FAITH
Friday, July 8, 2016
East Oregonian
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BOARDMAN’S LIMEY PASTOR
Fireworks, faith and formation
M
y wife’s birthday is July 4th,
which means that everybody’s
attention is focused on
that, rather than her successful
aging process. One year we drove
up to Canada to concentrate on her
birthday — where
she found that, yup,
they had the ireworks
there too. This year
our neighbors,
who are the center
of a large family,
had accumulated a
mass of delightfully
Colin
entertaining
Brown
explosives at their
Faith
house, and the larger
family had brought
an amazing collection of ordnance to
explode from different places (I believe
from adjacent states). As I drove up
to my driveway a small girl launched
a hand-held rocket at my car, which
arced over the hood in pink ire and
other streaks of ire arced towards the
house opposite. The huge thud-thud
of M-80s ricocheted up and down the
street. My dogs and cats found bunkers
in the house under the furniture as the
detonations followed for a couple of
hours. Their ears, I noticed, all lifted
BRIEFLY
Mission hosts
weekend revival
MISSION — A revival
meeting kicks off tonight in
Mission and continues through
the weekend.
“Let My People Go” begins
Friday with a 7 p.m. service
followed by dinner at the
Mission Gym/July Grounds,
73310 July Grounds Lane. The
special guest speaker is Easton
Aguilar of Warm Springs.
Saturday’s event begins
with dinner at 4:30 p.m. and a
service at 7 p.m., also held at
the Mission Gym/July Grounds.
The Sunday service is at 2 p.m.
at the Mission Assembly of
God Church, 47328 Shortmile
Road. Snacks will be served
afterward.
There is no charge for
the event, said Vivian Shaw,
because salvation is free. For
more information, call Shaw at
541-969-7248 or 541-969-8512.
Film highlights faith,
freedom
BOARDMAN — A story
of family, faith and freedom
will be screened during Movie
Night at the Church.
A grieving father, who
lost his son on the battleield,
challenges his fellow citizens
to take back the freedoms they
have lost in “Last Ounce of
Courage.” The 2012 drama is
rated PG.
The public is invited to
the free viewing Saturday,
July 16 at 6 p.m. at the First
Baptist Church, 200 Willow
Fork Drive, Boardman.
There is no admission charge.
Refreshments and popcorn will
be available.
For more information, call
541-481-9437.
Presbyterian
Preschool accepts
registrations
PENDLETON — The
Presbyterian Preschool has
openings for the 2016-17
school year.
The 3-year-old program
focuses on getting children
accustomed to being a school
atmosphere. In addition, it
teaches colors, shapes and
number recognition. The
4-year-old class builds on those
skills and focuses on literacy
in preparation for kindergarten
and beyond.
In addition, there are
opportunities for parents to get
involved — from volunteering
in the classrooms to helping
with special events and
fundraisers.
For more information,
contact 541-276-7681,
pendletonpresbyterianpreschool
@gmail.com or stop by the
Pendleton First Presbyterian
Church, 201 S.W. Dorion Ave.
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at 333 E. Main St., Hermiston
or Renee Struthers at 211 S.E.
Byers Ave., Pendleton. Call
541-564-4539 or 541-966-
0818 with questions.
up with each boom as they looked at
me for reassurance that they would
weather the storm.
In my former country, ireworks day
is on November 5th, also known as
“Guy Fawkes Day,” when a Royalist,
who tried to blow up Parliament, was
burnt at the stake. So, there, everybody
makes bonires, and puts a “Guy” on
top of it, essentially a scarecrow made
out of Dad’s old clothes stuffed with
newspapers and sometimes ireworks.
While this human like igure is torched,
in the dark and cold evenings of
November, ireworks are lit, sparklers
glitter in the darkness, sausages and
baked potatoes are cooked on the ire,
and steaming mugs of hot chocolate are
quaffed as we celebrate the demise of
Mr. Fawkes.
I guess the thing that these two
events both have in common is a
celebration of our freedoms. The
freedom to vote for who we want, the
freedom in our persons and our faith,
and the freedom to be left alone. These
are all precious freedoms that make our
lives tolerable.
I spoke about the Apostle Paul
at Church last Sunday, July 3rd (not
exactly the busiest church weekend
of the year), and was reading from
his letter to the Galatians. It was
Paul’s most conlict-illed relationship
with a community. Not many people
know that Paul’s letters are the
earliest created writings of the New
Testament (around the 50s) whereas
our traditional Gospels were composed
later. The earliest Gospel, of Mark, was
written in about the year 70.
