St. Boniface Parish  -  Bulletin

Week of May 11th, 2008

Pentecost Sunday

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  Mass Intentions

 

Saturday, 5/10 - 8:00 pm

+Barbara Schwertel

 by Gerald & Ramona

 

Sunday, 5/11 - 8:00 am
+Special Intention

 of LAF

 

Thursday, 5/15 - 9:00 am
+Bernice Running

 by Claude Deck & Mercille Bagniewski

 

Saturday, 5/17 - 8:00 pm

+Cyriac Bork

 by Rita & Family

 

Sunday, 5/18 - 8:00 am
+Clara Helwig

 by Family

 

 

Masses for Shut-ins
WXOW-19, LaCrosse: Sunday, 9:30 am
WQOW-18, Eau Claire: Sunday, 9:30 am
EWTN (Cable/Satellite): 7:00 & 11:00 am daily

  Liturgical Ministers

 

May 17, 2008__8:00 pm 

 

Servers:

Katlin Tollefson, Kyle Tollefson,

        Nathan Pronschinske

Reader: Loren Wolfe
EMC:

Brenda Pronschinske, Don Dittrich,

        Leslie Brommer

Greeters &

Gift Bearers:

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Todd & Tony Pronschinske
Ushers:

Mike Schlesser, Daryl Schlesser

 

May 18, 2008    8:00 am  

 

Servers:

Dakota Schmidtknecht, Erin Pronschinske,

        Jared Sendelbach

Reader:

Donna Rotering

EMC:

Charlotte Bremer, Lori Pronschinske,

        La Verne Pronschinske

Greeters &

Gift Bearers:

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Joe Sendelbach Family
Ushers:

Pat Pronschinske, Scott Pronschinske,

        Adam Guenther

 

 

 

 

 

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PARISH CALENDAR

 

May  13 - St. Boniface School 8th grade

                  Graduation Mass 7:00 pm

 

May  14 - Parish appreciation chicken dinner

 

May  15 - School Spring Music Concert

 

May  18 - Parish Baccalaureate Mass & Breakfast

 

May  28 - Confirmation in Arcadia

 

 

 

Baccalaureate Mass & Breakfast

8:00 am Sunday Mass on May 18th, breakfast will follow in the school hall (ALL IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBERS ARE INVITED, TOO)All high school, tech school and college graduates are encouraged to process at Mass wearing their graduation gowns.  Please contact Laney Bork at 626-3111 by May 13th, to register for breakfast and sponsored by the PCCW.

 

PCCW Staff & Teacher Appreciation Dinner

The PCCW will be hosting a staff & teacher appreciation dinner at the Waumandee House on Wednesday, May 14th, at 4:00 p.m.  All parish school and rel. ed. teachers will be honored and we thank them for their service to the parish each year. Any PCCW members and parishioners are welcome to join us for chicken that evening. Come join us as we bid farewell to two school teachers: Mrs. Heidi Heiring & Mrs. Melinda Polege.  Each has brought special & unique qualities to our school. We wish God’s blessings in wherever life takes them!  Thank you for your special service to St. Boniface School!

 

Confirmation

Confirmation is scheduled for May 28, 2008 in Arcadia at Holy Family Parish.

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Buffalo County Aging & Caregiver Resource Center

This Family Caregiver Support Program is designed to help any caregiver with advice, direction and in some situations respite support regardless if you are a spouse, family member, relative or friend.  For more information there are pamphlets available on the table in the back of Church or contact (608) 685-6356 or 685-4412.

 

Greeters & Gift Bearers

Greeters and Gift Bearers wanted - remember to contact Mary Hildebrand if you are available as greeters or gift bearers.  She is working on filling June and after.  Any combination of family members is welcome, grandparents, grandchildren or whole families.

 

Taking Communion to the Sick/Homebound

Please let the parish office know if someone would like to receive Communion during an illness or while recovering.  We invite family members to assist in taking communion to family members who wish to receive but are unable to be with us at Mass.  There is a proper environment for the Holy Eucharist and procedures to follow in taking Communion to the sick & homebound.

 

NO MORE SNOW- we hope not! 

A special THANK YOU goes out again to Reglin & Hesch Construction for donating their time and equipment to keep St. Boniface cleared out whenever needed over this past winter.  Please be sure to thank Jeff & Tim Reglin and their employees for their generosity.

 

Food Pantry - Thanks

for the wonderful response to last weekend’s month food pantry collection.  St. Boniface members brought in three bags of grocery products and $37.00 in cash collected!

