Pastoral Staff
Tel: 503-266-9411 Fax:503-263-2293
Pastor: Fr. John Waldrom
Pastor Associate: Sara Creel
Director of Rel. Educ: Sue Unger
Aministrative Assistant: Debbie Newbury
Maintenance: Heriberto Aguilar

Rectory Office Hours
Monday thru Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
We are closed for lunch between 12:00-1:00 p.m.

Bulletin Policy
Items for the bulletin are due in the Parish Office no later than Wednesday of each week. Email your items to dnewbury@canby.com

Prayer Needs
If you have prayer needs, please call St. Patrick prayer chain. Contact Kathy Usher, 503-266-2485

Social Service Ministries
St. Vincent dePaul Food Bank:
Bill & Delores Piller: 503-701-9135

Sacrament
Infant Baptisms:
Registered parishioners are expected to complete a Baptismal Preparation program prior to scheduling a baptism. Baptismal preparation programs are offered 3 times a year. For information and /or registration, contact Sara 503-266-9411.
Next Baptismal Prep Class: September 28, 2006

Adult Baptisms:
Adults seeking baptism are expected to participate in the RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.) RCIA begins in the fall with the reception of the Sacraments of Initiation in the Spring (Easter). For information and/or registration contact Sara at 503-266-9411.

Marriage Policy:
Our parish is a signator of the Clackamas County "community marriage policy", that is a multi denominational agreement for common standards for marriage preparation. Please contact the Pastor at least six months prior to the wedding to ensure adequate time for these preparations.

Forth Sunday of Lent
March 18, 2007

TASTE AND SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD

SECOND COLLECTION
A special collection will be taken up at all the masses for The Catholic Relief Services Collection this weekend, March 18/19. This collection makes possible the American Catholic Church’s global mission to combat poverty, provide relief and development, assist refugees and immigrants, and advocate for justice and peace in situations of conflict and neglect of basic human rights. Please give generously.

AN INVITATION TO CELEBRATE THE HEALING SACRAMENTS
The Lenten Penance Service is scheduled for Thursday, March 22 at 7:00 pm. The Sacrament of Reconciliation, or Penance, is one of the two Healing Sacraments. In this sacrament we are given the opportunity to heal the division in our souls which comes about when we are separated from God by sin; to heal the division in our relationships with one another which comes about when we are separated from one another by sin; and heal the divisions in our communities which comes about when we are at odds with one another because of sin. Personal, familial, and communal, God desires us to be a whole and healed image of the Trinity, united in love and faith. As we approach the great Easter Celebration of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus, let us come prepared, with clean hearts and souls, united in love and service to one another. Join us for the Lenten Penance Service this Thursday, March 22 at 7:00 pm

A SPECIAL CELEBRATION OF THE SACRAMENT OF THE ANOINTING OF THE SICK
Sunday, March 25, 2007 Fr. John will celebrate the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. The second Sacrament of Healing, the Anointing of the Sick, is for anyone who is sick, whether physically or suffering severe mental or emotional anxiety, preparing to go into surgery, or for the elderly. The effects of the Anointing of the Sick are: giving strength during times of sickness and pain, calling to the attention of the community of believers the need of extra care and support during times of illness, and providing comfort and the assurance of the healing presence of Jesus with us in all things. We will have a brief liturgy followed by individual anointing’s beginning at 10:00 am on Sunday morning. This wonderful sacrament is to bring about new life and healing, through increase of faith in the promises of God. Come and celebrate with those among us who need our prayers and our presence that the healing work of Jesus might be complete.

MASS AT HOPE VILLAGE
On Wednesday, March 21 at 10:30am we will gather together at Hope Village Retirement Complex to celebrate Mass with our parish family members who live at the Retirement complex. All parishioners are invited. They would love to see new faces and have a chance to visit with you. Please remember there is additional parking located behind the main building.

