CHURCH OF SAINT BERNARD

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1 CHURCH OF SAINT BERNARD 1160 WOODBRIDGE STREET SAINT PAUL, MN One block west of Rice Street on Geranium Avenue OCTOBER JUNE 10, 28, TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Staff Staff Pastor Pastor Reverend Reverend Ivan Ivan Sant Sant Associate Priest Associate Priest Reverend Reverend Joseph Joseph Kureh Kureh RyanCronin Thornton Administrator Administrator Karen Karen Cronin Secretary Gloria GloriaNava Nava Gloria Nava Secretary RCIA and RCIA and Missionary Missionary Missionary/ Internship Progr Alonna Alonna Mertz Internship Progr DavidMertz Neira Refugee Liaison Refugee Liaison Refugee Liaison Assistant Julia Marksue Music Director Beth Beth Music Director BethThompson Assistant Music Director Grace Grace Thompson Assistant Music Director Jim Rice Grace Thompson Accountant Office Office Office Phone: (651) Phone: (651) Phone: Fax: (651) Fax: (651) Fax: (651) Website: Website: Website: Page: Page: Life atlife at Page: Life at MN St. Bernard's Bernard's Catholic Church, St.Paul, Paul, MN Catholic Church, St. St. Bernard's Catholic Church, St. Paul, MN Schedule Schedule 8:30Schedule & 4:00 pm 8:30 &4:00 4:00 pm Sunday at 8:30 8:00 & &10:30 pm Sunday at 8:00 10:30 Sunday 1:30pm at 8:00 (Spanish) && 10:30 2pm (Spanish) Monday- at at8:30 8:30 Monday- -- Monday- - at 8:30 Confessions Mondays after the 8:30 Confessions s 3:30 and after the 4:00 pm Mondays after the 8:30 s 3:30 and after the 4:00 pm M I S S I O N S T A T E M E N T Saint Bernard s is a Roman Catholic parish providing vital services to the diverse North End community of St. Paul. As we extend the hand of welcome to all, our mission is to learn, love, and live the challenging Word of Jesus Christ, offering parishioners and neighbors direction and support at every phase of their faith journey.

2 A WORD FROM FR. IVAN An article taken from First Things Magazine By Deborah Savage, professor of Philosophy and Theology at St. Thomas University. Continues from last week. When, in recent months, I began hearing the persistent whispers that a movement was underway at the highest levels of the Church to rethink the teaching of Humanae Vitae, I really couldn t believe it. I scoffed at the possibility at first. Preposterous! I declared with blustery confidence to friends and colleagues. The Catholic Church will never change that teaching, I said. Not now, not after decades of reflection on the theology of the body. Not now, when abortion has claimed the lives of millions of innocent children. Not now, when it should be clear to anyone willing to consider the data that Blessed Pope Paul VI was a prophet of the first order. But the rumors appear to be true. The stage has indeed been set for a rethinking of Humanae Vitae. This is an inexplicable development in light of the insurmountable evidence of the dage the sexual revolution has wrought. Our culture is committing a kind of slow suicide, and everyone knows it. Just a cursory glance at the data, most of it compiled by those with no commitment to the moral teaching of the Church, reveals some stunning facts. The National Center for Health Statistics reports that U.S. birth rates fell to an all-time low in 2016: sixty-two births per one thousand women ages fifteen to forty-four, down 1 percent from 2015 and just below the replacement rate after accounting for immigration. The CDC reports that the spread of STDs is at an all-time high and calls for urgent action to prevent further transmission. Also according to the CDC, four out of ten children in the U.S. are born to unmarried women; almost one in four lives without a father in the home. We could go on. And yet here we are. A reversal is sought in spite of all the data, in the face of every indication that the contraceptive mentality that permeates our culture has led not to the liberation it promised, but to a situation in which men feel justified in demanding sex from women who no longer feel equipped to say a simple no. Even the women it was intended to liberate are reporting what economists refer to as the paradox of declining female happiness. When I first heard that analysis, I laughed out loud. Let s just say for now that to call this a paradox is a kind of category error. O nly animals have sex without thinking about it. And it is a woman who knows, if only inchoately, the significance of her often-instinctive refusal. Women know it for what it is: an act of self-preservation, but one that simultaneously safeguards the personal integrity of man and the sacred potency of their union. For it is chastity that leads to an experience of a properly human eros, lifting the natural animal sexuality of both beyond an attachment to the merely gratifying, elevating it to a love of the beautiful and the truly good. It is because women say no that men are called to confront their own often-chaotic desire for sex. Without this no, men are held captive by their instincts; their development is stunted; they are prevented from becoming fully themselves. They end up mired in an endless childhood, driven by the wish for instant gratification, unable or unwilling to grow up. But the woman recognizes the greatness that lies in potency in the man; it is in fact her very refusal that invites him to a deeper reflection on who he is and could be. It calls him to forge a will capable of ordering itself to a life of heroic virtue lived out in continual acts of self-sacrifice and devotion to fily and to the common good. Female modesty allows for the expression of sexual differentiation as a feature of human living as a whole. Too many men and women in our culture seek happiness in sexual encounters devoid of human purpose or meaning, mere couplings driven by lust or a misunderstood desire for intimacy. The sexual act has indeed been reduced, as Allan Bloom once said, to the thing-in-itself. Though ridiculed by many today as mere sexual repression, a woman s instinct to refuse the sexual advances of man reflects a profound wisdom, held in the deep recesses of her being. It is a knowledge that manifests in every sexual encounter, wanted and unwanted. Men, especially men seeking the heroic virtue characteristic of authentic masculinity, do understand this intellectually and can learn to govern their appetites. But they must be summoned to that effort; they must be invited to it. A man simply cannot know the full meaning of the sexual act as a woman does, for it actualizes a potency that only she possesses. It was and still is, whether they admit it or not women who understand what is at stake in their yes or no, women who sense, often in a completely preverbal way, something about sex that is organically unknowable to men: that it is women s own selfhood, along with its life-giving potencies, that is on the table. For the truth is that every human must pass through the womb to his destination. Every woman contains within herself, at least potentially, all future humanity. It is this inchoate, hidden understanding that is now laughed at by those who, unaccountably, have won the right to tell everyone what to think. Page 2 St. Bernard

