Newsletter | October 19, 2021 |
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Our parish is open for in-person Mass and we’re eager to see you all again. Please join us at one of the following Masses:
Saturday at 5:00pm
Sunday at 9:00am
Sunday at 11:00am
Some changes you'll see at Mass to protect ourselves, to protect our neighbors, and to protect the ability FOR ALL TO safely worship together - face masks required, ushers seat you, no Holy Water, no singing, and no Blood of Christ. Clearly marked sections for worship are available for people seeking physical distancing.
Please continue to self-screen and stay home if you are not feeling well. Dispensation to attend Sunday Mass is still in effect. Sick, vulnerable, at-risk, and otherwise concerned persons are encouraged to celebrate Mass with us via live stream.
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We are beginning our yearly focus on Parish Stewardship. We invite you to reflect on how God has blessed you in your lives, and in the coming weeks we will ask you to consider returning a proper portion of those blessings to your parish as we continue the mission set before us by Jesus Christ. Next Sunday we will be hearing from one of our parishioners about how God has blessed them, and how and why they chose to share their blessings. |
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Each fiscal year St. John Vianney prepares an annual report, made publicly available, where we reflect on our growth as a light on Finn Hill. Please view it here.
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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Every Third Thursday at 7:00pm
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Membership in the Knights of Columbus is open to males 18 years of age or older who are practicing Catholics. Meetings are every third Thursday of the month at 7:00pm via Zoom. For more information contact the Grand Knight, Mike Myette: 206-510-6536.
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FALL CLEANUP
This Saturday, October 23
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Check out the video above for scenes from last year's fall cleanup to see how much fun we have. And join us this Saturday for our semi-annual major clean up, preparing our beautiful gardens for a long winter. We need lots of volunteers, young, old, and in between. There is plenty to do for everyone so bring your gloves and tools if you have them. Wheelbarrows are encouraged if you can. We will have a big dumpster on hand. If you have any questions, please contact Greg at gleptich@sjvkirkland.org or 206.940.4072.
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HS ESPERANZA MISSION TREK BAKE SALE
This Weekend, October 23-24 after all Masses
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Please support our trekkers on their journey to Tijuana. All donations gratefully accepted. |
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ALL SAINTS' DAY MASSES (Holy Day of Obligation)
Monday, November 1 at 9:00am and 7:00pm
ALL SOULS' DAY MASS
Tuesday, November 2 at 7:00pm
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During our All Souls' Day Mass the names of our loved ones who have died in the last year will be read, and a candle will be lit in their honor. We will be following COVID guidelines for Mass to ensure the safety of all so come join us in person. Livestream will also be available.
We will also be remembering our dearly departed with a slideshow of their pictures. If you would like to participate, please send a picture of your departed loved one and her/his name to Lstanger@sjvkirkland.org by Friday, October 29th.
You may also bring a photo of your loved one to the parish office to be placed on a table by the baptismal font for the month of November. Please make sure the name of the person pictured, your name and phone number are on the back of the picture so we can get the photo back to you at the end of the month.
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OUR 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION IS LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY
Saturday, November 6
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Please consider coming to the 5:00pm Mass on Saturday, November 6 and staying for our celebration dinner and auction. This year will have a different feel to it, but we have a lot to celebrate and honor.
You can purchase a seat for the dinner on our website, in the church office, or after the weekend Masses in the narthex. Dinner choices consist of Chef Greg’s Beef Wellington or Chef Bing’s Wild Salmon and are a real deal at $75/person. Raffle tickets are available after the weekend Masses as well.
We are currently accepting items for the auction. If it is something you would bid on, then others would too. If there are establishments that you frequent, please ask if they would be willing to donate. Let them know it is a special anniversary for us at SJV.
We have sign ups for auction volunteers at the auction table in the narthex after the weekend Masses.
Thank you! We can’t wait to celebrate together!
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YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD |
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Since COVID-19 started, it has felt like we have been hiding our light under a bushel basket...
It is time to let your light shine and come together.
We are a light on Finn Hill. A light for the world!
If you don't have a family candle, please stop at the welcome table after Mass or in the parish office during the week to pick up your family candle and instructions for decorating.
Decorated candles will be lit at our special 50th Anniversary Mass with Archbishop Etienne on Saturday, November 6 at 5:00pm.
Let your light shine!
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50TH ANNIVERSARY HISTORY BOOK
Pre-order Now - Only $30
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Celebrate SJV’s marvelous story with the purchase of our 50th anniversary commemorative history book. Find out why, for 50 years, SJV has truly been a light on Finn Hill.
Pre-orders can be made on our website using the button below, or pre-order in the Narthex after Mass or in the office during business hours.
