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

Saturday at 8:00pm Lake Chapel

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

Sept. 4: First Friday Mass and Adoration until Noon

Sept. 5-6: The ushers will begin using the handled baskets to take up the collections.

St. Andrew

Report for August 22-23, 2020

St .Andrew’s St .Mark’s

Adult env. $ 240.00 Adult env. $ 1,651.00 Plate $ Plate $ 93.00 Children $ Children $ .00 Lake Mass $ 110.00 Building Improvement Fund: $ 75.00

Saturday, August 29, 5:30p.m. St. Mark’s

(† Jerry LaCroix)

Sunday, August 30, 9:00a.m. St. Andrew’s

(Parishioners)

Sunday, August 30, 11:00a.m. St. Mark’s

(† Barney Honer)

Tuesday, September 1, 12:00p.m. St. Mark’s

(† Duane Sebelius)

Wednesday, September 2, 7:30a.m. St. Mark’s

(† Curt Beyer)

Thursday, September 3, 9:00a.m. St. Andrew’s

(† Greg Beyer)

Friday, September 4, 8:00a.m. St. Mark’s

(† Barney Honer)

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

(† Russ Picard)

Sunday, September 6, 9:00a.m. St. Andrew’s

(Elenora Reichert (living)

Sunday, September 6, 11:00a.m. St. Mark’s

(Parishioners)

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 245-6538 or the parish office at 228-3164.

PARISHIONERS, FAMILY AND FRIENDS: Military personnel & their families, Sue Berg Family, Tom Haberman, 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, Al-ice Christenson, Linda Abel, Darrell Van Der Busch, Katie Torgerson, Marcie Dubrow, Linda Ysulan, Rosemary La-Croix, Bill & Cool Baumann, Amy Artz, Flora Carlson, Marlys Richard, Monte Mikkelsen, Susan Brandjord, Fran-cis 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

Stewardship Moment : “What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?” - Matthew 16:26 St. Francis of Assisi once said, “Remember, you are what you are in the eyes of God, and nothing else.” We often forget this stewardship wisdom when we spend all of our time, talent and treasure to gain more of the world’s riches. We need to set our priorities based on God’s values and not the values of the material world.

Employment Opportunities JPII Catholic Schools is looking to hire the follow-ing positions for the 2020-2021 school year: * Science Teacher – Shanley High School * Substitute Teachers – All locations * Assistant Cook – Trinity Elementary * Little Deacons Para – Holy Spirit Elementary * After School Workers – All locations * Custodian – Holy Spirit Elementary * Evening Custodian – Shanley High School/Sullivan Middle School For more information on these positions or how to apply visit https://www.jp2schools.org/central-office/careers/ or call 701-893-3231

August 29-30, 22nd Sunday in OT

St. Mark’s Masses on September 5th & 6th, 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

From the Pastor’s Pen

St. Andrew’s Mass on September 6th, 2020

DATE EUCHARISTIC

MINISTERS READER GIFT BEARERS ALTAR SERVERS USHERS COUNTERS

Sun. NONE Nancy Erickson NONE NONE Lenny Artz &

Mike Artz Howard & Tom

and likeness of God, we are social, creative and solidary beings with an immense capacity to love. We often forget this. In fact, from among all the species, we are the beings who are the most cooperative and we flourish in community, as is seen well in the experience of the saints. There is a saying in Spanish that in-spired me to write this phrase. It says: “Florecemos en racimo, como los santos”: we flourish in community, as is seen well in the experience of the saints.[3]

When the obsession to possess and dominate excludes millions of persons from having primary goods; when economic and technological inequality are such that the social fabric is torn; and when dependence on unlimited material progress threatens our common home, then we cannot stand by and watch. No, this is distressing. We cannot stand by and watch! With our gaze fixed on Jesus (see Heb 12:2) and with the cer-tainty that His love is operative through the community of His disciples, we must act all together, in the hope of generating something different and better. Christian hope, rooted in God, is our anchor. It moves the will to share, strengthening our mission as disciples of Christ, Who shared everything with us.