Last week, repent or perish. This week, repent and feast. In this parable of the Prodigal Son we have an example of someone who does repent and enjoys the fruits of repentance: a welcome home, a loving embrace of the father, and a feast. Both sons hurt their father: the younger son takes his inheritance and leaves the family; the elder son refuses to celebrate when his brother returns. Toward each the father shows compassion and solicitude by inviting both to the feast. Neither the self-centeredness of the one nor the self-righteousness of the other diminishes the father’s love for them. Entering the feast depends on their choice to repent. Sometimes an outside catalyst brings us to repentance and conversion. For the younger son, the choice to repent is sparked by necessity; he is humbled to seek forgiveness and accept a new relationship with his father. The father, however, forgives him and restores him to his former relationship as son. The generosity of the father, then, goes well beyond the tangible gifts he bestows upon his son. The surprise of the parable is that the father expresses his forgiveness by restoring the younger son to their former relationship. The elder son, however, replies to his father’s pleas to come to the feast that he has “all these years served” him. Here is the problem: the elder son served the father; there is no sense in the parable that the elder son ever responded to the father’s constant generosity out of a filial, loving relationship. The elder son also needed to heal a relationship with this father that had gone awry, but he remained deaf to his father’s compassionate overtures: he clung to his self-righteousness. This Sunday’s gospel is probably one of the most familiar to us; our Lenten challenge is to hear it anew and respond to the parable’s call to repent and come to the feast. Reconciliation is, indeed, a ‘passing over’ from famine to feast, from self-indulgence to self-giving. Like the father in the parable, our heavenly Father is loving and compassionate, always inviting us to his feast. This ought to give us courage to undertake our own repenting, no matter what our sinfulness. Let the feast begin!

OUR PRIVILEGE, OUR RIGHT, AND OUR DUTY
As it is written ‘Even if these forget, yet I will not forget you.’ (Is 49:15):
We in the Catholic Church in the Community of St. Patrick remember, hold in our memory, and pray for the men and women who serve in the Armed Forces especially Ryan Thomas Blackwood, Ryan Bridges, Lonnie Brown, Nathan Brown, Douglas Bower Jr., Carlos Bustamante, Nick Classen, Adamm Creel, Isaiah Creel, John Czernick , David Davies, Brad Dunn, Brian Dykeman, Bill Ellis, Adam Ferrell, Eric Fletcher, David Hannon, April Kennedy, Mike Krzmarzick , Johnny Lugo, Alex Martin, John Molamphy, John Nguyen, Patrick Ross, Jennifer Sayles, Joshua Schoen , Tarl Spencer, Leah Sundquist, Kathryn Takalo, Gina Thomas, Kenneth Thorpe, CJ Trillo, and William Walsh, may they be servants of Christ through service to those in need, and may they be kept safe from all harm. Lord hear our prayer.

PARISH SUPPORT
Parishioners of St. Patrick through the Sacrificial giving program gave to God the gift: March 11 , 2007
Building Fund $115.00
Cemetery $41.00
Envelopes $6675.00
Loose $499.33
Children $5.00
Poor $40.00

Total $7375.33

MASS INTENTIONS OF THE WEEK
March 20-23, 2007

Tuesday +George Morey by Kris & Laurie Morey
Wednesday +Stewart Prue by Joyce Prue
Thursday Special Intention for Ray Wellman
Friday +Sally Jo Allen by Jim & Lynn Heuberger

ST. PATRICK’S WEBSITE
By logging on to www.stpatcanby.org, parishioners have access to a range of information pertaining to St. Patrick’s parish such as the weekly bulletin, prayer requests, parish life, social outreach, liturgy and prayer, links to Catholic website’s, just to name a few. Some of these sections change on a regular basis. Come and see what’s happening at our website.

EVENTS AROUND THE AREA

FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS MISSION
presents Faces of Hope Brunch, Sunday, April 29th. Doors open at 11:30am. Brunch and program 12-00pm - 1:00pm at the Multnomah Athletic Club, 1849 SW Salmon Street, Portland, OR. Friends of the Orphans is dedicated to improving the lives of orphaned, abandoned and disadvantaged children through our support of the Nuestros Pequenon Hermanos (NPH) network of orphanages in Latin American and the Caribbean. Fr. Ken Hume who recently filled in for Fr. John at daily Mass in early March, talked about his travels and support for this worth while organization. Please join us to hear inspiration stories of how we can all bring hope to thousands of children at Nuestros Pequenon Hermanos.. This is no free but the event is a fundraiser. Please contact Fr. Ken Hume for reservations: 503-657-1318. Parking at the Multnomah Athletic Club is free.

