ST. MARK’S BOTTINEAU & ST. ANDREW’S WESTHOPE

PARISH OFFICE: (701) 228-3164 RECTORY: (701) 228-5164 stsmanda@utma.com

322 Sinclair St. • Bottineau, ND • 58318 - www.stmark-standrew.org

PARISH STAFF

Fr Jared Kadlec, Pastor

Vickie Gangl, Secretary

Cathy Miller, Custodian - St. A’s

Patty Graber, Custodian - St. M’s

OFFICE HOURS

Mon.-Fri. 9:00am-5:00pm

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Amanda Artz, DRE

At St. Andrew’s Parish

Mary Gorder &

Jessica Tagestad, co-DREs at

St. Mark’s Parish

MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday at 5:30pm at St. Mark’s

Sunday at 9:00am at St. Andrew’s

Sunday at 11:00am at St. Mark’s

CONFESSIONS

St. Mark: 4:30pm on Saturday

St. Andrew: 8:30am on Sunday

PARISH NEWS AND EVENTS Announcements

St. Mark

Oct 8: Altar Society meeting 7:00pm Social Hall. Agenda: Potential restructuring of Altar Society St. Andrew

Congratulations to Levi and Kassie Motl on the Baptism of their daugh-ter, Charlie Kay at St. Mark’s on Saturday, September 19th. Wel-come to our parish family!

Report for September 12-13, 2020

St .Andrew’s St .Mark’s

Adult env. $ 813.00 Adult env. $ 2,272.00 Plate $ 40.00 Plate $ 120.00 Children $ Children $ 3.00 Holy Land Collection $ 1,048.00 Building Improvement Fund: $ 152.00

Saturday, September 19, 5:30p.m. St. Mark’s

(† Duane Sebelius)

Sunday, September 20, 9:00a.m. St. Andrew’s

(† Ray Killoran)

Sunday, September 20, 11:00a.m. St. Mark’s

(Parishioners)

Tuesday, September 22, 12:00p.m. St. Mark’s

(† Greg Beyer)

Wednesday, September 23, 7:30a.m. St. Mark’s

(† Curt Beyer)

Thursday, September 24, 9:00a.m. St. Andrew’s

(† Russ Picard )

Friday, September 25, 8:00a.m. St. Mark’s

(† Bill, Rose, & Steve Moncera)

Saturday, September 26, 5:30p.m. St. Mark’s

(† Jerry LaCroix)

Sunday, September 27, 9:00a.m. St. Andrew’s

(Parishioners)

Sunday, September 27, 11:00a.m. St. Mark’s

(† Barney Honer)

Home Communion Any St. Mark parishioners desiring Holy Commun-ion at home, call Anne Bergeron (228-2750) by Sunday evening to be put on the list. To add or remove a name for St. Andrew’s , please contact Deb Wyman at 263-1681 or the parish office at 228-3164.

PARISHIONERS, FAMILY AND FRIENDS: Military personnel & their families, Fiza Khalifa, Tammy Keller, Jo Khalifa, Cecelia Holen, Sylvia

Bailey, Jesse Henes, Mary Keeling, Shirley Vandal, Pete Anderson, Neil Kinney, Lakken Wall, Hadley Hoffert, John Lacey, Drue Eliot, Mary Longtin, Audrey Phillips, Alice Christenson, Darrell Van Der Busch, Katie Torgerson, Mar-cie Dubrow, Linda Ysulan, Rosemary LaCroix, Bill & Cool Baumann, Amy Artz, Flora Carlson, Marlys Richard, Monte Mikkelsen, Susan Brandjord, Francis Kritzberger, Marie Vargo, Sara Saville, Diane & Mike Lee, Janet Kraft, Noah Signalness, Mary Holen, and any special private intentions. Good Sam: Regan Benning, Pete Anderson, Judy Bau-mann, Harvey Soland Maple View: Shirley Pasicznyk Somerset Assisted Living: Pauline Deschamp The Wellington: Ray and Donna Sharkey Jenkins Living Center: Carol Carbonneau Watertown, SD

The Rosary is prayed every Saturday at 5:00pm at

St. Mark’s.

MASS INTENTION REQUEST

A Mass intention is requested for :

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From________________________________________

Suggested offering $10.00 per Mass intention.

Stewardship Moment : “So the last will be first and the first last”. - MATTHEW 20:16 You’ve heard the saying “it’s not where you start, but how you finish.” This certainly applies to this Bible passage. We have a responsibility not only for our own lives, but for the lives of others as well. We are called to generously share our gifts with others, not hoard them for our own use. Our sincere gratitude and cheerful generosity will help us live “God-centered” lives and not “self-centered” lives.

