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Welcome to the Catholic Parishes of: St. Anthony – Niagara Sacred Heart – Aurora St. Margaret – Pembine
March 18th & 19th, 2017: Third Sunday of Lent
St. Anthony Mass Schedule: St. Margaret Mass Schedule: Tuesday 5:00 pm Friday Rosary 8:05 am & Mass 8:30 am Wednesday 6:30 pm Saturday Mass 4:00 pm
Thursday 9:00 am (Maryhill) P.O. Box 235 N18844 Highway 141 & 8
Saturday 6:00 pm Pembine, WI 54156 Sunday 10:00 am Phone: 715-324-5849 1432 River St. Niagara, WI 54151 Office Hours: Phone: 715-251-3879 Friday: 8:00am – 12:00pm or by appointment
Office Hours: E-mail: [email protected] Tuesday: 8:30am – 3:00pm
Thursday: 8:30am – 3:00pm Sacred Heart: Last Sunday of the month Mass
Friday: 8:30am – 12:30pm at 5:00 p.m. with potluck to follow Or by appointment Website: www.stanthonyniagara.org Office E-mail: [email protected] RE E-mail: [email protected]
Pastor: Fr Matt Settle at: 715-891-1560 or [email protected]
Office Manager & Faith Formation: Dawn Johnson, Phone 715-251-1773 (home) 715-251-3879 (office) Receptionist: Wendy Linsmeyer RE Assistant: Donna Henrichs Maintenance: Randy Pilon
Bulletin Announcements: e-mail OR drop it off at the office before Wednesday at 1:00
Mon. Mar. 20th Tue. Mar. 21st Wed. Mar. 22nd Thurs. March 23rd Fri. March 24th Sat. March 25th Sun. March 26th
St. Joseph Rev. Corey Litzner
Rev. Sjoquist, Oman & Ferguson
Rev. Raymond Moncher
Rev. Ben Hasse Seminarians Rev. Gregory Veneklase
2 Sam 7:4-16; Ps 89:1-
29; Rom 4:13-22; Matt
1:16-24 or Luke 2:41-51
Dan 3:25-43;
Ps 25:4-9;
Matt 18:21-35
Deut 4:1-9;
Ps 147:12-
20; Matt
5:17-19
Jer 7:23-28; Ps
95:1-9; Luke
11:14-23
Hos 14:1-
10; Ps 81:6-
17; Mark
12:28-34
Hos 6:1-6; Ps
51:3-21; Luke
18:9-14
1 Sam 16:1-
13; Ps 23:1-6;
Eph 5:8-14;
John 9:1-41
SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION
Baptism: Please call the office to make arrangements (includes a 1 hr. class) 2 weeks before desired date. Confirmation: Normally received in 12th grade with prep in RE classes 9th -11th. In other cases, please make arrangements with Fr. Matt & Dawn Johnson (RCIA). Eucharist: Celebrated each Mass. (1st Communion usually made in 2nd grade with prep in RE gr. 1 – 2.) Reconciliation/ Confession: Offered weekly on Saturdays from 9 – 10 am at St Anthony, and from 3 – 3:45 pm at St. Margaret; and, any other time by appointment with Fr. Matt. Marriage: Please call Fr. Matt at least 6 months before desired date in order to begin preparation. Anointing of Sick: Call Fr. Matt’s cell phone any time.
