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St Leo Church
A Jesuit Parish
710 South 13th Street
Tacoma, Washington 98405
Phone: (253) 272-5136
Fax: (253) 272-6285
www.stleoparish.org
February 1, 2015
Fourth Sunday
in Ordinary Time
PASTORAL COUNCIL Chair: Brittany Henderson
Jacquie Armstrong
Eugena Buena-Douglas
Christie Flynn
Sarah Gallup-Stowell
Patrick Keely
Kevin Moore
Kathleen O’Connor
Susan Preciso
Dick Reed
Virginia Stowell
Artee Young
PARISH STAFF (& phone extension)
Pastor: Fr. Steve Lantry, S.J. (106)
Parochial Vicar: Fr. Jim Harbaugh, S.J.(114)
Deacon: Michael Riggio
Faith Formation: Dotti Krist-Sterbick (110)
email: faithformation@stleoparish.org
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: Trinka Hamel (104)
Youth Formation: James Harper (111)
Social Ministry: Rick Samyn (102)
Pastoral Care: Demetra Schwieger (103)
Food Connection Director: Kevin Glackin-Coley (383-5048)
Music Director: Anna De Foe (112)
Office Coordinator: Theresa McDermott-Erskine (107)
Maintenance: Kevin McKim and Dan Blachly (105)
LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
Monday through Friday & Holydays - 12:10 PM
Saturday Vigil - 5:00 PM
Sunday 8 AM and 10:30 AM
Native Community Mass - Sunday - 1:30 PM
St. Leo Parish is a safe and welcoming place
for the LGBTQ community.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Saturdays- 3:00 - 4:00 PM or by appointment
CALL FOR INFORMATION ( 272-5136 for any staff person )
Call Dotti Krist-Sterbick (ext 110)
Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA)
NVC and Faith Sharing Groups
Adult Formation
Infant Baptism
Children’s Catechumenate
Call Trinka Hamel (ext. 104)
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (age 3 to grade 5) Oct-May
1st Reconciliation:(children 7+) Family preparation in fall.
1st Eucharist:(children 7+) Family preparation winter/Spring.
Call James Harper (ext. 111)
Youth Ministry (Jr. High grade 6-8. Sr High grades 9-12)
Groups meet Oct. - May.
Call Demetra Schwieger (ext. 103)
Funeral Arrangements
Pastoral Care Visits
Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick: to arrange for a priest
Health Care Ministries: Parish Nurses:
Kathy Hitchcock, 564-3785, Eileen Weeg, 253-820-4141
(including blood pressure checks, prayer shawls)
Call Fr. Jim Harbaugh (ext. 114)
Marriage Preparation (contact at least 6 months prior to
wedding)
Annulments Kathy Hitchcock 564-3785.
Sacramental Records Maria Luisa Kirchmer (vm 311).
Prayer Line: Mary Means 564-5911
Call Theresa McDermott-Erskine (ext.107)
Parish Registration: new members, updates.
Por más información en español, por favor llame a
Adriana, 253-778-0980 o
Florian, 253-241-5563
Star Quilt Raffle & Bake Sale
*Tickets will be a $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00
Saturday, February 14,2015
after the 5:00pm Mass
Sunday, February 15,2015
after the 8:00am and 10:30am Mass
*Need not be present to win, winner will be announced in the bulletin
All proceeds will go to the members that
want to attend the 2015 Tekakwitha Conference
in Alexandria, Louisiana
Items to Collect for Hunger Retreat!
St. Leo will be collecting items for Hunger Retreat on behalf of
Operation Keep Em Warm and Fed. We are aiming to have at least 70
of each item, but having extra doesn’t hurt! The items that we are
especially looking for are:
Small tubes of toothpaste
and
Dental floss
Michael Sterbick from Operation Keep Em Warm and Fed suggests
going to your family dentist and asking them if they would be willing
to donate sample sized items. Imagine how many we can contribute if
every St. Leo Senior High Youth participates!
