May 13, 2018 St. Mary Parish Office 109 4th Street P.O. Box 68 West Point, IA 52656 Phone... (319) 837-6808 Email... westpointstmary@diodav.org Website... www.westpointstmary.org Parish Council President... Angie Box Trustee... Anthony Schulte Trustee... Roger Fullenkamp Saint Boniface Parish Office 609 Washington Street P.O. Box 247 Farmington, IA 52626 Phone... (319) 878-3736 Parish Council President... Gavin Burgess Trustee... Todd Herdrich Trustee... Richard Breckenridge Pastoral Staff Pastor Rev. Dennis Hoffman... (319) 837-8120 Office Phone... (319) 837-6808 E-Mail... hoffmand@diodav.org Rectory Address 603 Bel Air Dr Fr. Dennis Office Hours: Tuesday... 10:30 am to Noon Wednesday... 10:00 am to 11:30 am Parish Coordinator Rebecca Hannum... (319) 837-6808 E-Mail... westpointstmarypa@diodav.org Rebecca s Office Hours Monday-Friday...8:00 am to 4:00 pm Secretary Deb Fullenkamp... (319) 837-6808 Deb s Office Hours Monday-Thursday... 8:00 am to Noon Every other Friday... 8:00 am to Noon Director of Religious Education Dixie Booten... (319) 837-8905 Cell... (319) 371-5043 Email... westpointstmarydre@diodav.org Coordinator of Youth Ministry Mike Linnenbrink... (319) 316-2115 Email... westpointstmaryym@diodav.org Saint Mary of the Assumption West Point & Saint Boniface Farmington Weekend Mass Schedule Saturday 5:30 pm St. Mary s Sunday 8:00 am St. Mary s Sunday 5:30 pm 2nd & 4th St Mary s Sunday 10:30 am St. Boniface 7th Sunday of Easter Ascension of the Lord
Eucharistic Adoration First Friday (WP) 8:00 am-5:00 pm. Confessions Saturday (WP) 4:00-4:30 pm and as announced. Baptisms /Weddings Please fill out a form found on the Parish Website and call St. Mary s Parish Office at (319) 837-6808 to make an appt. with Father Sick Calls: Contact the Parish Office if you or a family member are unable to attend Mass and receive the Sacraments due to illness or age. Please notify the Parish Office if you go into the hospital, we would like to visit you. Parish Prayer Lines St. Mary...Eleanor Menke @(319) 837-6895 St. Boniface.(319) 835-5520/592-3238 Holy Trinity Catholic Schools Website... www.holytrinityschools.org High School (Grades 7-12) 2600 Avenue A Fort Madison, IA 52627 CAO: Michael Sheerin (319) 372-2486 School Board President:: Brad Box School Board Vice President: Loren Menke West Point Representative: Ray Menke Elementary (Grades K-6) 413 Avenue C West Point, IA 52656 (319) 837-6131 Early Childhood Center 2040 Locust Street St. Paul, IA 52657 / 2213 Avenue J Fort Madison, IA 52627 Phone (319) 372-6428 BUY SCRIP Please help out our scrip program by buying scrip cards for all your needs and wants. The scrip program helps our school with no cost to you, purchase a scrip card for what you need and help our parish and school grow. Scrip is sold before and after the Saturday night and Sunday morning Mass. It may also be purchased at school or ordered through the HTC website. Hey St. Louis Cardinal Fans! Have we got a deal for you! The Holy Trinity Catholic baseball team is selling tickets for the Saturday, June 30th game! St. Louis Cardinals vs. The Atlanta Braves at 6:15 p.m. at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Special promotional price of just $35 per ticket. Contact Albert Schinstock with questions at 319/931-0985. St. Mary s Altar and Rosary committee is looking for a couple to join their committee for the following two years. Please consider helping with this very important committee. Without your help St. Mary s would not be able to function as efficiently as we do. Catholics in Action: The diocese is hosting a mission/service trip to Iowa City on June 25-27 for our junior high students. Current 6-8th graders are invited to spend a day at the Iowa City Catholic Worker House spending time with refugees that need help transiting to the Iowa City area. Our kids will have a chance to listen to the stories of people that have fled their homeland for a better life for them and their children. This year we will hear witness stories from people that immigrated here from Mexico, Honduras and Congo. The other two days, we will be working with several different organizations in the Iowa City area. We are also looking for high school students to help facilitate the mission trip through Catechesis and Evangelization. I feel this is a great opportunity to help our children experience first hand of what is happening with the immigration situation. If interested, we need adults to drive vans to work sites. Again, this a way to help build the Catholic Church in the community. St. Mary s would like to thank the family and friends of Lucille Fedler for the memorial to St. Mary s of $1,861.00. Also, thank you to the family Elvera Fischer for the Bequest of $2000.00. We would like to welcome Dylan Joseph Schmitz the son of Brian and Lyndsey Schmitz who were baptized into the Catholic Faith on Saturday, May 5th. May angels guide you on your journey in life, and sprinkle you with their love and light. May you have the gifts of laughter and song, and be filled with dreams that last all days long. May you live and care with kindness and grace, and know within your soul, courage and faith. You will be wrapped in the warmth of your family and friends, and rays of love will shine on you without end. Vacation Bible School Shipwrecked: Rescued by Jesus will be held July 23rd to July 27th from 8:30am to 11:30am at the school in St. Paul. Registration is $15.00 per child ($30.00 max per family.) Registrations forms are available in the breezeway in the back of church or on the St. Mary s parish website. Children who have just finished preschool through 5th grade are invited to attend. Students 6th grade and older are encouraged to sign up as crew leaders. Items needed for VBS are white poster board, white card stock, pin pong balls, markers, crayons, & glue. If you can donate any of these items please bring them to the parish office. Any questions, call Dixie Booten at 837-8905. May 15 May 16 May 20 May 23 May 25 May 27 May 28 May 30 SB Parish Council ALL School Mass Central Lee Graduation SM Finance Mtg HTC Last day of school FM & HTC Graduation Memorial Day PARISH OFFICE CLOSED Rosary makers meet SCF Mtg There will be an Anointing Mass at St. Mary s Tuesday, May 15th at 9:00 am. The Sacrament of Anointing of the sick is one of the seven Sacraments of the Church. Any member of the Catholic faithful who is in danger of death, is seriously ill, is injured or is suffering from a decline due to advanced age is encouraged to receive this sacrament. If at anytime you or a loved one needs to receive this sacrament please call the parish office at 837-6808 or Father at 837-8120. Bulletin Deadline: Monday Noon
All-loving God, We give you thanks and praise for mothers young and old. We pray for young mothers, who give life and count toes and tend to our every need; May they be blessed with patience and tenderness to care for their families and themselves with great joy. We pray for our own mothers who have nurtured and cared for us; May they continue to guide us in strong and gentle ways. We remember mothers who are separated from their children because of war, poverty, or conflict; May they feel the loving embrace of our God who wipes every tear away. We pray for women who are not mothers but still love and shape us with motherly care and compassion. We remember mothers. grandmothers, and great-grandmothers who are no longer with us but who live forever in our memory and nourish us with their love. Amen. (From lordcalls.com) Totus Tuus: Totally Yours is a summer Catholic youth program dedicated to sharing the Gospel and promoting the Catholic Faith through evangelization, Catechesis, Christian Witness and Eucharistic worship. The 2018 curriculum will focus on the Apostles Creed and The Luminous Mysteries. A team from St. Ambrose will lead 2 sessions in our area. 1 st 6 th Grade Sessions: Monday, June 18 th to Friday, June 22 nd 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM in the Ossenbrink Center in West Point. 7 th 12 th Grade Session: Sunday, June 17 th to Thursday, June 21 st 7:00 PM to 9:15 PM at the St. Paul School in the Upper Room. Please complete the registration form(s) by June 1, 2018. This will allow us and the St. Ambrose team to make necessary preparations. The cost is $20 per child with $40 max per family. Please make checks payable to St. Mary s Youth Ministry There are some young boys in the St. Mary s parish who would like start a boy scout pack. Their parents are enthusiastic and willing to help out but they are in need of a pack leader. If you have any experience and would be willing to help please contact Father Dennis, 837-6808 or 837-8120 or Kim Menke, 319-470-6911. St. Mary s will hold a Spring landscaping clean up day, xxxday, May xx at pm. We will trim trees and branches, pickup leaves and debris around the church. Questions contact George Keiler 319- Wednesday morning Masses will change to 7:30 AM beginning June 6th until the start of the HTC school year. St. Mary s parishioners and Holy Trinity Catholic School students grades Kindergarten - 3rd celebrated the National Day of Prayer on Wednesday, May 3rd. They joined together in a prayer for the unity of our nation, they completed a decade of the Rosary and finished their time together singing, Go Make A Difference.
