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The Baptism of

Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you are coming to me?” Jesus said to him in reply, “Allow it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him. After Jesus was baptized, he came up from the water and behold, the heavens were opened for him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming upon him. And a voice came from the heavens, saying, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” The Rosary is prayed before Holy M-F @ 7:35 a.m. SERVANTS SCHEDULE

MASS INTENTIONS Knights of the : The Baptism of The Lord Please volunteer to serve Monday, January 13th whenever you are at Holy Mass. Saint Hilary, and Doctor of the Church 8:00 a.m. - † Michael Osowski Saturday, January 18th - 4:30 p.m. Knights of the Altar: Daniel Puent/Daniel Clements/ Tuesday, January 14th Frederick Ellis 8:00 a.m. - Intentions of Father Redfern Minister: Jason Hutzler Ext. Minister: Carol Patterson Wednesday, January 15th : John Rifenberg 8:00 a.m. - † William and Lucille Ritchie Ushers: Mike McArdle/Robert Maney

Thursday, January 16th Sunday, January 19th - 7:30 a.m. 8:00 a.m. - Intentions of Father Schaller Knights of the Altar: Knights Lector: Bill Rudy Friday, January 17th Ushers: Russ Allen/Bill Rudy/Curt Riley Saint Anthony, Abbot 8:00 a.m. - † Mrs. Inna W. Uhlig Sunday, January 19th - 9:30 a.m. Knights of the Altar Joseph Dobson/Weston and Vance Saturday, January 18th LaVoy/Dillion Jackson 8:00 a.m. - Intentions of Earl and Elaine Bonsack Ordinary Minister: Deacon Jason Hutzler 4:30 p.m. - † Thomas Randall Ext. Minister: Susan Schaller Lector Sharon Dawidowski Sunday, January 19th -2nd Sunday in Ushers: John Dawidowski/Gary Brauer/ 7:30 a.m. - Saint James Parishioners Tom McConaghy/Don Seufzer 9:30 a.m. - † Bernard and Rose Schwarzhoff 11:00 a.m. - Living and Deceased of the Sauter Family Sunday, January 19th - 11:00 a.m. Extraordinary Form Mass Master of Ceremony: Nicholas Bontkowski Thurifer: Nick Coppernoll CHURCH SUPPORT 1: William Coppernoll January 5, 2020 Acolyte 2: Sean Marshall : Joseph Korger Envelopes $ 4,109.00 Torchbearers: Benjamin Bontkowski/Anthony Vigil candles $ 71.20 Korger/Vincent Coppernoll Solemnity of Mary $ 1,345.00 Christmas $ 20.00

Ash Wednesday $ 5.00 Mission Sunday $ 25.00 Anointing of the Sick: Those who are seriously ill or Giving Online $ 490.74 have been sick for a long period of time should re- Total $ 6,065.94 ceive the of the Sick and Holy Commun- ion. MAKE DONATIONS ONLINE - ONLINE GIVING Please call St. James office to make arrangements - 608-782-7557. We offer an option for people who prefer to make do- nations online, called Online Giving. For quick access to Online Giving, visit our website www.saintjameslax.com Visitation of the Sick: If you become homebound be- and follow the instructions provided. For any questions cause of illness and would like to be visited, please about Online Giving, please contact Maria Stegmeier at: call Saint James office 608-782-7557 608-782-7557. CHURCH CLEANING UPDATE ON ANNUAL APPEAL

Our Annual Appeal goal is $44,840.00 and we are January 11 - Mary & Tom McConaghy currently at a total of $32,575.00. Please keep sending January 19 - Molly, Claire, Meg and Mary Riley those pledge cards in to the Diocese. If you have mis- January 26 - Diane Sullivan - Mary Ann Schelfhout placed your card, you can stop by the office to pick one up. After all the people had been baptized and Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit Remember: You can specify where you want your descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came donation to go, such as “to the seminarians”. from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.” Thank you for your generosity Luke 3:21-22

St. James the Less | Page 2 | www.saintjameslax.com CALENDAR REMINDERS Weekly Readings January 14 No PCCW Meeting during January January 13th - January 19th, 2020

