FAITH Friday, June 9, 2017 East Oregonian Page 7A LIMEY PASTOR Remains of former slave eyed Prayer and its pilot for sainthood moved to church DENVER (AP) — In a step toward possible sainthood, the remains of a former slave have been moved to a Catholic cathedral in Denver, where people lined up Wednesday to honor her and pray for her help. Many touched the glass covering of a wooden chest holding the exhumed skull and other bones of Julia Greeley, a domestic worker known for her charity work and evangelism until her death in 1918. Others placed rosary beads on top of the chest, snapped photos and held up their children so they could view the sacred remains. After the viewing, the chest was screwed shut, sealed with gold wax and moved to a prominent spot next to the altar at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. The remains were exhumed last month from a grave in a suburban Denver cemetery and moved to the cathedral — a typical step at the beginning of the sainthood process, archdiocesan spokeswoman Karna Swanson said. Greeley is one of four people that U.S. bishops voted to allow to be investigated for possible sainthood at their fall meeting. She joins four other African Americans placed into consideration in recent years. She is also the first person to be interred in the Denver cathedral since it opened in 1912 P AP Photo/Colleen Slevin Auxiliary Bishop Jorge H. Rodriguez-Novelo blesses the remains of Julia Greeley in the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver on Wednesday. The former slave known for charity work is being studied for possible sainthood. Her re- mains were exhumed from a suburban cemetery and placed in a wooden box for veneration during the ceremony. “Not a bishop, not a priest, but a lay woman,” Auxiliary Bishop Jorge H. Rodriguez-Novelo noted during the ceremony Wednesday that came 99 years to the day after Greeley died on her way to Mass. The archdiocese is gathering testimony and documentation about Greeley’s life as part of the first stage of the sainthood process. It will send a report to the Vatican, which will then decide whether to investigate Greeley’s virtues. After that, church officials would look at whether any miracles could be attributed to Greeley, who was known for providing wood, coal and other supplies for people in need. She did the work at night to remain anonymous and to avoid embarrassment for those receiving the help. BRIEFLY Aglow to meet in new location WALLA WALLA — The featured speaker for this month’s Walla Walla Aglow Community Lighthouse meeting will share her testimony about her walk with Jesus. Jill Bixby, the president of the Eastern Washington Aglow area team, will speak Saturday at Carrie Community Center, 711 Carrie St., Walla Walla. The meeting will be held from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and lunch is available for a freewill offering. For more information, contact Kathy Owsley at 509-540-2684 or Lora Sykes at 509-540-0212. Fundraiser features spaghetti feed, cake auction HERMISTON — A youth fundraiser is planned at the Hermiston First Christian Church. The event includes a spaghetti feed, which costs $8 for adults, $5 for ages 10 and under — with a maximum of $25 per family. Also, a variety of cakes will be auctioned off. The fundraiser is Sunday at 5:30 p.m. at the church, 775 W. Highland Ave., Hermiston. For more information, call 541-567-3013 or find the event on Facebook. 541-567-3677. Register at www. hermistonnazarene.org. Redeemer church plans rummage sale Nazarene church announces youth programs HERMISTON — The Hermiston Church of the Nazarene is hosing a free 5-night program for all kids in the community. The Mega Sports Camp is for youths entering third through fifth grades. It features training in baseball, soccer, unicycling and chess. Participants will engage in team training and games in the sport of their choice. All equipment is provided, but participants can bring their own. The Maker Fun Factory Vacation Bible school is for preschool aged kids through incoming second graders. It features age-appropriate activities, including games, crafts, songs, story time, Biblical teaching and more. Both programs are June 25-29 from 6-8:30 p.m. at the church, 1520 W. Orchard Ave., Hermiston. Volunteers can also register on the church’s website. For more information, contact Gabrielle Fritz at hermistonnaz@gmail.com or PENDLETON — A rummage sale to benefit camp scholarships is planned at Episcopal Church of the Redeemer. There will be no set pricing and the event will run Thursday, June 29 through Saturday, July 1. Smaller items for the sale are being accepted now. People are asked to wait until closer to the dates of the event to bring larger items. For more information, contact 541-276-3809, redeemerchurch1897@gmail.com or stop by the church at 241 S.E. Second St., Pendleton. ——— Friday’s faith page features local, national and international faith-related news. Send information about local faith- related news and events, including concerts, special speakers and activities to community@ eastoregonian.com or drop off to the attention of Tammy Malgesini 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. Community Presbyterian Church Worship Community 14 Martin Drive, Umatilla, OR 922-3250 Worship: 10 AM Sunday School at 11:30 Come meet Jesus at PENDLETON BAPTIST 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 9:30 AM & 6 PM Awana Kids Club (K-6th grade) Wed Men’s Study 6 PM MOPS meeting the 1st Thur of the Month 6 PM FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH in Mission for Christ LCMC Bible Study.........9:00 AM Sunday Worship......10:30 AM Red Lion Hotel ( Oregon Trail Room ) www.faithpendleton.org 