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ST. PAUL · HOUGHTON · IOWA St. James the Less 2044 Locust Street, St. Paul, IA 52657 St. John the Baptist 105 Main Street, Houghton, IA 52631 Pastor ...... Fr. Bruce DeRammelaere Administrative Asst...... Joan Holtkamp Robyn Conrad Parish Office/Rectory Mailing Address: P.O. Box 100 Houghton, IA 52631-0100 Office Hours: M-F 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Phone ...... 319/469-2001 Emergency Phone ...... 319/572-8110 E-Mail ...... [email protected] Website ...... stjj.weconnect.com

Religious Ed Coordinator ...... Dixie Booten Phone ...... 319/837-8905 319/371-5043 (cell) E-Mail ...... [email protected]

Youth Coordinator Phone ...... 319/837-8905 E-Mail ...... [email protected]

Mass Schedule Vigil at 4:00 p.m. Houghton ...... Feb-Mar, June-July, Oct-Nov St. Paul ...... Dec-Jan, April-May, Aug-Sept Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Houghton ...... Dec-Jan, April-May, Aug-Sept St. Paul ...... Feb-Mar, June-July, Oct-Nov Weekday ...... See Inside

Sacraments Reconciliation: Saturday before Mass 3:30- 3:45 p.m.; Sunday before Mass 9:00-9:15 a.m. or by appointment. Baptism: You must be a registered member of a parish. New parents must attend a Bap- tism Class prior to setting a date. Contact Parish Office to register for a class. Parents may attend the class before the baby is born. Marriage: By appointment, at least six months prior to marriage. Parish Priest will preside. Sick Calls: Contact the Parish Office if there is anyone at home who cannot attend Mass and receive the Sacraments because of illness or age. Please notify the Parish Office when you go into the hospital, often we are not notified.

THE MOST HOLY TRINITY – JUNE 7TH, 2020

2 St. James the Less, St. Paul — St. John the Baptist, Houghton

DIOCESE OF DAVENPORT

The Diocese of Davenport has issued a press release re- garding the reopening of our parishes. The reopening will take place as a three step process. Step One will allow us to reopen to private prayer with specific limitations. Step Two will allow us to resume public Masses with restrictions. Step Three will 2nd Place 3rd Place allow us to relax some of the restrictions for Mass. Only after the diocese has determined we have reached a point of “herd immunity” $2,500 $1,000 probably through the wide availability of a safe and effective vaccine will there be a return to “normal” liturgical practices. $25 Per Ticket 5 Tickets for $100

This is Step One in the reopening process. Drawing to be held July 18th at Houghton Hootin Days Ticket Form available on website at stjj.weconnect.com 1. The church is open for private prayer only. 2. Per Diocesan guidelines: When in the church everyone (Over 2 years old) must wear a mask/face protection. The Fascinating History and Symbolism 3. No more than ten people may be in the church at any one time of Trinity Sunday and must maintain social distancing guidelines. 4. There is no public celebration of the Mass at this time. (We will By Philip Kosloski for Aleteia

continue Mass on Facebook Live) Initially this feast wasn’t celebrated after Pentecost

