St. Thomas More Parish

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The mission of the St. Thomas More Parish community

is to become the real presence of Christ

through prayer, education, worship and service.

St. Thomas More Parish

Welcome! Whether you’re just visiting us for a brief time, looking for a new parish home, returning to the practice of your Catholic faith or interested in finding out more about the Catholic Church, we’re delighted to have you here.

Our parish is a community of diverse believers who are supportive and loving. We encourage you to explore and get to know our community. We hope that you’ll find our parish to be your source of your spiritual growth, to put your faith in action, and to use your gifts of time and talent as disciples of Christ. We look forward to answering any questions you may have. Check our website for registration and more information. www.stmp.org.

6511 176th St SW, Lynnwood WA 98037

Parish Office Hours: 9am-5pm M-Th, Friday 9am-1pm

Ph: 425-743-2929, Fax: 425-743-3652 / Website: www.stmp.org

School Office Hours: 8am-4pm M-F

Ph: 425-743-4242, Fax: 425-745-8367 / Website: www.stms.org

R. (7) I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and

you fill me with the joy of salvation.

Blessed is he whose fault is taken away, whose sin is covered.

Blessed the man to whom the LORD imputes not guilt, in whose spirit there is no guile.

Then I acknowledged my sin to you, my guilt I covered not.

I said, "I confess my faults to the LORD," and you took away the guilt of my sin. Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you just; exult, all you upright of heart.

R. I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you

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Liturgies and Sacraments: Mass Schedule:

Saturday Vigil: 5 pm, Sunday: 8:30 am, 10:30 am Weekdays: 9 am T-F,8:30 am– Wed (Sept– mid June)

Sacrament of Reconciliation: Satur day 3:30-4:30 pm or by appointment Sacrament of Baptism: held dur ing Mass, 5 times a year

Sacrament of Marriage: to ar r ange date and begin your pr epar ation, contact Par ish Office at least 6 mos. pr ior to the date.

Sacrament of the Sick: This Sacr ament is celebr ated with those who ar e ser iously ill, injur ed or pr epar ing for surgery. Contact Parish Office

Communion to the Sick and Homebound: If you have a loved one who is homebound and would like to r eceive Communion at home on a weekly basis, please contact the Parish Office or email [email protected] to arrange for an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion visit.

Funerals: Call the Par ish office to schedule. Catholic Cemetery: Holyr ood Cemeter y , 205 NE 205th St, Seattle, Ph. 206-363-8404

Mass Usher Capt. Mass Steward Altar Servers Lectors

5:00pm Al Meucci Roger Guenther Makena S.,Hannah T.,Alex C.,Indru L. Brian Harrington & Gail Nunn

8:30am Ed dosRemedios Jaime Galimba Cole B.,Sean B.,Luke G.,Bianca G. Kevin Norris & Erin Anderson

10:30am Manny Juzon Romeo Dino Anton G.,Antonio N.,Natalia C.,Saul S. Angelica Murillo & Laura Luebeck

PARISH STAFF

Pastor: Fr. Stephen Okumu-x104/[email protected] Deacon: Clark [email protected]

Pastoral Assistant for Administration/Bookkeeper: Janice George– x107/[email protected]

Pastoral Assistant for Faith Formation: Sharon Guerrero– x114/[email protected] Pastoral Assistant for Youth Ministry: Becky Harmon– x106/ [email protected] P. A. for Parish Engagement & Involvement: Violeta Juzon– x111/[email protected] Administrative Assistant:

Cathy Bellande- x100 /[email protected] Maintenance Supervisor:

Gary Dawes– x105/ [email protected] Pastoral Assistant for Music:

Debra DeMiero/[email protected]

ST. THOMAS MORE SCHOOL

Principal: Teresa Fewel– x202/ [email protected] Vice Principal: Patti Melton– x203/

[email protected]

Office Manager: Barb Hennessey– x201/ [email protected]

Office staff: Sharon Wieber– Office Assistant– x200

CONSULTATIVE BODIES

Pastoral Council Chairs:

Ann [email protected] Karen Austin- [email protected]

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’Finance Council Chair:

Richard [email protected] Stewardship Commission Chair: Laura [email protected] Faith Formation Commission:

Sharon [email protected] Maintenance Commission Chair:

Dennis [email protected] Intercultural Commission Chairs:

Eddie and Ellen [email protected] Justice and Peace Commission Chairs:

Mary [email protected]

School Commission Chair: Ellie Ford –[email protected] Liturgy Commission Chair: Kevin [email protected] St. Vincent de Paul-425-355-3504

READINGS FOR: This Sunday, 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time First: Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46

Second: 1 Corinthians 10:31—11:1 Gospel: Mark 1:40-45

Next Sunday, 1st Sunday of Lent First: Genesis 9:8-15

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BULLETIN SPONSOR

We thank the very generous sponsors who advertise on the back of our bulletin. This week we recognize: Fischer Heating and Air.

THIS WEEK AT ST. THOMAS MORE Sunday—February 11th

Baptisms at Mass-Church CLOW

9:30am-FF Class

11:30am-Stewardship Commission-Parish Office 3:00pm-Confirmation Class-Youth Room 6:30pm-Senior High Youth Group-Youth Room Monday—February 12th

4:00pm-Maintenance Commission-Parish Office 6:00pm-Spanish Community Rosary-Chapel 7:00pm-Justice & Peace Commission-Parish Office Tuesday—February 13th

9:30am-Novena to our Mother of Perpetual Help 9:30am-Scripture Study-Renggli Room

6:30pm-Mission Choir-Music Room 7:00pm-Scipture Study-Parish Office 7:00pm-St. Vincent de Paul-School Library Wednesday—February 14th-Ash Wednesday 9:00am-Ash Wednesday Mass-Church

9:45am-Spiritual Reading Book Club-Renggli Room No-FF Class

No-Jr High Youth Group

7:00pm-Multicultural Choir Practice-Music Room 7:00pm-Ash Wednesday Service-Church

Thursday—February 15th

9:45am-Debbie Olson’s Bible Study-Parish Office 11:30am-Senior Luncheon-Renggli Room

6:00pm-CDA-Renggli Room 7:00pm-RCIA-Parish Office

7:00pm-Finance Council-Parish Office 7:00pm-School Commission-Classroom Friday—February 16th

6:00pm-KofC Fish Fry-Dalton Hall 7:00pm-Stations of the Cross-Church Saturday—February 17th

10:00am-Tai Chi Class-Dalton Hall

4:00pm-Eritrean Language Class-Parish Office Sunday—February 18th

CLOW No-FF Class

No-Confirmation Class No-Senior High Youth Group

****COMING EVENTS*** March 2nd & 16th-KofC Fish Fry-Dalton Hall March 2nd-9:00am-1st Friday Mass w/anointing-Church

March 10th-1st Reconciliation Retreat-Various Rooms

March 17th-1st Reconciliation-Church

This Week at STM Parish School This will be a very busy week at STM!

We are preparing for Lent in several ways. Third and Seventh grade students will assist in burning palms to provide the ashes for Ash Wednesday. Seventh grade is also preparing the Mass for Ash Wednesday. All students will be doing special activities in their classrooms for Lent. The whole school will be once again participating in Heifer International as the Lenten stewardship activity. Heifer provides animals for families to become self-sustaining in third world countries.

We will also be hosting the WCEA Visiting Accreditation

Team on Thursday, February 15th. They will be receiving

the reports that the staff have been working on for the last year and a half. They will tour the school and meet the staff. Most of their time will be spent meeting as a team to distribute the work until the visit again in March for the three-day visit. We thank them for volunteering to do this important work for us!

There will be no school on Friday, February 16th and

Monday, February 19th_.

Coming Soon:

• Primary Speech Program is Friday, February 23rd at

1:30 in Dalton Hall.

• Mandatory Parent Registration Meeting is Monday

February 26th at 7:00 pm in Dalton Hall.

• The Speech Tournament is Tuesday and Wednesday,

February 27th and 28th_.