 

SCHOOL Spring Fundraiser Report

A new record was achieved in $34,152.26 for this event in 2008 compared to $31,639.63 last year and a previous record of $33,250.00.  Thanks again to everyone for this successful accomplishment.

 

New Church Organ Fund

After consultation with the parish council and finance councils, St. Boniface has started a fund for a new organ to replace our outdated one.  This new organ would have recording capabilities so that someone could lead songs with tapped music.  There is no set timeline to get a new organ; it could be two years, five or even ten.   The fund will be set up for donations to be added as they come in.  Donations may come from funeral memorials, committee groups or individuals.  The PCCW has already graciously dedicated $2,200.00 to start this fund with a projected cost at around $20,000.00.  A new quality organ should last around fifty years.

 

NO MORE SNOW- we hope not! 

A special THANK YOU goes out again to Reglin & Hesch Construction for donating their time and equipment to keep St. Boniface cleared out whenever needed over this past winter.  Please be sure to thank Jeff & Tim Reglin and their employees for their generosity.

 

 

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SCHOOL NEWS

Graduation   This week – Tuesday, May 13th at 7:00 pm, St. Boniface School will have its Graduation Mass for Drew Pronschinske, son of Marc & Karla -  Lindsay Cafferty, daughter of Paul & Kara, of Fountain City and Preston Frie, son of John & Sandy, also of Fountain City.  All parishioners are invited to celebrate in the new step these parish youth will be taking next year. 

Next Scrip Order    will be placed on Monday, May 12th, if there is anything you are interested in please contact Ceil Novinski at 248-2603.

Spring Concert - May 15th, starting at 7:00 pm.                   

 

 

St. Boniface

Cemetery Regulations

1.)   Flags, flowers and decorations may be placed on graves no more than five days before Memorial Day, Independence Day and Veterans Day; they shall be removed five days after each holiday.  Those in urns or on monuments will be left there; items of temporary nature will be disposed. 

2.)   Emblems for organizations are to be installed at the time the marker footing is poured.

3.)   Veterans Emblems may be centered immediately in front of the monument/grave marker and be level with the ground.

4.)   Existing flowerpots, shepherd’s hooks, wire rod flowers, etc… outside of the footing need to be removed. 

5.)   Planting flowers, trees, vegetation is not allowed.  They will be removed.

6.)   The Cemetery Association is not liable for markers, baskets, floral pieces, urns or stands.

 

From the Pastor

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,                        

     With our celebration of Pentecost comes the official end of the Easter season.  In this feast, on the fiftieth day after the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ, we celebrate the fulfillment of His promise, “I will be with you always”.  In this we come to recognize that the feast of Pentecost is not so much the end of something as it is the doorway to a new beginning in Christ.  Even if we are observing this celebration for the 50 or 60th time, it is still an invitation by God to enter more fully into His life of love.

     The Lord is with us for a reason.  So that we can be saved and go to heaven – yes.  So that we can know for certain that we are never alone – absolutely.  But more than these, which when we look at them we are caught staring at ourselves, the Lord is with us so that we can effectively fulfill His command to go out to all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit!  We are called and chosen to enter into a relationship, first with God, and then with one another!  Our religion is not just about us!

    

    

    

    

    

    

         

     This is quite a different view of religion from what society tells us on at least two levels.  First of all, we see here that our faith is NOT something that is intended to be private.  This good news that we have heard, this Gospel, is meant to be shared with all people – the good news that God has come to be among His people.

     What wonderful news!  Why would we want to keep that to ourselves???  If we truly believe that God is with us, as He promised, then why wouldn’t we cultivate that relationship to the fullest extent possible?  After all, look at what the apostles and the saints who came after them accomplished!  Of course, didn’t Jesus promise that those who believed in Him would work great wonders?

     Second of all we see more clearly that our faith is not merely about ME.  Our faith becomes truly active and alive when we look outside ourselves and begin to focus on the other – that is, God and our neighbor. 

    

 

         

     The apostolic work of the saints is pretty obviously not focused on them.  When we see a St. John Vianney, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, St. Charles Borromeo, we see people who were not focused on themselves, but on the people around them.  Whether they were picking up the dying off the streets of Calcutta or forgiving the sins of parishioners in Arles or carrying out the reform of the structure and life of the universal Church – their focus was on anyone but themselves.  When the saints like Teresa of Avila or Francis of Assisi devoted themselves to prayer, even that wasn’t about them.  It was ALL about their love for the one to whom they were praying.

     In order to find ourselves we must lose ourselves.  But the great thing is that when, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we manage to leave ourselves behind, great things can happen.

     Pray Well!                          

Fr. Klos

 
 
 
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