Step two will take place depending on the trend in COVID-19 cases and took a few centuries to find its place in the calendar. in the state. After the celebration of Pentecost, the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church continues to meditate on the great mystery of God through Serenity prayer of St. Teresa of Avila the feast of Trinity Sunday. The Sunday following Pentecost has been dedicated to the Holy Trinity for many centuries, but was not always Let nothing disturb you, celebrated by everyone in the Church. Let nothing frighten you, According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, initially this Sunday was All things are passing away: known as a Dominica vacans, with no specific focus or theme. At that God never changes. time there was no particular feast celebrating the Holy Trinity, but Patience obtains all things soon enough there arose a need for the Church to further define her Whoever has God lacks nothing; beliefs in God. God alone suffices. Amen. A heresy known as the Arian heresy began to spread in the 4th century, disputing the traditional Christian belief of one God in three di- We would like to thank those who worked vine persons. The bishops of the Church decided to compose a Mass so hard and faithfully on removing and install- in honor of the Trinity to reaffirm the belief, but it was not given a ing the pews at St. John’s to have them refin- specific date in the calendar. ished: Kenny Pieper, John Schinstock, By the 8th and 9th century, however, the Church found a perfect Ryan Kruse, Jesse Pieper and Jerry Bentler. A special thanks to place. The St. Andrew Daily Missal explains how Sunday was the most Marcia Kruse and Linda Pieper for the great job of cleaning and fitting day. waxing the floors each time pews were removed. A special thanks to Sunday is consecrated throughout the year to the Holy Trinity because John Kruse, Lee Pieper and Ray Schinstock for their dedication God the Father began the work of creation on the “first day,” the Son made in showing up every time to take out and install the pews even during man rose from the dead on a Sunday morning, and the Holy Spirit came harvesting and planting season. And of course we need to thank our down on the Apostles on Pentecost Sunday. fearless leader Glenn Steffensmeier for undertaking this project Besides celebrating the Trinity in some fashion on each Sunday, and organizing it all! Without everybody's help we could have not there also grew a need to fill the “vacant” Sunday after the feast of gotten the job done. Your hard work will be admired for generations Pentecost. This need was heightened by the fact that ordinations oc- to come. Well done,! May God reward you all for your sacrifice. curred during this time and there existed no specific liturgy. As the St. Andrew Daily Missal explains, “The feast of the Holy Trinity owes its origin to the fact that the ordinations of the Ember Saturday, which took place in the evening, were prolonged to the next day, which was If we have no peace, Sunday and had no proper Mass at that date … [a votive Mass of the Holy Trinity] was celebrated in some places on this Sunday; and since it is because it occupied a fixed place in the liturgical calendar, this Mass was con- sidered as establishing this Sunday as a special feast of the Blessed we have forgotten Trinity.” that we belong Celebrating Trinity Sunday after Pentecost also allows the Church to further reflect on the mystery of God after receiving the gift of the to each other. Holy Spirit. This helps us see the connection that if we truly want to understand the Trinity, we need to have the gift of the Holy Spirit. We ~ Saint Mother Teresa can never fully understand who God is on our own and desperately need his guidance and inspiration. The Trinity is one of the most fundamental beliefs of the Catholic Church and so it is fitting that we dedicate a particular Sunday to that mystery.

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Saints Who Fought Racism By Meg Hunter-Kilmer for Aleteia Stewardship Pope John Paul II said racism is a plague. St. Johns Corner… Pope John Paul II called racism a plague, Your gifts to the Lord: May 26th, 2020 its manifestation in the United States “one Sacrificial Giving: $1,437.00 of the most persistent and destructive Offertory: $0 evils of the nation.” Holy Trinity: $325.00 TOTAL: $1,762.00 For the millions who experience racism, it can be encouraging to get to know Saints who Amt Need/wk: $2,006.00 were also targets of abuse, disdain, and even murder because of their race; ugly as some of Needed wk/date: $94,282.00 these stories are, they remind you that you are not alone. For those of us who are trying to Rec’d yr/date: $77,051.00 walk in solidarity with people of color, the stories of the Saints invite us to work harder to Your gifts to the Lord: June 1st, 2020 fight against racism in the Church and in the world. Sacrificial Giving: $1,542.00 Offertory: $0 Bl. Peter Kibe (1587-1639) was a Japanese Christian who felt called to be a Jesuit priest. Holy Trinity: $420.00 He was refused entry to the Jesuit order in Japan and eventually went to Portuguese Macao. Easter: $250.00 There, he was told he couldn’t be ordained because he was Japanese. He went to Goa, where TOTAL: $2,212.00 Amt Need/wk: $2,006.00 he was told they wouldn’t ordain any Asians at all. Rather than wash his hands of the whole Needed wk/date: $96,288.00 racist affair, Kibe trusted in what he knew of the Catholic Church (and the Jesuit order) and Rec’d yr/date: $79,263.00 traveled to Rome, a journey that included 3,700 miles on foot. There, he was finally received into the Society of Jesus and ordained, after which he spent eight years traveling back to Japan to serve as an undercover priest before his martyrdom. St. James Corner…

