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Sacrament of Anointing: Please contact Fr. David when ill or hospitalized. If you would like a home or hospital visit, please call the parish office.

Sacrament of Baptism: Call the Parish Office to make an appointment for class and to schedule a Baptism date.

Sacrament of Marriage: Call the Parish Office at least nine months in advance.

Bulletin Announcements: Due at noon Thursday

Newcomers: Please register at Parish Office in Manson. We look forward to knowing you!

Sacrament of Reconciliation: Offered before weekend mass or anytime by ap-pointment.

Have you moved? Phone number changed? Please let the office know so we can update our records.

Rev. David Esquiliano, Administrator Residence and Office:

PO Box 99, 1076 8th St., Manson, IA 50563 Phone 712-469-3743

email desquiliano@icloud.com

Fr. Clair Boes (Ret.) - 712-261-1557 in residence, Rockwell City

Deacon Bob Lenz - 712-830-3088

Julie Storr, Cluster Business Manager

St. Thomas DRE julie@thomasfrancismary.com

Dawn Williamson, St. Francis DRE dawnw@thomasfrancismary.com

712-297-8194

From Fr. David’s Desk

June 25, 2017– The 12th Sunday in the Season of Ordinary Time

Sts. Francis, Mary & Thomas Parishes

“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”

~Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman Well, the day has come. It’s time to say good-bye. And with my goodbye, I also want to say five other things. Thank you While I’ve said this a few other times, there’s always a reason to be grateful. All of you opened the doors to your hearts for me, and for that I’m grateful. Some even opened the doors to your homes and fridges for me, and for that I’m also grateful. Thank you, as well, for all the kind words, gifts, and cards I’ve already been receiving. Sorry St. John Vianney said “we will either accuse ourselves or excuse ourselves.” Well, I do not want to do the latter. As I wrote on my first bulletin letter, this was my first assignment as parochial administrator. As such, I’m sure I made some mistakes, and I want to apologize for them. Sorry if there were times that I was unavailable, sorry if I did not fulfill some ex-pectations, sorry for any other shortcoming. Just, sorry. Stay Strong Shortly after I arrived in Calhoun County, I noticed how united our communities were. The next few weeks will be difficult for some; St. Mary is going to oratory, the number of Sun-day Masses will be reduced, some things will be different. I’d hate to see the sense of com-munity be harmed because of this. I’d venture to say that this is a great opportunity to come together and come out stronger. Remember the famous line from The Three Musketeers, “all for one and one for all, united we stand divid-ed we fall.” Stay strong, stay united, stay root-ed in Christ.

Pray for me I’m truly excited for the opportunity of going back to finish my studies, but I’m sure there will be some difficult moments. I love being in a parish and having contact with families, which I won’t be able to do while in school. I’ll also have to spend hours reading and writ-ing a dissertation, so I’ll need your prayers. Please, continue to pray for me, and know of my prayers for you. Stay in touch During the last couple weeks we have printed my contact information on the bulletin. Feel free to contact me through any of those means anytime. I will not get to Rome till the end of August, after I spend some time visiting my family and doing a spiritual retreat. So don’t feel like I’m ignoring you if you don’t hear back from me right away. I truly look forward to hearing from all of you. “The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God, and the Communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all” (2Cor 13:14), Father David

Our Lady of Fatima Anniversary Conference Sat., August 5, Registration 8 am Conference begins at 9 am, Sioux City Convention Center, Sioux City Registration: $25/person in advance, $30 day of con-ference. Speakers include: Fr. Wade Menezes, Deacon & Mrs. Bob Ellis, Msgr. Charles Mangan, and Bishop Nickless will concelebrate Mass. Conference sponsored by Trinity Heights Queen of Peace and the Diocese of Sioux City. To register, checks can be mailed to Queen of Peace, Inc., PO Box 1707, Sioux City, IA 51102

Clare Community Gathering will be Sunday, June 25, 3-7 pm at the Clare Community Center, Pot-luck supper begins at 5:00 pm, water, coffee, tea & lemonade and table service provided. Join us for kids games & fellowship. Everyone welcome!

Resurrection of Our Lord, Pocahontas, is plan-ning to welcome Fr. Collison and other new parishion-ers with a hamburger meal after the 5:00 pm Mass on Saturday, July 1. Coffee and rolls will also be served on Sunday, July 2 after the 8:30 am Mass. All are wel-come to attend!

