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 Michael Hickin, Pastor

Vickie Gangl, Secretary

Cathy Miller, Custodian - St. A’s

Patty Graber, Custodian - St. M’s

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Amanda Artz &

Keari Beaudrie, co-DREs at

St. Andrew’s Parish

Mary Gorder &

Jessica Tagestad, co-DREs at

St. Mark’s Parish

WEEKEND 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

OFFICE HOURS

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

PARISH NEWS AND EVENTS PRAY THE ROSARY FOR ALL ESSENTIAL —grocery store work-ers, truck drivers, postal workers, farmers and ranchers, restau-rant employees, take-out and delivery peo-ple, and HEALTH CARE WORKERS.

Please God, keep them safe and healthy so that they can take care of the rest of the country who cannot take care of themselves. Amen.

Report for May 16-17, 2020

St .Andrew’s St .Mark’s

Adult env. $ 885.00 Adult env. $ 1,755.00 Plate $ Plate $ 30.00 Children $ Children $ .00 Building Improvement Fund: $ 15.00

Saturday, May 23, 5:30p.m. St. Mark’s

(Barney Honer—91st birthday)

Sunday, May 24, 9:00a.m. St. Andrew’s

(Parishioners)

Sunday, May 24, 11:00a.m. St. Mark’s († Dave Olson)

Tuesday, May 26, 12:00p.m. St. Mark’s

(Audrey Phillips)

Wednesday, May 27, 7:30a.m.. St. Mark’s

(† Tina Meyer Hendrickson)

Thursday, May 28, 9:00a.m. St. Andrew’s

(† Greg Beyer)

Friday, May 29, 8:00a.m. St. Mark’s

(† Curt Beyer)

Saturday, May 30, 5:30p.m. St. Mark’s

(Agnes Biewer)

Sunday, May 31, 9:00a.m. St. Andrew’s

(Parishioners)

Sunday, May 31, 11:00a.m. St. Mark’s († Duane Sebelius)

Home Communion Any St. Mark parishioners desiring Holy Com-munion 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 Wy-man at 245-6538 or the parish office at 228-3164.

PARISHIONERS, FAMILY AND FRIENDS: Military personnel & their families, Floyd Richard, Shirley Vandal, Pete Anderson, Harvey

Soland, Neil Kinney, Lakken Wall, Hadley Hoffert, John Lacey, Heidi Schweitzer, Drue Eliot, Mary Longtin, Audrey Phillips, Alice Christenson, Linda Abel, Darrell Van Der Busch, Katie Torgerson, Marcie Dubrow, Linda Ysulan, Rosemary LaCroix, Bill & Cool Baumann, Amy Artz, Flora Carlson, Marlys Richard, Monte Mikkelsen, Susan Brandjord, Francis Kritzberger, Marie Vargo, Sara Saville, Howard Beyer, Diane & Mike Lee, Janet Kraft, Noah Signalness, Mary Holen, and any special private intentions. St. Andrew’s Health Center: Barney Honer Good Sam: Regan Benning, Pete Anderson, Judy Baumann Maple View: Shirley Pasicznyk Somerset Assisted Living: Pauline Deschamp The Wellington: Ray and Donna Sharkey Jenkins Living Center: Carol Carbonneau Watertown, SD Pray for all our loved ones in nursing homes and the sick!!

MASS INTENTION REQUEST

A Mass intention is requested for :

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From________________________________________

Suggested offering $10.00 per Mass intention.

Stewardship Moment : “I am praying for them…” JOHN 17: 9

Prayer is the foundation of our Faith and the foundation of Stewardship. Pray in good times and in bad. Prayer is al-ways the first best option in any situation, not just the last resort. Pray for friends and family and for those that don’t treat you very well. Pray to give praise, to thank and to ask God for help. Pray to see what God wants you to do with the gifts He has given you.

Parish Directories are here! Stop in the office and pick yours up if you had your picture tak-en.

“I am with you always,

Until the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20)

May 23-24, The Ascension of the Lord

PLEASE NOTE THAT NEXT WEEK OFFICE

HOURS WILL CHANGE TO 9:00AM -

5:00PM STARTING TUESDAY, MAY 26TH.

St. Mark’s Masses on May 30th & 31st, 2020 DATE EUCHARISTIC MIN. READER GIFT BEARERS USHERS GREETERS ALTAR SERVERS COUNTERS

Sat. NONE Mary Gorder NONE Dennis Lagasse/ Bruce Miller NONE NONE

Sun. NONE Jerry Migler NONE Steve Lorenz/ Jeff Beyer

NONE NONE TBD

From the Pastor’s Pen

St. Andrew’s Mass on May 31st, 2020

DATE EUCHARISTIC

MINISTERS READER GIFT BEARERS ALTAR SERVERS USHERS COUNTERS

Sun. NONE Nancy Erickson NONE NONE Lenny Artz /

Mike Artz Roger & Steve

Memorial Day moment of prayer. Those gathering for the Memorial Day parade in Bottineau are encouraged to gather at the 4 Chaplains Memorial on the corner of 4th & Sinclair at the start of the parade. We are grateful that the organizers of this patriotic event include the witness of these four heroic men of faith. We treasure this noble tradition that honors God and Country.

