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Jefferson, Wisconsin St. Francis of Assisi ______

Pastoral Staff Catholic Parish Rev. Thomas J. Coyle, Pastor Sunday, August 23, 2021 Rectory: 920-674-9619

Mr. Bill Bare, School Principal [email protected] 920-674-5821

Ms. Donna J. Kiesling Office Manager Parish Center: 920-674-2025

Ms. Beth Schweiger [email protected] 920-674-2025

Ms. Tiffany Topel Dir. of Religious Ed. & Youth Ministry Bulletin [email protected] 920-674-5433 ext. 5

Mrs. Jodi El-Beri Coordinator of Religious Ed. Baptism Preparation [email protected] 920-674-5433 ext. 4

Ms. Cathey Sloane, RN Parish Nurse Parish Center: 920-674-2025 920-988-0397

Ms. Lizzett Perez Hispanic Ministry [email protected] 920-253-8464

RCIA co-chairs Jaysen Yoder 920-650-0719

Rick Helman [email protected]

920-699-4029 St. Church St. Lawrence Church P. O. Box 269 P. O. Box 313 Jefferson, Wisconsin 53549 Jefferson, Wisconsin 53549 920-674-2025 920-674-2822

Saturday Mass: 5:30 pm Saturday Mass: 4:00 pm Sunday Mass: 7:30 am | 10:30 am 12:30 pm (en Español)

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MASS INTENTIONS

Saturday, August 21 7:30 am Special Intentions (L. V.)/Mass (SJB) 8:00 am Rosary & Reconciliation (SJB) 4:00 pm +Butch & Frances Kornstedt, Frank & Catherine Schiesl/Mass (St. Lawrence) 5:30 pm +Wilfred & Leona Wedl, Johnson; George & Joanne Hilby Family/Mass (SJB) Sunday, August 22/21st Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 am +Paul Schroedl, Ken Pelzel, Margaret & Herbert Schroedl, Roger & Ruth Frey; St. Francis of Assisi Parish/Mass (SJB) 10:30 am +Clarence Vogel, Ann & Lawrence Peirick/ Mass (SJB) 12:30 pm Mass in Spanish (SJB) Monday, August 23/St. Rose of 7:30 am +Dorothy & Everett Reese; Special Intention for Healing (J. C.)/Mass (SJB) 8:00 am Rosary & Reconciliation (SJB) 4:00 pm +Lawrence Vogel/Mass (SJB) 7:00 pm Adoration (SJB-in person) Tuesday, /St. Bartholomew 7:30 am +Catherine Tackman/Mass (SJB) 8:00 am Rosary & Reconciliation (SJB) 4:00 pm +Donnelly-Kitsembel Famlies/Mass (SJB) Wednesday, August 25/St. Louis, St. Calasanz 7:30 am +Catherine E. Klug/Mass (SJB) RCIA 8:00 am Rosary & Reconciliation (SJB) For those interested in becoming Catholic or who simply 10:30 am +Louise Keating/Mass (Alden Estates) 4:00 pm +For All Souls In Purgatory/Mass (SJB) have questions about Catholicism, have questions and Thursday, August 26 want to learn more. 7:30 am +Russell Schultz, Dr. Philip & Maxine Brich/ Mass (SJB) Our question and answer period is open to all and will 8:00 am Rosary & Reconciliation (SJB) begin Tuesday, October 5, 2021 from 6:30 - 8:00 pm. We 4:00 pm +Barb Bubolz, Doris Krueger/ meet in the living room in the Rectory (Father Tom's house) Mass (St. Lawrence) please use FRONT DOOR. Friday, August 27/St. Monica 7:30 am +Robert Hain/Mass (SJB) For more information please call Jaysen Yoder at 920-650- 8:00 am Rosary & Reconciliation (SJB) 0719 or Rick Helman 920-699-4029. 4:00 pm +Luis Ochoa/Mass in Spanish (SJB) We would love to talk with you. Saturday, August 28/St. Augustine 7:30 am Gladys A. Vogel/Mass (SJB) 8:00 am Rosary & Reconciliation (SJB) 4:00 pm +Birdice Riedl, Nick Schopen/ Liturgical Ministry Schedules Mass (St. Lawrence) If you have not already done so, please contact Tiffany 5:30 pm +Deceased Members of Atkinson & Merton ([email protected] or 920-674-5433) to let her Families/Mass (SJB) know if you would like to be on the resumed liturgical Sunday, August 29/22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time ministry schedules, beginning the weekend of 7:30 am +Stub & Eunice Acketz, Pat McGrath/ September 11/12. You will not be scheduled unless Mass (SJB) you indicate you would like to be. 10:30 am +Lorraine, Norbert & Alan Werner; St. Francis of Assisi Parish/Mass (SJB) Server training will be held on the following dates and 12:30 pm Mass in Spanish (SJB) times. We ask all veteran and new servers (4th grade and 5:00 pm Back to School Mass (SJB) up) to attend one (each training will last about 30-45 minutes in church-no RSVP needed): Wednesday, September 8th 6-7 pm or 7-8 pm Fall Festival Ticket Pick Up

