August 15, 2021 St. Joseph Parish

The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Mass Times Weekend: Saturday: 4:00 P.M. Sunday: 8:00 A.M., 9:30 A.M., 12:00 P.M. (Spanish) Weekdays: Monday—Friday 8:00 A.M. Latin Masses: Wednesdays & Fridays 9:00 A.M., Second Sundays 2:00 P.M. Administrator: Rev. William Evans

Mary is taken up to heaven; a chorus of angels exults.

Parish Office: 920-787-3848 (you will be forwarded from this number for emergencies) Email: [email protected] Website: stjosephwautoma.com (a link to Mass on YouTube) Watch Mass on our Facebook page at St. Joseph Radio Mass on Sundays at 1:00 pm on 1600 AM & 93.1 FM Mass Schedule Financial Report & Intentions Income on

Income (Actual) 8/9/21 Saturday, August 14 9:00 A.M. Kyle Norton Envelopes $ 3,856.00 by Eloise & Merlin Andrews Basket 1,339.00 4:00 P.M. Dick & Joyce Weber Other 556.00 by Ray & Ginny Casper Total Income $ 5,751.00 Sunday, August 15 BUILDING & GROUNDS 8:00 A.M. Janet Kozarich Income $ 225.00 by Chris & Connie Melone 9:30 A.M. Dave Tompkins by Family Congratulations to our August 10th 12:00 P.M. Living & Deceased Members Raffle Calendar Winners! (Spanish) of St. Joseph Parish $60 - Peter Klicka, Wild Rose Monday, August 16 $25 - Susan DeLain, Neshkoro 8:00 A.M. Word & Communion Service $25 - Dustin Williams, Newberry, FL with Deacon Paul $25 - Curt Pernat, Ixonia

Tuesday, August 17 $25 - Scott Lafreniere, Marathon, FL 8:00 A.M. Word & Communion Service $25 - Mark & Linda Dorsett, Omro with Deacon Paul $25 - George & Jane Reepsdorf, Wautoma 5:00–6:00 P.M. Adoration/Benediction

Wednesday, August 18 SCRIP cards are available after all the weekend 8:00 A.M. Word & Communion Service Masses. Call Jan at 920-622-3891, to order cards

with Deacon Paul or for questions on how you can place an order from your home. The 9:00 A.M. No Latin Mass today (Latin) profit since July 1, 2021 is now $497.88. Thank Thursday, August 19 you for supporting the 8:00 A.M. SCRIP program. by Helen Fisher 5:00-6:00 P.M. Adoration/Benediction/Confession

