February 22, 2015

St Leo Church
A Jesuit Parish
710 South 13th Street
Tacoma, Washington 98405
February 22, 2015
1st Sunday of Lent
Phone: (253) 272-5136
Fax: (253) 272-6285
www.stleoparish.org
PASTORAL COUNCIL Chair: Brittany Henderson
Jacquie Armstrong
Eugena Buena-Douglas
Christie Flynn
Sarah Gallup-Stowell
Patrick Keely
Kevin Moore
Kathleen O’Connor
Susan Preciso
Dick Reed
Virginia Stowell
Artee Young
“Patient Keeper, draw us
to your tender mercy.”
Aaron Thompson
“Tree of Life”
PARISH STAFF (& phone extension)
Pastor: Fr. Steve Lantry, S.J. (106)
Parochial Vicar: Fr. Jim Harbaugh, S.J.(114)
Deacon: Michael Riggio
Faith Formation: Dotti Krist-Sterbick (110)
email: faithformation@stleoparish.org
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: Trinka Hamel (104)
Youth Formation: James Harper (111)
Social Ministry: Rick Samyn (102)
Pastoral Care: Demetra Schwieger (103)
Food Connection Director: Kevin Glackin-Coley (383-5048)
Music Director: Anna De Foe (112)
Office Coordinator: Theresa McDermott-Erskine (107)
Maintenance: Kevin McKim and Dan Blachly (105)
LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
Monday through Friday & Holydays - 12:10 PM
Saturday Vigil - 5:00 PM
Sunday 8 AM and 10:30 AM
Native Community Mass - Sunday - 1:30 PM
St. Leo Parish is a safe and welcoming place
for the LGBTQ community.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Saturdays- 3:00 - 4:00 PM or by appointment
CALL FOR INFORMATION ( 272-5136 for any staff person )
Call Dotti Krist-Sterbick (ext 110)
Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA)
NVC and Faith Sharing Groups
Adult Formation
Infant Baptism
Children’s Catechumenate
Call Trinka Hamel (ext. 104)
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (age 3 to grade 5) Oct-May
1st Reconciliation:(children 7+) Family preparation in fall.
1st Eucharist:(children 7+) Family preparation winter/Spring.
Call James Harper (ext. 111)
Youth Ministry (Jr. High grade 6-8. Sr High grades 9-12)
Groups meet Oct. - May.
Call Demetra Schwieger (ext. 103)
Funeral Arrangements
Pastoral Care Visits
Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick: to arrange for a priest
Health Care Ministries: Parish Nurses:
Kathy Hitchcock, 564-3785, Eileen Weeg, 253-820-4141
(including blood pressure checks, prayer shawls)
Call Fr. Jim Harbaugh (ext. 114)
Marriage Preparation (contact at least 6 months prior to
wedding)
Annulments Kathy Hitchcock 564-3785.
Sacramental Records Maria Luisa Kirchmer (vm 311).
Prayer Line: Mary Means 564-5911
Call Theresa McDermott-Erskine (ext.107)
Parish Registration: new members, updates.
Por más información en español, por favor llame a
Adriana, 253-778-0980 o
Florian, 253-241-5563
The Social Justice Page
(Cont.) I would not be bullied by this pipeline project
and promise of jobs. It’s a fool’s errand and is not in the
long-term best interest of anyone. These two issues
make no sense to me. Why are we not counting the real
cost of dirty energy and why do we have so much difficulty in thinking beyond such a prehistoric mindset! If
its jobs we want, let’s build a clean energy future. I
think that the purpose of humankind is more noble than
just seeking our own comfort or denying our mortality
with overconsumption. We are called to be in relationship with Creation and through it, glimpse the Divine.
On Social Justice: Reflections on Care for Creation and Human Purpose
This past week two news-worthy items caught my
eye. One of these items was about the coal ash
spill in North Carolina by Duke Energy that happened about a year ago. They spilled 70 miles of
toxic coal sludge. I can’t even image such a spill
but it happened. Duke energy has been ordered to
find a safer place to store their toxic sludge. Their
plan is to move its sludge to a “safer storage site”
100 miles away in Lee Co., North Carolina. “Coal
ash” – the waste material left after coal is burned –
contains arsenic, mercury, lead, and over a dozen
other heavy metals, many of them toxic. Disposal
of the growing mounds of coal ash is creating
grave risks to human health nationwide. Toxic
constituents of coal ash are blowing, spilling and
leaching (dissolving and percolating) from storage
units into air, land and human drinking water.
