T h e N a t i v i t y o f t h e B l e s s e d V i r g i n M a r y W 1 0 1 3 7 5 7 0 t h A v e. R i v e r F a l l s, W I 5 4 0 2 2 St. Mary s - Big River Catholic Church 3 r d S u n d a y O r d i n a r y T i m e J a n u a r y 2 1 s t, 2 0 1 8 Oh Sacrament most holy! Oh Sacrament Divine! All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine. Praised and adored be Jesus in the most holy Sacrament of the altar, now and forever. Amen Welcome to St. Mary s www.stmarysbigriver.com Mass Schedule Confessions Devotional Times Welcome Fr. Billy Dodge! Thank you for celebrating Holy Mass with us. Weekend. Saturday 6:00 pm Sunday 9:30 am Weekday. Mon. to Fri. 8:30 am First Friday & First Sat. 8:30 am Holy Days.See bulletin inserts. -One hour before each Weekend Mass -Thurs. before First Fri. 9:00 am -First Friday 9:00 am -First Sat. 9:00 am -Any time by appointment Eucharistic Adoration 9:00 to 10:00 am every First Friday. Militia Immaculata (MI) Prayer Group meets Thursday 6:30 to 7:30 pm in the church. http://missionimmaculata.com/
P a g e 2 Welcome to St. Mary s! This Week s News Liturgical Help Needed! Next week Liturgical help signup forms will be handed out. Please prayerfully consider helping out the parish in any of these roles as we are in great need! We need more help with: Servers Eucharistic Ministers / EMHC Ushers Lectors / Reader Rosary & Gift Bearers Please Note: Fr. Louis will be away from the parish Jan. 15th - 26th. If you need a priest please contact a neighboring parish. There will be no weekday masses during this time. Fr. Billy Dodge will be the celebrant for the weekend of Jan. 20th & 21st. Deacon Gannon will also be away from the parish on a trip to the Holy Land Jan. 11th to the 26th. Daily Mass on Jan. 25th at 8:30 am Come and join Fr. Jake Anderson who will be here on Jan. 25th for an 8:30 am mass for the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, the Apostle. He may do a brief talk after the mass about the Feast. Monday the 22nd is the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. Strive for an end to abortion with prayers, sacrifices, and fasting! Spiritual Enrichment Matrimony & Family Life in the Teachings of St. John Paul II by Fr. Louis (6 Part Series) The first session begins Tues. Jan. 30th at 6:30 pm in the school. In recent years there has been increasing confusion outside and even within the Church regarding the nature of Matrimony and family life. The writings of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II offer a synthesis of that living and life-giving teaching regarding Matrimony and family life found in the Sacred Scriptures, Sacred Tradition, the Fathers of the Church, and various interventions of the Magesterium. Through this six-part series Father Louis leads participants through a systematic exploration of Saint John Paul II s fundamental writings on Matrimony and family life: Apostolic Exhortation on the Role of the Family in the Modern World -Familiaris consortio (22 November 1981) and Letter to Families -Gratissimam sane (2 February 1994). Suitable for adults. Session Dates: January 30, February 6, 13, 20, 27, and March 6, 2018 -All Tuesdays, 6:30-8:00 pm St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta worked tirelessly for unborn children. S t. M a r y s - B i g R i v e r Opportunities to Help Options for Women Baby Bottle fundraiser The Baby Bottle Fundraiser is in progress. Please consider a donation big or small and return it soon with your Baby Bottle. Thank you!!! Prayer for the Unborn Heavenly Father, in Your love for us, protect against the wickedness of the devil, those helpless little ones to whom You have given the gift of life. Touch with pity the hearts of those women pregnant in our world today who are not thinking of motherhood. Help them to see that the child they carry is made in Your image - as well as theirs - made for eternal life. Dispel their fear and selfishness and give them true womanly hearts to love their babies and give them birth and all the needed care that a mother can give. We ask this through Jesus Christ, Your Son, Our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and Holy Spirit, One God, forever and ever. Amen. http://www.ewtn.com/prolife/pro-life-resources.asp
