Skyview Court Skyview Plaza Assisted Living Assisted Living 320-589-0245 320-589-4582 Insurance - Travel 589-2442 170 HWY, 9 NW Benson, MN 56215 (320) 842-5960 Website: www.hhvetservice.com hhvetservice@ fedtel.net “For all your construcon needs” 585-6029 or 585-5112 Bulk Fuel & Propane C-Store*Car Wash*Bait & Tackle C-Store * Carwash * Bait & Tackle 320-585-5688 208 Atlanc Ave., Morris, MN 56267 [email protected]Lakeland Ag. Inc. Corn Soybeans Mike Schneider 585-7410 EUL’S You have a lot more going for you with Hank! 589-1722 Windshield Repair & Replacement Tractor Cabs, Mirrors, Thermopanes (320) 589-3570 127 Pacific Ave Morris, MN (320) 762-54707 301 Broadway Alexandria, MN MORRIS AUTO REPAIR 318 Alantic Ave. Morris, MN 56267 Schneider Family Lawn Care Residenal and Commercial. Spring dethatching, fall leaf bagging & mely lawn mowing 320-287-1491 Bob’s Woodworking Custom Furniture Hardwood floor refinishing & Installaon Bob Schneider: 320-287-1491 Phone: (320) 589-1460 111 Montana Ave., Morris, MN Open: Mon|Tues|Thurs|Fri. 9:00-5:30 855-260-6679 Paving Office 320-634-3535 300 Atlantic Ave, Morris, MN 589-2974 5:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. “Touch Free Wash” 589-4497 cell: (320) 766-3427 TOM KIEFFER & SONS ELECTRIC MORRIS LUMBER & MILLWORK "For All Your Building Needs" (320) 589-2331 589-3220 • www.pedersen.com Home Health Care 600 Atlanc Ave, Suite 203, Morris 320-589-9960 THANK YOU—Please patronize our adversers Quality Rental Living, It all starts here at: 503 College Ave, Morris, MN Call Pat at (320) 423-0001 to take a tour of your new home! Professionally managed by INH Properes www.inhproperes.com Mark Woolridge Construcon, Inc. 320-766-1721 New Construcon and Remodeling [email protected]This space available. Call at the office at: 320-589-3003 207 E Third Street, Morris MN 56267 (320) 589-3003 assumponofmorris.org Office Hours OFFICE CLOSED Unl Tuesday, April 14th. Fr. Todd Schneider [email protected]Home: (320) 589-1114 Parish Administrative Assistant Guadalupe Salguero [email protected]Parish Bookkeeper Teresa Gahm [email protected]St. Mary’s School Principal Joseph Ferriero [email protected]St. Mary’s Administrative Assistant Darla Loher [email protected]Faith Formation Coordinator Nicole Berlinger [email protected]Newman Center Director Sco Orgeman Crumb [email protected]Custodial Staff Cory Bedel & Norma Herrera Natural Family Planning Joan Jay, Cerfied Instructor (320) 589-4865 Ministering to pregnant women, their unborn children, family friends and those suffering from the repercussions of aboron. oponsforwomen.info 589-0300 Weekend Mass Schedule Saturday / Sábado: 5:30pm (English), 7:30pm (Español) Sunday / Domingo: 9:00am (Rosary at 8:30 am) Sacrament of Reconciliaon Saturday: 4:30pm or by appointment, please call the office to schedule a me Exposion of the Blessed Sacrament Tuesday: 4:45-5:45pm; Mass at 5:45pm Contact the parish office for Anoinng of the Sick, communion to homebound, weddings, bapsms and new parish membership. St. Mary’s Catholic School Pre-K to Grade 6 stmarysmorris.org (320) 589-1704 Newman Center Ministries for UMM Students Ummnewman.weebly.com (320) 589-1947 Mission Statement Serving God’s Family Together.
