OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE Nov 25-26, 2017

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Are you new to St. Andrew’s Parish? We welcome you. Please introduce yourself to the priest after Mass, and fill out a registration form.

“Sermon on the Amount” Regular Sunday $ 4,538 Building Fund: $ 620 Religious Edu. $ 567 TOTAL: $ 5,725 The parish budget calls for an average weekly income from Sunday & Building Fund donations, of $5,392.35; & $491.60 for Reli-gious Education Programs. Thank you for your financial support

UPCOMING EVENTS Nov. 26 Christ the King. Advent Wreath party at 10:15 am. Nov 30. St. Andrew Feast Day. Pizza Party at 6 pm Dec 1: First Friday Benediction at 8:30 am Dec 1: Parents Night Out 6 pm-10 Dec 2: First Saturday Mass 9 AM. Confessions at 8:30 AM December 3. Frist Sunday of Advent. Dec. 3. Life After Confirmation. High School Unleashed 3:30 PM Dec 6: Mass at Pacifica Senior Living 9 am Dec 8: Immaculate Conception. Masses at 8 am and 6 pm, (Spanish at 7 pm ) Dec 9: Elementary Catechists Christmas Party at 3:30 pm

ELEMENTARY AND YOUTH Religious Education classes for Elementary age children, Sundays at 10:15-11:05 a.m. Second Year Sacrament class for Parents and Students Thursdays at 6PM. EDGE Middle School youth: Mondays at 6:30 p.m. Please invite your friends. (classes canceled Dec 18-Jan 1) Life-Teen High School/youth: Sundays at 6:15 p.m. These sessions are mandatory for First Year Confirmation. (classes canceled Dec 17-Jan 1) CHOSEN First Year Confirmation Preparation every other Wednesday at 7 p.m. Next ones are on Nov 29 and Dec 13. Attendance at these sessions are mandatory. Christmas Gifts & Goodies Sale: Saturday, December 2nd, 3:00 - 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, December 3rd, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Crafts Unlimited teams with Wives in Prayer and their wonderful baked goodies. Proceeds benefit St. Andrew’s.

ADULT EDUCATION FAITH FORMATION ONLINE, in English or Spanish. Visit www.formed.org and type our code 449536 to create your username and password. St. Andrew’s Young Adults (SAYA): For adults in their 20s and 30s. Contact Rachel Hochstein at 360-325-6682 MEN’S BIBLE STUDY: every other Monday in the li-brary at 6:30 PM. (Contact Mark Hayden at 962-9005). Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (R.C.I.A.) Thurs-days at 6:30 PM, in the library. Please call Scott Zimmer-man (962-9661) for more information. Pivotal Players in the History of Catholicism Adult Ed Tuesday 9 AM –parish library. (Call Hugh Spall 925-2937) Crafts Unlimited -Tuesdays 11 AM in 2nd grade room. -( Call Carole Vondergeest 962-1551)

ST. ANDREW FAMILY PIZZA PARTY The Feast of St. Andrew Family Pizza Party will be on November 30, at 6:00 p.m. We will need help with food prep on November 29, at 6 PM and clean up after the dinner. ONLINE SURVEY Our Holy Father Pope Francis wants to hear from young people between the ages of 16-29 as part of the Church's preparation for the October 2018 Synod of Bish-ops titled "Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discern-ment." Please encourage any young people you know to fol-low the link and take part in this online survey before Novem-ber 30. http://bit.ly/2rZPSMZ. The Holy Father is pleased to offer this opportunity for our young people to communicate and recount who they are and what they want to tell the Church about themselves. THE SHROUD OF TURIN TALK AND EXACT FULL SIZE REPLICA IS COMING to Holy Family Catholic Church in Yakima at 5315 Tieton Drive on Sunday, Decem-ber 3, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. All people are welcome. The Shroud of Turin is believed by many to be the actual burial cloth of Jesus Christ and the evidence points in this direction. Scien-tists cannot explain the source of the image which contains photographic and 3-D properties on a cloth century old. CNN, the History & Discovery channels and National Geographic have all taken their turn at trying to ex-plain it. Bill Wingard, a speaker for the Shroud and mentored by two of its prin-cipal scientists who have extensively examined the Shroud, will present the history, the science and the Passion along with the case for authenticity, and you can be the judge. Attendees are encouraged to bring their cameras. Teens and up are especially encouraged to come. For more information, call 509-697-4633.

Thank you, St. Andrew's parishioners, for all your help toward FISH this month. Because of you and El-lensburg's generosity, the Rotary's Operation Harvest took in 9,400 pounds of food, and FISH was also able to make its goal of distrib-uting over 300 donated Thanksgiving turkeys. Our Valley View Weekend Meals program is also a success because of you. One VV father sends his deep gratitude for your help in getting his child through the weekend, and another second grader wrote a thank you to her teacher when she returned Monday morning after her very first weekend bag of food. Every VV teacher thanks you, too!