September 19-20, 25th Sunday in

Ordinary Time

St. Mark’s Masses on September 26th & 27th, 2020 DATE EUCHARISTIC MIN. READER GIFT BEARERS USHERS GREETERS ALTAR SERVERS COUNTERS

Sat. NONE Barb Waagen NONE Dennis Lagasse/ Brad Trebas NONE NONE

Sun. NONE Jessica Tagestad NONE Steve Lorenz/ Chris Wilmot

NONE NONE TBD

Pastor’s Notes

St. Andrew’s Mass on September 27th, 2020

DATE EUCHARISTIC

MINISTERS READER GIFT BEARERS ALTAR SERVERS USHERS COUNTERS

Sun. NONE Paulette Martin NONE NONE Lenny Artz &

Mike Artz Steve & Roger

ics, to say the least. Because of the gift of a profound in-tellect and being a brilliant teacher, Robert would find himself articulating the church’s position. What was par-ticularly curious is the way he treated his opponents. “Bellarmine is always astonishingly fair to those he criti-cizes. Indeed, Protestants sometimes thought he had actu-ally improved their arguments in his summaries of them – before he proceeded to his criticisms (The Catholic Thing, The Feast of St. Robert Bellarmine, https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2020/09/17/on-the-feast-of-st-robert-bellarmine/?utm_source=The+Catholic+Thing+Daily&utm_campaign=17a68b3e61-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_07_01_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_769a14e16a-17a68b3e61-244318346). Bellarmine wanted to fully understand the mind and thought of his opponents before he critiqued their line of thought. He treated his opponents with the human dignity they deserved in a world that could see the debate easily devolve into a poisonous invective.

As Americans, we benefited from his political insights. It appears he is the first one to have coined the phrase, “All men are born naturally free and equal.”

Prayerfully,

Father Kadlec

Altar Society Fall Supper Donation Update: We

received a bid for $3,950.00 which we have accepted. So far, we have received $4,680.00!! Thank you to all who so

generously donated to this very worthy cause!!

On another note, we would like to meet in October to discuss restructuring the Altar Society to be more event-driven instead of officer-driven. Please come to the meeting on October 8th at 7:00pm to help us decide how to move

forward.

USCCB Requests Special Collection for Hurricanes Laura, California wildfires, and other disasters

We’ve all seen the news and devastation caused by recent severe weather and wildfires. It is heart wrenching to see so much suffering.

Per the request of Archbishop Gomez, President of the USCCB, Bishop Folda is asking each parish to take up a ‘Disaster Relief’ collection for hurricane, wildfire, and other disasters the weekend of September 26-27. This is a voluntary collection, but all are asked to do what they can. At St. Mark we will hold a second collection after communion. At St. Andrew, we will have a special basket placed before the altar for those who wish to donate to this special collection.

Reflection Points

“It’s not fair!” We sympathize with the laborers who worked all day only to find out that they made not a penny more than those who worked for only an hour. That is an obvious injustice. What’s the point of having a “daily wage” and an “hourly

wage” if the numbers are the same? In the first reading we hear the LORD tell Isai-ah, “my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways” (Isaiah 55:8). Yes, from our perspective the landowner’s arrangement is unfair and the conse-quences for the hardest workers is an injustice. But our perspective is flawed. God, source of infinite love, infinite mercy, and infinite generosity, sees this ar-rangement much differently. May we be humbled by Isaiah’s reminder.

“Because no one has hired us” (Matthew 20:7). This is the response of the laborers who were still standing around at five o’clock. Why hasn’t anyone hired these workers? Perhaps they were injured, weak,

or disabled. Perhaps they were lazy or uncooperative. Quite likely they were already rejected by every other landowner. But hot this one. The kingdom of heaven welcomes even those who have been rejected, who have been waiting, who did not bear the heavy burden. God’s mercy and acceptance are unrestricted.

Saint Paul was in prison when he wrote the section we hear today, un-sure of what would come next. His conversion had come some twenty years earlier, around noon if one were to apply today’s Gospel story to his life. In the twenty years since his conversion he had made three missionary journeys, carrying the gospel to Gentile lands from Corinth to Antioch, through dozens of towns in between. He was ready to meet the Lord, if that was his fate, but more than willing to continue his ministry if allowed to do so. Whatever happened, he would magnify Christ in his person as he in-creased the body of Christ, the Church.

St. Robert Bellarmine

This week, on Thursday, we celebrated the life of a man whose situation, while centuries separate us, spoke to my soul at some level. St. Robert Bellarmine was raised in rural Italy. He possessed a high-power intellect and would spend most of his life in Rome. He had a deep devotion to St. Francis of Assisi. In Providence, Bellarmine was born on the Feast of St. Francis and died on the Feast of the stigmata of St. Francis.

It appears, however, that he lived a remarkable life of humility. In 1599, he was raised to the level of a Cardinal. However, Bellarmine pawned

his own expensive Cardinal’s ring in order to use the money for the betterment of the poor. He even removed the elegant cur-tains from his apartment in order to give the cloth to the poor for clothes. He would say, “Walls cannot catch cold.” He under-stood what years later the Church would put into words: preferential option for the poor.

His entire life was lived in the throes of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic response. It was a time of negative polem-

The Bottineau County Right to Life will hold a prayer ser-vice at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 23 at the “Unborn Child” monument located at the St. Mark’s Cemetery next to the mausoleum. The prayer for the Helpless Unborn and a decade of the Rosary will be recited.

For Give Away: 2 large cactus plants that are

currently in the Mary Garden. They need to go to a

new home, one without pets or children as the plants

are rather mean—with very tiny spines that you

can’t see to get out if you get them in your skin. If

you want one or know someone who does, contact

Vickie at the Parish Office 228-3164. I have some-

one who has spoken for the third cactus and the hi-

biscus tree.

You can also see them in the Mary Garden.