Friday, August 20 Requests 8:00 A.M. Tom Hilliker Please keep the following people by Maria Hilliker in your : Ryan & Melissa 9:00 A.M. Deceased Members of Sonnleitner, Geoff Farrell, Greg Palo, the Cowan Family Karney Slupecki, Sandy Burgermeister, Saturday, August 21 Russ Nero, Jennifer Reis, Debbie Klenz, Don & 4:00 P.M. Marlene Pinkert Mary Santi, Eric Huebschen, David Wrysinski, by Butch & Helen Cox Susie Butt, Donna Kleinschmit, Tom Koenings, Sunday, August 22 Kelly & Mary Schmid, Dawn Tyler, Marvel Lee 8:00 A.M. Phyllis McCardell Broker, Kelly Wise, Chris Melone, Judy Gierach, by Louise Sutton Susie Sierra, Kevin Kelm, Steve Dorsett, Eddie Em- 9:30 A.M. Deceased Mission Ladies berson, Betty Conklin, Molly Daly, Kate Surprise, by Donna Tompkins Shirley Barton, Geoffery Yeska, Holly Kallestad, 12:00 P.M. Living & Deceased Members Donna Tompkins, Maureen Fahrenholz, Denise (Spanish) of St. Joseph Parish Przekurat, Gail Trapp, Jean Unger, Dick Yeska, Chuck Mrvicka, Marianne Rubiano. A Note from Fr. Bill . . . The Assumption of Mary, Body and Soul, Into Heaven. It Is Right and Just. The dogma (a belief that must be held with certainty by Roman Catholics) of the As- sumption of Mary was defined by Pius XII in 1950 in the encyclical Munificentis- simus Deus: “We pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.” (www.vatican.va). Despite this relatively recent dogmatic definition, the Assumption of Mary is an ancient belief in the Roman Catholic tradition, as early as the 4th century, and was held to be worthy of belief even by many Protestant reformers in the 16th century, including Martin Luther (Naumann, U. Dayton). Although no explicit reference to Mary being taken up to heaven appears in holy Scripture, there are undenia- bly persuasive biblical allusions to the mystery of the Assumption to be considered. Sr. Isabell Naumann (U. Dayton) writes: “The strongest evidence for the belief [in the Assumption] of the early Christians is found in ancient liturgies and in homilies in honor of Mary's passing . . . By the end of the Middle Ages, belief in Mary's Assumption into heaven was well established theo- logically and part of the devotional expressions of the people.” Pope Pius XII was moved by the preponderance of liturgical history and by a century of petitions to honor Mary in this way. Between 1849 and 1950, numerous petitions for the dogma arrived in Rome. They came from one hundred and thirteen Cardinals, eighteen Patriarchs, twenty-five- hundred-five archbishops and bishops, thirty-two-thousand priests and men religious, fifty-thousand religious women, eight million lay people. Pius XII considered this [part of] a "certain and firm proof" that the Assumption is a truth revealed by God. (Naumann) Despite the surety expressed by Pope Pius XII, there were many in his day (and many in our day) who dismissed Our Lady’s Assumption as just so much "sentiment and myth" (Stackpole, thedivine- mercy.org); the most strident objection being the apparent lack of biblical evidence. But such a con- clusion would be very shortsighted. Dr. Robert Stackpole (St. John Paul II Institute of Divine Mer- cy) references another contemporary theologian, Dr. Scott Hahn: St. Luke tells us that Mary herself is the new Ark of the Covenant. Just as the Ark in ancient Israel contained the tables of the Law, and some of the manna-bread from heaven - signs of the Old Covenant - so Mary's womb contained the sign of the prom- ise of the New Covenant and the true Bread of Life: Jesus our Savior Himself. Thus, it was already believed by the apostolic Church that Mary was the new Ark of the Cove- nant. Jesus charged the Apostle John with the joyful task of caring for Blessed Mary after the Lord’s death on the Cross. It is the same St. John who writes in the : “Then God’s tem- ple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple” (Rev 11:19). John goes on to say: “[Then] a great portent appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars” (Rev 12:1). The “woman” of the Apocalypse (Revelation) is considered to be doubly symbolic; referencing both the Church, the New Jerusalem, and Mary, the Mother of God (ref. St. , St. Augustine). It is by the second reference to Mary, the Ark of the New Covenant, that Stackpole declares: “What St. John was shown in his vision is that the Ark of the Covenant is now in heaven as a ‘woman clothed with the sun’ whose child is the Messiah.” Mary, Mother of God, is in heaven in the fullness of her being, body and soul, to fulfill the mission that God, the Father ordained for her from the be- ginning. Our confidence in the dogmatic definition of Our Lady’s Assumption is not fanciful or mis- guided. Rather, we are blessed and inspired by the Tradition of the Church and by Holy Scripture to share in the same surety expressed by the Holy Father, Pope Pius XII in 1950. Hail Mary, full of Grace! Liturgical Ministers The week ahead at August 21 & August 22 St. Joseph Parish Lectors 4:00 P.M. Karen Wenninger Monday, August 16 8:00 A.M. Kathy VandeCastle 9:00 am Mission Society 9:30 A.M. Colleen Kasubaski Tuesday, August 17 Hospitality Ministers 1:30 pm Little Flower Devotions—Church 4:00 P.M. Arlene Apps 5-6:00 pm Adoration & Benediction Ruth Lafreniere Thursday, August 19 Jim Cook 5-6:00 pm Adoration/Confession 8:00 A.M. Harry Handel Saturday, August 21 9:30 A.M. Keith Kasubaski 2:30 pm Confessions 12:00 P.M. Lupe Cervantes 4:00 pm Mass *Missionary Sergio Sierra Sunday, August 22 Speaker 8:00 am Mass 9:30 am Mass Missionary 12:00 pm Mass (Spanish) Cooperation Plan *Envelopes are available next Sr. Betty Vetter, to the podium in the Narthex. SDS will speak on behalf of the Sisters of the Divine Savior, also known as , the weekend of CCW News August 21 & 22. We will have a special collection to There will be a CCW meeting on Monday, Aug. 23 benefit the congregation, who minister on five con- at 1:00 pm in the Parish Center to plan for the fall. tinents to improve the quality of life among people All women of the parish are invited. of every and culture. Sister Betty Vetter, SDS worked as a nursing instruc- tor for SDS home missions for the Lakota Native Readings of the Week

Americans in South Dakota. She also ministered in Monday * Jgs:11-19 / Mt 19:16-22 India and the Philippines. Despite the long distance Tuesday * Jgs 6:11-24a / Mt 19:23-30 between the Lakota tribe and people of Kerala, Wednesday * Jgs 9:6-15 / Mt 20:1-16 India, Sister Betty found many cultural similarities, Thursday * Jgs 11:29-39a / Mt 22:1-14 especially religious practices. Her experiences Friday* Ru 2:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22/Mt 22:34-40 among people living in extreme poverty brought Saturday * Ru 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17/Mt 23:1-12 Scriptural passages to life and revealed great gener- osity in sharing the goodness and kindness of Jesus Sunday, August 22 as Savior. Joshua 24:1-2a,15-17, 18b Psalm 34:2-23 Ephesians 5:21-32 or 5:2a, 25-32 Hope for the Future John 6:60-69 Help them Today

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