3rd Sunday Ordinary Time Page 3 Youth Ministry March for Life Washington D.C. Please keep our youth and chaperones in your prayers as they are participating in the March for Life and all its events throughout this weekend. They will be returning to St. Mary s by bus late Sunday. Youth Ministry Coordinator Corrie Loe - 715-262-3663 corrieloe@gmail.com Thank you for your support of our youth in their fundraising efforts! Holy Hour for Life Unfortunately, St. Mary s was unable to host a holy Hour for Life in January. Instead, we encourage everyone to make a holy hour of their own either at a neighboring parish with adoration or at your next opportunity for adoration at St. Mary s. Offer your hour for the lives of unborn children and for their parents to choose life. Pray for the graces they need to make the right choice. The right to life is the first among human Religious Education Afternoon Session: Class 3:45 to 5:00 pm Evening Session: Class 7:00 to 8:15 pm Director of Religious Education Cindi Beurskens - 715-273-4534 edibleacres5@gmail.com rights. Special Presentation - -Pope Francis Marie Regnier will be doing a Sanctity of Life presentation on Wed. Jan. 31 for the evening session CCD classes. All Life is Sacred! Call Cindi Beurskens if you would like to join them! This Week s Scripture Readings Readings for the Week of Jan. 21, 2018 Sunday: Jon 3:1-5, 10/Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [4a]/1 Cor 7:29-31/Mk 1:14-20 Monday: 2 Sm 5:1-7, 10/Ps 89:20, 21-22, 25-26 [25a]/Mk 3:22-30 Tuesday: 2 Sm 6:12b-15, 17-19/Ps 24:7, 8, 9, 10 [8]/Mk 3:31-35 Wednesday: 2 Sm 7:4-17/Ps 89:4-5, 27-28, 2930 [29a]/Mk 4:1-20 Thursday: Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22/Ps 117:1bc, 2 [Mk 16:15]/Mk 16:15-18 Friday: 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5/Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 [3]/Mk 4:26-34 Saturday: 2 Sm 12:1-7a, 10-17/Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 16-17 [12a]/Mk 4:35-41 Next Sunday: Dt 18:15-20/Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9, [8]/1 Cor 7:32-35/Mk 1:21-28 Liturgical Publications Inc 3rd Sun. Ordinary Time
3 r d S u n d a y O r d i n a r y T i m e Vocations, Marriage, & Family Life Persuasive Pro-Life: How to Talk About Our Culture s Toughest Issue Are you pro-life? Do you have questions about why you should be pro-life or wonder how to convince someone who challenges your pro-life views? This helpful resource written by Trent Horn with a forward by Fr. Frank Pavone will help you sort through all the pro-choice arguments and then help you understand and clearly articulate the pro-life point of view. This book will help you also understand the legal, historical, and medical issues that are Other News... P a g e 4 found in abortion discussions. The author emphasizes the importance of charity when discussing this difficult issue. It s not about winning an augment or debate, rather it s about changing hearts. Trent explains the different types of pro-choice mindsets. He helps you understand how to approach each one. Not everyone who favors abortion does so for the same reasons. Their views stem from what is in their hearts. This resource and others like it are helpful to help you, your family members, spouse, children, and friends to understand this critical life issue in our culture today. Check your local or online book retailers for a copy. High School Education that Pursues Truth, Beauty and Goodness - Trinity School at River Ridge Are you looking for an award-winning education that supports faith at home? Come visit Trinity School at River Ridge. Trinity graduates are among those students who take their faith the most seriously.i am confident that the Catholic and intellectual formation that my daughter receives at home is supported and confirmed by her study at Trinity. -- Dr. John Boyle, Professor of Theology and Chair, Dept. of Catholic Studies, University of St. Thomas, (parent of Trinity alumna). Come see for yourself. Trinity School Open House Thursday, January 25, 2018; 7 p.m. Visit TSRR.org to register or call 651.789.2890 ext. 222; or email admissionsrr@trinityschools.org Pro-life License