ST. MARK’S BOTTINEAU & ST. ANDREW’S WESTHOPE

PARISH OFFICE: (701) 228-3164 RECTORY: (701) 228-5164 stsmanda@utma.com

322 Sinclair St. • Bottineau, ND • 58318 - www.stmark-standrew.org

April 8-9, Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

PARISH STAFF

Fr Michael Hickin, Pastor

Ursula Palmer, Secretary

Cathy Miller, Custodian

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Valerie Heth, DRE

St. Andrew’s Parish

Ursula Palmer, DRE

St. Mark’s Parish

WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday 5:30 pm, Bottineau

Sunday 9:00 am, Westhope

And 11:00 am, Bottineau

CONFESSIONS

Saturday, 4:30 pm, Bottineau

Sunday, 8:30 am, Westhope

Or by Appointment

OFFICE HOURS

Tue 12:30pm-5:00pm

Wed 9:00am-3:30pm

Thurs 12:30pm-5:00pm

Fri 9:00am-5:00pm

PARISH NEWS AND EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS St. Andrew’s— K-6 Religious Ed.— April 12, 23, 30 (CYO) Parish Council meeting, Weds, Apr 12 @ 1 pm Stations of the Cross @ 7 pm. Holy Thursday, April 13—Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until midnight

St. Mark’s— Religious Ed Classes K-6— April 19, 2 Parish Council meeting—Mon, April 10 @ 5:30 pm

CLIMATE SURVEYS, STS M AND A. On the weekend of April 22-

23 (Divine Mercy Sunday), there will be a 10 min overview of the results of the Climate Survey at the end of Mass. Parish Council representatives will be available for questions and/or further explanations after Mass. Further steps will be needed to move forward.

Furnace Situation Update for St Andrew’s, Westhope: On Tues evening, Apr 4, Parish Council met. Wayne Miller and Tom Henry were also in attendance. Tom presented four separate bids, plus a bid on an electrical service upgrade. We discussed each bid, walked around the facility, and wrote down some follow-up ques-tions for the bidders. We hope to make a choice at our next Parish Council meeting, this coming Weds, April 12. Thanks for all those who have participated in the process so far, especially Tom for un-derstanding and explaining the pros and cons of each bid. Stay

tuned.

Report for April 2, 2017

St Andrew’s: Ad env $ 501 Pl $ 32 and Ch $ 31

St Mark’s: Ad env $ 4165.10 Pl $ 44 Ch $ 20 Build. Proj. $ 936

Sat, April 8, 5:30 p.m. St. Mark’s

(† Aime Vandal)

Sun, April 9, 9 a.m. St. Andrew’s

(Parishioners)

Sun, 11 a.m. St. Mark’s

(† Duane Sebelius)

Tue, April 11, 12 p.m. St. Mark’s

(† Delmar Haberman)

Wed, April 12, 12 p.m. St. Mark’s

(† Mary Pugh & Albert Pugh)

Holy Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m. St. Andrew’s

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

(† Gerald Geisen)

Good Friday, April 14

12 p.m. St. Andrew’s

5:30 p.m. St. Mark’s

Easter Vigil, April 15, 8:45 p.m. St. Mark’s

(† Ray & Rita Davis)

Easter Sunday, April 16, 9 a.m. St. Andrew’s

(Parishioners)

Easter Sunday, 11 a.m. St. Mark’s

(† Jayne Albrecht)

Home Communion Any St. Mark parishioners desiring

Holy Communion at home, call

Claudia Trebas (228-2339) by

Monday evening to be put on the

list.

To add or remove a name, please

contact Deb Wyman at 245-6538 or

the parish office.

PARISHIONERS, FAMILY, AND FRIENDS: Military personnel &

their families, Cindy Volk, Bridget Herpel, Jerry Burns, Glen

Brandjord, Eloise Halvorson, Dakota, Todd Pigeon, Duane Indrid-

son, Arvid Anderson, Ryan Volk, Donna Estenerson, Candice

Fulsebakke, Brenda Marquardt, Marlys Hummel, Tanya Buzzerd,

Clay Gunderson, Sylvia Frazer, Shirley Pasicznyk, Harvey Soland;

a special private intention.

Mass Intention Request

A Mass intention is requested for :

_____________________________________________

From:

_____________________________________________

Suggested offering is $10.00 per Mass intention

Gracious God, the energy and emotion of a pa-rade can generate joy. Yet the joy of your pa-rade into Jerusalem turned so quickly to pain signal-ing the sacrifice of your own self. Let this day remind me that while emotions can be fickle, your faithful-ness and love remain true.

May I see in the giving of your life the power to give myself for others simply for love. When life’s struggle sears my soul or sacrifice strips me of hope, strengthen me with your spirit that strode into Jerusa-lem to face death even as palm branches were strewn before your path and the crowd cried “Hosanna in the highest.”- Anonymous

DIVINE MERCY. The Novena of Divine Mercy begins on Good Fri-day, ending Divine Mercy Sunday. Pamphlets on this great prayer will be made available.

