EPIPHANY of the LORD the CATHOLIC COMMUNITIES of Immaculate Conception Cromwell-Wright St

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EPIPHANY OF THE LORD THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITIES OF Immaculate Conception Cromwell-Wright St. Mary’s St. Louis Meadowlands Floodwood

MASS SCHEDULE and CONFESSIONS STAFF St. Louis Fr. Pio Atonio……………………….. Pastor 105 4th Ave E , Floodwood, MN 55736 Melissa Brenna…………………….. Bookkeeper Saturday: 6:30 PM Andrea Dickenson………………... Secretary Sunday: 10:30 AM Office hours Monday– Thursday 9:00 AM-2:00 PM Monday-Wednesday: 8:30 AM Please direct all mail to: Adoration after the weekday Masses. P.O. Box 378, Floodwood, MN 55736 Confessions half hour before Mass on Sunday Office Phone: 218-476-2367 and Saturday from 10:00-11:00 AM Rectory Phone: 218-476-1617

E-mail: [email protected] Immaculate Conception, [email protected] 5944 Hwy 210, Cromwell, MN 55726 See the bulletin online in the parish website Saturday: 4:30 PM (Bulletin deadline is Thursday at 12 PM) Thursday: 8:30 AM Tri-Parish Website: nemncatholic.com Adoration follows Thursday Mass.

Confessions half hour before Mass on Saturday SACRAMENTS Baptism: Before any detailed arrangements are St. Mary’s made, parents must attend a pre-baptism class. Funerals: Arrangements are to be made with 9999 Hwy 133, Meadowlands, MN 55765 the priest before publication in newspapers. Sunday: 8:00 AM Friday: 8:30 AM Weddings: Arrangements are to be made in person Adoration and Benediction follows after Mass. with the priest at least six months in advance. First Saturday : 8:30 AM Sick Calls: Inform the Rectory or Office of the ill and homebound. Confessions half hour before Mass on Sunday THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD

January 3, 2021 MASS SCHEDULE AND INTENTION The Epiphany of the Lord 1/04 8:30 A.M. St. Louis

1/05 8:30 A.M. St. Louis “Where is that thing?” mumbled Bob as he searched 1/06 8:30 A.M. St. Louis frantically on his dimly lit desk for the current elec- 1/07 8:30 P.M. Immaculate Conception tric bill. “I know I put it right on top of these papers this morning!” Growing in frustration and bordering on anger, he flies stuff around, moves books and 1/08 8:00 A.M. St. Mary’s opines why simple tasks need to be so hard. Enter Frank & Pat Horvath + his wife, who calmly says, “Maybe it would help if 1/09 4:30 P.M. Immaculate Conception you put the light on, dear.” The desk light goes on Our Parishioners and lo and behold, there is the electric bill right 6:30 P.M. St. Louis where Bob left it earlier. All it took was a little light! 1/10 8:00 A.M. St. Mary’s We stubbornly refuse to turn on the lights! Either we Andrew & Leona Chesler + are distracted, determined, disinterested, preoccu- 10:30 A.M. St. Louis pied, stubborn, apprehensive, or all of the above. Or perhaps, we fail to do the obvious. We would rather live our lives with the dimmest of lights or even in total darkness. Why are we afraid to do something so that we can actually see? It might help us to find quicker and better answers to problems, the meaning of life, relationships, happiness, and what is ulti- SAINTS OF THE WEEK mate truth. Yet, we stumble along, moving things Jan. 3 : Epiphany of the Lord from one side to the other, getting angry, feeling Jan. 4 : St. Elizabeth Ann Seton , Religious cheated, being unsettled, resigning ourselves to the Jan. 5 : St. John Neumann, Bishop agony of defeat once again. Jan. 6 : St. Andre Bessette, Religious Jan. 7 : St. Raymond of Penyafort “And behold, the star that they had seen at its rising preceded them, until it came and stopped over the CHRISTMAS FLOWERS DONATIONS: place where the child was.” The light has come into the world in the person of Jesus Christ! We no longer Thank you to everyone for your donations!!! have to fumble in the darkness. We have been gifted MEMORIALS ARE LISTED BELOW: with the illumination we need to see our way Ann & George Kucera, Shirley Hill, Pete & Margaret through things and find what we really are looking Ralidak, Jim & Vickie Maly, Bobbie Wick, Jim Ralidak, for. All these years later, however, so many are still Clarence & Alma Kowarsch, Bill &Winnie Bush, Kelly reluctant to accept him. Perhaps they are uncon- Kowarsch, Kirja Kishel, Fred Bush, Mallory Norrell, vinced, disinterested, preoccupied, stubborn, appre- Harvey & Elaine Norrell, John Taray, Sr., John & Anna hensive, or all of the above. Everyone has their own Cernta, Arvid & Dorothy Sorvari, Florian & Cecilia reason for not wanting to turn on the switch. Taray, Christopher Posey, Floyd Baumann, Kyle Ring- hofer, Al & Bea Bernsdorf, For those with no one to But there are so many answers to so many of our pray for them, Emil Durovec, Elizabeth Jurek Keeler, problems in this humble Child of Nazareth. A sim- the deceased members of the Arfman and Ryan fami- ple birth teaches us about God’s tender wedded rela- lies, Matthew Vorderbruggen, Wiktoria Grochowski, tionship with humanity. It speaks to the expanse of Tad Grochowski, Olga Sosnowki, Stanley Sosnowski. God’s salvation across the globe, and the incarnate IN HONOR OF : The New family, and Edwin Hill. Divine wonders and blessings that are a part of our life moment to moment. It calls us to understand the design of world order God intended as found in the When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the Beatitudes, the sacredness of every human life and days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east ar- all of creation and the meaning of things we struggle rived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is the newborn with most, like suffering and death. We have a lot of king of the Jews? We saw his star at its rising and Good News to share, not just with a privileged few have come to do him homage.” - Mt 2:1-2 but with all the world. All races and creeds can receive God’s healing word. God continues to manifest himself even now! Use the light to find what you are really looking for!