Plates in Wisconsin! The Knights of Columbus are proud to promote the Choose Life Wisconsin license plates. In fact the Wisconsin State Council, through Pro-life Wisconsin, donated half of the $15,500 WIDOT application fee, with WI Family Council paying the rest. 100% of your tax deductable donation for the plate will go EXCLUSIVELY to Pregnancy Resource Centers in WI, where lives and souls are saved everyday from abortion. Visit Choose Life Wisconsin to find out how to get your Pro-life license plate! http://www.chooselifewisconsin.com/ volunteer Or call them at 608 216 9930 Support Our Advertisers Income for January 14th, 2018 Plate.....$302.15 Adult Envelopes.....3,213.00 Youth Envelopes......4.00 New Year s.......75.00 Initial Offering......27.00 Total.$3621.15
A Message From Our Pastor Eucharistic Minister Part 2 In this second installment intended to assist you in discerning options for service in our parish we continue our exploration of the distribution of Holy Communion. Last week we saw that under normal conditions it is only those who are sacramentally configured to Christ, Head and Shepherd of the Church, and who thereby act in His person namely, Priests and Bishops take the Eucharist for themselves directly from the altar of sacrifice. That is, only Priests and Bishops self-communicate while everyone else receives the gift of the Eucharist in Holy Communion through the mediation of a minister. The ordinary ministers of Holy Communion are those who have received the Sacrament of Holy Orders Bishops and Priests, as well as Deacons (who have been sacramentally configured to Christ, Lord and servant of all, and who collaborate with the Bishops and Priests in the exercise of ministry). To them it belongs therefore to administer Holy Communion to the lay members of Christ s faithful during the celebration of the Mass (Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Instruction On Certain Matters to be Observed or to be Avoided Regarding the Most Holy Eucharist Redemptionis Sacramentum, 154). However, the principle of mediation in the reception of Holy Communion is so important that under very specific conditions the Church allows recourse to extraordinary ministers. (1) The first extraordinary minister of Holy Communion is the formally instituted Acolyte. From the beginnings of the Church formalized ministerial, liturgical functions developed which in the Western Church eventually included the Acolyte. Current Church discipline regarding this ministry of Acolyte was set forth by Blessed Paul VI in 1972 with his Apostolic Letter On First Tonsure, Minor Orders and the Subdiaconate Ministeria quaedam. The Bishop bestows the permanent ministry of Acolyte upon a man by institution, not by the laying on of hands (that is, ordination). Except for those who are preparing for ordination to the Priesthood or Diaconate, this formally instituted ministry is practically non-existent in the United States. However, the formally instituted Acolyte is a very common and important part of the Church in mission lands. (2) When a formally instituted Acolyte is not available, then another lay member of Christ s faithful (having been) delegated by the diocesan Bishop, in accordance with the norm of law (Code of Canon Law, 230), for one occasion or for a specified time (Redemptionis Sacramentum, 155) may function as an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion. It is this extraordinary minister that is most common in parishes in the United States. (3) Finally, in special cases of an unforeseen nature, another lay member of Christ s faithful (having been given) permission for a single occasion by the Priest who presides at the celebration of the Eucharist (Redemptionis Sacramentum, 155) may function as an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion. In light of confusion and abuses in the implementation of the reform of the sacred liturgy following the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) the Holy See issued various clarifications regarding extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion. In 1997 several offices of the Vatican jointly issued the Instruction on Certain Questions Regarding the Collaboration