Bible Sunday. November 23, 2014 Our Lord Jesus Christ King of the Universe

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1 November 23, 2014 Our Lord Jesus Christ King of the Universe PARISH OFFICE 139 S. Madison, Green Bay, WI Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9:30 am-4:00 pm Office: (920) Faith Formation: (920) Fax: (920) Prayer Network: (920) Website BISHOP OF GREEN BAY The Most Reverend David L. Ricken RECTOR AND PASTOR Reverend Joseph E. Dorner Bible Sunday Deacons: Mr. Conrad J. Kieltyka & Mr. Thomas J. Mahoney Office Manager: Sonia D. Hitt Office/Sacristan Assistant: Jan K. Phillips Director of Music: Jody L. Strnad Maintenance Manager: Patrick R. Hoslet Pastoral Minister: Patricia J. Westlund Liturgist/Sacristan: Jennifer L. Johns Bookkeeper: Vicki L. Matuszak Faith Formation Coordinator: Connie A. DeMeuse Cathedral Trustees: Kenneth C. Reigh, Secretary Charles L. Johnson, Treasurer Parish Council President: Andrew H. Opicka Finance Council President: John E. Mitchell Green Bay Diocese Museum is open for viewing every Sunday after 9 am Mass until Noon

2 Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral Parish 139 South Madison Green Bay, WI Weekend Masses Saturday... 4:00 pm Sunday... 9:00 am Weekday Masses Monday, Wednesday, and Friday... 8:30 am Saturday 4:00 pm Sunday 9:00 am Monday 8:30 am Wednesday 8:30 am Friday 8:30 am Saturday 4:00 pm Sunday 9:00 am Mass Intentions November 22 Richard Petasek November 23 Living & Deceased Members of the Cathedral Music Ministry November 24 Kenneth Joseph Baugnet (Anniversary of Death) November 26 Louie Blaser November 28 Dorothy Gillis November 29 Margaret Skoglind (Anniversary of Death) November 30 Living and Deceased Members of St. Francis Xavier Cathedral & St. John the Evangelist Parishes Devotions One half hour before every Mass...Rosary Monday Perpetual Help Novena Friday.... Sacred Heart Novena Eucharistic Adoration Wednesday....9:00 am - 8:00 pm Confessions Saturday :15 pm - 3:30 pm Wednesday.....6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Holy Days of Obligation Vigil... 5:15 pm Holy Day... 8:30 am HOLY MATRIMONY Congratulations to this couple who was married at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral Cristina Schmitt and Adam Pickering November 15th God Bless You! Small Faith Groups Call the parish office for days and times. Baptism Call for arrangements. Preparation session required. Marriage Call the parish office at least 9 months in advance of your desired wedding date. Church and Museum Tours by appointment St. Thomas More School 650 S. Irwin Ave., Green Bay, WI Principal, Mr. Jeff Kaftan Phone: Readings for the Week of November 23, 2014 Sunday:....Ez 34:11-12, 15-17/1 Cor 15:20-26,...28/Mt 25:31-46 Monday:...Rv 14:1-3, 4b-5/Lk 21:1-4 Tuesday:..Rv 14:14-19/Lk 21:5-11 Wednesday:...Rv 15:1-4/Lk 21:12-19 Thursday:.Rv 18:1-2, 21-23; 19:1-3, 9a/Lk 21:20-28 Friday:....Rv 20:1-4, :2/Lk 21:29-33 Saturday:....Rv 22:1-7/Lk 21:34-36 Next Sunday: Is 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7/1 Cor 1:3-9/Mk.13:33-37

3 MASS OF INSTALLATION You are cordially invited to The Installation Mass of Fr. Joseph E. Dorner as Rector and Pastor of St. Francis Xavier Cathedral and Pastor of St. John the Evangelist Celebrated by the Most Reverend David L. Ricken Saturday, December 6, 5:30 pm St. John the Evangelist Church Green Bay, Wisconsin Refreshments to follow NOVENA OF GRACE Please join us for a Novena of Grace in Honor of St. Francis Xavier Starting Saturday November 22 nd and to be completed on Wednesday December 3 rd. FRIDAY ARTIST SERIES St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, 140 S Monroe Ave., is having a Friday Artist Series, December 5th, 12th and 19th, from 12:15 pm to 12:45 pm. The Concerts will feature members of the Green Bay Symphony. If you are in the area and would like a short respite from the hustle and bustle of the season, come and enjoy some beautiful Christmas music. A free will offering will be accepted. CHILI NIGHT Mark your Calendars for Saturday, January 24th, Pete Warden will be making his famous chili. Watch bulletin for further details. PANCAKE AND PORKIE BREAKFAST Mark your Calendars for Sunday, November 30th. Please note that the Pancake and Porkie Breakfast will take the place of our Sunday Social. Pancake and Porkie Breakfast Consists of 3 pancakes, 2 sausages Free will offering will be accepted. Suggested: Adults $3.00, Children 5 and under free AED/CPR TRAINING AED/CPR Training will be offered on Tuesday, December 2nd from 7-9 pm in BWC hall. All ushers are encouraged to attend and any interested parishioners are invited to join us. SEMINARIAN BIRTHDAY Parish seminarian, Kyle Sladek, will be celebrating his birthday on December 2nd. How wonderful it would be if many members of our parish family sent him cards and possibly care packages to let him know of our prayers and support as he discerns his vocation to the priesthood. Mundelein Seminary, 1000 E Maple Ave Mundelein, IL THANKSGIVING DAY On Thanksgiving Day the office and church will be closed. Mass will be offered at St. John the Evangelist at 8:30 am. On Friday, November 28th. Mass will be offered at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral at 8:30 am, however church will be locked right after Mass and office will be closed. Happy Thanksgiving! November 15th and 16th, 2014 Sacrificial Giving......$ 8, Offertory Collection $ On Line Giving $ 1, Total $ 9, Building Maintenance... $ Museum Fund......$ FYTD Budgeted Receipts...$192, FYTD Actual Income..$172, $ 19, An average of $ from the weekly collection is needed to meet the budget of St. Francis Xavier Cathedral.

