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December 27, 2020
C A T H O L I C C H U R C H
1240 R u s h S t r ee t • D ub uq ue, I owa
52003 • www. s t c o l umbk i l l e . n e t
Welcome
We are GLAD you are HERE.
Any Questions?
Please Call: 583-9117 or e-mail
Secretary, Sue Schmitt at
[email protected]
Personnel:
Fr. Tom McDermott, Pastor
[email protected] 563-556-1054
Fr. Dave Schatz, Pastor
[email protected]
Michelle Rahe, Business Director
[email protected]
Alice Noethe, Coordinator of Pastoral Care
[email protected]
Ayla Murphy, Coordinator of Liturgy
A. [email protected]
Jessica Rauen, Coordinator of R.E./Formation
[email protected]
Deacon Bill Biver
[email protected]
Deacon Travis King
[email protected]
Deacon Frank Dunn
Mission Statement
God CALLS us to be disciples and
FORMS us by our Catholic Faith to
ENCOUNTER Christ
EMBRACE deeper faith and
EMPOWER Christian action.
Reconciliation: Saturdays at 3:15 pm
May you have the
Gift of FAITH,
the Blessing
of HOPE,
and the Peace
of His LOVE.
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EMBRACE: This Week
Monday, December 28
6:00 pm Cub scouts—PH/Fogarty
Thursday, December 31—New Year’s Eve
Parish Office Closed
5:30 pm Mass
Friday, January 1 — New Year’s Day
Parish Office Closed
9:00 am Mass
3:00 pm Baptism
ENCOUNTER: Mass Intention and added
prayers for:
Monday, December 28
9:00 am † Daniel P. Aslin
* Charlie McCormick
Tuesday, December 29
9:00 am † Dorothy Heitzman
Wednesday, December 30
9:00 am † Gilford Hohnecker
* Joan Hamilton
Thursday, December 31
5:30 pm † Clifford, Myrene & Paul Lattner
* John (Sonny) Ploessl
Friday, January 1, 2021
9:00 am John, Myra, John Jr. and Linda Welsh
* Fr. Joseph Hauer
* John Rodham
* Joe Conlan
Saturday, January 2, 2021
4:15 pm † John Schwendinger
* Gene Weber
* Lucille A. Donner
* Roger & Lois Gerardy
Sunday, January 3, 2021
8:00 am Pro Popolo
* Joan Higley
* Melvin Schuster
* Tim Jamison
* Grayson Dall
10:00 am † Barb Setter
EMPOWER: Financial Report
Week of ...................................... 12/13/2020
Weekly Received ............................... $23,068.61
Weekly Budgeted ............................. $18,759.00
Weekly SURPLUS!! THANK YOU!! .... $4,309.61
Since July 1, 2020:
Year-To-Date Received .................. $431,216.61
Year-To-Dave Budgeted ................ $450,216.00
Year-To-Date Shortage .................. ($18,999.39)
Special Parish Christmas Electronic Giving Opportunity — An
annual financial gift to the parish at Christmas is deeply
personal and
prayerful. To provide another way to give and make it easier
for
parishioners who wish to offer a Christmas gift to our parish,
the
Archdiocese of Dubuque has set up a special page on its website
to
give your Christmas gift via credit or debit card. Your gift
will be given
directly to our parish without any administrative or credit card
fees. So,
100% of your gift comes to us, designated as your Christmas gift
to the
parish. Go to www.dbqarch.org/parishChristmas to make a
one-time
gift. The site will remain open through Epiphany, January 3,
2021.
Thank you for considering a Christmas gift to our parish this
year.
ONLY A Few Days Remain! There is still just enough time to
make an online gift the Our Faith STO in 2020, but hurry!
Funds contributed in 2020 will provide need-based assistance
to
families to attend a Catholic School in the Archdiocese of
Dubuque during the 2021-22 school year. But we need your
help
to reach our goal. All gifts will reduce your Iowa Income Tax
by
65% of your gift, regardless of the size of the gift. And all
gifts
qualify as a charitable contribution for federal income
taxes.
When the clock strikes midnight on December 31, this
opportunity for tax year 2020 will be gone. Please visit
www.ourfaithsto.org or call the Archdiocese of Dubuque at
800-
876-3546 ext. 219 to learn more or have questions about this
fantastic program.
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Sunday
Transfer stock to St. Columbkille Parish to:
LPL Financial
DTC: 0075
Account: 3471-6424
St. Columbkille’s Church
If you transfer stock to us or if you have questions, please
contact Michelle J.K. Rahe, Director of Business, at
563-583-
9117 Extension 226 or email M. [email protected].
The Seminarians enjoyed cutting
and wrapping the brownies for
the take-out meals last month.
