St. Boniface Parish  -  Bulletin

 

Week of March 7th, 2010

Third Sunday of Lent

 
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  Mass Intentions

 

Saturday, 3/6 - 8:00 pm

+Florence Fedie

 by Rudy & Dorothy Pronschinske

 

Sunday, 3/7 - 8:00 am
+Joanne Rippley

 by Family

 

Thursday, 3/11 - 9:00 am

Special Intention

 of Rose Hillig

 

Saturday, 3/13 - 8:00 pm

+Al & Caroline Slaby

 and Leonard & Mamie Larson

 by Al & Darlene Slaby

 

Sunday, 3/14 - 8:00 am
+Mary Ann Servais

 by PCCW

 

Masses for Shut-ins


WXOW-19, LaCrosse:

Sunday, 9:30 am


WQOW-18, Eau Claire:

Sunday, 9:30 am


EWTN (Cable/Satellite):

7:00 am, 11:00 am, 11:00 pm daily

 

  Liturgical Ministers

 

Saturday,   March  13, 2010    8:00 pm

 

Servers:

Alyssa Pronschinske, Jordon Dittrich,

        Katlin Tollefson

Reader: Don Dittrich
EMC:

Karen Pronschinske, Don Dittrich

Ushers: Jimmy Ellis, Bruce Baecker

 

 

Sunday,      March  14, 2010    8:00 am

 

Servers:

Briar Putz, Robin Rotering,

        Dakota Schmidtknecht

Reader: Mary Hildebrand
EMC:

Julius Averbeck, Donna Rotering

Ushers: Jerry Persick, Dan Brommer

 

Ministry List..

Extra copies of the ministry list

are always available

in the back of church, on St. Joseph's side.

Also, one list is always posted

on the bulletin board in the back of church.

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Scrip Information

Extra copies of the printed Scrip information

are available

in the back of church, on St. Joseph's side.

For on-line info, click here.

 

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Parish Calendar

During

all of

Lent

St. Boniface School-Wide Lenten Project -

   Collecting baby supplies for Arcadia Mission

March

6

Sat

DCCW "Call to Holiness"

March

6/7

Sat/Sun

Monthly Food Pantry Weekend

March

6/7

Sat/Sun

Monthly Parish Birthday

   and Anniversary Weekend

March

7

Sun

Mass of Thanksgiving

   at St. Joseph the Workman Cathedral, La Crosse

   Sunday, March 7th, at 3:00 pm

March

8

Mon

Scrip Order night

March

9

Tue

PCCW Meeting

   7:30 pm in school hall

March

10

Wed

Stations of the Cross

   8:30am w/St. Boniface students

   5:45pm w/Elem Rel Ed students

March

10

Wed

Elem Rel Ed  6:00pm

   after Stations

March

11

Thurs

Finance Council Meeting

March

17

Wed

High School Rel Ed at St. Lawrence

March

23

Tue

23rd Annual Ag Day

   at Holy Family, noon - 3pm

April

10

Sat

School Spring Fundraiser

Sept

8

Confirmation, 7:00 pm at Holy Family Parish

 

 

Haiti Earthquake Relief

The steeple in the back of church can be used if you would like to deposit your donation.  Any monies given will be forwarded to the Diocese to distribute.

 

Eucharist Ministers

With Fr. Klos on crutches, we will have two Eucharist Ministers scheduled for weekends during Lent as they will both hand out the Precious Body.

 

Stations of the Cross

Stations of the Cross will be held every Wednesday during Lent at 8:30 am with the school students and at 5:45 pm with the rel ed students before they have religious classes at 6:00 pm.

 

Archbishop Jerome Listecki

Archbishop Jerome Listecki will have a Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Joseph the Workman Cathedral in La Crosse on Sunday, March 7th, at 3:00 pm and it is open to the public.

 

Scrip

        Future scrip order dates -

March 08, April 12, May 03, May 24, June 07, July 12, Aug 9, Sept 13.