These pose an acute risk of cancer and neurological effects as well as many other negative health
impacts: heart damage, lung disease, kidney disease, reproductive problems, gastrointestinal illness, birth defects, and impaired bone growth in
children. This ash, which is generated at coal-fired
power plants across the country, is the secondlargest industrial waste stream in the country.” (www.psr.org/environment-and-health/code-black/
coal-ash-toxic-and-leaking.html) According to the
News Tribune, this country creates 140 million
tons of this crap that nobody wants in their communities. What are we doing to ourselves and our
neighbors? Oh… and by the way Lee Co. North
Carolina did not ask for the ash! This week Congress passed a bill approving the building of the
Keystone Pipeline. The pipeline will be carrying
the dirtiest, most environmentally hazardous oil
product in the Northern hemisphere! For what?
Jobs? Short-term profits? Should we not be investing in clean energy technologies and creating jobs
in the energy fields of the future? Dirty energy is
not sustainable nor does it bode well for our future.
The other day I was out in the bee-yard. It was getting
cool as the sun neared its setting. A little honey bee
landed on my coat. She seemed exhausted and disorientated by her long days work and cooling temperatures. I
placed her in my hand for a few moments so she could
warm herself from my mammalian skin. I thought for a
while, “Which one is her hive?” I decided to put her by
the entrance of a nearby hive entrance, and watch—with
her antennae she sought entry. It was her home indeed.
She walked in to join her sisters for an evening of rest,
later to greet the morning to come.
Could our purpose in life be to show kindness and care
to God’s Creature as God’s Stewards—Ambassadors of
Love?
A Lenten Musing
Operation Rice Bowl—Our Lenten Journey 2015
The Lenten Season is upon us. It’s time of reflection and
for many of us a recommitment to the values of the Gospel and making space to live out those values. As I write
this small article I am thinking of ways to recommit the
living out my life in ways that deepen my faith, love for
others and the work of justice. I think that is what Operation Rice Bowl is all about—it gives us an opportunity
to recommit, in whatever way we can, to heal our
wounded world by helping those most in need. I do hope
that you will consider praying, fasting and giving to
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Operation Rice Bowl. I
am going to have a Rice Bowl Box in my office with
plans to give a little every day in Lent. Last year this
parish was so supportive and generous with a 50% increase in giving over the previous year. Pretty amazing!
Also, as charities go CRS is pretty good. According to
www.charitynavigator.org, CRS rates a 4 out of 5 star
rating. CRS spends 93.3 % of its income on programing.
In support of Operation Rice Bowl there will be takehome Rice Bowl donation boxes and envelopes here at
the parish. For more information I ask that you visit the
display at the back of the church or contact me—Rick
Samyn at: (253) 272-5137 #102
For additional info. visit: www.crsricebowl.org
So I will allure her; I will lead her into the desert
and speak to her heart.
Hosea 2:14
St. Leo Parish
Lent 2015
Other Lenten Prayer Opportunities:
Wednesday, February 25th “In the Silence of the Heart God Speaks.”
Wednesday, March 4th “Searching for Living Water”
Wednesday, March 11th Reconciliation
Wednesday, March 18th “New Life”
Wednesday, March 25th Taize
Sunday, March 29th Praying with the Jesuits
6:30 p.m. Church
6:30 p.m. Church
7 p.m. Church
6:30 p.m. Church
7 p.m. Church
6:30 p.m. Church
Daily Scripture Readings
Sunday February 22
First Sunday of Lent
Genesis 9:8-15
1 Peter 3:18-22
Mark 1:12-15
Monday February 23
Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18
Matthew 25:31-46
Tuesday February 24
Isaiah 55:10-11
Matthew 6:7-15
Wednesday February 25
Jonah 3:1-10
Luke 11:29-32
Thursday February 26
Esther C:12, 14-16, 23-25
Matthew 7:7-12
Friday February 27
Ezekiel 18:21-28
Mathew 5:20-26
Saturday February 28
Deuteronomy 26:16-19
Matthew 5:43-48
Sunday March 1
Second Sunday of Lent
Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18
Romans 8:31b-34
Mark 9:2-10
Sunday Collection
(for fiscal year 2014-2015)
Last Week’s Collection Total:
$116,157.39
Collected Year to Date
$486,569.64
Total Budgeted Year to Date
$471,570.00
Net Difference + or (-)
$14,999.64
St. Leo Church - February 22, 2015
A Jesuit Parish
...a Catholic community centered in the Eucharist, enriched
by diversity,committed to Gospel values, and continually
seeking to be Christ’s servant presence in the world.
So I will allure her; I will lead her into the desert
and speak to her heart.
Hosea 2:14
Wednesday, February 25th
“In the Silence of the Heart God Speaks.”
We are invited to the quiet of our sanctuary to listen for God within us.
What does God long to tell us this Lent? What do we long to hear?
