A summer of change
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 Catholic Sentinel June 30, 2014  It is almost a cliché to say that “no one likes change.”
I
don’t know if that is true or not for most people, but one thing I do
know:
Change, even when it is needed, is not always easy.
We have been going through some very significant changes at the Pastoral Center, the “headquarters,” if you will,of the Archdiocese of Portland, serving the many parishes and schools of western Oregon.
I can say
without hesitation that these changes are not easy,
but that they are timely and needed for us to move forward with the work of the New Evangelization in this local Church. When I first arrived here as the new Archbishop over a year ago, I decided that I would spend my first year getting to know this local Archdiocese of Portland. I did the best I could to listen, observe and learn.
This involved assessing the current state of affairs, both within the
Pastoral Center offices
and throughout the Archdiocese in western Oregon.
It also included an attempt to objectively identify the needs
of this local community of faith in the
Archdiocese. Coupled with the above, I have spent much time in prayer and reflection on the mission that the Lord Jesus has entrusted to me here as the shepherd called to minister to and lead this local Church according the mind and heart of the Good Shepherd. I am by no means perfect in this regard, and I do not individually enjoy the charism of infallibility (just ask my mother!), but as they say, my heart is in the right place.
I desire only what God
wants for us and what will help us all achieve the goal of our faith, i.e.
salvation.
I have already identified some of my top priorities moving forward. They include, but are not limited
to the following: The education, catechesis
and faith formation of our people, from the earliest days
of childhood and into the senior years; the revitalization, renewal and reform of the divine worship we offer God in the sacred liturgy and in the sacraments of the Church; and the service of charity to all of our brothers and sisters most in need. Included in all of this is an acute awareness of and attentiveness to the cultural diversity present in our local Church. These are the “three fronts” of the New Evangelization, i.e. faith formation, divine worship and the service of charity. There are many other needs, for example marriage and family life and young adult ministry, but they are essentially related to these three areas of focus. After spending my first year here, I decided to bring in outside consultants who are experts in the reorganization and restructuring of Church entities. They came to us highly recommended by others, and they have proven to be invaluable in helping us assess the current state of affairs and chart a way forward. In all honesty, they confirmed in many instances my own observations, but also surfaced some other things of which I was unaware. As a result of this study, my assessment of their observations and recommendations, and my own observations over this past year, we have begun to implement significant changes in our Pastoral Center operations.
We
do this in order to better respond to current needs and to be more effective
in responding
to those needs, keeping a sharp focus on the mission of the Church and the priorities that have been identified. A major part of this reorganization involves changes in staffing. In order to allow me to move ahead with this new vision and plans for our future together, several key staff persons are departing their service as employees of the Archdiocese. In addition, one long time employee has taken the opportunity to retire. All have agreed to assist us for a month with the transition. I want to publicly and sincerely express my gratitude to these fine individuals for their years of faithful service to Christ and his Church here in the Archdiocese. We will be forever grateful for the contributions they have made to build up the Body of Christ. Their departure should in no way diminish their significant roles in the story of this local Church. So, change is difficult and involves some sense of loss as we see longtime friends depart. It is to this point that I wish to express one final point. I suppose it is natural to see such deep and significant changes as being somehow a criticism or rejection of the past. I sincerely do not want it to be seen in this way. I have nothing but the deepest respect and gratitude for these fine people. Almost all of them were here during some very difficult and challenging times for the Archdiocese. It is largely due to their dedication and hard work that this local Church came back from bankruptcy and began to rebuild. But with changing times come changing priorities and needs. For us to move forward and meet the challenges we face today and in the future, reorganization and “re-tooling” are needed at this time. It is with a tremendous sense of mission and enthusiasm that we move forward together. There will be some restructuring of the offices even as we begin to fill vacated positions and staff new positions. I humbly ask your prayers as we begin to rebuild and look to a future full of hope.
And please remember the staff members who are leaving and their
families. May they find a new path
as God continues to lead and guide them. |
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Archbishop Sample: "A Summer of Change". What's Going on at the Archdiocese of Portland?
Friday, July 25, 2014
Archdiocese of Portland Job Opportunities. Know anyone?
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| Saint John Cajean, patron saint of job searches. |
all people to be father of providence
because you provide miraculous aid to
all who come to you in need, I stand
here before you today, asking that you
present to the Lord the requests that
I confidently deposit in your hands.
(Mention here the
graces desired.)
