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December 6, 2020

The Second Sunday of

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G REETINGS FROM F R. DAVE

Advent 2020 is going to take a bit more intentional intercede for all of us, especially those in most urgent effort! None of you will be at weekend Masses all need of prayer and support right now. four weeks of Advent and get to experience the ambience of Advent that can only be absorbed by planning is underway. For now, we are being here in person. There is something about planning to hold Masses on the 24th at 1:00, 3:00, and subdued lighting (in creation as well), about candles, 5:00pm, and on the 25th at 9:00am. Likely we will be about the color purple, about Advent music, and limited to 100 inside the church and will do that by about joining with the community as we prepare our online sign up process. Overflow will be welcome inwardly and outwardly for the Birth of . in the parking lot and all four Masses will be live streamed so you can watch it from the safety of your I urge you to be deeply attentive, as I mentioned last cars on your devices. weekend, to the daily “micro-miracles” that are present so often, so often overlooked. Notice the little We have some fun ways those in the parking lot can stuff; be grateful to God for his daily signs of engage, including “beeping” (not HONKING) the caring; be instruments of hope in your homes, horn at set points, rolling down windows for neighborhoods, workplaces, gas stations, and stores; singing, roaming Shepherds in the be quiet and just listen and notice and reflect and parking lot, and some outdoor decorations. I expect unwind. Ahhhhhhhh, may Advent be deeply fruitful this will be a memorable Christmas and a fun one too! for each of us! Get ready!

Tuesday, December 8th is the feast of the Immaculate Blessings to Amaree & Christopher Ramirez Padilla Conception. This year, due to COVID, you are and Dominic Gonzales, who were baptized this dispensed from coming to Mass. As you know, we weekend! are still limited to 100 folks at Masses and just cannot accommodate a Holy Day crowd any better than a Last week, we received word that two of our weekend crowd. We will be live streaming our parishioners have died: Carol Balcom and Giuliana 8:15am Mass on our website, and the recording will Anderson. May their souls and all the souls of the be available to view any time afterwards. We will not faithful departed, rest in peace. Funeral services are have a 7:00pm Mass that evening. May Mary TBA.

HOLY FATHER’S INTENTION FOR DECEMBER M ASS I NTENTIONS For a Life of Prayer Saturday 5th 5:30pm +Peter & +Maria Cao Wednesday 9th We pray that our personal 8:15am Birthday Blessings relationship with Jesus Christ Sunday 6th to Andrew Boli be nourished by the Word of 8:00am +Peggy Hiss and God and a life of prayer. +Manuel Varela 9:30am Holy Trinity Parish th PARISH FINANCES Thursday 10 11:15am +Frank Flood 8:15am +Vicente Mattao FOR THE WEEKEND OF NOVEMBER 28–29 Monday 7th th 8:15am +Stephanie Spalding Friday 11 Offertory $17,656 8:15am Blessings to Cora Elizabeth Graves on Food Closet $4,580 Tuesday 8th 8:15am +Jason Robert C. Averia her first birthday Backpacks/Duffel Bags $25 and Phi & Milan Lam Holiday Outreach 2:15pm Holy Trinity Parish Thanksgiving $3,720

Christmas $1,945

2 B RETT’ S T WO C ENTS Hello, everyone! Happy Advent! I don’t know where Indian Hills Community Center is, but they have some hilarious sayings posted regularly on their road sign — ALMOST as good as Ingrid’s postings on our own sign. Here is a sampling. Enjoy!

 I was kidnapped by mimes. They did unspeakable  To the thief who stole my glasses: I will find you. I things to me. have contacts.  A perfectionist walked into a bar. Apparently it wasn’t  Big-a-mist: an Italian fog. set high enough.  Went to this horrible bar called The Fiddle. It really  Police car loses wheel to thief! Officers are working was a vile inn. tirelessly to nab suspect.  My friend David had his id stolen; now he’s just Dav.  Why can’t you trust an atom? Because they make up everything.  My friend was explaining electricity, and I was like, “watt?”  Where did the Terminator find toilet paper? Aisle B, back.  A few puns make me numb, but math puns make be number.  Due to quarantine, I’ll only be doing inside jokes.  Cold? Go stand in the corner. It’s 90 degrees.  Have you noticed that “the” and “IRS” spell “theirs”?  Man injured in bizarre peek-a-boo incident; now he’s  I wanted to be a monk, but I never got the chants. in ICU.  If your guy doesn’t appreciate fresh fruit puns, let that  Someone threw a jar of mayo at me. I was like, “what mango. the Hellman?”

