ST. BRIDGET’S MISSION STATEMENT

We are a small rural parish. Joyfully we strive to practice basic Catholic family

values. Since we are small, we need the gifts and talents of each member. We continue to build community through the ministries of worship, education, service and hospitality.

We readily proclaim that God is the source of LOVE in our community; that Jesus is proof of His Love and the Holy Spirit is the energy that

continues to keep us faithful. We commit ourselves to a future filled with

HOPE

PASTOR Very Rev. Justin Kizewski Rectory Phone: 715-723-4890 (cell) 715-456-0088

frjustinkizewski@gmail.com

PASTORAL MINISTER Sr. Yvonne Hiess, SSND Home Phone: 715-726-2378

yhiess@ssndcp.org

MASS AT ST. BRIDGET’S Sunday 9:30 am MASSES AT HOLY GHOST Tue. thru. Sat. 8:30am Saturday 5:00pm Sunday 8:00am & 11:00am SACRAMENTS

Confessions: Saturday 4:00pm at Holy Ghost Baptism: Registration needed one month prior to the date. Anointing of the Sick: On call.

ST. BRIDGET’S

FAMILY BULLETIN,

June 24, 2018

ST. BRIDGET’S PARISH

2801 N. 110th AVE. CHIPPEWA FALLS, WI. 54729

PHONE: 715-836-0154 Mailing address: 412 S. Main Street

Chippewa Falls, WI. 54729 Phone at Holy Ghost—715-723-4890

http://www.stbridgetchurchcf.com

Sunday Scripture —July 1, 2018

First Reading: Isaish 49: 1-6 Psalm: 139

Second Reading: Acts 13: 22-26

Gospel: Luke 1: 57-80

Gerald Jackson (chairperson) 715-829-3260 Julie Konzen (secretary) 715-839-1016 Ken Johnson Sue Bowe Bill Woodford Ben Burch Sr. Yvonne Hiess

Bobbi Potter: Bookkeeper 715-577-0823 Jennifer Reetz: Religious Education 715-877-2138 Leona Markowski: Altar Society 715-834-5536 Gert Christenson: Hall Rentals 715-832-8530 Tim & Lisa Anderson & family—Maintenance 715-215-1160 or 715-379-0706

Coordinators of St. Bridget’s Cemetery: Rollie & Geri Marko at 723-2681/ cell 829-0242 Dick & Jeanne Anderson at 723-3146 cell-828-1862

Julie Konzen: Scrip Manager 715-839-1016 Marilyn Krumenauer: Prayer Chain 715-723-0514 Georgiann Olson—Organist 715-832-4588 Maribeth Woodford—Ministry Lists 715-379-6973

MINISTRY ASSIGNMENTS July 1, ,,2018,

Mass Intention: Joyce Warmuth

Welcomers: Dick & Marilyn Krumenauer

Eucharistic Ministers: Jerry & Renee & Nola K.

Lector: Adam Mielke

Ushers: Jerry Gilles & Steve Falch

Servers: Volunteers

Minister of Music: Georgiann Olson

Michael Campbell (chairperson) 715-832-8706 Marilyn Krumenauer (secretary) 715-723-0514 Tim Anderson Dennis Ida Nola Kuehl Leona Markowski Tom Peterson Jennifer Reetz Sr. Yvonne Hiess *Jennifer Reetz—Deanery Council Rep.

PARISH COUNCIL MEMBERS —2013

STEWARDS OF ST. BRIDGEGT’S PARISH

Duane & Joan Bowe Vince Statz Steve Henry Joan Henry Gladys Vavra Monica Goss Julie LaVelle Jean Knitter Matt Pries Hank Wildenberg Paul Congdon Bob Hevey Elsie Kranig Gale Aude George Soden

Gert Christenson Bea Connell Jeanne Anderson Dick Anderson Lynn Goss & Pat Goss Fr. Ed Doerre Lil White Georgiann Olson Lynette Wendt Bishop William Callahan Josh Berg Joan Carey Rollie Marko Blanche Vig Ralph Krumenauer

Include in your prayers the following people

THE PASTOR’S CORNER—FR. JUSTIN

HOLINESS—16

¨ NEWS FROM MANPOWER Every day Manpower helps a lot of people earn money, learn new skills, and work hours that accommodate their family lives.Temporary employment with Manpower offers many advantages: flexible schedules, free training, and the possibility Of full-time work. Plus we provide competitive pay, health insurance and paid holiday. By referring the members of your congregation to us, you will not only help them, but benefit St. Bridget’s as well. For Every referral you make who interviews, qualifies and works 80 hours for Manpower, we will send St. Bridget’s a check for $25.00. If you have questions, please call Candi Geist, market leader for Manpower , at 715-861-5303.

