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17th Annual Benefit Concert with special guest Julianne Johnson Right here in Southeast Portland, you can attend a great piano concert to kick off the holiday season. Famed composer/performer Michael Allen Harrison, is offering his signature contemporary music, with Julianne Johnson’s powerful, joyful singing on Tuesday, November 27th at 7 p.m., at one of Portland’s renowned music venues, St. Philip Neri Catholic Church.   The Altar Society will host a reception featuring traditional homemade cookies. Proceeds o...

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Each year, we invite our parishioners to bring the bread you will be serving at your Thanksgiving meal to be blessed at the Thanksgiving Day Mass. Please bring your bread, wrapped in plastic, and with your name on it, to the 9:30 a.m. Mass on November 22rd. It is also traditional to bring non-perishable food items to place in the baskets in the Sanctuary for the Offertory. 

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The Peace and Justice Commission, along with the Seven Corners New Seasons Market, will be hosting our 8th annual Thanksgiving Meal on Thursday Nov. 22 from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in Carvlin Hall. This meal is open to parishioners & SE Portland neighbors who are alone, without plans, are homeless or in transition. We can use help with donations of pumpkin pies, vegetable dishes, juice, coffee, as well as volunteers to help the day of the dinner! Sign-up boards for food donations and for volunteers will be posted in the back of church. We also wel...

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The Altar Society is again asking for cash donations to continue providing welcome bags throughout the year, and gift cards at Christmas, to the women, children, and men sheltered by Bradley Angle. This is unique and ongoing project started in October 2009. To date, 486 welcome bags have been delivered as result of your contributions and the work of Altar Society volunteers. Domestic violence is a pattern of coercive behaviors that can include physical, psychological, sexual, economic, and emotional abuse, perpetrated by one person against an intimate partner to establis...

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Saint Lorenzo Ruiz is the first Filipino saint. Also known as San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila, he died a martyr in Nagasaki, Japan, on Sept. 29, 1637, at the age of 34. Accused of murdering a Spaniard in 1636, Ruiz boarded a ship carrying a group of missionaries to Formosa (Taiwan) and Japan. Ruiz accompanied his missionary companions to Nagasaki, where Christians were being persecuted due to Japan's wariness of foreign colonialism. According to accounts, the Japanese promised Ruiz that they would free him if he would denounce Christianity. He refused and was tortured,...

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