CDA is a national Catholic organization for women dedicated to prayer, good works, and the helping of other less fortunate. You will make new and dear friends and have fun while enriching your life and oth-ers. For more information look for the CDA infor-mation table at the festivities at Resurrection of Our Lord Church, Pocahontas, on Saturday, July 1 and Sunday, July 2.

Southern Gospel Concert First Church of the Naz-arene, 1250 N. 24th St., Fort Dodge will be hosting the New Covenant Southern Gospel trio in concert on Fri-day evening, July 28 at 7:00pm. Doors open at 6:30pm

Servants of the Heart of the Father Confer-ence: Aug. 12, 8 a.m. registration, 9 a.m. presentation and concludes around 5:15 p.m. at River’s Edge Con-vention Center, 265 33rd Ave., Columbus, NE. Speak-er is Father Rodney Kneifl, theme is “Bringing the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit through Serving – to a Needy World.” Cost $35 per person; includes noon meal. Conference only $20. Register by Aug. 4 to Merline at 402-910-7111. Open AA Meeting is held at St. Thomas Church on Mondays at 7:30pm. For information, call Walt at 515-570-7189 or Dave at 712-297-4176.

Franciscan Come & See Weekend July 15/16 at Prior Lake, MN for guys 18-40 or mature minors with parental consent. The weekend is free, RSVP required 1-800-424-9955. Learn more at https://www.franciscans.org/franciscan-vocation-retreat

Priest’s Mass Intentions For The Week

One habit of a highly effective person. consecrated-life.org email vocations@scdiocese.org

Mon., June 26 6:30 pm Prison Mass Deceased of the Harrold family

Tues., June 27 7:30 am St. Thomas, Manson Intentions of our Father’s Day Novena 8:00 am St. Francis, Rockwell City Intentions of our Father’s Day Novena

5:30 pm St. Mary, Lake City

Wed., June 28 7:30 am St. Thomas, Manson Merv Schreier

8:00 am St. Francis, Rockwell City Pat Hobart

Thurs., June 29 7:30 am St. Thomas, Manson Michael & Anne Kennedy

8:00 am St. Francis, Rockwell City Gert & Lee Ellis

Fri., June 30 7:30 am St. Thomas, Manson Maurice Alig, Special Intention 8:00 am St. Francis, Rockwell City Ben Kramer

8:00 am St. Mary, Lake City

Sat., July 1 5:30 pm St. Francis, Rockwell City Floyd & Lauretta Holder, Connor Stell

Sun., July 2 8:30 am St. Thomas, Manson Dwight & Bernadeen Ledford and Eugene & Alice Francois 10:30 am St. Mary, Lake City

Please Remember In Your Prayers:

Joni Gerdes, Teresa and Bob Sexton, Julie Wood, Adrianna Haffner, Diane

O’Tool Bunnell, Nancy Carlson, Increase of Vocations

(Names will remain on the list for 3 weeks. Please call the office to extend it.)

Cluster Events

June 29-Brew and Brotherhood, 6:30am, St. Thomas parish hall. Future dates: July 13, 27

Eucharistic Adoration St. Francis Mondays 5-6 pm St. Thomas Tues. 2-4 pm; Thurs. 2-6 pm

Parish Ministers of the Mass If unable to serve, please find a replacement.

Lector EMHC Servers Gifts Greeter/Usher Counters

Rockwell City Sat., July 1

Doug Klocke Dave King, Maureen Hobart, Cheryl & Merle Wuebker

Emma & Brooklyn McKinney

Pat McGinty Loren & Sandy Wuebker

Manson Sun., July 2

Tim Trosnhynski

Denise Besch Tim & Deb Trosnynski

Riley, Sarah & Sean Peters

Shaun, Alex & Alison Nimke

Connie & Matt Peters Pat Schreier Morris Licht

Contact Information

My address will be: Fr. David Esquiliano Piazza della Pilotta, 1 00187 Rome, ITALY

My email will remain the same: desquiliano@icloud.com

If you would like to leave me a voicemail, the number will be: (402) 403-1180

And, don’t forget to find me on social media Facebook: fb.com/padre.davide Instagram: padre_davide Twitter: Padre_DavidE

Last Weeks’ Collections: St. Thomas St. Francis St. Mary June 18 $1,670.75 $1,584.38 $565.00 Other 10,200.00 Cath. Comm. 50.00

Manson Ministry Schedule The ministry schedule is complete through July 16 to allow for new members of our parish to join us! Please contact Julie if you would like to be a part of our parish ministries. Our online ministry scheduler makes it easy to schedule volunteer times that work best for you and find subs in case something comes up!