The Galatians, at the time, were
giving Paul a headache because they
were trying to integrate practices from
the predecessor Jewish faith into their
community, ceremonial calendars and
such like. Paul was the caretaker of
the faith in that he went to each of the
communities of the early Christian
movement and kept them all in line
with his own witness and his own
knowledge from revelation. Without
him, we would not have the solidity of
faith that we have today. Although we
have multiple churches, our faith, in the
main, is such that there is not so much
difference as there could be.
I wish we could have ireworks for
St. Paul at church each year and light
up the sky.
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Colin Brown is the pastor of Good
Shepherd Lutheran Church on Locust
Road in Boardman.
Pope taps Chicago archbishop
for key bishop advisory panel
VATICAN CITY (AP)
— Pope Francis has named
Chicago Archbishop Blase
Cupich to be a member
of the powerful Vatican
ofice that vets bishops’
nominations, signaling he
wants a key pastoral voice
involved in the selection
of U.S. church leaders.
Francis in 2014 had
hand-picked Cupich to
lead the Chicago archdi-
ocese in his irst major
appointment
for
the
U.S. church. Cupich is a
moderate like Francis and
replaced the late Cardinal
Francis George, who
had been an aggressive
defender of orthodoxy.
Cupich now will be
a member of the same
Vatican advisory board
where a staunch American
conservative,
Cardinal
Raymond Burke, sat
for years until Francis
removed him.
In another sign of
Francis’
esteem
for
Cupich, he tapped him as a
special appointee to attend
Faith Center Church
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Loving People
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Sunday Worship 10:30 am
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Ray O’Grady
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Sunday Worship Services
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Antonio Perez, Pool Photo via AP, File
In this Nov. 18, 2014 ile photo, Archbishop Blase
Cupich, proceeds through Holy Name Cathedral
during Cupich’s Installation Mass at Holy Name Ca-
thedral, in Chicago.
his recent synod on the
family.
Francis has said he
wants to reform the way the
church selects its bishops,
who wield enormous
power in running church
affairs and interpreting
church doctrine at the
local level. Currently, local
bishops propose names to
the Vatican ambassador
in their country, who then
sends possible candidates
onto Rome for review.
But Francis — the
former Cardinal Jorge
Mario
Bergoglio
—
experienced
irsthand
how the process can be
manipulated by ideologi-
cally driven interests, with
several of the future pope’s
candidates blocked when
he was the archbishop of
Buenos Aires.
Vatican: No jurisdiction
over journalists in leaks case
VATICAN
CITY
(AP) — A Vatican court
declared Thursday it had
no jurisdiction to prosecute
two journalists who wrote
books based in part on
conidential
documents
exposing greed, misman-
agement and corruption in
the Holy See, ending a trial
that drew scorn from media
rights groups.
The court did convict
a Vatican monsignor and
an Italian public relations
expert for having conspired
to leak documents, but
cleared them of having
formed a criminal asso-
ciation to do so. A ifth
defendant, the monsignor’s
secretary, was absolved of
all charges.
The
verdict
was
an
embarrassment
to
Vatican prosecutors, who
had accused journalists
Emiliano
Fittipaldi
and Gianluigi Nuzzi of
conspiring and putting
pressure on the three
other defendants to get the
information. Prosecutors
had accused the three of
forming a shady, secretive
criminal organization that
conspired to reveal coni-
dential Vatican documents.
In the end, the president
of the four-judge tribunal,
Judge Giuseppe Dalla
Torre, asserted the Vatican
had no jurisdiction over the
journalists and ruled there
wasn’t enough evidence to
show that any such criminal
organization existed.
Speaking in the name of
Pope Francis, Dalla Torre
prefaced his sentence by
insisting that the freedom of
the press was enshrined in
the Vatican legal code and
that freedom of thought was
“guaranteed by divine law.”
Fittipaldi and Nuzzi
wrote blockbuster books
Community
last year based on Vatican
documents exposing the
greed of bishops and
cardinals angling for big
apartments, the extraordi-
narily high costs of getting
a saint made, and the loss
to the Holy See of millions
of euros in rental income
because of undervalued
real estate.
The
documentation
had been compiled by a
pontiical
commission
ordered by Francis to gather
information about Vatican
inances to make them more
transparent and eficient.
Monsignor Lucio Vallejo
Balda, the reform commis-
sion’s No. 2, admitted in
court that he gave Nuzzi
85 passwords to pass-
word-protected documents.
