Sunday, March 4, 2018

March 5 thru March 11

Monday, March 5 Weekday

5:30 pm Mass at St. Peter: + Tom Oberstar

SM: 7:30 pm Knights of Columbus Meeting

Tuesday, March 6 Weekday

8:30 am Mass at St. Mary: + Mathilda Brayton

SM: 9-10 am Adoration

SP: 8:45 am Mary Devotions

SP: 4:45 pm Bell Choir

SP: 6:00 pm 1st Reconciliation Class Wednesday, March 7 Sts. Perpetua & Felicity

8:00 am Mass at St. Peter: + Victor Buffeta

SP: 9 am – noon Adoration

SM: 1:30 pm Martha Club at Martha Gartner’s Thursday, March 8 St. John of God

8:30 am Mass at St. Peter: + Nicholas Whiteside

SP: 9 am – 9 pm Adoration

SM: 5:30 pm Stations of the Cross

SP: 7:00 pm Forester Meeting Friday, March 9 St. Frances of Rome

NO Mass

SP: 5:30 pm Stations of the Cross

Day of Abstinence Saturday, March 10 Vigil: 4th Sunday of Lent

4:15 PM Reconciliation at St. Peter

5:00 PM Mass at St. Peter: + Lloyd Stigman

Sunday, March 11 4th Sunday of Lent

8:30 AM SP: Rosary to end abortion

9:00 AM Mass at St. Peter: + Scott Hrubsky

Children’s Liturgy Ages 4 to 2nd Grade

SP: Team 5 Coffee & Rolls

11:00 AM Mass at St. Mary: For the People

Ministers of Holy Communion visit the Catholic

Residents of Heritage Living Center Complex and

Diamond Willow on Sunday Mornings.

March 4: Walsh

March 11: Bade

Care Age Facility: Deacon John Zinniel on Fridays

If you can help with Homebound Communion, please

call the Parish office at 732-5142.

Praying for Vocations

March 5 – March 11………………….Luisa Regino

March 12 – March 18………………...Luisa Regino

St. Peter’s Contribution statements are ready to be picked up in the Gathering Space. Thank you.

St. Peter the Apostle LITURGICAL MINISTRIES: St. Peter’s

March 10 & 11 SATURDAY SUNDAY

Lector Tom Conzemius Roman Horejsi

Usher Capt Pat Boyd & Terry Morris

Anne Neumayer

St Peter’s PARISH FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP

Collection for February 24 & 25 Adult Envelopes ………………………………………....$ 2,515.00

Loose Plate ………………………………………………$ 329.00

Visitor Checks ………………………………………… ..$ 325.00

Other ……………………………………………...……...$ 271.00

Weekly Total ……………………………………….……$ 3,440.00

Haiti……………………………………………………….$ 744.00

Black & Indian Mission…………………………………..$ 343.00

Seminarian Burse…………………………………………$ 175.00

Retired Priests…………………………………………….$ 50.00

If you have any questions, please see Father Tom

‘Direct Deposit’ Sunday Offering ‘Direct Deposit’ is a safe and secure way to submit your Sunday

offering and support St. Peter’s during the many out of town weekends that families take! Contact Faye Wermerskirchen in the

parish office for information! Contributions using a credit card are also available.

Stewardship “You shall not carve idols for yourselves in the shape of

anything…” - Exodus 20:4 How many “gods” do you put before God? “Idols” do not always take the shape of physical things, things we can touch and feel. Those are easy to recognize. Many times they take the form of things we cannot touch and are much harder to spot like pride, power, ego, time, comfort or health.

E-Mail/Telephone Prayer Chain If you have a request for needed prayers for yourself, family or friends,

please call (SP) Diane Schmitz at 732-4638 or (SM) Theresa Keller at 237-2322

Bell Choir: Are you a bell ringer? Have you always wanted to learn how? The Bell Choir is hosting classes for anyone wishing to learn how to ring beginning March 6th. Reading a bit of music is helpful. Classes will be on Tuesdays from 4:45 to 5:30 in the St. Peter’s church. Bell Choir practice for the Easter season will begin at 5:30, March 6th. If you are interested in the bell class please call Chris Wilde, Bell Choir director at 218-252-5232 to sign up!

Special Collection-Catholic Relief Services Next week, our parish will take up The Catholic Relief Services Collection (CRSC). Funds from this collection help provide food to the hungry, support to displaced refugees, and bring Christ’s love and mercy to all people here at home and abroad. Next week, please give generously to the CRSC, and help Jesus in disguise. Learn more about the collection at www.usccb.org/catholic-relief.