Ven. Teresa Chikaba (1676-1748) was, like St. Josephine Bakhita, kidnapped and sold Your gifts to the Lord: May 26th, 2020 into slavery as a child (though Chikaba was from Ghana). Though relatively well-treated in Sacrificial Giving: $1,450.00 Offertory: $0 the home of her noble Spanish mistress, Chikaba remained an enslaved person. She endured Holy Trinity: $245.00 the dehumanizing nature of slavery as well as the racist taunts and beatings at the hands of Building & Energy: $500.00 other servants in the household. Freed after the death of her mistress, Chikaba was turned TOTAL: $2,195.00 Catholic Communications: $20.00 away by one convent after another, despite her enormous dowry and the patronage of her Catholic Home Missions: $20.00 former master the marquis. When she was finally allowed to enter a Dominican convent, she TOTAL: 2,235.00 was made to live as a servant rather than a full-fledged nun, even after she became a mystic Amt Need/wk: $2,055.00 and a miracle-worker. A poet, Chikaba was the first black woman known to have written Needed wk/date: $96,585.00 Rec’d yr/date: $81,322.10 literature in a European language. Your gifts to the Lord: June 1st, 2020 Bl. Francisco de Paula Victor (1827-1905) was born into slavery in Brazil, his father Sacrificial Giving: $2,540.00 unknown. As a teenager, he told the tailor to whom he was apprenticed that he hoped to Offertory: $0 become a priest. The white man didn’t laugh at the aspirations of a black boy—he dragged Holy Trinity: $40.00 Francisco into the street and beat him bloody. But the young man persisted, convincing his TOTAL: $2,580.00 Amt Need/wk: $2,055.00 bishop (Ven. Antônio Ferreira Viçoso, a staunch abolitionist) to accept him as a seminar- Needed wk/date: $98,640.00 ian. The only black man in the seminary, Francisco endured ridicule and disdain, but his evi- Rec’d yr/date: $83,902.10 dent holiness gradually silenced his racist classmates. When he was ordained, though, many of his white parishioners refused to receive Communion from his hand. Again, Fr. Francisco The SUNDAY COLLECTION is by far our most important sought holiness; by the end of his tenure, his people adored him. But he wasn’t always the source of income. Just as we are called to make Sunday an quiet, humble priest. When he was slighted, he was happy to turn the other cheek; but when important part of our week, we are also called to be good others were in danger, he would stand up and shout. Once, a mob of armed men came to stewards of our financial gifts. The bills still come in over the town intent on burning down the home of an abolitionist. Fr. Victor stood at the entrance to Winter. Please be regular in your giving! the town holding up a crucifix to show these men the bloodied face of their Savior who had become a slave for them. “Come in!” he shouted. “Come in! But come over the corpse of your priest.” They retreated and many lives were saved that night. AREA WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULES

Bl. Ceferino Namuncurá (1886-1905) was a member of the Mapuche tribe, an indige- Saturdays nous people living in Chile and Argentina. The son of a chief, he was sent to be educated at 4:00 p.m. Sacred Heart - Ft. Madison schools where he was the only indigenous person. Some of his classmates were deliberately 4:30 p.m. St. John the Baptist - Burlington cruel, but most simply didn’t see the problem with making racist jokes. One, in all sincerity, 5:00 p.m. Sts. Mary & Patrick - West Burlington asked Ceferino what human flesh tasted like. The young Mapuche just turned away, crying 5:30 p.m. St. Alphonsus - Mt. Pleasant quietly. Ceferino entered the Salesian order, hoping to become a priest, but died of tubercu- St. Mary’s - West Point losis when he was 18. St. Joseph - Montrose Sundays Bl. Isidore Bakanja (1887-1909) was a Congolese Catholic who worked as a domestic 8:00 a.m. St. Mary’s - West Point servant on a rubber plantation. Isidore spoke often of his love for the Lord and longed to St. Alphonsus - Mt. Pleasant introduce all those he knew to Jesus. This made him an object of suspicion to his Belgian em- St. Paul the Apostle- Burlington ployers, who hated the Catholic faith, not least because Catholic missionaries insisted on 8:15 a.m. St. Mary - Dodgeville 8:30 a.m. Sacred Heart - Ft. Madison teaching Africans that they were not inferior to white men. Because he refused to take off his 10:00 a.m. St. John the Baptist - Burlington brown scapular, Isidore was horrifically beaten by his white employer and left to die. He was a 10:30 a.m. St. Boniface - Farmington martyr for the faith, but his murder was only possible because as a black man he was consid- Sts. Mary & Joseph - Ft. Madison ered disposable. Sts. Mary & Patrick - West Burlington 11:00 a.m. St. Alphonsus - Mt. Pleasant

