FiFth Sunday oF Lent March 25, 2012

Homily Next Week:

Father John D. Whitney, S.J.

Readings for April 1 , 2012 First reading: isaiah 50:4-7

second reading: PhiliPPians 2:6-11 gosPel: Mark 14:1-15:47

Weekend Mass Schedule

Saturday - 5 pmSunday - 9 am, 11 am, 5:30 pm

Weekday Mass ScheduleMonday - Friday - 7 am

Arrupe Room, Parish Center

ReconciliationSaturday - 3:30-4:15 pm in the Church

or by appointment

Parish Center HoursMonday-Friday - 8 am - 4:30 pm

Saturday - 9 am - 1 pmwww.stjosephparish.org

732 18th Avenue East, Seattle, WA 98112Fax: (206) 329-5698

Parish Receptionist (206) 324-2522Parish Staff (206) 329-5981

Pastor Rev. John D. Whitney, S.J. x107 Senior Priest in Residence

Rev. Jack O’Leary, S. J. x101 Deacon/Pastoral Associate

Steve Wodzanowski x106 Pastoral Staff: Dottie Farewell, Dir. Religious Ed. x112 Dennis Gentele, Facilities x110 Renée Leet, Admin Assistant x100 Courtney Lilly, Development x103 Bob McCaffery-Lent, Liturgy & Music x109

Caprice Sauter, Administration x102 Greg McNabb, Admin Mgr x108

Randy Novak, Communications x114 John Stuntebeck, Organist/Pianist x105

St. Joseph School700 18th Avenue East • (206) 329-3260

Main Office x210 George Hofbauer, Principal x213

Rick Boyle, Academic VP x215 Patrick Fennessy, Vice Principal x218

Bulletin Cover: Graves at Arlington National Cemetary. Photo by John D. Whitney, SJ

Stations of the CrossFriday, March 30th, 7 pm, Church

Experience the Stations of the Cross in a unique way.

Father John D. Whitney, S.J. will preside with vocals by Madeline Bersamina and John Stuntebeck playing

the Willis organ.

2012 Holy Week and Easter SchedulePalm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion ~ April 1st

5:00 pm ~ Vigil Mass (Saturday) 9:00 am ~ Gather before Mass in the courtyard between the

Parish Center and the School 11:00 am ~ Mass

5:30 pm ~ Mass with school Passion Play

The Paschal TriduumHoly Thursday ~ April 5th

(No morning mass) 6:00 pm ~ Reconciliation 7:00 pm ~ Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper 9:45 pm ~ Pilgrimage with Archbishop Sartain

Good Friday ~ April 6th

(No morning mass) 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm ~ Reconciliation 2:00 pm ~ Stations of the Cross 3:00 pm ~ Tolling of the Bells 7:00 pm ~ Good Friday Liturgy

Holy Saturday ~ April 7th

(No Reconciliation) 8:30 pm ~ Easter Vigil

Easter Sunday ~ April 8th

7:00 am, 9:00 am, and 11:00 am ~ Easter Masses (No 5:30 pm Mass)

Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.”

Martha said, “I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day.”

Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,

and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

-John 11-

CalendarMonday, March 26 Sacred Silence, Church, 7:00 PM

Tuesday, March 27 RCIA, Parish Center, 7:00 PM

Wednesday, March 28 Pathfinders, Mother Teresa Room Parish Center, 6:00 PM Choir Practice, Church, 6:30 PM The VOICE, Arrupe Room Parish Center, 7:00 PM

Friday, March 30 Eucharist Adoration, Loyola Parish Center, 7:30 AM

The StoneI am angry with my Church; the feeling intrud-ing into my thoughts and prayers whenever I read about all the furor over marriage equality or reli-gious liberty or birth control, and wonder why we have not been so vociferous over war or the rights of the poor or indeterminate detention of immigrants and prisoners. I am angry with my nation. I feel it whenever I hear of greater disparities of wealth between rich and poor, or think of the good men and women permanently damaged by ten years of war. I am angry with the posturing Republicans and the feckless Democrats. I am angry with a media that prefers to stir up controversy to rooting out truth. I am angry with an educational system that no longer believes in the liberating power of human knowledge, but has made all education into a glorified program of vocational training. I am angry with unrepaired roads and drivers on their cell-phones (excepting myself, of course). I am angry with cancer.