January 21 Ragazze Coraggiose, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Mur- phy Hall Monday 1 Sm 1:1-8/Ps 116:12-13, 14-17, 18-19 [17a]/ Mk 1:14-20 February 1 First Saturday Tuesday 1 Sm 1:9-20/1 Sm 2:1, 4-5, 6-7, 8abcd [cf. 1]/ February 2 Donut Sunday, following 9:30 am Mass, Mk 1:21-28 School Gym. Wednesday 1 Sm 3:1-10, 19-20/Ps 40:2 and 5, 7-8a, 8b-9, February 4 Ragazze Coraggiose, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Mur- 10 [8a and 9a]/Mk 1:29-39 phy Hall Thursday 1 Sm 4:1-11/Ps 44:10-11, 14-15, 24-25 [27b]/ February 7 Adoration of the , Mk 1:40-45 8:45 am - 2:45 pm Friday: 1 Sm 8:4-7, 10-22a/Ps 89:16-17, 18-19 [2]/Mk February 7 Knights of St. Joseph, 6:00 pm 2:1-12 February 11 PCCW Meeting Saturday: 1 Sm 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1a/Ps 21:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 February 18 Ragazze Coraggiose, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Mur- [2a]/Mk 2:13-17 phy Hall Sunday: Is 49:3, 5-6/Ps 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10 [8a, 9a]/1Cor 1:1-3/Jn 1:29-34

HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS Saturday Vigil 4:30 PM THANK YOU! Sunday Masses 7:30, 9:30 & 11:00 (Ext. Form) AM Saint James the Less Parish would like to thank the

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Girls Group “Ragazze Coraggiose”, for the beautiful Saturday approx. 3:45 - 4:15 PM work they did cleaning the church as one of their ser- 1st Fridays/Saturdays after 8AM Mass when possible vice projects. They spent their Monday morning, De- cember 23, cleaning the pews, cushions, and washing PARISH STAFF the church floors. Fr. James Altman pastor Deacon Jason Hutzler permanent deacon We are grateful for your service. Maria Stegmeier administrative assistant God Bless you! Donna Walz director of religious education LECTIO EUCHARIST MARCH FOR LIFE! Online registration for Lectio Eucharist is available  Washington D.C., Jan. 22-26, 2020 at: https://www.stpatsonalaska.com/ · Major diocesan pilgrimage for youth and adults. Visit: If you are having problems with registering online, please register "the old fashion way" by filling out a www.diolc.org/yya/march-4-life-2020/ for infor- registration form and turning it in to your parish of- mation and online registration. fice. You can also put your registration in an envelope Here is the diocesan Facebook link for this event. and write "Lectio Eucharist" on the envelope and put it https://www.facebook.com/events/470858483538468/ in the collection basket Please accept our apologies for any difficulty in registering you may have had! Please don't let it dis- COATS FOR KIDS courage you from taking this incredible bible study. The Knights of Columbus – Saint Juan Die- You will be so glad you made the effort to join us! If go Council will be sponsoring a Coats for Kids drive you have any questions, please call your parish office or this winter. Bins will be placed in the entryways to col- contact Amy at: lect any donations through mid-December. (608)783-0847 or [email protected] We ask that in addition to coats for younger chil- dren, please also consider donating coats for teenagers WATCH THE MOVIE: UNPROTECTED and hats/gloves/scarves for all ages as these items are often overlooked. The movie Unplanned will be shown at Blessed Sacrament Parish Hall on Wednesday, 1.15.2020, at Your generosity is greatly appreciated! 6:30 PM. This will be a free showing with donations accepted to Pro-Life Wisconsin. Discussion led by

By Baptism we are made flesh of the Crucified “ Deacon David Allen and Marie Allen afterward, and “ copies of the movie will be available.

Pope St. Leo the Great Contact Marie Allen with questions: 608-784-5189 MYSTERIUM FIDEI - - THE HOLY EUCHARIST

+ + Please welcome our new parishioners Requiescat in Pace to the Parish Family of St. James the Less

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated for Karen Annie Wieczorek Rieber on Tuesday, January 7, 2020. Rita Krueger Our entire parish family of St. James extends its sympathy and promise of prayers to Victor, children, THREE CANDLES IN THE SANCTUARY grandchildren, and all her family and friends. “I baptize you with water, but the one who is coming will baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire.”

(The Baptism of the Lord, the Liturgy of the Hours)

ALL SAINT JAMES MEN AND During the month of January the Church celebrates YOUNG MEAN the Solemnity of the Baptism of Our Lord. Here at Saint James, we will remember not only our own bap- The Knights of Columbus men from Saint James tism, but also those who have been Baptized over the and the Shrine of Guadalupe are sponsoring a FUN KNIGHT OUT at 129 Marina Dr, La Crosse, WI 54601 past year, represented by the three candles in the Sanc- tuary (next to Huck Finn's in French Island) on Friday Janu- ary 24th at 6pm!! The Prayer for the Lighting of the Candle from the Rite of Baptism: What is the "FUN KNIGHT OUT” you may ask, well it's a chance for us to join in Fraternity and play “Receive the light of Christ. Parents and godpar- cards and board games and have some pizza courtesy of ents, this light is entrusted to you to be kept burning the Knights. We also want to invite young men that are brightly. This child of yours has been enlightened by High School Age to join us. Here is a chance as to Christ. He (she) is to walk always as a child of the light. demonstrate that we can have a fun time and be a good May he (she) keep the flame of faith alive in his (her) witness to faith as well. This event will also be a chance heart. When the Lord comes, may he (she) go out to for men who are not yet Knights to come out and join us meet him with all the saints in the heavenly kingdom.” to see what we are all about.

