ST MARY & SONS OF ZEBEDEE St. Mary Lomira, St. John Byron, St. James Oak ield

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1 ST MARY & SONS OF ZEBEDEE St. MaryLomira, St. JohnByron, St. JamesOakield SEPTEMBER August 13, 13,

2 TO SONS OF ZEBEDEE & ST. MARY PARISH OAKFIELD, BYRON & LOMIRA WISCONSIN MASS INTENTIONS Saturday, August 12 St. Mary s Lomira 4:00 PM Nicholas Josephine Ravanelli Sunday, August 13 Sons of ZebedeeSt. James, Oakield 8:00 AM For the Parishioners Sons of ZebedeeSt. John s Byron 11:00 AM Martha Macias Monday, August 14 Tuesday, August 15 Sons of ZebedeeSt. John s Byron 7:00 PM Ligia Gindt Wednesday, August 16 Sons of ZebedeeSt. James, Oakield 8:00 AM Thursday, August 17 Hope Nursing HomeLomira 1:00 PM For the Residents Friday, August 18 St. Mary, Lomira 8:30 AM For the Parishioners Saturday, August 19 St. Mary s Lomira 4:00 PM LawrenceViola Feucht, Helen Schwartz Sunday, August 20 Masses are switched this Sunday Sons of ZebedeeSt. John, Byron 8:00 AM Sons of ZebedeeSt. James Oakield 11:00 AM Nancy Steinke Holy Day The Queenship of the Blessed virgin Mary Mass will be celebrated on Tuesday, August 15, 7:00 p.m. St. John s in Byron. 2 Readings for the Week of August 13, 2017 Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 1113a/Ps 85:914/Rom 9:15/Mt 14:22 33 Monday: Dt 10:1222/Ps 147:1215, 1920/Mt 17:2227 Tuesday: Vigil: 1 Chr 15:34, 1516; 16:12/Ps 132:67, 910, 1314/1 Cor 15:54b57/Lk 11:2728 Day: Rv 11:19a; 12:16a, 10ab/Ps 45:1012, 16/1 Cor 15:20 27/Lk 1:3956 Wednesday: Dt 34:112/Ps 66:13a, 5, 8, 1617/Mt 18:1520 Thursday: Jos 3:710a, 11, 1317/Ps 114:16/Mt 18:2119:1 Friday: Jos 24:113/Ps 136:13, 1618, 2122, 24/Mt 19:312 Saturday: Jos 24:1429/Ps 16:12a, 5, 78, 11/Mt 19:1315 Next Sunday: Is 56:1, 67/Ps 67:23, 56, 8/Rom 11:1315, 29 32/Mt 15:2128 BAPTISM AUTUMN GRACE EGGERS, daughter of Michael and Ashley (Mauer) Eggers will be baptized on Sunday, august 13 at St. John s ByronSons of Zebedee. Her godparents are Breyanne Mauer, Nathan and Mickey Oechsner. May God bless Autumn on her special day. SONS OF ZEBEDDE Once again, Sons of Zebedee is offering scholarships to any Catholic Grade School, High school or College. If you would like an application, please call soon, the deadline was last week