S IMBANG G ABI C HRISTMAS N OVENA H OLY T RINITY K NIGHTS OF C OLUMBUS Franz & Monette Mallari — 503.307.3438 Msgr. Charles P. Taaffe Council 14802 Join our Filipino Community in Congratulations to our latest celebrating the 22nd annual Knight and Family of the month! Simbang Gabi (Christmas Masses) here at Holy Trinity! The Knight of the Month — Dan Deymonaz Commissioning Mass will be Dan was selected for his work as the held at St. Cecilia’s (5105 SW Knights’ Faith Director, and in particular for leading the Franklin Ave.) on 12/12 at past two very successful Zoom . 11:00am to begin the Novena, led by Sample. Family of the month — Mike & Pat Linton Mike and Pat were recognized for their continued work Then, from Dec. 15-23, gather in our church at 6:30pm for and support of Holy Trinity as Mass Coordinator (Mike) the , followed by Mass at 7:00pm (except for 12/19, and Sacramental Administrative Assistant (Pat). with the Rosary at 5:00pm and our usual 5:30pm Mass). All safety precautions remain in place (masks, distancing, etc.) Interested in Joining the ? and attendees will need to sign-in when they arrive (just Holy Trinity’s Knights of Columbus are looking for men like our regular daily Mass). who are interested in building their faith and helping to In lieu of the usual reception that follows the final Mass on support the parish. We would enjoy talking to you about 12/23, individual boxes of refreshments will be given away. the many activities we do for our parish and local Come experience this joyful Christmas tradition! Learn community! To learn more, please contact Eric Watje at more at h-t.org/simbang-gabi. 510.857.9560 or Graeme Barker at 503.641.8835.

Sunday, December 6th Wednesday, December 9th Friday, December 11th  12:30-2:00pm, Field —  6:00-7:30pm, via Zoom —  6:30-7:30pm, via Zoom — T HIS W EEK Youth Ministry Grow Group Friday Night Bingo A T Tuesday, December 8th Thursday, December 10th Saturday, December 12th H OLY T RINITY  6:30-8:00pm, via  6:00-7:00pm, Church —  4:00-5:00pm, Church — Advent Zoom — RCIA Holy Hour of Adoration Reconciliation Service

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F AMILY F AITH R EFLECTIONS Y OUTH M INISTRY Chris Storm— [email protected] 6-12TH GRADE Waiting Nick Krautscheid — 971.282.6173 The Bible is full of waiting stories. Abraham and Sarah waited decades before [email protected] they were blessed with a child. Moses and the Hebrews waited forty years to arrive in the Promised Land. Isaiah prayed for God's help and waited his whole life for it to arrive. Jesus waited hours in the garden for the soldiers to find and arrest him. Advent is a great time to talk about waiting with our children, and to share our own stories of waiting.

But there is another waiting story that's worth telling. After Jesus’ death and resurrection, he gathers his disciples and tells them that he is leaving. He asks them to wait in the city until “the promise of the Father” arrives. Then he ascends up into the sky and is gone.

The disciples returned to the Upper Room, the place where they had shared the Last Supper with Jesus, and lock themselves in. They knew that the same people who had put Jesus to death wanted to kill them, too. For nine days they hide there, praying fervently that God would save them. On the ninth day, the Holy Spirit appeared to them as wind and fire. Their fear was transformed into courage; they stopped hiding, and began publicly proclaiming the story of Jesus.

That began a long tradition of , the “prayer of nines.” When Catholics urgently desire some special help from God, they commit to praying about it each day for nine days in a row. If there is something that your family is longing S CRIPTURE R EADINGS for this year, consider making a novena of prayer for it! That could be something very simple (a Lord's Prayer, three Hail Mary’s, and a Glory Be), or something Monday 7th longer (try doing an online search for “Advent novena”). Is 35: 1-10 Lk 5: 17-26 Try turning the pain of waiting into a passion for prayer! Tuesday 8th F OR W HAT I T’ S W ORTH: T HOUGHTS ON F AITH Gn 3: 9-15, 20 Erin Nieves — [email protected] Eph 1: 3-6, 11-12 “Prepare a way for the Lord,” we hear at Mass, and so Advent continues, the Lk 1: 26-38 start of Week 2. In these times, with COVID curbing our activities, we have no choice but to wait, but we are enjoined to PREPARE. “Prepare what?” you ask. Wednesday 9th Our hearts! And then, by extension, our preparation becomes infectious. Not Is 40: 25-31 COVID-infectious, but infused with all that comes from welcoming Jesus into Mt 11: 28-30 our lives.

