/12 SUNDAY Collection! This is our biggest fundraiser of the year. 7:30am Sarah Ramsey + Proceeds sustain operational costs for programs and 9:00am Pro Populo services that help 70,000 people each year through crisis 11:15am Kathi Louise Higginbotham+ response, stability and housing and advocacy. To have a Mass offered by the priest for a deceased person or Prayer Requests another intention, please call the parish office at (509) 928-3210. Susan Curalli

To have a name listed in the bulletin call Krista at the parish office at 928-3210. Names will be listed for 3 weeks, then removed unless requested again. Thursday morning Bible Study starts back up on  If a member of your family is admitted to a local Thursday, January 23rd! They will be studying “Divine hospital, please call the parish office at 928-3210 if Mercy”. Meet in the Adult Center at 10am. New you would like a priest to visit. members please call Rita McNeilly at (509) 413-2394 or  To add someone to the prayer chain or to be Janel Gibson (509) 868-4163. All are welcome! part of the prayer chain ministry please join the Prayer Chain group in Flocknote or call the parish office.

Women at the Well  February’s meeting is on Wednesday, February 5th at 10am in the Adult Center. Please join us!  Sister Anne Bosserman will host the Annual Retreat for the Women at the Well on Wednesday, February 19th at 10am in the Adult Center. All are welcome. A lunch will follow the event. Pastor’s Column St. Mary Catholic Parish January 12, 2020 ~ The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord Suffering With (and Without?) a Purpose Question: “Why would a good God allow physical evils like suffering and death?” Answer: “We do not have full answers to the problem of evil in this life, but we can see that at least some physi- cal evils actually are helpful.”

God can tolerate some physical evils because good comes from them. According to Pope Saint John Paul II: “Certain forms of physical ‘evil’…belong to the very structure of created beings, which by their nature are contingent and passing and, therefore, corruptible. Besides, we know that material beings are in a close relation of interdependence as expressed by the old saying: ‘the death of one is the life of another.’ So then, in a cer- tain sense, death serves life.” (General Audience, June 4, 1986) We see this in the natural world, such as when a lion kills a zebra so that it can eat. The death of the zebra serves the life of the lion. In the same way, the living things we humans eat (plants or animals) sustain our lives.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says: “With infinite wisdom and goodness, God freely willed to created a world in a state of journeying towards its ultimate perfection. In God’s plan, this process of becoming involves the appearance of certain beings and the disappearance of others, the existence of the more perfect alongside the less perfect, both constructive and destructive forces of nature. With physical good, there exists also physi- cal evil as long as creation has not reached perfection. (CCC 310) Pain can also play a valuable role in our lives. Some people suffer from congenital insensitivity to pain, and its results can be dramatic, even fatal. Physical pain serves as warning system, and people without a proper pain response can be severely injured or even killed because they did not have sufficient warning to danger due to their absence to feel physical pain. Even emotional pain can be useful; the emotion of fear, for example, alerts us to danger and motivates us to take steps to avoid it.

But then a follow-up question arises: “Why would a good God allow innocent people to suffer and die with no clear purpose?” Answer: “God can bring good from evil and can more than compensate us.”

That which allows suffering (such as the pain receptors in our nervous systems) have a purpose, which is to help us avoid danger. But sometimes, they are triggered in situations where they do not help, resulting in appar- ently purposeless suffering.

Fortunately, the Lord can bring good out of every tragedy, and faith tells us that He will. (cf Rom 8:28; CCC 324) However, there is more that can be said.

For a person with an atheistic perspective, death is the ultimate end. If someone has suffered unjustly in this life, that is it. The person is just out of luck. Nothing can ever make up for the suffering that he or she experi- enced.

But from a Christian perspective, death is not the end. It is a transition, and we will exist forever. That means that no matter what we have suffered in this life or how short our earthly life was, the Lord can make it up to us; indeed, He can do far more. Saint Paul: “I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed to us.” (Rom 8:18)

Elsewhere, Saint Paul says: “Therefore, we are not discouraged; rather, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.” (2 Cor 4:16-18)This is part of what makes it possible to live with the mystery of evil. One might experience evil in this life, and from an earthly perspective, one might suffer there- fore. But one can endure it and can persevere when one knows and has faith that death is not the end and that God will more than compensate for what is suffered innocently. We do not have to know all of the reasons why this or that evil occurs as long as we know that God will make everything right in the end. ~ Fr. Lewis Religious Education

Religious Education for Grades 1-5 Religious Education will meet on Wednesday, January 15. All children in our parish, grades 1-5 are welcome to attend - it’s never too late to register! Just visit our website or contact Marie Bricher at [email protected] or 928-3210 ext. 111.

