St. Boniface, St. Joseph, & St. John the Baptist Parishes September 9, 2012

We are all one body, one body in Christ, and we do not stand alone. We are Christ’s body, His hands and feet. We will speak His word of life to everyone we meet.

Emai: [email protected] website: www.stbonifaceparish.org Deacons: Marcus Potts (F) Brian Heine (F) Clarence Jansen (M) Rod Wiebelhaus (F)

Phones: St. John Rectory 357-3506 St. John Fax 357-3795 St. John Hall 357-2322 West Cath. 357-3507 East Catholic 357-2146 St. Joseph Hall 357-3761

St. Boniface Prayer Line: Judy Hoesing 357-3535 St. John Prayer Line: Amy Dickes 357-3301 or Donna Potts 357-3728

Marriage Arrangements: at least 6 months in advance The LORD gives sight to the blind; the LORD raises up those who were Mass Intentions: Mark “Mass Intention” and put in Sunday bowed down. collection or mail to Carole Schulte, PO The LORD loves the just; Box 116, Fordyce-NE 68736. Indicate who, the LORD protects strangers. desired date and parish. Confession: St. Joseph: 7:00 – 7:25 p.m. (before Mass) St. John: Sunday 10:10-10:25 & Frist Fridays 7:15–7:30 am and by app’t. St. Boniface: Sunday 8:00-8:25 am and Wednesday evenings 6:30- 7:00 pm during schoolyear. St. Boniface Eucharistic Adoration: Wed 5:30 –6:30 pm; Thurs 6:50 –7:50 am First Friday Adoration: after 8:00 am Mass till 7pm at St. John the Baptist Eucharistic Holy Hour and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Devotion: Tues 6:45 am-7:45 am at St. John Pastor: Fr. David Fulton, PO Secretary Hours: School Year: M-F: 8:00 a.m. till 4:00 Box 170, Fordyce-NE 402-357- p.m. 3506 The Parish Office will now be free to stop by the school anytime for parish business. located in the school. Please feel [email protected]

PASTOR’S CORNER

Homily for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fr.John Speekman

The opening lines of the gospel show us something typically true about Jesus, namely, he is always travelling. Up and down through Palestine he goes, through towns and villages, one after the other, pausing only for brief periods to pray alone with his Apostles or to visit friends. In contrast we observe so many of the self-proclaimed 'gurus' of our day who are hidden away with their followers in compounds, barricaded behind high security gates with guards and minders. Jesus was not like this; his mission was the world.

Jesus was a man for all, as God is for all. If, at times, Jesus hid himself from the crowds it was mostly to strengthen himself with prayer for the arduous teaching and healing journeys which lay ahead of him. And so he is travelling when a man is brought to him.

On TV the other night there was a show about a strongman. They brought him a phone book, a big heavy one and asked him to tear it in half. He took it, but then first gave it back to them to try it so that they could all see how weak they were. Then in front of them all, because this was all about him and his powers, he tore the book apart. The applause was deafening. So they brought Jesus a man, a deaf man with an impediment in his speech, and they asked Jesus to heal him, to lay his hands on him. They brought Jesus a man .. they asked Jesus to heal him .. . My evangelizing antennae are up and buzzing; I would love to have them (whoever they were) in my parish - people who bring people to Jesus.

The crowd is usually not very helpful to Jesus, in fact, it often gets in the way, blocking the door to the house for the paralytic, obscuring Zacchaeus' view and making him climb a tree, telling poor Bartimaeus to keep quiet... . This is a man not a phone book and Jesus takes him aside in private, away from the crowd. Notice how Mark insists on this action of Jesus by repeating it three times - Jesus took him aside, in private, away from the crowd. This is not a performance - this is GOD AT WORK! The deaf and dumb man, like all those in the gospels who are brought, or who come to Jesus for healing, represents at the same time each one of us and poor suffering humanity as a whole. In this way the gospel operates at a number of different levels of meaning and effectiveness and fruitfully sustains our meditation. As Jesus stands alone with the man, holding his face between his hands to heal him, we can see Jesus embracing the whole of creation in his tender touch, gazing with profound compassion into our eyes, longing to heal us all. And also that man is me. The Master clasps my face in his divine hands and looks into my eyes, seeing all my need for healing, liberation and redemption. The deaf mute cannot hear him and so he communicates his intentions through touch. He puts his fingers into the man's ears. Is Jesus thinking: It is not just to my voice I want to open your ears but to my word? Then Jesus takes some spittle from his mouth and places it on the man's tongue. Is Jesus thinking: Soon I will be able to place on your tongue not just my spittle so that you may speak but my whole self, body, blood, soul and divinity so that you may live forever. Jesus looks up and gazes heavenward, communing with his Father. I do only what I see my Father doing, I do the works I was sent to do. He sighed and spoke the word ephphatha which itself sounds like a sigh.