Fall Festival Raffle tickets may be picked up after Masses **If you are a liturgical minister at St. Lawrence, please this weekend and next. Any remaining envelopes will be sign up in the back of church or contact Catherine mailed after Masses August 28/29. Arndt ([email protected], 920-397-0665).

Thank you! Save the date for our annual Fall Festival: October 2 (kick off festival events) and October 3. More details coming soon!

2 . 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time August 22, 2021

Readings for the Week of August 22, 2021 SUN Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b/Ps 34:2-3, 16-17, 18-19, 20-21, 22-23 [9a]/Eph 5:21-32 or 5:2a, 25-32/Jn 6:60-69 MON 1 Thes 1:1-5, 8b-10/Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b [cf. 4a]/Mt 23:13-22 TUE Rv 21:9b-14/Ps 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18 [12]/Jn 1:45-51 WED 1 Thes 2:9-13/Ps 139:7-8, 9-10, 11-12ab [1]/Mt 23:27-32 THURS 1 Thes 3:7-13/Ps 90:3-5a, 12-13, 14 and 17 [14]/ Mt 24:42-51 FRI 1 Thes 4:1-8/Ps 97:1 and 2b, 5-6, 10, 11-12 [12a]/ Mt 25:1-13 Youth Ministry Colored Envelope SAT 1 Thes 4:9-11/Ps 98:1, 7-8, 9 [9]/Mt 25:14-30 SUN Dt 4:1-2, 6-8/Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 4-5 [1a]/Jas 1:17-18, Fundraiser 21b-22, 27/Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Thank you for your generous support of our annual fundraiser! To date, we have raised $7,054! If you have Observances for the Week of August 22, 2021 not already done so, we ask that you return your filled SUN 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time envelopes in the coming weeks. If you were unable to MON St. Rose of Lima take an envelope and wished to make a monetary do- TUE St. Bartholomew nation, you may send a check (payable to St. Francis of WED St. Louis, St. Joseph Calasanz Assisi) to: St. Francis of Assisi, Attn: Tiffany Topel, P.O. FRI St. Monica Box 269, Jefferson WI 53549 or simply place it in the SAT St. Augustine collection basket at any weekend Mass. SUN 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Collection from August 14/15

Adult Envelopes……………………………………………...………..…$10,975.50 Adult Parish Support (EFT)………………..…....………………..…...$1,679.50 Offertory……………………………………………………………………..…$1,265.25 Junior Envelopes…………………………………………………………………..$5.00 Restoration/Special Projects includes EFT…………….……….…$110.00 Endowment Fund includes EFT……………………………..………….$150.00 Holy Days…………………………………………………………………………$270.00 Bell Tower…………………………………………………………………..….$1,050.00 Staff Retirement…………………………………………………………………$50.00 National Combined Collection…………………………………………..$20.00

Religious Education Registration Registration information has been mailed to families registered last year. If you have a new student to register and wish to receive a hard copy via mail, please be in touch with: Jodi ([email protected]) or Tiffany ([email protected]).

Classes will begin on Wednesday, September 15th.