Youth Group - Middle School & High School Our next meeting is Thursday, January 16th - come early (6:30pm) to join in some active game time, our meeting begins at 7pm. All youth grades 6-12 are invited to Youth Group - it’s never too late to join! We will be sending out more news about our Laser Quest trip with the Diocese of Spokane youth groups - save Sunday night, February 16 for Laser Tag fun!

Sacramental Prep for Confirmation/First Holy Eucharist Our next meetings will be January 12 and 26 from 10-11am in the Mary/Martha room (for the kids) and the Youth Room (for the adults). We’ll be covering sessions 3 and 4 in the Signs of Grace First Eucharist Book.

Sacramental Prep for First Reconciliation Children aged 7 and above can begin preparing for First Reconciliation. Our meetings will begin January 19 and will be held from 10 -11am in the Mary/Martha Room (for children) and the Youth Room (for parents). Children must be prepared for First Reconciliation before preparing for Confirmation and First Holy Eucharist. For more information or to register, you can find forms online, in the par- ish office or in the gathering space of the church. You can also contact Marie at [email protected], or 928-3210 ext. 111.

Respect Life: How can YOU become Active toward Respect for Life from Conception to Natural Death? • The 2020 Walk for Life will be on Jan. 18, 2020. Mass will be at Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral prior to the walk and the walk will begin at Riverfront Park. Please put this event on your calendar and join us. We will have carpools from St. Mary. • We will be praying at Planned Parenthood on Thursdays at 12:30pm. The address is 12104 E Main St., Spokane Valley. We would appreciate you joining us. Contact Rose Hays at 509 990 5708 if you have questions or want to join our group. You can also go to St. Mary Flocknote and join our group. We look forward to meeting you!

Place The Society Of St. Vincent de Paul food donations in the white basket in the Gathering Space.

Pantry needs: Mayo, Canned Tomatoes, Canned Peaches & Pears, Mac & Cheese, Cooking Oil, Cereal, Saltines, Toilet Paper, Paper Towels, Shampoo, Dish Soap www.oursvdp.com In December your St. Vincent de Paul conference members were privileged to bring food, paper and hygiene products to 17 house- holds, consisting of 20 adults and 16 children. Rental help was provided to two of those neighbors and utility assistance provided to four. We also furnished one other form of assistance as well as bringing Christmas gifts and treats to five young siblings. Thank you, our generous parishioners, in helping us provide this needed assistance throughout the year. We meet in the Adult Center on the 2nd Monday of the month at 7:00pm and the 4th Sunday of the month at 10:15am.

Guatemala Mission: Thank you to everyone who supported our recent sales, (used books, Guatemala weavings & SERRV items). To date, profit from all sales and donations for the books is $1528! 100% of the proceeds will be sent directly to the medical mission. The people of the mission send their gratitude and prayers, especially during this holy season! Remember if you would like to donate to the Guatemala Mission, please use the yellow envelopes in your stewardship packet. There are also extra envelopes in the back of the church marked Guatemala Clinic Fund.

Come join us at St. John Vianney Parish for a Spaghetti Dinner to be held on Sunday, January 26 in the Parish Hall from 11:30-5:30pm. Tickets: Children (10 & above) and adults $10; Children 6-10 yrs. $6 Location is 503 N Walnut Rd, Spokane Valley

House of Charity shelter downtown Spokane is in regular need of personal care items, such as razors and shaving cream, toothpaste, pain relief and cold medicine, band-aids, combs and hair brushes, feminine hygiene products, hand sanitizer, back- packs, clothing, gloves, hand lotion, lip balm and more. Please take any donations to the House of Charity.

A Lifeline for Marriage - Retrouvaille helps couples through difficult times in their marriages. It is designed to provide the tools to help get your marriage back on track, the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way. This program has helped tens of thousands of couples. Retrouvaille is for any couple who would like to rediscover their marriage and improve communication. Visit www.Retrouvaille.org for emotional testimonials. For confidential information or to register for the February 14-16, 2020 Spokane weekend call (509) 520-4118 or (800) 470-2230 or visit the website at www. Retrouvaille.org. Hearts on Fire Men’s Retreat 2020 The Hearts on Fire Men’s 2020 Retreat will be held at the Mirabeau Hotel on Saturday, January 25, 2020. It looks like another set of excellent speakers with Bishop Liam Cary from Baker Diocese and Chris Padgett from Dayton, Ohio.