And as I dig more and more deeply into my anger—through the zeal and the righteous defense of justice, past the hurt and feelings of abandonment, beneath the analysis of the situation and the memories of betrayal great and small—I find myself standing in the presence of Jesus, like Martha near the grave of her brother Lazarus, and crying out with her in anger and hurt, love and disappointment: "Where have you been? If you had been here, this would not have happened."

Then, just as I feel that all is lost, the stone moves and I hear the call again: “Come out!”, and I know that God is here—the resurrection and the life—and has been all along.

It can happen in small ways: the sun suddenly breaking the clouds after days of gray and wet, the vision of a little patch of cro-cuses as I turn the corner towards my office, the feel of a coffee cup—perfectly proportioned and warm against my hands. But those sensations last only a moment or two, like lightning briefly illuminating the sky; they do not give the lasting hope that only the “deep magic” (to use C.S. Lewis’ phrase) can give, only the presence of Christ and the power of the Spirit can provide.

Sometimes such moments come when my heart suddenly hears words I have spoken a thousand times before. Holding up the host or speaking the words of consecration at the elevation of the chalice, I will suddenly know that it is all true—“This is the chalice of my blood, the blood of the new and eternal covenant”—and it will stun me with a feeling greater than faith, truer than any proof could ever be. Sometimes it will come when I look at a person on the verge of death, whose strain and fear melts away through the touch of oil on hand and head, or through the invocation of the Spirit offered in the silent prayer of a gathered community.

Sometimes the stone moves through the repetition of small moments of grace: sitting in the church for hours, listening to the confessions of children from our school, hearing their struggles and sensing how easily the words of absolution and forgive-ness penetrate their hearts; praying again the simple words of the rosary, and feeling, in the hum, the deep truth of transform-ing faith.

And sometimes it comes in the simple realization of another moment, another year unfolding among people I love. There is much to be angry about in our world. Much to change and reform and repent. And, yet, the grace of each day is deeper and truer and more powerful than all the sins and failures we endure. Turning with Jesus towards Jerusalem, turning toward the cross and the grave, and toward that morning that everything was changed, I want never to forget this truth: that the stone is rolled away by love.

CommunitySeniors On The Go

Tuesday March 27th - OWL’s Monthly Potluck, 6:00 pm in the Social Hall.

Tuesday April 10th - Movie, 1:00 pm, Parish Center, The Guardian. Bring a snack to share!

Note: Important Date Change

Friday April 13th - Healing Mass 11:30 am (no luncheon)

Lenten Music CDMusic Director Bob McCaffery-Lent has Lenten music cd’s for sale. The CD is called Create In Me: Music for the Lenten Journey. It is available through the music office at Rmclent@stjosephparish.org or 206-965-1649. All proceeds go to support the St. Joseph Ad Majorem Dei Gloria Concert series that is being launched this year.

Operation Rice Bowl Reflection:

The New Covenant

In today’s first reading, the prophet Jeremiah describes a new covenant – one which is written on our hearts. As Christians, we believe that this new covenant is ful-filled in Jesus. This week through Operation Rice Bowl, we learn about malnourished children and expectant mothers in India whose health has been compromised by their poverty. We pray that we may open our hearts to the needs of the poor and vulnerable. We fast, not merely from our excess, but from our very substance, so that new life may come to all who suffer from poverty, illness and injustice. We give so that CRS-trained health care workers can help improve the lives of women and children throughout the world.

ETHICAL WILL WORKSHOP March 29, Thursday

from 9:30 – 3:00, includes lunch

Please come to an ETHICAL WILL WORKSHOP offered for all ages. Writing an ethical will offers you the op-portunity to discern what is of value to you, what do you want to pass on to your important people. Writing it helps you to focus on what’s important while you are living.