MONASTIC DISCERNMENT RETREAT
Mount Angel Abbey sponsors vocation discernment retreats for men between the ages of 16-35, several times per year. The next retreat is scheduled for the weekend of April 13-15, 2007. If you are interested in making a Monastic Discernment Retreat, please contact Rev. Joseph Nguyen, OSB., Abbey Director of Vocations, at 503-845-3226, or by email: abbeyvocation@mtangel.edu.

I sought the Lord,
and he answered me
and delivered me from, all my fears.
Psalm 34:4

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION LENTEN ACTIVITY
Religious Education is collecting personal hygiene items and cash donations for the food bank for the Lenten and Easter Season. By collecting donations for the food bank they are able to buy the food much cheaper than the average person but they cannot get personal hygiene items. We are coming to the end of the Religious Education season. In the next few weeks we will be preparing for the Religious Education crowning of Mary on May 6th for both English and Spanish and the final celebrations of a luncheon and games. If you can volunteer or donate for these activities or have general questions contact Sue Unger.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL: DO IT FOR THE KIDS
Vacation Bible School needs you for this summer. Our time schedule is July 16-20 from 9-12 noon. Please consider the following volunteer needs: onstage play character King Xerxes for the Old Testament skit of Esther, a stunt person, assistants for classrooms and leading students from station to station, assembly production, cutting and assembly for craft area, secretary for VBS meetings, donations, decorators, catechists, babysitters assistants, artists, photographers, snack coordinator, volunteers to set up and clean up, we also know we need empty paper towel rolls. All volunteers that want to help with this project can attend the meeting on April 1st (April fool’s day) at 1:30 pm. There are many volunteer positions open. Contact Sue Unger Please take the time to “Do it for the Kids”

SACRAMENT PREPARATION
Our next gathering is at 7 pm on March 20 in the multi-purpose room. This will be a special prayer service remembering the gift of the Eucharist that Christ gave us so many years before. I will need volunteers to help set up and clean up on this day. This is a required parent/child meeting for all candidates receiving First Eucharist (communion) this year. Contact Sue Unger for more questions.

CONFIRMATION MEETING
Our next gathering is April 1st at 4 pm. Your journals need to be completed at this time. Be ready to make appointments with one of the Confirmation leaders. Be sure you have the retreat in April on your calendar April 13, 14 leaving Friday evening returning Saturday evening. Contact Sue Unger for questions, concerns or if you are not able to attend any activity.

YOUTH MINISTRY AND JR HIGH MINISTRY
All teens are welcome to join us on Wednesday night at 7 pm from 6th grade to High School. We have great volunteers that coordinate this program and make it fun and informative.

Youth Ministry is currently working on projects including preparing for some youth that are planning to go to Mexico for a service project, Vocation presentation on April 18th. We will be having class on April 4 for both Jr High and Sr High to concentrate on the Triduum and the Passion of Christ( This is a change in the schedule) The Mexican Trip group will meet Tuesday April 3rd at 7 pm in the Parish Hall. We now have a completed group to go to Mexico. For the Mexican service project we have decided to fly to San Diego and drive into Mexico from there. We will be doing various fundraisers for this project throughout the next few months. This will be an hour meeting. For more information contact Sue Unger in the parish office or email at stpatrickreligiouseducation@yahoo.com.

LENTEN ACTIVITY FOR JR HIGH AND YOUTH MINISTRY
The Lenten activity for the Youth Ministry and Jr High Ministry is a collection for our soldiers in Iraq to make friends with the locals. One way they do this is by having little care packages for the kids to help them be comfortable with the soldiers. Spc. Adamm Creel is asking for our community to donate little care packages for the children. The gifts must be non religious and non political. Suggestions for things to bring are: small pads of paper, tooth brushes, small containers of toothpaste, shampoo, hand lotion, etc. also energy bars, breakfast bars or pencils, life savers, match box cars ( these are very popular), clear cellophane children’s party bags to put the items into. Contact Sue Unger for more information.