th This year we will see that it’s possible to welcome Him without all the glitz and Thursday 10 clutter. In fact, haven’t we learned that, ready or not, HE COMES?!? It begins Is 41: 13-20 with the “Good News” (MK 1:1-8). In “making His paths straight” we don’t Mt 11: 11-15 make Him work as hard, as we have in past years, making Him compete with what we think is important. Friday 11th Is 48: 17-19 Instead, we do as we are asked by St. John the Baptist, to repent, discard and Mt 11: 16-19 make room. Be READY! The only perfection in this world of ours is God Him- self. Let Him in! First, I can experience for myself the fullness and satisfaction Saturday 12th that only Jesus can give us. Then, by extension, our piece of the world can see, through us, a heart, imperfect as it is, that is ready for Christmas and what God Rv 11: 19a; 12: 1-6a, 10ab has in store for us, when we welcome Him in. Lk 1: 39-47

We prepare and make clear access for Him to come and take up residence in our Sunday 13th lives. As followers of Jesus, if we do this, evidence will be everywhere, and “all Is 61: 1-2a, 10-11 mankind shall see the salvation of God. ALLELUIA!” 1 Thes 5: 16-24 Happy Advent, everybody. Jesus is coming! Be ready! + Jn 1: 6-8, 19-28

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O UT OF L OVE: SOCIAL J USTICE M INISTRY C OMMUNITY O UTREACH Eileen Sleva — 503.713.7939 — [email protected] Al Schmitt — 503.641.1842 — [email protected]

“[I ask God to] prepare our hearts to encounter our brothers HOLY TRINITY FOOD CLOSET IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PROVIDER. and sisters, so that we may overcome our differences. . .” N UMBER OF P EOPLE SERVED —Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti Food Closet Backpacks Last Week 248 Last Week N/A Second Week of Advent: Healing Our Soul Sickness Since January 1st 19,265 School Year 7,020 From the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns Advent Reflections

“‘Comfort, give comfort to my people.’ These words of the Back in March, just before COVID, one of my prophet Isaiah are thought to have been written to the columns contained a little story that someone had Israelites in exile in Babylon — a people forced from their sent to me. The person who sent it is someone that home, mistreated and weary in a foreign land. The first asks for help once in a while and wanted me to know two readings are filled with imagery depicting God’s how much they appreciate all that Holy Trinity does action of fulfillment of his promises: ‘Kindness and truth for them. The story has stuck with me and shall meet; Justice and peace shall kiss.’ ‘The glory of the summarizes how I personally look at helping others. Lord shall be revealed; all people shall see it together.’ It is a vision we all long for, of unity, peace, justice, and One day, an old man was walking along a beach that righteousness. . . God offers us comfort, especially when was littered with thousands of starfish that had been we are downtrodden, but God also calls us out of washed ashore by the high tide. As he walked, he complacency. . . Our country – and our world – is in the came upon a young boy who was eagerly throwing midst of a deep reckoning with the injustice caused by the the starfish back into the ocean, one by one. sin of racism. The pervasiveness of racism and all ways in which our society values some lives more than others are Puzzled, the man looked at the boy and asked what he great impediments to peace.” was doing. Without looking up from his task, the boy simply replied, “I’m saving these starfish, Sir.” Reflect: How are you affected by the “soul sickness” of racism? How can you be part of the effort to The old man chuckled aloud, “Son, there are prepare the way for God’s fulfillment, which “all thousands of starfish and only one of you. What people shall see together?” difference can you make?”

R ESPECT L IFE M INISTRY The boy picked up a starfish, gently tossed it into the Gloria Bernard — 503.579.2562 — [email protected] water, and, turning to the man, said, “I made a difference to that one!”

In my previous business life, I had a saying that I

used to guide me when I felt there was too much going on and I just wanted to get off the spinning wheel for a breather. I would remind myself that:

You cannot eat an elephant whole, but you can swallow it a bite at a time. Join us in Walking with Moms in Need, a nationwide effort from the USCCB for Catholic communities to ‘walk This approach reminded me, and still does, that big in the shoes’ of local pregnant and parenting women in challenges are just a bunch of little ones all lumped need. Visit h-t.org/respect-life-ministry to learn more. together. Break them apart into manageable pieces

Did you know? On Tuesday, we celebrate the and eventually you solve the big problem.