CATHOLIC ORDER OF FORESTERS The district picnic of the Catholic Order of Foresters will be held on Sunday, June 24th starting at noon, at the Boyd Park. Bring a dish to pass. Brats, wieners ,beverages and ice cream will be provided. Call 7 15-568-4178 for information

Pope Francis sees contemporary rebrands of the ancient heresies of Gnosticism and Pelagianism. The Holy Father sees these as diseases in the intellect and the will respectively. Gnosticism is the result of a corrupted intellect. What the contempo-rary version has inherited from the ancient one is the mistaken identity between knowledge and salvation. Knowing the truth is not enough to save. The Holy Father says, “A dangerous confusion can arise. We can think that because we know something, or are able to explain it in certain terms, we are already saints, perfect and better than the ‘ignorant mass-es’” (GE 45). Rather than seeing knowing our faith as a gift, we can instead treat our knowledge like a weapon that is wielded on unsuspecting people who don’t know as much as we do. There are some characteristics of this contemporary Gnosticism that the Holy Father has singled out before. These charac-teristics of this dangerous approach to knowledge are a sense that “I’ve got it”. “I know that”. “I’m good”. I think of St. Au-gustine’s famous line, “If you comprehend, then it is not God”. If we think we’ve got this, we haven’t acknowledged the real-ity of the mystery. Instead, we have grasped something of our own making. The Holy Father talks of this Gnosticism which domesticates the mystery. We put the mystery into a pen of our own making. We can think that we have got it contained. But if it is contained, then it isn’t God. Mystery is something about which we can always, I repeat, always understand more. Whether it is a Gospel passage, an article of the faith, an object of belief, a person we encounter, we can always understand more. Given this, then it is easier, I think, to understand what the pope’s worry is about these other characteristics of this contem-porary Gnosticism. He cautions, “When somebody has an answer for every question, it is a sign that they are not on the right road” (GE 41). If we think that we have an answer for everything, then we haven’t understood that there is more to the mystery, an inexhaustible more. He points out that it isn’t easy to understand what we have received, and it is even more difficult to express what we under-stand. There must be a fundamental openness to being able to understand better to express more clearly the mystery. He says, “In effect, doctrine, our understanding and expression of it, ‘is not a closed system, devoid of the dynamic capacity to pose questions, doubts, inquiries. . . The questions of our people, their suffering, their struggles, their dreams, their trials and their worries, all possess an interpretational value that we cannot ignore if we want to take the principle of the incarna-tion seriously. Their wondering helps us to wonder, their questions question us’” (GE 44). At the risk of sounding like a Geico commercial . . . Our entry into the mystery, participating in the life of God through grace, opens us up to more, always. The treasury really is filled with inexhaustible riches. It is never, “I’ve got it” or worse, “I’ve got it, and you don’t”. Can we see how the Holy Father extends the antidote to ancient Gnosticism to this contempo-rary need? The ancient heresy concluded that God didn’t really become man and so denied the Incarnation. The contempo-rary form of Gnosticism isn’t open to entering into the mystery of another person, of looking for greater understanding from their questions. We’ll never exhaust what we can learn from contemplating His humanity, and we will never have nothing to learn from those around us. The antidote for both is love. We are not saved by knowledge, we are saved by love, by chari-ty, by grace. Love keeps from wielding knowledge like a weapon that we use to beat people over the head. Love opens us up to the mystery of another – whether that other is the person next to us or the person of Jesus Christ. Parish Meetings: Nothing this week from my end

SUNDAY COLLECTION June 17, 2018

Adult envelopes:$1,481.00

Offertory=$150.00

Youth envelopes=$9.00

Rebate from DAA=$340.00

Money from funeral=$100.00

Matching contribution from Mayo Foundaton=$200.00

Sojourner $ 25.00

THANK YOU!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

June 24—-July 1, 2018

June 24—Julie Konzen June 24—Sara Zwiefelhofer June 24—Dean Anderson June 24—Christine Anderson June 26—Missay Vircks June 26—Renee Jackson June 26—Jeff Peck June 27—Andrea Smith July 1—Tyler Anderson

ANNIVERSARIES

June 28—Fr. Justin’s 10th anniversary.

CONGRATULATIONS TO FATHER JUSTIN!

SCRIP June 17, 2018

Number of orders– 3

Amount sold-$825.00

Profits-$40.39

Script Bank-$15,530.00

Inventory6,190.00

Total-$21,720.40 ******************************** GORDY’S SCRIP AND WOOD-MAN’ IS AVAILABLE

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For questions call : Julie Konzen at 839-1016

DIRECTOR OF REL. EDUCATION AT ST. BRIDGET’S

Jennifer Reetz

Phone: 715-877-2138 rn_jenn@netzero.net

June 24—Dolores & Dick Gibson

July 1—Joyce Warmuth July 8—Clem & Ann Falch July 15—Kathy Markowski July 22—Bob Henry July 29—Lorraine Radach

Aug. 5—White/Marko Aug. 12—Everett Wilbur Aug. 19—Jo Ann Statz Aug. 26—Jo Wildenberg

DATES TO REMEMBER: June 28—St. Bridget’s at Sojourner House June 28—July 2—Sr. Yvonne in St. Louis July 17—Finance & Parish Council Mtgs.

