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D I O C E S E O F S U P E R I O R 1201 Hughitt Ave. P. O. Box 969 Superior, WI 54880 C H A N C E R Y B U L L E T I N Tel: 715-392-2937 VOL. 59, NO. 7 Fax: 715-392-2015 July 1, 2016 www.catholicdos.org Mission Statement: The Catholic Diocese of Superior is a people of diverse ethnic and cultural traditions called in unity by the love of Christ to proclaim the Gospel, celebrate the sacraments, and give witness through joyful lives of prayer and service in Northern Wisconsin and throughout the world. TOTUS TUUS SCHEDULE MASS ATTENDANCE COUNTING JUNE-AUGUST 2016 JULY 16 AND 17, 2016 July Mass attendance counting started in July of 11-15 Totus Tuus @ Ladysmith & River Falls 1999. This information, especially when 17-22 Totus Tuus @ Amery combined with the SAQ data, has been very 24-29 Totus Tuus @ Glenwood City & Tomahawk helpful for both short-term and long-term August planning in the diocese. In addition, several 31-5 Totus Tuus @ Spooner & Merrill parishes have made use of past Mass attendance 7-12 Totus Tuus @ Hudson & Medford figures for their own local planning. Contact Chris Hurtubise: 715-234-5044; The July Mass count is scheduled for the [email protected] weekend of July 16 and 17. A tally sheet for recording the attendance along with further information was emailed June 30 to all Pastors, Parochial Administrators, Parish Directors and Parish Life Coordinators. If you did not receive this email or have further questions, please contact Richard Lyons, Director of Administrative Services at 715-394- FORTNIGHT FOR FREEDOM: 0203 or [email protected]. WITNESSES TO FREEDOM JUNE 21- JULY 4, 2016 25TH ANNUAL GOLF AND NON-GOLF OUTING JULY 25, 2016 The Fortnight for Freedom: Witnesses to Freedom will take place from June 21 to July 4, Catholic United Financial is sponsoring the 2016. This year the lives of more than 14 annual clergy golf outing on Monday, July 25, women and men of faith, from all over the world 2016 at Turtleback Golf Course, Rice Lake. will be featured, who bear witness to authentic Invitations were sent in a direct mailing from freedom in Christ. Little Sisters of the Poor, Sts. Catholic United Financial in June. John Fisher and Thomas More, Coptic Martyrs, St. John the Baptist, Ven. Henriette Delille, Bl. PARISHES REMINDED OF CHANGES IN Oscar Romero, Martyrs of Compiègne, Fr. John BACKGROUND CHECK FORMS Bapst, SJ, Sts. Peter and Paul, Sts. Felicity and Parishes are reminded that July 1, 2016 is the Perpetua, BL Miguel Pro, St. Maximillian Kolbe, deadline for using the new Code of Conduct and St. Edith Stein, St. Kateri Tekakwitha. background check forms. The new forms are included with this mailing and have been placed SEE ENCLOSURE. on the Diocesan website. Please discard any http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious- blank copies of the old forms. Be sure to use the liberty/fortnight-for-freedom/index.cfm new forms when making copies of the Diocesan http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious- Employee and Volunteer Handbooks. liberty/upload/Our_First_Most_Cherished_Liberty.pdf SEE ENCLOSURES P a g e | 2 NATIONAL NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING Crosse, WI, in conjunction with Diocesan AWARENESS WEEK Educators. It is for Clergy, Parish Life JULY 24 - JULY 30, 2016 Coordinators, Parish Directors, Religious Sisters, . Theme: Love, Mercy, Life | Natural Family DREs, CREs, Youth/Young Adult Ministers, Planning, Opening the Heart of Marriage; Principals, Teachers, Diocesan staff, Parish "Celebrate and reverence God's vision of human Administrators, Parish Development Directors, sexuality." Natural Family Planning (NFP) is the Parish Nurses, and Lay Ministers and those general title for the scientific, natural and moral seeking continuing methods of family planning that can help married formation hours for couples either achieve or postpone Forming Effective pregnancies. NFP methods are based on the Disciples (FED). observation of the naturally occurring signs and This is also a symptoms of the fertile and infertile phases of a prerequisite for those woman's menstrual cycle. No drugs, devices, or men discerning application to the permanent surgical procedures are used to avoid pregnancy. diaconate. It consists of nine courses, one Since the methods of NFP respect the love- weekend per month for nine months; participants giving (unitive) and life-giving (procreative) must be able to commit to all nine courses, as a nature of the conjugal act, they support God's cohort learning model will be utilized. There is a design for married love. Contact Debra Lieberg: limit of 25 participants in the cohort. Reserve 715-392-0240; [email protected]. See your seat as soon as possible as registration will websites: be on a first come, first serve basis. The program runs August-April in Tony. Contact Chris http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage- Newkirk 715-394-0204, [email