©LPi

JANUARY 3, 2021

Happy Season of Christmas! IMMACULATE CONCEPTION The year 2020 has been a very difficult and chal-  Thursday morning Mass will be at the church lenging year to say the least. We were all chal- until the Nursing Homes are open for public lenged in so many different ways. Our faith in visits, then we will consider going back to cel- both God and government have been challenged ebrating Mass at Villa Vista on the 1st Thurs- in ways we never imagined it would. But chal- days. There will be Adoration of the Blessed lenges are a part of our lives. St. Paul said that Sacrament and Benediction following right gold and silver are tested in fire, but our faith is after Mass. tested through the challenges that we face in life, both physical and spiritual. ST. LOUIS Holy week and Easter were so different. It was not the same celebrating the Easter Triduum  Stained Glass Windows: All the windows for without the community present. I, like many oth- the church have been spoken for. Thank you er priests, tried to think of it as a temporary meas- to those who have requested and dedicated ure to help everybody stay safe. But is continued windows for their families and family mem- on for several weeks and months after that. Even bers. We will finalize and send in our order in after allowing people to go back to Mass, it was January. I ask those who paid for the windows never the same anymore. to let us know who you are dedicating your window to. A plaque will be made to indicate This Christmas celebration will be different in the the theme in the window and who it is dedi- same way. Many of you who used to look for- cated to and from who. ward to Christmas Mass will be watching Mass  Our Saturday evening Mass at 6:30 will con- on television or on the internet. But Christmas is a tinue until Mass attendance is back to normal time of hope. Christ became human to bring hope again to full capacity. for salvation to the fallen humanity. He became human to show us that God is not very distant from us and that He is not deaf to our cries of ST. MARY’S need. He became human to take upon himself the  We have returned to our regular schedule. sufferings of the world. Even this time of suffer- Weekday Mass on Friday at 8:30 A.M fol- ing will come to an end. lowed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament To allow many more people to attend our Christ- and Benediction. mas Masses, we are adding two Masses to our On the First Saturday of every month we cele- schedule. As you see under the Mass Schedule brate Mass in honor of our Blessed Mother and Intention section, apart from our regular Mary at 8:30 A.M. schedule, we will have a vigil Mass in Floodwood at 6:30 and an extra Mass in Meadowlands on ALL PARISHES Christmas morning at 8:00.  I pray that you will be able to attend one of these Boxed envelopes for 2021: Please let the of- Masses to celebrate the birth of our Lord and re- fice know if you did not receive envelopes. We ceive his blessings. will do our best to get a box for you!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  2021 Feasts & Saints Calendars: Looking for a calendar for 2021?They’re free, & are located Stewardship of treasure in the back of church. 12/ 27/ 2020 + 12/25/2020

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