212 Church St. East Cologne, MN 55322

323 Reform St. North Norwood Young America, MN 55368 Contact Information

Fr. Gregory Abbott, Pastor Rectory & Parish Office ..952-466-2031 Fax ………………….…..952-466-3319 Business Administrator Sherry Witte…………….952-466-2031 E-mail: BusAdmin@st-bernard-cologne.org Parish Information E-mail: parishinfo@st-bernard-cologne.org Bookkeeper E-mail: bookkeeper@st-bernard-cologne.org Bulletin E-mail: bulletin@st-bernard-cologne.org School Building ………952-466-5917 Website ... www.st-bernard-cologne.org Convent ………………...952-466-5620

Parish Office Hours: Monday, Tues day & Friday 9am-2pm.

Trustees Leonard Hoen …...……...952-466-2088 Andrew Kleindl.……...…952-442-9282

Finance Council Chairperson Bernie J. Shambour…… 952-466-5928

Parish Council Chairperson

Carol Symanitz……….…651-331-8665

Faith Formation Coordinator FaithFormation@ st-bernard-cologne.org

Ladies Guild President Monica Kooiman ………952-466-5769

Prayer Chain Patsy Quinn….. …………952-466-3304 Lori Kasel ……...kasel.lori@gmail.com

Adoration Coordinator Helen Nicklaus …………952-466-2000

Catholic United Financial Helen Hilgers ………..…952-466-5567

CHURCH OF

THE ASCENSION

ST. BERNARD CHURCH

Contact Information Fr. Gregory Abbott, Pastor Rectory & Parish Office-952-467-3351 Website ……www.ascensionnya.org E-mail:ascensionnya@embarqmail.com Business Administrator Sherry Witte……………..952-467-3351

Parish Office Hours: Mon. , Tues., Thurs., & Fri. 10 am—2pm. Trustees Gary Widmer ………….952-467-3082 John (Jack) Lano .……..952-467-3765

Parish Council Chairperson Brian Willems ….……...952-467-9654 3

Communion for Homebound Rita Fahey …………...612-282-7030

DRE for 6th—10th Grades Julie Kleindl…………...952-807-3522

DRE for Pre-k-5th Grades Kara Wickenhauser……952-466-4719

Prayer Chain Carol Donnay …………952-467-2183 Lucy Kostecka ………..952-467-2576 E-mail: Ascensionprays@aol.com Adoration Coordinator Jan Johnson……………952-412-4900 Music Liturgy Marilee Widmer ……..952-467-3082 Social Hall Bookings Parish Office …..………952-467-3351 Catholic United Financial Dennis Stoks …………952-240-5001 Knights of Columbus-Grand Knight Donald Whitaker 952-454-1611

Bulletin Co-editors Patricia Quinn……….……..952-466-3304 E-mail …bulletin@st-bernard-cologne.org

David Dettmann …………...952-467-2268 E-mail..daveannerichkarlemma@msn.com

Joint Bulletin published weekly at: www.ascensionnya.org &

www.st-bernard-cologne.org

SACRAMENTS Baptisms:

By appointment. Marriage Arrangements

The couple should contact the priest as soon as they become engaged.

They must meet with the priest twice before setting a marriage date. These two meetings need to be completed 6 months before the

proposed date. Sacrament of Reconciliation

Ascension—Tues. 5:40-6:05 pm Sat. 4:15—4:45 pm.

St. Bernard —Mon. 8:30 am. Sat. 7:15—7:45 pm. Additionally by appointment.

Communion for Homebound Call parish office.

Anointing of the Sick Call the parish office at any time.

MASS SCHEDULE Ascension-Weekend-Sat. 5 pm. Sun. 8 am.

Tuesday 6:15 pm. & Friday 7:15 am.

St. Bernard-Weekend-Sat. 8 pm. Sun. 10am. Monday & Wednesday 8:00 am.

FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER – APRIL 17, 2016

SCRIPTURE READINGS For the week of Apr. 17, 2016 – Apr. 23, 2016

4/17 Fourth Sunday of Easter: Acts 13:14,43-52 * Ps 100:1-2,3,5 * Rv 7:9,14b-17 * Jn 10:27-30. 4/18: Acts 11:1-18 * Ps 42:2-3; 43:3,4 * Jn 10:-10. 4/19: Acts 11:19-26 * Ps 87:1-3,4-5,6-7 * Jn 10:22-30. 4/20: Acts 12:24-13:5a * Ps 67:2-3,5,6,8 * Jn 12:44-50. 4/21(St. Anselm): Acts 13:13-25 * Ps 89:2-3,21-22,25,27 * Jn 13:16-20. 4/22: Acts 13:26-33 * Ps 2:6-7,8-9,10-11 * Jn 14:1-6. 4/23:(St. George; St. Adalbert) Acts 13:44-52 * Ps 98:1,2-3,3-4 * Jn 14:7-14. Copyright 2015 by Creative Communications for the Parish. Used with permission.

CALENDAR FOR ASCENSION AND ST. BERNARDS’ PARISHES

Thurs. April 21 8:00 am-8:00 pm-Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Sat. April 23-At Ascension-9:00 am to 1:00 pm-Cutting of fleece for Blankets for the Homeless Sunday, April 24th, 2016 The WWME weekend is a time to look at our love for our spouse and decide to do something to make our love more like Jesus’ love for us. The next Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends are Apr 29-May 1, 2016 in Buffalo, MN and Jul 15-17, 2016 in Buffalo, MN. Early registration is highly rec-ommended. For more information visit our website at: twincitieswwme.org or contact Brent & Tracy at applications@twincitieswwme.org or 612-756-8720. Mon. April 25th-7:00 pm: Ascension Parish Council Meeting Wed. April 27th-At Ascension-6:15 pm to 8:15 pm-Tying of Blankets for Blankets for the homeless Friday, April 29-RE/MAX Advantage Plus will be hosting Southern Valley Alliance for Battered Wom-en’s 17th Annual Silent Auction and Dinner Fund-raiser. This year’s event will be held in the Grand Ballroom at the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel. The theme is “Jeans and Gems” (dress it up or dress it down). To purchase tickets ($60/person) through April 21st or to donate an item for the auction call 952-873-4214 during business hours. Tickets must be purchased in advance and seating is limited. Saturday, April 30th 3:00—8:00 pm—Cologne Fire Dept. Relief Assoc. Steak Fry. at the Cologne Fire Sta-tion

The Catholic Home Missions Appeal will take place next week. One way that this appeal works to support home mission dioceses in the United States is by support-ing seminarian formation in poor dioceses. The blessing of seminarians places a financial burden on these dioces-es, because educating each seminarian costs $35-40K per year. Your support is needed for these young men so that they might go back and serve their parishes. Please strengthen the Church at home by making a generous gift to next week’s appeal. St. Bernard parishioners; there is a special envelope in your packet of Sunday offering envelopes. Extra envelopes can be found in the pews.

"Lord Jesus Christ You satisfy the deepest longings of our hearts and you feed us with the gifts of finest wheat." Psalm 81:16

Give us hearts that share freely. STEWARDSHIP~ A WAY OF LIFE, LIVE IT!!!

[Jesus] went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. Luke 2:51

Dear Parishioners,

Jesus grew up in a home in Nazareth with Joseph and Mary. God, in the Person of Jesus, chose to live in a family. What dignity the family has! What challenges it faces!

Outside of Sunday Mass a major way St. Bernard and Ascension support the precious and fragile gift of the family is through our faith formation program. As we prepare the challenging work of combining into one program I encourage us to beseech God’s assistance through prayer.

The first Saturdays from May through October we will have an 8am Mass with adoration of the Blessed Sacrament along with the Rosary and the Sacrament of Reconciliation. I invite all parishioners—all faith formation families to come to pray for our faith for-mation program and the strengthening of our fami-lies. This will be the intention of these 1st Saturday Masses.

The family that prays together stays together. Alt-hough there are no guarantees, family prayer solidi-fies familial bonds, puts God at the center, and opens the door to forgiveness when we hurt one an-other. Let’s all ask ourselves: does my family need God’s help? If our answer is “yes,” let’s consider making the sacrifice to come to one, two or more of these Masses. We can even tell our family we’re coming to these Masses to strengthen our families! May through July the Mass will be at Ascension and August through October it will be at St. Bernard. Here is the tentative schedule: 7:25am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

7:30am Rosary/adoration and individual Confes-sions

7:50am Confessions ends

8:00am Mass

Please note that this Mass does not fulfill our Sun-day opportunity.…’er, obligation.