3 Mass Volunteers Saturday, August 19, 4:00 p.m. St. Mary s Lomira ServersVolunteer s Needed ReaderBob Hall Eucharistic Sheryl Casper, Ruth Hall, Ruth Mischo UshersMatt Hall Mass Volunteers Sunday, August 20, 11:00 am St. James, Oakield ServersVolunteer Needed ReaderLisa Sheahan Eucharistic MinistersKathy Kedinger UshersBob Sheahan Mass Volunteers Sunday, August 20, 8:00 am St. John s Byron ServersLexi Kuechenberg ReaderCharlene Pettit EucharisticMaureen Betz, Gloria Kelroy UshersLeo Holl, George Macias Contributions for St. Mary Week of July 2829, 2017 Membership$ Offertory$79.00 Total$ STEWARDSHIP CORNER Sons of Zebedee/Ss James & John Fiscal Year: July 1, 2016June 30, 2017 Income to Date: $127, ExpensestoDate: $125, Net Income: $ 2, Committee Calendar ST. MARY AND SONS OF ZEBEDEE HUMAN CONCERNS Friday, August 18, 11:00 a.m. to 9 p.m. Pie and Ice Cream Sale, During Midwest Shooters Supply Fall Festival. Enjoy delicious food served by local community groups, live music in the evening, and the company of great friends at this fun annual event. Visit our booth for a meltinyourmouth slice of homemade pie and creamy frozen custard. Have a fabulous time and help raise money for local community projects too. You can bring your pies to St. Mary s school on Thursday, Aug. 17, between 57 p.m. or drop off at Son s of Zebedee at St. John s, between 10:00 a.m. and noon. SONS OF ZEBEDEE PARISH PICNIC SUNDAY, August 20, Oakield Park. You should have received your Rafle Tickets and a letter in the mail from Sons of Zebedee, if you are a member of SOZ. Hope to see you there. Our parishes will once again be purchasing school supplies tohelp area families in need so that every child can start the school year ready to learn. We need your help to make the most impact. Simply place yourdonation in the school bus containers located at the entry of each church. The Human Concerns Committee will do the shopping and delivery. **All contributions should be in bysunday, August 20.** Donations from Sons of Zebedee will be delivered to the Boys and Girls Club in Fond du Lac and those made at St. Mary will go to the Lomira Food Pantry. Please be generous. Every contribution, large or small, will make a difference to a child in need. Thank you! Sons of Zebedee and St. Mary Human Concern Committee

4 Religious Education Ofice REGISTRATION: Families please check s for registration information. Forms can also be found on SM/SOZ Family Faith Formation Website: stmaryandsonsofzebedeerep/ Registration packets are available to be picked up at church (near information/materials) before or after Mass. If you are a new family, please contact the parish office, so we can get a registration form to you. Registration forms were DUE JULY 1, MASS PARTICIPATION: Families are encouraged to participate during the summer break as well. Altar Servers are needed! Please contact the Parish Office if you are interested in being scheduled as an altar server or being trained for altar serving! VOLUNTEERS: Faith: The Next Generation Pass It On! Are you being called to serve in the Faith Formation ministry? We have a great team of Faith leaders and various ways to be involved. Please contact the DRE for more information. Catechists are needed for the upcoming year, grade, 4 th, 5th grade, and 10 th grade. If you are interested in passing on the faith to our next generation, please consider being a Catechist. We would love for you to join our team! Chaperones for Retreats: If interested, please contact the DRE YOUTH RETREAT OPPORTUNITIES: St. John Bosco Day Saturday, October 7, 2017 from 9am to 6 pm. Grades 611 To sign up: or contact the DRE. Holy Fire (Chicago) October 21, 2017 from 9 am to 3:30 pm Grades 69 To sign up: or contact the DRE Fall Weekend Retreat (Camp Vista) Friday, September 29 through Sunday October 1 Grades 912 are welcome to attend. To sign up: please contact DRE for more information. WISH LIST: Donations toward purchase of personalized drawstring backpack for Confirmation program ($200) Donations of St. Mary s Press Catholic Youth Bible for classrooms ($300) Fabric Markers Bags of treat size candy/snacks (smarties, tootsie rolls, fruit snacks, etc no nuts please) FACEBOOK: We are can be found on Facebook. Search St. Mary and Sons of Zebedee Religious Ed Program and support us by clicking LIKE. 4