Baptisms

This weekend we welcome with great joy four children into our Faith through the Sacrament of Baptism. To be baptized at the Sunday 10:30am Mass are; Sylvanus Ephrem

Koudoughnon Jr, child of Sylvanus Ephr em

Koudoughnon Sr and Ines Kamga Koudoughnon, Rafael Alvaro, child of Noel and Molly Alvar o, Leah Marie Kimmel, child of Savkun Pheng and David Kimmel, and Sienna Teresa McCartney, child of Hiusze Noom and Brandon McCartney.

St. Vincent de Paul

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Catholic Faith Development

Parish Of ice (425) 743-2929

Baptisms for babies and young childr en will be the weekends of April 29th and June 24th. Parents and godparents must take one 4 hour class to prepare for raising children in the Catholic Faith. At least one godparent must be a practicing Catholic who has been Confirmed. Call Sharon for more information.

Becoming Catholic

Those who would like to explore becoming Catholic are invited to join the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. The classes start on Thursday, Sept. 28th at 7pm in the Parish Office.

RCIA is the appr opr iate path for anyone 8 or older who is seeking baptism or membership in the Catholic Church after baptism in another faith tradition. It is also the path taken by those baptized in the Catholic Church who have not had the opportunity to learn about the faith or received Communion. Call the Parish Office for more information.

CHILDREN’S FAITH FORMATION

Sharon Guerrero (425) 743-2929 x114, [email protected]

YOUTH MINISTRY

Becky Harmon (425) 743-2929 x106, [email protected]

Tues. Feb. 13th-Anthony Espiritu & Paul Hau Pham Wed. Feb. 14th-No Intentions

Thurs. Feb. 15th-Paul Helmcke & All Catholic Daughters of the Americas-Living and Deceased Fri. Feb. 16th-Thanh Phan & Rita de Oliviera & Narciso Mendoza

Lenten Food Drive Collection

This annual stewardship project will kick off on the 1st weekend of Lent, Feb. 17th-18th through the weekend of March 17th-18th. Again, we need your generous support by donating non-perishable food and baby items that will benefit our local community through St. Vincent de Paul and Next Step Pregnancy Services. See the flyer for details.

SEP Touching Safety Program

In February of last year our Faith Formation Program had offered the Touching Safety class to your children. This March, we will conduct another session that will be incorporated during one of our Sunday and Wednesday classes. In our efforts to protect our vulnerable population, the Archdiocese of Seattle has integrated abuse prevention material into our Faith Formation and Youth Ministry curriculum in the context of teaching our youth about our Catholic faith. To help you understand what your youth will be offered, we ask you to visit:

www.seattlearchdiocese.org/SEP/faithformation.aspx. This will provide you with “Parent/Guardian Resources,” to inform you about the curriculum being used while also making available the actual lessons.

This announcement is to notify you of our new initiative to provide abuse prevention curriculum to our youth in Faith Formation/Youth Ministry. Unless you would like to opt your youth out of this lesson, you are not required to do anything. We will let you know as soon as we have determined the date of the class.

IN OUR PRAYERS Loving God, we join with others of your people here at St. Thomas More asking you to hold in Your hands these people in need of your care:

Alice Nebril-RIP, friend of Romeo Dino Cely Garcia-RIP, friend of Romeo Dino

• Drop-ins always welcome for ENCOUNTER

(gr. 6-8, Weds., 6:30-7:45pm) and EMPOWER (gr. 9-12, Sun., 6:30-8pm).

• All Youth Ministry programs take place in the

Youth Room (basement of the Parish Office). Program and special event details and registration are available on our webpage: www.stmp.org/87.

Kroger Rewards Cards

If shop at any Kroger grocery stores, QFC, Fred Meyer, and have a rewards card, you can link your card to St. Thomas More School, or St. Thomas More Church who will get a donation every time you shop and use your card at those stores. You can go to the stores website to link your card, or stop at the customer service counter in the store and they can do it for you. This is an easy way to help support St. Thomas More School or St. Thomas More Church.

