January 16 & 17, 2021
St. Patrick Contacts Deacon Mike Carney 712-310-2921
Office: Michele Wilson 712-642-2611 M, T, W, F afternoons
Faith Formation: Annette Lorenzen 712-642-3155
Knights of Columbus: Matt Kolb 712-645-2401 Parish Pastoral Council Chair:
Parish Finance Council Chair: Laura Meier 402-980-1278
Trustees: Mike Kenealy 402-651-3729
Patricia Kocour 712-642-2974 Parish Ministries contact: Sharon Solon 402-689-5116
RCIA: Deacon Carney
Homebound/Shut-in Ministry: call church office
Cemetery: Mary Palmer Mon-Wed. 9-11 am 712-642-2611
Music Ministry: Lyle Waterhouse 402-203-4738 Bulletin Editor: Carol Poole [email protected]
Prayer Net: Sharon Buss 402-490-7185
Mass Schedule: St. Anne : Saturday 4:00 pm and Sunday 8:00 am
Daily Mass: Tuesday through Friday 9:00 am
St. Patrick : Saturday 5:30 pm and Sunday 9:30 am
Daily Mass: Tuesday through Friday 8:00 am
Hall Rental: St. Anne Hall & St. Anne Basement
Please call 712-644-2520 for more information
St. Patrick Houdek Hall
& St. Patrick Library Lounge
Please call 712-642-2611 for more information
St. Anne & St. Patrick C A T H O L I C C H U R C H E S
Mailing: 112 W 3rd St Logan, IA 51546
Location: 104 W 3rd St. Logan 215 N., 7th St. Mo. Valley, IA 51555
email: [email protected] email: [email protected] www.logancatholic.wordpress.com www.movalleycatholics.wordpress.com
St. Anne Contacts Deacon Dennis Lovell: 402-689-8940 Office: Annette Lorenzen 712-644-2520 Tues/Fri 9:30-3:30
Faith Formation: Kyle Haffey 402-306-7186
Knights of Columbus: Joe Esser 402-981-1295
Parish Pastoral Council Chair: Elaine Hansen 712-644-2808 Parish Finance Council Chair: Gerry Pinter 712-644-3477
Trustees: Kay Barry 712-648-2508; Joe Esser 402-981-1295
Parish Ministries contact: Deacon Lovell
RCIA: Deacon Lovell
Faith Sharing (Study) Group: Kathy Lovell 712-644-2092 Eucharistic Adoration-First Fridays: Kathy Lovell
Music Ministry: Judy Dinkel 712-644-2628
Bulletin Editor: Carol Poole [email protected]
Prayer Net: Sharon Buss 402-490-7185
Fr. Raphael Masabakhwa 712-644-2520
Every person touched by our Parish communities is Welcomed, Valued & Enriched in Christ.
Dear Friends:
I share with you a reflection by Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian and teacher. It is
entitled: “JUDGMENT DAY.”
We all fear judgment. We fear being seen with all that’s inside us, some of which we don’t want exposed to the
light. Conversely, we fear being misunderstood, of not being seen in the full light, of not being seen for who we
are. And what we fear most perhaps is final judgment, the ultimate revelation of ourselves. Whether we are
religious or not, most of us fear having to one day face our Maker, judgment day. We fear standing naked in
complete light where nothing’s hidden and all that’s in the dark inside us is brought to light. What’s curious about
these fears is that we fear both being known for who we are, even as we fear not being known for who we really
are. We fear judgment, even as we long for it. Perhaps that’s because we already intuit what our final judgment
will be and how it will take place. Perhaps we already intuit that when we finally stand naked in God’s light we
will also finally be understood and that revealing light will not just expose our shortcomings but also make visible
our virtues. That intuition is divinely-placed in us and reflects the reality of our final judgment. When all our
secrets are known our secret goodness will also be known. Light exposes everything.