Beyond St. Leo, all of the participating church youth groups are
collecting a number of items that would also be welcome:
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Tooth brushes
 New socks
 Hats
 Gloves
Hand warmers
Rain ponchos
 Fruit snacks
 Chocolate bars
 Granola bars
 Grocery bags
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Daily Scripture Readings
Sunday February 1
Deuteronomy 18:15-20
1 Corinthians 7:32-35
Mark 1:21-28
Monday February 2 The
Presentation of the Lord
Malachi 3:1-4
Hebrews 2:14-18
Luke 2:22-40
Tuesday February 3
Hebrews 12:1—4
Mark 5:21-43
Wednesday February 4
Hebrews 12:4-7, 11-15
Mark 6:1-6
Thursday February 5
St. Agatha
Hebrews 12:18-19, 21-24
Mark 6:7-13
Friday February 6
SS Paul Miki, Charles Spinola ,
Sebastian Kimura
Hebrews 13:1-8
Mark 6;14-29
Saturday February 7
Hebrews 13:15-17, 20-21
Mark 6:30-34
Sunday February 8
Job 7:1-4, 6-7
1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23
Mark 1:29-39
Sunday Collection
(for fiscal year 2014-2015)
Last Week’s Collection Total:
$12,002.31
Collected Year to Date
$444,949.64
Total Budgeted Year to Date
$428,700.00
Net Difference + or (-)
$16,249.64
St. Leo Church - February 1, 2015
A Jesuit Parish
...a Catholic community centered in the Eucharist, enriched
by diversity,committed to Gospel values, and continually
seeking to be Christ’s servant presence in the world.
Anam Cara*
* Anam Cara is a Celtic term meaning Soul Friend
ANAM CARA -- The Anam Cara men’s group will meet at 7:00 P.M. on
Wednesday February 4th in the Rectory. Mike Towey will facilitate the
discussion of Chapter 6 through the end of Richard Leonard, SJ’s book
Why Bother Praying. The discussion may also include other portions of
this excellent book. All men are welcome to attend and it is not necessary
to have read this book to attend the meetings.
James Magellson, Josephine and Donald Berglund
John Wolfe III, Dorothy Winifred Krist, Sarah Molai
Mary Jo Leighton, Dick Grant, Robert Wood, Sheila Loyd
Sara Grochowicz, Tyler Hunt, Deanna Orse, Erica McAlister
Dave Seiwerath, Sharon Higgins, Corinne Guelfi-Briggs,
William Call, Pat Tison, Joe Samyn, Clarence Snodgrass,
Christina Davis, Cindy Cornwell, Bernice Fox, Josie Stortini
Beatrice Roy, Valerie Wolfe Royster, Bob Armbruster, Kathleen Russell,
Christopher Lasher, Katie Rutter, Pam McCauley, Hermine Soler,
Brendan Gallagher, Sr Pat Walsh, Robert Young, Brenda Edlund, Susan Frey,
Dick Matthaei, Fred Montgomery, Sue Ford, Helen Hoppa, Mary Means.
Por más información en español, por favor llame a
Adriana, 253-778-0980 o
Florian, 253-241-5563.
 BIRTHDAYS COMING UP! 
Feb 8 Trevor Kagochi
Feb 9 Margaret Mylet, Susan Skahan, Terrie Watrin
Feb 10 Julie Barber, Ann Brown, Jacqueline Frederick, Nicholas Loiland,
Anastasia Matteson, Gabriel Mullen, Samuel Mullen,
Monica Valentine, Kathleen Wolf
Feb 11 Kelly Brennan, Carlos Diaz, Zane Florance, Maggie Kelly,
Carl Plonsky, Marsha Vadala, Lauren Watrin
Feb 12 Sebastian Armstrong, Eliza Lemus-Zuniga, Freeman Mead,
Brenna Murray, Betsy Reed
Feb 13 James Burcar, Audree Christiansan, Anna De Foe, Pat Ditter
Stephen Klein, Janey Montgomery
Guadalupe House is seeking volunteers to help
with non-english speaking guests living at our house. We
currently have a guest staying at our house who is recent
immigrant from Honduras and speaks only Spanish.
A Note from
We are in the market for a couple of folks
to join us on theBoard of Directors. We’ve
had a couple of long time directors retire
from the Board. Questions or details: Bette
272-4380.