May these graces that I now request
help me to always seek the Kingdom
of God and his Righteousness,
knowing that God — who dresses with
beauty the flowers of the field and
abundantly feeds the birds of the
sky — will give me all other things. Amen.[source]
Here is a list of job opportunities from the Archdiocese of Portland. Although many have expired as of July 1st. it is interesting to see all the changes.
You will notice the resurrection of the Office of Marriage and Family Life. The last director slowly had his job eliminated and was the end of the "welcome" we all desire when going to our Pastoral Center.
Music Ministry
(5)
Youth Minister (2)
Archbishop Sample Reorganizes the Pastoral Center. Six resignations.
| Director of worship leaves archdiocese | |||
Sister Jeremy Gallet, archdiocesan director of the Office of Worship, is leaving her job. Her resignation adds to the list of five other Portland archdiocesan staffers who left their jobs earlier this month. The department heads and key staff are departing as part of a reorganization of Pastoral Center operations. Archbishop Alexander Sample said the changes are part of the archdiocese's effort to streamline operations and better communicate with the Western Oregon parishes and schools the Pastoral Center serves. The reorganization is the result of a months-long review of pastoral center practices by a firm retained by the archdiocese. |
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Entire Article on Joy Wallace from Catholic Sentinel, June 16, 2014. Link is broken.
It was pointed out to me that this link was "broken". In fact, the Catholic Sentinel archives has no mention of Joy Wallace I could find. So, here is the entire article.
Catholic Sentinel photo by Ed Langlois
Joy Wallace leads a group that works with schools to stop bullying. 6/16/2014 4:32:00 PM By Ed Langlois Joy Wallace thinks no one should get picked on for who they are.
A member of St. Andrew Parish in Northeast Portland, she has received a major award from the Oregon Education Association for defusing bullying in schools and aiding students who have been bullied.
Wallace, 68, is a founder and co-chair of the all-volunteer Oregon Safe Schools and Communities Coalition.
Among the youths most often bullied are those who are homosexual or transgender. Children with disabilities and learning differences also get persecuted.
When parents are dissatisfied with answers and actions from schools, they come to Wallace. The coalition helps the students and their families by responding vigorously to bullying — sometimes with volunteer lawyers — and by offering education and events to halt bullying and harassment before it begins. The coalition also collects data, which lawmakers use to hone policy.
“You can’t concentrate to learn mathematics if you fear your school environment,” Wallace says.
One of the hopes is to reduce suicide among victims of bullying.
“I guess I have a passion for making things more fair for people,” she explains, crediting Catholic social teaching for refining her passions.
Wallace received the OEA’s Ed Elliott Human Rights Award, named after an Oregon educator who worked for inclusivity in public schools during the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. The award goes to people who have made a sustained contribution to human rights in Oregon. When news of the recognition was announced after Mass at St. Andrew, worshipers gave Wallace a standing ovation.
Wallace, who became Catholic in 1988, was a high school teacher intent on social justice. While working in Corvallis, she noticed bullying just outside her classroom and felt a dearth of resources for making schools safer.
In 2001, four years after a move to Portland, she attended a conference on ending bullying and met others who felt like her. The coalition emerged.
A natural teacher, Wallace leads the group so it tells the history of discrimination, with an emphasis on ethical decision making. When the Oregon Legislature passed a tough anti-bullying law in 2009, the coalition took the lead in seeing to it that K-12 schools implement the policy. Organizers convene meetings so district representatives can become stronger advocates at their schools.
State guidelines don’t apply to private schools, but Wallace thinks the values at Catholic schools are a good start against discrimination. She urges Catholic school officials to monitor their institutions and look over the state policy.
Included in the coalition is the “Welcoming the Whole Family” Committee from St. Andrew Parish, which seeks to make gay and lesbians feel at home in the Catholic Church.
Wallace feels encouraged because new federal requirements against bullying have come out and are strong. “Having legislation is a good first step to having safer schools,” she says.
Now retired except for volunteering, Wallace once worked as development director for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and the Franciscan Spiritual Center.
“She has deep roots in Catholic social justice teaching,” says Jane Braunger, also a member of St. Andrew’s. “It is also about hospitality for her. And I find her upbeat. She is never harsh in her criticism. She is about rolling up her sleeves and getting work done.”
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Foxes in the (Archdiocese of Portland's) Henhouse - Why Did the Catholic Sentinel Allow a Joy Wallace article?