Parish Councils St. James the Less Parish Council D.J. DiPrima, President ...... 319/572-6461 MASS Linda Menke, Vice President ...... 319/470-5847 Stephanie Schinstock, Secretary ...... 319/931-4471 INTENTIONS Gary Holtkamp ...... 319/470-2472 Jessica Menke ...... 319/470-1784 Sandy Mohrfeld ...... 319/371-5937 Fr. Bruce will continue to offer private Masses without St. James the Less Lay Directors the community present on behalf of his parishioners. Dan Kempker ...... 319/470-0370 Even if there is no public worship, he will be there, Mike Mueller ...... 319/469-6414 standing as mediator between God and his parishes during this time of uncertainty. St. John the Baptist Parish Council Rhonda Pieper, President ...... 319/470-3022 Week of June 8th – June 14th, 2020 Glenn Steffensmeier, Vice President ...... 319/931-8133 Beth Menke ...... 319/470-9666 Monday Mildred Wenke t Kenny Pieper ...... 319/470-8011 Tuesday Jim & Pauline Fedler t Linda Pieper ...... 319/470-4709 Wednesday Gus Ward t Tim Denning ...... 319/469-7917 Thursday Carl Moeller t St. John the Baptist Lay Directors Friday Tony Nimtz t Cindy Wellman ...... 319/470-1767 Saturday John & Delores Denning t Frank Pieper ...... 319/470-3451 Sunday Dan Mueller t

Prayer Chain Kaye Conrad , St. James ...... 319/469-6411 319/470-2257 Pope Francis’s Prayer To Mary Florence Thompson, St. John ...... 319/469-3591 During Coronavirus Pandemic 319/931-1786 O Mary, you always shine on our path as a sign of salvation and of hope. We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick, who at the cross took part in Jesus' pain, keeping your faith firm. You, Salvation of the Roman People, know what we need, and we are sure you will provide so that, as in Cana of Galilee, we may return to joy and to feasting after this time of trial. Help us, Mother of Divine Love, to conform to the Holy Trinity Catholic School, Inc. will of the Father and to do as we are told by Jesus,

Chief Administrator...... Michael Sheerin who has taken upon himself our sufferings and carried School Board President ...... Steve Link our Sorrows to lead us, through the cross, Vice President ...... Loren Menke to the joy of the resurrection. Amen.

Secretary/Treasurer ...... Paul Wilkerson Under your protection, we seek refuge, Holy Mother School Board Representative of God. Do not disdain the entreaties of we who are St. Paul ...... Loren Menke in trial, but deliver us from every danger, Houghton ...... Ryan Kruse O glorious and blessed Virgin. At Large ...... Leah Steffensmeier

Jr./Sr. High School 2600 Avenue, A J, Ft. Madison, IA 52627 Readings for the week of June 7, 2020 Phone ...... 319/372-2486 Sunday: Ex 34:4b-6, 8-9/Dn 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56 Elementary School [52b]/2 Cor 13:11-13/Jn 3:16-18 413 Avenue C, P.O. Box 39, West Point, IA 52656 Monday: 1 Kgs 17:1-6/Ps 121:1bc-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 Phone ...... 319/837-6131 [cf. 2]/Mt 5:1-12

Early Childhood Center Tuesday: 1 Kgs 17:7-16/Ps 4:2-3, 4-5, 7b-8 [7a]/ Director ...... Stefanie Drollinger Mt 5:13-16 2213 Avenue J, Ft. Madison, IA 52627 Wednesday: 1 Kgs 18:20-39/Ps 16:1b-2ab, 4, 5ab and Phone ...... 319/372-6428 8, 11 [1b]/Mt 5:17-19 2040 Locust Street, St. Paul, IA 52657 Thursday: Acts 11:21b-26; 13:1-3/Ps 65:10, 11, Phone ...... 319/469-3881 12-13 [2a]/Mt 5:20-26 Friday: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-16/Ps 27:7-8a, 8b-9abc, Marketing Director ...... Brenda Graham 13-14 [8b]/Mt 5:27-32 Phone ...... 319/372-6310 Saturday: 1 Kgs 19:19-21/Ps 16:1b-2a and 5, 7-8,

9-10 [cf. 5a]/Mt 5:33-37 Next Sunday: Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a/Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, “Let your old age be childlike, 19-20 [12]/1 Cor 10:16-17/Jn 6:51-58 and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.”

~ St. Augustine

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