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” P eace L utheran C hurch 210 NW 9th, Pendleton ELCA Join us Sundays rayer is an sense his nearness. Allow undiscovered ourselves to share this adventure for most field of compassion and Christians. It is little used allow our hearts to grow and explored. But having bigger in us as we receive a prayer life is a good his overwhelming love indicator that there is an for us. We are cherished, interior movement that is, cherished eternally. We inch by inch, taking us on are nourished by his gaze. Colin the great journey to the We can feel the warmth of Brown very center of the mystery. love fill us like a tropical Faith It is a second heartbeat that ocean, like a serene blue works without our effort, sky. reaching out again and again to We can always ask for what we God whose own presence is inside need, even if its granting appears our insides and is as large as the unlikely. He wishes to receive the cosmos. aches of our being, the longings of Prayer is not a formula, and it our heart. He wants to frame the is not a science. If you treat it as object of our deepest longings as a method to get God’s favor then his own gift of self to us. He wants you will be living in a merchant’s to shower us with God’s love and landscape, where the gifts of the it is all right to ask for what we spirit are to be bought by effort or want. by knowing a secret formulation. As we feel this longing, which You may indeed get results, but is felt by us as his longing for us, the results will be a child of your his hunger to save us and feed us own distorted desires, and will be with his own body and blood in problematic and distorted also. It the Eucharist, we allow ourselves is like having a telescope turned to jettison all our daily concerns the wrong way round and instead trusting that these are all held by of seeing the bright magnitude of God until we can return to them the moon you see instead the glow with a renewed sense of balance. of a pebble. Surrendering to the The Lord’s Prayer, which was Lord, allowing him to do with us received by Jesus from John the as he will, is the way to freedom. Baptizer, is a spoken prayer which He wants to show us the way and is central to most denominations. bring us more and more into light. It is structured in a special way Prayer is a place to meet. that takes us from a heavenly point Prayer can be thought of as a and steps us down from heaven secret room that we have access to earth. As we see within us the to any time we want. We leave movement of God’s creative spirit all our usual stuff of the mind’s from each level to a lower level churnings outside the door and we can sense the care with which come to the threshold and enter. we have been created. We ask for In our special room, our “closet” God’s will to be manifested at as Jesus has called it, we can shed each level of ourselves so that our the other world of our every day purpose may live out accurately. and come to stillness — a stillness We are created beings and we and a silence where we can simply have been designed to take delight abandon our tensions and pain in properly living out the promise and look towards him, our brother of our capabilities. Jesus, beside whom we can Both of these prayers, the always be safe and can love fully. prayer of simple regard and the Sensing him in us and around Lord’s prayer, connect us within us, we just look at him in our our own souls to permit ourselves mind’s eye and he gazes upon to be temples of the living God. us. This is called “The Prayer of We become the very matter of Simple Regard” which is each of Prayer. us simply looking at God as God This last weekend was the Day beholds us. of Pentecost, the day of the Holy We don’t need to visualize him, Spirit, of which the Prophet Joel unless in our inner world we are spoke: given a vision of him. If we do see “And the last days it shall be, him, notice his eyes, his smile, his God declares, presence radiating with the love That I will pour out my Spirit of God. Sometimes, it is possible on all flesh, to smell the odor of his work, the And your sons and your dust of the cities of the plain, the daughters shall prophesy smell of hewn wood from which And your young men will see he creates furniture and artifacts visions for the workers. Notice his sinewy And your old men will dream arms and hands that caress the dreams; hair of babies and that express his Even on my male servants and deepest feelings into the air with female servants gestures of passion. In those days I will pour out my If we have no images of him, Spirit and they shall prophesy.” sometimes we get a strong feeling May God live within you and of his profound compassion, his may he celebrate your becoming! depth of sorrow for children and ■ their difficult lives. We can sense Colin Brown is the pastor of his profound love for us, a love Good Shepherd Lutheran Church that would die for us. We can on Locust Road in Boardman. Redeemer Episcopal Church FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH -Presbyterian Church (USA)- 201 SW Dorion Ave. Pendleton 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 Service of Worship - 10:00 am Children’s Sunday School - 10:20 am Fellowship - 11:00 am www.pendletonpresbyterian.com Open Hearted... Open Minded Scripture, Tradition and Reason Family service 9am Sunday N.E. Gladys Ave & 7th, Hermiston Fr. Dan Lediard, Priest. PH: 567-6672 We are an all inclusive Church who welcomes all. Sunday Service: 10am & 6pm Tuesday Kingdom Seekers: 7pm Wednesday Bible Study: 7pm We off er: Sunday School • Sign Language Interpreters • Nursery • Transportation • & more! 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