St. Anthony Candle Intentions: Mary – In Memory of George Hohol Sacred Heart – for Carson Molle
Sanctuary Candle at St. Margaret A Special Candle Intention, will burn for:
Mass Intentions Available at St Margaret: March – 31 April – 28 May – 6, 26 & 27 June –17 & 23 July – 8, 22 & 28 St. Margaret Serving Schedule Mass on March 25th at 4:00pm
Lector: March 25th ~ Jerry Neumann
Sacristan: March 25th ~ Mary Lou Neumann
Server(s): March 25th ~ Elizabeth & Jereme
Communion: March 25th ~ Mary Lou N. Ann Jaeger & Geralyn Schlais Cross Bearer: March 25th ~ Bonnie Nowland
Ushers: March 25th~ Ed Nowland, Joe Scheidt Lee Schlais & Bob Hurzeler Hospital Visitation: March 28th ~ Steve Firkell Special Ministry: Mass on 25th ~ VandenBush Office closed 3/27/17 - Open on Friday, March 31st
St. Anthony Liturgical Ministers – March 25th& 26th Sacristans: Saturday ~ Frank Sherman
Sunday ~ Dawn Johnson
Lectors: Saturday ~ Sparapani
Sunday ~ H. Lantagne
Servers: Saturday ~ Sammi Oratch & Jess Oratch
Sunday ~ Alex Rankin & Michael McCarthy
Greeters: Saturday ~ B. & S. Rouse
Sunday ~ Jean Merritt
Ushers: Sat ~N. Pellegrini, C. Pellegrini, B. Butler & M. Darne Sun ~ Z. Rankin, C. Garvaglia, M. Garvaglia & L. Frantz
EME: Sat ~ N. Pellegrini, J. Zychowski & J. Zychowski
Sun ~ L. Frantz, E. Frantz & L. Rankin
St. Anthony Committees: Pastoral Council: chair - Dan Aderman Finance Council: chair - Craig Garvaglia Buildings & Grounds: chair - Terry Sweig Worship Committee: chair - Denise Sonnenberg Karen’s Food Pantry: Mondays 12- 3 pm (every other in summer) Contact: Teresa DePas St. Anthony Council of Catholic Women (SACCW): president: Jody Wall 715-251-1626 Next Meeting: April 3rd at 7:00pm St. Vincent de Paul: 715-251-1574 President: Cindy Pilon Meeting: 1st Mon. St. Anthony 5:30-6:30. Friday after 3rd Mon. @St. Margaret 8:30 Mass with mtg after Knights of Columbus Council #2847: Grand Knight: Jeff Champeau (715)251-3892 Meeting: 2nd Monday of each month at St Anthony Church at 7pm.
St. Margaret Committee Trustee: Jerry Neumann Trustee: Jeanne Swanson
Sacred Heart Committee Trustee: Chris Christesen Trustee: Vonnie VanPembrook
Saturday, March 18th (Third Sunday in Lent)
† 9-10am Confessions at St. Anthony
† 3:00pm Confessions at St. Margaret
† 4:00pm St. Margaret Mass Intention: Alan Sawitski
† 6:00pm St. Anthony Mass Intention: Joseph Szczurek
Sunday, March 19th (Third Sunday in Lent)
† 8:30am RE Class 1st & 2nd Grade with Pre-K Dismissal
† 10:00am St. Anthony Mass Inten.: For the people of our parishes
Monday, March 20th
† 12:00 Noon – 3pm Karen’s Food Pantry
† 6:30pm Neocatechumenal Way catechesis St. Anthony Hall
Tuesday, March 21st
† 1:00-3pm Adult Faith Formation Class
† 4pm Station of the Cross St. Margaret
† 5:00pm Mass at St. Anthony Intention:
† 5:45pm St. Anthony Parish Finance Council mtg.
† 7pm Stations of the Cross St. Anthony
Wednesday, March 22nd
† 5:30pm RE Class for 3rd – 8th grade ACRE testing for 5th-8th grade
† 6:30pm Mass St. Anthony
† 7:15pm RE Class for 9th -11th grades
Thursday, March 23rd THINK SPRING ORDER DUE!
† 8:30am Liturgy of the Hours – Morning Prayer St. Anthony
† 9am Maryhill Manor Mass Intention:
† 6:30pm Neocatechumenal Way catechesis St. Anthony Hall
Friday, March 24th
† 8:05am Rosary at St. Margaret
† 8:30am Mass St. Margaret Intention: Memory of Ralph Wnuk
† 1:00pm St. Anthony FF Holy Hour and Stations
† 4:00-6pm Adult Faith Formation Class
† 7pm Confessions at St. Anthony
Saturday, March 25th (Fourth Sunday in Lent)
† 9-10am Confessions at St. Anthony
† 9am – 1pm First Communion Retreat and Potluck
† 3:00pm Confessions at St. Margaret
† 4pm St. Margaret Mass Intention: Memory of Bill Schintgen
† 6pm St. Anthony Mass Intention: Doug Payette
† World Poor Collection
Sunday, March 26th (Fourth Sunday in Lent)
† NO RE Classes
† 10:00am St. Anthony Mass Intention: For the people of our Parish
† 5:00pm Sacred Heart- Pot Luck to follow Intention: Glen Windell
Hospital Visitation (Mon. March 27th) ~ Jody Wall
Money Counters (Mon. Mar. 27th) ~ G. Prudhomme & P Schaut
Staplers (Friday, March 31st) ~ M. Gunville & J. Rice
St. A. Musicians ~ Practice is 1 hour before Mass
March 25th ~Laura, Barb & Choir- Denise Cantor
March 26th ~ Sharon, Debbie & Choir
HOLY HOUR
St. Anthony’s next
Holy Hour is Sunday,
April 9th at 4-5pm
And
St. Margaret’s next
Holy Hour will be on:
April 20th at 4pm, with a
light dinner to follow.
