Welcome to the Stillwater Catholic Parishes Church of St. Michael St. Mary’s Church 611 South Third Street 423 South 5th Street www.stmichaelstillwater.org www.stmarystillwater.org Parish Office: 651-439-4400 Fax: 651-430-3271 Parish Office: 651-439-1270 Fax: 651-439-7045 St. Croix Catholic School www.stcroixcatholic.org School Office: 651-439-5581 Fr. Michael Izen, Pastor [email protected] 651-379-1261 Fr. John Powers, Associate [email protected] 651-379-1262 After-hour Clergy Emergency Line 651-430-1551 Twenty Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 14, 2018 Churches of St. Mary & St. Michael 2 | Churches of St. Mary & St. Michael • Stillwater, Minnesota Churches of St. Mary & St. Michael Contact List St. Mary’s Church Parish Office Hours 651-439-1270 Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. [email protected] Parish Council Chair, Mary Wicker 651-430-3223 Mass Times Men, Join Us Tuesday, October 16, 7-9 p.m., St. Mary’s Great Hall Sunday 8:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 6:00 p.m. Monthly meetings call men in the Stillwater parishes into community, formation, and Daily Masses Monday - Saturday 7:30 a.m. equip them for discipleship and mission. We gather to build fraternity and to zealously Sacrament of Penance live the Catholic faith. The topics will have an explicit focus that relates to masculine Saturday 8:00 - 8:30 a.m. spirituality, particularly that of fatherhood, and being a Watchman. Gatherings consist of social time, presentation, small group discussion, and prayer. Church of St. Michael Parish Office Hours 651-439-4400 Our next gathering: Professor and Monsignor Martin Schlag, JD, STD will be Monday - Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. presenting ‘ Jesus, Mary, and Joseph working: An example for the Friday 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. sanctification of our daily work’ followed by a question and answer [email protected] Parish Council Chair, Mike Thielen 612-849-9090 period. Prof. Msgr. Martin Schlag, JD, STD was ordained in the Mass Times: Prelature of Opus Dei in 1996. He received his Doctor Theologiae from Saturday 5:30 p.m. the Pontifical University Santa Croce in 1998 and from 2008 to 2017 Sunday morning 7:30, 9:15 and 11:00 a.m. was professor for social moral theology there, as well as cofounder and Daily Masses Monday - Friday 5:30 p.m. director of its Research Centre Markets, Culture and Ethics. In 2012, he Sacrament of Penance was appointed as consultant to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Saturday 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. Peace. He became a full professor at Santa Croce in 2013. In August Monday - Friday 5:00- 5:25 p.m. or by appointment 2017, he was appointed professor for Catholic social thought, as the Alan W. Moss Facebook: Church of St. Michael Stillwater endowed chair for Catholic Social Thought at the Center for Catholic Studies, University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), and director of the John A. Ryan Institute for Twitter: @churchofstmike Catholic Social Thought. He is author of more than eighty publications, among them: together with Domènec Melé, Humanism in Economics and Business: Perspectives of Pastoral Staff the Catholic Social Tradition (New York: Springer 2015); and The Handbook of Fr. Michael Izen, Pastor 379-1261 Catholic Social Teaching: A Guide for Christians in the World Today (2017) and The [email protected] Business Francis Means: Understanding the Pope’s Message on the Economy (2017), Fr. John Powers, Associate 379-1262 both published with The Catholic University of America Press. You will not want to [email protected] miss this one! Fr. Jack Donahue, retired 439-4400 Deacon Bert Bliss, Pastoral Minister You are [email protected] 379-1266 Tue Oct 16 encouraged to invite a friend Tue Nov 20 Faith Formation & Youth Ministry or family member Sat Dec 1 Office Hours 651-351-3175 to come with you. Tue Jan 15 Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Tue Feb 19 www.stmichaelstillwater.org No registration is www.stmarystillwater.org Tue Mar 19 [email protected] required. PJ Butler, Director of Faith Formation, Phone 651-379-1272 Fax: 430-3271 Upcoming VIRTUS Training—Wednesday, October 24 St. Croix Catholic School and Ark of Angels Montessori Attention befrienders, school & faith formation Preschool volunteers, ushers: volunteers working with 621 South 3rd St. youth or vulnerable adults must attend a one-time www.stcroixcatholic.org VIRTUS Safe Environment Training. If you have www.arkofangels.org not already attended a VIRTUS training, the next Principal, Sr. Mary Aquinas, O.P. opportunity is Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 10:45 [email protected] a.m. in the St. Michael’s Social Hall. Plan for Phone: 439-5581 about 3 hours and bring a bag lunch. For more Fax: 439-8360 