PATRICK PARISH SACRED HEART of JESUS PARISH 136058 Halder Drive • 222761 County Rd S • Mosinee, WI 54455 Marathon, WI 54448 Parish Office: (715) 693-2765 • Parish Office: (715) 443-3675 • [email protected] [email protected]

Parish Staff MASS TIMES FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST: Pastor, Fr. C. Nakwah .. 715-693-2765 Email……………………………[email protected] St. Patrick’s will be having 6:00 pm Saturday Mass Parish Secretary Sacred Heart will be having 8:30 am Sunday Mass Tammy Fahey…………………...715-573-8005 Email……….…[email protected] Masks will be need to attend church. Please bring your Parish Secretary, own along with hand sanitizer if you have available. Jean Fitzgerald …...... 715-297-1178 Thank you to all who continue to give in their envelopes Email ...... [email protected]

Be still and know that I am God. Silence is sacred. Silence speaks the language of the soul and is the founda- tion of all life and eternity itself. Silence takes us beyond the limits of our minds and allows us to seek and to love the essence of all love, perfect love, and being. In silence, we can be non-verbally present to things and to God in ways that words cannot accomplish. We can discover, encounter, and be present to truths that our minds struggle to conceive and then set aside the boxes we put around things when comprehending them is challenging. We can know the unknowable and touch eternity when we encounter the core silence in our souls.

We can do this even on a noisy street and in the midst of the greatest distraction. Once we have made friends with silence, the rambling noise of the world no longer seems to matter, and we can carry a deep forgiving peace within us, even when physical silence cannot be found. We know that we are loved, cared for, sustained, nourished, embraced, and carried. There is nothing to fear in silence, and I can be present to myself in the same way that God is present to me. I can see myself as God sees me. All of my faults, weaknesses, imperfections, failings, and sinfulness melt away in the abundance of God’s mercy. All of the worldly things we see as being important no longer are.

It is in silence that all of the barriers that divide us disappear. There is no more “yours” and “mine” but only the oneness of “ours.” There is no longer a need to “figure things out,” and we tap into our desire to simply let things be. Silence is creative and powerful and gives us hope. Silence is God’s greatest blessing. God became one with humanity in silence. It allows us to be one with all of creation, with the moon and the stars and all of the creatures God has made. The smallest particle of creation radiates with beauty. Silence allows us to soar beyond ourselves and connect in ways that the mind can only imagine. When all is quiet, we begin to see that it is only our fear that keeps us from the Lord. It is our fear that causes us to sink and to fail. We can hear the gentle whisper that tells us to reach for God’s hand. We discover that we yearn for the salvation and wholeness that only God can give to us. Be still my soul and be at peace. SACRED HEART

Eternal Candles for the month Aug The candle at the Altar is for the families Please keep the family of Carol Williams of Brian and Amy Knetter. The candle at in your prayers. Carol passed away on July 23. May the perpetual light shine upon her. the Sacred Heart is for the Wirkus and

Nowak Families Mass Intentions: Mass Intentions: Saturday, Aug 8• Nineteenth Sunday Ordinary Time Saturday, August 8• 19thSunday of Ordinary Time † Peter & Agnes Starzinski/ SH Parish Family St. Patrick Parish Sunday, Aug 9• Nineteenth Sunday Ordinary Time Sunday, August 9• 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time Sacred Heart Parish Family † John Werner Wednesday, Aug 12• Weekday Mass Monday, August 10• Weekday Mass † Leo Michlig/Parish Family † Tony Michlig Friday, Aug 14• Weekday Mass Tuesday, August 11• Weekday Mass † Edwin Wilichowski/Parish Family † Doris Krieg Saturday, Aug 15• Thursday, August 13• Weekday Mass Sacred Heart Parish Family † Recovery and Health Sunday, Aug 16• Assumption of Mary Saturday, August 15• 20thSunday of Ordinary Time † Ed & Dianna Pospyhalla/Family † Adelaide Schara August 16th Sunday, August 16• 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time Lector: Dawn Wadzinski Usher: Tim Wadzinski † Annette Kurtzweil August 15

Lector: Donna Kijak Usher: Joe Kijak Thank you to whomever brought the Gladiolas for the altar. They are beautiful. The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary will be celebrated on Saturday, August 15, July Attendance:121. 2020 (it is not a holy day of obligation). Please remember you are not under obligation to attend Mass. We have implemented all safety Congratulations to our students as they requirements sent from the Diocese of La Crosse. receive the sacrament of Confirmation on August 9 at St. Patrick Parish. They are: Rakel Prayer to St. : St. Michael the Arch Mata; Abbi Martin; Angela Baumann; and Angel, defend us in battle, be our safeguard Elizabeth LaQua. against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, We humbly Pray, and do Memorare to St. Joseph: Remember, O Thou oh Prince of the Heavenly Host by the most pure Spouse of the virgin Mary. My noble divine power of God, thrust into Hell, Satan protector , that never was it known and all the evil spirts who prowl about the that anyone who fled to your protection, world seeking the ruins of souls. Amen implored your help, or sought your intercession was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I come to you, my Collection: August 2, 2020 spiritual father, and fervently commend myself to you. Adult…………………………………………………$ 450.00 Despise not my petitions, O Guardian of the Redeemer, but Plate………………………………………………….$ 119.00 in your goodness hear and answer me. Amen Votive……………………………………………… $ 51.00 Total………………………………………………. $ 620.00 Give online at diolc.org/st-patrick-halder/