For example, here’s how the renowned poet and spiritual writer, Wendell Berry, foresees the final judgment: “I
might imagine the dead waking, dazed into a shadowless light in which they know themselves altogether for the
first time. It is a light that is merciless until they accept its mercy; by it, they are at once condemned and
redeemed. It is Hell until it is Heaven. Seeing themselves in that light, if they are willing, they see how far they
have failed the only justice of loving one another. And yet, in suffering the light’s awful clarity, in seeing
themselves within it, they see its forgiveness and its beauty and are consoled.” In many ways, this wonderfully
captures it: When, one day, we stand in the full light of God, stripped naked in soul, morally defenseless, with
everything we have ever done exposed, that light will, I suspect, indeed be a bit of hell before it turns into heaven.
It will expose all that’s selfish and impure inside us and all the ways we have hurt others in our selfishness, even
as it will expose its opposite, namely, all that’s selfless and pure inside us. That judgment will bring with it a
certain condemnation even as it brings at the same time an understanding, forgiveness, and consolation such as
we have never known before. That judgment will be, as Berry suggests, momentarily bitter but ultimately
consoling. The one nuance that I would add to Berry’s idea is something taken from Karl Rahner. Rahner’s
fantasy of our judgment by God after death is very similar to Berry’s, except that, for Rahner, the agent of that
judgment will not so much be God’s light as it will be God’s love. For Rahner, the idea is not so much that we will
be standing in an unrelenting light that sears and pierces through us, but rather that we will be embraced by a
love so unconditional, so understanding, and so gracious that, inside that, we will know instantly all that’s selfish
and impure inside us even as we know all that’s pure and selfless. Therese of Lisieux used to ask God for
forgiveness with these words: “Punish me with a kiss!” Judgment day will be exactly that. We will be “punished”
by a kiss, by being loved in a way that will make us painfully aware of the sin within us, even as it lets us know
that we are good and loveable.
For those of us who are Roman Catholics, this notion of judgment is also, I believe, what we mean by our concept
of purgatory. Purgatory is not a place that’s separate from heaven where one goes for a time to do penance for
one’s sins and to purify one’s heart. Our hearts are purified by being embraced by God, not by being separated
from God for a time so as to be made worthy of that embrace. As well, as Therese of Lisieux implies, the
punishment for our sin is in the embrace itself. Final judgment takes place by being unconditionally embraced by
Love. When that happens to the extent that we’re sinful and selfish that embrace of pure goodness and love will
make us painfully aware of our own sin and that will be hell until it is heaven. As a lyric by Leonard Cohen puts
it: Behold the gates of mercy, in arbitrary space, and none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace. He’s right.
None of us deserves either the cruelty or the grace we experience in this world. And only our final judgment, the
embrace of unconditional love, God’s kiss, will make us aware both of how cruel we’ve been and how good we
really are. **************************************************
Something to think about: The Minister was waiting when his teenage daughter returned home at 3 a.m. from a dance. “Good morning, child of the devil,”
he thundered. The girl answered respectfully, “Good morning, Father.”
Padre Masabakhwa, R.
St. Anne Ministry
Sat. January 23 4:00 pm Mass
Hospitality: John & Carol M. Lector: Susie W.
Sunday, January 24 8:00 am Mass
Hospitality: Bill & Christa U. Lector: Kirk K.
Tithe Counters: Christa U. & Lori P.
