SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Arrangements must be made at least six months in advance. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Expectant parents are to participate in the Baptism preparation program. Classes are offered in February, June, and October. SACRAMENT OF PENANCE Weekdays 6:30 - 6:50 AM Fridays 7:00 - 8:00 PM Saturdays 3:45 - 4:15 PM and 6:15 - 6:45 PM SACRAMENT OF THE ANOINTING OF THE SICK Those preparing for serious surgery are to contact the rectory; the shut-ins and elderly contact Sr. Rita. PARISH MEMBERSHIP Call the Rectory Office 715-384-3252

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

201 W. BLODGETT ST. MARSHFIELD, WI 54449-2004 website: www.stjohnsmarshfield.org

ESTABLISHED IN 1877 XIV VOLUME 5 N0 1 JULY 26, 2015 SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

CALENDAR OF PARISH ACTIVITIES JULY / AUGUST 2015

MISSION STATEMENT: Our mission at St. John the Baptist Parish is to prepare people for the coming of the fullness of God’s Kingdom by sharing the Catholic Faith and its tradition.

PARISH PERSONNEL Fr. Samuel Martin, Pastor 715-384-3252 ext. 212 Fr. Nathaniel Kuhn, Associate Pastor 715-384-3252 ext. 213 Deacon Jeffrey Austin, Permanent Deacon 715-676-3186 Sister Rita Adlkofer, Spiritual Counselor 715-384-9929 Mary Gouin, Parish Secretary 715-384-9565 ext. 210 Lori Salzmann, Finance Office 715-384-9565 ext. 215 Deb Mlsna, DRE 715-659-4480 ext. 202 Dan Kitzhaber, Youth Minister 715-384-4989 ext. 3 St. John School Office 715-384-4989 ext. 1 David Eaton, CCS President 715-387-1177 MASSES Weekdays 7:00 AM Saturdays 8:00 AM / 4:30 / 7:00 PM Sundays 7:00 / 9:00 / 11:00 AM

26 27 28 29 30 31 1

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

MASSES 7:00AM 9:00AM

11:00AM

SPANISH MASS 5:00PM

ADORATION 7:30AM-12:00PM CONFESSIONS 7:30 - 8:30AM

ANNOINTING

MASS 9:00AM

ROSARY 12:15PM

CONFESSIONS 7:00 - 8:00PM

MASSES 4:30PM 7:00PM

CONFESSIONS

3:45 - 4:15PM 6:15 - 6:45PM

MASSES 7:00AM 9:00AM

11:00AM

ADORATION 7:30AM-12:00PM CONFESSIONS 7:30 - 8:30AM

1:30PM MASS THREE OAKS

ROSARY 12:15PM

CONFESSIONS 7:00 - 8:00PM

MASSES 4:30PM 7:00PM

CONFESSIONS

3:45 - 4:15PM 6:15 - 6:45PM

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL 8:00 ~ 11:30AM

SUMMER BIBLE CAMP FOR TEENS 7:00 ~ 9:00PM

MASS SCHEDULE / SCRIPTURE READINGS MON 7/27/15 7:00am Living & deceased members of the Jerome Brandt family Scripture Readings: Ex 32:15-24, 30-34 Mt 13:31-35 TUES 7/28/15 7:00am Living & deceased members of the Charron family Scripture Readings: Ex 33:7-11; 34:5b-9, 28 Mt 13:36-43 WED 7/29/15 St. Martha 7:00am Trai Whetstone 9:00am Al Diers (Healing Mass) Scripture Readings: Ex 34:29-35 Jn 11:19-27 THUR 7/30/15 St. Peter Chrysologus, Bishop, Doctor of the Church 7:00am Marian Wellner Scripture Readings: Ex 40:16-21, 34-38 Mt 13:47-53 FRI 7/31/15 St. Ignatius of Loyola, priest 7:00am Henry, Brother Mark, Sylvester, & Norman Rehlinger Scripture Readings: Lv 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37 Mt 13:54-58 SAT 8/1/15 St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop, Doctor of the Church 8:00am Joanne Beno & Special Intention Scripture Readings: Lv 25:1, 8-17 Mt 14:1-12

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:30pm Almira Martin 7:00pm Jerome Hoffarth SUN 8/2/15 7:00am Micheal & Lorraine Klapatauskas 9:00am St. John the Baptist and Christ the King parish families 11:00am Archie & Jennie Leick family Scripture Readings: Ex 16:2-4, 12-15 Eph 4:17, 20-24 Jn 6:24-35

