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Rev. Sengole Dass 920
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Dcn. Rich Matuszak 920
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2294 Deacon 920
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Missionary Discipleship
John Steltz 920
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Music Ministry
Jo Machacek  Samantha Goeben
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6140 #2 Office Manager
Kim Van Handel Staff Assistant

Building and Grounds Lee Rynish 920
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6140 #4 Building & Maintenance Manager
Jim Palubicki

Grounds Keeper

St. John the Baptist Cemetery Lee Rynish, Sexton 
Trustees & Council Representatives
Tom Romanowski, Secretary Trustee
Anna Schadrie, Treasure Trustee

John Mahlik, Finance Council Chairman

Jill Ullmer, Parish Pastoral Council Chairman

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BeFrienders Ministry
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St John Parish, Seymour Wisconsin The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph · December 29, 2019 S T . J OHN THE B APTIST C HURCH · S EYMOUR

Special Mass Times: Sunday,
December 22nd

Children of God during the 10:00 Wednesday, January 1st New Year’s Day
am Mass
9:00 am St John the Baptist
 The students in the ‘Children of *Mass time change
Thursday, January 2nd* God’ class will be performing a few No Mass at 8:15 am
Mass will be at 6:30 pm instead songs for parish members in Mass after Father Sengole distributes the
children’s bulletins. Thank you to Adam Carey  for designing the beautiful Donut Social in the gym following Mass
background scene for our
nativity display in church.

Sunday, January 5th
8:15
9:45 am HS Grades 9
11
All contributions need to be in
Wednesday, January 8th
byMonday, December 30thto be 6:15
7:15 pm Grades 1
8 counted for 2019. If you are mailing
in your contribution, it must be post Sunday, January 12th
markedDecember 31stin order for it to be counted in 2019.  Children of God during the 10:00 am Mass
5th Grade Class Mass 10:00 am The
RE High School Juniors will be doing a canned food drive during the months of November and December. Monthly, we will feature an item(s) that are needed for  There are 2 collection boxes. One is St Vincent de Paul to help those in need in our community. in the hallway of church by the coat For the month of December, the item(s) needed are:
rack under the table and the other Toilet Paper, Paper Towel,
Tissues, Napkins one is located in the entrance way by the parish office in the school. All Everyday Stewardship
God’s GPS Never Fails
donations will be given to our local
food pantry. Please give generously! I use GPS wherever I go, and it serves me well most of the time. However, sometimes it leads me to a place that does Attn: Knights of Columbus Members not exist. Then there are those times when I am about to
turn, and the man inside my phone shouts out, “GPS signal OnSunday, Dec 29ththere is a mass at St Mary’s in Black lost!” or “Rerouting!” The problem is, when the area is  Creek for all Knights. Rosary will start at 7:30 am and unfamiliar to me, I have no choice but to listen. I could try Mass to follow at 8:00 am. Knights of Columbus members to get where I am going by simple intuition or by pulling and their spouses from all four parishes are invited to join. over to look at a paper map, but I don’t trust my sense of direction. And I haven’t bought a paper map in close to a decade!
Many people move through life without any direction. They find themselves constantly rerouting and wondering when they will ever get to a satisfying final destination. What they need is a compass and a companion for the journey. Yet they have no idea how to get either.
Prayer can serve as a compass, and it connects us to a  companion for the journey. Stewardship living is  impossible without prayer. If we count on our own will  and believe we can become fruitful without daily contact with the Divine, we can find ourselves looking for  directions more than moving toward a destination. God, through prayer, will help us see all we have as a gift. God, through prayer, will lead us away from materialism and selfishness and toward freedom and generosity. Even when we fall to sin, the path back is clearer. God’s GPS signal is never really lost.
N Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS  2
S T . J OHN THE B APTIST C HURCH · S EYMOUR

Gospel Meditation 
“‘Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you.’” 725 kilometers. That’s the distance on modern roads from Bethlehem to Cairo. Assuming one covered 40km a day on foot N ambitious for two young parents and their infant son N the journey would take well over two weeks. Of course, the Holy Family didn’t have modern roads. They would travel through wilderness, fear bandits, run low on water, and cross the vast Sinai Peninsula in a reverse of their  forefathers in Exodus. Here, in struggle and sacrifice, are the beginnings of the forging of the Holy Family.
“Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt. He stayed there until the death of Herod.” Large Jewish communities existed in most major cities of the ancient Mediterranean world, after the collapse of their  kingdoms chronicled in the Old Testament, and Joseph could likely find work as a carpenter. All the same, today’s Gospel reminds us that the first formational years of Jesus as a babe
in
arms were spent in a strange land. The members of the Holy Family were foreigners, outsiders, immigrants. 
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. God took on our humanity. He is in solidarity with our own trials and  difficulties. On the feast of the Holy Family, we honor the special place of the family within society. We are invited, too,  to recall those families who share in the struggles of the Holy Family in a particular way. We pray for immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees. We pray for all parents who sacrifice their own well
being and comfort so their children may have a better life.

