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October 28, 2018
Ministries to the Poor
Phone: (253) 474-0835
Sandwich Ministry
M,W,F 10am - Noon
Food Bank
(proof of residence required)
Serving the 98409 zip code only
St. Vincent DePaul—Vouchers
T & Thurs 10am—Noon
(By appointment only with
proof of residence required)
Serving the 98409 zip code only
Parish Staff
Pastoral Coordinator - Deacon Jim Fish
Parish Priest - Father Martin Bourke
Brian Grossman: PA Administration [email protected]
Deacon Mike Teskey: Marriage Prep/Pastoral Support
Kristen Abbananto: PA Faith Formation kristen@visitationchurch,org
Francine Poe: Front Office Coordinator [email protected]
Open Position: Music Director [email protected]
Jeannine Wargo: Back Office Coordinator [email protected]
Kathy McSperitt: Bulletin Editor/Ministries Coordinator
VISITATION CATHOLIC STEM ACADEMY
Phone (253) 474-6424 Fax (253) 474-6718
www.VisitationStemAcademy.org
Marc Nuno: Principal [email protected]
Margie Mykland: Admin. Assist. [email protected]
Thursday & Saturday
8am
Confessions
Weekend
Sunday 8am & 10am
Rosary: Following the
8am Mass
Holy Masses
For Emergencies call (253) 473-4960
For additional information on: Sacramental Preparation
requirements, registration forms, Bulletins and more
information about us please visit our website:
www.VisitationChurch.org
Parish
Phone (253) 473-4960
Fax (253) 473-8378
www.VisitationChurch.org
3314 So 58th Street
Tacoma, WA 98409
Office Hours
Mondays: All Offices CLOSED
Tues thru Fri: 10am-4pm
Closed for Lunch: 12:30pm—1:30pm
Weekdays
Thursday 9am
Saturday 9am
Monday 9am-12:30pm
Tuesday 4pm-7pm
Saturday 8-8:45am
Adoration
Rosary only
Monday thru Saturday
8:25am
8th Grade Retreat Led by Bellarmine Prep. Fully Known & Fully Loved
Visitation eighth grade students experienced a retreat based on Psalm 139. The retreat was designed by the faculty of Visitation and led by high school students from Bellarmine Prep. Students were guided to reflect on questions about self, others, and God. Here is a sample question taken from the retreat: Who are the people in your life that show you what a relationship with Jesus looks like? Service Club at L’Arche Farm & Gardens Thursday, October 18 L’Arche Tahoma Hope are people, with and without developmental disabilities, sharing life in community. Over fifteen Visitation students joined the L’Arche community and worked along side its members to prepare the land for farming and gardening. There was prayer, hard work, and community, not to mention the good weather that
made the hard work a little better to handle. Thank you to the parent volunteers, Rebekah Hanlin and Amber Goldade, for organizing this memorable service activity.
Respect Life Month:
October 2018
"Every Life: Cherished, Chosen, Sent"
is this year’s Respect Life theme. “By embracing the mission entrusted to him,
St. Juan Diego helped bring Christ’s transforming love to
cultures gripped by oppression and death... Like St. Juan Diego, let us embrace our daily mission to help others encounter God’s
transforming, life-giving love.”
www.usccb.org/respectlife
Tacoma 40 Day Life Witness COME JOIN US and pray peacefully
at Cedar River abortion facility (1401
MLK Jr. Way) from 9/26 - 11/4,
Sun-Tues 8am-4pm & Sat 8am-2pm
October 28, 2018
MONDAY, October 29
Eph 4:32-5:8 Lk 13:10-17
TUESDAY, October 30
Eph 5:21-33 Lk 13:18-21
WEDNESDAY, October 31
Eph 6:1-9 Lk 13:22-30
THURSDAY, November 01
Solemnity of All Saints
Rev 7:2-4,9-14 Mt 5:1-12a
Mass Intention: +Nora Underwood
FRIDAY, November 02
Commemoration of All
the Faithful
Wis 3:1-9 Jn 6:37-40
SATURDAY, November 03
Phil 1:18b-26 Lk 14:1,7-11
Mass Intention: +Ty Tran
Daylight Savings ends
October 21, 2018
8am Mass $ 2,750.50 10am Mass $ 2,478.00 On-line $ 713.00
World Mission Sunday $ 191.00
STEM Academy $ 116.00
St Vincent DePaul $ 382.00 Ministries to the Poor $ 200.00 Coasts, Blankets and Socks are needed by the homeless and needy coming to our doors.
Please consider lending the gift of your time. Join us and
make a difference!
Fr. Michael Wagner,
Andrew Wagner, Fr. Dave
Gese, Mick Flynn, Peter
Pagano, Rose Ann
Berntsen, Bob Hermsen,
Gene Hall, Marsha
Grimwood, Joe & Helen Matteo,
Jennie Bradley, Norma Marchesini,
Dolores Federighi, Nicki & Howard
Russell, Stephanie White, Steven
Metcalf, Maxine Campbell, Brad
Bowles, MaryJane Calhoun, The
Kirtley Family, Caesar Gatbunton,
Rick Schubert, Don Matthews, Aggie
Woolery, Rosann & Robert Bridges,
Jonathon & Marian Bronson, Mike
Hazen, Patty Yokes, Marion Smart,
Ron & Carol Amos, Cindy Fish,
Matthew Hughes, Theresa Stockwell,
Daniel Jensen, Dagmar Peterson,
Elaine Wargacki ,
Pray for those whose suffering
TODAY!: Last day
of Book Fair CC
TODAY!
