H OLY T RINITY C ATHOLIC C HURCH K NOW ~ G ROW ~ G O
November 22, 2020
The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
MASS SCHEDULE
Mon—Fri 8:15am Wednesday 2:15pm (school Mass) Saturday 5:30pm Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:15am Holy Days 8:15am, 7:00pm
RECONCILIATION
Friday 8:45-9:30am Saturday 4:00-5:00pm
PARISH OFFICE
503.643.9528 www.h-t.org
Mon—Thur 8:00-4:30pm Friday 8:00-2:00pm
SCHOOL OFFICE
503.644.5748 www.htsch.org
Monday—Friday 8:00-3:30pm
COMMUNITY OUTREACH OFFICE
503.641.1842 www.h-t.org/outreach
Tues, Wed, Fri 10:00-12:30pm
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G REETINGS FROM F R. DAVE
Well, here we go into a new level of restrictions. I receive from us a special Thanksgiving card that urge each of you to do all you can to stay safe — and includes a meal blessing prayer. to not compromise living fully in the meantime! That We will also be releasing a video message from the requires creativity, inspiration, and a willingness to parish that morning and urge you to play that just look at new ways of reaching out and connecting prior to eating your Thanksgiving meal. It concludes with others. With Thanksgiving plans disrupted for with Fr. Hans leading us in the prayer that is on the just about all of us, it is even more important that we prayer card. The prayer is also printed in this bulletin. be alert and actively seeking ways to support, Happy early Thanksgiving to each of you! encourage, and engage. I urge you to see this as our
MISSION during these final weeks of 2020. Our weekly e-Newsletters are off and rolling. If you
are not receiving them, go to our website (h-t.org) And, for Thanksgiving, in case you have not heard of and sign up. Fr. Hans is our editor and has put our Holy Trinity adaptation for this year, here it is. together a really easy way to pull up the most current We will not have Mass that morning for the reason and relevant information from our parish including that we have no way of limiting our usual 900 the previous week’s homily, staff reflections, and participants down to the current number allowed. latest parish news. It comes out on Friday afternoons. Because one of the highlights of that annual Mass was Enjoy! the offertory procession with food items brought up to the altar for our Food Closet, we are going to Blessings to Adelyn Kwan and Olivia Ornelas, who continue that practice like this: between 9:00am and were baptized this weekend! 10:00am on Thanksgiving morning, we invite you to come up to the parish, drive by the Food Closet Funeral services were held last week for Danny where you will be met warmly by our staff, drop off Campbell, and are scheduled for Florence Niebur on food items (especially needed items: canned soups November 23rd. May their souls and all the souls of and vegetables, pinto or black beans, jelly), and the faithful departed, rest in peace.
M ASS I NTENTIONS HOLY FATHER’S INTENTION FOR NOVEMBER
Saturday 21st Artificial Intelligence
5:30pm +Claudia Ditter We pray that the progress of robotics and artificial intelligence may always serve humankind. Sunday 22nd 8:00am In Thanksgiving from the Laurente family T HIS W EEK A T H OLY T RINITY 9:30am +Esperanza Florez Sunday, November 22nd 11:15am Holy Trinity Parish 12:30-2:00pm, Field — Youth Ministry
Monday 23rd Monday, November 23rd 8:15am In Thanksgiving from the Varela family 11:00am, Church — Funeral for Florence Niebur and +Frank Kuzel Thursday, November 26th
Tuesday 24th The Parish Office & School will be 8:15am All souls in purgatory closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.
9:00-10:00am — Thanksgiving at HT (2020 Style) Wednesday 25th
8:15am +Concepcion Igisomar Friday, November 27th
11:00am +Elizabeth R. Wills The Parish Office & School will be
th closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. Friday 27 8:15am +Danny Campbell 6:30-7:30pm, via Zoom — Friday Night Bingo
2 B RETT’ S T WO C ENTS Hello everyone! This week as we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving (admittedly, not in the way we all might have hoped!), I’m reminded of how crucial gratitude is for both our relationship with God and with one another. To be grateful is to acknowledge our need for the other, and to open ourselves to the grace brought by their presence in our lives. St. Thérèse of Lisieux has one of my favorite quotes about gratitude. I offer it for your reflection this week. Enjoy!
