St John’s Parish Pastoral Council met in Padre Hall on Tuesday 26 July 2016, at 7:00pm. Present were Ryan

Fowler, Fr. Ron Garry, Kelly Madsen, Beth Hand and Jack Kuhl; Laura Hand called to tell of her absence.

1. We opened with the Diocesan Stewardship prayer.

2. We approved the June meeting minutes.

3. With the reception of Bishop Gruss’ pastoral letter on the Diocesan Pastoral Plan, we spent the rest of the

meeting reading, discussing, and organizing to implement it in our parish.

4. The Council approved the text as a start of five parish ministry teams, and we will call them:

- Stewardship Formation, including adult and child classes

- Finance, including Building and Funding the Mission

- Worship, with Mass and Sacramental preparation

- Social Service, including the Stewardship invitation

- Vocations & Evangelization, with the invigorated invitation for vocations promotion from the

June workshop.

5. The parish council itself will adopt the “Reconciliation” Priority. It is about being with Jesus, who reconciles

on all levels: personal, family, parish, community, world. Before the next meeting, we committed ourselves

to praying and pondering and sharing ideas with each other. Fr. Ron will ask the commissioned Lay

Ministers and Veritatis Splendor Institute students to be leaders in these five mission teams. He will talk of

this in coming Sunday sermons and invite parishioners to be part of the mission. Josie Tardiff has begun

the pondering of the Faith Formation parish ministries in the Stewardship Formation team.

6. We elected Ryan Fowler as President, and Fr. Ron will act as recording secretary.

We meet next on Tuesday, August 30th, at 7:00pm. 7. We closed at 8pm with a Glory Be prayer.

The Mission of the Diocese: We, the Diocese of Rapid City, through the power of the Holy Spirit, are called to attract and form intentional disciples who joyfully, boldly and lovingly proclaim and live the mission of Jesus Christ, leading to

eternal life.

The six Core Values:

Prayer, Stewardship, Solidarity, Mercy, Charity and Family.

The Vision Statement:

Reconcile—Make Disciples—Live the Mission.

The three Diocesan Priorities are:

Reconciliation, Forming Disciples, and Funding the Mission.

The five Foundational Ministries are:

Sacraments and Worship,

Education and Formation,

Governance and Finance,

Social Services and Outreach,

Vocations and Evangelization.

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - July 31st, 2016

206 West Main ~ P.O. Box 670 Fort Pierre, S.D. 57532- 0670 Office: 605-223-2176 fax: 605-223-2805

Love God-Serve God

Love Others-Serve Others

Make Disciples

PARISH OFFICE Rectory (605) 223 - 2176 Fax (605) 223 - 2805

Hours Monday - Friday 10am - 5 pm

Website www.stjohnsfortpierre.org

PARISH STAFF

Pastor: Fr. Ron Garry

ron.stjohns@midconetwork.com 605-850-8593

Parish Secretary: Sherri Stoeser

sherri.stjohns@midconetwork.com

Faith Formation: Josie Huck Tardiff

josie.stjohns@midconetwork.com

Rectory/Church Upkeep: Mary Welsh, Pat Storms

Building Maintenance: George Welk

Parish Council: Ryan Fowler

Finance Council: Mike Weisgram

Altar Society: Co-Leaders needed

Grand Knight: Tom LeFaive

Small Group Studies: Shirley Gross

Confessions:

Saturday 4:00 - 5:00 PM or appointment

Mass Times: Saint John’s, on the Lord’s Day

Saturday - 5:30 PM Sunday - 7:30 & 10:00 AM Wednesday Evenings - 7:00-8:00 PM - Adoration

Weekday Mass ***(check bulletin weekly schedule)

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - 7:00 AM

Tuesday - 5:30 PM

Saturday - 8 AM (1st Saturday of the month only)

Ss. Peter and Paul - Pierre, on the Lord’s Day:

Saturday - 5:00 PM, Sunday, 8:00 & 10:00 AM, 7:00 PM

SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION

Marriage - 6 months preparation: Call Father Ron.