BENEDICTION
Due to the Penance service Thursday, March 22, Benediction for Eucharistic Adoration will be at 6:00pm.

FRIDAY NIGHT LENTEN SOUP SUPPER AND STATIONS OF THE CROSS
This Friday your Hosts will be: The RCIA Team - Soup Supper and the Friday Night Prayer Group - Stations of the Cross. The Friday Night Prayer Group is our Spanish Prayer Group. Our Stations of the Cross will be presented in Spanish. For those of us who do not speak the Spanish language it’s a good opportunity to participate in one of our more popular faith traditions as experienced in our neighboring culture.

LITURGICAL MINISTRIES ARE STILL IN NEED OF YOUR PARTICIPATION
Our recent training for new Eucharistic Ministers saw a wonderful addition of 9 new EM’s for our Liturgical Ministers. However, only 1 of our new EM’s is a regular attendant at the 11:00 am Sunday Mass. In order to ease the ministerial burden on those EM’s who serve at the 11:00 am Mass we need 6 more NEW EM’s. If you heard the call before and just weren’t certain if the Lord - or Fr. John, or Sara - was REALLY speaking to you, listen again. Is this a ministry with your name on it? Does the Eucharist call to your heart in a special way? Are you desiring to grow in your love and understanding of what it means to BE Bread for the Life of the World? If the Lord is calling on you are you ready to join in the response of Moses, Samuel, Isaiah, and Mary; “Here I am Lord, I come to do your will.” For more information call Sara @ 503-266-9411.

MEN’S CLUB NEWS
Thanks to all who supported the breakfast March 11th. Over $400 was netted for the Youth Mexico trip. We also thank all those who gave of their time to make the breakfast a success.

THANK YOU!
The Norbert Meyer family would like to thank Father John, Father Ed, the Eucharistic Ministers and everyone else who helped us through his long and difficult illness.

CALLING ALL HGTV ADDICTS
Spring is here and a project is popping up! A few parishioners are getting involved in a facelift of the parish office area. Specifically the foyer. So if you or someone you know is remodeling or purchasing new furniture, give us a call. We are looking for a smaller seating area in the main entrance. Please call Sheila Kessler at 503-694-5188 or Francis Parker, 503-351-6903 with any questions. We are in need of small $ donations, physical labor (painting, furniture moving around, etc) and updated furniture pieces. The main bathroom is almost complete and a new donated dining room set has arrived. Thank you!

STAINED GLASS WORK
The Parish Office is looking for someone in the parish who does stained glass work. We have a beautiful piece that has a few bits of broken colored glass as well as clear glass that need to be repaired. Please contact Debbie in the Parish Office if interested.

MISSING
Did anyone find a dark blue plate with a cake on it in the refrigerator of the old kitchen? It was in the refrigerator on February 10th. This plate was a recent gift to Sue Unger and she would really like it back. Please contact Sue Unger.

Sunday
9:45am Religious Education Gr. 1-5
11:00am Preschool/Nursery
4:00pm RCIA (Spanish)
4:00pm Spanish Preschool
5:00pm Bible Study

Monday
6:45pm Young adult group (Spanish)
7:00pm Knights of Columbus
7:00pm Charismatic prayer group

Tuesday
7:00pm Sedar Meal-prayer service
7:00pm Evening Mass
7:00pm Hispanic Youth Group

Wednesday
10:30am Hope Village Mass
6:30pm Evening Prayer
7:00pm RCIA, Jr. High Net Retreat, Youth Group

Thursday
12:00noon Eucharistic Adoration
6:00pm Benediction
7:00pm Spanish Confirmation
7:00pm Spanish RE
7:00pm Penance Service

Friday
6:00pm Soup Supper
7:00pm Stations of the Cross
7:00pm Hispanic Prayer Group

Saturday
9:30am Choir Rehearsal

Your presence, O Lord, I seek.
Hide not your face from me.
Psalm 27:8-9