“What most attracts God’s grace is gratitude, because if we thank him for a gift, he is touched and hastens to give us ten more, and if we thank him again with the same enthusiasm, what an incalculable multiplication of graces! I have experienced this; try it yourself and you will see! My gratitude for everything he gives me is limitless, and I prove it to him in a thousand ways.” (from The Way of Trust and Love: A Guided Retreat by St. Thérèse of Lisieux, by Fr. Jacques Philippe)
Looking forward to seeing on Thursday morning those of you who can make it to our Thanksgiving Food Drive (Thru!).
Thanksgiving Prayer of Blessing
Loving God, we thank you this day for our many blessings, and we ask for the grace to be thankful even when times are hard. When we have plenty, help us to serve those who go without. When we are healthy, help us to care for those who are sick. When we have comfort, help us to comfort those who suffer. Thank you, God, for what we have, and please move us to compassion, prayer, and action to help those who are in need. Please bless all our loved ones who cannot be with us today, and bless us and the food we are about to receive. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
PARISH FINANCES
FOR THE WEEKEND OF NOVEMBER 14– 15 Offertory $24,945
Food Closet $2,369
Backpacks/Duffel Bags $260
Outreach Assistance $100
Additional Gifts $2,000 Holiday Outreach
Thanksgiving $10,865
Christmas $4,260
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F AMILY F AITH R EFLECTIONS Y OUTH M INISTRY TH R ELIGIOUS E DUCATION & S ACRAMENTAL P REP. 6-12 GRADE Chris Storm— [email protected] Nick Krautscheid — [email protected] First Communion Congratulations to the 57 children who made their First Reconciliation on Saturday!
Confirmation The next two lessons are posted in our Google Classroom! Thanks to everyone who came to our live Zoom check-in last Sunday. It was great to see you!
Saint of the Week This Tuesday, November 24th, is the Memorial of the Martyrs of Vietnam. Christianity was not always welcome in Vietnam. Some of the local religious leaders tried to stop Christian missionaries from sharing their faith; some political leaders threw Christians in prison, or even put them to death!
Pope John Paul II wanted to honor all the Vietnamese people who had faced danger to share the love of Jesus Christ. He named more than one hundred new Vietnamese saints, and set aside November 24th as a special day to remember all the other Vietnamese martyrs whose names have been lost to history — thousands of saints whose names we don't even know.
F OR W HAT I T’ S W ORTH: T HOUGHTS ON F AITH Erin Nieves — [email protected]
Quas Primas, the first thing. Today’s feast was established to remind S CRIPTURE R EADINGS us that Jesus Christ is our King, the Lord of our lives. That was in 1925…has it worked? I am going to suggest there are two kinds of Monday 23rd people as Jesus suggests in today’s gospel: people that know him and Rv 14: 1-3, 4b-5 | Lk 21: 1-4 those who don’t, “sheep and goats.” Which one are we? We are surviving a virus, a pandemic; we just survived a less-than-perfect Tuesday 24th election cycle. Never was there a better time for Jesus Christ to be our Rv 14: 14-19 | Lk 21: 5-11 King. Wednesday 25th I ask this of myself as well as you: Is Jesus my King? Do I go to Him Rv 15: 1-4 | Lk 21: 12-19 first in my allegiance, seeking to keep him as the center of my imperfect life, knowing that without Him, nothing else matters? On Thursday 26th this feast, let’s recommit ourselves to the Jesus who deserves all my Rv 18: 1-2, 21-23; 19: 1-3, 9a love, my life, my everything! Lk 21: 20-28 “Lord Jesus, for too long I’ve kept you out of my life. I know that I am a sinner and that I cannot save myself. No longer will I close the door Friday 27th when I hear you knocking. By faith I gratefully receive your gift of Rv 20: 1-4, 11—21: 2 | Lk 21: 29-33 salvation. I am ready to trust you as my Lord and Savior. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for coming to earth. I believe you are the Son of God who Saturday 28th died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead on the third day. Rv 22: 1-7 | Lk 21: 34-36 Thank you for bearing my sins and giving me the gift of eternal life. I believe your words are true. Come into my heart, Lord Jesus, and be my Sunday 29th Savior. Amen.” Is 63: 16b-17, 19b; 64: 2-7 | 1 Cor 1: 3-9 Have a great weekend everybody. Advent is coming! + Mk 13: 33-37
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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]
