24425 Old Highway 13 Boulevard Jordan, Minnesota 55352 Office Phone: 952-492-6276 • Office Fax: 952-492-6290 Social Hall & Religious Education Office: 952-492-5723 www.stpandc.mn.org Fr. Michael Miller e-mail: [email protected]CHURCHES OF ST. PATRICK & ST. CATHERINE 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time—September 18, 2016 MISSION STATEMENT THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF ST. PATRICK OF CEDAR LAKE TOWNSHIP AND ST. CATHERINE OF SPRING LAKE TOWNSHIP ARE COMMUNITIES OF LOVING AND CARING PEOPLE CENTERED IN JESUS CHRIST. THUS WE: ∗ Celebrate our faith through partaking in the Eucharist and the Sacraments; ∗ Share in teaching the Word of God through preaching, education, and service; ∗ Work together to provide spiritual care, direction and fellowship, and to promote charity and justice for all; ∗ Share our time, talents, and treasures with our families, parish, and surrounding communities; WE DO THIS BECAUSE CHRIST SAID "LOVE ONE ANOTHER...” THROUGH LOVE, WE WILL GROW IN UNION WITH GOD AND PEOPLE. VISION STATEMENT “Working together, results are forever.” CHURCH INFORMATION Pastor: Fr. Michael J. Miller Business Admin.: Colleen Friendshuh Religious Ed. Director: Elaine Pesta Religious Ed. Asst.: LuVerne Verhoeven Confirmation Coord.: Deloris Friske Maintenance Engr.: Timothy Sonnek Parish Office Hours 8:00 a.m. — 3:00 p.m. Monday—Friday Summer Hours 8:00 a.m. — 1:00 p.m. Mass Schedule Saturday 5:00 p.m. — St. Patrick Sunday 8:30 a.m. — St. Catherine Sunday 10:30 a.m. — St. Patrick Weekdays — Refer to Mass Schedule Confessions Saturday 4:00 - 4:45 — St. Patrick By appointment — St. Catherine Baptism Please contact the parish office for pre-baptism class and registration. Marriage Please contact the parish office at least six (6) months before the proposed wedding date. Sick and Homebound Please contact the parish office for the sacraments and visits. Prayer Line For prayer requests please contact Heidi Michaelson (952-233-8772) Confidential Pregnancy Help Please contact Pregnancy Choices Life Care Center (952-997-2229) (Text: 612-787-7341) www.mypregnancychoices.com St. Patrick Church 952-492-6276 Trustees Gregory Michaelson 952-233-8772 Ronald Ryan 952-758-2701 Parish Pastoral Council Joe O’Brien 952-461-3097 St. Catherine Church 952-447-2180 Trustees Joe Williamson 952-447-6404 Pat Schroeder 952-226-6293 Parish Pastoral Council Tim Saarela 952-440-3662 Welcome! Thank you for attending Mass here. How may we serve you? □ I am interested in parish membership □ Please note my change of address □ I would like a visit by the pastor □ I don’t have envelopes and would like to receive them Name: ________________________________ Phone: ___________________ Address: ________________________________________________________ (Please remove and send to parish office at address listed)
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24425 Old Highway 13 Boulevard Jordan, Minnesota 55352
THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF ST. PATRICK OF CEDAR LAKE TOWNSHIP AND ST. CATHERINE OF SPRING LAKE TOWNSHIP ARE COMMUNITIES OF LOVING AND CARING PEOPLE CENTERED IN JESUS CHRIST. THUS WE:
∗ Celebrate our faith through partaking in the Eucharist and the Sacraments;
∗ Share in teaching the Word of God through preaching, education, and
service; ∗ Work together to provide spiritual care,
direction and fellowship, and to promote charity and justice for all;
∗ Share our time, talents, and treasures with our families, parish, and
surrounding communities;
WE DO THIS BECAUSE CHRIST SAID "LOVE ONE ANOTHER...” THROUGH LOVE, WE WILL GROW IN UNION WITH GOD AND PEOPLE.
VISION STATEMENT “Working together, results are forever.”
CHURCH INFORMATION
Pastor: Fr. Michael J. Miller Business Admin.: Colleen Friendshuh Religious Ed. Director: Elaine Pesta Religious Ed. Asst.: LuVerne Verhoeven Confirmation Coord.: Deloris Friske Maintenance Engr.: Timothy Sonnek
(Please remove and send to parish office at address listed)
Monday Sept. 19 6:30 PM (SP) +Laura Ryan Tuesday Sept. 20 8:30 AM (SP) +Janet Rezac Wednesday Sept. 21 7:00 PM (SP) +Richard Chodek Thursday Sept. 22 8:30 AM (SC) For All Grandchildren Friday Sept. 23 NO MASS Saturday Sept. 24 5:00 PM (SP) Thoele Family Sunday Sept. 25 8:30 AM (SC) For Our People 10:30 AM (SP) +Braden Flicek
St. Patrick
St. Catherine
Bulletin Deadline: Tuesday at noon. (notices can be mailed, faxed to 952-492-6290, or put in the black box on the side of the rectory) Save the counting people time: write your name & amount of donation on your Sunday envelope. Thank you! Going out of town? Won’t be at mass next weekend? Call the parish office in advance and ask for a parish bulletin to be mailed to you. Keep up on parish events!