There’s still a few 2021
Religious Art Wall
Calendars available in
the back of Church.
Please take one home.
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ENCOUNTER: Readings for the Week
Week of December 27, 2020
Sun: Sir 3:2-6, 12-14/Col 3:12-21/Lk 2:22-40
Mon: 1 Jn 1:5—2:2/Mt 2:13-18
Tues: 1 Jn 2:3-11/Lk 1:22-35
Wed. 1 Jn 2:12-17/Lk 2:36-40
Thurs: I Jn 2:18-21/Jn 1:1-18
Special Thanks to all
our wonderful
parishioners who
delivered treats to
the parish office—we
appreciate all the
love that went into
the baking, cooking,
gathering, delivering etc. You are AWESOME!!!
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December 27, 2020
Dear Parishioners,
I write this bulletin article before Christmas with a little bit
of
trepidation. How is the celebration of Christmas going to
happen? What
will we do if the crowd overflows? Whatever happens, we can say:
“we
tried!”
“We tried!” doesn’t sound very appealing or professional. You
certainly
wouldn’t want to hear that from your surgeon after a routine
procedure.
We are a culture built upon assurances and controls. Yet, how
often do
“assurances and controls’ define our lives? Can we create a
space in our
lives where we can say “we tried” and say it with joy?
This is part of the celebration of the Feast of the Holy Family.
There is
an acknowledgement of the messiness of life within a family.
Friends of
mine talk about how they were shocked by their third child. As
babies, the
first two children slept through the night, ate well, and were
“really easy
babies.” As the father said, “We looked at our friends and
thought, “wow,
we are really good parents.” Then, the third child. Later in
years, the
father says, sort of jokingly, “Well he is still alive but he
made us question
our parenting skills.”
The joy of children is that they can embarrass their parents so
well and
they give us permission to say, “We tried” with some joy.
In our Feast today, we are reminded that this is not only a
joyful reality
but a Holy one as well: The Holy Family.
Many realities have been redefined in 2020 but the centrality of
the call
to be a holy family has not. We find holiness not through
assurances and
controls but by modelling ourselves after the Holy Family.
As you are pondering what New Year resolutions you may have,
I
noticed a few things the Holy Family did that might help shape
that list.
1. They went up to the Temple to “present [Jesus] to the Lord.”
(Luke
2:23). How do you present yourself to the Lord? How often do you
call
upon the Lord in your daily life? How could you increase calling
upon the
Lord in your life?
2. Simeon and Anna were wise spiritual and religious people
who
recognized the presence of Jesus. They recognized him as
“your
salvation” (Luke 2:30). Do you have “wise religious and
spiritual people”
in your lives who can recognize God’s presence? Do you
cultivate
conversations about faith? How would you go about doing
that?
Can I give you assurances that doing these two things will
change your
life for the better and put some good controls into your life?
Nope!
Sometimes bringing God and wise religious and spiritual people
in your
life can really shake things up. It is a decision that we have
to each
individually make: Am I going to exist with assurances and
controls or am
I going to live with “I tried”?
In the nature of God, His act of love was not given through
assurances
and controls. He sent his son as a child who could be freely
accepted only
in love. He showed us a Holy Family who freely accepted this
child called
love and invites us to do the same. God tried. How do we
respond?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Fr. David
In Memory of Alex &
Lorraine O’Hea the parish
received money to cover the
cost of Hosts and Wine for
the month of January, 2021.
What a wonderful gift!
Sanctuary Lamp: January 2021
In Memory of
Deceased Members Ray Vogt Family
2 0 2 1 - 2 2
Regi stra t ion
Informat ion
for Holy Family Catholic Schools:
Preschool & Pre-K opens on Jan. 4 to
current families and Jan. 11th for new
families. Please visit holyfamilydbq.org/ec21
and complete the form. Kindergarten is
now open for current families until Jan.
28th. Feb. 1st open K-grade seats will be
made available to new families. Contact
Rebecca Mueller at 582-5456. Transfer
Enrollment for Grades 1-12 should contact
Rebecca Mueller at 582-5456 or
[email protected] for new
paperwork and to schedule a virtual
enrollment meeting and/or tour with a
school principal. Limited seats available.
THANK YOU to everyone at St. Columbkille and St. Joseph the
Worker who
recently contributed in any way to the annual Thanksgiving
Give-away. As a result
of your generosity, we were able to distribute 90 boxes of
Thanksgiving groceries
along with a $25 gift card to families in the parishes or
Dubuque community.
Special thanks to the St. Columbkille Knights of Columbus for
supplying the
turkeys and pumpkin pies. God bless you for blessing all those
whom we served.
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