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Pastor Fr. Alvan Amadi Email: [email protected] Office: ………...(920)487-5005 Ext# 3
Parish Administrative Assistant Susan Dean…………………....487-5005 Email: [email protected]
Religious Education Barb Heiges Email: [email protected] Phone…..……........……..(920)255-3326
Lo-Sec & Grief Ministry Donna Moran ……….. (920)723-1948 Email: [email protected]
Parish Trustees Larry Feuerstein……………...487-3956 Mike Haase……………………..304-0252
St. Mary Grade School Lucinda Massey, Lead Teacher Email: [email protected]
School Secretary Marcia Cross, Secretary Email: [email protected] Phone………………….....(920)487-5004
Prayer Chain Barb Harz………...….....(920)255-2296
Gift Bearers Patti Donart……………..(920)487-2651
Chairpersons Pastoral Council Mark LeBotte………...…(920)559-3004 Jamie Stangel ………....(920)217-0124
Finance Council Mary Kay Bennett…....(920)255-2944
Buildings & Grounds Dan Vertz………………………..487-2091
Cemetery Association Earl Krueger…………………...487-3861 Larry Feuerstein……………..487-3956
Board of Education Jamie Dachelet …………...…255-0931
Stewardship Linda Andre ………………...…487-2542 Jan Guilette…………………..…856-6979
Worship Karen Wautlet ……………...…487-3754
St . Mary Catholic Church 214 Church Street, Algoma, WI 54201
. . . since 1860 VISION:
Love God, Love others, and form disciples for Jesus.
MISSION: To build a Catholic Community that discovers Jesus,
follows Jesus, worships Jesus, and shares Jesus with others.
Call Parish Office For Sacramental Prep
Baptism • Marriage • RCIA
(920) 487-5005 Ext #100
Confessions according to schedule
and Confessions and Sacrament of Anointing
anytime by request.
Contact Father Amadi (920) 487-5005 Ext #3
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This Week at St. Mary
Readings for the Week of March 15, 2020
Sunday: Ex 17:3-7/Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9/
Rom 5:1-2, 5-8/Jn 4:5-42 or 4:5-15,
19b-26, 39a, 40-42
Monday: 2 Kgs 5:1-15b/Ps 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4
[cf. Ps 42:3]/Lk 4:24-30
Tuesday: Dn 3:25, 34-43/Ps 25:4-5ab, 6 and 7bc,
8-9 [6a]/Mt 18:21-35
Wednesday: Dt 4:1, 5-9/Ps 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20
[12a]/Mt 5:17-19
Thursday: 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16/Ps 89:2-3,
4-5, 27 and 29/Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22/
Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a or Lk 2:41-51a
Friday: Hos 14:2-10/Ps 81:6c-8a, 8bc-9,
10-11ab, 14 and 17 [cf. 11 and 9a]/
Mk 12:28-34
Saturday: Hos 6:1-6/Ps 51:3-4, 18-19, 20-21ab
[cf. Hos 6:6]/Lk 18:9-14
Next Sunday: 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a/Ps 23:1-3a,
3b-4, 5, 6 [1]/Eph 5:8-14/Jn 9:1-41 or
9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38
St. Mary Mass Schedule
Saturday, March 14 7:00 am Adoration 8:05 am † Chrissy VanderMuss 8:45 am Confessions 5:30 pm † Judi Blahnik
Sunday, March 15 8:15 am For the People of the Parish
Tuesday, March 17 7:00 am Adoration 8:05 am † Nathan Donart
Wednesday, March 18 8:05 am Mass at Holy Rosary - Kewaunee
Thursday, March 19 7:00 am Adoration 7:45 am Pray the Rosary 8:05 am † Ron Boucher 3:00-4:00 pm Adoration & Confessions
Friday, March 20 7:00 am Adoration 8:05 am † Donald Entringer 4:00 pm Stations of the Cross
Saturday, March 21 7:00 am Adoration 8:05 am † Matt & Jim Wehausen 8:45 am Confessions 5:30 pm For the People of the Parish
Sunday, March 22 8:15 am † Leonard & Marie Feuerstein
Free Skin Cancer Screening Saturday, April 4, 2020
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Prevea Luxemburg Health Center
101 School Creek Trail, Luxemburg Register by calling 920-388-7160
Monday, Mar. 16 10:00 am – Scrip order is due in the parish office; pick-up will be the following week-end after masses.
When school is in session, on hand scrip is available for sale on Wednesdays in the school office from 2:50 - 3:20 pm.
