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Saint Gregory the Great Catholic Church Parish Office: 651.674.4056 Formation Office: 651.674.7382 Parish Office/Bulletin email: [email protected] Formation Office email: [email protected] www.stgregorynb.org Sunday Masses Saturday 5:00 pm Vigil Sunday 9:30 am Rosary at 9:00 am Weekday Masses Tuesday & Thursday 10:00 am Wednesday & Friday 9:00 am Devotion to Our Lady of Perpetual Help on Wednesday at 8:40 am Eucharistic Adoration Thursday 10:30 am 6:00 pm Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday 4:00 pm Clergy Pastor: Fr. Shane StoppelWasinger Assisting Priests: Fr. Chuck Brambilla Fr. Thomas Fitzgerald Fr. Bob Nygaard Parish Staff Faith Formation: Joan Hetherington, Claire Kind, Shawn Yerges Mission Trip Coordinator: Vince Hendren November 8 | 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Music Director: Cathie Hendren Bookkeeper: June Cierzan November 15 | 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Admin Asst: Barb Schleicher P.O. Box 609 | 38725 Forest Blvd | North Branch, MN 55056 | Parish Office: 651.674.4056 | www.stgregorynb.org If you or a loved one are ill in any way and would like to have your name included on the Prayer Chain, the Sunday Prayers Readings for the week of November 8, 2020 of the Faithful and/or the bulletin contact the Parish office. Sunday: Wis 6:1216/Ps 63:2, 34, 56, 78/1 Thes 4:1318 Permission from the individual must be given before we can or 4:1314/Mt 25:113 list their name in the Prayers of the Faithful or the bulletin. Monday: Ez 47:12, 89, 12/Ps 46:23, 56, 89 [5]/1 Cor 3:9c11, 1617/Jn 2:1322 Prayer, at its heart, is an act of faith, asking God to step in Tuesday: Ti 2:18, 1114/Ps 37:34, 18 and 23, 27 and 29 and believing that He is both willing and able to listen to us. [39a]/Lk 17:710 There is no prayer intention too large or too small — you can Wednesday: Ti 3:17/Ps 23:1b3a, 3bc4, 5, 6/Lk 17:1119 ask for God’s help with every need. Thursday: Phlm 720/Ps 146:7, 89a, 9bc10/Lk 17:2025 *************************************** Friday: 2 Jn 49/Ps 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18/Lk 17:2637 Almighty God, we lift up all those who are facing illness Saturday: 3 Jn 58/Ps 112:12, 34, 56/Lk 18:18 today. We ask that you would bring healing, comfort and Readings for the week of November 15, 2020 peace to their bodies. Calm their fears and let them Sunday: Prv 31:1013, 1920, 3031/Ps 128:12, 3, 45/1 experience the healing power of Your love. Amen. Thes 5:16/Mt 25:1430 or 25:1415, 1921 Continued prayers for: Monday: Rv 1:14; 2:15/Ps 1:12, 3, 4 and 6/Lk 18:3543 Betty Stoffel, David Nieve, Todd Olund, Brian Hoppe, Tuesday: Rv 3:16, 1422/Ps 15:23a, 3bc4ab, 5 [Rev Richard McCargar, Theresa Contras, Jim Kelly, 3:21]/Lk 19:110 Shayna Evans, Ron Schleicher Wednesday: Rv 4:111/Ps 150:1b2, 34, 56/Lk 19:1128 Thursday: Rv 5:110/Ps 149:1b2, 34, 56a and 9b/Lk 19:4144 Friday: Rv 10:811/Ps 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131 /Lk 19:4548 Saturday: Rv 11:412/Ps 144:1b, 2, 910/Lk 20:2740 Next Sunday: Ez 34:1112, 1517/Ps 23:12, 23, 56/ 1 Cor 15:2026, 28/Mt 25:3146 BLESSED DOMINIC COLLINS Dominic Collins was born in the town of Youghal never met Collins. Collins arrived at Castlehaven in County Cork about the year 1566. The Irish on Dec. 1, 1601, only 30 miles from his native Parliament had established Anglicanism six Kinsale, where the main part of the Spanish fleet years earlier as the official religion of Ireland. At had already arrived. A large English army under the age of twenty Collins went to France wanting Lord Mountjoy had laid siege to the town. to join the cavalry. He spent three years working Irish forces converged on Kinsale from North and in Brittany as a servant. Once in the army, he South. The Irish army surrounded the English on quickly rose through the ranks to captain, before the outside while the Spanish faced the English entering the service of King Philip II of Spain from inside the town. The Irish attacked at dawn where he served nine years in the Spanish on Christmas Eve, but for reasons never fully army. His greatest moment came when he captured a understood suffered a humiliating defeat with no help from strategic castle and was appointed military governor of the the Spaniards who remained within the town. region. The Irish scattered, with the O'Neill and O'Donnell armies During Lent 1598 he met a fellow Irishman, a Jesuit priest marching northward while O'Sullivan Beare