Cost: $45, with scholarships available Place: Arupe Room at St. Joe’s

Please call or email Tricia or Steve Trainer for info 206-323-3161 or triciatrainer@gmail.com

Turn in your Rice Bowl on Holy Thursday at the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper.

Track (4th – 8th grade) And Track Club (K – 3rd grade) Registration Open!

Track (4th – 8th graders) 2012 season practices are Fridays, from 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm at Garfield High School track/infield start-ing April 20th. The cost is $20. ***Help, we need a coach to coordinate our track team.*** Please contact Jordan Howell! Spirit tee-shirts are required to participate in CYO track meets. If you have one, you can use it this year, otherwise be sure to mark that you need one when registering. Check out the CYO Track Schedule at www.seattlearch.org

Track Club (K-3rd graders) The track club program is a fun, non-competitive running club that includes some skill (throwing, jumping, running) development. There are no meets for track club. The cost is $10. Track club practices will be at St. Joseph on Thursdays, 4:30 – 6:00, beginning April 19th. If you have further questions regarding track club or want to volunteer to help (and we need LOTS of volunteers), please contact the track club coordinator Phil Shigo - philshigo@live.com

Go to the St. Joseph website http://stjosephsea.org/ Click on CYO and then the new online TRACK form. You will need to set up a new account through ClubSpaces (if you haven’t already) and then sign up. All registration costs will be billed to your account. Payment arrangements for non-school families can be made by contacting Jordan Howell at jhowell@stjosephsea.org

Choose Life Ministry MeetingSunday, April 1st, 7 pm at Jackie Quinn’s House. 918 18th Ave E. All are Welcome! Questions call Jackie Quinn at 206-324-1780, Tom Cannon at 206-322-4819, or Mary Ott at 206-324-7459.

EcoJusticeDid anyone try giving up meat one extra day last week? Remember, going meatless on at least some days beyond Lent has big environ-mental benefits.

Our Lenten Practice this week: Considering Our Energy Use

Americans use a lot of energy - a whole lot. Most of it comes in the form of fossil fuels - oil and gas products we use to power our cars and airplanes, natural gas that heats our homes, coal we burn to generate much of our country's electricity. (We are lucky here in the NW to have a lot of hydropower, but we still use a lot of fossil fuels in transportation and heating. Plus, if we used less of our own hydropower, we could sell the extra clean electricity to regions more reliant on coal.) When fossil fuels are burned, they release huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, affecting the natural balance of CO2 that's existed for hundreds of thousands of years. That extra CO2 magnifies the earth's greenhouse effect, act-ing like an extra heat-trapping blanket and causing aver-age, worldwide global temperatures to rise. And that's how we get climate change and disruption, with its many harmful effects on God's creation -- and why we need to lower our energy usage and move urgently away from fossil fuels.

Pope Benedict on our obligation to lower energy con-sumption: “The technologically advanced societies can and must lower their domestic energy consumption, ei-ther through an evolution in manufacturing methods or through greater ecological sensitivity among their citi-zens. It should be added that at present it is possible to achieve improved energy efficiency while at the same time encouraging research into alternative forms of en-ergy.” (Caritas In Veritate, 2009)

Personal Action: Measure your carbon footprint with the city of Seattle's calculator, www.seattle.co2challenge.com

Advocacy Action: Become part of the social movement to end fossil fuel subsidies and create the clean energy future we need, www.350.org/join

ColleCtion: MarCh 18, 2012 total needed Weekly to Meet Budget: $15,994.00 total for Masses and gifts Mailed in: $ 11,706.50

Social Ministry

JustMatters -- Federal Budget Module

Living Solidarity: Government, the Federal Budget and the Common Good is an eight week program that engages the question, "What type of society do we wish to become?" Drawing upon the Gospel and Cath-olic social teaching, the module's many activities and discussions promote thoughtful dialogue, not debate, around the role of government and how to pay for it. Sessions will meet weekly on Tuesday evenings at 7:15 pm at St. Joseph Parish, starting April 3rd. The books we will be using are: 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Tax-es by Stephanie Greenwood and The Moral Measure of the Economy by Chuck Collins and Mary Wright. Participants will be asked to purchase their own books and bring them to the first meeting. In order to plan appropriately, we are asking for RSVPs. Please send your RSVP and/or your questions to James Millikan at MillikanJames@gmail.com or call 425-238-8196.