Feb 7-14 National Marriage Week Celebration

Please pray for our couples who are preparing for their Marriage.

Kristine Kim and Tyler Oshiro May 9, 2018

Maria Tafolla and David Rivera August 4, 2018

Diandra Nguyen and Austin Pereza

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Parish Finances

Dec Sunday Envelopes $ 66,882 Dec Electronic Giving $ 21,.218 Dec Loose Cash $ 6,846 Dec Total Contributions $ 94,946

Parish Stewardship-On-line Giving How do you sign up for online giving?

Scan this QR code OR 1. Visit the parish website at

www.stmp.org

2. Click on the DONATE ON-LINE link on the bottom right of the webpage. 3. Complete the on-line registration

form.

Match Your Annual Catholic Appeal Gift Many companies match the Annual Catholic Appeal. Help maximize our ACA Rebate for the remodel of the Dalton Hall kitchen by participating in your employer’s Matching Gift program. You can apply for the match per your employer’s instructions-matching gift requests will be confirmed at the ACA office once your payment/donation has been received. The ACA, Archdiocese of Seattle, is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501©(3) of the IRS Code. Tax ID #91-0778147. Call 1-800-809-4921

Electronic Giving

To help save the Parish some money, if you make your Stewardship pledge electronically and still receive a packet of envelopes in the mail monthly, please contact Cathy Bellande in the Parish Office to have their delivery stopped.

Outside Parish Activities Dynamic Catholic

The tickets for Matthew Kelly’s talk: “Living Every Day With Passion and Purpose” on Saturday, April 14th at 7pm at Holy Rosary Church in Edmonds, are on sale in the Narthex next weekend. The tickets are $39 per person and can also be purchased on the website: www.DynamicCatholic.com/Washington or call 1-859-980-7900.

Pilgrimage to Central and Eastern Europe Fr. Jim Gardiner, from the Franciscan Monastery in Washington DC, will lead a pilgrimage following in the footsteps of Saint Pope John Paul II, June 2nd-19th. You will experience the spirituality of the “Infant Jesus of Prague”, the Shrine of Divine Mercy, and more from the Czech Republic to Poland,

Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. The first class pilgrimage costs $4,688 (Land only). For more information or a brochure contact Liz Shachtay at 1-888-565-9922.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter

“He shall dwell apart, making his abode outside the camp” As Jesus cured the leper, let the love of God heal and strengthen our marital bonds so we can live within our camp with joy. The next Worldwide Marriage Encounter (WWME) weekend at the Sheraton Hotel, in Bellevue is on Feb. 16-18th. Apply at www.wwme.org. For more information call 206-772-2344.

Pilgrimage to Ireland and Scotland Fr. Jim Dalton and Proximo Travel invite you to join them for a wonderful “all inclusive” tour of Ireland and a short visit to Scotland, July 27th-August 8th. Daily Mass will be celebrated. The Pilgrimage highlights include: Our Lady of Knock Shrine, Galway, Killarney, Cork, The Blarney Castle, Dublin and much more. There will be a ferry to Scotland to visit Edinburgh Castle, The Kingdom of Fife and maybe a round of golf at St. Andrew’s. There are brochures in the Narthex. To register, please contact 855-842-8001 or call Fr. Jim at 425-314-1334.

Catholic Home Missions Appeal Next week, we will take up the Catholic Home Missions Appeal. Right now, over 40 percent of dioceses in the U.S. are considered home mission territory because they are unable to fund the essential pastoral work needed in their communities. Your support of this appeal helps ease the struggle of these dioceses. Please prayerfully consider how you can support this appeal. More information can be found at www.usccb.org/home-missions.

Rosary

During the season of Lent on Sunday mornings, February 18th-March 25th, there will be a Rosary said starting at 8:05am in the Church.

Spiritual Reading Book Club

“Thoughts create actions. Actions create habits. Habits create character. And character creates destiny.” Matthew Kelly. The Spiritual Reading Book Club will be meeting on February 14th at 9:45am in the Renggli Room. We will continue our discussion of Matthew Kelly’s book