February 23, 2020

346 NW First St, Gresham OR. 97030

Ph. 503-665-9129 / Fax 503-665-8238

Email: sthenry_gresham@archdpdx.org

Website: sthenrygresham.org

Flocknotes: sthenrygresham.flocknote.com

FORMED: www.formed.org

Parish Code 3FHQK3

Masses Saturday Vigil: 5:00pm English

Sunday: 8:30am & 11:00am English, 1:30pm Spanish

Monday ~ Saturday Morning: 8:00am English

Thursday Evening: 7:00pm Spanish

Sacrament of Reconciliation:

Saturday 3:00 - 4:30pm & Thursday 6:00pm - 6:50pm

Pastor… Fr. Charles Zach Parochial Vicar / Habla Español… Fr. Julio Torres

Deacon… Larry Loumena Deacon / Habla Español… Lou De Sitter

Business Manager… Claire Clow Bookkeeper… Anita Weber

Administrative Assistant… Terri Heitzman Parish Secretary… Veronikka Mayer Maintenance / Grounds… Ed Kurtz Liturgy / Sacraments… Sara Wise

Faith Formation… Jeanne Chambers Youth Ministry… Emma Hoke

RCIA / Adult Education… Connie Ostlund Music… Barbara Adams

Administrative Council

Tom Barrie, Robert Ferek, Deacon Larry Loumena, Rod Moritz, Raul Ramirez, Jesús Torres, Dan Troglin

Chair… Glenn Zmuda Organizations… Sharon Williams

Vocations… Doug Klein Outreach/Catholic Action… Don Schantz Spanish Liaison… Guillermina Hernandez

Education… Terry Tygielska Communications… Art Abbott

Board Membership… Marcy Marlow Evangelization… Gerald McAfee

Staff

Pastoral Council

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Prayer List

M +Patti Fryer (Betty & Brian Fryer)

T +James Toner & JoAnn Kelley (Dingman Family) -Care Facility Residents (St. Henry Staff)

W +Janet Swickard (Emma Love)

T +Jack Locke (Frances Locke) +Harriet Rice (Joseph Olbrich) +Hipolito Garcia (Angeles Martinez)

F Delmer Flech Family (Jerome Mannenbach)

S +Delores Sensebaugh (Joseph Olbrich) +Robert Woods (Joseph Olbrich)

S Men of Meadows/Huachuca (Ron Welsh) +Pauline Olbrich (Joseph Olbrich) -Istvan Fuleki (Margaret Fuleki) +Socorro Alvarez & +J.Trinidad Paz (Silvia Paz de Lopez)

Mass Intentions February 24 - March 1

Calendar for February 23 - March 1

“What you ask in my name, I will do” John 14:13.

Please pray for…Janell Beaudry, Imelda Broyles,

Donald Caldwell, Pete Clark, Kathy Eisenzimmer,

Brenda Finnerty, David Heitzman, Harry Heitzman,

George Lee Held, Lisa Hills, Mary Lafferty, Sarah

Marek, Dawn Martian, Duane Martian, Jim Martin,

Gladie Mederios, Dr. Richard H. Miller, Ayden Mills,

Patricia Mulkey, Kerri O’Leary, Connie Ostlund, Gwen

Ragnone, Norm Ragnone, Vickie Rizzo, Jerry Ruff,

Lori Scienski, Shay Van Smith. We are building our

prayer list again. Please call the office if you would

like to be included on this list.

Out of respect for an individuals privacy, we print only

the names of those who give their permission to have

their names published.

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Sunday February 23

Masses 8:30am & 11am English, 1:30pmSpanish Everyday Strength Cancer Support 9:30am (OMT)

Coffee & Donuts 9:30am (GYM)

Library Open 9:45am

Elem. FF & Sacra Prep 9:45am & 12:15pm (P/C)

Prayer Shawl Ministry 12:15pm (LIB)

English Basketball 4pm (GYM)

Spanish Basketball 7pm (GYM)

Monday February 24 Mass 8am English Youth Choir 6:30pm (CH)

Spanish Couples Group 7pm (FSR)

Tuesday February 25 Mass 8am English Pointers Prayer Group 8:45am (MR)

Al-Anon 10am (RM 6)

St. Vincent de Paul Pantry 10am (SVDPP)

Empty Nesters Mardi Gras 5pm (FSR)

Administrative Council 5:30pm (OMT)

Spanish RCIA 7pm (RM 6)

Adult Bible Study w/ Deacon Larry 7pm (RM 8)

Nar-Anon 7pm (RM 7) Choir 7pm (CH)

Wednesday February 26 Ash Wednesday

Mass 8am and 12noon - English, 7pm - Bilingual Adult Education w/Connie 9am (RM 6)

OA 10:30am (RM 7)

#2 Pinochle 11:45am (FSR)

Total Care Event 1pm (GYM)

Evangelization Meeting 6pm (OMT)

Spanish Bible Study 6:30pm (LIB)

Thursday February 27 Mass 8am English

Confessions 6pm - 6:50pm Mass 7pm Spanish Adult Bible Study w/ Deacon Larry 9am (RM 6)