We have another new scrip retailer: Bawek's Shoe Store, Arcadia.  Please write this new retailer on your retailer list.  Bawek's  $10, $20, $50 (2%).  Thank you to Bawek's!

(In our bulletin this week (printed copy) we included a small chart showing our scrip earnings.  If you would like a copy, please just let us know.  scrip@mwt.net )

 

PCCW Meeting

The ladies will meet on Tuesday, March 9th, at 7:30 pm in the school hall.  St. Agnes group will be serving and St. Theresa's group will be providing the activity.  All parish ladies are encouraged and welcome.

 

Elem Rel Ed

Elem Rel Ed will meet this week on Wednesday, March 10th starting with Stations of the Cross at 5:45 pm.

 

Finance Council

The finance council will meet on Thursday, March 11th, at 8:00 pm. Next fiscal year projected school and parish budgets will be reviewed.

 

High School Rel Ed

High School Rel Ed will meet on Wednesday, March 17th at 7:30 pm, at St. Lawrence in Alma.  We will carpool in the rectory parking lot at 7:00 pm.

 

Area Event - 23rd Annual Ag Day

The 23rd Annual Ag Day will be held on Tuesday, March 23rd, from noon to 3 pm at Holy Family Church in Arcadia.  More info is available by contacting the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce at 323-2319.

 

School Spring Fundraiser

The school parents now have fundraiser tickets available to anyone for our

Spring Fundraiser, which is Saturday, April 10th, 2010.

School parents will also start contacting businesses for donations, please start thinking of ideas for your own donated items that usually are very entertaining to watch on the auction.

 

Confirmation

We have the date set for Confirmation for this year's sophomores, which will be held in Arcadia at Holy Family Parish on Sunday, September 8th, 2010, at 7:00pm.

 

 

Lent - "So Something Beautiful for God"

Prayer - for the good of the soul!

Fasting - for the good of the body!

Almsgiving - for the good of our neighbor!

 

 

 

Lenten News -

ABSTINENCE from meat is to be observed by everyone over age 14 on Ash Wednesday and all the Fridays of Lent.

FASTING (one full meatless meal) is to be taken by everyone between the ages of 18 through 59 on Ash Wednesday & Good Friday.  Two other meatless meals, sufficient to maintain strength, may be taken according to each one's needs; but together they should not equal another full meal.

 

The Holy Father reminds us the obligation to do penance and observe the penitential days specified by the Church is a serious one.  People should seek to do more rather than less; fast and abstinence on the days prescribed; works of religion and charity on the Fridays outside Lent should be considered a minimal response to the Lord's call to penance and conversion of life.

 

Prayer Requests

Please use the Prayer Request Box in the entrance of church for prayer requests of  any kind.  Paper and a pencil are available for you to write down your intention when you arrive at Mass, or you can fill one out and bring it along to Mass.  You do not need to include your name.  The box will be taken up with the offertory gifts at each weekend Mass and then the prayer requests will be read out loud at the Stations of the Cross on Wednesday mornings during Lent at 8:30 am.

 

"YEAR for PRIESTS"

 

 

On the Diocesan website it states that the most important thing we can do for our priests is pray for them, please take five minutes a day and pray for the priests listed each week.  This listing started Sept 1st with different priests in the Diocese to pray for each week. 

The Diocesan list currently has for the week of March 7th - March 13th:

Fr. Raymond Pedretti (retired),

Fr. Gerald Pehler,

Fr. Edward Penchi,

Fr. Mark Pierce,

Very Rev. John Potaczek.

Please pray for all priests!

 
School News 

 

Mrs. Pyka

It is with prayerful gratitude that St. Boniface School announces and congratulates, Mrs. Christine Pyka, as she assumes the position as Director of the Whitehall Child Care Center and will begin her duties there on Monday, March 15th.  We thank Mrs Pyka for her five years of wonderful dedication to St. Boniface School and the great work she has done.  We wish her well and ask God's blessing on her new undertaking.  Mrs. Darlene Slaby has agreed to long term sub until the end of the year for her classroom.  Mrs. Pyka will still do the St. Boniface School administration work through June 30, 2010.  St. Boniface School will advertise for a middle school teacher to fill her position and if possible to a qualified person with added administration duties.  Mrs. Pyka's children will continue to attend St. Boniface School in the future.