protected]. and-family/natural-family-planning/awareness- week/index.cfm Priests’ summer gathering at http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage- Fr. John Anderson’s cabin: August 8, 2016. and-family/natural-family-planning/web-links.cfm *Information was mailed in June. Call Diocesan http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage- Staff for more information: 715-392-2937 and-family/natural-family-planning/resources/nfp- bulletin-inserts.cfm MERCY-MARY WEEKEND RETREATS AUGUST 5-7, 2016 WORLD YOUTH DAY Bishop Powers is encouraging parishes to JULY 25-31, 2016 promote the Mercy-Mary weekend by posting The theme of the XXXI World Youth Day the information in bulletins and other locations Krakow, Poland is: ‘Blessed are the merciful, for visible for parishioners. Immerse they shall obtain mercy’ -Mt 5:7. Our Holy yourself in Divine Mercy & Mary Father Francis has chosen the fifth of the eight with bestselling author and speaker, Beatitudes, given by Jesus in his Sermon on the Fr. Michael Gaitley, MIC, at UW- Mount on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, to Stevens Point for one of ten Mercy show the importance of the Beatitudes which are & Mary Weekend Retreats across the U.S. for at the heart of Jesus’ teaching. Contact Chris the Jubilee Year of Mercy. Spend a weekend in Hurtubise, [email protected]; 715-234- quiet prayer for a full immersion experience of 5044. Divine Mercy and Mary on August 5, 6, & 7. Enjoy new talks by Fr. Gaitley, daily Mass, THE SCHOOL OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP Adoration, comfortable accommodations, meals AUGUST 2016- APRIL 2017 with the Marian Missionaries, and much more! The School of Servant Leadership is a college For more information and to register, go to: level systematic educational, formational and http://events.marianmissionaries.org/events/merc transformational learning process, taught by y-mary-weekend-retreat-stevens-point-wi quality Professors from Viterbo University, La P a g e | 3 RETROUVAILLE AUGUST 12-14, 2016 INITIAL FORMATION FOR DIOCESAN-CERTIFIED LAY LEADERS OF PRAYER Marriage Help – Retrouvaille (pronounced SEPT 30 – OCT 1 & NOV 4 - 5, 2016 retro-vi with a long i ) has helped tens of thousands of couples at all stages of The two required Friday/Saturday formation disillusionment or misery in their marriage The sessions for those seeking diocesan certification next weekend will be held on August 12-14, as lay leaders of prayer are September 30 – 2016, call 1-877-922-HOPE (4673) or email: October 1 and November 4 -5, 2016 and will [email protected]. Please post one of take place at a yet to be named location on the the enclosed weekly bulletins announcements eastern side of our diocese. (The second weekend’s dates have now been moved up from beginning with weekend masses June 25 & 26 th th th th through August 6 & 7, 2016. Registrations the 11 and 12 of November to the 4 and 5 ) needed by August 11, 2016. Late registrations (Both weekends begin Friday evening and may be accepted if space is available. By conclude late Saturday afternoon.) Each posting this series of weekly messages, your applicant for this training must be specifically church serves as a lifeline to hurting marriages. selected and/or recommended by his or her SEE ENCLOSURES. pastor, parish life coordinator or parish director. All lay people who lead Sunday Celebrations in THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE the Absence of a Priest or Weekday Communion BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Services in their parishes should be recipients of AUGUST 15, 2016 this diocesan certification. Contact Paul Birch at 715-394-0233 or [email protected]. Since the Assumption falls on a Monday, the holy day of obligation is abrogated this year. ELECTION – FORMING CONSCIENCES FOR This was listed incorrectly in the 2015-2016 FAITHFUL CITIZENSHIP: liturgical calendar. We apologize for any A CALL TO POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY confusion because of this error. Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship is a teaching document from the bishops on the Annual Retreat for Priests political responsibility of Catholics. It represents September 12-15, 2016 guidance in the rights and duties for Catholics in our democracy. Clergy and the lay faithful are Clergy Workshop encouraged to use this statement to help form October 16-18, 2016 their consciences; to teach those entrusted to their care; to contribute to civil and respectful REBOOT! LIVE! public dialogue; and to shape political choices in SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 the coming election in light of Catholic teaching. It is available to read on line or copies may be Real Life Catholic presents this life changing purchased. event for youth (12+) and adults. Reboot Live! will be held Wednesday September 28, 2016, at Spooner High School, 801 Co Hwy A, Spooner, The Church does not and will not WI.