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BIKE BLESSING
We will have a Blessing of Bikes immediately after both
Masses October 17 & 18. So ride or bring your bikes to
church that weekend to have your bikes blessed for safety
for the upcoming year.
Immediately after the blessing on Sunday, Oct. 18th
parishioner, Marc Duyck, will lead those interested in a bike
ride across the new Tillicum bridge and back.
8:00am Mass
4:00pm Mass
9:30am Mass
10:30am Mass
8:00am Mass
8:00am Mass
8:00am Mass
8:00am Mass
12:10pm Mass
8:00 am Mass
4:00pm Mass
9:30am Mass
10:30am Mass
Theresa Donna Oh
Dan Mack
Caroline & Louie Parise
Deaf Community
Ana Nhu
William & Jean Bromberger
Theresa Donna Oh
Tony & Freda Ignazzitto
Millie Nightingale
Luke William Moran & Family
Pat Charlesworth
People of St. Philip Neri
Deaf Community
Chapel
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Chapel
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If you would like a Mass celebrated for you, for an anniversary of death, birthday, marriage, or other special event,
please fill out a Mass Intention form (located in foyer of the Church) or call the office.
Parish Office Hours
Monday 9am Noon
Tuesday Friday 9am 4pm
503 231-4955
Parish Staff
Pastor & Director of NW Paulist
Center Fr. Charlie Brunick, CSP
.x118
frcharlie@stphilipneripdx.org
Parochial Vicar
Fr. Michael Evernden, CSP .x114
mecsp@mac.com
Parochial Vicar
Fr. Bill Edens, CSP ..x113
frbill.csp@gmail.com
Director of Faith Formation
Barbara Harrison .x107
barbarah@stphilipneripdx.org
Business Manager
Jeanne McPherson ..x103
jeannem@stphilipneripdx.org
Office Manager
Rose Wolfe .x101
rosew@stphilipneripdx.org
Maintenance & Grounds
Ed Danila
edwardd@stphilipneripdx.org
Bulletin deadline Tuesday at noon
Church Cleaning, October 12-18, 2015, Jeanne McPherson & Dorothy Bruck
WOMENS RETREAT
The Womens Group will have a retreat on Friday, Oct. 16, 6:30 9pm &
Saturday, Oct. 17, 10am 3:30pm in Carvlin Hall. Our theme will be
Lavender Springs Spa, a journey through the Psalms. We will begin on Friday
evening with a light supper. Please call the office 503-231-4955 or email
Rose rosew@stphilipneripdx.org to let us know you are coming so we have
enough food and materials for everyone.
Pastoral Corner
It is estimated that there are about three hundred million guns in the United States. How in the world do we
keep track of three hundred million of anything? I used to own guns. I liked the workmanship, the detail and precision.
I enjoyed going out to Red Rock Canyon in the Mojave Desert to shoot at targets. I never once killed anything, nor
did I ever see my guns as a solution to any of my problems. There are millions of people just like me. I have never
understood hunting except when absolutely necessary for survival. When I lived in West Virginia a school bus or two
per year always seemed to be the accidental targets during hunting season. With gun violence on the rise in the 1960s
and 70s I got rid of my guns; yes as a statement but mostly because I didnt need something lethal to have fun. There
were other avenues. Now, I shoot photographs.
Banning guns wont work. Prohibition didnt work in the 20s. The war on drugs hasnt worked either. Seems
to me we have to go back to the source of the problem; individual choices to shoot or not to shoot. We are enamored
of easy answers to difficult problems. Bang, bang, problem solved. Well, no, it isnt. The problem has just gotten a
lot worse.
So many of the shooters have been shown to be mentally challenged. Okay, lets round them all up and put
them far away. That wont work either nor is it justified or fair.
We need to remember that mentally challenged
people are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators of violence. We are constantly trying to erase the
symptom but not treating the disease. We dont have an epidemic of guns, we have an epidemic of people who use a
gun to solve some problem in their lives; low self-esteem, I dont have a girlfriend, no one likes me, loners, isolators,
folks who are really, really sad, no job, no friends, nowhere to vent my anger or frustration. The list can go on and
on. In a sense we are all mentally challenged, at times needing help with one issue or another, and we find ways to
connect, or reconnect when life gets really difficult.
We find help in families, good friends, church communities, social clubs, and needed psychiatric counselors
and groups like 12-Step programs so we can learn to live on lifes terms. In a very real sense we all, every single one
of us, needs to be part of the solution rather than continuing the problem.
Clearly we need universal and comprehensive background checks. More than that, we need universal health
care, especially psychiatric health care for the homeless, bullied teenagers, those feeling rejected and abandoned, and
all unable to pay for such care. We need safe places where people can gather and share their angers and frustrations
and discover real alternatives to what they are experiencing. We need to create communities, neighborhoods, cities
and a nation where being kind and caring is the prime directive. We need friendly streets and safe sidewalks.
Whatever the motive of the gunman in Roseburg, one thing is clear. He had a major disconnect with himself
and others. The question is, how do we keep people connected with reality, with one another. How do we provide
safe places to share our brokenness and we are all broken. Most of us feel what it is like not to be able to share a
particular secret in our lives; how isolated and alone it makes us feel. Many of us have also felt the incredible feeling
of relief when we are able to share something we thought impossible to share - the freedom and lightness. All of us,
can do this, be this for one another. Showing loving kindness is not rocket science, but as close as our ability to smile,
to offer acceptance rather than rejection, love rather than hate. We need to disarm not the finger from the gun, but
disarm the idea in some peoples minds that a gun is the only solution.
Fr. Michael
Upcoming Events:
Oct. 21, 7:15pm B-Catholics, Chapel
Oct. 23, 7pm, Open Sanctuary, Church
Oct. 24 & 25, Costume Collection, Church