Holy Trinity

Catholic Church

355 Oregon Ave

Bandon, OR 97411

St. John

the Baptist

15th and Hwy 101

Port Orford, OR 97465

Mission Statement: To be a welcoming Catholic community committed to love, prayer, and service.

Online Giving Now Available We are excited to announce that Holy Trinity Parish now accepts one-time and recurring donations conveniently, on

our website! You can make your secure donation via electronic check or debit/credit card by simply visiting www.holytrinitybandon.org/donate.

Holy Trinity ~ Bandon

Saturday Vigil Mass……………......................5:00 pm Sunday Mass………………...…….................10:30 am Tuesday Mass…………………………………5:00 pm Wednesday Mass (Church)..……...…….…….5:00 pm Thursday Mass (Chapel)…………………….12:00 pm Friday Mass (Chapel)………………………..12:00 pm

Sacrament of Reconciliation Wednesday (Church)…………………….4:30-5:00 pm Saturday (Church)………...……………..3:30-4:30 pm

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Thursday (Chapel)....…………………..12:30-8:00 pm Friday (Chapel)...……………...………9:30 am - Noon

St. John the Baptist ~ Port Orford

Sunday Mass...….…...……..………….............8:30 am Thursday Mass………………………………...9:00 am Sacrament of Reconciliation Sunday………………...………...….……7:45-8:15 am

Highlights this Week

Welcome Back, Father Anthony! We hope you feel refreshed by your vacation and visit home. Come to the parish hall and enjoy coffee & donuts after the 10:30 am Mass, hosted by the Bible Study group. RCIA with Father Anthony will resume this Wednesday, February 5, in the parish hall. Celebrate Mass at 5:00 pm,

dinner at 5:30, and Religious Education/RCIA classes 6:15-7:00 pm. ‘See you all there! St. John parish will hold its monthly PAC meeting Friday, February 7, at 4 pm. All parishioners are welcome and

encouraged to attend.

Now, Master, you may let your servant to in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples: a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel. ~ Luke 2:29-32

Parish Priest: Rev. Anthony Ahamefule

Fr. Anthony’s Voicemail: 541-347-2309

Fr. Anthony’s Email: aahamefule@archdpdx.org

www.holytrinitybandon.org

www.facebook.com/HolyTrinityBandon.org/

https://twitter.com/BandonHoly

Parish Office: (541) 329-0697

Parish Office Fax: (541) 347-9256

Office Email: holytrinitybandon@yahoo.com

Holy Trinity office hours: M-Th-F, 9 am - 3 pm

St. John’s office hours: Thur, 9:30-11 am

Liturgy Schedule

February 1-7, 2020 February 2, 2020

The Presentation of the Lord (Year A)

Holy Trinity

Activities

Monday 2/3

9:30 am……………..Weekday Prayer, Chapel

1:30 pm..….…............………..Rosary, Chapel

Tuesday 2/4

5:00 pm….…….……...………...Mass, Chapel

Wednesday 2/5

5:00 pm….…..............................Mass, Church

5:30 pm….…….……..…...WCN Dinner, Hall

6:15 pm…….Religious Education/RCIA, Hall

Thursday 2/6

10:45 am………....……..….Bible Study, Hall

12:00 pm………....…………….Mass, Chapel

12:30-8:00 pm………….....Adoration, Chapel

Friday 2/7

9:30 am-12:00 pm……..….Adoration, Chapel

12:00 pm……………..……..….Mass, Chapel

Liturgical Ministers

February 8-9

Saturday Vigil 2/8

Lector: Mike Hennick EMHC: Jeanett S. & John F.

Sacristan: Jeanett S. & John F.

