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SAINT MICHAEL PARISH OLYMPIA, WA MARCH 11, 2018 – 4TH SUNDAY OF LENT RENOVATION MASS TIME changes STARTS APRIL 14 SATURDAY 5PM WESTSIDE SUNDAY 7AM WESTSIDE SUNDAY 9AM WESTSIDE SUNDAY 10AM SCHOOL GYM SUNDAY 11AM WESTSIDE SUNDAY 5PM SCHOOL GYM MASS MINISTRY FOR CHILDREN (1-5 YRS. OLD) SUNDAYS 9AM, 10AM & 5PM FEEDING THE PASTOR'S CALLED TO HAPPENINGS STATION DAYS NOTEBOOK EVANGELIZE HUNGRY 3 4 5 7 8 www.saintmichaelparish.org SAINT MICHAEL PARISH STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE Pastoral Year 2017-2018 Donations Received as of March 4, 2018 1208 11th Ave. SE, Olympia 98501 (360) 754-4667 Sunday Stewardship $36,051 www.saintmichaelparish.org Online Stewardship Giving $35,766 OFFICE HOURS Sunday Loose Donations $1,872 Monday – Friday: 9am - 5pm Sunday 8:30am - 4:30pm Holy Days $227 Youth (Little House) $145 CALVARY CEMETERY ext. 138 3850 Cleveland Ave., Tumwater 98501 Total Offertory Collection Received $74,061 ST. MICHAEL SCHOOL (360) 754-5131 Year to Date Received $2,307,079 ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY Wed & Fri 1-3pm (360) 352-7554 TEXT TO GIVE CLOTHING BANK (360) 523-7408 Tues & Sat 9-11am, Thur. 6:30-8pm PREGNANCY AID (360) 956-7413 M, T, Th, Fri 2-4pm, Wed. 9am-Noon ST. MIKE’S TIKES (360) 586-1585 NORMAL MASS TIMES: (Daily Mass times often change – Check schedule on page 2) Downtown: 1055 Boundary St. SE Friday 9am Saturday: 5 pm | Sunday: 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30 am, 5 pm Westside Chapel: 1835 Overhulse Rd. NW Monday – Wednesday: Noon | Thursday: 6:30am & Noon | Saturday: 9am Sunday: 8:30am, 10:30am DOWNLOAD OUR APP AT: myparishapp.com 2nd Sunday: 1:30pm (Vietnamese) RECONCILIATION TIMES: Thursday: 11am | Saturday: 9:45am (Westside Chapel) Friday: 5:30pm | Saturday 3pm (Downtown) PASTOR: Fr. Jim Lee PAROCHIAL VICAR: Fr. Cody Ross DEACONS: Rob Rensel John Bergford GET IT AT: saintmichaelparish.formed.org SEMINARIAN Made possilbe by your generous stewardship. Thomas Tran MISSION Our mission is to place God first in all things, to pro- claim the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to grow in holiness www.facebook.com/ through prayer, sacraments, and service. saintmichaelparish 1 www.saintmichaelparish.org MASS SCHEDULE & INTENTIONS PLEASE PRAY FOR: Rita Rutigliano Ruston Paul Swan 3/12 MONDAY Pati Leininger Johnny Pereira Jeana & Michael Knight Janet Smith 12noon - George Bader U Westside Mariah Farmer-Grace Donna Petersen 3/13 TUESDAY Rudy Enriquez Pia Ed Swan Glenda Pordon 12noon - Ann McCauley U Westside Ron Rebers Cooper Caywood Dorene Naccarato Dan & father 3/14 WEDNESDAY Bob Jessy Jacob Mary Flury Jeffery 12noon - Dr. John Inverso U Westside Ernie Ang V. L. Patrick family Thelma Ang Kathy Weaver (11AM Reconciliation at Westside) 3/15 THURSDAY Marty Bucklin Jim Vetter Deceased members of Ingrid Turner Nina Sebastian 6:30am - U Westside the Olson Family Tiff Barrett Jason Sebastian Carmelo Malkasian Pat Alder 12noon - Jody & Andy Fritz U Westside John Don Alder Laura Hackstadt Janet Vetter 3/16 FRIDAY (5:30PM Reconciliation Downtown) Stacy Spears Ken Vetter Whitney Leckenby Hilary Borngesser U 9am - Jody & Andy Fritz Downtown Ron Ragan Falicia Bores 10:30am - Mass at Olympic West Tom Ragan Jan Putnam Theresa Ragan Elena & Clarence Lormand 3/17 SATURDAY (9:45AM & 3PM Reconciliation Downtown) Patricia Lee Cody Dudley & Mildred Pitchford Barbara Jean Smith Joseph Vecera Tenio 9am - Word & Communion Westside Eldrich Saldhana David Madison Rogers Florence Mims Rosalina A. Bayona 5pm - Suzanne Kohler U Downtown Alan & Sylvia Boyn Antonio Byona James E. Luckey Conrado Vios 3/18 SUNDAY Miguel Aquilar Nora Vios 7:30am - Margaret Parker Downtown David Phillips Carey B. Tenio Salvador Guerra Emilie T. Damian 8:30am - Jim O’Sullivan U Westside Rebecca Tiegen Patrice T. Parkhurst Jerry Dickinson Randy Reyes Tenio 9:30am - Lucia Phan U Downtown Lauren Jenkins Anish John Carmelo Scuncio Ray Smith 10:30am - Andrew Buthorn U Westside Julijeanne Malloy Marilyn Vetter Marge Pool Brian Lieb U 11:30am - Francesca Maiano Pearson Downtown Thelma Dean Tim Bittrick 5pm - People of Saint MIchael Parish Downtown Bob Kelly Eric McDonald Karen Cosden Harris Danielle Y. Olga Zamora Ray Becca Cotey Gary Allin Danny Mullan IMPORTANT NOTICE: To submit prayer requests, call the Parish Office at The CDC reports that influenza activity has sharply (360) 754-4667 or submit your request via our increased. In response, beginning January 9 we will sus- website under the Contact menu. pend distribution of the Precious Blood except for .those If you or someone you know is homebound and wish- who are gluten intolerant AND healthy. es to receive Holy Communion, please call: We will resume distribution of both Sacred Species on Benedetta Reece at (360) 292-7143 or Dcn. Terry Holy Thursday. Barber at Sacred Heart Parish at (360) 491-0890. 