PENTECOST SUNDAY - MAY 23, 2021

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ROLAND BEAUCHAINE VINCENT FERRO GIANNA GAGNON JASON HIRT JOSEPH JACOBSON VICTORIA JAIMES CHRISTIAN MCCOURTNEY TIM NGUYEN HANNAH OCAMPO ANNA PAAVOLA JAVANA PETERSON CONFIRMATION HALEY ROSARIO MAY 27, 2021 LYNLEE SANDOVAL May God bless our Confirmandi and may they be filled with FERNANDO TORRES SANCHEZ the Holy Spirit as they receive the MATELYN SMITH Sacrament of Confirmaon

MISSION STATEMENT Faithful to the Teachings of the Roman , St. Raphael Parish and School promotes the Universal Call to Holiness for all the People of God.

WORSHIP CONTACT SACRAMENTS Weekday Masses Fr. Michael Rudolph, Pastor x 205 Reconciliaon Monday - Saturday: 8:00 am [email protected] Weekdays: 7:30 - 7:50 am Fr. Robert Aler, Parochial Vicar x 206 Saturday: 7:30 - 7:50 am, First Friday: 7:00 pm frrobertal[email protected] 8:30 - 9:30 am and 4:00 - 5:15 pm

Extraordinary Form Lan Parish Email: [email protected] Marriage Parish Phone: 763-537-8401 Weekend Masses Please contact Fr. Rudolph. Saturday: 5:30 pm Parish Office Hours Bapsm Sunday: 8:30 am and 10:30 am Monday-Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Friday: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Please contact the Parish Office.

7301 BASS LAKE ROAD, CRYSTAL, MN 55428 | WWW.STRAPHAELCRYSTAL.ORG PASTOR’S LETTER gentleness and self-control. (Galaans 5:22-23) Meeng us where we’re at…

The Holy Spirit, whom we celebrate in a The Holy Spirit also moves us by teaching, guiding and encouraging us. special way today, Pentecost Sunday, is God meeng us where we’re at. I think I can imagine some of you saying, “Bring it on! I want these that’s one reason he’s described in gi s and fruits of the Spirit…How do I get them?

Sacred Scripture in so many different Well, for one thing, we can’t just pick up gi s and fruits of ways. He appeared over Jesus in the the Holy Spirit like we would hamburger buns at the form of a dove. Jesus described him as grocery store. But we can ask God for them, trusng that living water. And he showed up on the day of Pentecost in he, in his amazing and overflowing love, will give us the form of a strong wind and tongues of fire. everything that is good for us. One thing to keep in mind, The Holy Spirit is like a dove in that he is gentle. He doesn’t though, is that not every gi of the Holy Spirit is meant for force us to do anything. He inspires, suggests, proposes, everyone. We each have our part to play in God’s plan and nudges, asks, points out and teaches. He may also make us will receive the gifs we need to carry out our role—but only uncomfortable if we are headed in the wrong direcon, or those gi s. On the other hand every human being could rile us up if we need some movaon—but he doesn’t potenally have all the fruits of the spirit. bully. The Holy Spirit is like fire in that he gives warmth and light. The Holy Spirit is like living water in several ways. He is Also, fire in the Chrisan Tradion o en symbolizes the alive and gives life. He enriches and enhances life. And he power of love, as in the phrase “the fire of charity.” And brings us God’s life, thereby sasfying our thirst for love just as fire can go through a prairie or forest burning up and purpose. The term “living water” in Jesus’s culture also weeds and dead wood, so the Holy Spirit can cleanse us meant “flowing water.” In this sense, the Holy Spirit is like from ways of thinking, desiring and acng that are not living water in that he moves around, cleanses and helpful for us. refreshes. Depending on what we are going through on any parcular The Holy Spirit is like a strong wind in that we can’t see day, we may need gentleness or a strong push, him, but we can recognize him by his effects. For example, refreshment or forgiveness, love or purificaon. Thank the the Prophet Isaiah refers to the Spirit of wisdom, Holy Spirit that he always meets us where we are at, and understanding, counsel, might, knowledge and fear of the leads us on from there on the o en surprising, and always Lord. (Isaiah 11:9) Paul lists a number of gi s of the rewarding, path of being a disciple of Jesus Christ.

Holy Spirit. They include speaking words of wisdom and Yours in the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, knowledge, faith, healing, working miracles, prophecy, Father Rudolph discerning of spirits, speaking in tongues and interpretaon of tongues, (1 Corinthians 12:4-11) teaching, helping, administering (1 Corinthians 12:28), serving, exhorng, generosity, leading and showing mercy (Romans 12:7-8). All of these gi s are given to serve others and build up the Body of Christ.