If you wish to register, your first option is via the Diocesan Web site. GO TO: Dioceseofspokane.org or just Google " Catholic Diocese of Spokane", then click on: "A Fathers Love". At the end/ bottom of that preview will be link to registration that says: "Click here to register!" It's pretty easy if you are vaguely familiar with the in- ternet.

The second alternative is to text, email or in person, give me, Deacon Mike, your First Name, Last Name, and Email Address along with $45 and I will register you. Read the promotional material below and on the following page of the bulletin. Speakers

CHRIS PADGETT A brilliant songwriter, musician, speaker and worship leader, Chris Padgett travels around the world giving talks, missions and con- certs. He holds a master’s in theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, and has begun doctoral work in Marian studies at the International Marian Research Institute in Dayton, Ohio. One of the most effective champions of family life in the church today, Chris has been married to his high school sweetheart for more than 20 years and has nine children. They live in Steubenville.

BISHOP LIAM CARY Liam Cary was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1947, the first of John and Patricia Cary's four children. He entered Mount Angel Semi- nary in 1961, graduating from high school there in 1965 and from college in 1969. After a year of theology at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California, in 1970 he took a leave of absence that lasted eighteen years. In that time he spent three years in a Chica- go legal aid office as a VISTA volunteer, studied Spanish for a summer in Mexico, worked at a farm-worker medical clinic in Cali- fornia, and painted houses in Portland and Eugene. Involvement in parish ministry at St. Mary's in Eugene led him back to the semi- nary in 1988. He was sent to the North American College in Rome, where he received a Licentiate in Moral Theology from the Gregorian Univer- sity in 1992, the year he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon on September 5. Throughout his priesthood Bishop Cary has been involved in Hispanic ministry. Pope Benedict XVI named Father Cary, pastor of St. Mary Church in Eugene, Oregon, as Bishop of the Diocese of Baker on May 18, 2012. There are 36 parishes and 23 missions in the Diocese of Baker.

Christmas Flower Donations Made In Memory Of:

Mary Ilgen Irene Colenso Janet Schulhauser Ron Clark Wilfred Colenso Richard (Dick) Weber Jim & Kate Davison Lois Colenso Nick Wolfe Holly & Mike Laslovich Kent Smith Joaquim Guerrinha Nels & Helen Haataja Frank & Mary Manago Candida Ray Silve Frank & Ruth Keast Floyd & Stella Peplinski Marilyn George John & Lucille Cox Jo Restek Hablor Peggy Walls Bernie & Lorraine Smith Wm Restek Lewis & Marjorie Tibbals Dick Schaubel James Restek David Tibbals David Schaubel Glen Mileson Bob Goodnetter Steve Schaubel Chan Bailey Rodney Thompson Grace Pace Maxine Bledsoe Raymond Thompson Sr Dorothy Whipple Bud Parks Mr & Mrs GC Trent Eva Meisel Kate Fadness Mr & Mrs SR Parygster Charles A Holm Hilary & Irene Smentek Frank Schindler Richard C Holm Sandy Majeskey Joyce Schindler Michael C Holm Barbara Wilda Kearney Family James E Quinn Kathy Williams Cecelia Schucker Lew Robinson Frank & Iris Schuster Don & Corby Ward Trish Baxter Jim & Marj Mountjoy Roy Johnson Mike Burton Jacob Miller Murrel Davies Mikes Family Ann Miller Dan & Gertrude Davies Johnson Family Joseph Thomas Lillian Thomas Will update names with James Thomas envelopes we received on Christmas next Mr. & Mrs. Courser bulletin as well. James Sheehan

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OUR UPCOMING EVENTS!

Feb 2: Pancake Breakfast in the Celebrate Life and the rights of the unborn by joining us Parish Hall at the Spokane Walk for Life Saturday, January 18. KNIGHTS IN See the bulletin for more details. ACTION!

CHOOSE LIFE! Jan 18: Walk for Life—Mass Life is not about what adults want. and the Walk for Life— Downtown Spokane Life is about what children need. Jan 26: Volunteering at the Warming Tents for the Special THANK YOU for your continued support of Olympics Winter Competition, the Knights and our activities! Mt. Spokane

Jan 27: Cook Breakfast for St. Mary’s Students as part of Catholic Schools Week, Parish Hall JOIN US! Jan 27: Free Throw Contest for Contact Grand Knight Greg Hanson at 509-638-8535 St Mary’s School Students, or join online at www.kofc.org. Parish Hall RANCHO VIEJO OF SPOKANE

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