St. Mary’s – Two Inlets Ministries for Sunday, March 11 LECTOR Margaret Sharp

COMM DIST Rose Higgins, Winnie Thelen

Jodi Sunram

ALTAR SERVER Brent Ohm

USHERS Amber Sunram, Francis Zilka

GIFTS Leo & Lynn Gartner

SACRISTAN Winnie Thelen

St. Mary’s Collection, February 25 Adult Envelopes $1,110.00 Loose Plate $76.00

Itasca Mantrap Credit $104.25 Cemetery $10.00

Total Collection $1,300.25

Direct Deposit is available at St. Mary’s. Contact Lynn for details.

There will be Adoration on Tuesdays after weekday Mass. If there is no Mass, there will not be Adoration.

Soup & Sandwich Brunch St. Mary’s will be having brunch the third Sunday of each month. The ladies serving March 18 are: Karen Wettels, Michelle Yliniemi, Mary Schmitz, Adeline Retz, Jolene Retz, and Margaret Sharp.

Thank you to the Guild who donated $1,000 to the Fuel Fund.

Knights of Columbus will meet Monday, March 5 at 7:30 pm. Martha Club will meet Wednesday, March 7 at 1:30 pm at Martha Gartner’s home.

Ed Decker will be gone on vacation February 27 to March 22. Please call Ron Schroeder (699-3337) with any questions about the church facilities.

Mother’s Day Flowers – Spring is really coming-we just have to be patient. Flying W is taking pre-orders for the Mother’s Day flowers. The flowers will be delivered on Mother’s Day in full bloom and ready to greet spring. All proceeds will go to the Haiti project. Contact Teresa at 218-255-1244 to place orders or after church on March 18.

Our “infamous penny jars” have once again taken up

residence in the front of the altar in our churches. You

are invited to drop your spare change (or bills) into the

jars. All monies collected will be donated to our sister

parishes in Haiti.

The amount of $1,656 was sent to the St. Mary’s Church in Red Lake from the fundraising done at St. Peter’s Church. We received the following acknowledgement:

“On behalf of Fr. Jerry Rogers and the parishioners of St.

Mary’s Mission, thank you for your gift to us. You are

most generous and we are most grateful. The outreach,

prayers, and support have been overwhelming at this time

and we are so grateful. You are in our prayers. A Blessed

Lenten Season, Fr. Jerry Rogers, Sr. Patrice Eblen, and

Patti Spry”

Fr. Tom’s Desk We have arrived at the third week of Lent. How’s your lenten spiritual journey going? As a time of reflection on the things in our lives that need refurbishing through the actions of prayer, fasting and almsgiving, our first reading from Exodus this Sunday is a good starting place for that reflection. The basic questions that arise from the Ten Commandments are: “What is my relationship with God?” and “What is my relationship with neighbor?” Jesus himself uses the commandments to ground his teaching. Although supplanted by the Law of Love, the commandments are a worthy starting point for lenten reflection. Although 3200 years old, they still offer us a moral compass guiding our journey toward the Kingdom. A couple people have asked me recently if I knew anything about the “new translation” of the Lord’s Prayer. They are referring to an observation made by Pope Francis several weeks ago, in which he said that sometimes our translations are misleading and cause confusion, rather than bolster the faith, and that it is okay to render new translations. The phrase that is being questioned is this: “and lead us not into temptation.” The problem: why would God lead us into temptation to begin with? God only leads to holiness and goodness. And so there is a proposal to change this phrase to “do not let us enter into temptation” which is all about asking God to rescue us from our sinfulness. This follows the pattern of the embolism the priest recites when the congregation has finished; “Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil… that by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin…” Do you see the subtle change? Remember language evolves and is powerful. To date only a few European countries have adapted the change for liturgical use. What do you think? Did you know that in the Roman Empire the month of March was the first month of the calendar year? It was dedicated to Mars, the god of war (doing battle with the forces of winter bringing in the season of spring - spring equinox).

Corned Beef & Cabbage Dinner St. Peter’s Knights of Columbus will be hosting a Corned Beef & Cabbage Dinner on Saturday, March 17. Social hour at 6:00 pm & Dinner at 6:30 pm. Free will offering will be accepted. RSVP to the church office by Monday, March 12. All are welcome!

Eucharistic Miracle Exhibit

March 15-18

St. Philip’s Catholic Church, Bemidji

www.therealpresence.org

SAVE THE DATE It’s “REBOOT LIVE” with Chris Stefanick!

APRIL 18, 2018, 7:00 – 9:30 p.m. at ST. BERNARD’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, THIEF RIVER FALLS, MN

Tickets are pre-sold for $22 each. Contact St. Bernard’s

at 681-3571 for tickets or purchase online at reallifecatholic.com for this life changing event!

