FAITH
Friday, June 9, 2017
East Oregonian
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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
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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.
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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.
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
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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!
Pastor Dan Satterwhite
541.377.4252
417 NW 21st St. • Pendleton, OR 97801
www.facebook.com/
PendletonLighthouseChurch
Worshiping God
OPEN HEARTS – OPEN DOOR
www.graceandmercylutheran.org
Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m.
Sunday School 10:00 a.m. (Nursery Provided)
Fellowship, Refreshments & Sunday School
Check Out our Facebook Page or
Website for More Information
FIRST SERVICE 8:30 AM
SECOND SERVICE 10:30 AM
712 SW 27 TH ST.
541-276-1894
www.fcogpendleton.com
541-289-4535
Tom Inch, Pastor
Grace and Mercy Lutheran Church, ELCA
(First United Methodist Church)
191 E. Gladys Ave. / P.O. Box 1108
Hermiston, Oregon 97838
Seventh-Day
Adventist
Church
Good Shepherd
Lutheran Church
Saturday Services
Pendleton
1401 SW Goodwin Place
276-0882
Sabbath School 9:20 am
Worship Service 10:45 am
Sunday worship at
11:00 AM
LCMC
420 Locust St. • Boardman, OR
541-481-6132
Colin Brown, Pastor
~Come and be at Peace ~
To share your worship times
call Terri Briggs 541-278-2678
Join Us
On Our Journey
With Jesus.
PENDLETON
LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH
Faith Center Church
9:30
Sunday
Worship
9:30
am am
Sunday
Worship
10:30 am Fellowship
11:00 am Sunday School
& Adult Class
on 1290 KUMA noon each Sunday
St. Johns
Episcopal Church
Behind These Stone Walls Beat the Hearts
of Some of the Warmest Most Sincere,
Most Caring People in Pendleton.
We Invite You to Come Get Acquainted!
Summer Worship 9:40 am
Fellowship to follow
Loving People
108 S. Main • 276-9569
Sunday Worship
10:30 am
Sr. Pastor,
Ray O’Grady
pendletonfaithcenter.org
First United
Methodist
Church
401 Northgate,
Northgate, Pendleton
401
Pendleton
Celebration
of
Worship
Celebration of Worship
Sundays 10:00am
Sundays
10:00 am
Youth: 0-6th
Youth:
0-6th grade
grade
Midweek Service
Midweek
Sevice
Wednesdays
6:00 pm
Wednesdays 6:00pm
Youth: 0-6th
0-6th grade
grade
Youth:
Overcomer’s
Outreach
Overcomer’s Outreach
Tuesday’s
6:00 pm
Tuesday’s 6:00pm
In the
the Annex
In
Annex
Christ Centered,
A A Christ
Centered, 12
12 Step
Step
Recovery Support
Support Group
Recovery
Group
Pastor Sharon Miller
Pastor Sharon Miller
541-278-8082
541-278-8082
www.livingwordcc.com
www.livingwordcc.com
Pendleton
352 SE 2nd Street, Pendleton OR
Sunday Worship 9am • 541-276-2616
Worship Broadcast on KUMA 1290 @ 11am
Worship Livestream at
www.facebook.com/FUMCPendleton/
Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors
Rev. Dr. Jim Pierce, pastor