 

School Wide Lenten Project

During the weeks of Lent, our school will be collecting baby supplies for the Arcadia Mission.  Recently the 6th - 8th graders worked at the mission and learned form Sister Rosemary the great need that there is for baby supplies.  Often times people come to the mission in need diapers, wipes, diaper cream, etc. I think this is a great opportunity for our school to reach out to those in need right here in our won area.  Please consider donating the following supplies.  The supplies will then be given to Sister Rosemary to distribute at the mission.  Please be generous!  Diapers (all sizes, any brand), Wipes, Diaper cream, Bottles, Baby Supplies.

 

School Spring Fundraiser

The school parents now have fundraiser tickets available to anyone for Saturday, April 10th.  They will also start contacting businesses for donations, please start thinking of ideas for your own donated items that usually are very entertaining to watch on the auction.  The date for our School Spring Fundraiser is  Saturday, April 10th, 2010. 

 

St. Patrick's Prayer for the Faithful

 

May the Strength of God pilot us.

May the Power of God preserve us.

May the Wisdom of God instruct us.

May the Hand of God protect us.

May the Way of God direct us.

May the Shield of God defend us.

May the Host of God guard us against the snares of the evil ones and against the temptations of the world.

May Christ be with us!

May Christ be before us!

May Christ be in us, Christ be over all!

May Thy Salvation, Lord, always be ours,

this day, O Lord,

and evermore.

Amen.

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From the Parish Office

Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ,

            We have thus reflected on the reality that justice may only be attained through love. We next reflected on how, in order to know our first love, Al-mighty God, we must hear His Word which is revealed to us through the holy scriptures. Now, in this third week of Lent, we recognize that we are convicted by His Word. In hearing His Word pro-claimed we see how far short we have fallen in loving Him well and also our neighbor. Thus, we come to the recognition that we require forgiveness and reconciliation with both God and neighbor so that the love which leads to justice may have an unencumbered path.

            Forgiveness and reconciliation. Viewed from the front end of that forgiveness and reconciliation that we seek it is a most daunting thing. But I am certain that this apparent mountain is not so large. The mountain that seems to need climbing in order to find that forgiveness and reconciliation we seek is nothing made by God or a necessary part of the sacrament. It is, rather, our fear and our pride.

            Fear and pride. It is unfortunate that when God offers to us his forgiveness, which brings reconciliation, we don’t see a loving Father. We sometimes see a stern or angry judge. Other times we see an unloving being who is only content with keeping us under His thumb or jerking us around.

Just as difficult is the situation in which we just

can’t bring ourselves to admit that what we did was that bad. We talk ourselves into believing that we are “just being human”. We tell ourselves all kinds of false platitudes, anything to relieve ourselves of having to climb that mountain. Except that the mountain is of our own making! The moment we recognize our guilt and our Father’s love that seeming insurmountable mountain vanishes in an instant.

            The Sacrament of Confession is God’s great, wonderful, loving gift to us. He wants us to be as free to love Him as He is in loving us. In this sacrament we receive the Father’s forgiveness. Amazingly enough, all we have to do is admit our sinfulness, that is – how we missed the mark, and ask for His forgiveness. And in return, He gathers us into His loving arms and not only forgives us, but welcomes us into the fullness of His love – reconciliation!

            Is there a price to pay for our sins? Yes, there is. But the greatest part of that price has already been paid by Christ, God Himself. What love is that? I would hope that would be proof enough not only of God’s love and forgiveness, but of His great desire to have us as members of His eternal family.

            Of course, there is much more to it than what I’ve just discussed. Our attraction to sinfulness (concupiscence), in all its twists and turns, is more complicated than this small space allows. But what is most important is our Father’s desire that we turn to Him and know love. Let us not disappoint Him, or – in the end, ourselves. 

      Pray Well!                                 Fr. Klos

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