Other effects of the Holy Spirit are described by Saint Paul as “fruits of the Spirit.” He describes a number of these: love, joy, peace, paence, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

WEEKEND MASS CHANGES - EFFECTIVE SUNDAY, MAY 30TH Goodbye to Live-streaming and the 12:30 pm Mass

The Mass at 12:30 pm on Sundays was started up last year because of requirements for social distancing and occupancy limits that were made in response to COVID-19. Occupancy limits were abolished earlier this year, and a er May 28, 2021, there will be no social distancing requirements in Minnesota. For that reason, the 12:30 pm Mass this Sunday, May 23rd, will be the last one at Saint Raphael’s unl further noce. Beginning next Sunday, May 30th, there will be just two Masses here on Sundays, at 8:30 am and 10:30 am. Also, we will disconnue live-streaming Masses here at St. Raphael’s as well. 2 PARISH INFORMATION

PARISH DIRECTORY PARISH TRUSTEES PASTORAL COUNCIL Parish Office: 763-537-8401 Tony Pislli Mario Chavez, Sco Gregory, Sharon Jo Tolck Hedman, Roselyn Lawrence, Jacob Nelson,

PRIESTS FAITH FORMATION Maricela Rodriguez Ocampo, Rose Pislli and Pastor Mike Vecellio

Director of Confirmaon, RCIA Fr. Michael Rudolph (x205) and Youth Ministry Pastoral Council Meengs Parochial Vicar Joseph Turner (x211) If you would like a parcular item on Fr. Robert Aler (x206) the next Parish Council agenda please Family Discipleship Director contact Fr. Rudolph. PARISH ADMINISTRATION Josh Stegman (x211)

Business Administrator WORSHIP FINANCE COUNCIL Ginny Metzger (x202) Prayer Line (x528) Steve Cheney, Nancy Holovnia, Shawn Horn, Part-Time Administrave Assistant Bullen Prayers for the Sick Steve Pellegrene, and Mark Schoenfelder Sue Kubovec (x201) (x523)

Administrave Assistant/ Adoraon Coordinators STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE Bullen Editor Sharon Hedman 763-315-0202 APRIL 25, 2021 Marie Nachtsheim (x222) Char Vecellio 651-336-6630 Contribuons ...... $16,172.01 Social Needs Coordinator Budget ...... $16,623.00 Bunny Arseneau (x214) SCHOOL School Office: 763-504-9450 Building Fund...... $300.00 Crisis Pregnancy Hotline (x500) School Principal Budget ...... $1,419.00

Paul Dull (x352) Mr. J. Scholarship Fund ...... $111.24 Thank you for your generosity!

PARISH CALENDAR OF EVENTS Sunday, May 23 Thursday, May 27 Feast Day: May 25th 9:45 AM Catholic Q & A, 7:00 PM Confirmaon Mass, Marian Hall Church and Marian

Hall Monday, May 24 9:20 AM School Students, 7:00 PM Rosary & Chaplet - Church East Gathering Area 7:00 PM Rosary & Chaplet - 7:00 PM Bell Choir, JP II Room East Gathering Area 7:00 PM St. Raphael Prayer Group, Choir Room 7:00 PM Schola Pracce, Church Friday, May 28

Tuesday, May 25 6:00 PM Open Youth Room, 9:45 AM Navarre Bible Study, Youth Room, JP II Fr. Fenelon Room Room 7:00 PM Rosary & Chaplet - 7:00 PM Rosary & Chaplet - East Gathering Area East Gathering Area 7:30 PM Cantor Rehearsal, Wednesday, May 26 Church 9:00 AM Cana Family Instute, Fr. Fenelon Room Saturday, May 29 9:20 AM School Students, 10:00 AM Cantor Rehearsal, Church Church 7:00 PM Rosary & Chaplet - Sunday, May 30 East Gathering Area 11:30 AM Recepon for Fr. Paul 7:30 PM Adult Choir, Choir Hedman, Marian Hall Room

