Pope Francis Asks for Prayers from Cardinal on Pilgrimage to Lourdes
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GUARDIAN ANGELS’ CRYSTAL FALLS MASS INTENTIONS LECTORS FOR SEPTEMBER 12TH & 13TH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 4:00 p.m. – Robin Caron NO MASS 8:30 a.m. – Louise Holmes TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 FR. DAN-VACATION PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 FR. DAN-VACATION Please remember in your prayers all our Parishioners and friends who are ill, especially: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Amy Austin, Marilyn (Rossi) Awrey, Kathy Ball, FR. DAN-VACATION Sophie Brauer, Dick Browder, Owen Brozak, Mollee Burns, Marion Carlotto, Bob Clement, Roberta Elliott, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Kevin Ellis, Leon Fabbri, Faye Heimerl, Tommy FR. DAN-VACATION Hoenig, Mike Horst, Roberta Jackson, Otto Jacob, Irene Juneau, Vernon & Dee Ann Kettula, Elaine SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Kudwa, Bob Leanna, Kyle Miron, Adriane Muncy, 4:00 p.m.-Mass-People of the Parish Marianne Mussatto, Frank Nowak, Kathy Olson, Frank & Irma Quinney, Tom & Gail Ruszkowski, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 Monica Shirky, Daniel Sikora, Marge Skibo, Al Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Smokevitch, Gerri Spisak, Judy Stankewicz, Rose 8:30 a.m.-Mass-Frederic Ozanam, Founder of Stockero, Doris Suheski, Rose Ternes, Pat Webb, St. Vincent de Paul Society- Victoria Nowak-Webb, Rita West & Jeanette Woods. Guardian Angels Conference SVDP MASS INTENTIONS Confessions by appointment only, please call If anyone would like to have a Mass intention said for a Fr. Dan at the Parish Office at 906-875-3019. loved one, we do have dates available. Please call the rectory at 875-3019. VOCATION NEWS Do you know the power of prayer within a group? Join BARAGA DAYS 2020 EVENT with others to pray for an increase of vocations to We are bringing the Baraga Days 2020 Event to you ordained ministry and the consecrated life. regardless of where you are! Due to the COVID -19 (Matthew 18:15-20) pandemic, we cannot have our in-person event as planned but we can host an incredible event virtually! SVDP For further details and a full schedule of events please In today’s Gospel, Jesus says: “…where two or three are visit www.bishopbaraga.org/baraga-days/ or contact gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Is the Bishop Baraga Association at 906-227-9117. We there a family you know who needs assistance? Please are asking those who were planning on traveling for this call the Society of St. Vincent de Paul so that together we event, to consider donating to the Bishop Baraga help them to know that indeed “God is in the midst of Association instead! them.” ASK BISHOP JOHN DOERFLER RIGHT TO LIFE TO PRAY FOR YOU You must remember that some things legally right are not A direct mailing was sent to all registered households from Bishop John Doerfler in mid-June. Helping to fulfill morally right. Abortion and euthanasia are prime examples of this statement. Work and pray to end these one of his primary obligations, to pray for the people of atrocities. the Diocese of Marquette, Bishop John Doerfler invites parishioners to send personal prayer requests. BISHOP BARAGA Returned prayer cards are kept in his private chapel, Bishop Baraga had slowed and he had signs of palsey. where he will pray for your intentions for the next year. He preached his last sermons, in three languages, in St. Ann’s Church, at Hancock, and he said so himself, for he felt that his voice was failing. September 1866. Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time MICHIGAN SEPTEMBER 6, 2020 Love your neighbor as yourself. GUARDIAN ANGELS Our readings today work together to teach us about the Fiscal Year 2020/2021 real obligations of the law, which include gently Thank you for your generosity correcting one another so that our communities may be in harmony. Paul explains how we must do this, and do all things, with love. And Jesus promises to remain with WEEK OF 08/30/20 WEEKLY YTD us always. Sunday & Holydays $ 1768.00 $ 20,422.00 Loose $ 201.00 $ 3238.00 SCRIPTURE READINGS FOR THE WEEK Fuel $ 170.00 $ 797.00 Sept. 7-1 Cor 5:1-8/Lk 6:6-11 MA & Repair $ 1080.00 $ 1796.00 Sept. 8-Mi 5:1-4a/Mt 1:1-16, 18-23 Special Collections $ 20.00 $ 257.00 Sept. 9-1 Cor 7:25-31/Lk 6:20-26 Total $ 3239.00 $ 26,510.00 Sept. 10-1 Cor 8:1b-7, 11-13/Lk 6:27-38 Sept. 11-1 Cor 9:16-19, 22b-27/Lk 6:39-42 Budgeted $ 3171.15 $ 28,540.35 Sept. 12-1 Cor 10:14-22/Lk 6:43-49 Overage/(Shortfall) $ 67.85 $ <-2030.35> Sept. 13-Sir 27:30—28:7/Rom 14:7-9/Mt 18:21-35 Votive $ 0.00 $ 440.75 Diocesan Collection $ 0.00 $ 135.00 “People are often unreasonable, illogical and self- centered; Forgive them anyway. ST. JOSEPH ASSOCIATION GOOD SHEPHERD COLLECTION This weekend all parishes and missions in the Diocese of