Ed Langois, a reporter for the Catholic Sentinel since 1993, knows about Joy Wallace. Robert Pfohman, the editor must know about her too, yet, he decided to put in the article below.
This, in my opinion, undermines Archbishop Sample; further confuse Catholics about the teachings of the Church by promoting active homosexuality even in our public and possibly Catholic schools; same-sex marriage and "woman priests".
(This link below no longer works since this article was written) Please see entire article at http://vocalblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/entire-article-on-joy-wallace-from.html)
Click http://www.catholicsentinel.org/m/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=25448
She got the award for supporting only homosexual and confused children in the schools. Not fat kids, kids with glasses, wheelchair bounds kids or even red or yellow black or white kids. As a "catholic" does she help these homosexual and confused children know that their Creator has a plan for each of their lives?
Click http://www.oregoned.org/images/pages/RA_mediarelease_2014_Final_(1).pdf
This pose from 2013 by encouraging others to override Archbishop Sample request to not participate in the Portland Pride Parade. Joy is leading these people away from the Truth and no matter how she "feels", she shouldn't be considered a Catholic this invincible ignorance. |
“It was much more difficult for me to tell my feminist friends that I had made the choice to become a Catholic than it ever was to come out as a lesbian.”
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Sadly this is how far she is taking her disobedience of the Truth of Christ.
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| Joy Wallace holding book of professed "womanpriest" Toni Tortorilla at Sophia Christi "Catholic" community's 4th anniversary "mass". One of five in this Archdiocese administering Sacraments that are not valid. She is on the Board of Directors of EQUITY. A pro-homosexual group.
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Joy Wallace, Secretary, recently retired as a Development Director for a faith-based non-profit and has had a long career as an educator, mainly doing professional development for teachers and materials development in equity-related topics. She currently chairs the Oregon Safe Schools and Communities Coalition Board of Directors and serves on the Board of the Sophia Christi community ("womenpriests" church). She works with the Portland Catholic Coalition of Welcoming Parishes to increase welcoming queer ministry in Catholic churches. She has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon and a Master’s degree from Oregon State University. For fun, she volunteers in her granddaughter’s classroom, loves going camping, reading and gardening.
Finally, listen to what she says about the Catholic church. Her contribution to this panel is seven minutes and thirty seconds (7:30) into the video below.
Ed Langois and Robert Pfohman
why was this woman chosen for an article in the Catholic Sentinel?
Friday, June 27, 2014
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Archbishop Sample and Our Lady.
From VOCAL in May.
The Spiritual War is On: Archbishop Sample Consecrates Archdiocese to 'Our Lady of Fatima": Sat. June 28th 2 pm
Reminder from a reader. Thanks.
Dear Friends in Christ:
On June 28, the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at 2:00 p.m. at St. Mary's
Cathedral.
Archbishop Sample will consecrate the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of
Fatima and do whatever is possible to promote the First Saturday devotion.
The new Pilgrim Virgin Statue of the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of Fatima which was
blessed by Pope Francis will be at the Cathedral.
Some of the National Board of the World Apostolate of Fatima will be there, EWTN will be featuring the event, the National Catholic Register, and possibly other Catholic media.
The Statue will be in Portland until July 5 and will visit Five parishes as yet to be selected.
Pass this information on to all of your relatives and acquaintances so we will have an overflowing crown to honor Our Lady.
N.K.
The Spiritual War is On: Archbishop Sample Consecrates Archdiocese to 'Our Lady of Fatima": Sat. June 28th 2 pm
Reminder from a reader. Thanks.
Dear Friends in Christ:
On June 28, the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at 2:00 p.m. at St. Mary's Cathedral.
Archbishop Sample will consecrate the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of
Fatima and do whatever is possible to promote the First Saturday devotion.
The new Pilgrim Virgin Statue of the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of Fatima which was
blessed by Pope Francis will be at the Cathedral.
Some of the National Board of the World Apostolate of Fatima will be there, EWTN will be featuring the event, the National Catholic Register, and possibly other Catholic media.
The Statue will be in Portland until July 5 and will visit Five parishes as yet to be selected.
Pass this information on to all of your relatives and acquaintances so we will have an overflowing crown to honor Our Lady.
N.K.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
God Bless Archbishop Sample. You Will Be So Happy to Hear This.
With the world spinning seemingly out of control, we have a blessed Archbishop giving us hope. With his strong moral leadership our money, seventy-five thousand dollars, will NOT be given to VOZ. This organization has been funded for decades with Oregon Catholic money supporting anti-Catholic beliefs given through Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).
