Ss.
H OLY& F AMILY
Catholic Parish
John Gabriel
506 N. BEAUMONT ROAD & 710 S. WACOUTA AVENUE, PRAIRIE DU CHIEN 53821
HOLY FAMILY PARISH
Website: www.prairiecatholic.org
Rev. James C. Weighner, Pastor
Email: [email protected]
St. John Nepomuc
710 S. Wacouta Ave.
Prairie Du Chien, WI 53821
Phone: 326-6511
Rectory Office Hours
8:00am to 4:00pm (Tuesday - Friday)
St. Gabriel Archangel
506 N. Beaumont Rd.
Prairie Du Chien, WI 53821
Phone: 326-2404
Rectory Office Hours
8:00am to 4:00pm (Monday - Friday)
Holy Days
Mass times to be announced.
Baptism
Please call St. Johns Rectory office.
Marriage
Please contact the parish at least 6
months prior to the wedding date.
Principal
Wade Marlow; Ph (608) 326-8624
Office Managers
Lana Gratace
Email: [email protected]
Sandy Halverson
Email: [email protected]
Dir. of Grade School Religious Ed.
Pat Prochaska:
[email protected]Parish Nursing Program
Rose Bauer, Shirley Cipra (326-8553)
May 8, 2016 - Ascension of the Lord
REV. JAMES C. WEIGHNER, PASTOR
St. John Nepomuc
St. Gabriel Archangel
HOME COMMUNION MINISTERS FOR May 15TH
Jeri Kluesner, Sheila Linder
HOME COMMUNION MINISTERS FOR MAY 15TH
Colleen Bouzek, Dr. Mark Grunwald, Volunteer
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS-MAY 14/15
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS-MAY 14/15
Saturday 4:00 pm Debbie Morovits, Laura Meyer, Mary
Kirschbaum
Sunday 8:00 am Megan Pedretti, Joe & Sharon Atkins
Saturday 7:00 pm Mary Ellen Pellock
Sunday 10:00 am Peggy Gallagher, Jean Dillman, Karen
Hertrampf
SERVERS-May 14/15
SERVERS-MAY 14/15
Saturday 4:00 pm Prairie Catholic 8th Grade Students
Sunday 8:00 am Chase & Madilyn Fisher
Allison Lindner & Kennedy
Kirschbaum
Saturday 7:00 pm Sadie Koresh & Makayla Steger
Macey Banasik & Emma Bjurquist
Sunday 10:00 am Dawson Eastman & Julian DeGidio
Lindsey Nolan & Scout Hall
LECTORS-MAY 14/15
LECTORS-MAY 14/15
Saturday 4:00 pm Jeanette Steiner
Sunday 8:00 am Dr. Mark Grunwald
Saturday 7:00 pm Pat Mulhern
Sunday 10:00 am Jerry Cummings
USHERS-MAY 14/15
USHERS-MAY 14/15
Saturday 4:00 pm Joe Barrette, Gene Kirschbaum,
Richard Steiner, Bob Ziel
Sunday 8:00 am Jerry Matousek, Don Osterhaus, Dick
Tesar & Butch Boland
SCRIP WORKERS-MAY 14/15
Saturday 4:00 pm Volunteers
Sunday 8:00 am Brad & Jenni Linder
Saturday 7:00 pm Merle Frommelt, Bernie Mayer, Alex
Schaefer & Tyler Rochleau
Sunday 10:00 am Jim Gallagher, Ron Trautsch, Mark
Mara, Dennis Mezera
SCRIP WORKERS-MAY 14/15
Saturday 7:00 pm Scott & Sheri Kennedy
Sunday 10:00 am Sheila Eastman
WEEKEND MASSES: MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY REQUESTING THE MASS ARE ASKED TO BRING THE GIFTS OF
BREAD AND WINE TO THE ALTAR. PLEASE MAKE YOURSELVES KNOWN TO THE USHERS AND SIT NEAR THE
GIFTS. THANK YOU!