St. Henry Moms Group 10am (RM 8)

Day Shelter 1:00pm (GYM) Book Group 7pm (LIB)

English RCIA 7pm (RM 6) Folk Group 7:30pm (CH)

Friday February 28 Mass 8am English

6pm Confession

7pm Holy Hour w/Stations of the Cross Book Group 10am (RM 8)

Saturday February 29 Masses 8am English

Vigil 5pm English

Confessions 3pm - 4:30pm Bilingual Book Sale in the Gym 9:30am - 5pm

St. Vincent de Paul Pantry 10am (SVDPP) #3 Quinceanera Class 10am (RM 6)

In the event of inclement weather, St. Henry Church Office follows the

same policy as the Gresham/Barlow School District.

If they are closed, St. Henry Office is closed.

Sunday March 1 Lent 1 Masses 8:30am & 11am English,

1:30pmSpanish

Book Sale in the Gym 9:30am - 3pm Knights of Columbus Breakfast 9:30am (GYM)

Everyday Strength Cancer Support 9:30am (OMT)

Elem. FF & Sacra. Prep 9:45am & 12:15pm (P/C)

English Basketball 4pm (GYM)

Spanish Basketball 7pm (GYM)

~ Pastors Note ~ 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Mt 5:38-48

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Please join us for a Bible study on the letter of James. In the video presentations, James: Pearls for Wise Living study, presenter Jeff Cavins shows how the teach-ings of James speak to those of us who feel torn between the competing demands of this world and our Faith. Meant to help a fledgling Church live out its Faith in the face of persecution and a worldview opposed to the gospel, in the 11-part James program, you’ll discover wisdom you can apply to the present. Sessions are Tuesday evenings at 7:00 pm in classroom 6 and Thursday mornings at 9:00 am also in classroom 6.

New Adult Bible Study Class

Be perfect (loving), therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect (loving).

(The following is a good reflection before lent begins)

How many songs are about love? Nearly all of them. How many novels? About half; the rest are about murder. How many poems? Not many good ones; the theme is somehow too predictable. But the American poet Jessica Powers, a Carmelite nun, wrote a memo-rable one. After she had scattered some ideas about it in the usual way, some deeper wisdom spoke in her, asking,

Did you sow this seed

around your house, or in the neighbour's garden

or any nearby acreage of need?

No? then it will not grow in outer places.

Love has its proper soil, its native land;

Its first roots fasten on the near-at-hand.

She captured the tendency in all of us to place love (and all the things that challenge us) at a distance. We place them at a distance (1) in time, or (2) in place.

1.We are always willing to postpone good things, someone said, but bad things we do right away. We would like to postpone faith, hope and love: to put them over the horizon and into the future. But fear, greed and anger we attend to immediately. Love is one of the good things - the very best, St Paul said ("the greatest of these is love" 1 Cor. 13:13) - so we tend to postpone it. But somewhere deep in us there is the wisdom to know that love is for now or never.

2. And we wouldn’t mind loving people who are at a safe distance, as Sr. Jessica let us see in that poem. When I love I make myself vulnerable. But if I am afraid of that I won't love. If only we could do the good things now, and postpone the bad things! What a world it would be if our love were as quick and as warm and as long-lasting as our hate! A wise man said a startling thing to me once: "There's no future." I thought he was expressing de-spair about the country or the modern world…. But he didn’t seem at all a despair-ing kind of person. Quite the contrary. "There's no future," he repeated cheerfully. "The future exists only in your head, nowhere else. It is only an idea. So don’t tell me what you're going to do in the future. Tell me what you're doing now." That thought has deep roots, going all the way down to my personal identity. If I ask myself the question, “Who am I?” that wise man would have me ask myself, “What am I doing now? If I don’t love the people and the things around me now I am not a loving person and I can have nothing to say about love. If I am not forgiving my ene-mies now, I'm denying my Christian identity.” We don’t say, "Give us tomorrow our daily bread." We want real bread, not an idea of bread. Real things are for now. And God, too, is for now. If I don’t love now I know nothing about God. "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love" (1 Jn 4:8). by Fr. Donagh O’Shea

I may not

be perfect

but Jesus

thinks

I’m to die for

Ash Wednesday

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Mt Hood Pops and Empty Nesters

Tuesday, February 25, 2020 Fun begins at 5pm in the Fireside Room

Wear that colorful Mardi Gras Mask, and get your beads at the door. Colorful dress is recommended.

Appetizers furnished by your Empty Nesters Committee Please bring your favorite potluck dish ready to serve.

Coffee, tea and punch will be provided. Questions: call Ilene at 503-667-2500

Empty Nesters Mardi Gras Celebration & Pot Luck

Ash Wednesday is February 26, 2020 ~ Masses at St. Henry will be: 8:00am and 12:00noon in English, 7:00pm Bilingual

Friday’s during Lent, St. Henry will host Confessions at 6:00pm and at 7:00pm Holy Hour with Stations of the Cross

hosted by different groups of our Parish.