Live the Liturgy
Families can be challenging. As much as they can be places of love, growth, and life, they can also be places of hurt,  conflict, and despair. What has been your experience of family? There is no way around it: being human requires family life. We have to learn how to celebrate and embrace as well as forgive and understand. Virtue is required. St. Paul asks us to “put on heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.” We are asked to bear with one another and forgive one another. These are tall orders for anyone, but they are not impossible achievements. If we keep our eyes on Jesus and trust in God as the Holy Family did, St. Paul’s vision is obtainable. Our families can take on a sacramental character and  become places where God’s love is revealed.

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Worship Services
Liturgical Ministers



DECEMBER 28  JANUARY 5
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1


Saturday, December 28
3:00 pm Reconciliation 9:00 AM

 4:00 pm Mass Lector
Loren Snyder
 Bob Coonen Song Leader
Jo Snyder
Sunday, December 29
10:00 am Mass Musician
Jo Machacek
Altar Prep
Jeannie Gillis
 Clarence Smet Distributors
Ann Theroux, Ed Machacek,
Monday, December 30
No Service
Jeannie Gillis, Volunteer
Tuesday, December 31
No Service Servers
3 Volunteer
Wednesday, January 1
9:00 am Mass Ushers
John & Jill Mahlik
Greeters
Ann Theroux
 Greg Ullmer
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4
Thursday, January 2
6:30 pm Mass
4:00 PM
 The Dying
Friday, January 3
8:15 am Mass at St Sebastian Lector
Judy Blohm
Song Leader
Marilyn Menor
Saturday, January 4
3:00 pm Reconciliation Musician
Sam Goeben
 4:00 pm Mass  Altar Prep
Deacon Rich Matuszak
 Greg Nackers, Marie Nackers &  Distributors
Julie Ambrosius, Carol Bluma,
 Cindy Schneider
Lynn Cartier, Deacon Rich Matuszak
Servers
Alexanr, Zack & Jazi Lee
Sunday, January 5
10:00 am Mass Ushers
Steve Green, Jeff Skinkis,
 Delores Reed
Doug Moser, Jeannie Huettl
Greeters
Marilyn Menor, Alice Bluma,
Every conversion comes from a previous experience of
Julie & Jerry Ambrosius
mercy, from God’s tenderness that captures the heart. 

SUNDAY, JANUARY 5
   
Pope Francis, Twitter
10:00 AM

Lector
Breanna Patz, Tyler Reuter
Stewardship
Song Leader
Nicole VandenHeuvel

Sacrificial Giving for the Week $ 4,798.35
Musician
Sam Goeben
Offertory 244.40
Altar Prep
Deacon Rich Matuszak
Other Income 4,231.14
Distributors
Anna Schadrie, JoAnn Elbe,

Judy Bluma, Deacon Rich Matuszak
Expenses
Servers
Gage Caliaro, Ryan Ihde,
Bills pd. 9,272.63

Volunteer
Ushers
Gerald & Terry VanderHeiden,

Pat Schadrie, Glenn Dunville
Readings
Greeters
Alice Dunbar, Eileen Keegan,

Week of December 29, 2019

Cy & Lori Martz

Sunday: Sir 3:2
6, 12
14/ Ps 128:1
2, 3, 4
5 [cf. 1]/Col 3:12
21 or 3:12
17/Mt 2:13
15, 19
23  Monday: 1 Jn 2:12
17/Ps 96:7
8a, 8b
9, 10 [11a]/Lk 2:36
40 Tuesday: 1 Jn 2:18
21/Ps 96:1
2, 11
12, 13 [11a]/Jn 1:1
18 Wednesday: Nm 6:22
27/Ps 67:2
3, 5, 6, 8 [2a]/Gal 4:4
7/ Lk 2:16
21 Thursday: 1 Jn 2:22
28/Ps 98:1, 2
3ab, 3cd
4 [3cd]/Jn 1:19
28

Friday: 1 Jn 2:29N3:6/Ps 98:1, 3cd
4, 5
6 [3cd]/Jn 1:29

34 Diedrick’s Heating &
Saturday: 1 Jn 3:7
10/Ps 98:1, 7
8, 9 [3cd]/Jn 1:35
42 Air Conditioning
Next Sunday: Is 60:1
6/Ps 72:1
2, 7
8, 10
11, 12
13 [cf. 24 Hour Emergency Service
11]/Eph 3:2
3a, 5
6/Mt 2:1
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