You can type in "VOZ" in the "Search" bar and just the headlines will give you an overview of the battles we have been fighting to keep our Catholic money freed from this group's fist.
(I will put the entire list at the bottom of this post as suggested by a follower. Also regarding "womenpriests". ) There is a problem putting all of them on this post. I will try to add them in following ones. Sorry. There are eight more posts on VOZ and five on "womenpriests" that aren't posted on this blog but are in the SEARCH area.
Archbishop Sample, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your love of Christ and putting this love in action.
Many of us have developed a coping mechanism of extreme caution it is almost paralyzing when trusting our Church leaders from the Archdiocese. We have been treated as the seeming enemy of a Church we dearly love. We are afraid to enter the Pastoral Center. You are changing all that.
Thank you again dear Archbishop.
Happy Father's Day from your spiritual children.
You can type in "VOZ" in the "Search" bar and just the headlines will give you an overview of the battles we have been fighting to keep our Catholic money freed from this group's fist.
(I will put the entire list at the bottom of this post as suggested by a follower. Also regarding "womenpriests". ) There is a problem putting all of them on this post. I will try to add them in following ones. Sorry. There are eight more posts on VOZ and five on "womenpriests" that aren't posted on this blog but are in the SEARCH area.
ALSO, there is an absence of Catholic's in the Gay Pride Parade's line-up. There is one little group lead by our Catholic "womanpriestess" but it is to be expected. Catholic churches are not putting our Church in a scandalous position with Sister's of Perpetual Indulgence doing enough to degrade the image of the good nuns of Oregon.
Archbishop Sample, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your love of Christ and putting this love in action.
Many of us have developed a coping mechanism of extreme caution it is almost paralyzing when trusting our Church leaders from the Archdiocese. We have been treated as the seeming enemy of a Church we dearly love. We are afraid to enter the Pastoral Center. You are changing all that.
Thank you again dear Archbishop.
Happy Father's Day from your spiritual children.
Dec 04, 2013
The center, on city-owned land amid industry at Northeast Martin Luther King and Everett, is run by Voz Workers' Rights Education Project. In part with funding from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Voz gives ...
Nov 10, 2011
$64,000 Salaries; Archdpdx, CCHD and "Fiscal Incest" Part one: VOZ. "This fiscal incest was the instrument through which control was maintained and leverage enjoyed." John Kenneth Galbraith. The Great Crash of 1929.
Mar 31, 2014
This seems wrong to support people to break the laws of the United States. Oregon Catholics are doing just this by having Matt Cato, director of the Office of Justice and Peace, speak at this rally. VOZ is also affiliated with La ...
Dec 15, 2011
Day Laborers/ Our Lady of Guadalupe VOZ has anti-Catholic ideals (apart from the Catholics that might be in VOZ) Using the Blessed Mother confuses people. This organization is not as it seems and using the Blessed Mother ...
Nov 19, 2013
CCHD
funds will support Voz's efforts in its "Save the Center Campaign,"
mobilizing day laborers and community members to advocate the City of
Portland government for a permanent solution for a Worker Center.
Oct 24, 2013
Voz
Workers' Rights Education Project (Voz) is a worker-led organization
that empowers day laborers to advocate for their own just working
conditions through leadership development, community organizing, and
policy ...
Nov 18, 2004
VOZ
is a worker-led organization of day laborers that helps members build
constructive relationships with employers and authorities, gain control
over their lives and working conditions, and address the injustices
they ...
Sep 05, 2008
We
STILL advertise for VOZ with through the Office of Justice and Peace
and have given money from Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD)
to this organization as well as others connected to them. We still
don't ...
Nov 19, 2005
Project:
Immigrants Rights Workshops Organization: VOZ Workers' Rights Education
Project Location: Portland area Funding award: 2005 $3,000; 2004
$5,000; 2003 $5,000; and 2002 $5,000 Local Grants - 2002 $25,000 ...
Mar 10, 2007
Leaders
of VOZ, for example are part of the grantees. We have no pro-life
share. The latest "donation" from us is to "Comite Latino".
http://pcasc.net/about-us/el-comite-latino, http://pcasc.net/links This
group led the March at the ...
Oct 01, 2010
Francisco
Lopez past employee of Catholic Charities has been in leadership of
VOZ, CAUSA both of which are past/present recipients of CCHD funds over
many years. They morph - Voz Hispana Causa Chavista and support ...