We will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the church
Joy Phillips, Allan Dreyer, Caitlyn Vollmerhausen,
Margo Repp, Michael McLaughlin, James Magellson,
Josephine Berglund, John Wolfe III, Dorothy Winifred
Krist
Sarah Molai, Mary Jo Leighton, Dick Grant, Robert Wood
Sheila Loyd, Sara Grochowicz, Deanna Orse,
Erica McAlister, Dave Seiwerath, Sharon Higgins,
Corinne Guelfi-Briggs, William Call, Pat Tison, Joe Samyn
Clarence Snodgrass, Christina Davis, Cindy Cornwell, Bernice Fox,
Josie Stortini, Beatrice Roy, Valerie Wolfe Royster, Bob Armbruster,
Kathleen Russell, Christopher Lasher, Katie Rutter, Pam McCauley,
Hermine Soler, Brendan Gallagher, Sr Pat Walsh, Robert Young,
Brenda Edlund, Susan Frey, Dick Matthaei, Fred Montgomery, Sue Ford,
Helen Hoppa, Mary Means.
 BIRTHDAYS COMING UP! 
Feb 28 Keil Drescher,Donna Jerome,Lisa Johnson,Pat Tison,
Joseph Tolland.
Feb 29 Neil Mullen.
Mar 1 Carol Costanza, Dominic Faulkner, Anders Ibsen, Donna Karlson
Donna Kling-Knudson, Danielle Murray-Leavitt, Eric Tuckfield.
Mar 2 Cappri Boitano, Aidan Murray.
Mar 3 Chelsea Lindquist, Stephanie Ostmann, Stephen Payne.
Mar 4 Carolina Centeno, Monica Steele, Barbara Weber.
Mar 5 Judy Adams, Brenda Davis, Lauren Devine, Carolyn Edmonds, Abby Pierson, Nick Ransom, Ian Wea.
Mar 6 Therese Dowd, Nathan Matthew, Ron Spieker, John Wolfe.
“Guardián paciente de
nuestras almas, Por
favor nos acercan a su
misericordia tierna.”
“Acción de gracias a Dios
por el misterio de su amor
crucificado; fe auténtica;
conversión y apertura del
corazón a los hermanos: éstos
son los elementos esenciales
para vivir el tiempo de la
Cuaresma”
El Papa Francisco
VIACRUCIS
ESTACIONES DE LA CRUZ
Un Ministerio de la Oficina de Ministerios Colaborativos,
UNIVERSIDAD DE CREIGHTON
conectado en Internet:
www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/viacrucis.html
5th Annual Bia -Ceol - Damhsa
An evening of Irish food, music and dance
to support the
St. Leo Food
Connection
Fighting Hunger since 1982
March 21, 2015
6:00 - 10:00
St. Patrick School Gymnasium
1112 North G Street
by Ronald Modras
Discussion (date changed):
February 24th, 2015 at 6:30 p.m.
Contact Katie or Eric at
kbugyis@nd.edu, 203-823-8427;
ebugyis@gmail.com, 203-823-8257.
LENTEN RETREAT
You are invited to a Lenten Retreat experience!
The Ignatian Discernment of Spirits
Presented by Fr. Tom Lamanna, S.J.
On Saturday, March 7th from 8:30 am-12
St. Rita’s Church
1403 S Ainsworth Ave, Tacoma.
Lunch will be provided.
For information contact Sr. Senaida at 253-627-4851.
Also, at St. Rita:
WAY OF THE CROSS Fridays at 6:15 pm.
Dates: Feb. 27, Mar. 6, 13, 20, & 27.
Followed by soup supper and video.
Dinner tickets are $50
Raffle tickets are $10 each (3 for $25)
To purchase tickets go to
www.foodconnection.org
or call (253) 572-9405
40 Days for Life – Lenten prayer vigils
40 Days for Life is an ecumenical, non-violent
prayer campaign focused on bringing about
an end to abortion. An attitude of respect
is maintained during the daily vigils at a
nearby clinic throughout the 40 days of Lent.
Beginning on Ash Wednesday, February 18,
folks will be praying and fasting for protection
of the unborn “least of these” and reaching
out to our community. If you are interested
in knowing more or becoming involved, there
will be a meeting after 10:30 mass in the
Morin “crying” room on Sunday, Feb 22. If
you cannot attend, and have interest, you may
contact George at 961-5822 or John at 6779509. More information on the campaign is at
www.40daysforlife.com/Tacoma
My name is Mason Hill. I am a member of St. Leo and on March 25th I am traveling to Tanzania with a group of medical missionaries by the name of Lighthouse
Missions to provide an acute care clinic for a period of 10 days. After this I will
travel to Swaziland to work in the country’s only disability rehabilitation clinic
for about 2.5 months. I am making this trip to serve the underserved and to learn
more about the practice of physical therapy in developing regions and to assess
the needs of the people as I plan to continue to work in developing regions for the
rest of my life. A verse that has inspired me is: 1 Peter 4:10 “Each of you should
use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s
grace in its various forms.”