St. Patrick Ministry Sat. January 23 5:30 pm Mass Hospitality: Sharon Solon & Barb Schulte
Lector: Carol Poole
Sunday, January 24 9:30 am Mass
Hospitality: Michele Wilson & Renee Carney
Lector: Deborah Waterhouse
Tithe Counters: Elizabeth Dillinger & Mike Oehler
Saturday, January 16:
4:00 pm Mass St. Anne: All Parishioners
5:30 pm Mass St. Patrick: Jeff Cartmill Family
Sunday, January 17:
8:00 am Mass St. Anne: Dian Sonderman
9:30 am Mass St. Patrick: Mark Howell
10:30 am Mass for Shut-ins, Channel 6, WOWT
Tuesday January 19: 8:00 am Mass St. Patrick: For Healing in our
Country
9:00 am Mass St. Anne: Marge Brosnahan
Wednesday, January 20: + St. Fabian &
St. Sebastian +
8:00 am Mass St. Patrick: Sr. Agnes Honz
9:00 am Mass St. Anne: Leonard & Magdalan
Erlbacher
Thursday, January 21: + St. Agnes +
8:00 am Mass St. Patrick: Unborn Children
9:00 am Mass St. Anne: Orville & Kathleen
Leinen
Friday, January 22:
Day of Prayer for Unborn Children
8:00 am Mass St. Patrick: Pete &
Ruth Gross
9:00 am Mass St. Anne: Suzie Pinter
Saturday, January 23: + St. Maryanne Cope + 4:00 pm Mass St. Anne: All Parishioners
5:30 pm Mass St. Patrick: Nate Cartmill Family
Sunday, January 24:
8:00 am Mass St. Anne: Chuck & Shirley Kersten
9:30 am Mass St. Patrick: Norma Van Riper
10:30 am Mass for Shut-ins, Channel 6, WOWT
Please pray for: Jo Hunt, Carol (Sherry
Kleveter’s sister-in-law) Ann
Walsh McDonald, Sharon Myers, Jean Johnson, Lisa
Schwery, Nedra Fliehe, Chris
McGrath, Kiera Wilson,
Michael Volosin, Minnie Fisher & family, Patrick
(Dana Orten’s nephew),
Gene Pitt, Nancy Bowman, Keith, Jackie, Solamar & Celesta Soders, Dorothy Beemis, John Soders, Yoanna Lopez, Susan
Frazier, Linda McIntosh, Marguerite Prior, Nancy Neubauer,
Zelda Buller, Dick Burkehead, Helen Herman, Shelley Bishop, Gerry Pinter, Margaret Soboslay, Allysen Johnson,
Donna Slovinsky, Michael Ringstad, Ken Dooley, Paul
Vorthmann, Mary Jane Kirlin, Nick Loftus, Denny & Jane Schrauth, Grant Gorham, Melinda Alsman, Carl Brown, Amy
Hamm, Douglas Herman, Nancy Iverson, Charlie Wolford,
Kelly Sherer, James Kirlin, Mike Kirlin, Tom Erixon, Tim Palmer, Denise Oliver, Nancy Taylor, Jeff Freed, Brett
Cihacek, Marilyn Clinkenbeard, Andy Adams, Josh Anderson,
Dennis & Kathy Massku, Muriel Alger, Dennis Schroeder, Veronica Dayhoff, John Taylor, Pat McEvoy, Kim Kunkee,
Avett Wigdahl, Rocky Perez, Kelly Tucker, Jean Collins,
Jennifer Small, Druann Campanella, Barb Hinchey, Jerry Helmke, Morgan Stanislav, Lori Dickman Colberg
~ St. Agnes, Pray for us ~
Weekly Readings for the Week of January 17 Sunday: 1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19; Ps 40:2, 4, 7-10;
1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a,17-20 ; John 1:35-42
Monday - Hebrews 5:1-10; Ps 110:1-4 ; Mark 2:18-22
Tuesday - Hebrews 6:10-20; Ps 111:1-2, 4-5, 9-10;
Mark 2:23-28
Wednesday - Hebrews 7:1-3, 15-17; Ps 110:1-4;
Mark 3:1-6
Thursday -Heb. 7:25—8:6; Ps 40:7-10, 17; Mark 3:7-12
Friday - Hebrews 8:6-13; Ps 85:8, 10-14; Mark 3:13-19
Saturday - Hebrews 9:2-3, 11-14; Ps 47:2-3, 6-9;
Mark 3:20-21
Sunday: Jonah 3:1-5, 10: Ps 25:4-9;
1 Corinthians 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20
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Pope Francis’ January Intention:
Evangelization - Human fraternity
May the Lord give us the grace to live in full fellowship with our brothers and
sisters of other religions, praying for
SHARING OUR BLESSINGS
Thank you to everyone who supports our parishes with their time, talents and financial support! May God
continue to bless you for your generosity and kindness.