Tuesday, May 10
8:15 am
St. Gabriels Church
Gladys Slama
Wednesday, May 11
8:15 am
St. Johns Church
Gary & Kelly LeGeune
Thursday, May 12
8:15 am
St. Gabriels Church
Theresa Morel
Friday, May 13
8:15 am
St. Johns Church
Raoul G. Steiner
Saturday, May 14
4:00 pm
7:00 pm
St. Gabriels Church
St. Johns Church
Cletus Steffensmeier
Connie Esser
Sunday, May 15
8:00 am
10:00 am
St. Gabriels Church
St. Johns Church
For All Those Entrusted to Our Pastor
John & Mary Boxrucker
CONFESSIONS
St. Gabriels
St. Johns
3:00 pm to 3:45 pm on Saturday
6:00 pm to 6:45 pm on Saturday
(No scheduled confessions on days with weddings or funerals.)
A Tale of Wonder for the Mary Month of May
Some moments are forever etched in our memories.
For me, these include events like the assassination of JFK, the
landing on the moon, the election of Pope John Paul II. On this
Mothers Day in the month of May, which the Church dedicates
in a special way to Mary, let me add another. It happened when
I was in the fourth grade at St. Marys Cathedral School in Fargo, North Dakota, where the good sisters taught me in the
1960s. One day, one of the nuns decided to share the story of
Our Lady of Guadalupe. Now, like any nine-year old of that era,
I loved Walt Disneys fairy tales, like Snow White and Sleeping
Beauty. But Gods tales of wonder which happen to be true
are infinitely more stunning, as I was about to find out.
Sister told our class of Juan Diego, a humble peasant
making his way to Mass one day, passing through the hill country of central Mexico. The year is 1531, and it is the feast of the
Immaculate Conception. Suddenly, Juan Diego encounters a
beautiful lady bathed in bright light. Juanito, the lady calls out,
where are you going? After he tells her he is on his way to the
church, she smiles and says, Know for certain, dearest of my
sons, that I am the perfect and perpetual Virgin Mary, Mother of
the true God, through Whom everything lives. I earnestly desire a temple be built here for me where I will show Him [God],
I will exalt Him and make Him manifest. I will give Him to the
people in all my personal love, in my compassion, in my help, in
my protection, because I am truly your merciful Mother.
The lady sends Juan to the bishop with her request for
the chapel, but the bishop is understandably skeptical. Juan
brings this news back to the lady and protests that he is too unimportant for such a mission. She should send someone of higher standing. She replies that there are many she could have chosen, but she has chosen him. Back he goes the next day, but the
bishop still wonders at such an incredible story and insists he
must be given a sign. Juan Diego meets the beautiful lady at the
usual place and gives her this news. Very well, she tells him,
come the next morning and she will give him a sign for the bishop.
But that evening Juan learns his beloved uncle is deathly sick. He stays with him all the next day, missing his appointment with the lady. The following morning he sets out to get a
priest for the last rites and decides to avoid passing the spot of
his encounters with Mary, but suddenly she appears before him.
She smiles tenderly and says, Listen and let it penetrate your
heart, my dear little son. Do not fear any illness or vexation,
anxiety or pain. Am I not here who am your Mother? Are you
not under my shadow and protection? Are you not in the folds
of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Is there anything else
you need? Then she adds, Do not let the illness of your uncle
worry you. At this very moment he is cured. And so he was.
As for the sign, Juan is to climb to the top of the hill, gather the
flowers he will find there, and bring them back to her.
It is December, but to his amazement, Juan finds
blooming in the frozen soil the most beautiful Castillian roses.
He gathers them in his tilma (his simple cloak), and brings them
to the lady. She tells him to bring this sign to the bishop and not
to unfold his tilma until he is in the bishops presence. After a
long wait, Juan Diego at last stands before the bishop and declares that he has brought the requested sign. He unfolds his
tilma to reveal the impossible roses of winter. As they tumble to
the ground the bishop falls to his knees. (cont. on next column)
But his attention is not on the roses. His eyes are fixed in
astonishment on the tilma, for it bears the glorious image of the
lady from heaven.
