Weekly Reading

Compass Sunday, September 20

WIS 2:12, 17-20/JAS 3:16—4:3/MK

9:30-37

Monday, September 21

EPH 4:1-7, 11-13/MT 9:9-13

Tuesday, September 22

EZR 6:7-8, 12B, 14-20/LK 8:19-21

Wednesday, September 23

EZR 9:5-9/LK 9:1-6

Thursday, September 24

HG 1:1-8/LK 9:7-9

Friday, September 25

HG 2:1-9/LK 9:18-22

Saturday, September 26

ZEC 2:5-9, 14-15A/LK 9:43B-45

Date Time Event

9/23 5:30 pm Faith Formation Social Hour @ OLL 9/23 6:30 pm Faith Formation Starts @ OLL For All Grades 9/23 6:30 pm Faith Formation & Grill Out Starts @ SJ For Grades 6-11

9/27 Catechetical Sunday 9/27 9:00 am Faith Formation Starts @ SJ for Grades PreK-5

9/30 5:30 pm Social Hour @ SJ & OLL 6:30 pm Classes Gr. K-10 @ OLL 6:30 pm Classes Gr. 6-10 @ SJ 6:30 pm Parent/Candidate Orientation for Confirmation (Grade 11) @ SJ

10/3 4:00 pm HS Lifeline @ St. Paul

10/4 9:00 am Classes Gr. PrK-5 @ SJ

10/7 5:30 pm Social Hour @ SJ & OLL 6:30 pm Classes Gr. K-11 @ OLL 6:30 pm Classes Gr. 6-11 @ SJ

FF Calendar

St. Joseph Church - Amery Masses: Sun. 10:30 AM; Sat. 4:00 PM Wednesday & Thursday at 9:00 AM Mass is televised on Local Access Cable Channel 6 Tuesdays at 9:00 am & 1:00 pm Building Use All use of the church building must be CONFIRMED in advance with the parish office. Office Staffed Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 1050 Keller Avenue N., Amery, WI 54001 Phone: 715-268-7717; Fax: 715-268-9986 office@stjosephamery.org www.stjosephamery.org Follow us on Facebook Adult/Youth Formation Leader: Ben Rippe Coord. of Faith Formation: Heather Kremer Office Mgr/Bookkeeper: JoAnne Sabelko Secretary: Melissa Russo Custodians: Mary Ann Larson Dan Fleming Roger Waterman Our Lady of the Lakes - Balsam Lake Masses: Sun. 8:30 AM; Sat. 6:00 PM Tues. at 5:30 PM & Fri. at 9:00 AM Po Box 399, Balsam Lake, WI 54810 507 West Main, Balsam Lake, WI 54810 Phone: 715-405-2253; Fax: 715-405-2743 ourlady@lakeland.ws www.ourladyofthelakes.ws Office Mgr./Coord. of Faith Formation: Sally Christiansen Bookkeeper: Deacon Dick Peterson Custodians: Judy Graetz Sandy Schommer Maintenance: Larry McCurdy The deadline for articles / announcements / changes to be included in the bulletin is 4:00 p.m. every MONDAY afternoon. Contact 715-268-7717 for more information.

Sacraments

Baptism Call Melissa @ SJ 715-268-7717 or Sally @ OLL 715-405-2253 for information regarding getting Baptized.

Reconciliation Confessions heard: St. Joseph: Sat. 3-3:30 pm or by appointment. Our Lady of the Lakes: Sundays 8-8:15 am; Fridays after 9 am Mass or by appointment.

Marriage Preparation is required at least 6 months prior to the wedding. Call the church as soon as possible after engagement for an appointment.

Anointing of the Sick If you or someone in your family is hospitalized and would like to receive communion or anoint-ing, please call the parish office. Due to patient privacy laws, no one can visit unless the patient or family requests it.

