Upcoming Priest Schedule: St. Frances Cabrini-Hoxie March 21/22 Fr. Bill Surmeier March 28/29 Fr. Bill Surmeier St. Martin of Tours-Seguin April 2/3/4/5 Fr. Jerome Morgan April 11/12 Fr. Jerome Morgan 4th Sunday of Financial Stewardship: St. Frances March 8 St Martin Ash Wed & March 8 Loose $194.25 Compassion $146.75 Adult $2652.00 Adult $665.00 MARCH 15, 2015 Visiting Priest: Fr. Charles Awotwi

Parish Office: 675-3300 The Weekly Prayer List: Father of goodness and love, hear our prayers for the sick [email protected] (bulletin items) members of our community and for all who are in need. May www.hoxieseguinparishes.org (webpage) these special people find lasting health and deliverance, and [email protected] (CCD) so join us in thanking you for all your gifts. We ask this through the Lord Jesus who healed those who believed. Amen. [email protected] (YM/Parish Life)

Mary Niblock, Rita Beckman, Nick Otter, Joe Newman, Wendy Schieferecke, Doris Geist, Frances Bange, Organization Contact Phone Frances Quakenbush, Germaine Weis CYO/Parish Life Amanda Tremblay 785-675-3300 (Names will be removed on a monthly basis. Please let the office know if names CCD/ DRE Bridget Koster 785-675-3300 should remain on the Prayer List.)

Bookkeeping Carol Cooper 785-675-3300 Finance Council Jim Rogers 785-675-3316 Parish Council Sean Otter 785-657-7385 Saint Frances Pat Kennedy 785-675-1452 Your gift allows the diocese to Cabrini Sodality Carol Campbell 785-675-3853 continue to offer the many Ministries St. Ann Sodality Marilyn Meier 785-855-2394 that keep our faith vibrant. Please K of C Dan Niblock 785-675-2295 SOH Committee Jim Rogers 785-675-3316 consider making a gift to the Catholic Welcome Delores Mauck 785-675-3089 Community Annual Appeal. Committee

Mass Schedule, Intentions, Devotions Upcoming Events: Saturday-Hoxie Mar 14 5:30 PM Janice Haffner March 20 Knights of Columbus Fish Fry Sunday –Seguin Mar 15 8:00 AM People of Parishes March 22 Confirmation 3:00 PM Sunday-Hoxie Mar 15 10:00 AM Mary Meier Leo March 29 K of C Right-to-Life BBQ Monday-Hoxie Mar 16 7:25 AM Jim Herl April 12 First Communion Wednesday-Hoxie Mar 18 12:15 PM Tracey Long th th Thursday-Seguin Mar 19 7:00 PM Stations of the Cross April 26 7 /8 Grade Rosary Pilgrimage Thursday-Hoxie Mar 19 7-9 PM Eucharistic Adoration Friday-Hoxie Mar 20 7:25 AM Scripture/Communion Stations of the Cross Friday-Hoxie Mar 20 7:00 PM Stations of the Cross On Thursdays at St. Martin @ 7:00 PM Saturday-Hoxie Mar 21 5:30 PM Reynold Moellering On Fridays at St. Frances @ 7:00 PM Sunday –Seguin Mar 22 8:00 AM Leon Baalman Sunday-Hoxie Mar 22 10:00 AM People of Parishes If you would like to donate money to provide Sunday-Hoxie Mar 22 3:00 PM Flo Meier Confirmation Mass Easter flowers for St. Frances Cabrini Church, Confessions…. please call Doreen Kennedy at 675-3730. Saturday 5:00 PM Hoxie Sunday 7:30 AM Seguin Parishioners: A Catholic Relief Service Collection Is This Week--the 4th Sunday of Lent.

SPECIAL DAYS THIS WEEK RICE BOWL OFFERINGS TO DATE: $5.21 Call the office if you would like your special day posted. CCD STUDENTS MAY CONTINUE TO BRING RICE BOWL March 19 Roch Lager OFFERINGS ON WEDNESDAYS

Keep These Lenten Spiritual Aids In Mind: Symbolon: Monday nights during Lent--EWTN 10:00 p.m #Share Jesus www.redeemedonline.com Best Lent Ever: http://dynamiccatholic.com/bestlentever/ Friday, March 20th 5:00-7:00 pm Weekly Food Drive for HAMA Food Pantry St. Frances Cabrini Parish Hall Please bring non-perishable items to the church during Lent. $8.00 adults; $3.00 ages 5-12; 4 & under free. Below is a suggested donation list that can be followed, but all Sponsored by Hoxie Knights of Columbus donations are appreciated.

