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Hello, everyone. As Fr. Dave mentioned, we have Andy Noethe from L’Arche Portland with us this weekend. We received some exciting news a couple weeks ago from the Archdiocese related to L’Arche and our partnership with them, and this weekend seemed the perfect time to share it with you!

This weekend we welcome Andy Noethe to the parish to speak to us about a ministry Holy Trinity is going to be partnering with. Please see the center pages of this bulletin for a full description of L’Arche and the opportunities for us to participate.

"Amazing Grace – A Vocabulary of Faith" is one of my beloved books by one of my favorite Benedictine authors, Kathleen Norris.

Looking for a few volunteers, more Random Angels and sharing a really bad joke...

“I must return to Paradise. I must recover myself, salvage my dignity, re-collect my lost wits, and return to my true identity.” —Thomas Merton

Hello, everyone. Many of you have been asking about when/if we’re going to start offering again the Precious Blood at Communion time. Let me update you.

Here goes for a few updates for you as summer moves forward.

Hunger takes no holiday!

Have you ever…? Have you ever done something you wish you could ‘take back’? Undo, erase, forget? My answer for this is, “You betcha!”, with an added, “Why, did I do that?” and “What was I thinking?!?” to punctuate the desire.

Hello, everyone. Judging by the number of suggestions I’ve lately been getting for my column, many of you seem to think I need to get some new material! Harrumph!

Here we are mid-summer! I have three things to bring to your attention in this column.

First Friday Outreach medical services are expanding. Can you or someone you know benefit from them?

How do I make God the center of my life? That is the question, isn’t it, but isn’t the answer Jesus himself?

Hello, everyone. Hope you had a wonderful 4th! Someone sent the following brain teasers along this week, so see what you can make of them.

Happy 4th of July Weekend! I hope you and your pets survived all the fireworks. Each year when I find myself annoyed at the amount of “illegal” fireworks going off, I remind myself to be grateful they are all fake — not really wartime artillery going off! 

No one wakes up one morning and decides today is the day I want to become homeless.