Wednesday, Mar. 18 3:35 pm - 5:00 pm K—6th grade Faith Formation Classes 6:45 pm - 8:30 pm 7th—11th grade Faith Formation Classes
Thursday, Mar. 19 9:00 am - Bible Study “The Sunday Scriptures” in the Rosary Society Room. All are invited anytime! 4:15 pm - Worship Committee Meeting 6:15 pm - 8:00 pm - ALPHA Meeting
Friday, Mar. 20 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm - COF/Home & School Trout Boil
Porkie-Pancake Breakfast and Bake Sale
All You Can Eat Porkie-Pancake Breakfast and Bake Sale
Sponsor: Catholic Order of Foresters-St Joseph Ct. 2080-Pilsen
Matching Funds Project
Date: Sunday, March 22, 2020
8:00 am to 12:30 pm Cost:
Adults- $7 Ages 6 to 10- $3 Under 6- free Location: St Therese Parish- St. Joseph/St. John Site
E860 St. Rd 29 Luxemburg, WI 54217
Youth Choir/Musicians wanted!
The 10:15am Mass on Easter Sunday will feature a youth choir again this year. All school-age parish youth are encouraged to participate. Please see the bulletin insert for additional information/sign-up slip.
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Mar. 7 & 8
Stewardship & Loose Collection $ 2,835.00 School Operating Support $ 50.00 Building & Grounds Maintenance $ 0.00
Each Week our Stewardship Goal is $6,000.00.
This article by Piers Plowright was published in the London Tablet, as a review of a book; “Praying the Sta-tions of the Cross”, by Margaret Adams Parker & Katherine Sonderegger. Fr. Alvan Amadi
It’s a very ancient Christian tradition. Helena, Emperor Constantine’s mother, probably followed it, St. Jerome wrote about it, medieval pilgrims toughed it out to experience it, St. Francis blessed it and his followers protected it, as they still do today: Christ’s last journey from courtroom to cross and tomb along Jerusalem’s Via Dolorosa. A journey of stopping points (stations), meditation and prayer. Once Islam controlled the Holy Places, it became much more difficult to do on site, and even before, as early as the fifth century, returning trav-elers had placed a set of stations in the Church of San Stefano in Bologna. By the eighteenth century, the Pope had ruled that all Roman Catholic churches should display them , now codified as 14 - numbers had varied from six to 30. More recently, many Protestant churches have embraced the custom.
In their new book, artist and educator Margaret Adams Parker and theologian Katherine Sonderegger have produced both a history and a commentary, a meditation and a manual, a context and a guide to practice - and, most importantly, provide a connection between Old Testament prophecy, gospel accounts of the Passion, contemporary prayer and the concerns of our bruised modern world. The book’s subtitle is “Finding Hope in a Weary Land”, and that’s what I think it helps us to do.
It was the playwright Dennis Potter who wrote the wonderful sentence, “Christianity is the wound, not the bandage”. “The Stations” belong to that sense of pain and suffering experienced and faced that make them a challenge for any believer. As the authors express it, “the practice can seem strange, bizarre, or even offensive, a kind of lugubrious piety with the puzzling addition of non-biblical scenes.” At its most extreme, the kind of con-centration on the blood and cruelty that Mel Gibson chose for his 2004 movie The Passion of the Christ. Such “piety” is not this book’s intention; rather, to “enlarge our sympathy for those who suffer, and strengthen our spirits to serve them”. To help us bear witness.
The main body of the text, powerfully illustrated by Adams Parker’s woodcuts, consists of pausing and praying at each station. And each pause divides into readings, silences, prayers, chants and meditations which relate and deepen the meaning. A great handbook for Lent and Easter but really independent of any liturgical season - a present help in times of trouble. As Katherine Sonderegger writes in her afterword, “these worldly scars will not have the last word”
Bishop’s Appeal 2020
Our Bishops appeal goal is $26,120.00. As of March 10, 2020, 105 St. Mary Parishioners have contributed $ 22,535.22 in cash and pledges.
Please consider a gift to the Bishop’s Appeal.
Lent & Triduum Schedule:
Reconciliation Service: Tuesday, March 31 at 6 PM Palm Sunday Vigil: Saturday, April 4 at 5:30 PM Palm Sunday (The Passion of the Lord): Sunday, April 5, at 8:15 AM Holy Thursday: Thursday, April 9, at 7 PM Good Friday: Friday, April 10 at 1 PM Holy Saturday (Easter Vigil): April 11 at 8:15 PM Easter Sunday: April 12 at 8:15 AM & 10:15 AM
RESERVE YOUR COOKBOOK
Next weekend after both Masses, Rosary Society members will be available at the church entrances to take orders for the St. Mary Parish cookbooks, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Rosary Society. If you would like to reserve your cookbook, please order at that time. The cookbook contains over 400 recipes and the cost is $15 each. Payment at the time of ordering is helpful, but not required. Cookbooks will arrive in late summer.