Faith Formation

The School of Greatness! Faith Formation Starts Soon! Proper Faith Formation will prepare your kid for greatness! I think most parents want what’s best for their kids: they give them plenty of food, clothe them, shelter them, make sure they do their homework, and take care of them when they are sick. They want their kid to suc-ceed in life and do their best. The one thing kids and we all need most to succeed is God. God is Almighty and with him we can do anything, without him we can’t do anything. Sure he might not give us power, wealth, health, or honor, but he teaches by the beatitudes that even when we don’t have those things that the world claims as the best, Jesus WILL give us the best, God himself! And give us joy and greatness even when we don’t have worldly goods! With God ALL things are possible! Jesus says in the Gospels “Amen, I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to

there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Mat 17:20. Jesus wants the best for us, he wants us to be great, and by living in him, by following his Commandments, and receiving him in the Sacraments WE WILL BE GREAT! God will give us what we need to be great, he will give us himself, and all we have to do is accept his gift! We have the example of the saints who have stopped great evil, who have bi-located, read minds, flown, cured great diseases, or just simple things like fought sin in their life, fought hunger and sin in other peo-ple’s lives, comforted the sick, and endure suffering patiently with Christ, each doing their part to be great servants of the kingdom of God. Blessed Mother Theresa of Calcutta said once, “Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love.” The greatest thing we can do with our life is love, for it is in doing so we act with God!

Prepare yourself and your child for greatness, for the grand kingdom of God! Ask

yourself what can you do to better help yourself, your family, and your friends be better? Per-

haps its pray more as a family or in public, perhaps its learn more about the faith of Christ,

perhaps it’s to talk more about Christ’s faith, perhaps it’s just to show you love more, perhaps

it’s to volunteer more as a family? Find something AND DO IT! And be prepared for greatness!

Blessed Mother Theresa pray for us that we may have the boldness to be as great as you are,

finding little ways to show great love, through Jesus Christ. Amen.

Welcome to our Parish Cluster We’re glad you’re here!

Pastor: Father Gene Murphy

Deacon Emeritus: Larry Bauer

September 20th, 2015

St. Joseph Catholic Church Our Lady of the Lakes

Twenty Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

SJ Calendar Wednesday, September 23rd Faith Formation Starts for Grades 6-11 Sunday, September 27th Catechetical Sunday Faith Formation Starts for Grades PreK-5 Remember Project 2:30 pm KC Meeting 6 pm Sunday, October 4th Donut Sunday Tuesday, October 6th Bible Study after 9 am Communion Service Pastoral Council Meeting 7 pm Wednesday, October 7th Stump the Chump after 9 am Mass Sunday, October 11th Fall Tailgate Party and Raffle Tuesday, October 13th Bible Study after 9 am Communion Service Finance Meeting 7 pm

18th Annual Raffle and

Tailgate Party Sunday, October 11th 2015 @ St. Joes

Packers VS Rams Large Screen TV’s / Games & Raffle

Raffle Boards are $20/Square Every Square is a Winner

Meal & Refreshments Provided Free Will Offering

Backpack Fundraiser The Salvation Army sends backpacks with food home to students who receive free and reduced lunches in area schools. They are now asking churches to collect personal hy-giene products to be added to the backpacks. Each month there will be one specific item to collect. For the month of September we will be collecting quart and gallon size zip lock bags to put personal hygiene items in sepa-rate from the food. In October we will be collecting Shampoo and Conditioner. We will have a basket for the collection by the bulletin board in the gathering area.

Parish Cluster & Community News

Anna Kastens, Arlene Jones, Brady Prin-dle, Brody Hines, Carolyn Anderson, Earl Lovejoy, Gabe Graski, Jim Kreier, Linda Scace, Mary Losness, Mary Nevala, Mi-chael Logan, Norma Baldus, Patricia Carl-son, Rhonda Newman, Roger Scace, Shannon Niccum, Teresa Collins, Our Mili-tary Personnel***

Mass Intentions for the Week

Key: SJ - St. Joseph Church OLL - Our Lady of the Lakes Church WR - Willow Ridge, Amery GAM - Golden Age Manor, Amery GS - Good Samaritan Home, St. Croix Falls, AMC—Amery Memory Care Unit. Please note: Requested dates for Mass intentions are subject to change based on the Mass schedule. ***Prayer Lists: Please contact the SJ Office to add names to the prayer list. Names stay on the list for 4 months and are then removed unless the office is noti-fied that they should remain.