Our dear sister brought the story to a close by telling us
that the requested chapel was built, the tilma was carried in glorious procession, and the image, full of symbols that show the
Blessed Virgin triumphing over the bloodthirsty pagan gods of the
Aztecs, led to the abolishing of human sacrifice and the conversion of ten million natives. The miraculous image can still be seen
today at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. I
was awestruck. Today, each time I call this story to mind, I find
myself again a little boy back in the fourth grade, with the same
goose bumps and sense of wonder and gratitude to God. And
now, these many years later, I live and work in the shadow of the
Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, with its glorious
replica of that miraculous image. Coincidence? I dont think so.
In this month dedicated to Mary, and in this Year of
Mercy, may we all take to heart the words of the beautiful Lady
bathed in light: Listen and let it penetrate your heart. Am I not
here who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and
protection? Are you not in the folds of my mantle, in the crossing
of my arms?
Chris Ruff, Director of the
Office for Ministries & Social Concerns
PRAYER CORNER
God, grant healing and peace to the sick of our communities
and those who have requested our prayers. Please pray for:
Eileen Sutton, Mary Ann Heisz, Jerry Matousek, LaVern
Sutton, Janet Dickman, Peg Stoeffler, John Felder, Ann
Fulcher, Nancy Patzner, Janelle Becwar, Michael Hinrich,
William Blake, John & Cheyenne Messling, Earl Nye, Ethel
Sebastian, Tara Pellock, Margaret Konichek, Geraldine Barr,
Marguerite Begnoche, Bill McCoy, Edith Ritchie, Scott
LaBonne, Debbie Eden, Ken Fleshner, Carrie Breuer, Graham
Shedivy, Mary Gillitzer, Mark Janz, Lorna Porvaznik, John Rink,
Dale LaBonne, Dallas Valley, Mary T. Shedivy, Lavon David,
Diane Fernette, Joe Ludvik, Stacey Johnson, Bernie OConnell,
Frank Tiller, Carl Shedivy, Rosanna Mayer, Marilyn Rybarczyk,
Pam Waller, Jackie Cherrier, Jennifer Gilman, Sara Breuer,
Rose Miller, Annabelle Stubbe, Karen Carroll, Richard
Ginsterblum, Letty Oehler, Howard Gillitzer, Art & Celine
Boxrucker, Nora Vickerman, Dave Bohnenkamp, Ed
Rocksvold, Cecil Olson, Mary Kann, Herb Schneider, Eugene
Gillitzer, Barbara Schwant, Tyler Gillitzer, Anita Steger, Lynette
Reichmann, Janet Beinborn, Scott Plondke, Richard Gillitzer,
Gerald Stram, Joe Barrette, Sally Ann White, Scott Sklenar,
Shirley Ambrose, Don McFarland, Vickie Samples, James
Thompson, Nancy Aschom, Phyllis Waller, Jack Dahl, Joan
Sheckler, Sandi Herreid.
Parish Support
This Year
Last Year
Envelopes for May 1, 2016 $8,720.00
$7,213.00
Plate for May 1, 2016
913.35
828.76
Total
$9,633.35
8,041.76
The second collection came to $716.00 and will be used for
Prairie Catholic School and our Religious Education Program.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
CONFIRMATION WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 6:00
PM Bishop Callahan will be here to confirm 22
This Week at the Parish
of our young men and women at St. Johns
Church.
Long stemmed, red roses will be sold after the
Masses
BOHEMIAN DINNER MAY 15: Make plans to
join Holy Family Parish for our annual Bohemian
dinner at St. Johns Church. This event will take
place at the new Holy Family parish fellowship
hall following the 10:00 am Mass. The menu
includes Tender Smoked Pork Chop, Potato
Dumplings, Sauerkraut, Vegetable, Poppyseed
Loaf Bread, Poppyseed Cake. Serving from 11
am to 1 pm.
