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 St. Francis de Sales  Spooner, Wisconsin St.  Shell Lake, Wisconsin St. Catherine of Alexandria  Sarona, Wisconsin                    

July 18, 2021  Sacrament of : Parents must attend a preparation St. Francis de Sales  class. Contact the cluster office.  409 Summit Street   Sacrament of Matrimony: Arrangements must be made at Spooner, WI 54801 least six months before a tentative date is set. Contact Fr. Phil at Mass Schedule  the cluster office.   Tuesday  5:00 pm Sacrament of the Sick: Please call the cluster office if you or a Wednesday  8:30 am loved one is sick, in the hospital, or homebound.   Thursday  8:30 am  New Parishioners: All are welcome to register in our Friday  8:30 am communities. Stop by the cluster office.  Saturday  6:00 pm  Sunday  10:00 am  Prayer Request, call:  SJ: Diane Downs 7155202928 St. Joseph SC: Noreen Ferrari 7153543223 502 Second Street  SFdS: Carlene Hansen 7156353823 Shell Lake, WI 54871 Mass Schedule  Reconciliation Schedule  Saturday  4 pm St. Francis de Sales   Friday 2 pm St. Catherine of Alexandria Saturday 5:30 pm  Sunday 9:30 am W5262 Catholic Lane St. Joseph  Saturday 3:30 pm Sarona, WI 54870 St. Catherine  Sunday 7:30 am Mass Schedule

 Sunday  8 am Mass Intentions for the week of July 18, 2021  Cluster Contact Information  Monday No Mass Tuesday 5 pm SFdS + Ellen Schmitz by Bob & Martha Jetto 409 Summit Street Wednesday 8:30 am SFdS + Gary Campbell by Duane & Susan Hughes Spooner, WI 54801  Thursday 8:30 am SFdS + No Mass Phone: 7156353105  Friday 8:30 am SFdS + No Mass Fax: 7156357341 Saturday 4 pm SJ + Parish Cluster  6 pm SFdS + Dave Masterjohn by Mary Haas Reverend Philip J. Juza, Pastor, ext. 28  Sunday 8 am SC + Dahlmeir Family by Tom Dahlmeir [email protected]  10 am SFdS + John Biver by Don & Beth Esser

Website: www.we3chuches.org St. Francis de Sales Church will be open for prayer on  Office Hours: Thursday and Friday from noon until 3pm.  Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on Friday. Monday & Tuesday: 9 am  1 pm   Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 9 am  4  pm Observances & Readings for the week of July 18, 2021  Parish Office ext. 21 Sun: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time  Receptionist: Connee Brabec Jer 23:16 / Ps 23:13, 3  4, 5, 6 / Eph 2:13  8 / Mk 6:30  34  [email protected] Mon: Ex 14:518 / Ex 15:1bc, 2, 34, 56 / Mt 12:3842 Bookkeeper: Jenny Corbin Tue: St Apollinaris  [email protected]  Ex 14:21  15:1 / Ex 15:89,10 & 12, 17 / Mt 12:4650 Wed: St  RE Coordinator, Abbie Schmidt, ext. 27  Ex 16:15, 915 / Ps 78:1819, 2324, 2526, 2728 / Mt 13:19 [email protected] Thurs: St   Sg 3:1  4b or 2 Cor 5:14  17 / Ps 63:2, 3  4, 5  6, 8  9 