Oktoberfest 2-6pm
Upper Hall. Food &
Beverages, Games,
Activities & Raffles.
Come join the fun and support
our annual Parish fundraiser.
Thank you to all who
worked to hard on this!
YOU are appreciated!
Oct 31: Vigil Mass All Saints
7pm Vis
Nov 01: All Saints Masses
9am Mass Vis 7pm Holy Rosary
Nov 02: All Souls Mass 7pm Vis
Nov 02: Dia de los Muertos
Carnival Upper Hall 5-8pm
Nov 04: Daylight Savings Ends
Nov 06: Liturgy Meeting 6:15pm
Lower Hall
Nov 9-11: Rachel’s Vineyard
Retreat. See Bulletin Board for more
information. Call 206 920-6413 to
register. Completely confidential.
Nov 18: Confirmation/RCIC classes
location change: Visitation CC
Nov 22: Thanksgiving Mass
9am Holy Rosary
There will not be a Thanksgiving
Dinner this year due to a lack of
volunteers to lead this event.
Nov 25: Giving Tree with tags
available in the Church
Dec 09: Giving Tree Tags and
gifts due date. Last turn in date.
For STEM Academy Events: Coffee Social Sponsors: Please come join the fellowship
and thank the following sponsors:
TODAY School Book Fair
Nov 04 Knights Breakfast
Nov 11 Stewardship Committee
Nov 18 STEM Academy PTO
Dec 02 Women’s Club
Dec 09 & 16 No Host
Dec 23 Ministries of the Poor
Simplify your giving
with On-Line giving;
a great alternative.
See the Parish Website:
www.VisitationChurch.org
During this coming week as
we focus on Stewardship of
Treasure, please reflect on
how we are called to continue
to sustain our parish and its
ministries by returning to the
Lord a proper portion of what
He has given us.
SCRIP can be purchased after all
Masses or contact LoAnn at:
We ask Mary, Mother the Church to pray for Pope Francis. all Bishops, Priests, Deacons,
Seminarians and the Religious, that they may be worthy of the
promises of Christ.
A Letter from Our Pastoral Coordinator
October 28, 2018 May Christ’s peace, joy and hope be with you all! Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ:
The occasion of Bishop Daniel Mueggenborg coming to our parishes to celebrate the Eucharist with us is a great opportunity to reflect on the last “mark” of the Church. These four marks come from the Nicene Creed that we recite every Sunday. It is both a personal and a communal confession of faith. Our recitation testifies to the belief that we are in line with the message of Christ that has been witnessed down through the ages. In a sense the creed “stands like a giant arch spanning the centuries” (The Creed. Bernard Marthaler. 2004). When we say the creed as both individuals and as a community, we both praise God for all the God has done for us in creation while acknowledging before one another that God exists in the world and continues to act in it. The last “mark” of the Church is her apostolic nature, already being one, holy, and catholic as I’ve written in earlier columns. By her nature, the Church is linked to the apostles of Jesus, and that Jesus himself sent them out to preach the Good News. It’s founded on the preaching of the Good News and the testimony of that to which the apostles witnessed. Pope Francis first points out that this apostolic foundation is based firmly on Jesus. “The apostles lived with Jesus, they listened to his words, they shared his life; above all they were witnesses of his death and resurrection. Our faith…is not based on an idea; it is not based on a philosophy. It is based on Christ himself.” Second, the Catholic Catechism points out that “with the help of the Holy Spirit dwelling in her, the Church keeps and hands on the teaching, the ‘good deposit,’ the salutary words she has heard from the apostles”(CCC ¶857).
Obviously, this deposit includes all of the Sacred Tradition: Scripture, dogma, doctrine, sacraments, prayer, the Communion of Saints, pastoral ministry and so forth. This deposit is never an idea or even a theology – it is a person: Christ Jesus himself. Jesus, is the gift of this great tradition of the Church. The caretakers of this Tradition, of the living proclamation of the person of Christ, are the college of bishops throughout the world under the direction of the Hoy Father. Third, by her apostolic nature, the Church is a missionary apostolate. Her job, in fact all our jobs, is to share Jesus with the entire world. All of us are to go out and spread the joy of knowing Jesus by our words, our witness, and our entire life. We have to ask ourselves if we are true to this sense of missionary discipleship. We must be strong in our sense of being sent, “bearing the name of Jesus by [our] prayer, proclaiming it, and testifying to it.”(The Church of Mercy. Pope Francis. P.38). Thus, all that we do as followers of Jesus, must ideally contribute to the one, holy, catholic and apostolic nature of the Church, the Body of Christ on earth. We pray, celebrate the sacraments, believe in the Risen Jesus, and hang onto hope so that we can take Christ into the world. We must be “living stones” of the Church, active and breathing vehicles of God’s grace to and for the world in which we live. In God’s great love, hope and mercy,
Deacon Jim Fish, Pastoral Coordinator Holy Rosary and Visitation parishes
Archdiocese of Seattle
