Upcoming Ministry Events Kick Off Mass Town Hall Meetings

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - September 18, 2016
501 Main Street | Cold Spring, MN 56320
Phone: 320.685.3280 • Fax: 320.685.7792
Church Website: www.stboniface.com
Diocese of Saint Cloud: www.stcdio.org
Saint John’s Abbey: ww.saintjohnsabbey.org
Pastor
Father Matthew Luft, OSB
Trustee
Kay Coapstick
KC Marrin
Pastoral Associate
Deacon Larry Sell
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ext. 601
685-4520
685-8201
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ext. 605
School Principal
Sr. Sharon Waldoch, SSND
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Discipleship Formation
Sherry Braegelmann
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Latino Ministries
Maria Dominguez
Liturgical Ministries
Julie Ludwig
Principal Organist and Pianist
Lisa Drontle
Stewardship & Finance
Merrilee Stang
Youth Ministries
Sandee Kremers
Director of Maintenance
Jim Erkens
Parish Administrative Assistant
Andrea Heinen
ext. 701
ext. 604
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ext. 603
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School Administrative Assistant [email protected]
Denise Scepaniak
ext. 700
Parish Council
Lori Mueller
685-8300
Finance Council
Amy Fredin
685-4073
School Board
Jason Wesenberg
685-8488
Prayer Line Renee Buerman
685-4335
Upcoming Ministry Events
Kick Off Mass Wednesday, September 21 at 6:30 PM
The Mass will be followed by a meeting in the Parish Center for both our Con8irmation candidates and the tenth graders who are seeking Con8irmation. Contact Sandee for more information. Town Hall Meetings
Sunday, September 25 at 9:30 AM & 6:30 PM
Everyone is welcome to the meetings in the Parish Center.
Pilgrimage to the Holy Doors
Saturday, September 24 from 8:00 AM–6:00 PM
Pilgrimage to the Holy Doors of the Diocese of Saint Cloud will be beginning at Assumption Chapel then travelling: Saint Benedict Monastery, Shrine of Saint Cloud, Poor Clare Monastery, Shrine of Saint Odilia, Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls, Divine Mercy Shrine, Shrine of Saint Peregrine, returning to Assumption Chapel in Cold Spring.
Mass Server Appreciation Party
Sunday, September 25 from 11:30 AM-­‐2:00 PM
This is for ALL boys and girls, men and women who serve for Mass at Saint Boniface. Please RSVP to Andrea in the Parish Of8ices. 2 Church of Saint Boniface
Pastor
Father Matthew Luft, OSB
Twenty-­‐?ifth Sunday of the Year
Saint Boniface School
Sister Sharon Waldoch, SSND, Principal Twenty-­‐?ifth Sunday of the Year: A friend once said to me, “If Please plan to attend the COF Breakfast on Sunday, October someone asks me to choose between two good things, I always choose both.” Jesus asks us to choose our Master this weekend. 2. The proceeds will go directly toward the purchase of We want to agree with my friend, because often times it seems like additional iPads for the students. We thank the COF for their we are being asked to choose between two good things. However, on-­‐going support of Saint Boniface School! Jesus is not asking us to choose between Cookie Dough and Peanut Please Note: There will be a special box in the narthex for all Butter Crunch ice cream—He is asking us to choose who or what the items we invite you to collect for school. These include: will be the Lord of our life. The follower recognizes the goodness Teal receipts, Campbell Label UPC, Cashwise/Coborn’s Labels of Christ, and the fan hesitates to choose. Are you a fan or a for Learning, Our Family UPCs, country Hearth Bread UPCs, follower?
and Box Tops. Thanks for helping with this!
Kick-­‐off Mass this Wednesday! We begin our Faith Formation year for all ages this Wednesday evening with a Kick-­‐off Mass. Please join us in prayer and worship at 6:30 PM as we continue our journey of following Jesus. Liturgical Ministries
Julie Ludwig
Mass Server Appreciation Party will be held on Sunday, You are invited to our Town Hall meetings. This past week you September 25 from 11:30 AM-­‐2:00 PM. Mark your calendars!! This is for ALL boys and girls, men and women who serve for should have received an invitation to join us next Sunday, 25 September at one of two Town Hall meetings. The purpose of our Mass at Saint Boniface. Please RSVP to [email protected] or call 685-­‐3280. meetings to share with your our vision for Saint Boniface in the next decade and to seek your feedback. We ask you to bring family Greeter Workshop has been rescheduled to Monday, October and friends, an open mind and your ideas on how we can become 3 at 6:30 -­‐ 8:00 PM. a Community bursting at the seams!
