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- - - - So will my heavenly Father do "As a Catholic community, we commit ourselves to faith formation, to you, unless each prayer and stewardship of you forgives empowering us to live, love and teach in the likeness of ." his from his heart.

Matthew 18:35

Weekday Mass Times Weekend Mass Times Hospital/Homebound Holy Days of Obligation - Pastoral Council Members of Penance Steve Barry, Stacy Barry, Gary Hamman, Jeanine Kleber, Saturday 11 am to 12:15 p.m. or Kyle Konz, Chris McGrew, Debbie Rohm, by appointment-call the Parish Office Chuck Schmidt, Regina Starr, Brad Yarnall

Readings for the Week of September 13 Mon Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross WHEN ATTENDING MASS Nm 21:4b -9; Ps 78:1bc -2, 34 -35, 36 -37, 38; Phil 2:6 -11; Jn 3:13 -17 Tue Memorial of 1 Cor 12:12 -14, 27 -31a; Ps 100:1b -2, 3, 4, 5; Jn 19:25 -27 or Lk 2:33 -35 Wed Memorial of Cornelius and Saint 1 Cor 12:31 —13:13; Ps 33:2 -3, 4 -5, 12 and 22; Lk 7:31 -35 Thur Saint 1 Cor 15:1 -11; Ps 118:1b -2, 16ab -17, 28; Lk 7:36 -50 Fri 1 Cor 15:12 -20; Ps 17:1bcd, 6 -7, 8b and 15; Lk 8:1 -3 - Sat Saint Januarius 1 Cor 15:35 -37, 42 -49; Ps 56:10c -12, 13 -14; Lk 8:4 -15 Sunday Twenty -Fifth Sunday in Is 55:6 -9; Ps 145:2 -3, 8 -9, 17 -18; Phil 1:20c -24, 27a; PROTECT YOURSELF, AND OTHERS, Mt 20:1 -16a STAY AT HOME! September 13, 2020

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visit iccauburn.com We wish to express our sincere sympathies and condolences Thank you for your contributions –dropped off, to the family of

mailed in, or on -line. Your generosity is noted. KATHY CARPER Wife of Dennis Week of August 31 thru September 6 Mother of (& Stephanie) Carper Mother of Kristy Jo (& Greg) Daugherty Adult $ 5301.00 Loose $ 16.00 Today, we take up the collection for the Catholic Communication Campaign (CCC). Your support helps the CCC connect people to KINGDOM BUILDERS invites all women to receive the Christ in the United States and around the world Father’s love through Scripture, Eucharistic Adoration, and through the Internet, television, radio, and print Planning Tools so they may embrace the beauty of their design. media. Half the funds we collect remain here in visit www.buildingthroughhim.com. our Diocese to support local efforts. Be a part of this campaign to spread the message. Support the collection today! Keep all mothers, babies and fathers Please keep the homebound, in your prayers.

hospitalized, shut-in’s and Belonging: Ministry with Persons with Disabilities meeting Tuesday, September 15 at 7 p.m. Parents, educators, parish nursing home residents staffs and parishioners from around the diocese meet to work on initiatives, programs, and events that help children and adults in your prayers . with disabilities experience meaningful participation at Mass and in their parish community. All are welcome to attend in person Since Covid19 pandemic or join through ZOOM. Visit www. diocesefwsb.org/belonging our Eucharistic Minsters are not able Contact Allison at [email protected] or at 260-399 -1452 to take communion or visit. to get the link to the meeting or for any questions.

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Called to Care and to Share Next weekend is Pledge Sunday and every parish Father’s family is asked to contribute to the Annual Bishop’s

Appeal. Please prayerfully consider a pledge to the Column

Bishop’s Appeal to support the work of the Church. My dear sisters and brothers, This year’s goal is $49,673.67 We will have the opportunity to view the Annual Bishop’s Appeal video on the weekend of September 19/20. I have SAVE THE DATE already sent you a pledge card in the letter you will receive this week, so that you can have it ready to put in the SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10th at 12pm collection on the 19 th and 20 th of September’s Masses. I know that our Bishop Kevin Rhoades has already contacted PUBLIC several members of the parish and asked them to mail in on the north side of the their pledges and/or contribution. If we all respond right Dekalb County Court House away, I won’t have to remind anyone about participation. Thank you for your cooperation. on the north sidewalksidewalk.... There will also be a special collection (second collection) (masks and distancing required) for the relief of those affected by Hurricane Laura, on the th th 19 and 20 of September. The bishop of the Diocese of Lake Charles and other dioceses of Louisiana and Texas have asked for help because of the devastation in that area of our country. This collection will be held on one of the odd weeks that the basket will be coming down the aisle for the second time during a weekend Mass. To help, please use a plain envelope marked with the word “Hurricane” on it with your envelope number. This will allow us to make sure there is an accounting on your annual statement of contribution from this parish. Our bishop asks that we be as Humor generous as possible. Again, thank you for your help.

“Do you think my friend Mary Catherine goes to a As we view and hear the Gospel from this week’s readings different church every week?” Jenny asked her mom. we keep our hurts and delights in our memories. These “She told me she was a roaming Catholic.” memories reveal that God keeps his promise no matter how often we turn away. This invites us to a future full of hope. ______When we celebrate the Eucharist, we bring to God’s table Dear Father Tim, personal memories of our journey with God, the weave and My father says I have to learn the Ten Commandments. warp of our life. We pray with good memories of grace as But I don’t think I want to because we already well as times of anxiety and fear when God seemed far have enough rules in our house. from us. In all these memories, God asks us to forgive as he ______does.

A Sunday school instructor asked his class, The challenge brought to us this weekend, is a challenge to “Does anyone know what we mean by sins of omission?” remember how we have been forgiven for our dark deeds, One of the girls replied, mistakes and sins, and to act in likeness to for all “Aren’t those the sins we should have committed but didn’t?” that has been experienced by us from others. Up to seventy - seven times. The implication is that we always have forgiveness at the ready. No matter what it is we have done,

WE THANK OUR SPONSOR the Lord finds forgiveness for us, can we not, with work, OF THE WEEK find the ability to forgive others? Sometimes it may take a while for us to let the hurts against us to subside a little before we can remember the love that soothes the pain and sparks forgiveness in our hearts. In the end, we must forgive as we have been forgiven.

Our memories hold true to the experience of the Lord forgiving us. We can remember the beautiful feeling of his love as we experience the words “I absolve you from all of your sins, …”

BE BOLD! BE CATHOLIC! REMEMBER LOVE! In Christ’s love, -- Fr Tim Wrozek