Sunday 2/9

Lector: Jeff Turner EMHC: Bill & Kathy Phillips

Sacristan: Jeff Turner

January 25-26 Collection

Regular $2450 Building Fund $10

Retired Religious $500

St. John’s $253

Parish Priest’s Corner An Encounter with Jesus Christ

My dear sisters and brothers in Christ, Often, we hear about the “American Dream.” This refers to the belief that anyone, regardless of where they were born or what class they were born into, can attain their own version of success in a society where upward mobility is possible for everyone. The American Dream is achieved through sacrifice, risk-taking, and hard work, rather than by chance. It is not out of place that we all have visions or goals in life and want our dreams to come true. It brings frustration when the realization of our dreams falls short of our expectation. It is even more devastating when our dreams are never realized, and we find ourselves lost and wondering what is next for us. But when our dreams do come true, we are so transformed, fulfilled and joy-filled that we easily forget the hardship and hurdles endured along the way. We often do not and should not forget the people that helped us get there. Today, we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of our Lord Jesus in the Temple. In the Eastern Rite, this feast is called the “Feast of Encounter:” it is the encounter between God, who became a child to bring newness to our world, and an expectant humanity with dreams, represented by the elderly man and woman in the Temple. Pope Francis sheds light on this when he says: “In the Temple, there is also an encounter between two couples: the young Mary and Joseph, and the elderly Simeon and Anna. The old receive from the young, while the young draw upon the old. In the Temple, Mary and Joseph find the roots of their people. This is important because God’s promise does not come to fulfillment merely in individuals, once for all, but within a community and throughout history. There too, Mary and Joseph find the roots of their faith, for faith is not something learned from a book, but the art of living with God learned from the experience of those who have gone before us. The two young people, in meeting the two older people, thus find themselves. And the two older people, nearing the end of their days, receive Jesus, the meaning of their lives. This event fulfills the prophecy of Joel: Your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions (2:28). In this encounter, the young see their mission and the elderly realize their dreams. All because, at the center of the encounter, is Jesus.” Jesus’ presence was the fulfillment that Simeon and Anna sought all their lives. It was a dream that came true toward the end of their lives, such that Simeon exclaimed: “Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples….”

Loretta Brammer, Kathy Welch, Jim Hajek, Bernie & Maggie Karlin, Todd Cook, Doug Schwartz, Tricia Brown, Lee Taylor, Priscilla & Vern Lang, Patty Hernjak, Pierre Dupree, Judy Crowe, Frank White, David Willis, Steven White, Jr., Tom Lindstrom, John Freitag, Jr, Sister Monica, Nancy LaBay, Skip Thomas, Greg, and everyone on Holy Trinity & St. John’s Prayer Chains.

Holy Trinity:

Sat 1/1: Parishioners of Holy Trinity

Sun 1/2: Joanne Noren & Jeanne Laird,

on their birthday.

St. John the Baptist:

Sun 2/2: Intentions of Tricia Brown

Ongoing Programs

Reflecting on Sunday’s Readings

5th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A ~ February 9, 2020

To help you prepare for Mass next weekend, here are next Sunday’s readings:

Reading I: Isaiah 58:7-10 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 112 Reading II: I Corinthians 2:1-5 Gospel: Matthew 5:13-16

Coffee and Donuts Schedule

Coordinator: Jennifer Schulz 541-404-1825

Date Group Point Person February 2 Bible Study Kathy Cowan, 541-347-3031

February 9 Youth Group Joshua Freitag, 541-290-1027

February 16 Eucharistic Ministers Geri Procetto, 541-347-3472

February 23 Knight of Columbus Mike Hahn, 541-347-6680

Come, Join Our Bible Study!

Bible Study class will resume on Thursday, February 6, in the Parish Hall. We gather at 10:45 am with a social time, followed by study of the upcoming Sunday’s Scripture readings at 11:00. Class is finished at 11:45.

Please call Kathy Cowan for more information at 347-3031.

All are welcome!

Announcements

Upcoming Events

RCIA and Adult Education: Father Anthony will teach this, Wednesday, February 5, during the normal class time for Religious Education, 6:15-7:00 pm. Pacific Pregnancy Clinic Donations: The Altar Society is again sponsoring donations for the Pacific Pregnancy Clinic (formerly Pregnancy Resource Center) for the month of February. Donations can be left in the back of the church beginning February 1&2. Annual Women’s Mass & Luncheon: The Annual Women's Mass and Luncheon for all women of Holy Trinity and St. John’s parishes is coming up! Mass will be celebrated at Holy Trinity at 10:30 am on February 8, with a no-host luncheon to follow at Edgewaters Restaurant at about 11:15 am. Please RSVP to Kathy Phillips (541-347-3584) or Kathleen Stadelman (541-347-2640) by Thursday, February 6. Youth Group/Faith Formation: The youth will go on a hike after Sunday Mass on February 9. ‘See you then! Men’s Retreat: The Knights of Columbus will be hosting a Men's Retreat on Saturday, February 22, 2020. It will be held at St. Monica's Parish Hall from 9 am to 3 pm. All men are invited. Lunch will be provided. There is no cost to attend and is local. Please SAVE THE DATE and plan to attend. If you have any questions, please contact Mike Kozakiewicz at 541-808-7463.

Thank You Warmest thanks to Allison Hundley for taking care of

all things office during Teresa’s illness last week. Thank you to Mike Hennick, Mike Hahn, Jim Upton, and our local locksmith for their part in repairing the

parish hall door.