BAPTISMS ON NOV. 18: Zeke Cajachagua, Yoshua Llamas and German LLamas

Dear Parishioners: When I was pastor in Selah, one of the catechists asked the children to give me a card telling me what they liked most about church. To my surprise, the majority of the children thanked me for the doughnuts after Mass! I thought that at least the doughnuts will bring them back when they grow up. Food and fellowship are important in building up community. We will have an occasion to share some food and fellowship on November 30, at 6 p.m. to celebrate our patron saint, St. Andrew, with a Family Pizza Party. We will need help with food prep on November 29, at 6 PM and clean up after the dinner. The picture above was taken after the Rite of Ac-ceptance of Mark Guzman, the young man next to me, on Nov. 19. I want to thank Scott Zimmerman for helping us with our RCIA program and Mark Hayden for being the spon-sor. I want to encourage your attendance at the Shroud of Tu-ring talk at Holy Family this December 3rd at 2:30 pm, I am planning to go since it is a fascinating topic. Next Saturday, Dec. 2, we will have Mass at 9 am. I will hear confessions half hour before (First Saturday). I plan to celebrate the sacra-ment of the anointing of the sick after Mass. Also we will have a pot-luck breakfast following Mass, so bring some food to share if you plan to attend. More opportunities to go to confession will be published later on in this bulletin. Yours in Christ, Fr. David Jimenez THE GIVING TREE is on display with tags for items or cash. Please consider taking one or two tags. Gifts are due back on or before 10:00 a.m. Sunday, December 10, UNWRAPPED with the Gift Tag attached, for ease of sorting. Please join us for a Gift Wrapping Party on Tuesday, December 12, at 9:00 a.m. Please bring a pair of scissors. Refreshments provided. Gift Bas-kets will be distributed on Thursday, December 14, from 9:00 a.m. to noon. Please come to the Southwest entrance of the Ac-tivity Center with your identification with current address listed. You may only pick up your family’s basket. PLEASE PRAY FOR: Lori Boykiw Smith, Pat Carney, Peter Conti, Don Ba-con, Carlos Huitron, Ray Fletcher, Reid O’Donnell-Herbers, Joe Jacobs, Bernice Orcutt, Ken Lafferty, Ken Riddle, Bob Riggins, Fred Schaan, Raechele Lunde, Wally Dillon, Tom Emerson, Leo and Linda Brennan, Shawn Lopez, Hubert Schmitt, Jean Larmore, Jodi Huschka, Dorothy Drotzmann, Rich Hoctor, John Shea, Lee Honeycutt, Mary Andreotti, Lee Orcutt, Beth Brunson, Arlene Stein-hardt, Karen Mayfield, Deb Clark, Gary Cutts, Patrick Kopczynski, Natalie Joyce. (Please call the office with updates, this list will be purged at the beginning of every other month.)

STEWARSHIP REFLECTION November 26, 2017 The First Reading from Ezekiel points to what kind of king the Lord is. Ezekiel was both a prophet and a priest. He went into exile in Babylon along with many other Israelites. There are a couple different meanings to the name Ezekiel but one of them is God Strengthens. The parallels between this read-ing and Christ as the Good Shepherd are clear. As a Good Shepherd Christ was a different kind of king. The recom-mended Psalm Response for today is the beginning of Psalm 23, one with which most are familiar. “The Lord is my shep-herd; there is nothing I lack. In green pastures he makes me lie down; to still waters he leads me.” Note Ezekiel’s exact parallels in this reading as God speaks: “I will feed them in good pasture” and “They shall lie down in a good fold.” St. Paul, in the Second Reading from his First Letter to the Corinthians refers to Jesus as the first fruits, the first fruits of our resurrection. At that time the Feast of the First Fruits was observed on the day after the Sabbath following Passover. We must remember that Saturday was the Sabbath. Significantly, Jesus rose from the dead on that exact day, the Feast of the First Fruits, Sunday after the Sabbath. The Greek word trans-lated as first fruits is aparche. That word had another meaning in secular usage; that was “entrance fee.” Jesus is our “entrance fee” to resurrection. He paid our admission to resur-rection. Jesus could not be more direct than He is in the Gospel Reading from St. Matthew. The reading opens with “Jesus said to his disciples, ‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assem-bles before him’.” He goes on to make a direct reference to the Lord as a Good Shepherd (as in the First Reading from Ezekiel), and then the Lord goes on to say something sim-ilar to St. Paul in the Second Reading, which culminates with the statement “so that God may be all in all.” Three days from the time of this Gospel Reading the Lord would be crucified, and He would indeed come “in His glo-ry.” Perhaps the most poignant part of this particular Gospel is Jesus’ review and repeating of what are in effect the Corporal Works of Mercy: “For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; a stranger and you wel-comed me; naked and you clothed me; ill and you cared for me; in prison and you visited me.” That is how we truly rec-ognize and participate in the Kingdom of God, by emulating what Christ is talking about. Jesus lived in utter simplicity, almost poverty. He was rejected by all the great and mighty men of His world. Yet He would and does “sit on the throne of His glory,” and we acknowledge Him as our King. From: www.catholicsteward.com/blog