Registration information is also available on our website: https://www.stfranciscommunity.net/formation/

3 . School News

Mark your calendars for Sunday, Sept. 12. Our school is hosting its second annual Golf Outing at the Jefferson Golf Course. We are looking for teams interested in playing. We are also looking for individuals or businesses to be hole sponsors--you get a sign with your name or your organization’s name on specific holes around the course. Contact Mr. Bare to register a team or to sponsor a hole.

The Back to School Mass will be held on Sunday, August 29, at 5:00 pm.

As always, SJB is accepting sponsors for Individual Classrooms and for PreSchool Partners. If you are interested in sponsoring a class or a child in the PreK program, contact Mr. Bare at school. Gospel Meditation We are looking for folks to be a part of a committee to “Far be it from us to forsake the Lord for the service of recognize contributions of parishioners and SJB Alumni. other gods.” We struggle with our gods. They appear in the If you are interested in participating in this group, contact forms of things like money, power, prestige, popularity, Mr. Bare at school. SJB is a Great Place for your children privilege, and self-fulfillment. We like these “gods” because or grandchildren to be! Contact the office for more they make us feel good and ask very little of us in return. information, or to take a tour. When we worship them, we worship ourselves. How can you go wrong with that? We buy into the illusion that if It’s a GREAT DAY to be a KNIGHT! something can give us a comfortable life, free of want and need, then it is worth setting other things aside to pursue it. In essence, we sell our souls. Our struggle with “who is St. Francis of Assisi Parish extends a sincere thank you for God” and to whom do we belong is a real one and one that memorials recently received in memory of can easily find us empty and experiencing disillusionment. Deb Werner Joyce Rueth The devil tempted in the desert and promised him Please pray for their family and friends at this more. We are promised “more.” But in pursuing the more difficult time of loss. and the satisfying we lose track of the cost, and the cost is great. We sacrifice our very life in pursuit of something disguised as life. We sacrifice truth for something that only Please pray for the repose of the soul of “feels” true. While the true and real God certainly promises Ms. Gladys A. Vogel us many things, many things are also required. It is not Mrs. Marion M. Schakelman about the warm and secure feelings and self-absorption Mr. Arturo H. “Artie” Calvillo the world wants to provide, but of giving back. There can Please pray for their family and friends at this be no lukewarm stance with regard to faith. If we are in, difficult time of loss. then faith in Jesus Christ asks us to do some difficult things: work in service of God’s kingdom (not our own), love our enemies, offer no resistance to injury, that we must die to Trunk Sale ourselves in order to find ourselves, and trust that Jesus In conjunction with the Fall Festival Weekend and the city- truly gives us his flesh and blood to eat and drink. These wide Rummage Sale, we will be hosting another TRUNK are hard things to accept and even harder to put into SALE on Saturday, October 2. It will be a one-day sale, with practice. It is no wonder that many, who may be attracted rental of a spot going for only $10! Leave the advertising to to Jesus at first, walk away in pursuit of the more self- us, clean out those closets, and sign up to sell your satisfying gods. items! This is an outdoor sale, held in the back parking lot (and it is also lots of fun!). Watch for more details, but mark But truth is truth. If we cannot accept it from the lips of your calendars and contact either Sandy Streich at [email protected] or Sue Loof at Jesus Christ, then where else will we find it? To whom can [email protected] to sign up or ask questions! we go? There is only one source of truth and life, Jesus Christ. Jesus has the words of eternal life and if we do not go to him, then where else will we find this gift? But we Retirement Thank You must be faithful and buy into the whole package deal that Thank you for all of the well-wishes and gifts given to me, requires sacrifice and fidelity. When we do, we find the parish, and the school in honor of my retirement from ourselves, through the Body and Blood of Christ, connected teaching! I can’t think of a better place to have spent the to the Source of all life and then intimately bound with our last 20 years teaching or watching our own kids get a brothers and sisters. We all have to decide whether we quality education. It truly IS a GREAT DAY TO BE A KNIGHT! want to stay or go and if we can accept what Jesus has to say. It’s a choice we all have to make. -Mrs. Sue Loof ©LPi

4a 4b . School News

Mark your calendars for Sunday, Sept. 12. Our school is hosting its second annual Golf Outing at the Jefferson Golf Course. We are looking for teams interested in playing. We are also looking for individuals or businesses to be hole sponsors--you get a sign with your name or your organization’s name on specific holes around the course. Contact Mr. Bare to register a team or to sponsor a hole.