4 FROM THE DESK OF THE BISHOP Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Happy Feast of Christ the King! I would like to take this opportunity to invite you into a journey of prayer and discipleship so that we may follow Christ our King more closely. We Know that the Kingdom of God is Very different than the governments we know. It is a kingship of love, especially self-sacrificing love. As Pope Benedict said, the power of the Messiah is not the power of the kingdoms of the earth, but the power of truth and love. Today, I would like to invite you, and all Catholics of northeastern Wisconsin, on a six year journey that will take us to the year I am calling this journey, Disciples on the WAY, for that is a great description of who we are. In this journey we hope to draw closer to the Lord as individuals, as parishes, and as a diocese. I am breaking our journey into three parts. The first part is focused on prayer. Today, and for the next two years, we will grow in our friendship with Jesus as we deepen our own prayer life, and help others to pray as well. Jesus taught his people to pray, so that we can recognize His Presence within us and all around us. My hope is that each parish will see itself as a school of prayer, a place where we help each other learn how to pray more deeply and so grow in our friendship with the Lord Jesus. I hope that in the next two years we can build a renewed love for Jesus, cultivate our friendship with Him and rekindle, or experience for the first time, the fires of Divine Love placed in all of us at baptism. Our parishes, then can become living communities of prayer. We begin at home. My mother used to say that a house is just a house until the family invest love in it, then it becomes a home. I would ask you to seek ways that you can pray together as a family and grow to love the Lord and the Church as a family unit. In our families and in our parishes, we will be helping people to learn different ways of praying, from meal prayers to the rosary, praying with the Sunday scripture readings, and simply spending a few moments of quiet by ourselves or as a family. During these next two years I myself will be going to different areas of the diocese offering a day of prayer for those in the area. During these days, I will share some of the forms of prayer, meditation and contemplation that have helped me so much through the years. In addition to our personal and family prayer, I have asked every parish to provide a holy hour once a month. During this time of exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, you will be invited to come together to pray for yourself, your family, your parish, your diocese, and the Church throughout the world. Our hope is that we will become a more prayerful people as we strive to live vibrant Catholic Christian lives. I encourage you to read my new pastoral reflection, Teach My People to Pray as it explains the intent of these first two years of our six year journey as Disciples on the WAY. By listening to the Lord Jesus more carefully in all we do, we will be able to draw closer to His divine love and be transformed into living, loving, on-fire disciples eager to spread the Good News of Christ, the King of the Universe. By living lives of deep friendship with Jesus, we as followers of Jesus, as disciples, will be more engaged and empowered to live out today s Gospel mandate of Jesus to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, and visit the sick and the imprisoned. When you did it for one of these least ones--you did it for me. God Bless you and your families, your loved ones and friends! Sincerely in Christ, Most Reverend David L. Ricken Bishop of Green Bay

