Thank You for Your Generous Stewardship! EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP - RECOGNIZE GOD in YOUR ORDINARY MOMENTS

Thank you for your generous stewardship! EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP - RECOGNIZE GOD IN YOUR ORDINARY MOMENTS

St. Francis de Sales You Don’t Have What It Takes — but You Will Our Gifts to the Lord - May 15 & 16 Those of us in ministry love this saying: God doesn’t call Adult Envelopes $ 2,213.00 the equipped. He equips the called. Loose $ 210.00 School $ 691.00 We all know that sort of queasy feeling we get in the pit of Maintenance $ 170.00 our stomachs when it becomes clear what we’re sup- Candle $ 244.00 posed to do, in any situation. It’s that feeling of: Oh, no. Not me. Not now. I can’t. Sale of Lawnmower $ 2,800.00 April Online $ 1,985.00 We’ve all got our list of reasons why not, don’t we? We do Total $ 8,279.00 it for everything, from big life problems to small everyday choices. I’m not going to invite my neighbor to church because I don’t want to come across as pushy. I’m not going

to make amends with my cousin because she’ll just walk St. Joseph all over me again. I’m not going to say a Rosary tonight Our Gifts to the Lord - May 15 because I’m tired and it’ll just stress me out.

Adult Envelopes $ 270.00 However, even if we all put our lists of “reasons why we Loose $ 138.00 can’t” together, I don’t think any of us have reasons quite School $ 20.00 as valid as the apostles. Their job was to convert the na- Maintenance $ 25.00 tions — and here they are, a bunch of fishermen who April Online $ 279.00 haven’t been out of Judea, who speak only their own lan- Total $ 732..00 guages. Were they supposed to preach the Gospel via a particularly compelling game of charades?

But even that big, giant, stop-you-dead-in-your tracks

St. Catherine Reason Why We Can’t was nothing, because God had a Our Gifts to the Lord - May 16 plan. He didn’t call a bunch of equipped men. He called them, and He equipped them. Cue the tongues of fire! Adult Envelopes $ 630.00 Loose $ 15.00 God doesn’t call us to do His will because we have what it April Online $ 855.00 takes. He calls us because He’s ready to give us what it Total $ 1,500.00 takes. Being a good steward is to answer the call of Christ knowing he will provide. — Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS

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St. Catherine of Alexandria

Sunday Outdoor Mass - Weather permitting, 8 am Sun- SCRIP day Mass will be outdoors. Bring your own chair. Help support our school by purchasing SCRIP. You can Finance Council Meeting - May 26 at 6:30 pm continue purchasing scrip by filling out an order form Pastoral Council Meeting - May 26 at 7 pm found at the entrance of the school/church and placing it in the envelope provided. Order forms can be found on the parish website too. When the order is filled you will receive a call. Do not place any money/check in the St. Francis de Sales envelope. Remember, the businesses give a percentage Please note time changes! back to the school.

Finance Council Meeting - May 25 at 7:00 pm Schmitz Economart 4%, Red Cross 5%, Pastoral Council Meeting - May 25 at 7:30 pm McDonalds 5%, Spooner Bakery, 20%, Cemetery Board Meeting - May 25 at 6:00 pm Palace Theater 45%, Nick’s 25%, Kwik Trip 5% Spooner Family Restaurant 25%, Bush & Gilles 4% Meetings will be in the Church. River Street Restaurant 25%, Menards 4%, Northwind Book & Fiber 10%, Farm & Fleet 5% Our Family UPC’S (bar codes) Update

The Secular Servites will be collecting and redeeming Our The wind and the fire of Family UPC'S - (bar codes) for the St. Francis de Sales the Holy Spirit must con- School. Please cut any UPC (bar code) from any Our tinually break down those Family product and save them in an envelope or plastic barriers that we continue sandwich bag and bring them to Church and deposit them to build between us; we in white container labeled Our Family UPC's on the table must continually pass located in the West side of the greeting room. from Babel to Pentecost Please help us continue to support this project. - Pope Benedict XVI PEEK OF THE WEEK Miss Meland - 7th Grade Homeroom and Middle School Science

As this year winds down and the weather warms up, everyone is looking forward to summer. As a statement of this warmer weather, the middle schoolers spent some time setting up the fairy garden in the field across from church. They cleaned out the beds, planted new spring flowers, and added little fairy accents. Stop by to see their work! In the classroom, these kids are finishing the year strong. 8th grade is finishing up their unit on sound and light, 7th grade is finishing up the human body, and 6th grade is just starting to look at outer space and our solar system.

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St. Philip Neri St. Basil the Great, “On the Holy Spirit”

1515-1595 “Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration Founder of the to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of Confraternity of the heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our Most Holy Trinity liberty to call God our Father, our being made Memorial - May 26 partakers of the grace of Christ, our being "The best remedy called children of light, our sharing in eternal for dryness of spirit, glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a is to picture state of all “fulness of blessing,” both in this ourselves as world and in the world to come, of all the good beggars in the presence of God and gifts that are in store for us, by promise here- the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first of, through faith, beholding the reflection of to one saint, then to another, their grace as though they were already pre- to ask a spiritual alms of them with the sent, we await the full enjoyment.” same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us." St. Basil the Great, 4th Century, Distinguished Doctor of the Church 2 ~ Philip Neri 2