ADOPT-A-PLANTER - as you may have

heard, Fr. Michael is leaving. And all the planters that he took care of all summer around St. Mark’s church will need tending. If you would like to adopt one or more and provide the flowers for it, contact Vickie in the Church Office at 228-3164 or her cell phone at 871-8576. She is willing to water and fertilize them, you just need to provide the plants!

Blessing upon our Bottineau Seniors who graduate next weekend. Congratula-tions to Madison Agnes, Therese Ha-berman, Lexie Halvorson, Adam Lo-renz, Cody Monson, Mary Peltier, and Ashley Spence.

“Drive by to say Good Bye." Fr. Michael’s last

weekend is Jun 20-21. Originally, he was going to be in Val-ley City that weekend, but plans changed. To respect every-one’s safety and still say “Goodbye!”, we’ll be having an open ’house’ farewell. He will greet well wishers from the lawn of the Rectory from 1-5 P.M., June 21st. There will be a table with drinks and a card

box for notes and farewell cards. Drive by to say good-bye!

May 23rd, 8 pm, Lake Mass begins again until Labor Day.

A Prayer at Planting Time

Dear Lord, you are wonderful in everything you do. In marvelous ways you take the full, rich life of the plant and carefully fold it into tiny seeds. You form the seeds according to many different shapes and sizes and colors, so that man can know what kind of growth will come of them.

When they are placed in the earth they may look dry and dead, but when they are watered by the life-giving rain and nourished by the warm sun, they lose all their lifeless look and grow in an almost miraculous man-ner. By the power you gave them, they take the dead minerals of the earth and build up the nourishing, tasty foods that men need to sustain life.

As we plant these seeds that you have given us, bless them, watch over them and bring them to the full growth and rich harvest that you wish to bless us with.

But, should you not allow them to come to full har-vest, we accept your will humbly. We trust that you will nevertheless watch over us and make the seeds of grace that you have given us grow to flower and fruit in the full Christian life that you intend for us here and hereafter. Amen.

Another kind of gravity. “What goes up must come down” Sir Isaac Newton. The scientist’s statement about gravity has found other extended meanings. Basically, things change. Whatever increases or rises eventually decreases or falls.

For example: “Home prices are subject to the law of gravity,” he said. “What goes up must come down.” –New York Post

Or, “It’s dangerous to discharge a firearm in the air,” said HPD spokesman Victor Senties. “What goes up must come down and usu-ally does so with greater force.” –Houston Chronicle.

Might this work the other way around?

The Feast of the Ascension is a kind of bookend to Christ-mas. On Dec 25, we celebrate the Word made flesh coming to the light of day. The God who is pure Spirit is seen in human flesh. We call this God’s condescension—God came down to be with us. In the

Ascension, God-with-us goes back up.

What happens when what comes down must go up?

The marrying of Matter and Spirit, Humanity and Divinity, reaches its climax in the Ascension. The mission of Jesus reaches not only the ends of the Earth, but even the furthest reaches of the Universe, altering thereby the trajectory of the Universe and every-thing in it. The Ascension highlights the utterly cosmic nature of Jesus Christ. It is actually an ongoing event.

“And I, when lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself” (Jn 12:32). The lifting up of Jesus on the Cross is the beginning of the movement lifting the entire Uni-verse off its hinges. Having ascended—in our flesh—to the Father’s right hand, Jesus has placed the whole cosmos on a new set of hinges. The world henceforth opens up to Heav-en.

Jesus Christ “did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands. . . but Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf” (Heb 9:24). Our human flesh has en-tered Heaven. Christ, who “always lives to make intercession for those who draw near to God through him” is “high priest of the good things to come” (Heb 7:25). As center of the heavenly liturgy (see Heb 9:11; Rev 4:6-11), Christ henceforth seated at the right hand of the Father, inaugurates the Messiah’s Kingdom, ushering the Universe into Heaven.

“To him was given dominion and glory and kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed" (Dn 7:14).

After this event the Apostles became witnesses of the “kingdom that will have no end” (Nicene Creed).

This Christian vision of the Universe teaches believers in every age the great skill of seeing God everywhere. “Turn a stone and start a wing,” said the poet Francis Thompson. He meant that Angels are hiding everywhere on Earth. Christ’s Ascension turns the key that sets us free to see the world with new eyes. But it takes time and patience.

To find God in all things is an expertise that flows from the feast of the Ascension. By it our hands and hearts and our whole selves belong to the Spirit’s work of drawing all things into Christ’s Kingdom of justice, love and peace.

Human creativity does not threaten God. All our undertakings—gardens and homeruns, banking and research, leisure and labor—belong to the stuff Jesus Christ brings to the Father.

Consequence: all that you handle today, even all that can weigh you down, ascends through faith to Christ at God’s right hand. It’s pulled into Heaven. What comes down (created matter) must go up (spiritually reborn).