Books will be distributed in conjunction with the 50 years celebration in November.
DON’T MISS OUT, LIMITED QUANTITIES ON ORDER.
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Are you a long time member of St. John Vianney Church? Let us record your story after Mass this weekend. Please see Laura Stanger or Susan Weaver after Mass in the Narthex. |
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ST. VINCENT DE PAUL FOOD DRIVE FOR CHRISTMAS BASKETS 2021 |
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The SJV St. Vincent de Paul society will be assembling and distributing food baskets again this year for families in great need. Last year we helped approximately 70 families, over 280 people! Of course, we would not be able to do this without your help. Over the next several months, we will be collecting non-perishable food items. When you do your own shopping, please consider purchasing some of the items on the food drive schedule for our pantry. Checks (payable to SJV St. Vincent de Paul) or cash donations are always welcome and may be dropped off in the parish office. Gift cards will be given out to each family to purchase the perishable items they need. Thank you for making stewardship a way of life.
Oct 23-24 TP, Paper Towels, Kleenex, Breakfast Cereals, Canned Soup, Mayonnaise, Canned Stew, Spam, Baked Beans, Rice & Rice Products, Baked Beans, 4LB Sugar, Cooking Oil, Jam/Jelly, Cake Mix, Frosting.
Oct 30-31 Peanut Butter, Jam/Jelly, Breakfast Cereals, Tuna Fish, Canned Salmon, Chili, Canned Fruit, Mayonnaise, Bisquick, Brownie Mixes, Canned Soups, Salt.
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Mrs. Fitz and Ms. Maria are back in the parish nursery on Sunday mornings during the 9:00am and 11:00am Masses for families with young children. You can find the nursery at the bottom of the stairs. The sound system from the church is pumped into the nursery. If you would like to stay downstairs with your child, you can still hear what is going on in the liturgy. The nursery is recommended for children 1 to 4 years old. |
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CHILDREN'S LITURGY OF THE WORD |
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Kids can join us for in-person Children's Liturgy of the Word during the 11:00am Sunday Mass in Room 6 downstairs! |
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CATHOLIC KIDS' CATECHISM CLUB |
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Come “Discover” what is happening with Catholic Kids’ Catechism Club for children 3 years old through 5th grade. Watch the video above to see how much fun we have while learning about our faith. You can still register to come in person, and there are also online and homeschool options available. For more information or to register, please contact Laura, Lstanger@sjvkirkland.org or visit sjvkirkland.org/faith-formation/#catechism-club.
We do need volunteers! If you feel called by the Holy Spirit to join us, please let Laura know!
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YOUTH GROUP
Sundays from 5:00-6:30pm
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RECONCILIATION
Saturdays from 3:30-4:30pm
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Reconciliation is available every Saturday from 3:30-4:30pm. The Reconciliation Room is next to our Adoration Chapel.
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RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION FOR ADULTS |
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If you know of someone who is interested, or has a spark within them, an inkling of becoming Catholic, and joining the Catholic Faith Community, please contact Fr. Vu or Laura, Lstanger@sjvkirkland.org.
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REFLECTIONS ON CARING FOR OUR COMMON HOME
From Laudato Si
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Pope Francis writes that “Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain” (Laudato Si, 161). What does he mean by that? Does he mean that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ are at hand? That attempts to determine when Christ is coming are no longer misplaced or to be ignored? That what the Catholic Church has traditionally referred to as idle speculation is no longer idle or particularly speculative?
Doomsday itself obviously is a day of doom – the end of the world, a day of judgment, and especially a time of terror and horror. This doesn’t harmonize at all well with our repeated profession during mass of our belief in the Second Coming of our Lord. The doxology after the Lord’s prayer, for example, reads, “…as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.” Doomsday is hardly a blessed hope or something to be eagerly awaited.
Moreover, this pairing of doomsday and the Second Coming is rooted in a particularly misguided understanding of eschatology (the last things), since it focuses on God’s intervention in history as judge, avenger, and destroyer. The major eschatological works of the New Testament -- the Olivet Discourse in chapters 24-25 of St. Matthew’s Gospel and the Revelation to St. John – say very little about the Second Coming. They do tell us that there will be no signs and that its day and the hour of Christ’s return are unknown to us (Matthew 24:3,36), that the end of the church age (the so-called millennial reign of Christ) will be marked by a final conflict between the forces of the Lord and the forces of the evil one (Revelation 20:7-10), and that there will be a final judgment (Revelation 20:11-13). Much more detailed, however, is the aftermath of the Second Coming: the new heaven and the new earth, in which God dwells directly with his people (Revelation 21:1), in which all things are holy (Zechariah 14:20), in which the eschatological visions of Isaiah (such as Isaiah 2:4 and Isaiah 11:6) are realized, and in which those who are found worthy receive resurrected bodies and the damage done to God’s creation as a result of human sin is reversed. This hardly sounds like doomsday; instead, it does sound like our blessed hope, to be eagerly awaited.