WILL YOU PRAY FOR A PRIEST EACH DAY? Sept. 19: Fr. Antony Skaria, Sept. 20: Fr. Fr. Michael Skluzacek Sept. 21: Fr. Gregory Skrypek, Sept. 22: Fr. Stanley Sledz, Sept. 23: Fr. David Smith Sept. 24: Fr. Larry Snyder, Sept. 25:
Fr. Walter Sochacki.
Eternal Father, we lift up to You these and all the priests of the world. Sanctify them. Heal and guide them. Mold them into the likeness and holiness of Your Son, Jesus, the Eternal High Priest. May their lives be pleasing to You. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Lift High The Cross September 14th was the Feast of the Exaltation, or Triumph, of the Holy Cross. It commemorates two historical events: the finding of the true cross in the year 320, and the dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in 335, which was built over the tomb of Jesus. Though lacking hard historically evidence, legend attributes its finding to St. Helena, the mother of Constantine, the first Roman Emperor to become Christian. It was said that the cross of Jesus was distinguished from the crosses of the two thieves by a miraculous cure rendered by the true cross. Whatever the actual historical facts, the important thing is not whether we have a piece of the actual cross on which Jesus died, but that we have its effects. And that is the meaning of this Feast. It was through the obedient death of Jesus on the cross that salvation was made possible for us. “He humbled Himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross” (Phil. 2:8). Of course, if it ended there our faith would be in vain (cf.1Cor 15:17). The Resurrection is what makes sense of the Crucifixion. But the Resurrection would not have happened without the Crucifixion. One depends on the other. As Archbishop Fulton Sheen said, “Unless there is a Good Friday in our lives will never be an Easter Sunday. The Cross is the condition of the empty tomb, and the crown of thorns is the preface to the halo of light…if we leave the Cross out of the life of Christ, we have nothing left, and certainly not Christianity” (Life of Christ, preface). That is why we can have a Feast called the Exultation of the Cross. We can lift it up, look at it and say, “This is the wood of the Cross, on which hung the Savior of the world. Come, let us worship” (unveiling of the Cross, Good Friday). We can look upon the Cross as our hope for the forgiveness of sins and eternal life, and as the ultimate demonstration of God’s love. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). Pope John Paul II explains this well-known verse in a most powerful and riveting way: “Man ‘perishes’ when he loses ‘eternal life’. The opposite of salvation is not, therefore, only temporal suffering, but the definitive suffering: the loss of eternal life, being rejected by God –damnation. The only-begotten Son was given to humanity primarily to protect man against this definitive evil and against definitive suffering. In His salvific mission, the Son must therefore strike evil right at its transcendental roots from which it develops in human history. These roots of evil are grounded in sin and death: for they are at the basis of the loss of eternal life. The mission of the only-begotten Son
EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATIONS
LITURGICAL MINISTERS FOR SEPTEMBER 24 & 25, 2016
Extraordinary Ministers
9/25 Bonnie Theis, Kathy Ceola, Paul & Linda Torgesen
9/25 Dan Cross, Joan Nelson, Tim Sonnek, Kristi Schulte
Lectors 9/24 Anne Marie Weiers
9/25 Chad Sandey
Acolytes 9/24 Hayden DeGross, Mason DeGross, Joe Weiers
9/25 Lily Schulte, Hannah Langeberg, Cole Flicek
Ushers 9/24 Dave Roach, Melvin Gregory
9/25 Don Pesta, Norm Sticha
Greeters 9/25 Henry & Dee Kober
FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK
consists in conquering sin and death. He conquers sin by His obedience unto death, and He overcomes death by His resurrection (Salvifici Doloris, 14). As we meditate more deeply on this central mystery of our faith, we can see why the Cross is the definitive symbol of Christianity, and why we can sing with joy and conviction that great hymn, “Lift high the Cross, the love of Christ proclaim, till all the world adore His sacred Name.” Fr. Michael J. Miller
CHURCH CLEANING FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER: *Bill & Anne Weiers, Martin & Karin Wagner, Joseph & June Wallerius, Leander & Brandi Weckman, Dirk Wells & Vanessa Glavas, David & Sandra Zweber, John Zweber. Altar Linens: Agnes DeGross.