5 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Saturday November 22nd 4:pm Mass St. Francis Xavier Novena of Grace Begins Sunday November 23rd 9:00 am Cross Catholic Outreach 10:30 am..dignity of Life - Gehl Thursday November 27th Happy Thanksgiving...Office & Church Closed Friday November 28th 8:30 am..mass All Day..... Office Closed Sunday November 30th 10:15 am Pancake & Porky Breakfast 10:15 am.. Tour: St. Jude-Oshkosh, RCIA Wednesday December 3rd 8:30 am. Feast of St. Francis Xavier-Bp Ricken St. Francis Xavier Novena of Grace Ends 131 S. Madison Street, Green Bay, WI Monday - Friday: 9:30 am - 5 pm; Saturday: 10 am - 4 pm LIKE us on Facebook. info@cathedralbookandgift.com To Celebrate the feast day of our patroness, St. Catherine of Alexandria, we are hosting a Multi-Author Book Signing on Tuesday, November 25, am: Kara Kelley-Heyne Author of The Locket s Secret 11 am: Bobbie Charneski Author of A Catholic Approach to Widowhood 12 pm: Bea Seidl Author of Orphan Doors 1 pm: Patricia Kasten Author of Linking Your Beads & Making Sense of Saints 2 pm: Kay McCabe-Moore Author of My Grandpa has Alzheimers NOVEMBER APOSTLESHIP PRAYER Lonely people. That all who suffer loneliness may experience the closeness of God and the support of others. Mentors of seminarians and religious. That young seminarians and religious may have wise and well-formed mentors. ST. VINCENT DE PAUL PANTRY As Thanksgiving Day approaches and we ponder the many blessings in our life that the Lord has given us. Let us also remember those who go without. Our own Cathedral St. Vincent de Paul food pantry is getting low. Would you consider donating dry or non-perishable goods to help replenish supplies? Items can be placed in baskets located in all entry ways. Items needed!! Cereal, soup, tuna, vegetables/fruit in cans, crackers (saltines and graham), peanut butter, jelly/jam, box of macaroni and cheese, dry pasta or rice, can of baked beans or stew, fruit roll-ups, cookies, granola bars, cans of prepared pasta, spaghetti or macaroni, box of prepared meals, pancake mix, and maple syrup. Please do not donate old, expired food items. No perishable items or glass jars!! In gratitude: The Dignity of Life Committee St. Vincent de Paul Cathedral Conference FEATURED LIGHTHOUSE CD Four Pillars of Marian Spirituality Mike Sweeney was a five-time Major League Baseball all-star and played for the Kansas City Royals, Seattle Mariners, Oakland Athletics, and Philadelphia Phillies. In this talk given at the Catholic Athletes For Christ retreat for professional athletes, Mike gives a Marian perspective on sports and the Christian life by using what he has identified as the Four Pillars of Marian Spirituality. St. John the Evangelist Parish 413 Saint John Street, Green Bay, WI Liturgical Schedule Tuesday: 8:30 am - Mass Thursday: 8:30 am - Mass Saturday: 5:30 pm - Mass Sunday: 10:45 am - Mass Thursday, November 27th, Thanksgiving Day 8:30 am St. John the Evangelist is offering an Advent reconciliation service on Thursday, December 11th at 6:30 pm

6 YOUTH OPPORTUNITY GRADES 9-12 The following is a list of opportunities for teens in grades 9-12 to grow in one s Catholic faith. If you are interested in any of the youth opportunities, want to register, or have questions, call the Credo Faith Formation office at Pray about where God may be calling you! Registration forms are available in the Credo Faith Formation Office. Catholic Youth Expeditions Door County Expeditions depart from CYE base camp in Appleton, 7pm, Friday evening and return 4pm, Sunday. Dates for high school expeditions: December 26-28, 2014 January 23-25, 2015 April 10-12; April visit for more summer dates Annual March for Life in Washington D.C. January th, 2015 Teens Encounter Christ Retreat (TEC) in Green Bay January 2-4, 2015 and March 20-22, 2015 High School Mission Trip to Hancock, Mississippi (Hurricane Katrina Relief) June st, 2015 Steubenville Youth Conference Saint Louis, Missouri July 8-14 th, 2015 Registrations are on a first come, first serve basis. Steubenville North Youth Conference Saint Paul, Minnesota July th, 2015 Registrations are on a first come, first serve basis. Camp Wojtyla Summer Youth Camp Colorado Rocky Mountains For more details, visit Registration is now underway. For additional information pricing, transportation, etc. on all opportunities, visit Please welcome Father Ron Mrozinski who will speak at both Masses on behalf of Cross Catholic Outreach which was founded to create a meaningful link between parishes in America and the priests and nuns working in the Church overseas in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Central and South America. Please be generous in your response to Father s appeal. THE HOLY FATHERS VOCATION PRAYER Holy and Provident Father, You are the Lord of the vineyard and the harvest and You give each a just reward for their work. In Your design of love You call men and women to work with You for the salvation of the world. We thank You for Jesus Christ, Your living Word, who has redeemed us from our sins and is among us to assist us in our poverty. Guide the flock to which You have promised possession of the Kingdom. Send new workers into Your harvest and set in the hearts of Pastors faithfulness to Your plan of salvation, perseverance in their vocation and holiness of life. Christ Jesus, who on the shores of the Sea of Galilee called the Apostles and made them the foundation of the Church and bearers of Your Gospel, in our day sustain Your people on their journey. Give courage to those whom You call to follow You in the priesthood and the consecrated life, so that they may enrich God's field with the wisdom of Your Word. Make them docile instruments of Your love in everyday service of their brothers and sisters. Spirit of holiness, who pours out Your gifts on all believers and especially on those called to be Christ's ministers, help young people to discover the beauty of the divine call. Teach them the true way of prayer, which is nourished by the Word of God. Help them to read the signs of the times so as to be faithful interpreters of Your gospel and bearers of salvation. Mary, Virgin who listened and Virgin of the Word made flesh in your womb, help us to be open to the Word of the Lord so that having been welcomed and meditated on, it may grow in our hearts. Help us to live like you the beatitudes of believers and to dedicate ourselves with unceasing charity to evangelizing all those who seek your Son. Grant that we may serve every person, becoming servants of the Word we have heard, so that remaining faithful to it we may find our happiness living it. Amen.