The first Christian communities understood this. They lived difficult times, like us. Aware that they formed one heart and one soul, they put all of their goods in common, bearing witness to Christ’s abundant grace in them (see Acts 4:32-35). We are experiencing a crisis. The pandemic has put all of us in crisis. But let us remember that after a crisis a person is not the same. We come out of it better, or we come out of it worse. This is our option. After the crisis, will we continue with this econom-ic system of social injustice and depreciating care for the envi-ronment, for creation, for our common home? Let’s think about this. May the Christian communities of the twenty-first century recuperate this reality – care for creation and social justice: they go together … – thus bearing witness to the Lord’s Resurrection. If we take care of the goods that the Creator gives us, if we put what we possess in common in such a way that no one would be lacking, then we would truly inspire hope to regenerate a more healthy and equal world. And in conclusion, let us think about the children. Read the statistics: how many children today are dying of hunger because the distribution of riches is not good, because of the economic system as I said above; and how many children today do not have the right to education for the same reason. May this image of children in want due to hunger and the lack of education help us understand that after this crisis we must come out of it better. Thank you.

Reflection Points

“You duped me, O LORD,” Jeremiah, the reluctant prophet, exclaims at the beginning of today’s first reading (Jeremiah 20:7). The Hebrew verb pathah (“duped”) can also be translated as “enticed” or “seduced,” emphasizing the powerlessness of the prophet in accepting that role. Jeremiah is left in a horrible position, unable to keep it in, but facing abuse and derision when he lets it all out. God’s word is like fire. It will either burn him up from within or lay waste to his world when he lets it out. When we speak God’s word, when we live God’s word, it can be threatening to others, particularly those driven to gain the whole world.

Jeremiah is not the only one faced with difficult things to hear. When Jesus tells his disciples that he will suffer and die at the hands of the authorities it is too much for Peter. Jesus responds by admonishing Peter, telling him, “You are thinking not as God does, but as hu-man beings do” (Matthew 16:23). It is difficult not to think as human beings do, as that is who we are, and impossible to know the mind of God. But at least we can appreciate this when we face what seems an impossible burden: there is an unknowable perspective that makes this sensible. Then we can pray for the strength and courage to bear our cross, despite its incomprehensibility.

We are called to make a sacrifice. Our sacrifice is not as great as our Lord’s and may not be as overwhelming as Jeremiah’s. But as Paul says to the Romans, we make a sacrifice when we resist conforming ourselves to the world in which we live. We sacrifice a self-centered, comfortable life in this world. We are called to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow him. Let each sign of the cross we

make remind us of the sacrifice we are called to offer.

Words from Pope Francis, General Audience, Wednesday, August 26, 2020

“To Heal the World”:

4. The universal destination of goods and the virtue of hope

Dear Brothers and Sisters, good morning!

In the face of the pandemic and its social consequences, many risk losing hope. In this time of uncertainty and anguish, I invite everyone to welcome the gift of hope that comes from Christ. It is He who helps us navigate the tumultuous waters of sickness, death and injustice, which do not have the last word over our final destination.

The pandemic has exposed and aggravated social problems, above all that of inequality. Some people can work from home, while this is impossible for many others. Certain children, notwithstanding the difficulties involved, can continue to receive an academic education, while this has been abruptly interrupted for many, many others. Some powerful nations can issue money to deal with the crisis, while this would mean mortgaging the future for others.