led his people called Thomas White, whom he confided a desire to join the home to the Beare peninsula. Dominic Collins accompanied Jesuit Order. He decided that he wanted more than anything him in his retreat. Thus he found himself some months later else to join the Jesuits and serve as a brother. He had besieged inside Dunboy Castle with 143 defenders. When barely arrived in Santiago when the Jesuit College was the castle fell in 1602, all were immediately hanged except struck by plague. Seven members of the community were for Collins and two others. After being tortured, the two infected and many others fled for fear of catching the awful remaining soldiers were executed, while Collins was brought disease. Collins stayed on and tended the victims, nursing before Baron Mountjoy, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, who some of them back to health and comforting the others in tried to persuade him to join the English army and the their last hours. He had proved his worth and completed his English Church. Collins refused, and was brought back to novitiate without further question. his hometown of Youghal for execution. Before he ascended Back in Ireland at this time, there was revolt against the the scaffold to be hanged, he addressed the crowd in Irish English and Scottish planters in Ulster. The leaders were and English, saying that he was happy to die for his faith. Hugh O'Neill, Red Hugh O'Donnell and O'Sullivan Beare He was so cheerful that an officer remarked, "He is going to from West Cork. In Ulster O'Neill and O'Donnell were his death as eagerly as I would go to a banquet." Collins defying the power of the English crown and trying to call all overheard him and replied, "For this cause I would be willing of Ireland into revolt. In 1601 King Philip III of Spain decided to die not once but a thousand deaths." to send an army to the help of the Irish rebels. A number of Blessed Dominic Collins was beatified by Pope John Paul II priests traveled with the expedition including an Irish Jesuit, in 1992. Father James Archer who asked that Brother Collins be sent as his companion for the journey even though the priest had Article courtesy of Bob Rawson, Guest Writer PARISH NEWS FAITH FORMATION PRAYING FOR THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED PRAYER PARTNERS November is traditionally the month to remember and pray for We are looking for prayer part- our departed family & friends. Prayers will be offered for our ners for our 9th Grade Confir- beloved dead throughout November and the Book of Names of mation students. the Dead has been placed by the baptismal font from now until Prayer partners commit to before the beginning of Advent. praying for a student for a FOR VETERANS WE PRAY... period of two years until he/ That the Lord may preserve the members of our she is confirmed in 2022. If Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard and Air Force you can help in this important from all harm… ministry, please sign up on the That even in war, we may keep clearly before sheet provided in the vestibule. us the defense of all human rights, especially KIC GRADES 1 8 We are in our third week of the the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness… KIC program for Grades 1-8 That the Lord may help families with men and women in the which began on October 21. armed forces to cope with daily challenges in the absence of their We still have a few families loved ones… needing to pick up their infor- That our homeland is preserved from violence and terrorism… mation packets and begin the assigned lessons. That the nations of the world will seek to work together in Please contact Claire at the harmony and peace… Faith Formation Office That the hearts of all men and women will be moved to pursue (651.674.7382) if your true peace and justice… child(ren) have not started the lessons or for That violence may be overcome by peace; that weapons of any questions you may have. destruction be transformed into tools of justice, and hate give way to true charity… November Envelope, Plate, and eGiving Weekly Collection That grateful for and inspired by those veterans who have given their lives for our country we may bravely face the challenges Weekly Goal $4,610 ahead. Collected for November 1 $5,263 (+/) $653 YTD Weekly Goal and Collection ANOINTING OF THE SICK YTD Goal $82,980 On Tuesday, November 10 there will be an Anointing of the Sick Mass at 10:00 a.m. at Actual Collected $74,385 St.