We are also advertising for a new Executive
Director: Part-time, Hours very flexible,
Paid position, Medical background desired,
more complete job description available
upon request – again, Bette at 272-4380
messages ok too.
If you would like to volunteer 1 or 2 hours a week to visit
with this guest, we would greatly appreciate it.
Currently our need is Spanish speaking only. If you speak a
language other than Spanish
and would like to volunteer
with future guests if the need
arises, please let us know.
Contact us at
tacomacatholicworker@gmail.
com or call Melissa at 360-4859370
Are you 25-40? Please consider joining a Young Adult Faith Sharing Group during Lent. Angela Carlin
will facilitate faith sharing among this group of 25 to 40 year olds. To sign up please see the sign up sheets in the
hospitality area or contact Dotti Krist-Sterbick at ext. 110 or faithformation@stleoparish.org. The group will meet
Monday nights during Lent at 7 p.m. in the church rectory.
St. Rita Seder Meal
- March 8
Our sister parish, St. Rita, is again hosting a lenten Seder Meal
on March 8. They will be selling tickets after all of the St. Leo
Masses on the weekend of February 7 - 8. A full course meal,
in addition to the Seder meal, is provided (Gluten free, also).
Seating is limited.
St. Rita of Cascia is located at 1403 S. Ainsworth, here in Tacoma.
For more info please contact Pam Smith at 425-220-5044.
KC Clergy Appreciation Dinner
A dinner honoring the Tacoma area clergy in appreciation of their life-long commitment to the Catholic community will
be served at St. Patrick Church Hall on Thursday, February 5th.
A social hour will begin at 6:00 p.m. with dinner following at 7:00 p.m. All parish communities of Tacoma are invited to
this special dinner.
Adult dinners - $25.00, child’s dinner - $10.00. Buy online at: www.kofc809.org/tickets
For further information and reservations, please contact Mark Jensen at 206-883-6993.
Seating is limited to 150 diners. Ticket sales end Sunday, February 1, No tickets will be sold at the door.
The Social Justice Page
On Social Justice: Reflections On a Legislative
Hearing— HB 1314 Carbon Accountability Act
I was in attendance at the hearing in Olympia for
HB-1314. I intended to give testimony, for what it
is worth, but time did not allow as many as were
slated to speak and the hearing rooms overflowed
with attendees! This is a good thing as it reflects
the importance of addressing climate change head
on and to show some leadership on this issue. The
ultimate goal of HB-1314 is two-fold. The first is
to address and give a mechanism to be in compliance with greenhouse gas emissions already set by
previous legislation passed into law. The second is
to have a contiguous cap and trade mechanism in
place through the whole west coast from British
Columbia all the way down to southern Californian. This would give the nation and the world a real
working economic model on how to reduce carbon
emissions and try to get ahead of climate change
for the sake of future generations.
The hearing however, proved that there is still not
enough strong/overwhelming support to counter
the power of larger corporations in their fear mongering and targeting of the middle-class and working America. HB– 1314 is based on a simple idea.
Just as you or I have to pay to take something to
the dump, large producers/consumers/marketers of
co2 need to pay for the end-use waste of their
product—co2 into the atmosphere (The aerial
dump where no one pays!) Well, there is a real
cost to all this and we are seeing it in changing
climate patterns.
If I take a ton of garbage to the dump I will pay a
pretty hefty fee. If I take 1 Ton of garbage to the
dump here in Tacoma/Pierce Co. I will be charged
about—$120.00. If I am a corporation and I have 1
Ton of co2 garbage I can dump
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(Cont) that in the landfill in the sky for all of us to
breathe, causing ill health effects and damaging the environment and I—The Corporation pay nothing! For
sure this has been a long standing corporate tradition of
not paying for the real cost of doing business, but is it
just and right? HB 1314 wants to change that and ask the
largest of co2 emitters doing business in the state to
pay—wait for it…… a whopping $12.00 a ton. That is a
lot less than I have to pay to dump my garbage.
