FOUR PARISH MESSENGER JANUARY 3, 2021 Pastor: Father Antony Arokiyam 412 West Main Street Adams, MN 55909 Cell phone: (608) 547-2259 Email: [email protected]Telephones: Adams Rectory 582-3321 Sacred Heart School 582-3120 Sacred Heart Fax 582-1033 St. John’s Hall 582-3294 Sacred Heart Church Web Site: www.sacredheartcluster.org Sacred Heart Church/School Email: [email protected]Office Hours: Monday—Friday 7:30—3:15. Bulletin Announcements: Please call 582-3120 or e-mail [email protected] by 12pm on Wednesday to place an announcement in that week’s bulletin. We accept church related or sponsored items only and for a maximum of 2 weeks. Mass Intentions: Please contact Shannon Drees - 582-3120. Sacrament of Reconciliation: Sacred Heart: Fridays at 8 a.m., St. Peter’s: Saturday at 4:30 p.m.; any other time by appointment. Sacrament of Baptism: Please contact the Pastor for a preparation session and Baptismal date one month prior. Sacrament of Marriage: Please contact the Pastor six months prior to your wedding date. Mass Intentions For the Week of January 4th ~ January 10th Mailing address for all Parishes: Sacred Heart PO Box 352 Adams, MN 55909 Sacred Heart 412 W Main Street Adams St. John the Baptist 10343 640th Ave Johnsburg St. Peter’s 300 Maple St SW Rose Creek Queen of Peace Elm Street Lyle Tuesday, January 5 5:00 p.m. +Joseph & Edna Kirtz Family Adams Wednesday, January 6 8:30 a.m. +Tom & Mildred Koenigs Adams Thursday, January 7 Children’s Liturgy Only +Richard Noterman ~Not For Public~ Adams Friday, January 8 8:30 a.m. +Gary Noterman Adams Saturday, January 9 5:00 p.m. +Paul & Albert Landherr Rose Creek Sunday, January 10 8:00 a.m. For the People Lyle Sunday, January 10 9:30 a.m. +Delmar Anderson Adams Sunday, January 10 11:00 a.m. CCW Johnsburg Epiphany of the Lord
Bulletin Announcements: Please call 582-3120 or e-mail [email protected] by 12pm on Wednesday to place an announcement in that week’s bulletin. We accept church related or sponsored items only and for a maximum of 2 weeks.
Mass Intentions: Please contact Shannon Drees - 582-3120.
Sacrament of Reconciliation: Sacred Heart: Fridays at 8 a.m., St. Peter’s: Saturday at 4:30 p.m.; any other time by appointment.
Sacrament of Baptism: Please contact the Pastor for a preparation session and Baptismal date one month prior.
Sacrament of Marriage: Please contact the Pastor six months prior to your wedding date.
Mass Intentions For the Week of January 4th ~ January 10th
Mailing address for all Parishes:
Sacred Heart
PO Box 352
Adams, MN 55909
Sacred Heart
412 W Main Street
Adams
St. John the Baptist
10343 640th Ave
Johnsburg
St. Peter’s
300 Maple St SW
Rose Creek
Queen of Peace
Elm Street
Lyle
Tuesday, January 5 5:00 p.m. +Joseph & Edna Kirtz Family Adams
Wednesday, January 6 8:30 a.m. +Tom & Mildred Koenigs Adams
Thursday, January 7 Children’s Liturgy Only +Richard Noterman ~Not For Public~ Adams
Friday, January 8 8:30 a.m. +Gary Noterman Adams
Saturday, January 9 5:00 p.m. +Paul & Albert Landherr Rose Creek
Sunday, January 10 8:00 a.m. For the People Lyle
Sunday, January 10 9:30 a.m. +Delmar Anderson Adams
Sunday, January 10 11:00 a.m. CCW Johnsburg
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PASTOR’S NEWS
ST. PETER’S
No Announcements
Father Antony
QUEEN OF PEACE
No Coffee & Rolls until further notice.
Dear Friends,
Hope you are all doing well. After having enjoyed fairly good weather we have witnessed a strike of snow this past Tuesday and Wednesday. The temperature has gone down, and the days are getting longer which is a good thing. After the feast of the Holy Family last Sunday, we are celebrating the Feast of Epiphany today. The day of the
Son’s revelation to the people of other nations. May the blessing of the Newborn Baby Jesus encompass everyone in a special way. Also, as we have started a new year, may the year 2021 bring us all good things and the special gifts of God. With all these pandemic troubles having to be done away with, may we enjoy a little bit of normalcy
again. I received cards from some of you for Christmas. I thank you all. That really made me happy, because I thought it
was a gesture to let me know I am accepted as one in your family. A big thank you to all those who wished me a Merry Christmas. Kindly keep the same warmth always. God bless your goodwill.