I have a “GoFundMe page which gives a few more details of my trip and my background. The gofundme page is gofundme.com/masonhill and allows donations of
$5 or more by credit/debit card. If some of the parishioners prefer to write checks
or give cash I will gladly accept those as well. All of the money that I raise will be
spent on this trip and if I happen to raise more than I need the extra donations will
be donated to the rehabilitation clinic that I will be working in. Thank you.
“Judaism in the dawn of the Christian era and Creating a canon of Scripture.” with Sr. Pigoe.
Beginning Monday March 9th , 6:30 p.m. in the parish rectory. If you aren’t already on Sr. Pauline’s email list, please
contact Dotti at ext. 110 or faithformation@stleoparish.org
New Consciousness
Becoming Agents of
Cultural Change
Saturday, March 7th
9:00am—12:00pm
St. Joseph Church
732 18th Ave E
Seattle, WA 98112
Online Registration www.ipjc.org
Pat Kozak, CSJ
is a presenter, facilitator and
author of More than Words:
Prayer and Ritual for Inclusive
Communities. She leads
Mothers, Models and Metaphors:
Holy Land Pilgrimage for
Women. Pat is a storyteller who
calls us to form communities
of hope, living into a vision not
fully seen.
Join us for Presentation, Poetry and Process:
X Exploring new consciousness and the role it is playing
in in our lives, our faith and our world
X Awakening to new possibilities for prayer
Sponsored by: Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center X Discovering personal and communal ways of making
our world whole
www.ipjc.org  206.223.1138
Pre-Registration $20—Complete and return this form by February 28th to: IPJC, 1216 NE 65th St, Seattle, WA 98115
($25 at the door if space is available)
Name(s): ________________________________________________________________________________________
Address: _________________________________________City/State/Zip: ___________________________________
Phone: __________________________________ E-mail: _________________________________________________
During the month of February to acknowledge Black History Month, a group of African American parishioners will be
gathering information to share with St. Leo parishioners. This week we are sharing an excerpt from America magazine.
EXAMINING OUR SOCIAL SINS (an excerpt)
America, February 23 issue
Lent is a time dedicated to evaluation and reflection, conversion and return to God. But
what does it mean to embrace honestly an examination of conscience at a time and in a
world where racism, violence and environmental degradation are so present?
Over the last few months, our attention has been drawn to events that reflect persistent
structures of inequity and injustice in our society. Because we are all interrelated in
ways that are not always easily recognized, few are willing to take responsibility for the
abiding reality of social sin. It can be so satisfying and self-gratifying to assess our lives
and actions by what we have done that we ignore the evangelical challenge to confess
our responsibility for what we have failed to do.
That is why I believe that our prayer, penance and almsgiving this Lent should begin
with an examination of conscience, one that forces us to confront our own complicity in
the structures that permit and perpetuate the particular sins we see on the news and
witness in our communities. Here is one example.
Racism. The recent deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and 12-year-old Tamir Rice at
the hands of police officers have thrown our nation into a heated discussion about the
treatment of men and women of color, especially by law enforcement. While the
tragedies of lives ended prematurely are always particular and uniquely painful, the
persistent injustice of the racism that provides the condition for gross inequality is all
too common. Part of what permits its continuation is the unacknowledged white
privilege and supremacy in the United States.
We must ask ourselves how we choose to view the world and whether we intentionally or
inadvertently overlook how things really are. Those of us who are white (especially white
men like me, who are beneficiaries of gender privilege too) need to recognize the unfair
privileges from which we benefit in the United States. The benefits are often masked
over by omission, by the lack of negative or oppressive experiences, by the absence of
the skeptical gaze or the dismissive posture or the guilty-by-color association, by never
having been targeted or judged because of the color of our skin. Others do not have
these privileges. Racism cannot be addressed until those of us who benefit from it,
knowingly and unwittingly alike, acknowledge our privilege and own our responsibility
to work toward surrendering it.
It is never too late to repent and be faithful to the Gospel.
Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., is the author of several books, including The Franciscan Heart
of Thomas Merton (2014).
St. Leo the Great Church/A Jesuit Parish
Healing Mass: Honoring
our Elders
Meal and Giveaway to follow
Is anyone among you sick? He should summon the presbyters
of the church, and they should pray over him and anoint (him)
with oil in the name of the Lord.
James 5:14
March 15, 2015
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