Please pray for the financial health of our parishes and
that all members will generously share the many blessings that God has given them with our parishes.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
By appointment.
SACRAMENT OF THE SICK (ANOINTING)
Anointing is available upon request for serious
illness, before surgery & in emergency any time.
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM To have your child baptized, you must be a registered
parishioner in good standing for at least 3 months.
Baptismal requests must be made at least one month
before the desired date. A baptismal class is required
for first time parents. Please call the office to schedule. SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY
To be married at the parish, you or your intended
spouse or your parents must be a registered parish-
ioner in good standing for at least six months before a date can be requested, with a minimum of six months
for marriage preparation. The couple needs to talk with
a priest or deacon six months before the anticipated
wedding date. If a prior marriage is involved; one year
notice is necessary. PASTORAL VISITATIONS
Please call the parish office when a parishioner is
admitted to any of the area hospitals/care centers, and
desires Holy Communion or a visit. If a homebound parishioner would like a pastoral visit, or to receive the
Eucharist, call the parish office.
Finance Report
St. Anne :
Tithe: $1,240.00 Plate: $43.00 Bldg: $70.00
Christmas $100.00
ADA goal: $19,508.00 pledges/gifts: 52/$16,785.00
Please remember St. Anne Parish, Logan, in your will.
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St. Patrick: Tithe $1,285.00 Plate $168.00
ADA goal: $31,975.00 pledges/gifts: 75/$26,045.00
Please remember St. Patrick Parish, Mo. Valley, in your will.
St. Patrick Youth Faith Formation will begin meeting for
classes on January 13!
High school students will meet weekly beginning January 13
through April; other grades will meet monthly as follows: Grades 3/4 on Jan. 13, Feb. 3, Mar 3 and Apr 7.
Grades 5/6 will meet Jan. 20, Feb 10, Mar 10 and Apr 14.
Grades 7/8 will meet Jan 27, Feb 24, Mar 17 and Apr 21.
Grade 2 will meet weekly for first Eucharist preparation beginning March 3.
Please watch your emails and the bulletin for reminders of
which classes are meeting.
Prayer to Saint Joseph
Over 1900 years old
O St. Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the Throne of God, I place in you all my interests and desires. O St. Joseph, do assist me by your powerful intercession and obtain for me from your Divine Son all spiritual blessings through Jesus Christ, Our Lord; so that having engaged here below your Heavenly power I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of Fathers. O St. Joseph, I never weary contemplating you and Jesus asleep in your arms. I dare not approach while He reposes near your heart. Press Him in my name and kiss His fine Head for me, and ask Him to return the Kiss when I draw my dying breath. St. Joseph, Patron of departing souls, pray for us.
St. Marianne Cope, also known as Saint Marianne of Molokaʻi, (January 23, 1838 – August
9, 1918) was a German-born American religious sister who was a member of the Sisters of St Francis of Syracuse, New York, and founding leader of its St. Joseph's Hospital in the city, among the first of 50 general hospitals in the country. Known also for her charitable works, in 1883 she relocated with six other sisters to Hawaiʻi to care for persons suffering leprosy on the island of Molokaʻi and aid in developing the medical infrastructure in Hawaiʻi. She cared for the dying Father (St.) Damian and despite direct contact with the patients over many years she did not contract the disease. Cope was beatified in 2005 and declared a saint in
2012 by Pope Benedict XVI. Feast day: January 23
Christmas decorations have been taken down and the
poinsettias need new homes. They are located in the
hallway between the library and the Houdek Center.
I do not expect
a high place in heaven.
I will be very grateful to have
a little corner
where I can love God for all eternity.
- St. Marianne Cope