Baptism - Call Father Ron for information.

Anointing - If a hospital stay or surgical procedure is

scheduled, please call to schedule the celebration of

Someone in the crowd said to Jesus,

“Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.”

He replied to him,

“Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?”

Then he said to the crowd,

“Take care to guard against all greed,

for though one may be rich,

one’s life does not consist of possessions.”

Then he told them a parable.

“There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest.

He asked himself, ‘What shall I do,

for I do not have space to store my harvest?’

And he said, ‘This is what I shall do:

I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones.

There I shall store all my grain and other goods

and I shall say to myself, “Now as for you,

you have so many good things stored up for many years,

rest, eat, drink, be merry!”’

But God said to him,

‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you;

and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’

Thus will it be for all who store up treasure for themselves

but are not rich in what matters to God.” Lk 12:13-21

Thus it will be for

all who store up treasure for themselves

but are not rich in what matters to God.” Lk 13:21

From Father Ron St. John’s Calendar

Sunday, July 31st

Come to Sunday 7-8 PM Adoration, to pray in union with the martyrs. The most recent is 85-year-old Fr. Jacques Ha-mel killed in France while celebrating Mass by ISIS jihadists. How to defeat a global terrorist organization like ISIS? The ultimate answer is through prayer! In our fallen world, we join

our hearts to Jesus who died and rose.

Thursday, August 4th

6:30 pm Maranatha Prayer Group

Ft. Pierre Knights of Columbus: Consider joining your

local KC council and help your priest, parish and

community in many ways.

Membership is open to all Catholic men 18 years and older; all are

invited to consider joining.

Contact any Knight or Tom LeFaive - 280-7865.

Beside the Sacred Heart statue, there's a note about Kit Schmidt's ongoing recovery for her and her child in the womb. Keep praying. Write a card of encouragement and put it in the large envelope

Fr. John Lule's health is very slowly recovering. His address

is: 301 Lorrain Dr., Pine Ridge #105 Bismarck, ND 58503

May the Lord bless in the covenant of marriage...

Mitch Kleinsasser and Theresa Gabriel, married on July 30th.

NFP: Natural Family Planning Seminar will be offered at Ft. Pierre, September 10th - 9am to 12:00 pm noon Custer, Saturday, September 17th. Register: rapidcitydiocese.org. Go to Family Life Ministries.

PART-TIME OUTPATIENT THERAPIST: Catholic Social Services has an opportunity for a part-time Outpatient Therapist in the Ft. Pierre Area. Master Degree is required, license and QMHP preferred. Travel may be required. Salary DOE. Send resume to: Catholic Social Services, 529 Kansas City Street, Rapid City, SD 57701 or email to: css@cssrapidcity.com. Closing date: 8-1

Diocesan Events:

Bishop’s Golf Invitation: Third Annual Western SD Bishop’s Golf Classic and Bunco Social will be held Monday, August 15 at Arrowhead Country Club, Rapid City. Enter a team for $600 or play individually for $150. The Bishop’s Parish Challenge awards $1,000 to the winning parish team. Not interested in golf? A Bunco Social for $50 (including dinner with golfers) will be held at the country club in the afternoon. Enter at www.wsdcf.org or call Doris at 343-3541. Heart to Heart: A Weekend Retreat for the Engaged - a weekend getaway for engaged couples to deepen their relationship with each other and God by exploring the Catholic Church’s vision of marriage. 2016 retreats at Terra Sancta, July 29-31 & September 23-25. Register: www.terrasancta.org. Contact Amy - 716-5214 x 236, ajulian@diorc.org. Worldwide Marriage Encounter: Looking for a way to increase the love and romance in your marriage? Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend Experience may be the answer! Instead of listening to lectures about im-proving your marriage, you will learn a practical communication technique to rediscover your hopes and dreams for your marriage. NOW is a good time to invest time in your health, happy relationship, and reconnect with your spouse. Renew the commitment, intimacy and passion in your marriage. Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends are Sep 9-11, 2016 in Irene, SD & Nov 18-20, 2016 in Rapid City, SD. Early registration recommended. website: sdwwme.org or Dawn at applications@sdwwme.org or 605-359-1533.