Suggested weekly items Week 1 (February 22): Canned Vegetables 30th Annual Barbeque for Life Week 2 (March 1): Pasta/Mac and Cheese Palm Sunday--March 29, 2015 Week 3 (March 8): Canned Fruit 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM Week 4 (March 15): Soup Week 5 (March 22): Prepared Meals like Hamburger Helper Hoxie 4-H Building Week 6 (March 29): Breakfast items (cereals, peanut butter, Read & Save the Work list on Page 4 of Bulletin jelly, etc.) Week 7(April 5, Easter Sunday): Healthy snack items (granola bars, juice boxes, popcorn, etc.) Ministries for March 21 and 22 LOST & FOUND--A small miraculous medal and broken chain. Ministry 5:30 PM 8:00 AM 10:00 AM Hoxie Seguin Hoxie Call Parish Office to claim. Lector Joyce Tice Eileen Roger Schlick Cantor Jodi Rogers Kathleen Kathryn Haffner

EM at Mass Mark Joslyn Roch & Darrin Herl Ladonna Joslyn Marilyn Richard Heier SEGUIN Disciples on the Journey Jeanne Shipley Mary Lou Schlick EM to Sick Ed & Lucille Heim Sunday March 15--5:00 in the church basement 675-2334 Servers Paiton Rogers William Jayden Fenner Norie Zerr Nick Wade Niermeier RCIA Cross Bearer Kinley Rogers Melissa Claire Friess Ushers Brent Rogers Terry F Max Campbell C Sunday, March 15: 2nd Scrutiny @ 10:00 Mass Darrick Zerr Carol Campbell Monday, March 16: Class Liz Zerr Sean Otter A Sunday, March 22: 3rd Scrutiny @ 10:00 Mass Rosary Carol Cooper Al & Barb Jacqui Haffner L Monday, March 23: No Class-Spring Break Children’s L. Mitch & Lola Sunday, March 29: Palm Sunday (You may attend Baalman E any Mass) Gifts Mark & Cindy Monday, March 30: Presentation of the Lord’s Prayer Coffee/Rolls Eileen & N (Class will be in the Church) Kathleen D Thursday, April 2: Holy Thursday Mass 8:00 pm Hospitality M & L Joslyn Mary Lou Schlick Adoration follows Mass (please attend in Hoxie) A Friday, April 3: Good Friday Mass @ 7:00 pm (please attend in Hoxie) DIVINE MERCY NOVENA BEGINS ON GOOD FRIDAY R th Saturday, April 4 : Practice at 10:00 am HOLY SATURDAY MASS @8:30 Reception to follow Mass THE GOOD FRIDAY COLLECTION IS FOR THE HOLY LAND

Pilgrimage to World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia Momnipotent Pope Francis Visit to USA Tuesday, March 17 @ 8:15 a.m. IN PARISH HALL There are still seats available to join a pilgrimage to St. Frances Cabrini…Kids Welcome Philadelphia in September for the World Meeting of Families Conference and/or the Papal Mass. Details & costs can be found at the following websites: Bus Pilgrimage out of Lincoln: HOXIE Disciple on the Journey http://www.lincolndiocese.org/ministries-offices/family-life- Wednesday mornings during Lent office/world-meeting-of-families-2015 February 18 through March 25 Bus Pilgrimage out of Omaha: 10:45 in the Parish Hall http://archomaha.org/files/8414/1660/7084/World_meeting_of_ Families-Express-OMA-DSM.pdf

T HE CHRISM MASS will be held in Salina at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Confirmation practice with sponsors will begin at 7:00pm 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 26, 2015. th (note time change) on March 18 . Please let your sponsors Laity is encouraged to attend. Luncheon know about this important date and time. If a sponsor is follows in the Hall of Bishops. unable to be present for the practice, a parent should be there to stand in for the sponsor and make sure the sponsor receives all the needed information. Holy Week Mass Schedule