As the Father had created in the beginning with the words: Let there be light ... and there was light, so now Jesus recreates, restores, redeems with the words: Be opened ... and his ears were opened. Jesus has spoken - God has spoken. The works I do in my Father's name are my witness (John 10:25) ...and whatever the Father does the Son does too. (John 5:19) Their admiration was unbounded, and so is ours. We praise God for sending his only Son among us to seek us out and restore us to his Father and ours. He has done all things well.

Sunday Giving

St. Joseph (Sep 2): Envelopes - $180; Plate - $157.25; Endowment Contributions this fiscal year-to-date - $10 St. John (Sep 2): Envelopes - $1490; Plate - $1042.62; Riverboat Days - $100; Endowment Contributions this fiscal year-to-date - $0; Loan @ CSB – Paid Off! St. Boniface (Sep 2): Envelopes - $ss96; Plate - $138; Dollar Collection - $50.70; Children - $0; Endowment Contributions this fiscal year-to-date - $20; Loan @ CSB – $22,400; Roof Fund to date - $5,015.

Scripture Readings

Mon: 1 Cor 5:1-8; Lk 6:6-11 Tue: 1 Cor 6:1-11; Lk 6:12-19 Wed: 1 Cor 7:25-31; Lk 6:20-26 Thu: 1 Cor 8:1b-7k 11-13; Lk 6:27-38 Fri: Nm 21:4b-9; Phil 2:6-11; Jn 3:13-17 Sat: 1 Cor 10:14-22; Jn 19:25-27; Lk 2:33-35

Adoration St. John the Baptist First Friday Adoration: 8:30 am – 7:00 pm followed by Benediction and Closing Eucharistic Holy Hour and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Devotions: Tuesdays 6:45 am-7:45 am

St. Boniface Eucharistic Adoration Wednesday: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Thursday: 6:50 am – 7:50 am

AREA EVENTS

Holy Family Parishes Mass Schedule will rotate again beginning in September. Please refer to the Area Mass Schedule on the back of your monthly ministry schedule for times. The Area Masses are also listed on the parish website, as well as the ministry schedules. www.stbonifaceparish.org.

September 9, Sunday – Sacred Heart Parish of Norfolk is celebrating their 40th Anniversary of their Parish Festival and invites you to attend! Join us for a day jam-packed with pitch tournaments, beer and wine tasting, 25 kids carnival games, polka dancing and MORE! Their first annual “Holy Smokes BBQ Ribfest” will be serving from 5:00 - :00 p.m. that evening – come enjoy a variety of ribs cooked by parishioners vying for the “Holy Smokes Champion” Title. For more information and a full listing of events, visit www.ParishFestival.com.

September 9, Sunday – Archdiocese Marriage Celebration Masses will be Sunday September 9th at St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha and Sunday September 16th at St. Mary Church in Norfolk at 2:00 p.m. with a rosary at 1:30 p.m. Marriage Celebration is for parishioners who are celebrating milestone anniversaries of 5, 25, 40, 50, 55, and 60 or more years of marriage. Couples can RSVP for this Mass and the reception afterwards by sending their names, address, and how many years they’ve been married to the Family Life Office, Nazareth Hall, 3300 N. 60th St., Omaha-NE 68104 or call Reggan Simons at 402-551-9003,

September 9, Sunday – St. Rose of Lima Smorgasbord and Bazaar. Serving from 3:00 p.m. till 8:00 p.m. Menu: roast beef, homemade sausage, vegetables, mashed potatoes and gravy, salad bar, desserts (including homemade pies). Lots of family fun with games, horse rides, bingo, concessions, country store and cash raffle.