These symptoms of inequality reveal a social illness; it is a virus that comes from a sick economy. And we must say it simply: the economy is sick. It has become ill. It is sick. It is the fruit of unequal economic growth – this is the illness: the fruit of unequal economic growth – that disregards fundamental human values. In today’s world, a few rich people possess more than all the rest of humanity. I will re-peat this so that it makes us think: a few rich people, a small group, possess more than all the rest of humanity. This is pure statistics. This is an injustice that cries out to heaven! At the same time, this economic model is indifferent to the damage inflicted on our common home. Care is not being taken of our common home. We are close to exceeding many limits of our wonderful planet, with serious and irreversible conse-quences: from the loss of biodiversity and climate change to rising sea levels and the destruction of the tropical forests. Social inequality and environmental degradation go together and have the same root (see Encyclical, Laudato Si’, 101): the sin of wanting to possess and wanting to dominate one’s brothers and sisters, of wanting to possess and dominate nature and God Himself. But this is not the design for creation.

“In the beginning God entrusted the earth and its resources to the common stewardship of mankind to take care of them” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2402). God has called us to dominate the earth in His name (see Gen 1:28), tilling it and keeping it like a garden, every-one’s garden (see Gen 2:15). “‘Tilling’ refers to cultivating, ploughing or working, while ‘keeping’ means caring, protecting, overseeing and preserving” (LS, 67). But be careful not to interpret this as a carte blanche to do whatever you want with the earth. No. There exists a “relationship of mutual responsibility” (ibid.) between ourselves and nature. A relationship of mutual responsibility between ourselves and nature. We receive from creation and we give back in return. “Each community can take from the bounty of the earth whatever it needs for subsistence, but it also has the duty to protect the earth” (ibid.). It goes both ways.

In fact, the earth “was here before us and it has been given to us” (ibid.), it has been given by God “for the whole human race” (CCC, 2402). And therefore it is our duty to make sure that its fruit reaches everyone, not just a few people. And this is a key element of our relation-ship with earthly goods. As the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council recalled, they said: “Man should regard the external things that he legit-imately possesses not only as his own but also as common in the sense that they should be able to benefit not only him but also oth-ers” (Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et spes, 69). In fact, “The ownership of any property makes its holder a steward of Providence, with the task of making it fruitful and communicating its benefits to others” (CCC, 2404). We are administrators of the goods, not masters. Adminis-trators. “Yes, but the good is mine”: that is true, it is yours, but to administer it, not to possess it selfishly for yourself.

To ensure that what we possess brings value to the community, “political authority has the right and duty to regulate the legitimate exercise of the right to ownership for the sake of the common good” (ibid., 2406).[1] The “subordination of private property to the universal destination of goods, […] is a golden rule of social conduct and the first principle of the whole ethical and social order” (LS, 93).[2]

Property and money are instruments that can serve mission. However, we easily transform them into ends, whether individual or col-lective. And when this happens, essential human values are affected. The homo sapiens is deformed and becomes a species of homo œconomi-cus – in a detrimental sense – a species of man that is individualistic, calculating and domineering. We forget that, being created in the image

You are Invited to the Dakota Hope Clinic

9th Annual Fundraising Banquet. NEW This Year - 2 Locations - Minot & Stanley Minot Stanley

September 21, 2020 September 22, 2020

Doors open 5:30pm Doors Open 6:00pm

Dinner Served 6:30pm Dinner Served 6:30pm

ND State Fair Event Center Mountrail Co. S. Complex

2005 E Burdick Expy, Minot 8103 61st St NW, Stanley

Reservations Required - Adults Only RSVP by September 11th at dakotahope.org/events OR by your table host

Guest speaker: Rebekah Hagan

Holy Land Collection

Pope Francis has asked our parish to support the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, which helps Chris-tians in the Holy Land.

Your support helps the church minister in parishes, provide Catholic schools and offer religious education.

The Pontifical Good Friday Collection also helps to preserve the sacred shrines. The wars, unrest and instability have been especial-ly hard on Christians.

In these times of crisis, the Pontifical Good Friday Collection pro-vides humanitarian aid to refugees.

When you contribute to the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, you become an instrument of peace and join with Catholics around the world in solidarity with the Church in the Holy Land.

PLEASE BE GENEROUS the weekend of September 12-13, 2020!

For more information about Christians in the Holy Land, visit www.myfranciscan.org/good-friday