ST. PATRICK PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL & FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETINGS: Monday, September 19th at 7:00 PM in the Social Hall.
C.C.W. FALL INSTITUTE: Saturday, Sept. 24. Contact Marsha Simon @ [email protected] to register.
C.C.W. SOUTHWEST DEANERY MISSION EVENT: Thursday, October 13 at St. Wenceslaus in New Prague. Doors open at 5:00 PM. Don’t forget to bring your address labels for the raffle. Flyer coming soon.
SAVE YOUR SHOEBOXES: It’s that time of year again—start saving your shoeboxes. Please bring them to Church or Religion Class. Thank you.
FSCLA SPONSORED STEAK/CHICKEN COOKOUT & SILENT AUCTION: (First Slovak Catholic Ladies Association) Friday, October 7, 5:00-9:00 PM in the social hall. $12.00/person for 12 oz. top sirloin steak or 1/2 BBQ chicken, baked potato, cole slaw, garlic bread, & dessert. $2.00/child-hot dog & chips. Come, see, and bid on the silent auction items. We thank FSCLA for a $600.00 matching grant. Group III members please bring 2 loaves of garlic bread and bars/cookies Thursday evening between 6:00-7:30 PM. Contact Lisa DeGross with silent auction items @ 952-461-4213. Note: This is the Group III Steak/Chicken Cookout, but by having FSCLA sponsored we get a $600.00 grant.
DONUT SUNDAY: Join us Sunday, October 9 to welcome our new parishioners. Coffee & donuts will be served after the 10:30 AM Mass in the back of Church.
Stewardship of Treasure “Let us give back to God with Grateful Hearts”
Sunday Collection September 11, 2016
Received this week……………………….$ 1,808.00 Weekly budget requirement……………....$ 1,925.00
CHURCH CLEANING FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER: Frank & Cathy Simons, Rick & Linda Sirek, Jody & Jane Timm.
ST. CATHERINE’S C.C.W. FALL MEETING: Sun. Sept. 18, 2:00 PM at Diane Williamson’s home. For directions, call Sue @ 952-447-5426. Agenda: C.C.W. Elections, C.C.W. Charitable Contributions, Social Service Activities, C.C.W. Events: Turkey Bingo, Christmas Get-Together, Spring Event. All women of the parish are welcome.
ST. CATHERINE 31ST ANNUAL AUTUMN DINNER: Mark your calendars, Tuesday, October 11th at the V.F.W. in Prior Lake. Tickets will be on sale after Mass September 18th.
Stewardship of Treasure “Let us give back to God with Grateful Hearts”
Sunday Collection September 11, 2016
Received this week……………………….$ 1,063.50 Weekly budget requirement…………….. .$ 1,001.00
PRAY FOR THE SICK AND HOMEBOUND OF OUR PARISHES: Dale Nesbitt, Patty Whalen, Sandi Suilmann, Jan Sticha, Mary Munson (Sue Zender’s daughter), Douglas Van Moorlehem (brother of Jan St. Aubin), Carol Prochaska, Sharon Mastain (Carol Timmons’ sister) Rosie Pexa, Ann Pint, Nicole Wood, Celeste Wilson, Dave Hover, Diane Hentges (Cathy Theis’ sister), Alex Schlink, Ev Nelson, Mary Jane Keep, Paul Lambrecht, Cynthia Troendle, Pat Scharf, Jack & Jane Eiseman (parents of Jacque Bittner), Gerry Jensen (Jan St. Aubin’s cousin), Therese Ryan, Florian Bauman (Bryan Bittner’s uncle), Anikah Schmidt (great granddaughter of Bonnie Theis), Grace Bittner, Laura Stepka, Joe & Evelyn Scheffler, Benoite Stepka, Jennifer Lonergan, John Thomas Byer.
PICTORIAL DIRECTORY: Sittings are available at either St. Patrick’s or St. Catherine’s September 27—October 1 so you can pick the date/time that is most convenient. If you are having trouble signing up electronically you can sign up in the back of either church or call Delores Friske/St. Catherine or Joe O’Brien/St. Patrick to sign up manually.
Registration Forms for the 2016/2017 Religious Education year were sent electronically. Copies are available in the back of church or from the parish office. We are looking for a volunteer for our Sunday School Program. Program begins November 6, 2016 and runs through March 26, 2017.
Wed. Sept. 21 7:00 PM Mass & Orientation, grades 1-8 for students and parents Wed. Sept. 28 6:45-8:00 PM Classes, grades 1-9 at S.P. Social Hall Friday, October 7 S.P. BBQ Chicken/Steak, Silent Auction Tuesday, October 11 S.C. Autumn Dinner Sunday, November 6 S.C. C.C.W. Turkey Bingo Friday, November 11 S.P. Men’s Club Euchre Tournament