LITURGICAL MINISTERS

August 1st & 2nd, 2015 LECTORS 4:30pm Jeff Schultz 7:00pm Kathy Doebereiner 7:00am Ray Housworth 9:00am Donna Staab 11:00am John Salzmann MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION 4:30pm Marcy Gotz / Jan Michalik / John & Shirley Pritzl 7:00pm Gerald Nikolay / John & Lucy Ann Scheuer / Bob Seitz 7:00am Pat, Gail, & Laura Guldan / Sara Henrichs 9:00am Donald Hansen / Jill Hiller / Carol Jonas / Jean Kaiser Bernard & Donna Knoeck / Patty Kraus Mikayla Kollross 11:00am Helga Krainz / Ann Kundinger / Argelia Moya Bob Purkapile SERVERS 4:30pm Angela McQuillen / Ian Rootellis 7:00pm Gracie Spindler / Julianna Kollross 7:00am Flynn McQuillen / Luke Kaiser 9:00am Sydney Mauritz / Ryleigh McGiveron 11:00am Hugh & Leo Steiner MUSIC MINISTER 4:30pm Open 7:00pm Open 7:00am Cindy Penker 9:00am Cindy Penker 11:00am Open

WEEK DAY SERVERS July 27th - July 31st - Ray Housworth FUNERAL SERVERS July 27th - Aug 1st Dave Fehrenbach / Pat Imhoff / Dan Mroz

PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS

To have a prayer added to St. John’s Prayer Chain, please call Shirley 715-384-3613 and Donna 715-384-2479 (there are 2 lists). If you wish to become a member of the prayer chain, please call Jane Gerend at 715-387-2019 or Ann Bohnert at 715-389-2726. Come celebrate with us the Eucharist including the Sacrament of the Sick on Wednesday, July 29th at 9:00am. We extend a special invitation to the sick and homebound who feel well enough to come. Transportation to and from St. John’s will again be available. Please call the parish office 715-384-3252 ext. 2, Monday-Friday from 9:00am-5:00pm if you would like a ride to Church for this occasion or if you wish to volunteer to drive. Icon of Our Lady of Good Counsel: A new icon has recently been put up in the Columbia Room. This icon was given by the St. Joseph School of Nursing Class of 1968 in memory of Veronica Beck. Check it out the next time you are there! St. John’s Parish Family has the opportunity to aid the less fortunate in our area by serving a fellowship meal in the Gathering Room of St. Vincent de Paul Center. We meet on July 29th, at 3pm to set up, serve the meal at 5pm and finish with clean-up by 6:30pm. If you are able to help, please call Jane at 715-387-2019. The Family Life Committee continues to collect scrap metal to support various committee projects that benefit St. John’s. Items to consider donating are tin cans, copper pipes, brass, old metal shelves, car/motorcycle batteries, hangers, etc. A trailer will be available at the Church Picnic, and the Pig Roast. If you have any questions, please call Lori at 715-387-0244 Natural Family Planning: All Natural ~ Good for the Body. Great for the Soul Fertility is a gift from God allowing us to become co-creators of new life with our Heavenly Father. Whether you are hoping to postpone or achieve pregnancy, Natural Family Planning can be a valuable tool in helping you plan your family. By simply learning when fertility and infertility occurs during a woman’s cycle and the rules to apply, couples can effectively meet their family planning intention. NFP is 99% effective and 100% natural, which means you never have to worry about dangerous side effects. For more information about Natural Family Planning or to register for instruction in your area, visit www.diolc.org/nfp

YOUTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Youth Mass Servers: If you would like to participate more fully in the Mass, and are in fifth grade or older, we would love to have you serve as an altar boy or girl. We are especially in need of servers for the Sat. 4:30pm and the Sun. 7:00am Masses. If you are interested, please call the parish office at 715-384-9565 ext 210. Also.. if you are currently a Mass server and need to make changes in your time of Mass or if you know of dates that you can not serve, please call the office as the new schedule is in the process of being made. Youth Rummage Sale Christ the King youth will be holding a sale at the Seton Center during the Spencer city-wide rummage sale (Aug. 6th). Please donate your gently used items on Aug. 4th or 5th from 9am until 3pm at the Seton Center. You are also invited to come on Thursday, Aug. 6th from 8am until 5pm to purchase items from this sale to support these pilgrims on this spiritual journey. Questions? Please call Dan Kitzhaber at 715-384-4989 x3, or 715-659-4480 x4 Pilgrimage with the Pope and a Saint: World Youth Day July of 2016 Be part of an 11-day pilgrimage to Poland for a gathering with Pope Francis and youth from around the world to celebrate WYD 2016 in Krakow. As part of the pilgrimage, we will also visit Wadowice, the birthplace of St John Paul II as well as Czestochowa, Auschwitz & Birkenau, where St. Maximillian Kolbe gave his life and much more. Questions? Contact Dan Kitzhaber at 715-384-4989 x3 or 715-659-4480 x4 or yministry@frontier.com