September 16, Sunday - St. Rose Best Ball Golf Tournament at Crofton Lakeview Golf Course. 9 a.m. shotgun start.. $160 per 4-person team. Includes 2 team mulligans and lunch. Register by calling 402- 388-4552 September 16, Sunday – St. Mary’s School in Osmond will host a Swiss Steak Dinner from 11 a.m. till 1:30 p.m. at the city auditorium. Adults - $9, age 3 – 6th gr – $4.

September 17, Monday – The Omaha Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women will be holding their annual convention from 9:00 a.m. till 3:00 p.m. with registration from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m. at the Werner Hall, 106 N 4th Street in Petersburg, NE. Cost is $25 by September 5th. Sorry, no late registrations. Speaker will be Fr. Dave Korth from Winnebago. Registration and fee should be sent to Deb Warren, PO Box 324, Elgin-NE 68636.

PARISH NEWS

Since I will be working for the school this year as well as the parish, my office will now be located at West Catholic Elementary School. Please feel free to stop by the school anytime on parish business. The phone number for the parish will also ring at the school. My hours during the school year are 8:00 a.m. till 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Thanks, Jill Wubben

The first St. Boniface Centennial Cookbooks that were published in 1982 are available for sale for $15.00. Please contact Julie Arens if you would like to buy a cookbook.

The St. Boniface Prayer Line was discussed @ the Ladies Guild Meeting on 8/27. I volunteered to try to speed up the contacting process from the top of the list to the bottom so the message and prayers can get to everyone sooner. A message can take days as most people work outside of the home. I will give everyone on the New Prayer Line List a call to see if their preference for contacting is: 1. A call on the phone, 2. An e-mail message on the computer, 3. a text message on their cell phone. The prayer line is for Prayers for someone in need. Let's Raise them up in Prayer. If you would like to text or e-mail me your response to the Contacting Process with the Prayer Line instead of me calling you, Please e-mail me @ [email protected] or TEXT me @ (605) 660-4601. If you did not sign up the the prayer line because you are not easy to contact by phone and now want to be a New Member of the (Call, E-mail, and Texting prayer line), let me know. Patty A. Zavadil

St. Boniface Youth Choir Practice:Sept. 16th (1 hr after mass)

IMPORTANT TO BE HERE AS WE NEED TO START PLANNING OUR

CHRISTMAS MUSIC! Choir Sings: Sept. 9th, Sept. 16th, Sept. 23rd

September 10, Monday – St. Boniface Parish Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the St. Boniface parish hall.

First Friday Adoration St. John the Baptist is in need of additional adorers for First Friday Adoration. Please contact Donna Potts at 357-3728 or call the parish office at 357-3506 if you’d like to participate.

Confirmation News There will be practice for confirmation on Wednesday, October 3rd at St. Boniface in Menominee. This is for all students being confirmed on October 7th. We will begin with Mass at 7:00 p.m. followed by practice.

Fordyce Baseball has pop leftover from the concession stand. If anyone would like to purchase Coke, Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, or Sprite by the case (cans), please contact Al and JoAnn Steffen at 402-357-3707. St. Boniface Parish Council is seeking donations for the Fun Night's Live and Silent Auctions. Fun Night will be October 27th and the council is in the process of organizing items and donations at this time for the auctions. Please contact a Council Member if you would like to donate to the event ...any/all contribution greatly appreciated! Thank you.

St. Joseph’s Covenant Keepers A new St. Joseph’s Covenant Keepers group is forming at St. Boniface Church in Menominee on September 1st and will continue to meet each first Saturday following the 8:00 a.m. Mass. For more information, please visit Dads.org or call Ryan Tramp at 388-2426. St. Joseph’s Covenant Keepers (i.e. SJCK) is an informal international network of Christian men, under the patronage of St. Joseph, dedicated to strengthening the family. The primary thrust of St. Joseph’s Covenant Keepers is to men who are fathers of children still living at home. However, we warmly welcome Christian men of all ages, callings, and states in life: grandfathers wanting to strengthen their children and grandchildren; single men preparing for the vocation of marriage; and especially pastors serving as indispensable spiritual fathers in the family of God. Participation is open to all men who agree with, and who are willing to promote, the eight commitments of St. Joseph’s Covenant Keepers. Organizational sponsorship of SJCK is provided by the Family Life Center International, a 501[c](3) non- profit corporation. We do not want SJCK to be a top-heavy organization that becomes a focus and activity center for men. Our explicit desire is for men to focus on their own families. As Pope John Paul II said, “The future of the world and of the Church passes through the family.” We believe that the family is vastly superior to any organization in its ability to renew both Church and society. Therefore, any activities of SJCK in small men’s groups, parish SJCK organizations, or regional and national rallies, will be for the purpose of equipping and encouraging men for more effective service within their families.