3 SPOTLIGHT EVENTS SAINT OF THE DAY – SAINT EUPHROSYNE OF (DIED IN 1173)

Euphrosyne was the daughter of Prince Svyatoslav of Polotsk, a city in what is now the naon of Byelorussia. She became a nun when she was very young. Later she took up a solitary existence at the Church of Holy Wisdom. Her occupaon was copying books, which she sold to provide for Prayer for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit her own basic needs and to enable her to give to the poor. By St. Alphonsus Liguori She also travelled, to start a convent for nuns and to visit the city of Byzanum (previously called Constannople, now Holy Spirit, divine Consoler, I adore You as my true God, called Istanbul), which was one of the three most important with God the Father and God the Son. Chrisan cies at the me, along with Rome and . I adore You and unite myself to the adoraon You receive At Byzanum she was given an icon by the patriarch Michael from the angels and . III. Later she travelled to Jerusalem, where she visited the I give You my heart and I offer my ardent thanksgiving for king and the Lan patriarch of Jerusalem. She also visited the all the grace which You never cease to bestow on me. monastery of Mar Saba, between Jerusalem and the Dead

O Giver of all supernatural gi s, who filled the soul of the Sea. She died in Jerusalem and her body was brought back to Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with such immense Kiev, in Ukraine, for burial. Saint Euphrosyne of Polotsk, pray favors, I beg You to visit me with Your grace and Your love for us! and to grant me the gi of holy fear, so that it may act on (Excerpted and adapted with permission of the Publisher me as a check to prevent me from falling back into my from Butler’s Lives of the Saints, New Full Edion ©Paul past sins, for which I beg pardon. Burns 2003, Published by Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN)

Grant me the gi of piety, so that I may serve You for the future with increased fervor, follow with more Pre-Communion Prayer by St. Thomas Aquinas promptness Your holy inspiraons, and observe Your Almighty and everlasng God, behold I come to the divine precepts with greater fidelity. Sacrament of Thine only-begoen Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: I

Grant me the gi of knowledge, so that I may know the come as one infirm to the physician of life, as one unclean to things of God and, enlightened by Your holy teaching, the fountain of mercy, as one blind to the light of everlasng may walk, without deviaon, in the path of eternal brightness, as one poor and needy to the Lord of heaven and salvaon. earth. Therefore I implore the abundance of Thy measureless bounty that Thou wouldst vouchsafe to heal my infirmity, Grant me the gi of fortude, so that I may overcome wash my uncleanness, enlighten my blindness, enrich my courageously all the assaults of the devil, and all the poverty and clothe my nakedness, that I may receive the dangers of this world which threaten the salvaon Bread of Angels, the King of kings, the Lord of lords, with such of my soul. reverence and humility, with such sorrow and devoon, with Grant me the gi of counsel, so that I may choose what is such purity and faith, with such purpose and intenon as may more conducive to my spiritual advancement and may be profitable to my soul’s salvaon.

discover the wiles and snares of the tempter. Grant unto me, I pray, the grace of receiving not only the