We will recite the Mercy Chaplet before the Good Friday Services (so please consider coming 20 minutes early). On Holy Saturday, we will recite it at the Hour of Mercy, 3 p.m., and on Easter Sun-day before Mass begins. Easter Tuesday through Mercy Sunday, before Masses.

St. Mark’s Ministries for April 15-16 DATE EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS READER GIFT BEARERS USHERS GREETERS COUNTERS

Satr. Bread: Karen Sollin Phyllis Brunelle / Julie Hoffman

Vickie Gangl Matt Brandjord family Matt Brandjord / Dennis Lagasse

Al & Barb Wondraseck

Sun. Bread: Wayne Barbot Warren & Leanna Emmer

Lenny McGuire 3rd Graders CCD class Mike Nero / Chuck Nubauer

3rd Graders CCD class

Carla Eisenzimmer

From the Pastor’s Pen

THE SUFFERINGS OF JESUS are the focus of Holy Week. We cannot isolate the Lord’s passion from the sufferings of his people. As God’s people, we stand together as a community of sufferers. The source of our endurance is our faith in God. Our faith comes from what we celebrate this week.

This world is passing away. With it, so too is all of our suffering. If we follow Christ in humiliation, and unite our sorrows with his, then we can live in hope and shoulder the future with refreshed courage. We must move toward the goal of our journey, GLORY!

The Church has a script. This is what our Sacred Liturgies supply. We have only to play our part, and put our heart into it. The Holy Spirit will make sure that such actors and actresses taste the transformation this Week ignites.

Today, PALM SUNDAY, Christ enters triumphantly into Jerusalem, welcomed as Messiah. The reading of Jesus’ passion gives an overall sweep of the events that we will pray through in detail as the week develops. Our souls enter the swing of emotions and our faith re-grounds itself on its true foundations. The tradition of covering the sacred images, even the Crucifix, can call us to focus on the reality behind the veil. The veil symbolizes the veil of our earthly liturgies. The sacred rites of the Church both cloak and carry the reality of our salvation.

On Tues, I will be away at the Chrism Mass, where the Bishop consecrates the Holy Oils to be used throughout the year. It is also a Mass in which the priests renew together the promises of their ordination.

Lent ends on Wednesday evening, after which we enter in the holiest time of the year, the EASTER “TRIDUUM”, a word meaning “three days.” This three day period holds for the whole year the same the place Sunday has for each week. It is a time of rest and of giving special, undivided attention to the things of the Lord.

On HOLY THURS we will celebrate the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at St Andrew’s at 7pm. This night we celebrate several mysteries, the first is Christ’s institution of the Sacrament of the Eucharist.

In instituting the sacrament of the Eucharist, Jesus anticipates and makes present the sacrifice of the Cross and the victory of the Resurrec-tion. At the same time, he reveals that he himself is the true sacrificial lamb, destined in the Father's plan from the foundation of the world, (cf. 1:18-20). By placing his gift in this context, Jesus shows the salvific meaning of his Death and Resurrection, a mystery which renews history and the whole cosmos. The institution of the Eucharist demonstrates how Jesus' death, for all its violence and absurdity, became a supreme act of love and mankind's definitive deliverance from evil.

By his command to "do this in remembrance of me" (Lk 22:19; 1 Cor 11:25), Jesus asks us to respond to his gift. In these words the Lord expresses his expectation that the Church, born of his sacrifice, will receive this gift, developing under the guidance of the Holy Spirit the liturgical form of the sacrament. The remembrance of his perfect gift consists not in the mere repetition of the Last Supper, but in the Eucharist itself, that is, in the radical newness of Christian worship. In this way, Jesus left us the task of entering into his "hour."

"The Eucharist draws us into Jesus' act of self-offering. More than just receiving a stagnate Savior, we enter into the very dynamic of his self-giving." Jesus "draws us into himself." The substantial conversion of bread and wine into his Body and Blood introduces within creation the princi-ple of a radical change, a sort of "nuclear fission," which penetrates to the heart of all being, a change meant to set off a process which transforms reality, a process leading ultimately to the transfiguration of the entire world, to the point where God will be all in all (cf. 1 Cor 15:28).

—Ben XVI, Febr, 2007.

Also, Holy Thurs evening, we do the Washing of the Feet, a symbolic gesture of loving service that accompanies Jesus’ new commandment to love one another as he has loved us (Jn 13:34). Here Christ sets the standard for his disciples then and now. Christians are servants.

Also, this evening celebrates Jesus’ ending the Old Covenant Priesthood and instituting a New Order with the command, “Do this in memory of Me.” This holy night is the core out of which the college of bishops originates. Jesus consecrates them in the truth. It is the beginning of the Apostles’ mission to be the distributors of Christ’s saving Paschal Mystery. It is the first link of a new priesthood in the person of Christ giving way to an unbroken chain ‘til Jesus returns again at the end of time.