Liturgical Roles Please Pray For Saint Joseph Church

Saturday, September 19 4:00 pm Evelyn Jackelen by Sidney Jones SJ 6:00 pm Jerry Thompson Sr by Ozzie Thompson OLL Sunday, September 20 8:30 am Walter Weinke by Berneita & Family OLL 10:30 am Mary Wensmann by Ron & Cheryl Meier SJ Monday, September 21 9:00 am Communion Service SJ Tuesday, September 22 9:00 am Communion Service SJ 5:30 pm Fernande Pedersen by Rochell Salmore OLL Wednesday, September 23 9:00 am Perry Koeppen by Jack Hayek SJ Thursday, September 24 9:00 am Members of the Knights of Columbus SJ Friday, September 25 9:00 am David Maier by Greg Maier OLL 9:00 am Communion Service SJ Saturday, September 26 4:00 pm Marlene Grasser by Kim Grasser SJ 6:00 pm Lucy Kaiser by Jim & Sally London OLL Sunday, September 27 8:30 am Ida Hinz by Don & Brenda Mayer OLL 10:30 am Ardeth Clark by Melvin & Donna Arcand SJ

Stewardship Update

September Calendar Raffle Winners 10th $20 #1607 Heidi Johnson New Richmond, WI

11th $100 #1678 Nick Cadotte Amery, WI 12th $25 #1504 Ruth Mugerauer Amery, WI 13th $50 #1908 Joey Dee Rosemount, MN 14th $20 #1572 David Lutz New Richmond, WI 15th $20 #1272 Brian/Amy Corbett Amery, WI 16th $20 #1195 Lisa Cerney Clayton, WI

Sat., September 26th- 4:00 p.m. Reader: M Nevala

Ministers of Communion: S Suckut,

R Weber, A Krisik, P Seidl, J Seidl, P Water-man, D Fleming, M Nevala

Ushers: J & K Ganje, M Fox, T & B Hemauer

Servers: J Driscoll, A Driscoll

Music: G & A Dado/Choir

Sun., September 27th - 10:30 am Reader: M Otto

Ministers of Communion: A Goulet,

D John, K Harris, L Harris, V Seibel-Betzold, J Koeppen, J Olander, Volunteer

Ushers: S & B Schmidt, N & L Valentine

Servers: D Valentine, M Goulet, M Goulet

Music: Volunteer

Video: A Schad

St. Joseph Parish General Fund

Monthly Income YTD Income

Aug 2014 Aug 2015 FY 14/15 FY15/16

Actual Income $29,256.19 $31,564.74 $55,199.72 $55,714.68

Actual Expenses * $48,055.80 $33,511.79 * $83,904.05 $62,453.62

Difference -$18,799.61 -$1,947.05 -$28,704.05 -$6,738.94

Children’s Collection $94.64 $147.34

Mortgage Balance $730,371.15 Mortgage Contributions $1,538.00

Holiday Bazaar For the 24th Annual Holiday Bazaar to be as successful as it has been in the past years, we need you! Help is needed to serve food that day, make pies the day before, and sell bake goods. Please contact Barb Anderson, barb@idamaescafe.com.

Pie Plates St. Joseph Church is short of pie plates used for our fund raising functions. If you have borrowed pie plates from the kitchen please return them. Otherwise please consider donating your extra 9 inch clear glass Pyrex pie plates. Thank you!

* includes seal coating parking lot for $20,000.

Catholic Services Appeal The 2015 Catholic Services Appeal is an opportunity for us, as a faith family, to join together to do the work of the Lord. All families are encouraged to support the Catholic Services Appeal. By giving to the Catholic Services Ap-peal, you are answering God’s call to discipleship to put the work of God before your own needs. The Church serves each of us in some way and our financial support is needed to continue God’s work in our area. In addition, every dollar contributed to the Appeal assists our parish in offsetting our yearly diocesan assessment responsibly to our Diocesan Church. This year the assessment for St. Joseph Church is $29,887. So far we have raised $4,130 leaving a balance of $25,757. The assessment for Our Lady of the Lakes is $23,545. Please give generously.

Parish Cluster & Community News

Hospitality Schedule September 27th, 2015: Chad & Katie Johnson and Family

OLL Calendar

Monday, September 21st CCW Wednesday, September 23rd Faith Formation Starts Sunday, September 27th Catechetical Sunday Friday, October 2nd Stump the Chump after 9 am Mass Sunday, October 4th KC Breakfast Tuesday, October 6th Pastoral Council 6 pm Thursday, October 8th OLL Ladies Luncheon

Alen Wenning, Ben Buck, Bill Winn, Bob Peterson, Bob Schwartz, Cher Wirth-Thompson, Cheryl Dado, Don Gruber, Gary Bader, Gene Ludack, Gerald Wilk, Greg Schommer, Greg Vink, Jean Thomp-son, Katie Gruber, Larry Coen, Loraine Manke, Marion Swanson, Mike Kelly, Mike Schwartz, Mike Thompson, Ozzie Thomp-son, Ray Castellano, Roger Vink, Sara Thompson, Tom Foeller, Tom Vink, our Military Personnel***