info on how to register, contact Cindi at [email protected] or 379-1265. | 3 Churches of St. Mary & St. Michael Sacrament of Baptism This sacrament is the door to the Catholic Pastoral Care Church and the entrance into a new life in Christ. Parents must participate in a baptism prep. class before baptism. Visit your parish New Befriender Training website or call the parish office to make Training for those interested in becoming a Befriender has been rescheduled arrangements. and will now take place in January. Training consists of 5 Saturday sessions First Communion from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Visit our websites under News and Announcements Starting in 2nd Grade, children can begin for information on being a Befriender and for the application. Contact classes in September. Call Faith Formation at Deacon Bert Bliss if you are interested in becoming a Befriender. 651-379-1266 351-3175 for more information. Sacrament of Confirmation Respect Life News Starting in 9 th grade, high school students can begin the preparation process and be confirmed when they are ready. Call the faith formation office at 651-351-3175 Bridges of Mercy for Healing after Abortion ext. 4 to join the classes that begin each Fall. Read the full version at usccb.org/bridges-of-mercy . Rite of Christian Initiation Maria,* Vanessa, Li, Jennifer, and Darryl are Faith Formation is always pleased to speak to among the tens of millions of Americans whose anyone returning to the church or who wishes lives have been directly touched by abortion. Like to learn more about the Catholic faith. Formal so many others, they have experienced regret, classes begin each Fall. Call PJ Butler, 651- guilt, and grief. But, as they have also experienced, 379-1272 for more information. God’s healing love and mercy are always possible. Sacrament of Marriage Please see your parish’s website for full Many Catholics want to help women and men who have experienced abortion, but information. If you have any questions, some don’t know how to begin. Visit usccb.org/bridges-of-mercy to learn how people please contact your parish office. from various walks of life can assist friends, family members, fellow parishioners, clients—or perhaps even themselves. Anointing of the Sick The anointing of the sick is administered to Life is a gift from God, and so is His mercy. bring spiritual and even physical strength Also, be aware that the U.S. Church’s ProJect Rachel Ministry for healing after during an illness, especially near the time of abortion offers confidential, compassionate help. Visit HopeAfterAbortion.org. death. If you are undergoing surgery, are aged or experiencing declining health, con- *All names have been changed to protect privacy. This is a summary of a USCCB tact your parish office to request an anointing. Respect Life Program article by the same name and is reprinted with permission. © 2018, USCCB, Washington, D.C. All rights reserved. Bulletin Articles Send via email, whenever possible, to [email protected]. Parish Nurse Resources Televised Mass Valley Access October is breast cancer awareness month. An important part of Shown live on Sundays at 9:15 a.m. & tape - delayed on Wednesdays & Thursdays prevention is knowing how your breasts normally look and feel. The earlier breast cancer is detected, the better chance you have for Archdiocese of St Paul & Minneapolis successful treatment. Regular mammograms and screening tests can www.archspm.org help detect breast cancer in the earliest stages, before any symptoms Victim/Survivor of abuse Assistance may be noticeable. 24 hours/day 7 days/week 651-291-4497. Outreach to Persons with disAbilities Because the most common symptom of breast cancer is a new lump or mass, it is Deacon Sean & Joan Curtan-Coordinators imperative to be seen by a doctor specializing in breast disease if a lump or mass is [email protected] 651-291-4543 detected. While cancer is more likely to be detected with a painless, hard mass with National Catholic Partnership on Disability irregular edges, it can also be found in masses or lumps that are tender, soft, or www.ncpd.org rounded. It may also be painful. St. Michael’s Library “Some other possible symptoms of breast cancer include: Swelling of all or part of Open during parish office hours. a breast (even if no distinct lump is felt), skin irritation or dimpling (sometimes ReturningCatholics looking like an orange peel), breast or nipple pain or nipple retraction (turning inward), www.CatholicsComeHome.org redness, scaliness, or thickening of the nipple or breast skin, nipple discharge (other than breast milk),” (American Cancer Society, 2018). Project Rachel [email protected] Confidential individual referrals for those suf- At times, breast cancer can spread to lymph nodes. Before the original breast tumor fering with the pain of abortion 651 -2 91 -4 515.