CHOIRS REHEARSALS
A renewed focus on living our Mission: Last weekend I shared Saint Boniface Choir will be held on Thursday, September 22 with you changes we are making to our homily preparation and at 7:00 PM.
delivery as a way to better support and challenge you in your life Children’s Choir will be held on Wednesday, September 28 at of discipleship.
7:35 AM. Call me if you are interested in joining a choir!! ALL The second area that we are being challenged to examine is how are welcome!
we live our mission. Jesus is explicit in the mission of His Church founded on the rock of Peter in Matthew 28. We summarize this mission into two key components: evangelization and hospitality. Evangelization is the process of sharing the Good News of Jesus with others. To do this, we are asked to invest in relationships that we already have—family, friends, co-­‐workers, classmates, teammates—by praying for these people and sharing with them aspects of our relationship with Christ. Then we repeatedly invite them to experience the power and presence of Christ through prayer, through the Bible and through Sunday Mass. Hospitality then becomes vital to our community life. Hospitality is making another person feel at home. The danger for us to is think all we have to do is say “hello” or “welcome.” Yet we all know that making another feel at home takes more than a few words—it takes us preparing a warm, inviting space for them. It takes us looking through the eyes of a new comer and how they are received not only at the doors but in the pews. Evangelization and hospitality are the two key components our mission if we are going to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them …and teaching them to observe all that [the Lord Jesus] has commanded us to do.
50/50 Chance
If you have ticket number 444655 from the Boni-­‐Fest 50/50 drawing please stop into the Parish Of8ices.
THANK YOU
FOR YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR
THE CHURCH OF SAINT BONIFACE
Weekly Readings
Monday: Prov 3:27-­‐34; Ps 15:2-­‐3a, 3bc-­‐4ab,5; Luke 8:16-­‐18
Tuesday: Prov 21:1-­‐6, 10-­‐13, Ps 119:1, 27, 30, 34, 35, 44; Luke 8:19-­‐21
Wednesday: Prov 30:5-­‐9, Ps 119:29, 72, 89, 101, 104, 163; Luke 9:1-­‐6
Thursday: Eccl/Qoh 1:2-­‐11; Ps 90:3-­‐4, 5-­‐6, 12-­‐13, 14+17bc, , Luke 9:7-­‐9
Friday: Eccl 3:1-­‐11, Ps 144:1b+2abc, 3-­‐4; Luke 9:18-­‐22
Saturday: Eccl 11:9-­‐12:8; Ps 90:3-­‐4, 5-­‐6, 12-­‐13, 14+17; Luke 9:43b-­‐45
Sunday: Amos 6:1a, 4-­‐7; Ps 146:6c-­‐7, 8-­‐9a, 9b-­‐10; 1 Tim 6:11-­‐16; Luke 16:19-­‐31
Welcome to our Parish
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Youth Ministries
Discipleship Formation
Sandee Kremers
Sherry Braegelmann
Kick-­‐Off Mass will be held on Wednesday, September 21 at 6:30 PM. All Family Faith Formation Program and Elementary Faith Formation Program families should attend!
Family Faith Formation/Elementary Faith Formation registrations should be in the Parish Of8ice at this time. If you do not have your registration in please come to the Youth Ministry table for the registration form and letter. They can also be found on our website. Sponsor an Elementary Faith Formation Student -­‐ Students from Cold Spring Elementary are bussed here weekly for Faith Formation. Richmond Bus gives us a great break but bussing is still expensive. Please consider sponsoring a child for $50 -­‐ this will pay for about half the cost per student per year. Sponsor your grandchild, a neighbor or just any one of our wonderful students. Please also keep this student in your prayers during the year! For more information check out the Youth Ministry Table.
Everyone is invited to the following opportunities that will be held in the Discipleship Room at Saint Boniface School: ·Widowed Persons Support Group will be held on Thursday, September 29 from 9:00-­‐10:00 AM.
·Divorced/Separated Support Group will be held on Sunday, September 25 from 9:40-­‐10:20 AM. ·SoulCore is isometric exercise praying the mysteries of the rosary and will be held on Sundays from 5:00-­‐6:00 PM.