Special Collection July 1/2 Peter’s Pence June 29 is the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the patrons of the Church of Rome, and so also of the whole Roman Catholic Church throughout the world. These two saints, who were such powerful evangelists in the ear-liest decades of the Church, continue to inspire and encourage our own efforts here and now for the salva-tion of souls. Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, as suc-cessor of St. Peter, continues to lead the Church in the mission of our Savior, offering His grace where it is most needed in this life. We are taking up the Peter’s Pence collection to be part of the Church’s effort to promote a culture of encounter and justice. Your sup-port makes it possible for the Holy Father to carry out his charitable works around the world, to help victims of war, natural disasters, and other difficult situations. By supporting this collection with your prayers and your gift, you join the Holy Father in bringing a little more mercy into the world.

Life Serve Blood Drive will be at St. Francis, Rockwell City on Tues., June 27, 1:00-5:30 pm. Ap-pointments can be scheduled at www.lifeservebloodcenter.org

Meals on Wheels St. Francis Circle 2 delivers Meals on Wheels July 3-7

St. Thomas delivers Meals on Wheels July 10-14

Intentions of our Father’s Day Novena Pat Hobart, Jerry and Melvin Hartman, Al-bert Booge, Gene Hartman, Gene Davis, Jim Waller, Don Patz, Patrick McGinty I, Henry McGinty, Peter Mullen, Frank Fouts, Larry Leppert, Ed Steinhoff, Bud Goeders, Bill Stow, James D McMeekin, Wilbert H. Wuebker, Pat Nieland, Ben Nieland, Allen Nieland, Jim Weins, Lawrence Storr, Doug Nieland, Don and Craig N., Dale and Craig J., Lloyd Schreier, Frank Schreier, William Crawford, Keith Sexton, Dale Sexton, Ger-ald Stumbo, Tony Resch, Wayne and Earl Stotts, Richard Hildreth, Ernest Feld, David Lenz, Marvin Alig, Steve Sweet, Maurice Alig, Kenny Alig, Bruce Dittmer, Lawrence Taylor, Ernest Baker, Frank Schreier, Norman Schreier, Morris Licht, Edgar Licht, Julius Krebs, Neil, Gary Nichol-son, Tony Vogel, Glenn Steinkamp, Don Lampman

For generations, science has ignored the concept

of creation because doing otherwise would beg the question ... of a Creator.

Today, however, we have compelling evidence–

from science itself–for a beginning and fine-tuning of the universe. The insights are complementary, and that very fact provides evidence of a

transcendent, intelligent Creator.

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Readings for the Week of June 25, 2017 Sunday: Jer 20:10-13/Ps 69:8-10, 14, 17, 33-35/Rom 5:12-15/Mt 10:26-33 Monday: Gn 12:1-9/Ps 33:12-13, 18-20, 22/Mt 7:1-5 Tuesday: Gn 13:2, 5-18/Ps 15:2-4ab, 5/Mt 7:6, 12-14 Wednesday: Gn 15:1-12, 17-18/Ps 105:1-4, 6-9/Mt 7:15-20 Thursday: Vigil: Acts 3:1-10/Ps 19:2-5/Gal 1:11-20/Jn 21:15-19 Day: Acts 12:1-11/Ps 34:2-9/2 Tm 4:6-8, 17-18/Mt 16:13-19 Friday: Gn 17:1, 9-10, 15-22/Ps 128:1-5/Mt 8:1-4 Saturday: Gn 18:1-15/Lk 1:46-50, 53-55/Mt 8:5-17

Outdoor Mass and Parish Picnic will be Sun-day, August 13 at 10:30am at the Calhoun County Expo Center, Rockwell City. Bring lawn chairs and a covered dish or dessert to share. Please note: there will be NO 8:30 mass at St. Thomas that morning.