August 19—St. Bridget’s Annual Picnic

THINGS TO PONDER R HINGS TO POND

IN SUMMER

DEND

RR

DURING THE SUMMER, MASS ON TUESDAYS AT HOLY GHOST

WILL BE AT 5:00pm, INSTEAD OF 8:30AM

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WEEK STARTS JUNE 22

A MESSAGE FROM POPE FRANCIS

“Religious freedom remains one of America’s most precious possessions. And, as my brothers, the United States Bishops have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it.”

RAFFLE TICKETS, ALONG WITH THE PARISH PICNIC LETTER ARE AVAILABLE IN CHURCH

AT THIS TIME. PLEASE SELL AS MANY TICKETS AS POSSIBLE . IF YOU NEED MORE TICKETS,

PLEASE PICK THEM UP ON SUNDAY. SAVE THE LETTER TO REMIND YOU OF THE

PARISH NEEDS FOR THE PICNIC.

FROM THE DESK OF SR. YVONNE, PASTORAL MINISTER FOR ST. BRIDGET’S

Mc Donell Area Catholic Schools

June 24, 2018 The final day to purchase Scrip for credits for the 2018-2019 school year is Thursday, June 28. All Scrip sales following June 29 will be credited to the 2019-2020 school year. Thank you for supporting current and future families at our Catholic schools by purchasing the Scrip gift cards! MACS Central and Scrip Office summer hours are Monday through Wednesday 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and closed on Fridays. Remember you have the option to purchase national Scrip through the Benefit-Mobile app. Please contact me at k.adams@macs.k12.wi.us or 715-723-0538. Wishing you a fantastic summer! Employment Opportunity MACS is seeking a part-time recess supervisor, Monday through Friday, 1-2 hours per day, late morning hours. MACS is also seeking a shuttle driver, Monday through Friday, 1-2 hours per day, early morning hours. Please contact Jenna Ander-son at MACS if you are interested j.anderson@macs.k12.wi.us or 715.723.0538 x3312

Visit us at the Northern Wisconsin State Fair Look for the MACS booth at the fair, July 11-15. We will be located again in the first exhibit building from the main en-trance. Visit the booth to learn what the Catholic schools have to offer from early childhood through grade 12. We request for alumni to stop by and bring us your class shout-outs to share in the Mack Messenger. Registering Band Lessons Free band lessons for MACS grades 5-12 will be offered one week each month over the summer. Non MACS student cost is $20. Lessons can be worked around your schedule the weeks of June 18-22, July 23-27, and August 13-17. Contact Director Sean Hanson at s.hanson@macs.k12.wi.us to set up lessons .

ALABAMA PILGRIMAGE—AUGUST 17-23, 2018 BOUND FOR EWTN—- Father Dan Thelen will be our tour leader. We will tour Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman and stay 3 nights at the St. Bernard Abbey. We will have Mass at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville along with a tour, a spiritual talk and a healing service. We will visit the Fatima Family Shrine. We will attend a televised Mass at EWTN in Irondale, enjoy a catechetical and spiritual talk, sit in on a taping of a Live Show with Fr. Pacwa and tour EWTN. There will be time for prayer and quiet contemplation. PRICE IS $640.00 based on double occupancy: includes bus, room and some meals . Sign up by June 29, 2018. For more information call Lori at 715-644-5435

CONGRATULATIONS TO FR. JUSTIN ON HIS

10 YEARS OF PRIESTHOOD! THANK YOU FOR

BEING OUR PASTOR! GOD BLESS YOU! (June 28)

· The following students from St. Bridget’s, attending UW Eau Claire, have been named to the dean’s list. They are Eric Reetz and Sedona Burnside. Congratulations and keep up the good work!

¨ A matching contribution of $200.00 from Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research has been given to St. Bridget Parish from Dr. John Synder. Thank you very much, Dr. John! We will put the money to good use!

¨ FROM THE DIRECTOR OF STEWARDSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT As of June 12, 2018, we have received $14, 225.00 for the 2017-2018 Diocesan Annual Appeal for St. Bridget Parish. Your target goal was $13,205.00 and the total amount received from St. Bridget’ s so far is $14,225.00. Your parish rebate is $1,020.00. Thank you again for being a leader in this year’s Diocesan Annual Appeal. Because of your support of the annual appeal and the sacrificial giving of the donors, the appeal can support many different ministerial efforts in our Diocese and the Church worldwide, demonstrating that the Church is an enduring Stewart of Hope in uncertain times. May God continue to guide and bless you and your parishioners,

Jeff Reiter—Director of Stewardship and Development for the Diocese of La Crosse.