Yours in Jesus, Joseph and Mary,

Fr. Gregory

Church of St. Bernard Cologne, MN

Mass Server Training I ask ALL MASS SERVERS-active and interested-to come to a Mass server training session on Saturday, April 23rd from 10:00 –11:30am in the church. It is important for ALL to attend as there will be some minor changes implemented. Parishioners in 3rd grade and up are invited to attend if inter-ested in serving Mass. Rob Wickenhauser will assist with the training. Thank you for serving God and St. Bernard Par-ish in this ministry! Fr. Gregory

April 20th–Ladies Luncheon at Bumps in Glencoe depend-ing on the weather. I’ve reserved for at least 15 people so call me if you’re going and/or if your are not sure where Bumps’ is located or need a ride. . We will meet at Bumps at 11:30 for our lunch. My phone # is 952-200-2551. If you are driv-ing but are not sure where Bumps is located we could meet at the church and follow the other ladies. Pat Wells.

Bob Symanitz took pop cans to recycling and received a check for St. Bernard Parish in the amount of $336.00. Thank you Bob for your service to St. Bernard Parish. St. Bernard has a pop can recycling trailer parked at the Holi-day Station by their Car Wash in Cologne. Please recycle your pop cans by taking them to this trailer.

VBS—Is in need of a VBS Director for this year as our cur-rent VBS director has a family medical situation and is in need of someone to do planning and directing of entire VBS program. Any questions, please contact Sherry Urness at 952-467-1974 or e-mail urnesssherry@yahoo.com as soon as pos-sible.

2016 Carnival wrap up report: Thank you to everyone for your help in planning, working at and clean up from the carnival. It looks like we will see a profit of $12,000 due in part to our generous community donors that assisted with our prizes. As we go forward we are need of a carnival chairperson to over see the events of the day, coordinate the planning meetings, work with the subcommittee chairper-sons. Please contact the parish office if you would be inter-ested in learning more.

Prayer Chain Ministry: We are in the process of updating our prayer chain members for both the e-mail members and the phone members. We wish to increase the number of peo-ple who are willing to pray for our fellow man, woman or child in their time of need. If you are interested in being con-tacted to pray for anyone's’ intentions, please contact Lori Kasel at lorikasel@gmail.com for the e-mail contact and Patsy Quinn at 952-466-3304 for phone contact.

The Cemetery Board would like to thank our dedicated lawn mowing volunteers - Bernie Shambour Sr., Jim Meu-wissen and Sarah Hammers! We are looking for volunteers to supplement this group - "many hands make light work"! We provide the lawn mower and the gas. If you are willing and able to mow, please call Ralph Laumann at 952-466-3331. Thank you!

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Would you like to serve the Lord by assisting with Mass preparation? We are in need of Sacristans (especially for the Saturday evening Mass). The roll of the Sacristan is to prepare the church environment, mark the liturgical books for the ap-propriate readings and prepare the Eucharistic vessels be-fore each liturgy. The willingness to serve behind the scenes and reverence for handling sacred vessels are neces-sary for carrying out this role. Sacristans should arrive at church 30 minutes prior to the start of Mass and will need to stay 5-10 minutes after Mass to store the Eucharistic ves-sels. Training will be provided. If you would like more information or are interested in serving in this roll, please contact Sherry Witte at 612-419-2360 or email sh.witte@mchsi.com .

Ascension Service Opportunity Fleece Blankets for the Homeless

at the Dorothy Day Center. Parishioners can help by 1) donating money to help buy the fleece (mark the donation with: Fleece Project, ATTN: Julie Kleindl); 2) coming to the Social Hall on Sat., April 23rd from 9:00am to 1:00pm to help with cutting the fleece in preparation for tying by the Faith Formation classes on Wednesday evening; 3) joining the Faith Formation classes on Wed., April 27th from 6:15pm to 8:15pm to tie the blankets OR by donating a snack for the blanket tying evening. The goal is to make 50 blan-kets!! For more information, contact Julie Kleindl (952-807-3522) or see the bulletin board in the vestibule.

Help needed!! The stand-alone rectory garage roof needs

re-shingling. If anyone is interested in helping, please contact Jack Lano at 952-237-3265

THANK YOU My heartfelt thanks to all who extended their “Happy

Trails and Best Wishes” upon my retirement from the par-ish office. (We aren’t leaving the parish).