Dec 14, 2009
For
example, was there a conflict of interest between the almost constant
grantee VOZ and an ex-employee of Catholic Charities, Francisco Lopez,
who was still involved with CAUSA and VOZ affiliated with LA Raza (the
race) ...
Dec 10, 2012
Participating
organizations included Community Alliance of Tenants, New City
Initiative, Ecumenical Ministry of Oregon's Interfaith Food and Farm
Partnerships, VOZ, and Hacienda Community Development Corporation.
http://vocalblog.blogspot.com/
"Womenpriests"
"Womenpriests"
Jul 28, 2013
Here
is some information on the four "womenpriests" we have in Oregon. This
was written in 2012 and never posted until now in 2013. Ex-Father Roy
Bourgeois finally. Roy Bourgeois went to Ecumenical Ministries of
Oregon ...
Sep 24, 2010
If
we go deeper we see "women's rights" which addresses agreeing with the
acceptance of abortion and women priests. We have four "women priests"
in Oregon sending the wrong message. Nice friendly ladies, working
in ...
Apr 07, 2010
The
anti-Catholic event includes two "women priests" from Oregon. One Toni
Tortorilla, is a long time friend of the Archdpdx and worked for the
Griffin Center and the Catholic Counseling Center at one time. The other
gal is ...
Jul 26, 2013
VOCAL
This "reform" means women priests, married Roman rite clergy, same sex
everything, etc. abortion if it is considered "woman health". Ecumenical
Ministries of Oregon is not good for the Archdiocese of Portland to ...
Apr 14, 2011
2008
In August 2008, Fr. Bourgeois participated in and delivered the homily
at the ordinationWomenpriests, at a Unitarian Universalist church in
Lexington, Kentucky. Fr. Bourgeois received a 30 days' notice as of
October 21, ...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Traditional Latin Mass in Salem: June 1st, 7am
Starting June 1st and the first Sunday of each month, Saint Joseph's Church in Salem will be having the Traditional Latin Mass.The Mass is a Missa Cantata, which is a sung Mass.
It will be at the 7:00 am mass and it's a great way to start the day.
If you have a Latin missal of your own please bring it. There will be some available for your use if needed.
This is a great way to learn about the beauty of this mass and learn more about our Faith.
All are welcome.
G.K Chesterton responded to the idea that Latin is a "dead" language: "Every living language is a dying language, even if it does not die. Parts of it are perpetually perishing or changing their sense; there is only one escape from that flux; and a language must die to be immortal."
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
The Spiritual War is On: Archbishop Sample Consecrates Archdiocese to 'Our Lady of Fatima": Sat. June 28th 2 pm
| Catholic Sentinel May 13, 2014 | |||
On the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, and two days after Mother’s Day, Archbishop Alexander Sample announced that he will consecrate the Archdiocese of Portland to the Blessed Mother under the title of the “Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of Fatima.” Inspired by Pope Francis, who consecrated the world to Our Lady of Fatima last October, the archbishop wishes to entrust anew the entire archdiocese to Mary’s maternal protection. The consecration will take place at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland Saturday, June 28, on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Mass will begin at 2 p.m. All people of good will are invited to join in the Mass and consecration. This consecration, along with a corresponding promotion of the First Saturday devotions, is part of a spiritual effort to help support marriages and families in the Archdiocese of Portland. The new, National Pilgrim Virgin Statue of the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of Fatima, which was blessed last October by Pope Francis, will be present for the Mass and consecration. 
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
"Stericycle" and Oregon's Auschwitz
Thanks to Susan from Catholic Media Coalition for tracking this down for Oregon Catholics and others who find the burning of bodies for energy too close to an even more Godless society for comfort.
Here us the email from her:
"There is the culprit....Stericycle. http://www.stericycle.com/
they service the clinics. On this following Stop Stericycle website you can click on your city to see pictures of Stericycle trucks picking up vats containing aborted babies. Click on EVIDENCE, then TRUCK SIGHTINGS. They pick up at both Orlando clinics.
Note that the Oregon COVANTA facility got their waste from STERICYCLE and connect the dots. Perhaps Covanta did not know that Stericycle services abortion clinics, however I find that hard to believe." ...Susan
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
VOCAL'S Hill to Die On. Some Things Never Change.
Do things never change? Why not a balanced voice for justice, peace and life in Christ Jesus. His Holy Name truly changes things. Now for the rant.
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