May 11, 2016 Volume 38 No. 33

Dear Holy Family School Parents – Thank you so much for making our faculty and staff feel so truly appreciated. Delicious goodies and refreshing beverages, a lovely breakfast and lunch, gifts from the heart, and flowers and hand-made cards clutched in little hands – we are moved and deeply grateful for your caring generosity. And we feel the appreciation all year long!

It is time for Field Day 2016 at Holy Family!

On June 16, 2016 Holy Family Students will hold a mock "Olympics" Field Day to celebrate physical fitness and the Summer Olympics. More information will be coming in the Wednesday Word as the date gets closer. For now, we need volunteers to help with games, refreshments and related activities. Volunteers will be needed in shifts from approximately 11am to 4pm. If you are available to help please sign up by contacting Pam Curtis 503-780-8269 pamelascurtis@msn.com or Lennie Bjornsen 503-780-2658 lbjornsen@msn.com

Time To Buy or Opt Out!

Every family is required to do one of the following:

A – Buy a minimum of $2,000 worth of Scrip through the school year.

B – Write a $100 check to Holy Family and indicate that you are Opting Out of the Scrip program for this year.

If you haven’t purchased any Scrip this year and do not plan to purchase any Scrip, you need to send in your $100 check with a note indicating you are Opting Out of Scrip. You will receive a bill for $100 if we do not hear from you. Thank you.

Home Improvement Projects

Are you planning a home improvement project this summer? If so, let Scrip be your budgetary advisor. Buy scrip for either Lowe’s or Home Depot (preferable Lowe’s due to the better return for HFS) and make your plant/equipment/fixtures/flooring purchase using scrip instead of your credit card. If you burn through the scrip card, you know you’ve burned through you proposed budget. Not good news but valuable information anyway.

Maybe you are just doing a little re-decorating or sprucing up interior spaces, you can still use the scrip program for that as well. You can choose from the following stores:

Macy’s, Bed Bath & Beyond, Pottery Barn, Pier 1 Imports, or Home Goods. Everything from new linens to new furnishings are possible while helping out HFS.

You can order your home improvement

cards through the Scrip II program with the order form on the HFS website or just inside the front doors of the school.

Graduation Gifts

With graduation just around the corner, why not get your graduate a gift card to their favorite ______ (sporting goods store, clothing store, movie theater, craft store, bookstore, coffee shop, restaurant…… you get the idea). With the Scrip II program, there are so many thoughtful gifts that help Holy Family School at the same time. What a no-brainer!!

Science Rocks!

The show must go on!!!!

We have rescheduled the music assembly.

Music teachers, Rick Weiss and Kate Finn, will present the world premiere of “Science Rocks”, an info-musical created with the help of several Holy Family classes over the last 2 years. The show will be presented Friday, May 13th at 2:00 in Celebration Hall.

The performance features a talented high-school band, including Holy Family graduate Grant Parsons. They sing original songs about DNA, geology, heavy metals, super-massive black holes, how we get electricity and the discoveries behind the smartphone.

Please feel free to attend, It will be a rockin’ good time and you might even learn something!

Our Mission Statement: Holy Family Catholic School is a community of learners: Students, staff, parents and parish engaged in the life long process of learning. Our commitment,

rooted in the Gospel values is to pursue together creativity and excellence in all areas of spiritual, academic, and personal growth.

Accredited by Northwest Association of Accredited Schools The Catholic schools of the archdiocese of Portland admit students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally

accorded or made available at all the schools. They do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of their policies, admission policies,

scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school administered programs. State of Oregon Registered Private School Send newsletter submissions to: michael.pliska@holyfamilyportland.org

SAFETY PATROL Due to Outdoor School and the absence of the 6th grade class, Safety Patrol will be TBD on a

daily, volunteer basis. The normal scheduling routine

will resume starting Monday, May 23rd.