We will also be saying the Rosary starting at 6pm so REMINDER! bring your BEADS! Saint James the Less PCCW Scholarship appli- cations are due by January 31st. Please drop them If you have any questions, please contact Patrick off to the Parish office by that date. Thank you and Ilfrey at: [email protected] God Bless.

Questions may be addressed to Georgia Stockman at:

BABY BOTTLES FOR BIRTHRIGHT [email protected] or 716-239-2822. The annual Baby Bottles for Birthright fundraiser for Birthright of La Crosse is here! WISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE SIGNATURE AD

Birthright is an international pro-life organization We invite you to join with others prolife members of that helps women struggling with unplanned pregnan- our community in making a public statement of our be- cies, by offering emotional support, practical resources, lief in the sanctity of human life. This annual signature and referrals. The La Crosse chapter has been around ad commemorating all of the precious lives lost to abor- since 1976, thanks to the work of our dedicated volun- tion will be in the La Crosse Tribune on Sunday, Janu- teers and the generous support of church congregations ary 19th. in the area. January 22nd is the 47th Anniversary of Roe v Wade Please take a baby bottle and fill it with your spare legalizing abortion. The La Crosse Chapter of Wiscon- change, cash, or check from January 20th through Feb- sin Right to Life sponsors the ad. It costs close to ruary 17th, as a tax deductible donation to Birthright of $4,000.00. All donations are gratefully accepted ($3.00 La Crosse! Please return the baby bottle and completed per person or $5.00 per family are suggested if possi- insert no later than February 17th! ble).

Your support will be greatly appreciated by moms There will be sign-up sheets available in the back of church. Thank you. and dads to be, their unborn children, and us too! Catholic Traditions Because building our Faith does not happen by accident

Pope: World Needs Voice of Teacher-

Reflects on Educational Mission That Comes With Ordination Vatican City, April 14, 2010 (Zenit.org)

Though priests are called to preach a message that is not their own, they are also called to identify with that message, allowing themselves to be profoundly transformed in it. This was the reflection made today by Benedict XVI at the general audience in St. Peter's Square. As the Year for Priests draws to a close (closing celebrations are scheduled for June 9-11), the Pope said he would dedicate a series of reflections to priestly ministry. Today he took up the first of the three offices (teaching, sanctifying and governing) the receives, reflecting on the importance of the priest in the midst of an "educational emergency."

"We live amid great confusion about the fundamental choices of our life," the Holy Father observed, saying there are "so many contrasting philosophies, which arise and disappear, creating confusion about the fundamental deci- sions." But as promised in the , the Lord has compassion on his "sheep without a shepherd," the Pontiff said. "The Lord, moved by compassion, interpreted the word of God, he himself is the Word of God, and thus he gave guidance. This is the function 'in persona Christi' of the priest: to render present, in the confusion and disorientation of our times, the light of the Word of God, the light that is Christ himself in this our world."

This means, Benedict XVI explained, that the priest "does not teach his own ideas, a philosophy that he himself has invented, has found and that pleases him; [...] but, in the confusion of all the philosophies, the priest teaches in the name of Christ present, he proposes the truth that is Christ himself, his word, his way of living and of going for- ward."

Not a spokesman. The Pope clarified, however, that this does not mean the priest is "neutral" in relation to this word, "almost like a spokesman who reads a text which, perhaps, he does not appropriate." Instead, like Jesus with the Father, the "priest who proclaims the word of Christ, the faith of the Church and not his own ideas, also say: I do not live from myself and for myself, but I live with Christ and from Christ and because of this all that Christ has said to us becomes my word, even if it is not mine. [...]

"The teaching that the priest is called to give, the truth of the faith, must be internalized and lived in an intense personal spiritual journey, so that the priest really enters into a profound, interior with Christ himself. The priest believes, accepts and tries to live, first of all as his own, all that the Lord has taught and the Church has transmitted, in that journey of identification with the very ministry of which St John Mary Vianney is an exemplary witness."

This will mean that the priest is often called to be a countercultural voice, the Holy Father acknowledged. But he has a "prophetic force" in "showing the unique novelty capable of bringing about an authentic and profound renewal of man, namely that Christ is the Living One, and the nearby God, the God who operates in the life and for the life of the world and gives us truth, the way to live."

The priest is always a teacher, the Pontiff said, but should give his lesson "not with the presumption of one who imposes his own truth, rather with the humble and happy certainty of one who has found the Truth, who has been gripped and transformed, and because of this, can do nothing less than proclaim it."

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