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Thank you for your generous stewardship! Catholic Services Appeal

THANKS to all who returned their Catholic Services St. Appeal envelope. Our goal and the amount pledged for Our Gifts to the Lord - April 3 & 4 each parish as of February 24, 2021: Adult Envelopes $ 3,244.00 St. Francis de Sales Easter Envelopes & Flowers $ 3,540.00 $ 25,671.00 Loose $ 212.00 32,106.13 School $ 689.00 $ (6,435.13) Maintenance $ 701.00 Holy Land Collection $ 345.00 St. Mission $ 50.00 $ 12,404.00 March Online Giving $ 5,560.00 8,470.00 Total $ 14,341.00 $ 3,934.00

St. Catherine of Alexandria St. Joseph $ 10,469.00 Our Gifts to the Lord - April 3 & 4 7,668.00 $ 2,801.00 Adult Envelopes $ 920.00 Easter Envelopes $ 585.00 All pledges over and above our goal are returned to the parish for their use. School $ 10.00

Maintenance $ 201.00 THE LORD LOVES A CHEERFUL GIVER! Holy Land $ 91.00 2 Corinthians 9:7 Mission $ 10.00

March Online Giving $ 290.00 Total $ 2,107.00 SCRIP

Help support our school by purchasing SCRIP. You can continue purchasing scrip by filling out an order form St. Catherine found at the entrance of the school/church and placing it Our Gifts to the Lord - April 3 & 4 in the envelope provided. Order forms can be found on

Adult Envelopes $ 760.00 the parish website too. When the order is filled you will Easter Envelopes & Flowers $ 510.00 receive a call. Do not place any money/check in the Maintenance $ 50.00 envelope. Remember, the businesses give a percent- Holy Land Collection $ 120.00 age back to the school.

Mission $ 100.00 Schmitz Economart 4%, Red Cross 5%, March Online Giving $ 545.00 McDonalds 5%, Spooner Bakery, 20%, Total $ 2,085.00 Palace Theater 45%, Nick’s 25%, Kwik Trip 5% Spooner Family Restaurant 25%, Bush & Gilles 4% River Street Restaurant 25%, Menards 4%,

Easter Flowers Northwind Book & Fiber 10%, Farm & Fleet 5% Thanks to the following for donating to this year’s Easter Flower Collection. St. Martin I St. Catherine & Martyr & Gail Librande in Memory of 590 - 655 Feast Day - April 13 Librande Family, Wolff Family, Stleber Family, Juntunen Family, and deceased members of St. Martin I, also known as St. Catherine of Alexandria Parish Community. Martin the Confessor, was pope in the 7th Century. He St. Francis de Sales was a valiant defender of Bruce & Kathleen Laird the faith and a staunch sup- porter of Orthodoxy. In 649,

MARTYR Martin convened the Later- an Council at in order The real significance of the word martyr comes not from to condemn the Monothelite heresy of the 7th century. the dying but from the witnessing, which the word means Emperor Constans ordered St. Martin to be captured in its derivation. People who are willing to give up every- and was sent to the island of Naxos in the year 654. thing, their most precious possessions, their very lives, While he was there, he was starved and abused by the put a supreme value on the cause or belief for which they prison guards. He was later exiled to Cherson in the sacrifice. Martyrdom, dying for the faith, is an incidental Crimea, where he died due to hunger and sickness in extreme to which some have had to go to manifest their 655. Throughout his papacy, Martin refused to cut belief in Christ. A living faith, a life that exemplifies Christ’s corners as a way of easing his lot, to make some ac- teaching throughout, and that in spite of difficulties, is re- commodations with the civil rulers. He is the last of the quired of all Christians. early to be venerated as a martyr.

St. Martin, pray for us!

PEEK OF THE WEEK 1st Grade - Miss Martin

MahKayla Lauren, Uriah, MahKayla, Casen, Roland Roland

Happy Easter, everyone! It is hard to believe we are already in the Easter Season with only a few months left in our school year. It is so exciting for me to see the kids growing in their faith and their education so beautifully! I am so proud to see how these kids have progressed since the beginning of the year.

One of the highlights for myself and the first graders this quarter was being able to learn about the certain parts of a race car. Once we learned about race cars, we took to our engineering skills and discovered how to take different parts and create our own race cars!

We have also broadened our writing skills by writing a personal narrative. First graders learned that to make a great personal story, we need to start from our big watermelon moment and figure out what the seed was - what made that moment so special. This group showed me how creative they can be with their thoughts and words.

This year has gone by so fast. It has been an honor teaching and learning with these students. To see how much they have grown and changed has brought me so much joy. I can’t wait to see what they do in these last two months!

Thank you for supporting St. Francis de Sales Catholic School.

Second Week of Easter

2nd Sunday of Easter 2nd Sunday of Easter Day 8 Day 8

The table fellowship of Christians implies By this light I shall come to know that you, eternal Trinity, are table and food obligation. It is our daily bread that we and waiter for us. eat, not my own. We share our bread. You, eternal Father, are the table that offers us as food the Lamb, your only- Thus we are firmly bound to one another begotten Son. not only in the Spirit but in our whole He is the most exquisite of foods for us, both in his teaching, which physical being. The one bread that is nourishes us in your will, and in the sacrament that we receive in holy com- given to our fellowship links us together in munion, which feeds and strengthens us while we are pilgrim travelers in a firm covenant. Now none dares go this life. hungry as long as another has bread, and And the Holy Spirit is indeed a waiter for us, for he serves us this teaching anyone who breaks this fellowship of the by enlightening our mind’s eye with it and inspiring us to follow it. And he physical life also breaks the fellowship of serves us charity for our neighbors and hunger to have as our food souls the Spirit. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the salvation of the whole world for the Father’s honor. 2 - St. Catherine of , 14 century 2