Outreach Ministry

Parish leaders, staff, and in fact every parishioner has a role in Outreach Ministry, as you are often the first points of contact and witness to the parish community.

How can you help? By letting any of the outreach ministers know about a parishioner who you think would appreciate a call from us, especially those unable to attend our commu-nal Eucharistic celebration on the weekends. There will be a box at the back of the church for you to put the name of the person you would like the outreach ministers to contact.

Also, Carol Holden, the Outreach coordinator, can be emailed at gammabeta35@outlook.com or Cathy Upton at cathyduckham2@yahoo.com. Their contact information can also be found on the church website.

At the end of Mass every weekend, walk up to a new per-son, introduce yourself to them, share your story and get to know them. Personal witness and touch are the best form of outreach and evangelization.

Thank you, Outreach Committee

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St. John’s Coordinators

Emergencies: Gary Dietel…………...………………………332-0139

Women’s Guild: Priscilla Lang……………………………..253-6166

Prayer Chain: Lynda Dietel……..gmdietel@icoud.com or 332-0139

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Music: Lynda Dietel……………...……………………….....332-0139

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Holy Trinity Parish Coordinators

Emergencies, Lectors: Allison Hundley………………….404-2268

Religious Education: Sharon Hennick……………………297-5555

Youth Ministry Coordinator: Josh Freitag………………290-1027

Homebound Ministry: Judy Crowe……………….……...347-5043 Music Director: Kathleen Stadelman………….….………347-2640 Prayer Chain: Carol Holden………………….………….347-1949 EMHC: Kathy Cowan………………..…………………...347-3031

Altar Servers: Jeff Turner……………………….…...503-302-6425 Knights of Columbus: Mike Hahn……..…………….719-322-3162 Outreach Ministry: Carol Holden………………..…..…...347-1949

Cathy Upton………………………...347-2579

Hall Rental: Teresa Roberts……………...……….………329-0697

Office Assistant/Bulletin: Teresa Roberts………….…….329-0697

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“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is a friend of silence.”

~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Seeing Life in a New Way Recently I read a story about a couple who while living in Normandy, France had the opportunity to get to know an elderly priest. Because of falling clergy numbers at the time, this priest was then responsible for serving five parish-es. It went on to say that at four of these parishes he served daily communion and all had two services on Sundays. As the story went on…. the couple asked how he could keep serving, keep giving communion, keep saying the same words over and over, with such seemingly freshness. The priest went on to answer “But they’re never the same! Each time I say them they feel brand new.” That made me stop and think. How was it that he could perform the same things over and over, and yet each time they were never the same? Maybe it was in how he looked at what God had called him to do. As Father Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure states in his writings entitled, Trustful Surrender To Divine Providence; “To re-main indifferent to good fortune or to adversity by accepting it all from the hand of God without questioning, not to ask for things to be done as we would like, but as God wishes, to make the intention of all our prayers that God’s will should be perfectly accomplished in ourselves and in all creatures is to find the secret of happiness and content.” Who doesn’t desire happiness and contentment? Count me in for those; however, I have found it to be a big chal-lenge – to see God’s hand in my every day, in our children’s every day, and in our world events every day. Maybe that is where God’s grace enters in - to help accept - what God’s loving will is for each of us - as it unfolds in each moment of each day. “…Behold, I make all things new.” Revelation 21:5 (RSV) Cynthia Kroll - Baptism Coordinator

Parish Priest’s Corner, continued: Dear friends, for us today, when could we say we have had a profound moment of encounter with the Lord? At our Baptism, we were officially presented to God. It was our first moment of encounter with Jesus Christ in whose life we share. Every time we participate at Mass, it is an opportunity to renew that encounter. A renewal we make not just for our selves, but we also present our dear ones on the altar before God our Father through our Savior Jesus Christ at every Holy Mass.

How often do you bring someone with you – whether it is in the silence of your heart or physically – as you come to

renew your first encounter with God? Are the people we present to Christ limited to our loved ones and friends?

How about the people that are not close to us or see things the way we do? Remember the words in today’s gospel

that “this child (Jesus) will be a sign of contradiction.” Jesus wants to meet not only you but also someone else that

you accompanied. As we come before God, we also present our dreams and aspirations to him and ask that his will,

not ours, be done.

As we strive to encounter Christ with others daily, let our prayer be: Lord Jesus, may your will, not mine, be done.

