sept. 5, 2021

Sept. 5, 2021

A Catholic Community guided by the Holy Spirit to proclaim Christ’s love in worship, service and life-long learning

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8535 SW 19th Ave Portland, OR 97219 503.244.1037 Office Hours: Monday - Thursday, 9am - 12:30pm & 2 - 4pm [email protected] www.saintclarechurch.org Follow us on Facebook at St. Clare Catholic Church

Pastor Fr. Don Gutmann 101 Deacon Dcn. Bill McNamara 108 Business Manager Shelley Worrell 102 Pastoral Associate Pia de Leon 103 ECHO Apprentice (Aug-May) Lexie Wasinger 105 Administrative Assistant Laurie Zupsic 100 School

1807 SW Freeman St Portland, OR 97219 503.244.7600 [email protected] www.stclarepdx.org

Principal Chris Harris Office Manager Donna Parker MacNeur Preschool

1812 SW Spring Garden St Portland, OR 97219 503.244.5458 [email protected]

Director Nancy Melzer Administrative Assistant Jeanne Raffety

Reconciliation Saturdays with Fr. Don Gutmann from 4pm - 4:30pm in the church. Social distancing will be practiced. Please wear masks.

Matrimony Six month preparation required. Contact Deacon Bill McNamara

Baptism for Infants Contact Deacon Bill McNamara.

Faith Formation & Sacramental Preparation for Adults & Teens Contact Pia de Leon.

Faith Formation & Sacramental Preparation for Children Contact Kristine Kvochak.

Sacraments - Please visit www.saintclarechurch.org for more information on sacramental preparation.

A Warm Welcome To All Who Worship with Us

Whether you are a long-time parishioner and need to update your information or newly arrived in the parish and not yet registered, please complete the information below and place in the offertory basket or mail to the parish office.

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Weekend & Daily Mass:

Saturday - 5pm Sunday - 8:30am & 10:45am Weekdays except Tuesdays - 8:30am

Masks required. Social distancing is available in the main church; regular seating allowed in the transepts. All doors now open for entry.

Visit www.saintclarechurch.org to view pre-recorded Sunday Mass.

Weekly Offertory Report

The collection totals for Aug. 22 & 29 and Sept. 5 will be included in the Sept. 12 bulletin.

Weekly Reflection

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Sept. 5, 2021

Life can be challenging and frightening. Sometimes, it really hurts to be a human being. We face brokenness of all kinds: physical, emotional, and spiritual. For no apparent reason, life can quickly fall apart. What we knew to be familiar is gone and something we relied upon is taken away. We are left sitting with our incompleteness and swimming in the pools of our sadness. Be strong! Fear not! These admonitions flow from the mouths of prophets and are echoed by Jesus. It is difficult to trust that restoration, healing, and rejuvenation will one day come, and remain steadfast in our faith. But we are here because of a God who loves us, not as the result of a random occurrence. When we reach for that truth about who we are and who God is, life changes for us. We are healed from our old distorted way of seeing things. Our eyes, heart, and soul are opened to the beauty and magnificence of life. The pulse of our loving Creator is felt in all things and we can’t wait for God to come and touch us again. God made us, God loves us, and God keeps us. He has done all things well. ©LPi

Week-at-a-Glance

Saturday, Sept. 4 2:00pm Eucharistic Adoration Church 3:45pm Benediction Church 4:00pm Confession Church 5:00pm Mass Thomas Foley & Charlene Padden Church

Sunday, Sept. 5 8:30am Mass +James Digregorio Church 10:45am Mass For the People Church

Monday, Sept. 6 Labor Day/Parish Office Closed NO Daily Mass

Wednesday, Sept. 8 8:30am Daily Mass Church

Thursday, Sept. 9 8:30am Daily Mass Church

Friday, Sept. 10 8:30am Daily Mass Church

Saturday, Sept. 11 4:00pm Confession Church 5:00pm Mass +Victims of Sept. 11, 2001 Attacks Church

Sunday, Sept. 12 8:30am Mass +Linda Conti & +Laura Digregorio Church 10:45am Mass For the People Church

Fr. Don’s Musings . . .

Here we are in September already, our students will be returning to St. Clare School this week, the students in public schools started last week. Hopefully, we can have a full year of in-classroom learning. Our staff is ready, they have all the safety protocols in place, and we look forward to a good school year.