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK Praised be Jesus Christ! A classmate of mine is getting ready to take a sabbatical. At this point in my priesthood I do not feel inclined to take a three month hiatus (being away 6 weeks for hip surgery was hard enough – believe it or not, I really missed you). But if someday I do decide to take a sabbatical I have some things I’d really like to do before my time on this planet is up. Not that you care, but here’s my “bucket list” of things I’d like to accomplish before God calls me home. First up is to visit all 50 states – I’m still missing Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Delaware. Of those remaining states, I most want to see Alaska, as the book Into the Wild (also made into a movie) really impacted me. Another item on my list is to take the Trans-Siberian Express from Moscow to Vladivostok. I love Russian literature (especially Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn) and would love to see Lake Baikal. Before going I’d have to at least learn how to read the Cyrillic alphabet. Speaking of foreign languages, my Spanish skills are slowly improving, which would make possible my goal of driving from Wisconsin to Tierra del Fuego, Chile. That would allow me to see much of Mexico, Central America, and the vastness of South America while travelling the Pan-American highway. At the end I’d find a needy community and donate my car before flying home. I actually have a friend who has this on his list so God-willing, we might pull this one off someday. Now it occurs to me that my Mom might be reading this article – don’t worry, Mom, I won’t tell you about these trips until after I return home safely! Another goal of mine is to climb to the top of a 14,000 foot peak. In 2009 I did some hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park and we climbed to the top of a 12,000 foot peak. That was tough but I absolutely loved it and now that I have a new hip, I would love to scale at least one of Colorado’s more than 50 “14ers” (their nickname for peaks exceeding 14,000 feet). I have my eyes on Longs Peak because it can be scaled in one day and does not require any technical skill. Given my age and limited exercise, the window is closing on this one and I don’t know if I’ll be fit enough in 10 years to pull it off (Father Burish thinks I’m not fit enough right now to get the top of Rib Mountain). For those of you still reading this far-fetched list of earthly goals, one other that might be the most feasible is to walk part of the Camino de Santiago in Spain. If you don’t know much about this pilgrimage route, I’d suggest watching the movie “The Way”. It’s a very good depiction of the what and why of the Camino, though there is the disappointing treatment of a person’s cremated remains (Catholic teaching requires that we bury our dead in a cemetery and not keep our loved ones with us in an urn). The traditional Camino pilgrimage is 500 miles in length and generally takes at least a month. However, one can still earn the official badge of completion by walking about 60 miles and it’s this prospect that I’m considering. There are some folks in the parish who would really like to organize this and I’m praying that God will show us when and how. In the meantime, you now know how I would spend my sabbatical if ever I felt led by the Holy Spirit to take one. If you didn’t think I was crazy before, maybe you’re convinced now! God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference! Your friend in Christ, Father Martin

NOTES FROM FR. MARTIN Praise for the Parish Pull! Please join me in thanking God for the perfect weather He provided that allowed us to host just over 3,000 eager pulling fans on Friday, July 10th. I'm so grateful for all the volunteers: you were heroic in your generous and joyful spirit of service! We simply could not have done it without each of you and I am certain that you have stored up some pretty impressive treasure in Heaven. For the 3rd year in a row we're indebted to the Knights of Columbus for their sponsorship - working with the Knights has been a true experience of fraternity. In case you're wondering, it looks like we cleared $35,000.00 of which we're happy to be sending $10,000.00 to support Columbus High School’s Chapel renovation. Our committee approved sending $25,000.00 to Tanzania to help Sister Sabina and her order continue building a new convent, which is now moving into the last phase. On a sad note, I was defeated by the young upstart Father Kuhn. After capturing the gold medal a year ago I had a tremendous advantage in the number of fans who were cheering for me: to be precise, I had around 3,000 fans while Father Kuhn had a measly 10 – yes, you guessed it, members of the previously mentioned Notorious Neillsville Knuckleheads. I’m sorry to my very devoted fans (and numerous – did I mention that I had a lot of fans?!). Thank God next year Father Kuhn will be moving on and I’ll be requesting a less-competitive priest; I am not the most gracious loser. In all seriousness now, may God bless you, people of St. John's, for pulling off something that was fun for many people! Christ the King/St. John’s welcomes Father Eric A-Dadson! Father Eric comes to us from Ghana (West Africa) and will be with us for a short stay as he makes proximate preparations to serve as a pastor in our diocese. Father was ordained a priest on July 22nd, 1990, meaning that he’ll be celebrating his silver anniversary while in our midst. Father Eric has a PhD in pastoral counseling from Fordham University (New York City) and has served in many capacities in his own diocese, including Vicar General. Please greet Father Eric and make him feel welcome as he transitions into parish life in Wisconsin! Church Etiquette: For the good of the order, please be conscientious about noise in church. As a priest, I have a pretty high threshhold for noise during Mass. The exception is during the homily. I'm asking parents to be particularly attentive to crying babies at that time, because that is a part of Mass that hearing well is essential to receiving the message. We can follow along during other parts of the Mass, but the homily is a time when we need a higher degree of silence. If your baby/toddler is fussing, please take him/her out or consider taking up residence in our cry room. Keep in mind that the 9:00 a.m. Sunday Mass is unofficially our “family” Mass, which means it’s a little more lively than other Masses. I’m grateful to God that we have such a young parish with so many heroic parents bringing their children to Mass. Please take this as a gentle reminder so that we can find a greater balance between youthful exuberance and silent contemplation!

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