TRI-PARISH WEBSITE www.triparishcfw.org ST. CATHOLIC CHURCH 309 West Lake Ave, PASTOR Rev. Msgr. R. Paul Heiting Fulda, MN 56131 Cell: 507-458-5702 [email protected] 3rd Sunday of Easter TRI-PARISH RCIA PAT & SHELLY MERRICK FROM THE DESK OF MONSIGNOR HEITING 507-274-6760 Contact Msgr. Heiting A SURPRISING SEVEN-MILE WALK… for scheduling all Baptisms and Weddings. Our from Saint Luke for the Third Sunday of Easter recounts the CHURCH OFFICE story of the disciples encountering the resurrected Lord as they traveled seven miles from Jerusalem to Emmaus. They had no idea that they were 305 S. Lafayette Ave. Fulda, MN 56131 conversing with the Lord until their eyes were opened when the Lord Phone: 507-425-2369 broke bread with them. Even after the resurrection, the Lord kept [email protected] instructing the disciples until He ascended to heaven. What is it that the FAITH FORMATION Lord wishes to teach us during these weeks of Easter? Keep awake and FAITH FORMATION DIRECTOR: alert as to what He may be saying to you! Phone: 507-425-2369 [email protected] SAINT GABRIEL DIRECTOR OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION… ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT We warmly welcome Saint Gabriel parishioner Peg Olsem who has Nico Doom Phone: 425-2369 ext. #1 graciously agreed to become our new Director of Religious Education. Cell: 507-227-8239 Peg brings a wealth of teaching and administrative experience to this Bookkeeper position. Parents, teachers, and students will benefit from her wisdom, Sue Post Cell:651-341-6659 experience, and creativity. Welcome Peg – we are blessed to have you in Maintenance this position! Doug Daniels OFFICE HOURS: A BLESSING OF FARM AND FIELDS… Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 9 a.m.– 3 p.m. Attention all farmers! Would you like your farm and/or fields blessed as you enter into spring planting? I would be honored to do this for you and PRAYER CHAIN for your family. With the blessing comes a guaranteed 10% increase in JoAnne McCormick: 507-425-2568 yield, if not in this life…then in the “heavenly farm” to come! Let me Agnes Malters: know if you would be interested in this blessing. 507-425-0023

PARISH CLUSTER WISHES… Parishioners of our parish cluster extend congratulations to Tiffany Berg and Lonnie Lambertus united in the Sacrament of Marriage on April 22nd at Saint Gabriel Parish. We likewise extend our sympathy and prayers to the family of Saint Gabriel parishioner Dorothy Gilbertson who was buried from Saint Gabriel Parish on April 21st MASS INTENTIONS Tues 2 Maple Lawn Nursing Home 10.00 a.m. † Gene Winter Wed 3 St. Anthony 8:30 a.m. † Maurice Louwagie Thurs 4 Immaculate Heart of Mary 8:30 a.m. † Rosemary Carlson Fri 5 St. Gabriel 8:30 a.m. No Mass Sat 6 Immaculate Heart of Mary 5:30 p.m. † Vince Schreier Sun 7 St. Gabriel 8:30 a.m. † Gary Holden Sun 7 St. Anthony 10:30 a.m. Parishioners

UP COMING EVENTS: SACRIFICIAL GIVING  Wednesday, May 3: Adoration at St. Anthony after Mass Sunday 4-23-17 Easter Week #43  Thurs & Fri, May 4-5: No Adoration I.H.M, St.G Member /Envelope/checks $ 620.00 plate offertory $ 198.00  Friday, Mat 5: No Daily Mass TOTAL $ 818.00  Wednesday, May 10: Session 7 Confirmation St.G 7P envelope thru office $ 150.00  Sat-Sun, May 13-14: Catholic Charities Collection

 Sunday, May 14: Mother’s Day Needed weekly on average  Friday, May 19: Trumpet Assembly per unrestricted fund budget $ 2,979.84

 Sunday, May 21: Baccalaureate Mass needed year to date (WK 43) per budget $ 128,133.12  Sat-Sun, May 27-28: Ascension of the Lord received year to date gen.  Monday, May 29: Memorial Day fund $ 129,808.60  Thursday, June 8: Ministry Days in Winona 8:30a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Extra per budget $ 1,675.48

THIS WEEK’S LITURGICAL DUTIES CMA 2017 as of 4-25-17 Sun. May 7 8:30 a.m. Goal $ 12,550.00 Altar Server: Tony Perez, Jon Olsem Pledged and received $ 5,120.00 Reader: Sharon Fuerstenberg * shortage of goal $ 7,430.00 Comm: Shannon Welling # of donors 28 Euch Min: Barry Holinka, Genell Hollahan, Bill Fuerstenberg Min of Hosp: Harlan Boom, Margaret Popp, Don Fuerstenberg, $ received $ 5,120.00 Tim Runkle