Income from Jan 2020-June 2020 $ 25,770.70 Collection: July 26 totals will be in the next bulletin. Expense from Jan 2020-June 2020 $30,486.03 Difference of ($4715.33) If you are able to mail in your envelopes or do the Birthday online giving this will help out your parish. August 10, Tom Nechuta Thank you. August 12, Kevin Maguire diolc.org/sacred-heart-cassel/ August 14, Genevieve Kress, August 15, Shirley Dahlke, Ella Stankowski August 14 Art Nowak August 16, Ronald Baumann August 16 Julie Landwehr Anniversary August 15, Michael & Suzette Schaefer August 11 Dale & Charlene Michlig August 16, Roman & Doris Dahlke Kenneth & Doreen Stankowski

Question: Readings for the week of August 9, 2020 Why does Mary have so many feast Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a/Ps 85:9, 10, 11-12, 13-14 [8]/ days and names? Rom 9:1-5/Mt 14:22-33 Monday: 2 Cor 9:6-10/Ps 112:1-2, 5-6, 7-8, 9 [5]/ Answer: Jn 12:24-26 Christians first began celebrating feast days in honor of Tuesday: Ez 2:8—3:4/Ps 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131 [103a]/ Mary, the Mother of Jesus, in the fifth century. That Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 celebration (originally called the Feast of the Wednesday: Ez 9:1-7; 10:18-22/Ps 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 [4b]/ Dormition and now known by Roman Catholics as the Mt 18:15-20 Solemnity of the Assumption) was celebrated on Thursday: Ez 12:1-12/Ps 78:56-57, 58-59, 61-62 [cf. 7b]/ August 15. Very soon, however, other special days Mt 18:21—19:1 dedicated to Mary began to appear in Jerusalem, Friday: Ez 16:1-15, 60, 63 or 16:59-63/Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, Rome, and other major cities of the Christian world. 5-6 [1c]/Mt 19:3-12 These days of feasting became important parts of the Saturday: Vigil: 1 Chr 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2/Ps 132:6-7, 9-10, life of the community. But, more importantly, each of 13-14 [8]1 Cor 15:54b-57/Lk 11:27-28. Day: these unique celebrations became an opportunity to Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab/Ps 45:10, 11, 12, 16 focus on a different facet of the Christian faith. [10bc]/1 Cor 15:20-27/Lk 1:39-56

Over the centuries, some of these celebrations became universal (such as the Assumption on August 15, the Observances for the week of August 9, 2020 on December 8, and the Sunday: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God on January 1). Monday: St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr Other celebrations were more closely tied to certain Tuesday: St. Clare, Virgin religious orders (such as the Carmelites celebration of Wednesday: St. , Religious “Our Lady of Mount Carmel” on July 16 or the Servite Thursday: Sts. Pontian, , and Hippolytus, Priest, Friars feast of the “Seven Sorrows of Mary,” which is Martyrs now celebrated as the Memorial of Our Lady of Friday: St. , Priest and Martyr Sorrows on September 15). Saturday: The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Next Sunday: 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time In more recent times, Marian apparitions (like Guadalupe, Lourdes, and Fatima) have inspired special Being Human is to Doubt Humans doubt. It’s liturgical celebrations. Pope Francis has added two what we do. We doubt ourselves and we doubt new celebrations of Mary to the Church’s calendar: The others. Memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church (on the Before any of us say anything about Peter’s doubt- Monday after Pentecost) and the Commemoration of ing the words of Jesus that told him he could get out of his boat Our Lady of Loreto (on December 10). The various and walk on water, we need to get real with ourselves: How would (like those we find in the Litany of the I respond in the same situation? I remember when I was child tak- Blessed Virgin Mary) help us to reflect on different ing swimming lessons. One day I simply tightened up my muscles aspects of Mary’s faith and the ways that the Holy and sank. The lifeguard pulled me up and asked what happened. I Spirit is at work in her and through her, especially as said I did not know. The truth is that I was sinking under the the Mother of Jesus. weight of my own doubt. I did not believe I could do what clearly, I was told I could. That was only in five feet of water in a pool! Now In the end, whatever the event or mystery being cele- that I’m older, I can look back and laugh. But an adult, the swim- brated in a particular liturgy or the title of Mary being ming pool is life, and I would be lying if I said that there are no used, we are invited to always see Mary in connection longer times I find myself sinking due to new doubts. with the saving work of her Son. She is, of course, a patroness and protector for every Christian, but she is Much of our doubt comes about because of a lack of trust in God. also a model of discipleship and contemplation: We place our trust in material things, wealth, or imperfect people “Having entered deeply into the history of salvation, instead of the One who is worthy of our trust 100 percent of the Mary, in a way, unites in her person and re-echoes the time. Our stewardship is often hampered by our doubt that God most important doctrines of the faith: and when she is will provide all that we need. If I give more, I may not have enough the subject of preaching and worship she prompts the to survive! When we place all our trust in God, not only do we find faithful to come to her Son, to his sacrifice and to the that we have been given all we need – our doubt that cause us to love of the Father” (Lumen Gentium, 65). sink in the pool of life fades away. We don’t suddenly become per- fect in our trust, and there will be times when we find ourselves we POSITIONS AVAILABLE AT ST. JOSEPH need to hear: “Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid.” SCHOOL/PARISH: The Teaching Principal Position, for the upcoming School Year 2020-2021 AND A part – Tracy Earl Welliver time Maintenance position is open at St. Joseph Parish/ School, Stratford, WI. If the applicant is interested in the janitorial tasks for additional hours, it will be considered. With concerns again. However, it is in those moments we find that To apply, please email to [email protected] OR He is still there, speaking the words call Father Sen at 715-615-1774 Three Generations Since 1938 Hog Creek Serving the Community Since 1934 Bar & Grill GREAT FOOD! Beste Funeral Home Hwy 0 & Hwy 153, Mosinee

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