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. We look to This time of year can feel overwhelming. Combine Immaculate Mary, awed by her singular privilege as the that with everything else 2020 has thrown at us and Mother of God and free from original sin, to intercede for it can be paralyzing. Recognizing, and accepting, all mothers as we seek to provide care and comfort to those who need help during this year of Walking with that you cannot do everything at once and you Moms in Need. cannot solve everyone’s problems today, give yourself permission to take care of one thing today Upcoming Events in the Archdiocese and help one person today. Like the little boy, if you 12/6, 11:00am — Prayer vigil at St. Andre Bessette (601 save one starfish at a time you will W Burnside St.) for the victims of and an end to human trafficking. Masks & distancing required. GO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

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Biblical Social Emotional Learning

Holy Trinity students are using a biblical social emotional learning (SEL) program called Friendzy. Returning to school during the pandemic and long absences from school have been hard on our students. The Friendzy program reinforces the values Jesus teaches throughout the bible.

This month, we are focused on the following verse:

“A friend loves at all times” (Proverbs 17:17)

It’s easy to love friends when they are acting lovable. How can we be a good friend and love someone when that someone is acting unlovable?

P ARISH S TAFF S ACRAMENTAL P REPARATION Pastor Dave Gutmann | [email protected] Baptism Pat Linton | [email protected] Parochial Vicar Hans Mueller | [email protected] First Communion Chris Storm | [email protected] Business Manager Brett Edmonson | [email protected] Confirmation (Teens) Chris Storm | [email protected] Administrative Assistant Erica Wills | [email protected] RCIA Erin Nieves | [email protected] Bookkeeper Julie Mikkelson | [email protected] F AITH F ORMATION & E DUCATION Pastoral Assistant Erin Nieves | [email protected] Grow Group Brett Edmonson | [email protected] Director of Religious Ed. Chris Storm | [email protected] Kid Zone Cathie Scott | [email protected] Sacramental Admin. Asst. Pat Linton | [email protected] Religious Education Chris Storm | [email protected] Community Outreach Dir. Al Schmitt | [email protected] Wednesday Bible Study Erin Nieves | [email protected] Pastoral Apprentice Ally Rudd | [email protected] Youth Ministry (HTYM) Nick Krautscheid | [email protected] Young Adult Ministry Ally Rudd | [email protected] A DVISORY C OUNCILS Administrative Tony Lucarelli | [email protected] L ITURGICAL M INISTRIES Altar Servers , Lectors & Pastoral Maria Menor | [email protected] Pat Linton | [email protected] School Eric Hansen | [email protected] Communion Ministers Greeters Jim Huntzicker | [email protected] P ARISH L IFE Music Director Mark Nieves | [email protected] First Friday Adoration Mike Prusynski | 503.619.7888 C OMMUNITY G ROUPS & M INISTRIES Information Desk Marilyn Palma | [email protected] Abuse Survivors Group Anne Church | 503.320.3049 Newcomer’s Welcome Betty Drilling | 503.644.8550 Centering Prayer Group Marilyn M. | [email protected] Parish Events Monette Mallari | 503.307.3438 Christians in Commerce Bob Neubauer | [email protected] Senior Luncheon Kathy Delach | 503.614.9724 Christ Renews His Parish Carol Liebertz | 503.680.0749 Sunday Hospitality Allie Buchanan | [email protected] Filipino Community Monette Mallari | 503.307.3438 M INISTRIES OF P ASTORAL S UPPORT Health Ministry Debbie Gray | [email protected] Annulment Advocacy Erin Nieves | [email protected] Indian Community Pinto Akkara | [email protected] Funeral Planning Ann Hammond | 503.701.9566 Knights of Columbus Josh Ritcheson | [email protected] Funeral Receptions Steve Davis | [email protected] L’Arche Portland Liaison Maria Menor | [email protected] Homebound Ministry Erin Nieves | [email protected] Panache Patty Huntzicker | [email protected] Prayer Shawl Ministry Linda Dum | 503.642.1168 Respect Life Gloria Bernard | [email protected] Prayer Requests www.h-t.org/prayer-requests Social Justice Eileen Sleva | [email protected]

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