Join Ivar’s and St. Joseph’s to

Support the Baby Corner this Lent

Dine at the walk-up Ivar’s Fish Bar at Pier 54 during Lent (Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday). Men-tion to your server that you are supporting St. Joseph’s. Your receipt will be stamped. SAVE it and turn it into the Parish office. 10% of all the collected receipts will be donated to the parish for the Baby Corner at the end of Lent.

Help Needed - Sunday HospitalityWe are in need of two additional people to help with the second Sunday of the month coffee and donuts team. Please contact Dottie Farewell, if you can help out dfarewell@stjosephparish.org or 206-965-1652.

Prayer

ISpirituality on Tap: Ignited by Our CallingWednesday, March 28, 2012 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Casey Commons (Casey 500), Seattle University

Come join other young adults for a panel discussion, small group conversation, and reflection on finding what makes you come alive and finding God in the midst of life’s opportunities. The evening will include featured panelists: Debbie Lucas, Thuong Chu, Lorenzo Herman, and Dan Kelley-Peterson. Light refreshments and snacks will be provided! Please RSVP by Friday, March 23. To RSVP, call 206-329-4824.

EARTH AS SACRAMENT: “Sensing the Sacred in Creation”

AN ALL PARISH RETREAT SATURDAY APRIL 21st

9:00am – 4:00pm Brown Bag Lunch

Suggested donation $10.00

St. Mary-on-the-Lake Peace and Spirituality Center Bellevue, WA

Some transportation available from parish center.

Retreat Animators are Cathy Murray, Paul Peterhans, Deacon Steve Wodzanowski and Fr. John Whitney

Join us for a day to explore the many ways nature can teach us about God’s grace. The day will include talks, reflection time, small group sharing and Mass.

For more information contact Deacon Steve at 965-1646 or stevew@stjosephparish.org

St. Joseph Community ex-tends its prayers and hopes for the following intentions: For those who have lost di-rection in their lives, may they find the compass of Christian values...For those who have experienced the loss of a spouse through death or divorce, may they receive our compassion...For Jim’s well being as he is facing a new health challenge...For discernment in spending and saving money wisely...For parents be-ing responsible for children’s safety when there are weapons in the house or in the car.

“Boast not of tomorrow, for you know not what any day may bring forth.”

~Psalm 27:1

Please remember in your prayers Kathleen Nickels who passed away recently, may she rest in peace.

Mass CountsFor many years every parish in the archdiocese has been required to do a mass count during October. The ushers simply needed to count the number of people who came to church at all four masses on four consecu-tive weekends. The parish leadership has determined that it would actually be more helpful if this kind of information was available on a more regular basis and have asked the ushers to routinely do a mass count. So if you see the ushers perusing the assembly during mass they are not up to anything nefarious but simply doing a mass count. And this is as good a time as any to say "THANK YOU" to all of our ushers for their steadfast service, and a special thank you to Bruce Mirkin, the usher team captain.

Save the Date

“WE ARE ST. JOSEPH”

Service Days & Celebration April 27th &28th

Parish Holy HourThursday, April 12th, 7-8 pm (Note the Date Change) Join the Choose Life Ministry for a Rosary with Exposi-tion of the Blessed Sacrament. In the Loyola Chapel, Parish Center. All are welcome. For additional infor-mation call Jackie Quinn at 324-1780, Tom Cannon at 322-4819, or Mary Ott at 324-7459

TheStations

of the Cross

St. Joseph Church

Stations of the Cross Friday March 30, 2012

7:00 pm, Church

Experience the Stations of the Cross in a unique way.

Father John D. Whitney, S.J. will preside with vocals by Madeline Bersamina with John Stuntebeck

playing the Willis organ.