Grant me the gi of understanding, so that I may Sacrament of our Lord’s Body and Blood, but also the grace apprehend the divine mysteries and by contemplaon of and power of the Sacrament. O most gracious God, grant me heavenly things detach my thoughts and affecons from so to receive the Body of Thine only-begoen Son, our Lord the vain things of this miserable world. Jesus Christ, which He took from the Virgin Mary, as to merit to be incorporated into His myscal Body, and to be Grant me the gi of wisdom, so that I may rightly direct numbered amongst His members. O most loving Father, give all my acons, referring them to God as my last end; so me grace to behold forever Thy beloved Son with His face at that, having loved Him and served Him in this life, I may last unveiled, whom I now purpose to receive under the have the happiness of possessing Him eternally in the sacramental veil here below. Amen. next. Amen. 4 PRAYER & WORSHIP MASS INTENTIONS EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Monday May 24 Eucharisc Adoraon Contacts 8:00 AM Tim & Patricia Aler Sharon Hedman 763-315-0202 Tuesday May 25 Char Vecellio 651-336-6630 8:00 AM + Hilda Olmschied Wednesday May 26 Currently the Blessed Sacrament is 8:00 AM + George Wagner exposed Monday through Saturday from Thursday May 27 5:00 am unl 11:00 pm. We sll need a 8:00 AM + Tom Mechels commied adorer on Sunday before Friday May 28 exposing the Blessed Sacrament. (Please 8:00 AM + Carrie Ann Cota remember that you are spending me Saturday May 29 with our Lord even when He is reposed in 8:00 AM + Gene Fink and the tabernacle!) + Terry Fink URGENT NEED: Sunday: 1:00 pm 5:30 PM + Melissa Lewandowski Sunday May 30 If you have quesons regarding 8:30 AM St. Raphael Parishioners Eucharisc Adoraon please call Sharon 10:30 AM + Robert Williams Hedman at 763-315-0202. If you are interested in comming to a specific hour(s) please sign up online at list, please contact Char Vecellio at straphael.weadorehim.com If unable to 651-336-6630. WEEKLY READINGS sign up online, or to get on a substute Readings for the week of May 23, 2021 Memorial of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Sunday: Vigil: Gn 11:1-9 or Ex 19:3-8a, 16- Mother of the Church - May 24th 20b or Ez 37:1-14 or Jl 3:1-5/Ps 10:1-2, 24, 35, 27-28, 29, 30 [cf. 30]/Rom 8:22-27/ Jn 7:37-39 Extended Vigil: Gn 11:1-9/ Ps 33:10-11, 12-13, 14-15/Ex 19:3-8a, 16- 20b/Dn 3:52, 52, 53, 55, 56 or Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11/Ez 37:1-14/Ps 107:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9/ Jl 3:1-5/Ps 104:1-2, 24, 35, 27-28, 29, 30 [cf. 30]/Rom 8:22-27/Jn 7:37-39 Day: Acts 2:1-11/Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 [cf. 30]/1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Gal 5:16-25/Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 15:26-27; 16:12-15 Monday: Gn 3:9-15, 20 or Acts 1:12-14/ Ps 87:1-2, 3 and 5, 6-7/Jn 19:25-34 Tuesday: Sir 35:1-12/Ps 50:5-6, 7-8, 14 and 23 [23b]/Mk 10:28-31 PLEASE PRAY FOR... Sir 36:1, 4-5a, 10-17/Ps 79:8, Wednesday: Michael Anderson Nichole Iverson Bridgee O’Brien 9, 11 and 13 [Sir 36:1b]/Mk 10:32-45 Elizabeth Benson Tom (TJ) Jacobs Renee Page Thursday: Sir 42:15-25/Ps 33:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, Gladys Benton Sindi Jensen Danielle Sco 8-9 [6a]/Mk 10:46-52 Tom Bohlinger David Jones Jean Shields Friday: Sir 44:1, 9-13/Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a Judy Dancisak Audrey Kauffmann Lois Smith and 9b [cf. 4a]/Mk 11:11-26 Patricia Dancisak Norma & Jose Lora Jan Stewart Saturday: Sir 51:12cd-20/Ps 19:8, 9, 19, 11 Nestor & Emma Deza John Lundeen Marilyn Sullivan [9ab]/Mk 11:27-33 Andrew Eisenzimmer Mary Nadine Svetc Next Sunday: Dt 4:32-34, 39-40/Ps 33:4-5, Brenda Gieneart David McMillen Ione Utecht 6, 9, 18-19, 20, 22 [12b]/Rom 8:14-17/ Robert Haekenkamp John Noe Joann Wentling Mt 28:16-20 LPi To add a name for a six week period, please call 763-537-8401 x 523 5 NEWS The arcle below was published in the Knights of Columbus May 2021 edion of the Knightly News. Used with permission from the Knights of Columbus.

Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet Monday - Friday Evenings at 7:00 pm

Please join us in praying the Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet for an end to the pandemic, for our families, for our country, for our president and all elected leaders, for our communies, for our Church and for the world. We meet on weeknight evenings (Monday through Friday) at 7:00 pm outside in front of the Our Lady of Guadalupe statue located on the east side of the church - lower level. In the event of inclement weather we will meet in the East Gathering Space. Please note there will be schedule changes beginning Memorial Day. Please watch for informaon. Thank you!

6 YOUTH MINISTRY FAITH FORMATION CONTACT CONTACT & INFORMATION Quesons? Please contact Joseph Turner IGNITE Family Discipleship Program & Sacramental Preparaon: at 763-537-8401 (x 211) or Please contact Josh Stegman at: faithforma[email protected] [email protected] Register for any youth events on the St. Raphael Rite of Confirmaon (ROC) Program: Please contact Joseph Turner at: [email protected] youth website: www.straphaelyouth.com Joseph can be reached at 763-537-8401 x 211 and Josh can be reached at 763-537-8401 x 211 ST. RAPHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL All School Open House Sunday, June 6th 11:30 am - 2:00 pm

St. Raphael Catholic School will be hosng an Open House for current and prospecve families on Sunday, June 6th from 11:30 am - 2:00 pm. Lunch will be served. Come meet our teachers and staff, and take a tour of our wonderful school! Invite your friends and neighbors to aend as well!

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