May Christ Our Savior give each one of you grace and strength daily. Amen. --Fr. Anthony Ahamefule Parish Priest

Catechesis 101

The Homily In the homily or sermon, the priest (sometimes the deacon) gives nourishment to our lives by explaining some aspect of the readings we have heard, the particular mystery we are celebrating, or one of the parts of the Mass. My mother went to church twice a day; she went in the morning and the evening without ever allowing anything to keep her away, and she went not to hear idle tales and the gossip of old women, but that she might hear you, O Lord, in your homilies, and that you might hear her in her prayers. Thus Saint Augustine describes his mother’s twice a day visit to church. For two tasks did Monica make her morning and evening pilgrimage. Not “to hear idle tales and the gossip of old women” but to pray and to be nourished by the word of God. And curiously enough, that nourishment was received through the Homily. Not unlike the respondents to contemporary studies of parish life, Monica sought her essential nourishment in that place where, as the new Lectionary for Mass describes it, “the spoken word of God and the liturgy of the Eucharist [are brought] together [to] become ’a proclamation of God’s wonderful works in the history of salva-tion, the mystery of Christ.’” And whose proclamation are these homilies? They are described as “your homilies, O Lord” in which Monica hear “you, O Lord.” Not Ambrose’s homilies! Not the Church’s homilies! But the homilies of the Lord, not un-like the proclamation we so often utter and so seldom believe: “This is the Word of the Lord!” For Augustine then, and for his pious mother, the homily was Christ speaking, Christ present and active in his Church - Christ feeding his people with his word. May it be the same for us today!

Catechetical Nuggets

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The Presentation of the Lord - February 2, 2020 Welcome to Opening the Word, a program offering prayer and insights for the Sunday Readings. Featuring a variety of experienced presenters including Dr. Tim Gray, Mary Healy, Scott Powell, Dr. Edward Sri, and Fr. John Riley, Martha Fernandez, and Ben Akers, the videos are designed to facilitate thought and discussion for personal faith formation or in the context of a group meeting. Personal Prayer Journals and a group Leader’s Guides are also available to make the most of these Sunday Readings. 5 min

God with Us He was born in humble obscurity, yet His family had to flee to save Him from a jealous ruler. He forgave sins, healed the sick and gave hope to the downhearted and oppressed, yet He was despised and rejected by many. He spoke the truth even when it was dangerous to do so. He willingly laid down His life and then rose again, conquering the power of death! God with Us is the dramatic retelling of the life of Jesus Christ as seen through the eyes of the last surviving apostle, John. Journey with Jesus and encounter His miracles, His astonishing teaching and His unsurpassed bravery. Discover the power and love of Jesus Christ and see why His followers risked all to carry His message to the ends of the earth. This powerful presentation will encourage and inspire viewers to follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 1 hour 28 min

St. Blaise, Bishop & Martyr - Feast Day February 3

We know more about the devotion to Saint Blaise by Christians around the world than we know about the saint himself. His feast is observed as a holy day in some Eastern Churches. In 1222, the Council of Oxford prohibited servile labor in England on Blaise’s feast day. The Germans and Slavs hold him in special honor, and for dec-ades many United States Catholics have sought the annual Saint Blaise blessing for their throats. We know that Bishop Blaise was martyred in his episcopal city of Sebastea, Armenia, in 316. The legendary Acts of St. Blaise were written 400 years later. According to them Blaise was a good bishop, working hard to encourage the spiritual and physical health of his people. Although the Edict of Toleration (311), granting freedom of worship in the Roman Empire, was already five years old, persecution still raged in Armenia. Blaise was apparently forced to flee to the back country. There he lived as a hermit in solitude and prayer, but he made friends with the wild animals. One day a group of hunters seeking wild animals for the amphitheater stumbled upon Blaise’s cave. They were first surprised and then frightened. The bishop was kneeling in prayer surrounded by patiently waiting wolves, lions and bears. The legend has it that as the hunters hauled Blaise off to prison, a mother came with her young son who had a fish bone lodged in his throat. At Blaise’s command the child was able to cough up the bone. Agricolaus, governor of Cappadocia, tried to persuade Blaise to sacrifice to pagan idols. The first time Blaise refused, he was beaten. The next time he was suspended from a tree and his flesh torn with iron combs or rakes. Finally, he was beheaded. Prayer for the blessing of throats: In our present Roman Ritual, the priest prays, “Through the intercession of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every other illness, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” This practice continues in many parishes on St. Blaise’s feast day, Feb. 3.

“A vocation flows

from the heart of

God and blossoms

in the good soil of

faithful people.”

- Pope Francis