In India, the major and common mode of transportation is the bus. The government runs the buses for people. Though some upper-middle class and middle-class people have cars for their transportation, the common people still depend on buses for transportation. There are some private people running buses too. As a common tradition in India, the private buses are more efficient and more comfortable to travel by. Though the cost is comparatively
more than the government buses, people tend to opt for those buses, especially for longer travels. When I was in the boarding school for my school studies, my friends and I had to travel at least three hours or even
more to come home for holidays. So, obviously we tend to look for some private buses. Sometimes we would get private buses and sometimes luck was not in our favor. There was one particular friend of mine who always had a craze for these private buses. As soon as he sees one, irrespective of where the bus was destined to head, he would
insist that he travels by that bus. My friends and I had a hard time to convince him that the bus was not going where we wanted to go, and we needed to look for some other bus that heads towards our town.
Sometimes we had to unnecessarily wait for a private bus, wasting time, to cater to his desire of travelling by a private bus. Imagine what would have happened if we had just left him by himself or travelled with him by any private bus even if it were not headed our way. We would have never reached our destination, our home.
This is typically what happens with many of us, most of the time. We are attracted by the material world and its short-lived pleasure and miss the real destination, our Home and we miss the Head of the Home, God. We forget that these material things would not necessarily lead us Home. But because we are enticed by those things we tend
to opt for it most of the time. This Feast of the Epiphany is a reminder of our real Destiny, and that we need to cling on to that Destiny and we should choose the proper mode of transportation to reach our Destiny. That proper mode of transportation is Christ revealed today and his teachings. Have a blessed Epiphany!
ST. JOHN’S January Church Cleaning: Marilyn Oswald (leader)
CHURCH CLEANING: Church cleaning for the first week of January will be done by Group A Team 1. Team leaders are Gail Anderson and Betty Retterath. SHEG: The Sacred Heart Event Group will be led by Team 5 for the year 2021. Team 5 leaders are: Group A: Steve & Darcey Reinartz, Larry & Dianna Voigt Group B: Daren & Jane Boe, Craig & Rose Mueller Group C: Al & Dana Sorenson, Krista Hegge
LITURGICAL MINISTERS: January 9th & January 10th:
PARISH CONTRIBUTIONS OF WEEK ENDING 12/27/2020
ST. PETER’S SACRED HEART ST. JOHN’S QUEEN OF PEACE
ADULT 2180.00 6501.00 1683.00 775.00
OFFERTORY 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
OTHER 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
CHRISTMAS 1034.00 2220.00 1600.00 2135.00
TOTAL 3214.00 8721.00 3283.00 2910.00
ALL PARISHES
BLOOD DRIVE: The American Red Cross will be holding a blood drive on Tuesday, January 12th from 1:00 to 7:00 at St Peter’s Church hall. Due to COVID 19, appointments are required. Call 1-800-733-2767 or visit RedCrossBlood.org to schedule an appointment.
WINTER AUCTION: We are celebrating our 25th anniversary of the Sacred Heart Winter Banquet & Auction. It is going to look a little different this year. Our auction will be going online for the 2021 year during the week of February 6-13, 2021. This online event will include both silent and live auction items. If you would like to donate a basket, please have it to the school by Friday, January 22.
Please join our Facebook page: @SacredHeartWinterAuction for updates as they become available. More details will be coming in regards to a drive-thru meal.
SEMINAR: Would you like to deepen your relationship with the Holy Spirit? Would you like to learn about and identify the Gifts of the Holy Spirit that you have been given? Join us for a (free) Life In The Spirit seminar, using “The Wild Goose” series by Father Dave Pivonka, starting Wednesday January 6th and ending February 17th, 2021. We will meet online via Zoom at 7:00pm CST, sponsored by The Breath of God Zoom prayer group. Zoom login information will be sent upon registration. Contact Joshua for more information and to register: (218) 349-9660 or [email protected].
STUDY TOGETHER: Make a resolution to learn more about Catholic Social Teachings in the New Year! Catholic Charities of Southern Minnesota will be offering two new study opportunities on Zoom in 2021. Life and Dignity of the Human Person (7 sessions) will be on Mondays, beginning Jan. 11th, at 7:00 pm. We will also offer a chance to study together the US Catholic Bishop’s pastoral letter against racism, Open Wide Our Hearts, on Tuesdays at 7:00 pm, beginning January 12th. All materials are available free. If you would like more information or to register, email Lisa Kremer at [email protected] or call her at 507-360-3423.