He denied the journalists
threatened him and put the
blame of feeling pressured
on Francesca Chaouqui, the
communications consultant
who was also a member of
the commission.
The court convicted
Vallejo of passing docu-
ments to the journalists and
sentenced him to 18 months
in prison. While clearing
Chaouqui of actually
passing documents, the
court found her guilty of
conspiring with Vallejo and
sentenced her to a 10-month
suspended sentence.
The ifth defendant,
Nicola Maio, was cleared.
It wasn’t immediately
clear if anyone would
appeal. Chaouqui, who
recently gave birth, had
said she would have gone to
prison, babe in arms, rather
than appeal a conviction or
ask for a papal pardon.
Publishing conidential
information is a crime in the
Vatican, punishable by up
to eight years in prison.
The journalists are
Italian and had challenged
the Vatican’s jurisdiction to
prosecute them. Prosecutors
had asserted jurisdiction
over them anyway, but the
court rejected that argu-
ment. It declared it had no
jurisdiction since Fittipaldi
and Nuzzi were not Vatican
public oficials and the
alleged crime didn’t take
place on Vatican territory.
In fact, in the sentence,
Dalla Torre recalled that
the 2013 Vatican law that
criminalized
publishing
reserved information only
applied to Vatican public
oficials exercising their
oficial jobs, suggesting that
the law will not be applied
in the future to ordinary
journalists operating outside
of the Vatican City State.
The Committee to
Protect
Journalists,
Reporters Without Borders
and other media watchdog
organizations had criticized
the trial and called on the
Vatican to drop the charges,
saying journalists must be
allowed to do their jobs
without fear of repercus-
sions.
They praised the deci-
sion but said the trial never
should have gone forward.
“Their trial cast a
chilling effect on covering
the Vatican,” said Nina
Ognianova, Europe and
Central Asia program coor-
dinator for the Committee
to Protect Journalists.
“By writing these books,
we repeated that they just
exercised their right to
provide information in the
public interest and should
not have been treated as
criminals in a state that
supposedly respects media
freedom,” said Pauline
Adès-Mével, head of the
Reporters Without Borders’
Europe desk.
Seventh-Day
Adventist
Church
Saturday Services
Pendleton
1401 SW Goodwin Place
276-0882
Sabbath School 9:20 am
Worship Service 10:45 am
First United
Methodist
Church
352 SE 2nd Street
Pendleton, OR
541-276-2616
Sunday Worship 9am
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Services are broadcast every Sunday
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Rev. Dr. Jim Pierce, pastor
Grace Baptist Church
555 SW 11th, Hermiston
567-9497
Nursery provided for all
services
Sunday School - 9:30 AM
Worship - 10:45 AM
6:00 pm
Wed Prayer & Worship -
7:00 PM
“Proclaiming God’s word,
growing in God’s grace”
585 SW Birch,
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Sunday School: 9:30 am
Worship Service: 10:45 am
Kids’ Club: 6:00 pm
Wednesday Services:
Youth Group: 7:00 pm
St. Johns
Episcopal Church
All People
Are Welcome
Scripture, Tradition
and Reason
Family service 9am Sunday
Gladys Ave & 7th Hermiston
Fr. Dan Lediard, Priest. PH: 567-6672
Redeemer
Episcopal
Church
241 SE Second St. Pendleton
(541)276-3809
www.pendletonepiscopal.org
Sunday Holy Communion 9:00 a.m.
Wednesday Holy Communion Noon
Weekly Adults Spiritual Life Group
All Are Welcome
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Sunday Worship 9:00 a.m.
Sunday School 10:00 a.m. (Nursery
Provided)
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Grace and Mercy Lutheran Church, ELCA
164 E. Main St. / P.O. Box 1108
Hermiston, Oregon 97838
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CHURCH
3202 SW Nye Ave Pendleton, OR
541-276-7590
Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 AM
Sunday Bible Classes 9:45 AM
Sunday Youth Group 6:00 PM
Mon. Community Women’s Study
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Awana Kids Club (K-6th grade)
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MOPS meeting the 1st Thur of the Month 6 PM
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CHURCH
-Presbyterian Church (USA)-
201 SW Dorion Ave.
Pendleton
Service of Worship - 10:00 am
Children’s Sunday School -
10:20 am
Fellowship - 11:00 am
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CHURCH
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Pendleton Baha’i Center at
1015 SE Court Place
Devotions Sundays @
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Sunday Worship 10:00am
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