5 Three Minute Liturgical Catechesis Arcle 20 If there is any prayer that could be called the model Chrisan prayer, it would surely be the Our Father. We call it the Lord's Prayer, because it was given by Jesus to the disciples when they asked him to teach them how to pray. This is a prayer that has been used by Chrisans ever since, oen several mes a day. Early Chrisan writers speak of praying the Lord's Prayer every morning, at midday and every night. It has been the constant companion of Chrisans for two thousand years. Since the early centuries of the Church's history, this prayer has also been used as part of our immediate preparaon for receiving Communion. There are several aspects of the prayer that make it parcularly appropriate for this part of the Mass. First, of course, is the fact that this prayer prays for our daily bread. While this means more than just the Eucharist, it naturally calls to mind the Lord's gi of his body and blood as our food and drink. Second, it speaks of the forgiveness that enables the community to be reconciled with one another just as we are reconciled with God. Third, this prayer is addressed to Our Father, reminding us that we are one family in Christ as we come to share at the table of the Lord. When this prayer first became part of the Mass, it was commonly said aer the breaking of the bread. Near the beginning of the seventh century, Pope St. Gregory the Great moved it to its current posion because he saw it as closely linked to the Eucharisc Prayer. It echoes the concerns of the Eucharisc Prayer that God be praised, that God's kingdom might come, and that God's will be done on earth as in heaven. Making this prayer our own can be a way of expressing some of the implicaons of our Amen to the Eucharisc Prayer. Some people have become accustomed to holding hands during this prayer to express our unity. Others have learned to raise their hands in prayer. Neither gesture is prescribed in the official books, nor is either forbidden. Perhaps one of these locally developing trends will lead someday to a formal rubric in the liturgy. The final peon of the prayer has long been expanded to ask for peace. This expansion, called the embolism, is followed by the acclamaon For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours The Byzanne Rite, one of the Eastern rites of the Church, normally concludes the Lord's Prayer with this acclamaon, as do many of our brothers and sisters in other Chrisan churches. It seems to have been added to the prayer originally so that it would end on a more posive note than deliver us from evil. We say this prayer so oen that it is good for us now and then to make a conscious effort to think about what we are saying. It is a prayer that challenges us to work for the things we pray forto remember that we are one family, to make God's name holy, to work for the kingdom, to do God's will, to share our daily bread, to forgive as we are forgiven and to struggle against evil. It is a good prayer to pray several mes a day. A GREAT FALL EVENT MAACWMilwaukee Area Christian Women will be having a day of prayer, worship and fellowship on Thursday, September 21 at St. John ssons of Zebedee in Byron from 9:00 a.m. To 2:30 p.m. Mass is also included. Everyone is more than welcome to join us. Please call Barb to register, , or register Thursday morning, between 8:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. Hope to see you there.

6 20 th Sunday of Ordinary Time One of our modern aflictions which is a hazard not only to our mental and physical health, but especially to our spiritual health, is the constant and perpetual activity that seems to ill so many of our lives. There never seems to be a lack of things to do. Busyness has become the mark of life in our time. And while we do not want to become is lazy and nonproductive, there is a danger in not being able to stop and relect on our lives. At times we move through life in such a distracted way that we do not even take the time and rest to wonder if any of the things we thing, say, or do are worth thinking, saying, doing. We simply go along with the many musts and ought s that have been handed to us. The danger is immense. It is the danger of losing ourselves, of becoming straw and shallow people, concerned only with outward appearances, with owning things, with being well thought of. Elijah searches for God in a strong wind, in the earthquake and in the ire, and still does not ind God. It is only when a gentle breeze passes by that Elijah steps to the entrance of the cave and inds God in the sound of sheer silence. Each of us must be convinced of the need to step out of the fast lowing river of our life, and sit quietly on the bank, watching the river go by, and wondering what it is all about. We need to look at ourselves, our wives and husbands, our children and friends, through eyes that are not distracted by the compulsive activity that seems to take so much of our energy. Once we have convinced ourselves of the need to hear the sound of sheer silence, then we will ind a way to solitude and prayer. PeaceFr. Michael There have been many times that I have been asked as a priest, What should I do to develop a relationship with the Lord? My question in return is, Tell me what you re doing now. Well, I go to Church sometimes, they respond, and I pray when I can. Well, it is simple. First, go to Church everysunday. It s a priority; no ifs, ands, or buts. You must go to Church everysundaywithout fail. When you are insundaymass, don t pray for yourself; pray for the needs of others. If they are married, I tell them to pray for their spouse, their children, coworkers and friends. Second, go to confession. Don t try to go go! Do it. Make a good examination of conscience. Any priest worthy of his priesthood would be glad to assist. If not, it tells you something about the priest; he will not be your spiritual guide. Then, continue to make confession a regularlyscheduled occurrence. I would suggest every other month to start. You will ind the more you receive the grace of reconciliation, the greater your awareness of the need in your life for healing. Sin is a lot more prevalent than we care to imagine. If you think, I don t have that many sins, think about the fact that St. (Mother) Teresa of Calcutta went to confession every week. How many of us would claim that we are in less need of confession than Mother Teresa? Third, pray ive minutes every day at a set time in the morning and evening. Take last Sunday s Gospel or thecoming Sunday sgospel, select a few themes and meditate on them. (If you want something helpful and enjoyable, listen totwo Guys and a Gospel.) If you are more adventurous, try saying the rosary, or at least a decade of the rosary, every day. When I offer people these suggestions, I am often surprised that people will respond. It sounds too simple; maybe I should go to an ashram, a sweat lodge or a mountain hermitage. Of course, my response is simply that maybe you should try living your faith and practicing the basics. We all love the exotic. Like Naaman, we want the spectacular, or are told that we must experience the extraordinary. But God places at our disposal the simple elements for our spiritual life. Are you serious about healing? Are you serious about developing a relationship with God? He s waiting for you to take your faith seriously. Remember, God is not in the earthquake, the wind or the ire, but instead, in the gentle whisper that directs us to LOVE ONE ANOTHER. We Are One, Most Reverend Jerome E. Listecki