2 www.saintmichaelparish.org March 11, 2018 – 4th Sunday of Lent Our Lenten practices last twenty years, I have to testify to human nature. of prayer, fasting and learned more about the He himself understood it almsgiving, being better nature of ‘religious’ people well.’” stewards of our time, tal- than I ever cared to know. Sound familiar? Doesn’t ents and treasure, are Parishioners criticize this same thing happen meant to open us more ‘boring’ organ music, at home, work, school, and more to this mystery while elsewhere praising the neighborhood and of God’s divine love for us, liturgical use of traditional in the parking lot at Saint Fr. Jim Lee transforming our thoughts Pastor chant and Latin. School Michael Parish? Over the and actions to be more administration complains years I have received my and more like Christ’s. This about volunteers allow- share of angry, accusatory is a daily journey. It won’t ing religious education and opinionated letters, “It is not the finest wood that end at Easter but rather feeds the fire of divine love, kids to use their students' emails and questionings in but the wood of the cross.” should help us become desks, while those uncom- the Gathering Space after – St. Ignatius of Loyola more keenly aware of pensated volunteers are Mass. Maybe this prayer, those areas of our life that parishioners who also tithe that is included with this We are halfway through need greater attention and the money that keeps the reflection may be helpful Lent with our eyes fixed on transformation. indebted, under-enrolled from time to time when the last day of the month, Therefore, Fr. Cody and I school open. our self-righteousness and the Easter Vigil. The entire invite you to take time this judgementalism gets the Church year points us The ministry committee Lent to make a thorough better of us. to the great mystery of wants to offer community examination of conscience, Christ’s passion, death outreach, but a few par- “Heavenly Father, please humble and truthfully and resurrection. The ents with kids in the private forgive my Pharisaical nit- acknowledging your sins, Paschal Triduum is for us Catholic school demand picking, complaining and and then celebrate the the moment of profoundly that no germy homeless selfishness. May I repent sacrament of Penance and entering into the heart of people or degenerate kids of such distractions and be reconciled with God God’s love for us. from the neighboring proj- keep my eyes only on and with the others around ects be allowed to sleep you when I am tempted As we hear in our second you. Be not afraid of God’s on the same gym floor to murmur about my reading from Ephesians: mercy. or eat at the same lunch pastor, parish or fellow “God is rich in mercy, tables that their children Christians. Amen.” because of the great love Faithful or Fickle? use. he has for us, even when I share this reflection from In Christ, through the inter- we were dead in our trans- the Magnificat Lenten One gripes for a pastor cession of Blessed Pier gressions, brought us life Companion. I was struck who’s a better homilist, Giorgio Frassati, I love you. with Christ.” by its honesty and its another for homilies with This is our joy, our peace application to every way fire and brimstone, another and our hope. We trust of life. I hope that it will be still that she must not be in what Jesus tells a source of insight espe- judged from the pulpit. Nicodemus, “For God so cially as we transition after No wonder ‘Jesus would loved the world that he Easter to our new Sunday not trust himself to them gave his only Son, so that Mass schedule. because he knew them all,’ everyone who believes in “As a church employee as today’s (last Sunday’s) him might not perish but for several churches in Gospel says. Of course might have eternal life.” various capacities in the he ‘did not need anyone 3 www.saintmichaelparish.org CALLED TO EVANGELIZE Kerygmatic work being carried out daily. From the preaching Deploying the New Evangelization of our priests and deacons at Mass to our bible studies, small groups and faith formation activities – we work each day to So how, exactly, do we do that? bring the Gospel to all nations, as the scripture says. We can In the last chapter of St. Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus says, "Go even evangelize as we say grace before meals around our therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in family dinner tables, at home or in a restaurant. How might the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, we even more intentionally bring the Kerygma to those on teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you…” the periphery of our daily lives, those we encounter in many This has long been called The Great Commission.