If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish Marquette are holding a Good Shepherd Sunday special ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. collection to support our priests’ retirement fund, called the St. Joseph Association. This collection directly If you are successful, you will win some false benefits priests of the Diocese of Marquette and is friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway. separate from the annual collection for the Retirement Fund for Religious, which supports retired clergy and sisters of religious orders across America. Due to the If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; suspension of Masses in response to the COVID-19 Be honest anyway. pandemic, the annual Good Shepherd Collection was postponed earlier this year. Thank you to those who have What you spend years building, someone could already contributed to this collection earlier this year. I encourage those who have not donated to this fund to destroy overnight; Build anyway. please prayerfully reflect on how you can best help support our own priests’ retirement by marking a blank If you find serenity and happiness, they may be envelope for the benefit of the “Good Shepherd jealous; Be happy anyway. Collection” and dropping it in the collection basket on September 5/6th, 2020. The good you do today, people will often forget Congratulations to tomorrow; Do good anyway. Daniel & Jessica Surface Give the world the best you have, on the baptism of their daughter and it may never be enough; Lyndee Lorraine May she grow in God’s love. Give the world the best you’ve got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.” This week our featured sponsor is: SOMMERS SAUSAGE SHOP Wild Game Processing, Quality Sausages, ― Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta Custom Smoking, Venison Processing 1370 Commercial Ave, CF 906-874-6032 Our Parish E-Mail Newsletter September 4, 2020 |From Fr. Dan’s Computer Desktop … GROW AS A DISCIPLE | PRAY, STUDY, ENGAGE, SERVE Pop quiz: What’s the Seventh Commandment? Can you recite the other nine? At first glance, Paul’s Letter to the Romans seems like an easy out. The commandments, he writes, “are summed up in this saying, namely, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” Easy-peasy, right? Well, in this case the devil is not in the details, but in the totality. Most days, loving one’s neighbor as yourself is harder than following the letter of the law. It means putting others first in a culture where rugged individualism is rewarded. In an everyday way, it means letting the person with four items and 23 coupons go in front of us at the grocery store, listening with an open mind to those with whom we disagree, or driving our parent to the doctor’s office on a day we had hoped to attend our daughter’s basketball game. When those situations come up, we know we don’t have to go it alone. After all, God loved us first. As we rd move into the week ahead, we can ask God in prayer to open our hearts and minds to the needs of 23 others, and help us love better by serving them, even when it’s hard. Sun GO EVANGELIZE | PRAYER, INVITATION, WITNESS, ACCOMPANIMENT in Looking at St. Paul’s letter to the Romans—we might conclude that it was grounded in rock-solid logic: Ord “Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence, love is the fulfillment of the law.” That same line also reminds me of one of the most famous tenets of the Hippocratic Oath: “First, do no harm.” Time Surely, on some days, “doing no evil” or “doing no harm” may feel like enough. But as Christians, we can do so much more. I’m reminded of a generous couple who would pray together each morning asking God to show them how they could best help others. They understood the message of today’s Gospel, “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Knowing that Jesus was at their side, they prepared to face whatever the day brought them. Is there someone this week you can accompany on their faith journey, or invite to join you in Christian service? PRAY By starting the day with a simple prayer like this: “God, show me how I can serve others today,” or “God, open my heart to the needs around me,” we may be pleasantly surprised at the opportunities to grow in love that we encounter. On the Lighter Side Copyright © 2015 HarperCollins Christian Publishing "The police want you to know that running from them is not social distancing." via Paul Kurlowicz Portage, MI from JoyfulNoiseletter.com RANDOM NEWS Pope Francis asks for prayers from cardinal on pilgrimage to Lourdes By Hannah Brockhaus Rome, Italy, Aug 24, 2020 / 11:24 am MT (CNA).- Pope Francis called an Italian cardinal heading to Lourdes on pilgrimage Monday to ask for his prayers at the shrine for himself and “for some situations to be resolved.” According to the vicar general of Rome, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, Pope Francis called him early in the morning Aug.