St. Francis de Sales School  Jn 20:12,1118 300 Oak Street  Fri: St Bridget 

 Ex 20:1  17 / Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11 / Mt 13:18  23 Spooner, WI 54801 Sat: St Sharbel Makhluf Website: www.we3churches.org  Ex 24:3  8 / Ps 50:1b  2, 5  6, 14  15 / Mt 13:24  30 Principal, Nick Berens , ext. 24     [email protected] Next Sun: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Secretary, Patricia Kelly, ext. 25  2Kgs 4:4244 / Ps 145:10  11,15  16,17  18 / Eph 4:1  6 Jn 6:1  15 [email protected] ©LPi   EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP  RECOGNIZE MEDITATION IN YOUR ORDINARY MOMENTS   July 18, 2021 The Steward’s Work Is Never Done 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time   Woe to the shepherds who mislead and scatter the There’s an ordinary pine grove located on a tree farm not flock! When you hear these strong words from the Old too far from town where life’s stresses and demands seem Testament, you’re probably thinking, thank goodness I to melt away. It is here that all that seemed so important don’t have any sheep N dodged that bullet. Nobody out there no longer is and one can get lost in the rows of misled here! No flock scattered on my watch! However, trees and majestic beauty. God is here and all is good. We we are all shepherds of a kind, called to tend our own need to connect with the Divine Source of all that is in or- sheep: our families, our parishes, our communities. der to understand what it is we are doing and why we are  But it’s exhausting. Don’t we all sometimes just want to doing it. Otherwise, things stop making sense and bitter- take a break from being a steward? The excuses are ness can overcome one’s spirit. It’s okay to play once in a so familiar: we’re tired, we’ve done enough, we’ve giv- while and to discover that place of profound life and en all we can, what more does the parish (or my peace. People always have needs and there is constantly spouse, or my kids, or my boss, or my friends, or my something to do. And while all of that is necessary and we community) want? We give ourselves permission to be are needed, there is also that inner solitude within that selfish. So, what if the flock scatters just a little? needs to be celebrated and released.   Jesus gets that. We can just imagine him weary with We all need a pine grove. It’s that little place we can go exhaustion, can’t we? We see him on his boat, attempt- and leave all that consumes us behind. It’s a place where ing to sneak away for a quick break N maybe just a technology can be set aside and wonder, and awe given chance to eat a bite of food in peace. He is God, but he some time. We don’t have to text, calculate, or orchestrate was still human, after all. Even the most dedicated anything in the pine grove. It is a somewhat deserted shepherds need to sleep. But people couldn’t leave place where all of that can be set aside and we can just him alone. They were hungry for him. They needed be. The anger, frustration, exhaustion, discouragement, what he could offer, and they needed it now. helplessness, and occasional apathy, all can fall to the  As tough as it is, that’s the example we are tasked with ground like all of those pine needles that once held their imitating. Everyday Stewardship demands accountabil- place on the branch of a Frasier Fir. The needles can let ity. It demands our showing up even when we are tired. go. We can let go. We are beings connected with Being It demands that we look at our lives, our time, our ener- and we all need to remember what really matters, who gies, our talents, our hearts, our bank accounts and really matters and what life is truly all about. We need to find that place where we can rest and let go of all of the think: where do I still have more to give?     N Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS  barnacles we accumulate. Rest, breathe, seek, and love.   ©LPi The world will need us again when we leave the pine grove. It will all be waiting for us, beckoning for our atten- tion. But we will have prayed and will have marveled at the I’ve heard that we become angels when we die.  silence and the beauty of goodness. We can go back, Is this what the Church teaches? ready, and eager to listen, to help, to heal, to cry, to em-  brace, and attend to all that is asked of us. But, having let As human beings, we are both spiritual and corporeal. go of the distractions in that deserted place we will have a We are body and soul. This makes us unique in all cre- renewed sense of purpose. We will know better Who it is ation M plant or animal M possesses an immortal soul we serve and what we are meant to do. It will all be clearer made in ’ image and likeness. Like the distinction now that we have been Divinely touched and refreshed. with plants and animals, angels have an entirely differ-  ent sort of existence. Angels are pure immortal spirit, ©LPi and they have been so since the moment of their crea-  tion. While they may take on an appearance of a body Word of Life Series  in Biblical history, they are not a body like we are.  July 18, 2021 Angels are neither male or female, despite the are we  often see.  “Because of our belief and hope in the Resurrection, we  can face death not with fear, but with preparation…. We As the result of the Fall, human beings experience prepare for eternal life by choosing to love and follow God death. Our souls are temporarily separated from our now, in our daily lives and decisions.” Read more at bodies. However, we do not become something other www.respectlife.org/end oflifeconsiderations.  than human. Every Sunday in the creed we profess “I  believe in the resurrection of the body.” As Jesus was USCCB Secretariat of ProLife Activities  “Catholic Considerations for Our Earthly Passing”  united with his body on the third day, so too will we be united with our bodies at the end of time.   ©LPi  If you read the bulletin on line,  remember to read the insert on the website.  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