Myth: Immigrants take jobs from native-­‐born U.S. citizens. Fact: Immigrants create new jobs, and complement the skills of the preexisting U.S. native-­‐born work force. Generally, immigrants do not compete for jobs with the U.S. native-­‐born work force. Rather, they tend to have skills at different ends of the spectrum that complement the work force creating jobs for both low and high skilled employees. Immigration lends itself to a more productive society and Con?irmation Meetings for both 10th and 11th graders will be increase in wages across the board. If Minnesota were to held immediately after the Kick Off Mass. You will receive your remove all unauthorized immigrants, the state would lose $4.4 packets and all information you will need for the upcoming year. billion in economic activity, $2.0 billion in gross state product, Children’s Liturgy of the Word: We are looking for volunteers and approximately 24,299 jobs. Immigration Myths. Labor, for Saturday night Mass. Please contact me if you are interested. Immigration and Employee Bene2its Division, U.S. Chamber of PEEPS and FORCe will start on Sunday, October 9. Watch for more Commerce.
Dame La Mano [Take My hand]: A Four Part Series on information! Unity and Solidarity
Youth Mission Trips: The de8inite days and places will be on the Please join us for this Series on Unity and Solidarity on Sunday Youth Ministry table the weekend of September 17 & 18 and will October 2, 9, & 16 at 3:00-­‐4:00 PM in the Parish Center. be announced at all the Masses! Beginning with a message from immigration lawyer John Joke of the Week: A mother was teaching her three year old the Keller, Immigration Law Center of MN, followed by immigration testimonies from member of our own Lord’s Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime, she repeated it after her mother. One night she said she was ready to try it on her community, then take part in a ‘circle of understanding’ activity for everyone. Then on Sunday, October 23 we will own. Her mother glowed with pride and listened to each word right up to the end. “And lead us not into temptation,” she prayed, close with a bilingual Mass at 1:00 PM with Bishop Kettler presiding. All are welcomed!
“but deliver us some email. Amen.”
Catholics Care, Catholics Vote: Forming Consciences & Latino Ministries
Forming Society. Resources from Catholic Charities can be Maria Dominguez and Blanca Garcia
found at the church exits. The entire document by the United No se puede servir a dos señores; la Palabra de Dios habla de un States Conference of Catholic Bishops can be found at this link:
señor que se aprovecha de la debilidad del pobre y de la necesidad http://www.usccb.org/issues-­‐and-­‐action/faithful-­‐citizenship/
del humilde para explotarlo. Lo pone a trabajar y no le paga un index.cfm
justo salario. Otra situación es la del empleado a quien su señor le Saint Boniface will server dinner at the Place of Hope on con8ía la administración y éste lo que hace es robar y maltratar a Tuesday, September 27. Donations to offset the cost of the sus propios compañeros. También están los que se aprovechan colocando más grano a su favor o arreglan las basculas para pagar food are needed. Bars for dessert would also be appreciated. If you can help feed the hungry, please contact Shirley Bell at menos. El humilde, el que es capaz de dar gracias a Dios y el que cumple con los mandamientos se aleja de estos señores. El que le 685-­‐8199. Thank you. vende su alma al dinero, al poder o al placer, sabe que está This fall “40 Days For Life” will be launching their largest condenado al mundo. Dios escucha las oraciones del pobre y lo campaign 40 Days for Life Vigils. Everyone is welcome to levanta. Cuando Jesús llama a Mateo, para que sea uno de los pray with us on the sidewalk at planned parenthood in Saint apóstoles, Mateo deja su trabajo de cobrador de impuesto que Cloud from September 28-­‐November 6 between 7:00 AM -­‐ muchos lo relacionaban con corrupción y pecado. Dios nos llama a 7:00 PM. Opening rally will be held on Saturday, October 1, administrar bien los bienes temporales y prepararnos para from 10:00 AM -­‐ 12:00 PM and closing rally will be held on disfrutar de los bienes eternos. Pidámosle a María santísima, para Saturday, November 5 from 10:00 AM -­‐ 12:00 PM. For more que interceda por nosotros para que seamos buenos discípulos information visit 40daysforlife.com/stcloud or Judy at misioneros, hoy, mañana y siempre. -­‐Padre Oswaldo Roche [email protected]. Church of Saint Boniface
Liturgical Ministries for September 12-­‐18
Servers MTWF: Vincent Kaluza, Greta Wesenberg
5:00 PM: Nathan & Sam Dingmann
8:30 AM: Christian & Yadira Garcia
10:30 AM: Brooklynn Niemi, Kate McGee
EME M-­‐F Marie Hansen Lector M-­‐F: Alice Schreifels
5:00 PM: Sandee Kremers
8:30 AM: Alice Schreifels
10:30 AM: Patricia Giesen
Greeters
5:00 PM: Linda & Roman George, Ann Meyer, Judy Kearin, Theresa Palmer
8:30 AM: Fred & Renee Mehr, Debra Sorenson, Betty Holthaus, Mary Kuechle
10:30 AM: Dave & Virginia Johannes, Patty Klang, Brad & Amy Kuechle
Gift-­‐bearers 5:00 PM: Ed & Robbie Holen
8:30 AM: Steve & Molly Olivier
10:30 AM: Adah Ebeling, Maurine Hieserich, Janice Althoff
Please pray for the following couples preparing to celebrate the Sacrament of Marriage September 24, 2016 -­‐ Jacob Muller & Laura Jungels
October 1, 2016 -­‐ Jeff Eisenschenk & Emily Magedanz
Church Cleaners
We are currently looking for parishioners to join our church cleaning team. If you are interested please contact Andrea in the Parish Of8ices for more information. Christian Women
Christian Women meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 20 at 6:30 PM in the Parish Center.