HOLY TRINITY FOOD CLOSET IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PROVIDER. At this time in our nation’s history we have much to be grateful for: the blessings of liberty, the bounty of N UMBER OF P EOPLE SERVED Food Closet Backpacks our land, the rising spirit of justice, and our call to Last Week 446 Last Week N/A become a nation that is committed to seeking the Since January 1st 18,588 School Year 7,020 common good of all who live here. Recognizing that God is the source of all the gifts we experience, we can express our gratitude by working toward a Happy Thanksgiving! community that is both loving and just, and by growing in generosity to those who are in need. I truly hope each and every one of you and your
Join with the US Catholic Bishops in their Prayer for families has a very blessed Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving Day: Because of your generosity, the following people will as well: Lord, we thank you
for the goodness of our people and for the ➢ Women’s Life Change Center—40 people spirit of justice that fills this nation. ➢ Veterans—61 families, 159 people We thank you for the beauty and fullness of the land and the challenge of the cities. ➢ Family Promise of Beaverton—9 families We thank you for our work and our rest, ➢ L’Arche Portland—3 houses for one another, and for our homes. ➢ Holy Trinity Food Closet—150 families We thank you, Lord:
accept our thanksgiving on this day. Adding all of these groups up means 1,000 We pray and give thanks through people will be able to celebrate Thanksgiving Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. because you decided to share. It was not the way we have always done it, but I assure you it R ESPECT L IFE M INISTRY Gloria Bernard — 503.579.2562 — [email protected] had the same meaningful impact. Many of these families would not be able to join in on the
celebration were it not for you. Know that once
again you have
MADE A DIFFERENCE!
The Mother & Child Education Center (MCEC) offers hope, support, education, and guidance to Due to store guidelines, my wife Cathie and I families during their parenting journey to help build (OK, mainly Cathie) made multiple trips to a community of competent, confident multiple Fred Meyers to purchase the cards. parents. Established in Portland in 1971, MCEC offers a During one such trip the person waiting on us judgment-free space for anyone who is parenting including expectant women, single fathers, and shared a story that when she was young her families facing challenges such as lack of housing, family was having difficult times. She poverty, fleeing domestic violence, immigration or remembers very vividly one Thanksgiving refugee status, DHS involvement, substance abuse, or where a church had donated food for their trauma. MCEC provides prenatal & parenting classes, family and how blessed it made them all feel. supplies such as diapers, clothing and food, and access She talked about how special it was to them to additional resources through community partners. knowing that someone cared enough to do such Due to the pandemic, donations must currently be made by appointment. Please call 503.249.5801 during a thing. business hours (M-Th 10-5, Fri 10-3) to learn of their current needs and schedule an appointment. Visit Thank you for your incredible generosity, no momchildpdx.org to learn more. matter the conditions. You are all amazing!
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V IRTUAL A DVENT RETREAT AT OLP H EALTH M INISTRY 503.649.7127 — [email protected] Debbie Gray — [email protected] Our Lady of Peace Retreat is offering a FREE virtual option for their annual Advent Retreat! Interested retreatants must register online at olpretreat.org to attend. Bishop Peter Smith will lead the day-long retreat, “Making Advent Meaningful,” on Wednesday, December 2nd from 9:00-2:30pm. Call or email to learn more and register online today!
W INTER B LOOD D RIVE Tom Stoffel — 503.806.1816 The Red Cross is still in urgent need of blood donations! Our Winter Blood Drive is on Friday, December 18th from 2:00-7:00pm in the Fireside Room. The Red Cross has increased their safety protocols and are testing all donations for COVID-19 antibodies as an extra health service to donors. Sign up now at redcrossblood.org and enter HolyTrinityBeaverton as the sponsor to sign-up today. Many thanks to our Knights of Columbus for coordinating these lifesaving events!
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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