In our thoughts & prayers: Jase Suther, Boots Mills,
Robert Kristoff, Earl Scheidt,
Charles and his family & Dorothy
Richards
Special need for Prayers: Al Tewel, Bruce Darne, Kim Geib,
Joe Pluskota, Cheri Sweig,
Dave Schultz & Alan Sawitski
Hospital/Surgery:
Asst. Living:
Kate Anderson – Norway
Veronica Venstra – Maryhill
Those at home/Recovering:
Curt Arndt, Alberta Kristoff,
Mary Stewart, Pat Rouse,
Elsa Champeau & Roger Reese
Please keep our soldiers in your
prayers: Raymond
Benning, Sarah Mills, Adam
Valeski, and AJ Sonnenberg
If you are in need of prayers,
please contact the parish office.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SACCW NEWS Masses for Eleanor LaLiberte on
5/21 and for deceased members of
Vicariate IA on 4/27 at the
Vicariate IA meeting.
Next meeting: April 3rd at 7pm
By God’s Grace, we are forgiven;
By God’s grace, we grow our gifts
St. Margaret Christian Women Next meeting: Mon. April 3rd, 9am
St. Margaret Men’s Prayer
Breakfast on Thurs. April 7th Place: -Grace Lutheran- Pembine
Time: 7:30am all the men, from our
three Parishes are welcome to come!
Hope to see some new faces.
LOAN BALANCE UPDATE: Would you like make a donation
against the principal of our boiler
loan? Use any envelope and mark it
“Loan principal”. We will update you
on our balance every week. Our
balance on the principal plus accrued
interest is: $ 35,254.91
St. Anthony goal: $14,867.00
Count: 48 Total: $9,445.00
St. Margaret goal: $4,449.00
Count: 18 Total: $3,975.00
WHAT INSPIRES YOU? In a word or phrase, submit your
answer either via e-mail or put it
in the box that is located on the
Bishop’s Appeal table in back.
This week’s inspiration…
St. Margaret Parish is looking
for more volunteers to help serve
the Lord. Need ushers (men or
women), altar servers, cross
bearers, lectors…please call the
Parish office at 715-324-5849.
Karen’s Food Pantry Open on Mondays only! 12-3p
March – 20 & 27
April – 3, 10, 17 & 24
May – 1, 8, 15 & 22 (Closed 29th)
Needs: Tuna helper, peanut
butter, jelly, pancake mix, and
syrup.
St. Anthony Collection Average Weekly Expenses per
Budget $(2,657.29)
Regular offering (49 out of 193)
$ 2,611.00
Loose Change & Child Env.
(5 env.) $ 82.50
Candle Money, Flowers
& Misc. $ 25.50
Mass Stipends $ 80.00
Net $ 161.71
Funds held for others:
Karen’s Pantry $20.00
St. Vincent de Paul $20.00
St. Margaret Collection Offering Envelopes
17 out of 51: $440.00
Visitors: $50.00
Holy Day: $0.00
Easter Lily’s: $130.00
Coffee Can/Propane: $12.00
Flag Donation: $15.00
Mass Intentions: $0.00
Christian Wm Candle: $4.00
Total: $651.00
Paid Expenses: $0.00
Adult Faith Formation Lectio Divina last session March
21st or 24th. We’ll resume again at
the end of April with “33 Days to
Merciful Love” by Fr. Michael
Gaitley. We need to order books,
so let Dawn know if you are
interested in attending.
CHRISM MASS & DINNER is
Tuesday, April 11th starting at 4pm
at the Cathedral in Green Bay.
Each parish (St. Anthony, St.
Margaret, and Sacred Heart) may
send 2 representatives. Sign up
with a friend or spouse on the same
card. Either put your name(s) in the
box at the entrance, call us, or e-
mail the office. Make sure to add
the parish you wish to represent.
We will draw names on 3/31 and
call those representing our parishes.
LITTLE BLACK BOOKS for
Lent are available – a great Lenten
devotional!
Prayer Requests: Phone Tree ~ Contact Louise Hohol (715)251-3753 or Rose Bousley (715)251-3249. E-mail Tree: [email protected]
Teachers & friends, help spread the word of God…
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Tuesday 4pm St. Margaret
Tuesday 7pm St. Anthony
Friday 1pm at St. Anthony during
adoration.
EXTRA CONFESSION TIME:
Fr. Matt will be available to hear
confessions during the Fridays in
Lent from 7-8 p.m. at St. Anthony.
LAUDS: For those interested in
learning how to pray the Liturgy of
the Hours, Fr. Matt will be
available at St. Anthony on Thurs.
at 8:30 a.m. to pray Morning Prayer
from the Divine Office.