FAITH FORMATION CLASSES

WILL BEGIN IN A FEW WEEKS.

We need teachers and assistants

for all grades.

PLEASE Consider giving of your time

to help your parish youth

learn about their faith.

Class lessons with teachers manuals

are provided .

Contact Josie at the parish office

for more information.

Brother Steward

Around the Block. Around the World

Centuries ago, we Brothers would have given the sackcloth off our backs for a Smartphone or an Ipad. We were limited in what we could do and who we could help because all poverty was local; it was just beyond the walls of our Monastery. Our

Facebook was a face-to-face look at the needy.

Our tweets were the chapel bells signaling the soup kitchen was open. Our social network was word-of-mouth usually saying, “Can you help me?” Today, we can help people around

the block and around the world. Stewardship is unlimited.

Right here at our parish we can text and tweet a prayer, a worship schedule, a ministry meeting, a plea for help, or a thanks for a good deed. We can support our church with online giving, search out local charities and foreign missions, and find volunteer opportunities. Instantaneously, we can contact our own outreach ministries. It is ironic that the “apple” in the Garden of Eden that led to damnation is the trademark for devices that can be the salvation for millions of the world's poor. The Lord gave us many gifts to use wisely. Technology

is one of them. God Bless.

Please pray for the sick and suffering: Mike Gebes, Theresa Welch, Evie Graber, Gary Chase, Mary Novotny, Dr. Reynen, Matt Hanten, Shirley Gross, Dick Speilmann, Bob Rasmussen, Jim Steele, Marie Giddings, Duane Pomham, Milton Tiper, Denny Weaver, Ken Stewart, Kendal and Kenedi Breyfogle, Freda Lawhon, Misty Brown, Lynette Singleton, David Gross, Carl Rathbun, Mike Kelly, Steve Zaiko, Spencer Young, Marilyn Tassler, Donald LeClaire, Mike Iversen, Ashlynn Fitts, Heidi Shepherd, Jean Petersen Wilson, Brian Dumas, William Anderson, John Manning, Rich Garrity, Richard Brown, Pam Patton, Terry Hughes, Kathryn Schlechter, Keri Hendrickson, Heidi Alban, Yvonne Ehlers, Steeley Moore, Eva Fischer, Eleanor Unterbrunner, Leanne Goff, Cassie Miller, Bernie Duffy, Mary Beth Moser, June Wheeler, Richard Abernathy, Mona Lierly, Kathy Fenwick, Lynae Benham, Theresa Severyn, Kaylee Jo Gallagher, Eric Buchmann, Grady Jacobson, Maddox Rowland, Eileen Hofer, Barb Brown, Cindy Foreman, Cindy Hogman, and all who ask for our special prayers. To add/remove someone from the list, call Irma LeFaive - 280-9055.

Birthdays

Sun.31 Molly Gross, Tom Jacobson, Emily Paulsen

Mon.01 Derald Gross Jr., Melody Havarnek

Tue.02 Kristi Longbrake, Kevin Neuhauser

Wed.03 Robyn Thorpe

Thu.04 Alex Singleton

Fri.05 Myra Christensen, Sebastian Hand

Sat.06 Jeffery Beskar, Dean Tardiff

Sun.07 Robbie Hanson

Anniversaries

Sat.30 Terrance and Shurla Gates

Sun.31 Jim and Julie Ricketts

Mon.01 Patty and Jerry Lihs

Mark and Carly Sommars

Tue.02 Ray and Abbie Rathbun

Wed.03 Scott and Teresa Cass

Fri.05 Glen and Mary Dozark

Bob and Carolyn Riter

Sat.06 Scott and Kim VanDenHemel

7/24/2016 SACRIFICIAL GIVING Regular Collection $ 3,095.00 Online Giving $ 230.00 Plate $ 439.46 Total $ 3,764.46

Adopt a Seminarian: $150.00

Building Fund: $145.00

PRAA-West River Priest Retirement: $75.00

Our building repair loan payment is $2,494.28 a month. Our loan balance is $19,661.93 - only 7 payments left!!!

