Holy Rosary Catholic Church Seattle, Washington MASS SCHEDULE CHURCH HOURS Registration Recommended 12-2pm Saturdays March 13 – 5:00 pm 2-4pm Mondays March 14- 8:30 am, 10:30 am 12pm-2pm Wednesdays 2pm-4pm Fridays (Lent Only) Click here to register or call 206-937-1488 ext. 200. Masks mandatory, no exceptions. Visitors must answer Please arrive 15-20 minutes early. Walk-ups welcome ‘no’ to all health screening questions. Max. of 10 people. as space allows. 5 minutes before Mass we seat everyone first come, first served, and Stations of the Cross reservations are no longer held. 7:00 PM on Fridays No Daily Mass this week as In-Person or via livestream at Fr. Oakland is away on Retreat. www.vimeo.com/holyrosary No Confessions Tuesday or Friday night. There will still be Stations of the Cross Printable Stations of the Cross booklet HERE. Friday night. RECONCILIATION Mass Livestreams on Facebook & Vimeo 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Saturdays Most Masses (some not staffed) 5:30 - 5:50 pm Tuesdays Watch posted videos at anytime. 6:30-6:55 pm Fridays *No Confessions on 3/16 or 3/19* March 14, 2021 Fourth Sunday of Lent 1 The Journey of Faith with Lucas Oakland (Fr. Oakland’s youngest nephew) n Friday my youngest nephew turns 3 years My brother has long O old. I have shared his story with you, and I said that their know that many of you continue to pray for him and ultimate hope was our family and ask about him. So, an update/ that he know joy review. and that he is loved—and for over Lucas was born with 6 heart defects and a few other a year we haven't problems as well, including no spleen and therefore doubted that. That no immune system. Our greatest hope and prayer said, he cant walk or was of course an outright miracle—a perfect heart at talk, but is getting birth. Our second hope was getting to delay the better about holding immediate surgery a week. Lucas had his first up his head. He is surgery on March 29, 2019 at Seattle Children’s, 53+ mostly blind, and weeks after he was born. His various defects offset needs to be held 16-20 hours a day. Thankfully they one another to allow for low but sufficient heart have the help of some great nurses and respite care, functioning. His heart was perfectly broken! “One though the state is currently reducing it much to our in a billion” the doctors said—aka a miracle. dismay. Progress was usually slow, with lots of setbacks including several emergency surgeries. May brought The cardiac wing at Seattle Children’s is a place of quick progress, and he came home in June. A few broken hearts. It would be easy for the staff to have weeks later, he was in for a 48 hour stay to see how hardened hearts—seeing so many triumphs, but he responded to a new medicine. After getting losses as well. The same is true for the families on home, things were off and my sister in law brought the long journey. The patients are there because their him back up to the hospital from Lacey in the middle hearts are broken. Others there, though, choose to of the night. While in the ER, he went into cardiac allow their hearts to be broken—in love. arrest and had CPR for an hour before they were able to get the team in to get him onto a heart bypass Calvary has a duality about it—a place of incredible machine. Slow progress, more setbacks, several evil, but also of incredible love, as well. That has more urgent/emergency surgeries. been one of the lessons that we have learned with Lucas—the depths of love that can only come with He came home in November of 2019. As he sacrifice, as our hearts, too, are broken. We have celebrates his third birthday, his daily medical needs seen it in so many of the doctors, nurses, specialists are few. He has a feeding tube. His heart still has and others who have labored and cried and rejoiced some issues, but actually registered “good” function with us. We have seen it, too, with so many who which is incredible, and there are still the other issues have shared this journey with Lucas, including you. which will require at least one surgery to fix what can be fixed. They have successfully weaned him off two He has come a long way, and still has a long way to -thirds of the medicines he came home with (21!). go. We are hopeful that God (and time) will He used to be more dazed, and writhing in continue to heal the wounds from the cardiac arrest. discomfort or pain, but things started to really change Faith has been a consolation and a strength when we in January 2020. He spends most of the day smiling, have been so weak. The gift of one another has also and laughing at the sounds of his parents and siblings given us strength. It’s hard not to have all the and others, or when you snuggle or tickle him or answers. But as my brother and his wife say, “The whisper sweet nothings to him. If you say “kisses, answer is in a story, and the story is still being told.” kisses,” he will turn toward you and purse and move Thank you for praying for Lucas and his family, and his lips together. sharing in that story with us. For more of the story (and pictures), visit https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/lucasoakland 2 4139 42nd Ave SW ◆ Seattle, WA 98116 ◆ 206-935-8353 ◆ www.holyrosaryseattle.org Presence: The Mystery of the Eucharist Episode 3: Bread for the Journey Journeys can be short or long, but they all require sustenance. On our journey in life, our soul needs sustenance too. Just as God provided manna for the people in the desert on their way to the Promised Land, so too God gives us the Eucharist, an even greater gift, to nourish and strengthen us on the way to Heaven. In and through the Holy https://watch.formed.org/presence Sacrifice of the Mass, God comes to us and feeds us. Delve into the mystery of the Mass and the is a time to draw near to Christ in the Eucharist, and drink fully of the Lord’s goodness. Lent desert, to encounter Him more fully in our lives. During Lent, in this Year of the 1. Was there anything new in the video that you Eucharist in the Archdiocese of Seattle, we are hadn't heard before? What stood out to you? inviting parishioners to join together in reflecting 2. Have you ever been really hungry because of a upon the Eucharist, this great mystery of our faith, using a series of 4 videos on Formed, an online long trip or the circumstances of life? What platform which is free to all of our members was that experience, that feeling like? through our parish subscription. 3. What is your favorite part of the Mass and Each week, we will include in the bulletin, as well why? as the Domestic Church email, information about 4. 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VINCENT DE PAUL Report for February 2021 INCOME_______________________________ Parish Donations …………………….. $1743.00 Member donations ………………….... 700.00 TOTAL INCOME $2443.00 ASSISTANCE GIVEN_____________________ Utilities ……………………..………… $681.00 Holy Rosary and Our March 20 Rent …………………………...…….. 4500.00 Lady of Guadalupe are excited to Welcome Table Furniture/Clothing ……………………. 1105.00 collaborate and offer Service Project Food/Gas cards ………………….… 250.00 faith events, service See pg.