Youth Encounter is a catholic
retreat for 10th graders to freshmen
in College (ages of 15 and 20).
The weekend is run by young
adults and provides an opportunity
for all to share their faith in Jesus.
The spring weekend is scheduled
for April 7-9, 2017 at Marygrove
Retreat Center in Garden, MI.
Rides will be provided and the cost
is $25/candidate. The applications
can be found on the Marygrove
website at www.marygrove.org.
Please contact Barry Voss (906-
396-0887) or Yvonne Voss at
(906-563-5187) if you have any
questions, please email to:
St. Margaret Parish Office will be open additional days:
Monday March 20th 12-3pm
Monday, April 3rd, 10
& 24th 8am -12(Noon)
St. Margaret Spring Luncheon will be coming soon. We are asking
for donations for our Gift Basket
Raffle. We would like all the
baskets at Church by Sat. April 22nd
so we can have them all set up for
display that day. If you can’t get
the raffle basket to the church
Please call Mary Lou at 715-324-
5738 and she will come pick it up.
DON’T GIVE UP CHOCOLATE
FOR LENT! Utilizing the
Resisting Happiness books,
Dynamic Catholics is offering a
daily reflection for lent. Simply go
to: http://dynamiccatholic.
com/bestlentever/ to receive a daily
e-mail with inspirational words and
insights into how we jeopardize our
own happiness.
NEED HELP We are in need of
some volunteers for the next FISH
FRY on March 31st. We need help
with setting up tables on Wed. at
4pm, pressing fish on Thurs. at
4pm, helping at the fish fry from
3:30-7:30pm, and helping with
clean-up on Saturday at 10am.
Please call the office or Jeff
Champeau if you can help. This is
such a great community event!!
We are taking orders for the
EASTER FLOWERS at St.
Anthony: Single lily $11; Double
lily $22; Daffadil $15; and Mums
$17. The order is being placed on
Monday, April 3rd at 1p.m.
St. Agnes Church Choir Dinner
& Music on Saturday, April 22nd
Classic Country by “River Pride”
Advanced Tickets only $15.00 per
Adult, age 7-12 $7.00, 6 & under
Free. Doors open 4pm Broasted
Chicken dinner 5:30pm call Casey
Pszanka 715-759-5438.
Condolences goes out to the
family of Tinker Hurzeler,
Bernadine Walters, and Virginia
Laha who passed away this last
week. May our gracious Father
welcome them into His eternal
embrace.
Eternal rest, grant unto them, O
LORD, and let light perpetual
shine upon them.
St. Anthony Parish Council is in
need of one new member. Contact
the parish office if you are
interested.
THINK SPRING!
Living Color
Fundraiser
Hanging
Baskets $18
Wave Petunias $11
Landscape Flats $15.50
Color Bowls $18
6pk Vegetables & Herbs $8.50
Cedar Fr Succulent $21.50
Call Shanna 906-221-1075 by
3/23/17 Delivery is 2 weeks prior
to Mother’s Day.
FISH FRIES from 4-7:30pm in St.
Anthony Hall. The Smelt Fish Fry
on March 31st is $11 for adults and
$7 for children 6-12 for an all you
can eat. A single serving is $8 for
adults and $4 for children 6-12.
The Full Fish Fry on April 7th is
$13 for adults and $8 for children
6-12 if you want all you can eat. A
single serving on the Full Fish Fry
is $10 for adults and $5 for children
6-12. Children under 6 are free.
COME JOIN THE FUN! Ticket
available through the Knights of
Columbus and at the door.
The Neocatechumenal Way
RESPITE CARE is needed. A
local family is in need of someone
to sit with their loved one as they
run necessary errands. If you could
volunteer about an hour a week
please call Nancy at (906) 360-
3752.
Vicariate DCCW is at St. Anthony
Parish on Thurs. April 27th. If
anyone is wishing to come, please
let Mary Lou know for reservations
Fr. Matt’s Corner: …
Is the LORD in our midst or not?…
My dear friends in Christ, if we can give an
affirmative response to this question that the Israelites
asked in the desert, then we will have been justified by
faith and have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ. If not, then we, like those Israelites at Massah
And Meribah, will end in quarreling among ourselves
and testing the Lord.
Is the LORD in our midst or not? Can we trust
Him, or are we left to ourselves and our own petty desires
and ambitions? That is the great decision – the great crisis
of faith placed before every human being made in the
image and likeness of God. If I trust Him, then everything
has to change. EVERYTHING has to change. Then I
needn’t be afraid of anything from being ridiculed to being
tortured to death – because this Hope that He has given to
us does not disappoint, because the love of God has been
poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has
been given to us. We are free to live the freedom of the
saints as friends of God.