It has been a pleasure to get to know so many of you and to serve the parish. I am grateful for all the help and sup-

port I’ve received from many of you over the years, as well as the opportunities to share in your

ministry and work. Thank you! Jan Johnson

RESPECT LIFE GROUP Respect for Life Group would like to thank everyone that donated, attended, and help with the Spring Luncheon. Bill Poehler spoke on issues of life and reasons of why we need

to vote Pro Life, with concerns of the sick, special needs, and aging population. We are at a time where issues have moved from not just abortions but life concerns of the sick and old.

Please consider joining our group. Our next meeting Thursday, April 21 at 6:30 in the church basement.

CHURCH OF ST. BERNARD STEWARDSHIP OF TIME

AND LITURGY SCHEDULE April 18, 2016 through April 24, 2016

LECTORS: Saturday 8:00pm. Tom Wickenhauser Sunday 10:00am. Tom Kasel

SERVERS: Weekdays: Volunteers Saturday 8pm. Amy Wickenhauser & Volunteer Sunday 10:00am. Carlie Cebulla & April Feist

EUCHARISTIC MINISTER Saturday 8:00pm Bernie Shambour Sunday 10:00am Lori Kasel

USHERS: Saturday 8:00pm Ralph Laumann & Bob Rademacher Sunday 10:00am Vern Elke & Leo Willems

GREETERS: Saturday 8:00pm. Doreen Walter Sunday 10:00am. Vern Elke

GIFT BEARERS: Saturday 8:00pm. Volunteers Sunday 10:00am. Volunteers

MASS SCHEDULE INTENTIONS: Saturday Apr. 16 8:00pm People of the Parish Sunday Apr. 17 10:00am. †Leonard Meuleners Monday Apr. 18 8:00am. No Mass Tuesday Apr. 19 No Mass Wednesday. Apr. 20 8:00am. No Mass Thursday Apr. 21 8:00am No Mass Friday Apr. 22 No Mass Saturday Apr. 23 8:00pm. †Jeff Wildung Sunday Apr. 24 10:00am. People of the Parish

Sacrament of Reconciliation Monday 8:30 a.m.; Saturday: 7:15-7:45 p.m.

Stewardship of Treasure Budget for Week 3,363.50 Contributions 4-06-16 through 4-12-16 3,480.36 Total Actual Collection YTD 145,124.08 YTD Collection Over (Under) Budget (17,453.92)Forward in Faith Envelope Income 170.00 Electronic Donations 100.00 Forward in Faith Total 205.00

Did you know you can have your contributions automatically deducted from your checking or savings accounts? For more information call the parish office 952-466-2031 ext. 241, or visit www.st-bernard-cologne.org

CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION

STEWARSHIP OF TIME April 25 through May 1

SERVERS: Sat. 5:00 pm: Joe Simons, Dan Whitaker Sun. 8:00 am: Rachel Holliday, Haley Buckentin READERS: Sat 5:00 pm: Ann Dettmann Sun. 8:00 am: Amy Gallus EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS: Sat. 5:00 pm: Bill Hart Sun. 8:00 am: Sue Tellers COMMUNION TO THE HOMEBOUND April 17 8:00 am: Rich & Sue Tellers April 24 8:00 am: Steve & Tamara Lemmer USHERS FOR APRIL: Sat. 5:00 pm: Dennis Stoks, Michael Schwichtenberg Sun. 8:00 am: Steve Gallus & Josh Gallus SACRISTAN: Sat: 5:00 pm: Cheryl Coyle Sun. 8:00 am: Pat Clark GREETERS: Sat. 5:00 pm: Cathleen Williams Sun. 8:00 am: Buckentin Family MASS SCHEDULE INTENTIONS Monday April 18 No Mass Tues. April 19 6:15 pm Fr. Paul C. Ardolf † Wednesday April 20 No Mass Thursday April 21 No Mass Friday April 22 7:15 am Rev. Vincent A. Colon † Sat. April 23 5:00 pm Doris van der Hagen † Sunday April 24 8:00 am All Parishioners

Weekly Collection Report Totals for 04/10/2016

Weekly Operating Budget: $4,063.00 Contributions: $2,346.00 E-Giving: $100.00 Weekly Budget YTD: $129,183.00 Actual Collection YTD: $129,242.25 YTD Collected Over (Under) Budget $59.25 Capital Improvement Envelopes: $65.00 Capital Improvement-E-Giving: $—— Capital Improvement YTD: $7,095.00