We are grateful for the stewardship of our parish family!

Please use your weekly envelopes —it makes much shorter & accurate recording.

Thank-you to all who continue to honor and fulfill their building renovation pledge balance with payments

and to those who continue to give to the building fund to pay down St. John’s loan payment each month-we have 7 payments left!

Please kneel after the closing song

and pray 3 Hail Mary’s

for the next person of our parish who dies.

Saturday, July 30th

5:30 PM + Frank Davenport By: Bill Fischer

Sunday, July 31st

7:30 AM Parish Intentions

10:00 AM + Hunter Stoeser By: AJ and Lindsey Heiss Family

Monday, August 1st

No Mass

Tuesday, August 2nd

No Mass

Wednesday, August 3rd

No Mass

Thursday, August 4th

7:00 AM SI Jerry Lihs By: Patty Lihs

Friday, August 5th

7:00 AM + SI Kit, John Schmidt and baby

Saturday, August 6th

8:00 AM First Saturday Mass

5:30 PM + Kevin Wolff By: Todd and Kara Hughes Family

Sunday, August 7th

7:30 AM Parish Intentions

10:00 AM + Hunter Stoeser By: AJ and Lindsey Heiss Family

Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday 4:00-5:00 pm

Mass Intentions: (not many requests at this time) If you would like to have a Mass for your loved one — Living or Deceased

Saturday, August 6th Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 2 Peter 1:16-19 Luke 9:28b-36 Sunday, August 7th Wisdom 18:6-9 Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 Luke 12:32-48

Sunday, July 31st Ecclesiastes 1:2, 21-23 Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11 Luke 12:13-21 Monday, August 1st Jeremiah 28:1-17 Matthew 14:13-21 Tuesday, August 2nd Jeremiah 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22 Matthew 14:22-36

Saturday, August 6th 5:30 pm

Sacristan: Mary Welsh

Readers: Diane London, Need

EM’s: Carol Chalcraft, Mary Welsh

Servers: Kara Weiss, Need

Gift Bearers: Steve and Deanne Sprenger

Sunday, August 7th 7:30 am

Sacristan: Christine Olson

Readers: Kelly and Teresa Madsen EM’s: Christine Olson, Irma LeFaive

Servers: Jazmin and Juan Flores

Gift Bearers: Glen and Mary Dozark

Sunday, August 7th 10:00 am

Sacristan Pat Storms

Readers: Al Berreth, Kim Dowling

EM’s: Frank Sack, Bob Riter, Pat Storms, Sandy Spencer

Servers: Shay VanDenHemel, Isaiah and Samuel Hand

Gift Bearers: Aimee and Cody Nickolas

Homebound: Noreen Plumage

Ministry Schedule

Weekly Mass Readings

Wednesday, August 3rd Jeremiah 31:1-7 Matthew 15:21-28 Thursday, August 4th Jeremiah 31:31-34 Matthew 16:13-23 Friday, August 5th Nahum 2:1,3; 3:1-2, 6-7 Matthew 16:24-28

New on FORMED… HAPPINESS: Happiness is both a philosophical itinerary and a practical program for life’s most important journey—from the mundane and the meaningless to transcendent fulfilment. Hosted by Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, this program features interviews with well-known psychiatrists, celebrities, New Testament scholars, physicists, and priests as they uncover the deeper answers to life's most profound questions. Go to Formed.org. Enter St. Johns code: 3KHGCJ. Register as a parishioner and enjoy!

Please pray for Anthony Schumacher, brother of Jim of our parish.

May the angels lead Anthony into paradise.