WEDDING BANNS
Dustin Gillitzer & Shana Eckman (II)
4b
Sunday, May 8 - Mothers Day
Monday, May 9
Tuesday, May 10
3:30 pm Mass at Prairie Maison
Wednesday, May 11
6:00 pm Confirmation at St. Johns Church
Thursday, May 12
Adoration after the 8:15 am Mass at St. Gabriels
Benediction at 1:00 pm
6:00 pm Finance Council will meet in St. Johns School
Friday, May 13
Saturday, May 14
Sunday, May 15
10:00 am Mass with Polka Music at St. Johns Church
followed by our annual Bohemian Dinner in our new
fellowship hall. All are invited to attend
SCHOOL NEWS...This school year Prairie
Catholics Student Council has been amazingly
busy and extremely successful. We started our
school year off with a food drive for our local food
pantry and collected and delivered over 700 lbs of
food. When we heard the terrible news that a family
in our community lost their children in a house fire
we quickly organized a bake sale donating all proceeds to the family along with our prayers. We
gladly donated $100.00 to the canonization effort for
Father Joe. We waged a fun filled penny war supporting our Prairie du Chien police department's K-9
unit. Happily we just met our goal to raise $1,000.00
to support Sara, our adopted little sister from Peru.
All these works are done with joy and a great sense
of accomplishment. We want to thank all of the students and parents who made our year such a wonderful success.
BAPTISMS
We welcome into the family of God, Chloe Lynn
Fuelling, daughter of Rob & Sarah (Gillitzer) Fuelling and Hartley Michael Huber, son of Jerome &
Kelsey (Mezera) Huber, through the Sacrament of
Baptism. May God continue to bless Chloe Lynn
and Hartley Michael and their families.
MISSION PROJECT...Anyone looking for some yard
work, sprucing up, light housekeeping, errands, etc.
May 14 & 15, please call Mary Stoeffler at 326-2778.
Free will donation with proceeds going toward the
summer mission trip to South Carolina. Other times
available by appointment.
Holy Name Raffle Winners for May 2016
$10.00 Winners: Isaiah Wimmer, St. Charles, MN; Barb
Milewsky, McGregor; Dalton Flansburgh, PdC; Ryan Davis,
Harpers Ferry; Dylan Flansburgh, PdC
$25.00 Winners: Karen Shulka, PdC; Russ Eulgem, PdC
$100.00 Winner: Becky & Mick Rooney, PdC
Lottery Calendar Raffle Winners for May, 2016
$100.00 Winners: Rose Wright, PdC; Jim & Brenda Wagner, Wauzeka; Terry Igou, PdC; Roland Linder, Sr., McGregor; Austin Erdenberger, Sanger, TX
$50.00 Winners: Grant Novey, Eden Prairie, MN; Jessie
Ziegler, Dane, WI; Ryan Halpin, PdC; Terri Duve, Holmen;
Madonna Kapinus, PdC
$25.00 Winners: Kenneth David, Farmersburg; Landon
Smith, PdC; Kirk & Amy Hamann, Mt. Hope; Laura Parker,
PdC; Paul Krachey, PdC; Geri Kozelka, PdC; John Fischer,
PdC; Suellyn Scharping, Downers Grove, IL; Zachary DuCharme, PdC; Andy Prew, PdC; Kevin Pedretti, PdC; Abby
Rooney Family, Elkader; Madelyn Gerhards, PdC; Jason Adamany, PdC; Waller Family, PdC; Arlene Morovits, PdC; John
A. Luster, PdC; Carson Kramer, PdC; Gabriel MunsonFishler, PdC; Lucas Warren, Excelsior, MN
THANK YOU FR. ARULDOSS
As new priests come into our diocese, they are
given a couple assignments to see how parishes are run
in different areas. It has been nice having Fr Aruldoss
with us since the beginning of Feb, but he has been
asked to go to Holy Ghost (my previous parish) to serve
the people of Chippewa Falls as he makes preparation
for an assignment as a parish administrator later this
summer. Thank you Fr Doss for your service; and
Gods blessings in this and all future assignments.