7 Parish Offices St. Mary 699 Milwaukee St. Lomira, WI Phone(920) Fax(920) HoursMW F 8:30 am2:30 pm or by appointment Sons of Zebedee W5882 Church Rd, Fond du Lac, WI Phone(920) HoursTTh 8:002:00pm or by appointment web pagewww.sonsofz.org Parish Staff St. Mary Pastor, Rev. Michael Petersen(920) pastorsofz@excel.net Parish SecretaryAdministrator Marisa Gassner StMaryLomira@gmail.com DRE Lesa Staehler lstaehlerdre@gmail.com Parish BookkeeperDennis Faber Sons of Zebedee Pastor, Rev. Michael Petersen(920) pastorsofz@excel.net Parish SecretaryMarisa Gassner (920) zebedee@excel.net DRE Lesa Staehler lstaehlerdre@gmail.com PASTORAL COUNCIL St. Mary Pastoral Council ChairpersonRalph Langenecker Trustees: Sharon Scola, Ron Tagliapietra Sons of Zebedee Pastoral Council ChairpersonGeorge Macias Trustees: John S. Pelletier, Thom Cox Other Council Members: Bob Pelletier, Jim Pelletier, Steve Wessing, Charlene Pettit, Bill Vielbig, Dawn Kuechenberg. Prayer Network Marisa Gassner Parish Ofice Liturgy Schedule Weekdays See inside bulletin. Webpage(bulletin online) or Reconciliation By appointment. Sacraments Anointing of the Sick*: Anytime on request please call parish ofice. Baptism: Celebrated during the Masses. Preparation class required. Call the parish ofice. Marriage: Arrangements must be made at least 6 months in advance. Preparation classes and an Enrichment Day for the Engaged required. Do not be disappointed. All weddings must be scheduled with the pastor prior to other scheduling. *The Federal Privacy Regulation HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) prohibits all hospitals from informing churches of a patient s presence unless the patient gives permission for the hospital to do so. If you are admitted to a hospital and would like a member of the clergy or a caregiver to visit you, please notify the hospital or call the parish ofice. Food Pantry The food pantry is open at United Methodist Church in Lomira on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month from 10:0011:00 am. The Oakield Food Pantry is open Wednesdays from 4 6pm. By appointment call Prayer Shawl Ministry Jane Langenecker Will Donation Your generosity to your parish will beneit future generations of your parish. Bulletin Deadline The deadline is Tuesday 12:00 noon. Stmarylomira@gmail.com Archdiocese of Milwaukee MISSION STATEMENT SONS OF ZEBEDEE We, the people of Sons of Zebedee Parish, Ss. James and John, are committed to deepening our faith, and the faith of others through faithfully sharing in the Eucharist. Through this Holy Meal, we hope and pray to fulill our Baptismal calling as we strive to continue the mission and ministry of Jesus Christ. MISSION STATEMENTST MARY We as members of St. Mary are an active faith community dedicated to living the Gospel through our worship and Catholic Education. We share our love of Jesus Christ through service to others, both locally and world wide.

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