3 Intentions October 27 8:30 Lee Reinhardt 4:00pm Marion Kneissel Sunday October 28 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:00 Linda Johnson 10:30 Helen Reinhardt 2:00pm (Spanish) Monday October 29 8:30 Paul & Marie Goering/100th Anniversary Tuesday October 30 8:30 Loren Hendrick Wednesday October 31 8:30 Loren Hendrick Thursday November 1 All Saints Day 8:30 George Krlinger 6:00 pm The Nava Fily 7:00 pm The Perez Fily Friday November 2 All Souls 8:30 All Souls 6:00 pm Baier Fily 7:00 pm Octaviano Cantu November 3 St. Martin de Porres 8:30 Marcella Tschida 4:00pm Edward Gunter Sunday November 4 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:00 Catholic United Living/Deceased 10:30 Altar & Rosary Society Living/Deceased 1:30 pm (Spanish) Prayer Line Please call Shirley at (651) Readings for the Week of October 28th: Weekly-Sunday 10/28/18 Weekly Collection Actual Capital Cpaign Update Our total needed to complete both bell tower repairs is at $0. Extra donations are accepted. New donations: Bill & Gloria Hafner Anonymous Budget Envelope Income $5136 $4,666 Plate & Spanish Gas/Lights Cpus Repair Year to Date: Envelope Income $73,625 $79,322 Plate & Spanish 11,907 10,727 Gas/Lights 2,435 2,159 Cpus Repair 1,780 1,173 Thank you for your ongoing financial support of this repair. The south bell tower the scaffolding will be down soon. The north bell tower interior work will start soon. Sunday: Jer 31:7-9/Heb 5:1-6/Mk 10:46-52 Monday: Eph 4:32-5.8/Lk 13:10-17 Tuesday: Eph 5:21-33/Lk 13:18-21 Wednesday: Eph 6:-1-9/Lk 13:22-30 Thursday: Rv 7:2-4,9-14/1Jn 3:1-3/Mk 5:1-12a Friday: Ws 3:1-9/Rm 5:5-11/Jn 6:37-40 Phil 1:18b-26/Lk 14:7-11 Sunday: Dt 6:2-6//Heb 7:23-28/Mk 12-28b-34 St Bernard Page 3

4 News & Events Steve Ekeberg Kathy Huonder Tom Kneissel Fran Blatzheim Elizabeth Struntz Pastoral Council Members St. Paul, Minnesota Page 4 WORLD YOUTH DAY FUNDRAISER PANAMA 2019 Help the youth of St. Bernard s meet the Pope and participate in this historic pilgrimage! GARAGE SALE AT THE GRADE SCHOOL GYM ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 ALL DAY Please donate items for our Garage Sale : Things that you might not use anymore around your house. Please bring donations to the parish office. The Lord rewards those who contribute to the faith formation of youth! Doug Palmer Jeanne Palmer Idalia Moreno Reinhart Ginny Bauman Tee Reh PASTORAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS There are 2 council members whose terms are ending. Nominations will be accepted now for those 2 seats. Election of new members will be held in October 29 at the church. The purpose of the Pastoral Council is to provide and inspire leadership within the parish and to provide counsel to the Pastor on matters affecting the life and ministry of the parish community both as representatives and as leaders of the community. Call Steve Ekeberg, Council president, at for more information. Holy Hour Every Thursday from 6 7pm In the Church All Saints Schedule Holy Day of Obligation Thursday, November 1st 8:30 & 6pm 7:00pm Español (Spanish) All Souls Commemoration es Friday, November 2nd 8:30 & 6pm. 7pm Spanish All Souls Book of Remembrance You will find it under the statues of St. and St. Joseph. We will remember them during Friday All Souls The Flu Shot Clinic will be held at the parish center on Sunday, November 5, from Noon 2 pm. All are welcome to come. Taco Feed Organized by the Festivity Committee with the help of our Hispanic Committee. On Sunday, November 18. from 11 5pm in the Center. Price $10 for a plate of two tacos with rice and beans, beverage and desert $5 for two tacos $5 for children under 10 RSVP by submitting this form to the collection basket or in our parish office and indicate Fily Ne Number of People

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