A New Women’s Group will begin at St. Boniface Church in Menominee on September 1st and will continue to meet each first Saturday after the 8:00 a.m. Mass. For more information, call Kim Tramp at 388-2426.

The HyVee SmartPoints program is back and West Catholic Elementary seeks your help in winning a SmartBoard interactive whiteboard so that each classroom is equipped with one. We have won the contest the last two years and would like to make it three! This has been an amazing program for our school, since larger schools do not have an advantage over smaller schools. You don’t have to have a student enrolled at West Catholic to participate. You can give your points to any student, and the student at the winning school who accumulates the most points will walk away with an IPad 2! The program runs from September 1st until November 30th. All you need to do is purchase $20 worth of participating products at HyVee, and a ticket will print out with your grocery receipt automatically (if it doesn’t, please ask the cashier for it – some of them are not familiar with the program). Listed below are those Proctor and Gamble products that qualify:

Align CoverGirl Head & Shoulders Oral B Always Crest Herbal Essences Pampers Aussie Dawn Iams Pantene Bounce Downy Ivory Pepto-Bismal Braun Dreft Joy Prilosec Camay Duracell Luvs Puffs Cascade Era Metamucil Scope Charmin Febreeze Mr. Clean Secret Cheer Fixodent Natural Instincts Swifter Clairol Gain Nice ‘n Easy Tampax ClearBlue Gillette Olay Tide Gleem Old Spice Vicks

Burnell’s Foodtown Cash Register Tapes for Education Program begins September 1st and runs through March 2013. This is a wonderful fundraiser for our school, please take advantage of it! Just drop your cash register receipts from Foodtown in the West Catholic box at the store, or you can drop them off at school. Thanks for your participation in this program!

Pancake & Sausage Breakfast Sunday September 16th

Serving pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, and beverages from 8:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at the Holy Trinity gym in Hartington.

Items needed for donation are: 3 cases orange juice ( Fischer Feeds) 12 Hogs 10 gallons pancake syrup 3 bottles diabetic syrup 20 gallons milk 50# pancake flour 1200 napkins 8# coffee 140 dozen fresh eggs 1 case butter pats (approx. 900 ct) 800 plates 4 boxes ZipLoc bags (1 gallon-size) 700 styrofoam cups 8 cans PAM spray (original) Coffee Mate pack 3 bottles salsa Also Cash donations for Hogs and other Supplies are very much appreciated

Also, order your sausage today. Sign-up sheets for sausage pre-sales can be found in the back of area churches or reserved by calling or either Chris & Rhonda Miller at 402-254-7469, or Ryan and Janet Creamer at 402-254-9754. First come, first served. Please make arrangements to pick up your meat on Sunday morning, September 16th . Any remaining sausage will be sold the day of the breakfast.

A reminder for all Cedar Catholic Jr/Sr High School families, we will again this year have the “No Baking” Bake Sale. Each family is asked to donate $8. You may either bring it the day of the breakfast or send it to school in an envelope marked “CD No Bake Sale” and your family name.

This is a major fundraiser for Cedar Development. Your help and support of this event is greatly appreciated. We thank you in advance for your continued cooperation.

Chris & Rhonda Miller Ryan and Janet Creamer Chairman Co-Chairman 402-254-7469 402-254-9754 SCHOOL NEWS

West Catholic Scrip Card Program The retailers in the program are undoubtedly businesses that you already patronize. The school can purchase their cards at a discount, and then sell them to you for the face value. The difference is for the school to keep. Lots of popular cards are kept on hand for your convenience. Check with Ruth Wiebelhaus at 402-841-5624. Order your cards from any of our three friendly coordinators:

Beth Stevens Lori Hoebelheinrich Ruth Wiebelhaus 357-2500 357-3762 357-3570 or 841-5624 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Hundreds of retailers participate. Visit www.glscrip.com .