After Mass, we process with the Blessed Sacrament to our chapel of repose. Please consider spending one hour in prayer vigil from 9 pm ‘til midnight. Accompany Jesus who says to his disciples, “Watch and pray.” When he finds them sleeping, he groans, “Could you not watch for one hour with me?” In the “garden,” we will read from Jesus’ Farewell Discourse (Jn 13-17).

On GOOD FRIDAY the paschal fast is observed everywhere to honor the suffering and Death of the Lord Jesus, and to prepare ourselves to share more deeply in his Resurrection. Before each of the Good Friday services, we’ll recite the Divine Mercy Chaplet. According to Saint Faustina, Our Lord requested that the Feast of Mercy (Sun after Easter) be preceded by a novena of Chaplets to the Divine Mercy, so from Good Fri to Div Mercy Sun. In her diary, St. Faustina wrote that Jesus told her: “On each day of the novena you will bring to My Heart a different group of souls and you will immerse them in this ocean of My mercy.... By this novena I will grant every possible grace to souls" (Diary 1209, 796).

After the Chaplet we will observe the solemn Celebration of the Lord’s Passion with readings, veneration of the Cross, and Holy Commun-ion. In accompanying Our Lord to Calvary, we let ourselves be recreated into a new community, broken like bread for the life of the world, ready to go and nourish those starving to be loved unconditionally.

St. Andrew’s Ministries

DATE EUCHARISTIC

MINISTERS READER GIFT BEARERS ALTAR SERVERS COUNTERS USHERS

Sun. April 16 John Wyman / Paul Klokstad

Paul Klokstad Klokstad family Isaac Griffith / Colton Bowers

Tom Henry/ Howard Erickson

Mike & Terri Thompson

Upon entering this Service, please pick up a nail, to be dropped into a container when you come forward to venerate the Cross. There is also the special annual collection for the needs of the Church in the Holy Land, as well as a basket placed near the Cross for monetary donations to our local food pantry. The Good Friday service ends in silence.

HOLY SATURDAY is a day of silence and preparation for Easter. The Sacrament of Reconciliation will be available from 2-3:00 pm. Divine Mercy Chaplet at 3 pm.

This day commemorates the mysterious “time” when Jesus’ body lay in the tomb while his soul descended into hell. There among the dead, that realm of total alienation from God, is a “place” outside of time where Jesus’ passion takes on unimaginable dimensions.

EASTER SUNDAY begins after sunset on Saturday. At St. Mark’s, at 8:45 pm, we’ll assemble for the Easter Vigil, the “mother of all feasts,” as St. Augustine said. The drama unfolds in four parts.

Part I – Service of Light. The Paschal Candle is the symbol of the light of Christ, rising in glory, scattering the darkness of our hearts and minds, and of the whole world.

Part II – Liturgy of the Word. These readings trace the arc of salvation history. The faithful meditate on them by singing Re-sponsorial Psalms, followed by a silent pause and the celebrant’s prayer. To better follow along bring your Bibles and mark the passages of the nine readings {1.) Gn … }.

Part III – Renewal of our Baptismal Promises (when new members are received into the Church; none this year).

Part IV – Liturgy of the Eucharist.

Easter celebrates our Baptism, our passage through Christ’s Death and Resurrection, a people re-grounded in the eternal, the Al-mighty, a glorious people, a people of hope and courage.

Like the potter at his wheel, the Lord is constantly at work shap-ing His Church. If we let our hearts melt with love for him in the course of these days, we will take on the contours of His Love and Truth, and become what the future of our planet needs us to be, Christian.

FELLOWSHIP Support for community members that are dealing with the death or terminal illness—We are interested in forming a planning committee that will help us improve how we may improve our support for families that are experienc-ing, or have experienced, the death or terminal illness of a loved one. Please contact Warren Emmer 701-220-5042 or Janel Agnes 701-201-0294.

Rosary at St. Mark’s 20 to 30 min prior to Sat & Sun Masses. Volunteers needed to lead the rosary. Brochure available in the back of the church, along with a sign-up sheet. Please consider being part of this important ministry.

Stations of the Cross

Wednesday Evening 6pm at St. Mark’s and 7pm at St. Andrew’s April 12 – Northern Lights Apostles

St. Mark’s soup-suppers on Wednesdays 5pm—6pm will be offered by the group leading

Stations of the Cross and the free-will offerings will go to the Northern Lights Apostles. Saint Mark’s feast & Volunteer

Appreciation—Sunday- April 30th

4:00: Rectory Open House 5:00 Social 5:30: Entertainment 6:00: Roast Pork Dinner with all the trimmings St. Mark’s Altar Society Drawing. Find the sign-up sheets in the back of the church and at the Hall- April 20 deadline. Please join us in a night of fellowship.

St. Mark’s Altar Society’s mtg May 4 @ 5:30 pm,Parish Hall.