TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 10, 2020
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Holy Trinity: Embodiment of Relationship
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Obituaries
Jane Adair Richards
Jane Adair Richards, 82
of Heppner, passed away on
Sunday, June 7 at her home.
She was born
July 15,1937 in
Portland, lived
her early years
in Salem and
attended high
school in Gold
Beach where she Jane Adair
was a cheerleader Richards
and played trum-
pet in the school band. She
joined the Army with her
two best buddies right after
graduating in 1955.
Jane met and married
Herb Mattair in 1956 and
they moved to his home-
town of Chicago. They had
two children, Michelle and
Marc. After divorcing in
1962, Jane returned with
her kids to Oregon to be
near her parents, Gus and
Grace Leathers, who ran
Lexington’s V & G Tavern
in the 60s and 70s.
In Heppner, she met
her dearest and lifelong
friend, Anna. They attend-
ed nursing school together
in Pendleton, graduated as
LPNs at the top of their
class. Jane remarried in
1965 to Gary Richards in
a double ceremony with
Anna and Pete Schwarzin
of Heppner. Her daughter,
Melissa, was born in 1966
and through the years, the
family lived in many parts
of the Pacific Northwest.
According to her fam-
ily, Jane got a real kick
working as a nurse in a
Spiritually Speaking
variety of settings including
ER, OR on the ambulance
team at Meridian Speedway
(Idaho) and in Seattle’s
renowned Harborview
Burn Center.
Her grand passion
was always medieval
and ancient history. She
was an amateur archae-
ologist, earned her geol-
ogy degree from South-
ern Oregon State College
and published a novel set in
ancient Egypt, “Tombs,
Temples & Thrones.”
In the early 2000s, Jane
settled again in Heppner
with Gary, who passed
away in 2007. She spent her
final years enjoying geneal-
ogy and the companionship
of her oldest grandson,
Justin for whose constant,
loving care the family is so
grateful.
Jane is survived by her
daughters and son; grand-
sons, Justin, Ian, Sean and
Frank; great-grandsons
Brandon and Caiden; and
great-great grandson, Isaac.
“Our mom was a feisty, one-
of-a-kind gal and will be
forever loved and missed,”
said her family.
A private family grave-
side service was held on
Wednesday, June 10 at the
Heppner Masonic Ceme-
tery.
Sweeney Mortuary of
Heppner is in care of ar-
rangements. You may sign
the online condolence book
at www.sweeneymortuary.
com.
By Fr. Thankachan Joseph SDB, St. Patrick Church
On the Sunday after the Pentecost, the Catholic
Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity. We
believe in the Triune God: The Father, the Son and the
Holy Spirit - three distinct individuals having different
functions to fulfill. “Holy Trinity” explains the plurality
of godhead and the one-only God.
When I think of explaining the dogma of the Trinity,
what comes to mind is an experience of St. Augustine:
Augustine was walking on the seashore studying how
to comprehend and explain the truth of Holy Trinity in
human terms. An angel appeared to him in the form of a
little lad playing on the seashore. The lad was trying to dig
a small hole, picking a shell from the shore, and playing
with the water. Augustine watched as the child went back
and forth several times. Later, Augustine walked towards
the little boy and asked him what he was trying to do.
The boy said, “Trying to fill that hole with the ocean.”
And Augustine said, “You’ll never fit the ocean in that
hole.” And the boy said, “Neither will you be able to fit
the Trinity into your mind.”
Let us split the word “Trinity” into “tri,” which means
three, and “unity,” which makes God the Father, God the
Son and God the Holy Spirit into one.
It is a bit confusing isn’t it? When I was young, I was
confused. All I knew about Trinity was Father, Son and
Holy Spirit. So, I went to my mum and asked her what it
means by “one-God-in-three-persons.” She told me that
to understand this concept better, think of water. When
we open the tap, we have running water. If we take that
water and freeze it, it becomes ice. But it is still the same
water, and if you heat that same water, there will be steam,
which is also the same water. So, too, God is the same in
three forms – each one is the same.
And if we search for “Trinity” on the internet, we will
be shown an equilateral triangle - all three sides are the
same and it has three corners, which can be interchanged
– because our God-in-three-persons is the same. This is
how I as a child came to understand “Trinity.”
Let us reflect on the Holy Trinity from the Scriptural
perspectives. The Holy Trinity from the Scriptural per-
spectives is Triune - three but one. From the first letter of
St. John: “For there are three that bear record in heaven,
the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three
are one” (1 John 5:7). The scriptures present God as one,
Co-eternal, Co-existing, Inseparable. I am sure this is rath-
er difficult for our human minds to comprehend. God is,
in fact, beyond all comprehension and understanding. We
can in human terms only speak of the “Trinity” in terms
of analogies and allegories. As I said before – Trinity is
like water, which can be in three forms. An Egg is like the
Trinity: Shell-White-Yoke, three parts in one egg. God is
the same. Another example is the use of the shamrock – a
trifoliate leaf - by St. Patrick to explain about the Trinity
to the people of Ireland.