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Skyview Court Skyview Plaza Assisted Living Assisted Living 320-589-0245 320-589-4582
Insurance - Travel
589-2442
170 HWY, 9 NW
Benson, MN 56215
(320) 842-5960
Website: www.hhvetservice.com
hhvetservice@ fedtel.net
“For all your construction needs” 585-6029 or 585-5112
Schneider Family Lawn Care Residential and Commercial. Spring dethatching, fall leaf bagging & timely lawn mowing 320-287-1491 Bob’s Woodworking Custom Furniture Hardwood floor refinishing & Installation Bob Schneider: 320-287-1491
Phone: (320) 589-1460
111 Montana Ave., Morris, MN
Open: Mon|Tues|Thurs|Fri. 9:00-5:30
855-260-6679 Paving Office
320-634-3535
300 Atlantic Ave, Morris, MN
589-2974
5:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
“Touch Free Wash”
589-4497
cell:
(320) 766-3427
TOM KIEFFER &
SONS ELECTRIC
MORRIS LUMBER & MILLWORK "For All Your Building Needs"
(320) 589-2331
589-3220 • www.pedersenfh.com
Home Health Care
600 Atlantic Ave, Suite 203, Morris
320-589-9960
THANK YOU—Please patronize our advertisers
Quality Rental Living, It all starts here at:
503 College Ave, Morris, MN Call Pat at (320) 423-0001 to take a tour of your new home! Professionally managed by INH Properties www.inhproperties.com
In late November of 2019 while visiting with a widow who had recently lost her second husband, I was asked: “Father I want to pray for my deceased husband by having Masses offered for his eternal rest. A friend told me that we do not need to pray for the deceased because we do not believe in purgatory. Father do we still believe in purgatory?” “Yes,” I said, “we believe in purgatory, and the Souls in Purgatory are greatly helped by our prayers for them. It is good to offer Masses for your deceased husband. Not only is it very good to pray for him and all the Souls in Purgatory, be sure to ask them to pray for you. For their prayers of intercession are most powerful and effective.” Since that encounter with this woman, I have been praying daily with greater devotion for the Souls in Purgatory and asking them to please intercede for me and my intentions. I have been finding great joy in this communion with our brothers and sisters of the Church Suffering. My own mother had a great devotion toward the Souls in Purgatory. She prayed daily for their welfare and sought their intercession constantly. My mother had the practice of having at least one Mass offered for every parishioner who died from her parish. She offered countless Mass for relatives and friends. She encouraged many others in her parish and family to remember to pray for the Souls in Purgatory by offering Masses for their eternal rest. I am so very grateful to my mother and her example of love for the Souls in Purgatory. Upon my mother’s death I received several books that she treasured in the later years of her life. Thirty-Day Devotions for the Holy Souls, and Prayers, Promises, and Devotions for the Holy Souls in Purgatory by Susan Tassone, published by Our Sunday Visitor, were the two gifts I sought out as aids to my daily prayer for the Souls in Purgatory. I have been blessed by the riches they offer. I want to publicly thank Susan Tassone for her service to our Catholic Church in helping renew our pastoral care for the Souls in Purgatory. I truly believe that the Souls in Purgatory guided the question asked by that elderly widow in November of 2019. I also believe that my mother is helping me to pray with even greater devotion for the Souls in Purgatory. Souls that she so loved and is now encouraging me to also interceded for them, and to ask them for their intercession. I in turn want to encourage you my brothers and sisters to intercede for the Souls in Purgatory, offer prayers for their eternal rest, especially at this time when many are dying from the COVID-19 Virus; ask them to intercede for your own personal intentions, as well as the needs and concerns for our parish and the world. Saint Thomas Aquinas said: “Of all prayers, the most meritorious, the most acceptable to God, are prayers for the dead, because they imply all the works of charity, both corporal and spiritual.” (Thirty-Day Devotions for the Holy Souls, by Susan Tassone, page 145, published by Our Sunday Visitor).
When I pray for the Souls in Purgatory, I am filled with joy and gratitude. I want you to experience this joy also. The Souls in Purgatory are our friends. For truly the words of Saint Paul to the Philippians comes alive in a new way when we intercede for the Souls in Purgatory. “I give thanks to my God at every remembrance of you, praying always with joy in every prayer for all of you,” (Philippians 1:3-4) This joy comes from the communion that we share with the Souls in Purgatory in Christ our Lord.
In this moment of anxiety with the pandemic of the COVID-19 Virus afflicting every country, we are witnessing an increase of deaths throughout the world. We are praying for protection for ourselves and others, we are remembering to pray for the sick, let us also remember to pray for those who have died. We are reminded more emphatically of the shortness of life, and of the day of our own death, and the judgment
First Fruits March 28tht & 29th
Stewardship of $8644 is needed each week.
Plate and Adult (env) $ 6,205.00 Votive Candles $ Children’s Piano collection $ Easter Flowers Memorials Electronic Giving Helping Hands
$ $ 525.00 $ 130.00
Maintenance St. Mary’s Blue Env. St. Cloud Visitor
$ 275.00 $ $ 20.00
Thank you for the support of the Parish and our community!
Our Diocese
Bishop’s Annual Appeal Thank you to everyone who has donated to the Appeal so far this year, especially during these trying times. As of March 27, the Appeal raised $774,253 in gifts and pledges toward the goal $1,300,00 to support diocesan ministries. Please remember that it is especially important at this time to support your parishes and safety reach out to family, neighbors and people in need. Note from Bishop Kettler “May the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with each of you. I’m grateful that you’re able to join me for these liturgies. Although we cannot be physically together, this is a way for us to gather as a diocesan church and pray together during these challenging times. The Lenten season is always a time to reorient our lives to Christ, and we’ve been called to make extra sacrifices this year as we await the promise and hope of Easter. Thank you for your faithfulness in these days. I am praying for you, and ask you to join me in praying for our world. May God bless you and your loved ones.” If you would like to follow the diocese’s livestreamed liturgies link, visit: www.stcdio.org/liturgies for the Holy Week. Bishop Kettler will be celebrating the liturgies privately. April 5 * Palm Sunday Mass at 9:45am. April 9 *Holy Thursday Mass at 7:00pm. April 10 *Good Friday Mass 12:05pm. April 11 *Easter Vigil Mass 8:00pm. April 12 *Easter Sunday Mass 9:45am.
Our Parish
On Sunday, April 5th after 11:00am, the Blessed Palm Branches will be on the table by the parking lot beside to the Church Office entrance, if you would like to stop by and claims yours during the day & week.
The Parish Office is closed until Tuesday, April 14th.
We will checking messages frequently, if you would like to leave a message
we must all receive before the Lord. On that day may the words from Jeremiah bring us consolation: “I have loved you with an everlasting love. ”(Jeremiah 31:3) Words that the Souls in Purgatory know well and want us to trust in whole heartily. I have included as a bulletin insert this week a Litany Memorial Prayer for the Suffering Souls in Purgatory.