There are LOTS of ways to help out West Catholic Elementary. Check out this list! Box Tops for Education Clip those box tops and bring them to school Land O’ Lakes Milk Jug Lids-Each one is worth 5 cents – drink lots of milk! Target Use your Target card and at checkout just mention that you want your donation to go to West Catholic Elementary People’s Grocery Crofton, NE will donate 3 cents for every Shur-Fresh label you clip. Ink Cartridges Send your used ink cartridges to the school-we’ll turn them into $$$ Old Cell Phones Send them to school instead of throwing them away. Coca-Cola Lids Send them to the school and we’ll put them to good use! OneCause.com – LOTS of retailers will donate a % of your purchase to the school. You just need to log into their website when you want to make on on-line purchase and from there you navigate to your favorite stores. You can use this in combination with scrip cards and turn your 15% contribution into a 20% contribution! HyVee Cards – Imagine if 5% of your monthly grocery purchases went to the school. If you’ve never purchased HyVee Cards, now’s the time to start! You can get them at Cedar Security Bank, The Carpenter Shop (just south of HyVee) and also from Mary Schaefer, Ruth Wiebelhaus, Lora Wiebelhaus, or at the school. Let’s take full advantage of this program!

MASSES

Sunday Sep 9 8:30 a.m. (M) +Floyd Albrecht Sep 9 10:30 a.m. (F) For the People Monday Sep 10 8:00 a.m. (F) +Msgr. Werner Tuesday Sep 11 8:00 a.m. (F) +Jeff Potts Wednesday Sep 12 8:00 a.m. (F) For Marcus & Donna Potts Thursday Sep 13 8:00 a.m. (M) +Grace Hoesing Friday Sep 14 8:00 a.m. (F) +Don Dickes Saturday Sep 15 8:00 a.m. (M) +Harold Loecker 7:30 p.m. (C ) For the People Sunday Sep 16 8:30 a.m. (M) Kevin & Deb Kleinschmit’s 35th Wedding Anniversary Sep 16 10:30 a.m. (F) +Romaine C. Becker Sep 16 2:00 p.m. (F) +Msgr. Werner

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Sep 10 Monday West Catholic School Board Mtg. 7:30 p.m. Sep 10 Monday St. Boniface Parish Council Mtg. 7:30 p.m. Sep 10 Monday LifeServe BloodCenter (F) 3:30 – 6:30 p.m. Sep 16 Sunday Cedar Catholic Development Brkfst Sep 17 Monday St. John’s Parish Council Mtg. 7:30 p.m. Oct 1 Monday St. Joseph Parish Council Mtg. 7:30 p.m. Oct 7 Sunday Confirmation (M) 2:00 p.m.

September Church Cleaners

St. Joseph Chair-Bette Keiser, Leonarda Arens, Taylor Tramp, Pam Jones St. John Chair- Joni Stevens, Andrea Sudbeck, Jarinda Sudbeck, Karla Sudbeck, Carol Stevens St. Boniface September 8: Diane Kast, Henrietta Mauch, LuAnn Jones, Kim Kast, Joyce Kleinschmit, Deb Kleinschmit, Betty Kleinschmit

VOCATION CROSS

Sep 1 – 7: Mark & Jarinda Sudbeck Sep 8-14: Ron and Norma Sudbeck Sep 15-21 Dan & Norma Thoene

MINISTRY SCHEDULES

St. Joseph Parish

Saturday-Sep 15 – 7:30 p.m. Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time L: Mike Stevens G: Joe & Leonarda Arens S: Jared Fuelberth U: Mike Mueller & Fred Arens

St. Boniface Parish

Sunday – Sep 16 – 8:30 a.m. Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time L: Doris Goeden G: Tim & Julie Arens Family S: James Kleinschmit & Brock Mueller U: John Jansen (E ), Steve Jansen (E ), Kevin Kleinschmit, Frank Kleinschmit

St. John the Baptist

September 16 – Sunday - 10:30 a.m. Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time L: Linda Wuebben G: Frank & Krisa Lammers Family S: Josh Wiebelhaus & Jacob Haahr U: Frank Lammers (E ), Jason Haahr (E ), Jesse Koch, Alvin Lammers