Pope Francis is not speaking, then, of the Second Coming, but rather of a literal doomsday – a destruction of the earth and all its life that results from the combined efforts of humans and their chronic abuse of God’s creation. He is referring to such projections as the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic clock established by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947 to depict how close the earth is to a man-made global catastrophe. Originally focusing on the possibility of global nuclear warfare in the Cold War era, the clock also began considering catastrophe resulting from climate change and human technologies gone away. Its time is now 100 seconds before midnight, with midnight representing the time of global catastrophe. As Pope Francis indicates, such projections are not whimsical; they must be taken very seriously. And they must be taken especially seriously when they represent a consensus of established, reputable scientists such as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
So the doomsday that Pope Francis warns about and that he says cannot be dismissed is a global catastrophe. And scientists believe that, unless we do something about it, it is approaching. The real question, then, is not whether doomsday is coming, but rather how do we want to respond. And what do we want to do to ensure that doomsday never arrives and that our common home continues to nurture future generations, including our own descendants, as well as the varied life forms that our God has called into being?
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HIGH SCHOOL MISSION TREK TO TIJUANA
June 19 - July 2, 2022
Applications Available Now!
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High school sophomores, juniors, and seniors, please join us!
Upcoming Dates:
- Saturday-Sunday, October 23-24: Bake Sale Fundraiser
- Sunday, November 14, 3:30-5:00pm: Christmas Tree Sales Orientation in the Tree Shed Lot
- Sunday, November 21 - Wednesday, December 22: Christmas Tree Sales
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GOODWIN GROUP TREK
October 30 - November 6, 2021
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Last call to join the Goodwin Group trek and build homes in Tijuana Mexico 10/30-11/6/21. Come experience the profound sense of purpose building community with our friends at www.esperanzaint.org. Contact Kenny Goodwin, 425.466.4460 or goodwin.hp@gmail.com, to be part of this transformational experience.
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PREPARES
Pregnancy & Parenting Support
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PREPARES is a nurturing response of the Catholic community, open to all, to provide meaningful, local and sustainable support to vulnerable Washington mothers, fathers, and families as they nurture their children through pregnancy and early childhood. Our vision is that a vulnerable mom or family can come to any Catholic parish in the state and be served.
EVERY LIFE CHERISHED, CHOSEN AND SENT
In response to Right to Life Month, this October our Parish is kicking off our “Prepares Ministry Program.” If you feel called, please take a blue bag from the rack next to the St. Vincent de Paul bin. Each bag has a target age and check list on it. At this time we are in most need of items for 4 to 5-year-olds. Please put one or two of the items from each section in the bag to help support a family in need who have CHOSEN LIFE! Check off the items you have placed in the bag and return the bag to the St. Vincent de Paul bin when it is completed. The bags will be distributed to families in our neighborhood who call in need of financial support with rent, utilities or food through our St. Vincent de Paul society. If they have a child from pregnancy through 5 years old, we will give them one of the Prepares bags as an additional sign of love, gratitude and hope for their child or children.
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Calling all moms, especially moms with infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary school-aged children! Take some time for yourself and meet up with other moms on the same journey. Join the "SJV Moms Meetup" Facebook group for updates about our monthly meetups. Hope to see you at Stoup!
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The funeral for Kathleen Leingang will be on Friday, October 29 at 11:00am.
The funeral for Ron BIllinghurst will be on Saturday, October 30 at 10:00am.
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ALL SAINTS' DAY FAMILY TREASURE HUNT
October 31 anytime between Noon-3:00pm
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Families will be given a map of the parish grounds to find some very important items that our Saints have lost!
- Help St. Dennis find his head!
- St. Rose of Lima must have her Roses!
- St. Florian needs his water jug!
After helping our Saints find their lost items in the right order, you will find a part of the code for the padlock on St. Anthony’s treasure chest! Open the chest with the code you put together and you will gain your prize bag full of treats and Saintly stuff! All outdoors and everyone is welcome!
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REMEMBERING LOVED ONES WHO HAVE DIED FROM COVID-19
Monday, November 8 - 7:00pm at St. James Cathedral and Livestream
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During this special Requiem Mass, we will remember, mourn and pray for all those we have lost to COVID-19. All Catholics in Western Washington are invited to submit the names of people who have died. These names will be placed in a special Book of the Dead and carried in procession during the Mass. |
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