So what’s the trouble? We tend to want to protect
ourselves and our little desires, our little comforts, and our
little plans. We each have been created with a hunger for
God (Life, Truth, Love, Beauty, Goodness) – a hunger,
therefore, that is infinite. Yet, when that old serpent creeps
in to tell me that I cannot trust God, that it’s either me or
Him – then I scramble to fill that infinite hunger with all
sorts of things that are less than God (food, pleasure,
comfort, politics, self-esteem, popularity, sex, power,
entertainment, a sense of accomplishment, …). Since
these good things give me a taste of what I want (God) but
cannot finally satisfy me, I keep going back and back to
that same well like the Samaritan woman in today’s
Gospel – to satiate my thirst again for yet another fleeting
moment.
So what’s the solution? Jesus Christ – the One who is
thirsty for our faith – comes to meet us at that well: If you
knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a
drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given
you living water. Jesus is this gift of God. That’s who
God is: the One who gives. With Him, we have need of
nothing else. Without Him, nothing else will satisfy. This
Lent, as we fast from those things that are not God, let’s
also actively seek Him where He may be found. I invite
you to pray the Stations of the Cross with us; to join us on
Monday and Thursday evenings for the Neo Catechumenal
Way; to come to daily Mass on Tuesday or Wednesday
evening or Thursday or Friday morning. I invite you to
find a way to be God’s messenger of Love to others.
Peace to all of you, my friends, this Holy Day, and to all
who love the Lord in simplicity of heart,
Fr. Matt
Ask Father:
This week’s question: “If we can eat the meat of fish
on Fridays, why not chicken? What about eggs?
(They’re not meat, but they are chicken.)”
Our question this week is a timely (Lenten)
question; it’s a 1st grader question; and therefore it’s a very
good question. I’ll strive to match it with my response
here.
To begin, let’s look at why we abstain from eating
meat on Fridays. Jesus sacrificed (gave up) His own flesh on
the Cross on Good Friday. His sacrifice has forever changed
the significance of Fridays for Catholics. Fridays are now
days of penance – in fact, unless you choose to substitute
another penance, you and I are still obliged to abstain from
eating flesh (meat) on all Fridays (not only during Lent).
Now, the Latin word for flesh (carnis) refers to the
flesh/meat of warm-blooded land animals (i.e. birds and most
mammals), and this is what we abstain from on Fridays
because it most closely resembles the flesh (carnis) that Jesus
gave up at His Crucifixion. That’s why we don’t eat meat
(including chicken) on Fridays (especially during Lent). The
flesh of fish and most other sea creatures – being different
from that of mammals and birds – has not traditionally been
forbidden on Fridays. The same is true of eggs, milk, and
other animal products that can be eaten. These do not bear
the same resemblance to Jesus’ flesh as red meat does.
That’s not to say that we must eat fish on Fridays, but
rather that fish is permitted to be on the menu. I know of
some people who will only eat vegetarian fare on Fridays, as a
way of observing the Friday abstinence. But, since fish is
allowed on Fridays, it has become a tradition in many places.
The penance comes primarily by reminding ourselves that
Jesus gave up His flesh on a Friday, so we too ought to give
up eating flesh on Fridays. In this, we restrict our choices at
least a little more than usual.
If it helps, you can picture the cows saying, “Eat more
chickin!” And the Chickens saying, “Eat more fish!” And all
the fish can say is, “O. O. O. O…”
One final note here: you may have noticed that David
Ricken, our Bishop, gave us a dispensation from the rule of not
eating meat on this past Friday, as it was the Feast Day of St.
Patrick. He did this so that those (especially Irish Catholics)
who hold a particular devotion to St. Patrick (and not those
who merely get so riotously drunk on green beer that they fall
into a green river in northeast Illinois) can celebrate his feast
with greater festivity. A bishop can do this, of course, because
the rule to abstain on Fridays is a matter of Church discipline
(how we live out our beliefs), and not a matter of Church
doctrine (what we believe).
Thanks for such a wonderful question! As always, if
you have another way of looking at this or other questions of
our Faith, please sign on to our website
(www.stanthonyniagara.org), and post your own question or
response in the Forums section under “Ask Father”.
In Loving Memory of
Jim Merritt
In Loving Memory of:
Pat Recla 3rd Sunday of Lent
Deceased Loved Ones of the
Brinkman Family
In Loving Memory of Patrick “Choppers” & Kathy Moreau
In Loving Memory Of:
Dan, Steve & Kevin
Schultz
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