Saint Boniface School Centennial We are looking for recipes for the Centennial Cookbook. We hope to publish before Christmas. Recipes are due on October 1. Pick up a 8lyer in the the of8ices or go online for more information. Please submit recipes to [email protected] or drop off at the school or parish of8ices. We are in search of a slogan to help us celebrate the centennial. If you are interested in creating a slogan that will be featured throughout our centennial celebrations, please pick up a form at the doors or from the School and Parish Of8ices. Twenty-­‐?ifth Sunday of the Year
Weekly Events Monday -­‐ Friday
7:30 AM Morning Prayer -­‐ Marian Chapel
8:00 AM Mass on MTWF
Followed by the Divine Mercy Chaplet -­‐ Marian Chapel
Mass Intentions
Monday, September 19 +Math Lieser
Tuesday, September 20 +Mary Wolf-­‐Ludivig
Wednesday, September 21 +Daniel & Janet Hinnenkamp
Thursday, September 22 +Richard Witzman
Friday, September 23
+Kathleen & George Thole
Saturday, September 24 +Aaron Rollins
Sunday, September 25
+Ken Ebeling
Monday, September 19
8:00 AM Adoration until 7:00 PM in the Marian Chapel 7:00 PM Finance Committee Meeting 7:00 PM Knights of Columbus Meeting
7:00 PM Mary's Cenacle Prayer Group Tuesday, September 20
6:30 PM Christian Women Meeting -­‐ Parish Center
Wednesday, September 21
10:00 AM Latino Rosary for Women -­‐ Assumption Chapel
5:45 PM Handbell Choir
6:30 PM Kick Off Mass -­‐ church/Parish Center
Con8irmation Meeting for students & parents
Thursday, September 22 8:00 AM Sacrament of Reconciliation
8:35 AM Mass with Saint Boniface School
10:00 AM Little Rock Bible Study
6:00 PM Grupo de Estudio de la Biblia -­‐ Classroom #4
6:00 PM Discipleship Formation Committee Meeting
7:00 PM Saint Boniface Choir Rehearsal -­‐ Choir Room
Saturday, September 24
10:00 AM Funeral Mass for Pat Kirk
2:00 PM Muller & Jungels Marriage
5:00 PM Mass Sunday, September 25
8:30 AM Mass
9:30 AM Town Hall Meeting -­‐ Parish Center
9:30 AM Divorced/Separated Support Group
9:40 AM RCIA Gathering
10:30 AM Mass
11:30 AM Server Appreciation Party
1:00 PM Latino Mass
5:00 PM SoulCore
6:30 PM Town Hall Meeting -­‐ Parish Center
BAPTISM: Please call the of8ice to schedule the Baptism. A class is required for 8irst-­‐time parents.
RCIA: Each Fall the parish forms a group of adults who are interested in becoming Catholic, or in learning about the faith. Call the Parish Of8ice for details.
CARE OF THE SICK: Please contact the Parish Of8ice to receive the Sacrament of the Sick. You may also request this Sacrament after any weekend Mass. Call the Parish Of8ice if you would like a visit while in the hospital or Communion brought to your home after the 8:30 AM Sunday Mass or another scheduled time.
MARRIAGE: Schedule an appointment with Deacon Larry at least six months prior to the preferred day.