IMPORTANT: If your son/daughter’s Confirmation Sponsor is not an active member of St. Frances or St. Martin, they need to have a St. Frances Cabrini-Hoxie letter of recommendation from their parish stating that they are a Palm Sunday: 5:30 Vigil Saturday; 10:00 Sunday member in good standing. Please have them sent to the parish Holy Thursday: 8:00 PM-Adoration Follows office: St. Frances Cabrini; POB 38, Hoxie, KS 67740 or present them Good Friday: 7:00 PM to Bridget Koster ASAP. Holy Saturday: 8:30 PM Easter: 10:00 AM March 18 Stations of the Cross at 6:30 Regular Classes for CCD/CYO St. Martin-Seguin Ed Rucker-3rd Grade Instructor Palm Sunday: 8:00 AM March 18 Confirmation Practice with Sponsors Holy Thursday: 6:00 PM-Adoration Follows 7:00 TO 8:00 (NOTE TIME CHANGE) Good Friday: 3:00 PM March 22 CONFIRMATION at 3:00 PM Holy Saturday: (in Hoxie only) Easter: 8:00 AM Please pray for these Confirmation Students: Addison Campbell Andrew Foote Ashlyn Kaus Nick Munk Victoria, Rucker Alexia Torluemke SAINTS FOR THE LENTEN SEASON As you observe Lent this year, take time to learn about and reflect on Dylan Weimer Trinity Baluch Matthew Diercks the lives of saints whose feast days fall within the season. Katie Geerdes Jake Geisinger Jared Kennedy Ashley Kuhn Logan Weimer Landon Heim March 17: St. Patrick Darion Meyer Easton Slipke Cami Schamberger St. Patrick, the apostle to Ireland, once wrote: "Christ in the Nicole Heim Jacob Munk Brynn Niblock heart of every person who thinks of me, Christ in the eye that Devynn Snider Zayetsy Gomez* Brayan Gomez* sees me, Christ in the ear that hears me." He was captured *Already confirmed but part of the class and sold into slavery in Ireland as a teenager. He escaped, but he dreamed Ireland's children were calling to him, and returned March 25 NO CCD/CYO—Spring Break to Ireland as a missionary. April 1 Regular Classes for grades 1-8 March 19: Solemnity of St. Joseph, Husband of the Weather permitting—outdoor Stations of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cross at 6:30 for grades 1-8 in the church parking lot. Parish is encouraged and invited to Silence is golden… St. Joseph, the model of humility, and one attend. of the world's greatest saints, is often mentioned as being Stations will be inside if weather is poor. silent. This silence speaks volumes. In it, the Church realizes April 1 High School Students Movie night! his faithfulness, his love and his acceptance of the Holy Will of The Passion of the Christ God. St. Joseph was not a man of many words: he was a man 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM of action. We have only one direct statement about his Rectory Living Room personality: in Matthew's Gospel, he is described as "a April 8 Regular Clases righteous man" (Matthew 1:19). His actions alone reveal First Communion Practice with Parents everything else we know about him. He brings Mary and the April 12 FIRST COMMUNION Child she bears into his home when, in the sight of the world, he would be justified in divorcing her. He leads the expectant Mary into Bethlehem, and flees with her and her Child into Egypt. When it is safe, he returns with the two into Galilee. He EASTER BASKET SILENT AUCTION does all of this, because God asks it of him. He never Starts: Saturday, March 14 hesitates. Each time we read that the angel spoke to Joseph, Ends: 1:00 pm Sunday, April 5 the following sentence begins with the action St. Joseph took. "Joseph awoke," "Joseph rose," "He went." Each time he St. Frances Cabrini Hall & St. Martin Basement received a summons, his reaction was to follow the call (Themed baskets) immediately. Never once did he hesitate. HELP SUPPORT STUDENTS GOING TO NCYC For more information, contact: Amanda Tremblay, Christy Juenemann, Sarah Diercks, Sara Meyer

WELCOME TABLE 11:00-12:00 Dan Watkins, Jim Rogers

12:00-1:00 Tom Haffner, David Emerick 30th Annual Barbeque for Life

th FOOD SERVERS: March 29 , 2015 11:00-12:00 Mitchell Baalman, Jeff Torluemke, Aaron Heim Brett Oelke, Adam Mauck, Quenton Rucker, Pledge of Re-Commitment Justin Joslyn, Coby Baalman, Matt Juenemann, I thank God today for the gift of my life and for the lives Chris Heim, Cass Baalman, Darin Herl, Patrick Weber, of my brothers and sisters. Max Kennedy, Tom Friess, Kevin Geerdes, I know I am responsible for the unborn who cannot Kevin Lager, John Schamberger speak for themselves. I know that the most serious tragedy of our day is the tragedy of abortion. 12:00-1:00 Today I commit myself, never to be silent, never to be passive, never to be forgetful of the unborn. Shane Ochs, Keith Kennedy, Kyle Kennedy, I commit myself to be active in the pro-life movement Roger Mauck, Bernie Feldt, Stuart Beckman, and never to stop defending life Ray Schamberger, Wade Tremblay, Herb Cressler, Until all my brothers and sisters are protected, and our Elmer Zimmerman, Carl Ochs, Ron Campbell, nation once again becomes a nation with liberty and Greg Haffner, Steve Heim, Dan Ochs, Leonard Weber, justice not just for some, but for all. Amen! John Bruggeman and William Slipke (Fr. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life)

COOK BEANS

Ed Weiner & Leland Zeigler

If you ……Can supply a cake (18 are needed) WORKLIST

OR COOKS: Wilfrid Reinert, Terry Feldt, Pat Herl, CANNOT work at your designated time Mark Anderson, Dan Niblock, Doug Geerdes, Roch Meier, Marvin Kaus, Harold Murphy, OR Harold Koster. Gary Newman You are willing to work but your name is not on the list, SET-UP: PLEASE CONTACT: Ed Heim, Mike Heim, P.J. Heim, Kim Tice, Bob Becker, Bob Heim, Alan Heim Gary Newman—785-657-7159

Mark Anderson--785-462-5970 TEAR DOWN/CLEANUP 1:00 - Finish Scott Foote, Dave Schamberger, Jemery Lawton, Alvin Wildeman, Ron Schamberger, Darrick Zerr THANK YOU FOR MAKING AN IMPACT IN THE Steve Watkins, Ken Schaffer, Brent Rogers, LIVES OF UNBORN CHILDREN Don Pratt, Dan Pratt, Leroy Rietcheck Jr., Brian Baalman Knights are invited to Wilfrid Reinert’s farm on Saturday evening to help put the meat in the pit.