The Back to School Mass will be held on Sunday, August 29, at 5:00 pm.

As always, SJB is accepting sponsors for Individual Classrooms and for PreSchool Partners. If you are interested in sponsoring a class or a child in the PreK program, contact Mr. Bare at school. Gospel Meditation We are looking for folks to be a part of a committee to “Far be it from us to forsake the Lord for the service of recognize contributions of parishioners and SJB Alumni. other gods.” We struggle with our gods. They appear in the If you are interested in participating in this group, contact forms of things like money, power, prestige, popularity, Mr. Bare at school. SJB is a Great Place for your children privilege, and self-fulfillment. We like these “gods” because or grandchildren to be! Contact the office for more they make us feel good and ask very little of us in return. information, or to take a tour. When we worship them, we worship ourselves. How can you go wrong with that? We buy into the illusion that if It’s a GREAT DAY to be a KNIGHT! something can give us a comfortable life, free of want and need, then it is worth setting other things aside to pursue it. In essence, we sell our souls. Our struggle with “who is St. Francis of Assisi Parish extends a sincere thank you for God” and to whom do we belong is a real one and one that memorials recently received in memory of can easily find us empty and experiencing disillusionment. Deb Werner Joyce Rueth The devil tempted Jesus in the desert and promised him Please pray for their family and friends at this more. We are promised “more.” But in pursuing the more difficult time of loss. and the satisfying we lose track of the cost, and the cost is great. We sacrifice our very life in pursuit of something disguised as life. We sacrifice truth for something that only Please pray for the repose of the soul of “feels” true. While the true and real God certainly promises Ms. Gladys A. Vogel us many things, many things are also required. It is not Mrs. Marion M. Schakelman about the warm and secure feelings and self-absorption Mr. Arturo H. “Artie” Calvillo the world wants to provide, but of giving back. There can Please pray for their family and friends at this be no lukewarm stance with regard to faith. If we are in, difficult time of loss. then faith in Jesus Christ asks us to do some difficult things: work in service of God’s kingdom (not our own), love our enemies, offer no resistance to injury, that we must die to Trunk Sale ourselves in order to find ourselves, and trust that Jesus In conjunction with the Fall Festival Weekend and the city- truly gives us his flesh and blood to eat and drink. These wide Rummage Sale, we will be hosting another TRUNK are hard things to accept and even harder to put into SALE on Saturday, October 2. It will be a one-day sale, with practice. It is no wonder that many, who may be attracted rental of a spot going for only $10! Leave the advertising to to Jesus at first, walk away in pursuit of the more self- us, clean out those closets, and sign up to sell your satisfying gods. items! This is an outdoor sale, held in the back parking lot (and it is also lots of fun!). Watch for more details, but mark But truth is truth. If we cannot accept it from the lips of your calendars and contact either Sandy Streich at [email protected] or Sue Loof at Jesus Christ, then where else will we find it? To whom can [email protected] to sign up or ask questions! we go? There is only one source of truth and life, Jesus Christ. Jesus has the words of eternal life and if we do not go to him, then where else will we find this gift? But we Retirement Thank You must be faithful and buy into the whole package deal that Thank you for all of the well-wishes and gifts given to me, requires sacrifice and fidelity. When we do, we find the parish, and the school in honor of my retirement from ourselves, through the Body and Blood of Christ, connected teaching! I can’t think of a better place to have spent the to the Source of all life and then intimately bound with our last 20 years teaching or watching our own kids get a brothers and sisters. We all have to decide whether we quality education. It truly IS a GREAT DAY TO BE A KNIGHT! want to stay or go and if we can accept what Jesus has to say. It’s a choice we all have to make. -Mrs. Sue Loof ©LPi

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