Message from Challenger Baseball

 

Let’s play ball  This Saturday 5/18, we will be hosted by Wilsonville Little League. Location: Woods Middle School 11055 SW Wilsonville Rd. Wilsonville, OR 97070 It will be a bit cooler this time around but the sun will still be shining. Ensure your player have sun protection and water to keep them hydrated  See you on the field!

St Andrew Nativity Charity Luncheon

St. Andrew’s Nativity School in Portland is holding their promoting success  fundraising luncheon on Tuesday June 4 with student-led tours of the school at 11 and the luncheon stating at 12. I would encourage you to come and see for yourselves the impressive impact that the school is having on the lives of low-income middle school students and their families. This Jesuit sponsored middle school is tuition free and enrolls minority students and those of recently immigrant families coming into Oregon. Please join me and several other Knights (Michael Chau and Oanh Nguyen) in supporting this effort. Open the website https://www.nativityportland.org/luncheon, see the introduction, go to the bottom row of pictures, click on Individual tickets and follow the directions. Call Tom Owens at 503.789.7313  for further information. Thanks.

Challenger Baseball videos from May 11

Thank You to Michael Chau, Gene Andres, and Ted Seeber for volunteering.  All of the following links, which you can see on the blog, will open in You Tube.  Subscribe and Like to get new games as they are posted.

Mariners vs Orioles

Angels vs A s

Padres vs Red Sox

Dodgers vs Cubs

And finally, the league was invited for Youth Night at the Hillsboro Hops.  Here's the video Michael got of that, with some sound drop-outs for them playing copyrighted music over the speakers.

Hillsboro Hops Event

Remember, we're going to need extra help on the 25th in Troutdale.  The next game, May 18th, will be at Woods Middle School in Wilsonville.  For both of these, if weather turns nasty in either direction, call Ted Seeber to see if the game is still on before heading out.

Flower Sale Success!

 Slightly less successful than in the past, but what we didn't know is that we'd be competing with Unbound at SJF.  Still, we more than made back expenses.

St. Clare Collections:  $478

SJF Collections:  $222

Total Collections $701

Cost of flowers:  $355.28

Donation due to Mother and Child: $345.72

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Thank you to Ken Paulsen for organizing the SJF drive, he writes:
Thanks goes to Gene, Paul, Mike and Scott who helped after masses. I'm
especially grateful to Paul who took on the 5:30 pm mass alone on Sunday
as I had forgotten to get there at the end  of mass.  (I lost track of
time at Our Mother's Day party.)

We had a guest priest this Sunday who represented the charity
"Unbound".  It's a worthy cause that allows charitable people to sponsor
a disadvantaged person who lives in poverty.  Their displays in the
Narthex garnered a lot of attention after mass and so we were a little
less prominent than we've been in the past.  Left over flowers were
given out after the 5:30 pm mass.

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At St Clares, thank you to Michael James Morgan, who took the North Door at 5pm Mass, Rich DiGregorio who took the West door at 5 pm Mass, Erik Riechers who took the North Door at 8:30am Mass, Dan Riechers who took the West Door at 8:30 AM Mass, Paul Reswebber who took the North Door at 10:45am Mass, Cheryl Vanek who took the West Door at 10:45am Mass, and Michael Chau who helped Ted Seeber at the East Door for all three Mass times.

prayer request Ben Seeber

My youngest Nephew Ben, on my side of the family, was just taken to Salem Hospital with suspected appendicitis. 

Mother's Day Flower Sales

We still need help at the 8:30 and 10:45 Masses at St. Clare's, contact Ted Seeber (seebert42@gmail.com) to volunteer at St. Clare's.

Contact Ken Paulsen (kparchitect@gmail.com ) to volunteer for a Mass at SJF.

Please be at your assigned door during announcements at the end of Mass- quite often people start leaving directly after the Eucharist.

Prayer Request - Stephen Miller

 My cousin Steve has entered hospice in Sedona, AZ. He has battled cancer and a long recovery from a stroke the past few years. He has had another severe stroke this past week and the cancer has spread. Please join me in praying for his heavenly relief. Prayers as well for his wife Peg and their children and grandchildren.

Don

prayer request

 

Hello Ted,

I wanted to tell you that my younger brother, Pat, has lung cancer. This cancer has not spread to his lymph nodes, which is good news for us, and Pat.  Nevertheless, Pat is going into surgery on Tuesday the 7th of May for a surgery to extract the cancer in his lung. Please keep him in our prayers for a successful surgery.  Just to mention, our oldest brother, John died December 19th.  God bless the Knights commitment to serve those who cannot serve themselves. 

Mike O'Phelan