NEXT WEEKEND’S LITURGICAL DUTIES FCCW NEWS~ Group 1 will have the next funeral. After a long period of time without any funerals, we have had five Sun. May 14 Mother’s Day 8:30 a.m. very close together. Thanks for all your help and work with Altar Server: Logan Clarke, Tyler Madison them. You do a great ministry for people as they gather to Reader: Lisa Kremer bury the dead. Thanks! Comm: Mary Lubben Euch Min: Randy Kremer, Don Olsem, Jeff Zins St. Gabriel Quilting~ We will quilt this Monday Min of Hosp: Tom & Mary Appel, Ray & Joanne Bartosh afternoon, May 1, in St. Gabriel School beginning about 1:00 PM. No Release Time classes, so we can take advantage of an afternoon! ST. GABRIEL FAITH FORMATION April 30, 2017 [email protected] Office Phone– 507-425-2369 1st Communion: Distractions & Thanksgiving

Unless a child is constantly reminded, even given the words to say until he is able to phrase his own thanksgivings, he can easily forget to make any thanksgiving. It takes time and patience to form the habit, to learn how to fight through the distractions and pay perfect attention to God. It is not necessary that a child feel the grandeur of his union with Christ in the . In all probability, Today Sunday, April 30th we celebrate First he will feel more like looking around to see who else is receiving. Communion with the following parish children But if he can learn to apply his will to making a thanksgiving, close his eyes or cover his face so that distractions are shut out, his Drew Slaathaug Brady Madison thanksgiving has as great a value as if he were dissolved in sweetness. It is the action of the will which gives the value to Alberto Vega prayer; it is too bad to wait until you are twenty or more, and have "discovered" prayer for the first time, to learn this. How much nicer Alleluia! Alleluia! Congratulations to these Fine to learn it at seven — and why not? young Lads. May the Lord continue his journey through them. For emphasis we repeat the three most important things for children to say in their thanksgiving: "Thank You for coming to me in Holy Communion. I love You. Please help me to love You more," Everyone is invited to join in the phrased however each child would phrase them. Then we can celebration in the St. Gabriel basement. remind him to remember Father from whose hands he has received the Body of Christ, his family and friends, special intentions, the souls in Purgatory, and everyone in the world.

The child who, at this age, wants to go on talking to is MARK YOUR CALENDAR probably unusual (although they should all be encouraged to do this). The child who lifts his head to watch what is going on has at  Wednesday, May 10, Session 7 Confirmation St.G 7P least said the necessary things before distractions set in. Grace will work on even the least of these things, like yeast in a dough,  Sunday, May 21, Baccalaureate Mass because they are pure now, and very innocent. We must not let them waste their innocence.  Thursday, June 8, Ministry Days in Winona 8:30a.m. - 4:30 p.m. In our family there is always a family feast following First Communion. Here, with the table beautiful in white linen and the best silver, with Granny's Delft china, with a lovely ceramic of Our ATTENTION CONFIRMATION CANDIDATES! Our Lady and her Son as the centerpiece, the First Communion child is next Confirmation session is on Wednesday, May the honored guest. His gifts are at his plate, and a little bouquet of 10th at 7:00 p.m. in St. Gabriel Church. Please bring flowers, his Baptismal candle is lighted, and after Grace, before sitting down, the honored guest receives a kiss from everyone in your prayer books and your Confirmation binder. the family. Every year the feasts of First Communions are kept, if not on the exact feast day then on the parish First Communion day. Saint Mary's University in Winona~ Ministry Days 2017~ Thu, Jun 08 8:30 a - 4:30 p.m. "Ministry Days" is an One more member of the family at the Communion rail is a thrill all annual diocesan gathering for the clergy, religious, its own. At the breakfast afterward, if the preparation has been and lay leaders of our diocese to come together for thorough and the emphasis where it belongs, a First communicant will put what it all means in his own words. "Daddy has Jesus in prayer, sharing, learning, and planning relating to him, and Mother has Jesus in her, and Granny has Jesus in our common mission and ministry here in southern her...and Jesus is in me!" Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in me — is Minnesota. Held in the early summer each year, it not world-shaking? For more information visit catholicculture.org. this gathering also provides professional in-service and enrichment opportunities for these ministers 100th Anniversary of Fatima Celebration, Saturday, May and leaders 13, Kasson, MN ~You’re invited to the 100th anniversary of Fatima on Sat. May 13th starting at 12:45 pm, at the Andy & Natalie Prince Farm, Kasson, MN. Speakers include Rev Thein Nguyen, Rev. Msgr. Thomas Cook, IN ACCORDANCE with the Divine Plan a wonderful variety and Mother Assumpta, Prioress General of the Dominican Sister of Mary, of religious communities has grown up which has made it Mother of the Eucharist. Mass will be celebrated by Most. Rev Bernard easier for the church . . . to be equipped for every good Harrington at 5:00 pm. Adoration, Rosary Procession, Benediction, and work and ready for the work of the ministry—the building confessions are available throughout the day. The farm is located at 23274 up of the Body of Christ. 670th St. Kasson, MN. For more information: www.giftoffatima2017.com or —Second Vatican Council, Decree on the Adaptation and Andy Price 507-259-7675. Renewal of Religious Life Perfectae Caritatis, no. 1 St. Gabriel’s Classifieds Don’t forget to check out the GREAT Lighthouse CD’s in the south entrance of Church. There are a variety of topics; all guaranteed to deepen your Catholic Faith!