ALTAR SERVERS 5/14 5:30 pm: Hayden Karnopp, Cody Moreland, Anna Waldron 5/15 8:30 am: Sofia Burgher, David Cass, Maddie Khaw 5/15 10:30 am: John Cipolla, Hugh Gilroy, Alaina Pitton

UPCOMING EVENTS Wednesday May 11:

• Late Start: 9:05 am

Thursday May 12:

• Student Mass-Gr 6 leads: 8:15 am

• SAC Meeting: 6:30 pm

Friday May 13:

• Science Rocks musical: 2:00 pm

Wednesday May 18:

• Late Start: 9:05 am

Thursday May 19:

• Student Mass-Gr 5 leads: 8:15 am

• PTO Meeting: 7:00 pm

Friday May 20:

• Circle of Life

Wednesday May 25:

• Late Start: 9:05 am

Thursday May 26:

• Student Mass-Gr 4 leads: 8:15 am

Friday May 27:

• Free Dress

• Noon Dismissal – Staff Development

Wednesday Jun 1:

• Late Start: 9:05 am

Thursday Jun 2:

• Student Mass-Gr 3 leads: 8:15 am

• International Fair: 2:00 pm

Wednesday Jun 8:

• Late Start: 9:05 am

Thursday Jun 9:

• Student Mass-Gr 2 leads: 8:15 am

• Library closes for classes and checkout

• PBIS Assembly

• SAC Meeting: 6:30 pm

Friday Jun 10:

• Full day of school (snow day makeup)

• 8th Grade Retreat

Go Make a Difference

The Rights and Responsibilities of

the Human Person

In fourth grade, we are learning about the Catholic Social Teaching, Rights and Responsibilities. The Catholic Spirit defines it as:

Every person has a fundamental right to life — the right that makes all other rights possible. Each person also has a right to the conditions for living a decent life — food, health care, housing, education and employment. We have a corresponding duty to secure and respect these rights for others and to fulfill our responsibilities to our families, to each other and to our larger society.

As faith-filled learners, we help and respect all life. During class discussions and activities across the curriculum, the fourth graders remind each other of important lessons Jesus Christ teaches us. He wants us to treat others kindly and with love. A great way to live out this teaching is by volunteering at the Oregon Food Bank, which we did. The fourth graders reflected on their Food Bank experiences. This is what they recorded.

“If you serve your community, it makes you feel good about yourself….I am so lucky that I have food to eat when I get home from school, practice.” ~Niko May

“I experienced friendship, teamwork, and loving others.” ~Olivia McClellan

“I feel that Jesus teaches us to help others that don’t have as much as we do, and that we should be thankful for what we have. One of the miracles Jesus performs is turning one loaf of bread into many, then feeding it to many people. I felt closer to God and I had fun!” ~ Nathan Wyatt

Jesus wants us to serve others, and go and make a difference. That is what we’ll do.

SAC Elections

The School Advisory Council will elect new members at the June meeting for the 2016-2017 school year. Included in the Wednesday Word is the application for those people interested in running for the SAC. Applications are also available in the back of the church ,and in the school Friday Folder. If you are interested in serving on the School Advisory Council, please complete the candidate information sheet and return it to Loretta Wiltgen at the school office by May 27th.

The Purpose of the School Advisory Council is to provide policy recommendations for program needs of the school, especially in Planning, Finances and Advancement: to promote the implementation of said policies; and to insure that all local policies are in accord with the interest and spirit of the policies established for the Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of Portland.

The School Advisory Council term is a 3 year commitment with monthly meetings the second Thursday of the month from 6:30- 8:00 pm during the school year.

SAC is comprised of 10 members in addition to the Principal and the Pastor.

Thank you for your interest in serving on SAC.

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Art in Action is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching children’s lives through art.Students learn creativity, problem solving, critical thinking skills and cultural awareness.

Nine sequential programs for grades K-8 teach art appreciation, art history and art techniques.www.artinaction.org

Georges Seurat: The Circus

Discussion Students analyze The Circus.

They discuss Seurat’s use of color to create a mood and his style of Pointillism, or painting with dots of color that appear mixed to the viewers’ eyes.

They identify the primary and secondary colors and the pat-terns of straight and jagged lines. They see how distance is shown by the size of objects in the foreground, middle ground, and background.

Project: Pointillist ButterfliesStudents sketch butterflies with symmetrical patterns. They paint butterflies, using Seurat’s Pointillist style.Georges Seurat, The Circus

1890–91, oil on canvas, 73 in. x 59 in.The Louvre, Paris, France

Georges Seurat was a French painter who experimented with color by painting dots of primary and secondary colors in a style he called Pointil-lism. He painted a realistic scene showing people enjoying the circus.

PROGRAM 1

Jesse Manibusan is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and teller of humorous tales. Well recognized throughout the country as a dynamic, eclectic speaker and musician, Jesse shares from his heart the love of Christ and the call to live out our baptism in every aspect of life.