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION - YOUTH MINISTRY

Annette Haas Office: 732-5142 CELL NUMBER: 218-616-2404 My Email address is: annette@arvig.net

Our evening classes are Wednesday evenings at 7pm for grades 7-11. The Youth Room is open after school and supper will be served from 5:30-6:30. High school seniors, you are invited to join us also!

Please keep the students and leaders at the Chosen Confirmation Retreat happening this weekend in your prayers! Come, Holy Spirit, Come!

Students in grades 10, 11 & 12 and older: Have you ever been on a TEC weekend? Go to agassizvalleytec.com and sign up for one of the upcoming weekends. The March weekend is March 10-12 at Sand Hill Lake in Fosston. Any questions talk to me.

MIDDLE SCHOOL YOUTH RALLY! Sunday, March 18 in Bemidji Grades 6-8. Please turn in your registration papers by March 7 so that I can plan chaperones and transportation! The cost is $40 per person.

Saint John Paul 2 Middle School Camp for students going into grades 7-9 next year. Camp 1 (July 8-12) is full. Camp 2 (July 15-19) has spots available for now. For more information and to register go to: www.crookston.org/JP2camp. If you need help with tuition please talk to me.

Upcoming dates: Tuesday, March 7 – May 1 – 1st Reconciliation & 1st Communion preparation classes March 10-12 – TEC weekend in Fosston Saturday, March 17 – 1st Reconciliation for 2nd graders Wednesday, April 4 – Father Matthew Schmitz Sunday, April 15 – XLT in Hawley 2-4 Sunday, April 29 – 1st Communion at St. Mary’s Sunday, May 6 – 1st Communion at St. Peter’s Sunday, May 13 – Mother’s Day Waffle Breakfast

DIOCESAN ANNUAL APPEAL Have you made a commitment to the Diocesan Annual Appeal? If not, please make your gift or pledge this weekend. You may use an envelope and prayer card here at our parish or the one you have received at home. Don’t forget to fill out the pledge card completely. You may make a one-time gift online or set up a sustaining gift by credit card or automatic withdrawal from your checking account over the course of 12 months. Consider increasing your gift this year by 5 or 10% if you haven’t changed your gift for several years. For questions about sustaining gifts, which is a highly recommended method for supporting our Church, contact Renee’ Tate at rtate@crookston.org or call toll free 1-855-397-8252. Go to www.crookston.org/daa for more information about the 2018 DAA. Thank you for supporting diocesan ministries. This beautiful work belongs to all of us!

Oil for your Lamp “Stop making my Father’s house a market place!” Jesus uses these words as he cleans house with a whip. As I reflect on these words, I remember that just a few short weeks ago we heard that our bodies are temples of the Lord. That we are to go to an inner room, close the door and pray to our Father in secret, and what our Father sees in secret he will listen to. In our consumer driven world, our minds and bodies get overloaded with all the things of the world. Addictions to food, money, power, tobacco, drugs, alcohol, pornography; cellular phones have become major players in our lives; they are used for everything under the sun, (did you know some people even actually use them to talk to another person)! What would happen in your life if you were to allow Jesus in and he cleaned your heart of the things of the world? If Jesus took a whip and drove out all the things of the world that have a grip on your heart; would you be able to give him praise, or would you instead fall to pieces? Lent has always been a time to allow the Lord into our hearts and give them a good “spring” cleaning, why not allow him in and drive out the things that have taken over the temple of your body? “To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”

(Saint Teresa of Kolkata) In the peace of Christ . . . Deacon John Zinniel

Faith, Wellness, and You March is National Kidney Month. Kidneys are very important in keeping you healthy. They regulate fluid levels, activate vitamin D for healthy bones, filter wastes from the blood, directs production of red blood cells, regulate blood pressure, and keep blood minerals in balance. There are several problems kidney disease can cause. These include: cardiovascular disease, nerve damage, weak bones, heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, kidney failure, and anemia (low red blood cell count). Risk factors for kidney disease include diabetes, high blood pressure, over 60 years of age, and family history. Some symptoms of kidney disease include swelling (face, hands, abdomen, ankles, and feet), blood in urine, puffy eyes, difficult/painful urination, increased thirst, and fatigue. Did you know…? There are two tests that can evaluate your kidney function. These include: a urine test that estimates the amount of a protein excreted in your urine, and a blood test that tells how well your kidneys are working to remove wastes from your blood. You can contact your parish nurse at: Diane: 218-255-1270 and Tiffany at 218-252-8227.

Volunteers Needed! CHI St. Joseph’s Health is seeking 30

new volunteers for new and existing volunteer positions. Please contact Volunteer Services at 616-3197 or visit www.CHISJH.org/volunteer-services.