of the Non-ordained Faithful in the Sacred Ministry of Priests Ecclesiae de mysterio wherein they noted that extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion may distribute Holy Communion at Eucharistic celebrations only when there are no ordained ministers present or when those ordained ministers present at a liturgical celebration are truly unable to distribute Holy Communion. They may exercise this function at Eucharistic celebrations where there are particularly large numbers of the faithful and which would be excessively prolonged because of an insufficient number of ordained ministers to distribute Holy Communion. This function is supplementary and extraordinary. In 2004 the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments noted that only out of true necessity is there to be recourse to the assistance of extraordinary ministers in the celebration of the Liturgy. Such recourse is not intended for the sake of a fuller participation of the laity but rather, by its very nature, is supplementary and provisional (Redemptionis sacramentum, 151). Several paragraphs later, this same document clarified that the name minister of the Eucharist belongs properly to the Priest alone insofar as the only minister who can confect the Sacrament of the Eucharist in persona Christi is a validly ordained Priest. For this reason, the person who exercises the function of distributing Communion in a supplementary and extraordinary manner is known by the name extraordinary minister of Holy Communion, and not special minister of Holy Communion nor extraordinary minister of the Eucharist nor special minister the Eucharist (156). Part three of this series continues next week. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us! Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, pray for us! Blessed Solanus Casey, pray for us! Father Kevin C. Louis, STL P a g e 5
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Pastor - Fr. Kevin Louis, STL 10137 570th Ave. River Falls, WI 54022 Rectory Phone: 715-425- 5806 Fr. Louis Cell: 715-505-3870 email: crossensis89@gmail.com Deacon - Deacon Dan Gannon 651-500-4380 gannon.dan@gmail.com Administrative Assistant - Traci Campion 715-307-8844 reginahope1917@gmail.com Bookkeeper - Pat Bjork 715-273-3577 bjork.p@outlook.com Director of Religious Education (DRE) - Cindi Beurskens 715-273-4534 edibleacres5@gmail.com Youth Ministry - Corrie Loe 715-262-3663 corrieloe@gmail.com Cemetery - John Matzek 715-792-2582 Rodney Janovec 715-425-8008 Prayer Chain Requests - 715-273-3577 School Hall Office - 715-425-7830 Altar Rosary Society (ARS) - Angie Dosdall 715-792-2447 Finance Council - Pat Pechacek 715-262-4089 Stewardship Committee - Andy Mishek 715-426-1978 Grounds & Building Maintenance - Danny McNamara 715-821-1197 Welcome new visitors! If you would like to be a member of our parish just call the Administrative Assistant and we will help you get registered. Mass Schedule Mon, Jan. 22 Tues., Jan. 23 St. Vincent, Deacon & Martyr and St. Marianne Cope, Virgin Wed., Jan. 24 St. Francis de Sales, Bishop & Doctor of the Church Thurs., Jan. 25 Conversion of St. Paul, the Apostle 8:30 am Fr. Jake Anderson Fri., Jan. 26..St. Timothy & Titus, Bishops Sat., Jan. 27...St. Angela Merici 6:00 pm Naomi Long By Mark & Lori Faymoville Sun., Jan. 28 4th Sun. Ord. Time 9:30 am Pro Populo and Joseph Reusch By Mike & Kristi O Malley Liturgical Roles Please Note Liturgical Role Title Changes: Lector is now called Reader Eucharistic Minister is now called Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion or EMHC See Fr. Louis recent columns for explanations. Jan. 27th Saturday - 6:00 pm Mass Reader....Bob Maier Ushers Randy Huppert, Randy Maier, George Matzek, Tony Matzek Cross..... Matt Maier Servers Justin Maier, James Campion Note the server correction! EMHC..... Bob Maier Music.. Joanne Maier Rosary.. Pat Bjork Jan. 28th Sunday - 9:30 am Mass Reader.....John Matzek Ushers/$ Counter. Dan Huppert Jr., Craig Zuelke, Pat Pechacek, Rodger Oestreich Cross/Incense.Xavier & Maximus Husby Candles. Andrew & Daniel Pluth EMHC....John Matzek, Jason Husby Music. Gift Bearer.Gary Tapp Family Rosary....John & Joyce Matzek P a g e 6