Our Lady of the Lakes Mass Intentions for the Week

Key: SJ - St. Joseph Church OLL - Our Lady of the Lakes Church WR - Willow Ridge, Amery GAM - Golden Age Manor, Amery GS - Good Samaritan Home, St. Croix Falls, AMC—Amery Memory Care Unit. Please note: Requested dates for Mass intentions are subject to change based on the Mass schedule. ***Prayer Lists: Please contact the SJ Office to add names to the prayer list. Names stay on the list for 4 months and are then removed unless the office is noti-fied that they should remain.

Please Pray For

Saturday, September 19 4:00 pm Evelyn Jackelen by Sidney Jones SJ 6:00 pm Jerry Thompson Sr by Ozzie Thompson OLL Sunday, September 20 8:30 am Walter Weinke by Berneita & Family OLL 10:30 am Mary Wensmann by Ron & Cheryl Meier SJ Monday, September 21 9:00 am Communion Service SJ Tuesday, September 22 9:00 am Communion Service SJ 5:30 pm Fernande Pedersen by Rochell Salmore OLL Wednesday, September 23 9:00 am Perry Koeppen by Jack Hayek SJ Thursday, September 24 9:00 am Members of the Knights of Columbus SJ Friday, September 25 9:00 am David Maier by Greg Maier OLL 9:00 am Communion Service SJ Saturday, September 26 4:00 pm Marlene Grasser by Kim Grasser SJ 6:00 pm Lucy Kaiser by Jim & Sally London OLL Sunday, September 27 8:30 am Ida Hinz by Don & Brenda Mayer OLL 10:30 am Ardeth Clark by Melvin & Donna Arcand SJ

Stewardship Update

Sat., September 26th – 6:00 p.m. Reader: Sharon Kelly Ministers of Communion: Judy Spencer, Joan Ouellette, Lori Swanson Ushers: Jerry Belle-Isle, Dean Yourchuck Servers: Kenny Lepak, Michael Lepak Cantor: Rita Shoquist

Sun., September 27th - 8:30 am

Reader: Mike Bauer Ministers of Communion: Pat Williams, Susan Ammann, Rita Creuzer Ushers: Cash Vanderhoof, Ray Tourville Servers: Kassidy Koeppen, Lola McElhone Cantor: Ramona Tauer

Liturgical Roles

Income for September Last Weekend MTD

Adult/Youth $2,896 $7,686

BLDG Fund $1,130 $2,143

Visitor/Loose $443 $3,197

Total Income-Actual $4,469 $13,026

Income Budgeted for the Month $26.900

Total Total

Mortgage Balance $819,675.67

Total Construction Cost $3,200,000.00

The Remember Project

The St. Croix Valley Foundation is launching the Remember Project at St. Jo-seph Church on September 27 @ 2:30pm, October 27 @ 6:30pm & November 10 @ 6:30pm. These programs are intended to stimulate conversations around dementia to build awareness, share information and invite authentic community conversations. Please join any or all of these sessions to increase dementia-friendly environments and address the isolation & fear associated with dementia here and around our community.

Catechetical Sunday We ask all Catechist to come to Mass next Sunday at morning Mass Sept 27. Fr. Gene will be giving a blessing to all Catechist, to show our appreciation for our Catechist and so that the Holy Spirit may help empower them to do His wonderful work through them. Make sure to thank a Catechist that day to show your appreciation for them!

Catholic Services Appeal The 2015 Catholic Services Appeal is an opportunity for us, as a faith family, to join together to do the work of the Lord. All families are encouraged to support the Catholic Services Appeal. By giving to the Catholic Services Ap-peal, you are answering God’s call to discipleship to put the work of God before your own needs. The Church serves each of us in some way and our financial support is needed to continue God’s work in our area. In addition, every dollar contributed to the Appeal assists our parish in offsetting our yearly diocesan assessment responsibly to our Diocesan Church. This year the assessment for St. Joseph Church is $29,887. So far we have raised $4,130 leaving a balance of $25,757. The assessment for Our Lady of the Lakes is $23,545. Please give generously.

Our sincere sympathy to the family of

Rachel Costello & Carmen Overby May they rest in peace.