His " rst solo collection, Life You’re Living, contains the popular “Open My Eyes,” that has been translated into several languages. In 2012, he collaborated with Santiago Fernández on a bilingual collection entitled Unidos and his songwriting skills can also be found on a great number of albums from other well-known Catholic artists. His desire to compose music that can motivate the people of God to grow in compassion, mercy, integrity and courage is evident in all his music.

Jesse is a familiar presence at diocesan conferences throughout the U.S. and Canada, including the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC), World Youth Day events, LIFE TEEN events and many others. He also conducts parish missions and retreats through his Two by Two Ministries and often co-presents retreats and youth liturgy workshops with fellow OCP

composer Ken Canedo. Jesse holds a master’s degree in multicultural ministries from the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley, California.

He and his wife have three grown children and currently reside in Paci" ca, California.

Ken Canedo has enjoyed a long history with Catholic music. When the Mass was still in Latin, he sang Gregorian chant in the children’s choir of his home parish in Los Angeles. He played guitar with his high school Folk Mass group in the late 1960s and played piano on Bob Hurd’s debut album, O Let Him In, released by FEL Publications in 1973. Ken’s " rst solo album, Take Some Time, was released in 1978, also by FEL Publications. He has since released " ve albums, including his latest OCP collection, Doxology.

Ken has written extensively on the liturgy in various publications, including Today’s Liturgy and Ministry and Liturgy. He is the author of Keep the Fire Burning: The Folk Mass Revolution, a history of contemporary Catholic music in the 1960s. He is now working on a sequel that will continue the story through the 1970s.

As a music development specialist for OCP, Ken works with liturgical composers and supports them in their ministry. He is the voice of the popular Liturgy Podcast, a weekly planning resource of contemporary music on spiritandsong.com. On Sunday mornings you will " nd him at Holy Trinity Church in Beaverton, Oregon, where he serves as pastoral musician and co-director of the youth choir.

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Holy Family Catholic Church

Concertwith

Jesse Manibusan& Ken Canedo

Tuesday, May 17th, 20167:00 PM

a free will love offering will be collected

Holy Family Catholic Church 7525 SE Cesar Chavez Blvd

Portland, OR 97202For more information contact:

Chris Brunelle • 503-975-7535 • csbrunelle@msn.com

VBS 2016 July 11-15 9-Noon

On this courageous, captivating quest�

kids will sing, have fun, and experience

Jesus�the light of the world.

So gear-up and get ready to enjoy an over-the-top underground adventure.

FLYERS are in the mail � we are on the lookout for your registrations and for many, many volunteers�

© What are your gifts?

© How can you share them with us?

Call Vicki or Desi�503-774-1428 ext. 123

or e-mail vicki451@comcast.net or

faithformation@holyfamilyportland.com

BACKPACKS FOR KIDS During the month of MAY� Holy

Family will provide backpacks for 24 students right in our own backyard at Woodmere Elementary School locat-ed at SE 79th and Duke. 90% of their families live below the poverty level.

This is a great service project to do as a family. Small children enjoy taking the list and helping you pick out items at the grocery store.

SIGN-UPS still available for the next two weeks at church. If you have a bag for this week, due today�Wednesday the 11th.

BAGS are to be picked up the weekend before we deliver. May 14/15 and May 21/22

Please return filled bags to the parish office by Wednesdays�

May 18 and May 25 by 3:30 PM

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May is the month to celebrate Mary!

© Parishioners will share some favorite Mary stories and Marian Devotions.

© Talk about ways to pray the rosary

© Make a rosary or two�keep one for yourself and share the extras with our rosary makers who will send them to the missions.

© Do you have a statue or rosary to share on our display table? Bring it (them) with you. Make a little card to put on our dis-play table so people know who brought it.

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PLEASE RSVP

¨ 5:30-6:15 � Dinner (free will offering)

¨ 6:15-7:30 � ALL gather in�Celebration

Hall

¨ Pre-registration for daycare required

(infant �pre-school)

Please sign up in back of church

Interested in helping give direction to our parish?

Want to be part of those who advise Fr. Rodel?

Let us know if you would like to be considered for

Pastoral Council, or if you want to nominate some-

one for Pastoral Council�

Contact Steve Tassinari at

stassinari@warnerpacific.edu