Tuesday, May 15 Wednesday, May 16 Thursday, May 17 Friday, May 18 Saturday, May 19 Sunday, May 20 St. Mary Mass Schedule Weekend Saturday (WP) 5:30 pm Sunday (WP) 8:00 am, (FA) 10:30 am 2nd & 4th( WP) 5:30 PM Weekday Tuesday (FA) 9:00 am Every Third Tuesday (FA) 7:00 pm Wednesday (WP) 8:45 am 1st & 3rd Thursday (WPCC) 10:00 am Other Thursdays (WP) 7:30 am 1st Friday (DNCC) 10:00 am, (WP) 5:30 pm Other Fridays (WP) 7:30 am Mass Intentions Carl Meierotto Bertilla Becker Sherry Nicklaus The of St. Mary s & St. Boniface pray the rosary for world peace before Mass on Saturday night and Sunday morning. Stewardship of Treasure St. Mary s May 6 Adults $2,605.00 Offertory $154.00 Second Collection $175.00 HTC $4,187.00 Total $7,121.00 Envelopes 80 St Boniface Adults $2759.21 Offertory $62.00 Total $2939.21 Envelopes 26 St. Mary Liturgical Roles Saturday, (May 19) at 5:30 pm Lead Rosary Dixie Booten Ushers: Matt & Jill Garmoe, Michelle & Anthony Schulte Greeters: Joe & Mary Link Servers : Evan & Grant Ellison, Brandon Delaney Lector: Kevin Overton Gift bearers: Mike & Cathy Salata E. Ministers: Mary Overton, Cheryl Wellman, Bernice Rickleman Bulletins: Joe & Mary Link, Richard & Vera Boeding Scrip: Bob & Jackie Schierbrock Sunday, (May 20) at 8:00 am Lead Rosary Marvin Menke Ushers: Carl Johnston, Mel Sanders, Ron Fedler and Marvin Menke Greeters: Lorene Fedler & Sandy Bethurem Servers : Tyler & Teagan Snaadt, Tate Green Lector: Vicki Kokjohn Gift bearers: Brad Box Family E. Ministers: Tom Boeding, Steve & Sue Conrad Bulletins: Martha Steffensmeier, Larry Fedler Sonny & Shirley Fraise Scrip: Tad & Angie Boeding Counters Bill & Cheryl Wellman, Bruce Wellman St. Boniface Liturgical Roles Sunday, (May 20) at 10:30 am Greeters: Katie & Gavin Burgess Lector Pat Millmier Servers Anna Neeley, Zachary Smith Gifts Todd Herdrich Family E. Ministers Mark & Ellen Meek, Kathy Fett Counters Katie Burgess, Sarah Kruse Readings for the Week May 13, 2018 Sunday: Acts 1:1-11/Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 [6]/Eph 1:17-23 or Eph 4:1-13 or 4:1-7, 11-13/Mk 16:15-20 Monday: Acts 1:15-17, 20-26/Ps 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 [8]/Jn 15:9-17 Tuesday: Acts 20:17-27/Ps 68:10-11, 20-21 [33a]/Jn 17:1-11a Wednesday: Acts 20:28-38/Ps 68: 29-30, 33-35a, 35bc-36ab [33a]/Jn 17:11b-19 Thursday: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11/Ps 16:1-2a and 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 [1]/Jn 17:20-26 Friday: Acts 25:13b-21/Ps 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20ab [19a]/Jn 21:15-19 Saturday Morning: Acts 28:16-20, 30-31/Ps 11:4, 5 and 7 [7b]/Jn 21:20-25 Next Sunday: Vigil: Gn 11:1-9 or Ex 19:3-8a, 16-20b or Ez 37:1-14 or Jl 3:1-5/Ps 104:1-2, 24, 35, 27-28, 29, 30 [cf. 30]/ Rom 8:22-27/Jn 7:37-39 Extended Vigil: Gn 11:1-9/Ps 33:10-11, 12-13, 14-15/Ex 19:3-8a, 16-20b/Dn 3:52, 52, 53, 55, 56 or Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11/ Ez 37:1-14/Ps 107:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9/Jl 3:1-5/Ps 104:1-2, 24, 35, 27-28, 29, 30 [cf. 30]/Rom 8:22-27/Jn 7:37-39 Day: Acts 2:1-11/Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 [cf. 30]/1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Gal 5:16-25/Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 15:26-27; 16:12-15