At the church, we will have some staff changes this year. Our Children’s Faith Formation Coordinator, Kristine Kvochak, has moved back to California, so we are looking for her replacement. That’s a ½ time position overseeing the children’s programs at the church (not the school). Also, Pia de Leon, our Pastoral Associate, will be retiring at the end of the calendar year, so we are looking for someone to take her place as well. That is also a ½ time position coordinating a lot of the ministries with adults at the church. Please join me in praying that we find the right person or persons to fill these ministry positions. It could be two part-time persons or one full-time person. If you are interested in either of these positions, let me know.

This week all of the St. Clare staff got together. The preschool, school, and church staffs all joined for Mass on Thursday morning, a mini-retreat and then some joint safety training. We are blessed with a big group of wonderful people who serve here at St. Clare Preschool, School, and Church. These folks are generous, loving disciples of Jesus. I’m proud to have them serving here. Please keep us in your prayers.

Welcome back to a brand new school year everyone! Happy September. ~Fr. Don

Scripture Readings

24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Sept. 12, 2021

Reading 1 - IS 50:5-9a Psalms - PS 116:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9

Reading 2 - JAS 2:14-18 Gospel - MK 8:27-35

For daily readings, please visit www.usccb.org

The St. Clare Conference Society of St. Vincent de Paul

Did you know in addition to food deliveries, SVdP also offers rental and utility assistance? Recently, there have actually been more of these requests than for food! So we welcome not only food and supplies but also monetary contributions. Thank you!

Please make checks payable to St. Vincent de Paul and drop in the collection basket at church

or the mail slot at the parish office.

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time ~ Sept. 5, 2021

Introduction to the Celebration

God makes no distinctions between the rich and the poor. All are invited to be heirs of the kingdom.

United in Prayer ~ Lord Hear Our Prayer

For the Church, may it constantly proclaim and witness to the hope coming from the Love of God in the midst of fear and uncertainty in the world today . . . we pray to the Lord.

For the hungry, downtrodden, captives and strangers of today, may they always be lifted up by the mercy and justice of the Lord . . . we pray to the Lord.

For the people of Louisiana and other places who have been seriously affected by the recent hurricane, for all the Afghan allies and American citizens whose lives are still left in danger, and for all who need humanitarian assistance . . . we pray to the Lord.

For all who labor, that on this Labor Day, may we recognize and appreciate their work and contribution to society and advocate for concrete policies that protect their dignity and rights . . . we pray to the Lord.

For our parish school, as they begin a new year, may they be guided by the Holy Spirit not only in pursuing academic excellence but more importantly authentic Christian discipleship . . . we pray to the Lord.

For God’s eternal peace and perpetual light for all who have died in our parish, for those who are sick, especially with COVID and related complications, and for the suffering and homebound . . . we pray to the Lord.

Catholic Social Teaching on the Dignity of Work and Rights of Workers

In the story of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes in John 6: 1-13, we read that when Jesus and the disciples are discussing how to feed the large crowd, it’s only the five loaves and two fishes that one boy brought along which the disciples identify as resources, and inadequate ones at that. In terms of resources, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin were as lacking in material resources as the boy in the crowd with Jesus, but they stepped forward in faith to live the “preferential option for the poor.” As Dorothy Day said, “People say, what can one person do? What is the sense of our small effort? But we can beg for an increase of love in our hearts that will vitalize and transform all our individual actions, and know that God will take them and multiply them, as Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes.” Loaves and Fishes: The inspiring story of the Catholic Worker movement, by Dorothy Day Published following her personal autobiography, The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day’s Loaves and Fishes: The inspiring story of the Catholic Worker movement is an account of the history of the Catholic Worker Movement.

Servant of God Dorothy Day (1897- 1980), a convert to Catholicism, was an American journalist and social activist, who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement with Peter Maurin. During the influenza pandemic of 1918, she spent a year working as a nurse caring for victims of that pandemic. In 1932, Dorothy was inspired by Peter Maurin, who had a vision of social justice and the need for action by the poor themselves. The Catholic Worker Movement officially began on May 1, 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, with the publication of the Catholic Worker newspaper.

Grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person, the Movement was committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, and the Works of Mercy as a way of life. It wasn’t long before Dorothy and Peter were putting their beliefs into action, opening a “house of hospitality” where the homeless, the hungry, and the forsaken would always be welcome. Over many decades, the movement has protested injustice, war, and violence of all forms. Today there are some 228 Catholic Worker communities in the United States and in countries around the world, including the Simone Weil Catholic Worker & Public Household in Portland.

Dorothy Day’s faithfulness to the Gospel, living the "preferential option for the poor" and showing that a lay person can achieve heroic virtue are often cited. In 2015, in an address before the United States Congress, Pope Francis included her as an example of one of four Americans whose work has made America a better place.

When Loaves and Fishes appeared, Thomas Merton wrote: “Every American Christian should read Dorothy Day’s Loaves and Fishes, because it explodes the comfortable myth that we have practically solved the ‘problem of poverty’ in our affluent society . . . I hope that those who read her book will be moved by it to serious thought and to some practical action: it is a credit to American democracy and to American Catholicism.” And Norman Thomas described Loaves and Fishes as “an absorbingly well-written series of pictures of her work and of those she has gathered around her in connection with the Catholic Worker, its hospitality house and its community farm. I rejoice with new hope for mankind because of the kind of work that she and some of her associates are doing.”

www.catholicworker.org

Suggested by the St. Clare Peace & Justice Committee

Excerpts from Catholic Social Teaching on Labor, Unions, and Workers Rights

In the first place, the worker must be paid a wage sufficientto support him and his family.

Quadragesimo Anno (The Fortieth Year ) #71On Reconstruction of the Social OrderPius XI, 1931

The Church fully supports the right of workers to formunions or other associations to secure their rights to fairwages and working conditions. This is a specific applica-tion of the more general right to associate. In the words ofPope John Paul II, "The experience of history teaches thatorganizations of this type are an indispensable element ofsocial life, especially in modern industrial societies."

Economic Justice for All #104Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and theU.S. Economy, U. S. Catholic Bishops, 1986

Workers not only want fair pay, they also want to share inthe responsibility and creativity of the very work process.They want to feel that they are working for themselves --an awareness that is smothered in a bureaucratic systemwhere they only feel themselves to be "cogs" in a hugemachine moved from above.

Laborem Exercens (On Human Work) #15John Paul II, 1981

We consider it our duty to reaffirm that the remuneration ofwork is not something that can be left to the laws of themarketplace; nor should it be a decision left to the will ofthe more powerful. It must be determined in accordancewith justice and equity; which means that workers must bepaid a wage which allows them to live a truly human lifeand to fulfill their family obligations in a worthy manner.

Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher) #71Pope John XXIII, 1961

Other factors too enter into the assessment of a just wage:namely, the effective contribution which each individualmakes to the economic effort, the financial state of thecompany for which he works, the requirements of thegeneral good of the particular country ... and finally therequirements of the common good of the universal familyof nations....

Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher) #71John Paul II, 1981

Yet the workers' rights cannot be doomed to be the mereresult of economic systems aimed at maximum profits. Thething that must shape the whole economy is respect for theworkers' rights within each country and all through theworld's economy.


We must pay more attention to the one who works than towhat the worker does. The self-realization of the humanperson is the measure of what is right and wrong.


Work is in the first place "for the worker" and not theworker "for work." Work itself can have greater or lesserobjective value, but all work should be judged by themeasure of dignity given to the person who carries it out.


We must consequently continue to study the situation ofthe worker. There is a need for solidarity movementsamong and with the workers. The church is firmlycommitted to this cause, in fidelity to Christ, and to be trulythe "church of the poor."


But above all we must remember the priority of labor overcapital: labor is the cause of production; capital, or themeans of production, is its mere instrument or tool.


It is right to struggle against an unjust economic systemthat does not uphold the priority of the human being overcapital and land.

Centesimus Annus (The Hundredth Year) #35John Paul II, 1991

The capital at the disposal of management is in part theproduct of the labor of those who have toiled in thecompany over the years, including currently employedworkers. As a minimum, workers have a right to beinformed in advance when such decisions are underconsideration, a right to negotiate with management aboutpossible alternatives, and a right to fair compensation andassistance with retraining and relocation expenses shouldthese be necessary. Since even these minimal rights arejeopardized without collective negotiation, industrialcooperation requires a strong role for labor unions in ourchanging economy.

Economic Justice for All #303Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and theU.S. Economy, U. S. Catholic Bishops, 1986

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