What the Feast of Trinity Teaches Us:
The Solemnity of the Holy trinity teaches us the
following facts of life:
Dwelling inseparable – Father, Son and Holy Spirit
are inseparable, and the feast of Holy Trinity teaches
the aspects of this communion. This scriptural passage
describes their unity, “But when the Comforter comes,
whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit
of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify
of me” (John 15: 26). What is happening around us is
something different. This is communion that we need to
acquire for our family life, as well as in the society we
live. We need to uphold everyone with respect and enrich
them by our ways of living and we need to become models
after the example of the Trinity.
Trinity as the model for our Christian families: We
are created in love to be a community of loving persons,
just as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are united in love.
When a new family is formed through the sacrament of
marriage, this peculiarity of the Trinitarian God begins
to exist. Two different people come together to live in
intimacy, their conjugal love brings children into the
family. All the children also have their own identities and
individualities, but everyone begins to appreciate, love
and forgive one another. That is an example of a Trini-
tarian family. How privileged we are to grow up in such
a beautiful family. We belong to the Family of the Triune
God. The love, unity and joy in the relationship among
the Father, Son and Holy Spirit should be the supreme
model of our relationships within our Christian families.
Our families will become truly Christian when we live in
a relationship of love with God and with others.
Maintain the Trinitarian relationships. We are made
in God’s image and likeness. We read in the book of
Genesis that “God said, let us make man in our image,
after our likeness” Gen.1: 26. Just as God is in the Trin-
itarian relationship, so we can be fully human only in
our relationships with others. The self needs to be in a
horizontal relationship with all other people and in a ver-
tical relationship with God. In that way, our life becomes
Trinitarian like that of God. Modern society follows the
so-called “I-and-I” principle of unbridled individualism
and the resulting consumerism. But the doctrine of the
Blessed Trinity challenges us to adopt an “I-and-God-and-
neighbor” principle: “I am a Christian insofar as I live in
a relationship of love with God and with other people.”
Man is a social animal who needs the model of the
Trinitarian relationship to see mutual love, care and af-
fection for one another. The individualities of each person
are respected. No one is a hindrance to anyone else and
there is perfect union. Our human relationships should be
built in this pattern. Like God the Father, we are called
upon to be productive and creative persons by contrib-
uting to the building up of the fabric of life and love in
our family, our Church, our community and our nation.
Like God the Son, we are called upon to reconcile, to be
peacemakers, to put back together that which has been
broken, to restore what has been shattered. Like God the
Holy Spirit, it is our task to uncover and teach truth and
to dispel ignorance.
Ione American Legion members replace
veteran’s headstone
For years the Ione
American Legion has hon-
ored WWI veteran John
Wagner with a flag on
Memorial Day, but never
knew exactly where he
was buried. In 2019 two
Legion members found his
headstone lying in an un-
used part of the cemetery.
Incomplete and conflicting
information made it diffi-
cult to know where he was
buried. Research by Legion
members, the Wagner fami-
ly and the Ione and Heppner
Preschool pre-registration
scheduled
The Heppner Day Care
is currently taking pre-reg-
istrations for three- and
four-year-old preschool
children for the 2020-21
school year on their web-
site. The link to the pre-reg-
istration form can be found
at https://www.heppnerday-
care.com.
Staff will contact the
families who pre-register
in August to complete the
registration process and
provide updates on the
preschool schedule. For
additional information con-
tact Lindsey Roy, preschool
teacher, at lindseyans@
gmail.com.
Legion members present were (L to R): Steve Palmer, Kerry Peterson, Gene Crowell, Bill
Monagle, William DeBoer, Conrad Tworek and Aaron Butler.
Cemetery boards showed
that he was in fact buried
in Ione and Sexton Shaun
Wright was able to locate
Mr. Wagner’s grave.
Prior to Memorial Day,
2020, Legion members
and Wright reset Wagner’s
stone over his grave, where
it belonged. The Ione Amer-
ican Legion appreciates the
assistance from the Ione
and Heppner Cemetery
Boards, the Wagner family
and Shaun Wright in com-
pleting this project.
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debido a no tener espacio en una instalación que permita el
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contacto con Julia Finch a la Oficina de la Fiscalía del Distrito del
Condado de Morrow (Morrow County Prosecutors Office) y que solicite
notificación de una nueva fecha y hora del comité. Se puede comunicar
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