It seems reasonable to me but I guess I am not used to
huge profit margins. At the hearing the same old fear
tactics were used to sway the Committee. Big corporate
oil and gas flat out said that they MUST pass on this
entire $12.00 cost to the consumer who happens to be
small businesses and poor folks trying to do the right
thing or just to get along. Then the small businesses testify that if the BIG businesses pass on the cost to them
that they will go under and cost JOBS. Sound familiar?
I am supportive of small local businesses and I know
that their margins are slim and I believe them!!!! What
burns me is that we have allowed the LARGE Corporations to make the rules and to dictate to the rest of us
their version of reality. No one in that hearing ever mentioned the concept of shared-burden for the common
welfare. No thought of looking at skimming, just a bit of
the bloated profit margins of huge corporations! Big
business has us hostage. If you demand that they be
transparent regarding the real costs of doing business—
they will pass that cost to you and you won’t have a job.
“If you force us to absorb any of the cost, our profit will
drop and we will take away your 401K retirement plan.”
If that’s not hostage taking and terrorism at its finest I
don’t know what is!
It is my take that HB-1314 will not make it out of committee. But I ask that concerned parishioners please keep
the pressure on to move forward on addressing climate
change and the need to seriously and aggressively curb
green-house gas emission. Call your representative in
Olympia—1-800-562-6000. Yes this bill may die but the
fight to protect the planet will go on!
Rick Samyn
Pastoral
for Social
Assistant
Justice
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(Cont.) only as an agricultural/apicultural venture but
one in the area of leadership formation /education for
our community and our church. To this end during
this coming year I plan to initiate conversations with
partners: St. Leo Food Connection, L’Arche Tahoma
Hope, JVC Northwest, Oregon Jesuits and Pierce Co.
Conservation District. Also, I would like to have a
this conversations educators who have in interest in
forming a relationship with the L’Honey Program. Is
it possible to promote/support student learning in the
sciences using beekeeping and pollination as learning
tools? This is an exciting time for the L’Honey Program and the parish. I look forward to sharing more
with you as things progress.
Emergency Services— A Story of OUR Care For
Others
I want to share something with you all that was submitted by a parishioner regarding the work of St. Leo
Emergency Services:
Gang members carrying their fallen friend across the
finish line at a track meet was the powerful image of
love in action painted in my mind by the homilist last
Sunday. This brought to mind when I was recently
privileged to witness St Leo’s emergency services
demonstrate Christian love in action. Picture a thriving family of four. The father is suddenly picked up
by immigration and although he is later told he may
stay in the US, because the attorney does not file the
paperwork on time, the father is deported. The mother fearing the same fate is too afraid to say anything.
Fast forward to the present; because of a work stoppage the mother is unable to pay her bills. She reaches out and St. Leo’s emergency services are there to
pick her up and carry her across the finish line.
Creative Housing Through Guadalupe House!
How about a $5.00 a square foot house!!! Now that is
an idea. Food and shelter are human needs unavailable
to many hundreds of millions. Why? Production
methods which broadly satisfy human needs of the
poor do not generate profits to large corporations. The
five dollar per square foot house, the flycatcher compost toilet, and the portable water storage tank that
collects rainwater from its own rood are technologies
studied and developed at the: www.ferrocement.com
research and testing area.
The above story is true. The work of Emergency
Services really makes a difference in many lives.
People turn to us when no one else can help. We may
no be able to help in all situation but, we do what we
can. The help we offer to some many individuals
and families is made possible by all of you! This is a
blessed and generous parish and I am honored to
serve with you.
Rick
The L’Honey Program—Future Development
As most of you know, the hope of the L’Honey
Program is to offer a platform for others to learn,
grow and to reflect more deeply the need to foster a
more sustainable society on this wonderful yet fragile
planet. I continue to believe that the L’Honey program can grow to be a collaborative work not
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We are looking for interested people who would like
to help build five dollar per square foot mini-house. It
will be fun, educational and a community building
project.
If you would like to support this initiative, please
contact Peter Roderick of Guadalupe House—
(253) 226-9605 or via email: peterguadalupe2@gmail
HAPPY GROUNDHOG
DAY
From
ST. LEO STAFF