Empty Nesters are making plans. The outing for March is to Mt. Hood Community College on March 8, 2020. Music starts at 3:30pm. You will enjoy The Greatest Showman, Symphony N9.2, Paint Your Wagon, Medley, Salute to the Big Bands, Liberty Bell and Stars and Stripes Forever. Cost is $12. Restaurant choice to be made by those attending.

Rice Bowl

Join our faith community—and more than 14,000 Catholic communities across the United States—in a life—changing Lenten journey with CRS Rice Bowl. Pick up your families CRS Rice Bowl from the back of the church this weekend. During the 40 days of Lent, we will reflect on the challenge of global hunger and how it affects our human family.

Begin early celebrating St Patrick’s Day at our annual Catholic Daughter St Patrick’s Day Dinner on Saturday, March 14 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM. Join us for a delicious corned beef dinner, beverage and dessert. Special prices for seniors and families. Take-out is available. See flyers for more information in the back of church.

St. Patrick’s Day Dinner

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Study Course: The Eucharist

The Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist invite you to attend a study course on the Eucharist based on Dr. Brant Pitre’s “Eucharist: Discovering The Mass In The Bible”. Spring Session begins Saturday February 29 and continues through March 28, 2020. For more information

or to register call Sr. Mary Margaret Delaski, FSE 971-263-3526 or email: smmdelaski@fsecommunity.org Donations accepted

Location: 48100 E. Historic Columbia River Hwy PO Box 23 Bridal Veil, OR 97010

St. Henry Mom’s Group meets on the 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month.

They are a group of moms supporting each other in raising their children within our

Catholic faith. Facebook: St. Henry Gresham OR MOMS Group

Our Library is missing the DVD of Bp. Robert Barron on the Eucharist.

If you have it please return to Anne Jochim in the library or you an bring it to the

front desk of the Church. Thank you

St. Henry Library Used Book Sale...Coming Soon

Now is the time to start gathering your donations of books, DVDs and CDs for the Used Book and Media sale scheduled to take place on

Saturday, February 29 and Sunday, March 1 in the gym. (Please, no donations of VHS or cassette tapes.)

*Donations may be left at the parish office from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, February 24 through Wednesday, February 26.

*Hard bound books will sell for $2, soft covers $1, paper backs 50¢, and media $2.

Proceeds from the sale benefit the parish library.

St. Henry Cares Event

Pew Art from the Artists in the Pews

Activities for the Kids

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Si deseas Bautizar a tu (a) Los pasos son: 1. Llenar la Aplicación en la Oficina, 2) Traer los documentos Necesarios y 3) Asistir a las... Platicas pre-Bautismales Las clases son el primer del mes de Sábado 9am a 1pm Padres y padrinos entran a la clase presen-tando la copia de su aplicación ya hecha en la oficina Parroquial. Llame a la oficina para

registrarse.

¡Bienvenidos a la Iglesia St. Henry!

23 de febrero de 2020 - 7º domingo del Tiempo Ordinario

Bautismo

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"Pero te digo, ama a tus enemigos y reza por los que te persiguen ..." (MATEO 5:44)

Ama a tus enemigos, más fácil decirlo que hacerlo, sin duda. Pero, recuerda, el fundamento de la administración es la oración. Cuando estamos en estrecha comunicación con Dios, abre nuestro corazón y aparta nuestra atención de "mí" y la acerca a Dios y a los demás. Nos permite tener un poco más de empatía por "nuestro enemigo". Si oramos por los demás, incluso por "nuestros ene-migos", tal vez eso ablande también sus corazones.

¡Bienvenidos a la Iglesia St. Henry! Extendemos una cordial bienvenida a los nuevos feligreses y a todos los visitantes. Pedimos a los nuevos feligreses que por favor se registren en la oficina de la parroquia lo antes posible. Gracias.

El desayuno de los Caballeros de Colón será 1 de Marzo en el gimnasio de 9:30 am-11:30am. Se servirán panqueques, huevos y salchichas.

El Desayuno de los Caballeros

La Misión de St. Henry

La Iglesia católica San Enrique es una comunidad de creyentes cristianos que se esfuerzan por

construir el Reino de Dios en la tierra para todas las personas. Aceptamos nuestra misión evangeli-

zadora de Jesucristo para amar a Dios por encima de todo lo demás y amar a nuestro prójimo como

a nosotros mismos. Siguiendo el ejemplo de Jesús, y en el poder del Espíritu Santo:

Ejemplificamos el amor y el perdón de Dios como se revela en Jesucristo a través del ejemplo de nuestra vida cristiana;

Adoramos a Dios en la celebración de la Eucaristía y los sacramentos y a través de la oración y la devoción dentro de nuestras familias y grupos parroquiales;

Vivimos el mensaje del Evangelio a través de nuestro servicio el uno al otro, al mismo tiempo que abordamos las necesi-dades espirituales y humanas de nuestra familia parroquial y de la comunidad cir-cundante;

Abrazamos la diversidad y la riqueza que aporta a nuestras vidas, tanto espiritual como socialmente