Catholic Charities~There is a quote in Les Miserables that states, “To love another person is to see the face of God.” We are humbled to see the face of God in those we serve at Catholic Charities. Pope Francis reminds us that we must be “living signs of hope.” When you support Catholic Charities efforts to provide help and hope for the poor and marginalized in southern Minnesota, you are a living sign of hope for all. Together on May 13th and 14th we can be a sign of hope in this world by supporting the Catholic Charities Annual Appeal. Your compassionate generosity is a life-changing blessing!

Respect Life~ The ONE MILLION ROSARIES FOR PREBORN BABIES prayer event is scheduled the weekend of May 5 through May 7. This yearly multi-national prayer event unites people in praying the Rosary for an end to the surgical and non-surgical killing of preborn babies. Please join Catholics across the country in this powerful prayer and offer a Rosary this weekend or whenever you can. For more information, see www.SaintMichaelTheArchangelOrganization.org. You may register your participation in this event on this site.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR A SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM – “Dream Catchers” is a youth servant- leadership training program for the children of Worthington-area immigrants, and we are looking forward to our 2nd summer of learning/growing together, but we need volunteers to help! The program is conducted one day a week (9 am to 4 pm) during the summer months (June/July/August) and is sponsored by Familias Juntas (Families Together). Each week the participants are bussed to a rural location– south of Iona – where they study leadership skills and learn about teamwork in a faith-based setting, through presentations, gardening, doing crafts and enjoying many activities/games together. We are in need of volunteers ages 16 and older to supervise, lead sessions, help with gardening, serve food, and plan games and activities. A current background check is required. A meeting/training for volunteers will be scheduled for -mid May; if you are interested in helping please contact Lisa Kremer at 507-360-3423 or [email protected]

Homeschooling Open House~ Interested in homeschooling your children? Are you wondering how to get started? Or do you just want more information? CHARISM, a homeschool support group of Catholic families from SW MN, is offering an information night on Monday, May 22, from 6:00-7:30 at the Marshall Public Library. Come and get all your questions answered! You don’t have to be Catholic to come. For more information, call Lisa at 507-865-4616 or Jennifer at 507-532-7532.

The Rev. Andrew D. Olsem~ invites you to participate in a Mass of Thanksgiving commemorating his 50th anniversary of Ordination to the Priesthood to be offered on Sunday, June 4, 10:00 am, at St. John the Baptism Church, 632 S. Broad St in Mankato. Luncheon following Mass. For Luncheon, please RSVP by May 15 to: [email protected] or 507-388-6283.

Upcoming Retreats Held at Retreat Center, Buffalo MN

May 10: “Hope Day” Finding a Reason to hope. 9:00am-3:00pm. ($40 Lunch included) May 13: Mothers, Grandmothers, Daughters, Sisters, Friends: “The Role of Women in healing at Wounded World” 9am- 3pm ($50 lunch included) May 19-21 Women’s Silent Weekend: “Reawakening Hope” ($160.00 per person) June 26– July 3: Directed Retreat: ($475.00 per person) July11-13: Women’s Silent Midweek Retreat: “Reawakening Hope” ($160.00 per person) July 21-21: Healing Retreat for Men & Women: “Healing our Relationships” ($175.00 per person) To Register or for more information: Christ the King Retreat Center ;621 First Avenue South • Buffalo, MN 55313; Phone • (763) 682-1394 or visit [email protected]