th 25 Sunday in Ordinary Time MASS INTENTIONS LITURGICAL ASSIGNMENTS WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 21 - 27 SEPTEMBER 26 & 27, 2020 Tue, Sep 22 6:00pm Rudy & Gertrude Edwards Family USHERS Wed, Sep 23 8:00am Jody Hoelscher 6pm Matt Peters, Tom Peters, Ralph Samson, George Scheulen Thu, Sep 24 9:30am Jody Hoelscher(Frankenstein) 10am Steve Morfeld, Chris Muenks, Pat Muenks, KP Nilges Fri, Sep 25 8:00am Melvin Wolfe LECTORS Sat, Sep 26 4:30pm Randy & Samantha Schaefer 6pm Evelyn Niekamp, Debbie Backes 6:00pm Leo Brandt; Cletus Scheulen 10am Rich Dudenhoeffer, Tim Bower Sun, Sep 27 8:00am NO MASS/Fall Festival (Frankenstein) COMMUNION MINISTERS 10:00am Parishioners 6pm John Oliveras, Pam Thomas, Nathan Veltrop Daily & Weekend Mass will continue to be streamed on our 10am Kenny Fick, Lisa Grellner, Debra Jaegers Facebook page at www.facebook.com/stgeorgeparishlinn/. SERVERS 6pm Hope Wolfe, Elizabeth Sprenger, Dawson Sprenger 10am Hank Klouzek, Mac Klouzek, Josiah Harris EVENTS ROSARY LEADERS Sun, Sep 20 – CYO Feed Your Faith- 6-7:30pm, all parish high 6pm Edna Kliethermes school teens are welcome. 10am Gerri Reynolds Sun, Sep 20 –Virtual Frankenstein 5K Run/Walk –Run/Walk at your convenience during the month of October to benefit St. GREETERS Mary School. Register early by Sept 20, cost $20, to guarantee a 6pm Mary Wilbers, Mary Ruth Deeken 10am Ken & Tracy Niekamp shirt. Sign up at www.ourladyofhelp.wordpress.com. Sun, Sep 20 – St. Michael Drive-Thru Dinner – Russellville COLLECTION COUNTERS serving rope sausage & au gratin potatoes 11am-6pm. Dee Brandt, Gerri Reynolds Sun, Sep 27 – Frankenstein Fall Festival-German pot roast CALL TO PRAYER meals served 11am-5pm, available for drive through, walk up and seating available on the grounds. Quilt/Dessert auction 4pm. Please pray for: Dennis Haslag, Rhonda Whitlock, Ana Sun, Sep 27 – Visitation Fall Festival- Vienna, Serving carry Sanner, Dennis Rikard, Melinda Rikard, Holly Eynard, out or drive through 11am – 5:30pm, fried chicken and sausage. Ben Samson, Timmy Wibberg, Paul McReynolds Jr, Sun, Oct 4- St. George Fall Festival – Serving fried chicken and Kennedy Ann Hartman, Justin Linker, Ashlea Hering, German pot roast meals drive-thru 11am-7pm, quilt auction at Rebecca Helmig, Scott Rikard, Jerry Nilges, Mindy 4pm, raffle and beer/soda garden available. Heintz Jarvis, Sharon Thomas, Larry Thomas, Mike & Tue, Oct 6 – Seeking Christ For Our Nation Mass – 6:30pm, Bridget Parkhurst, Ardith Wilson, Bob Wilson, Rodney sponsored by the Linn Knights of Columbus. All are welcome. Schaben, Travis Beers, Brenda Strope, Urban Schwartze, Tue, Oct 6 – Red Cross Blood Drive- 3-7pm Loose Creek Hayden Backes, Jennifer Dewesplore, Ashley Wilbers, Community Center. Schedule an appointment by calling 800- Rosemary McDaniel, Cherlyn Voss, Dennis Straub, Judy 733-2767 or visit redcrossblood.org and enter BonnotsMillKofC. Wieberg, Martha Cole, Cami Bowman, Rodney Strope, Kaleb Christian, Randy Wilson, Martha Jaegers, Jennifer Kixmiller, Marilyn McDaniel Vaughn, Louise Bonnot, BISHOP’S SEPTEMBER PRAYER INTENTION Mike Fowler, Lee Thomeczek, Donna Haslag, Denny For children deprived of a safe and healthy home, that they Lamb, Hudson Haley, Berry Wiggins, Jaiden, Ronnie experience the love of God through the care and concern shown by Peters, Bo Kleffner, Bill Kliethermes, Dennis Catholics. Dudenhoeffer, Barbara Anne Baker, Paul Holterman, Debbie Scheulen, Fr. Mike Coleman, Fr. Christopher WEEKEND COLLECTION – SEPTEMBER 13, 2020 Aubuchon, Bob Jurd, Jessie Allen, Carl Rhoads, Jack Maintenance $680 Votives $57 Graham, Roman Scheulen, Mary Valdes, Marilyn Cemetery $40 Religious Retirement $135 Herigon, Steve Laffoon, the Lucille (Wasinger) Grelle & Fall Festival Meat $370 Fall Festival Quilt $225 Frank Grelle families, & Charlie Scheulen. Please contact All Saints $15 Assumption $50 Catholic Missourian $15 the parish to add those who would like to be listed for prayer. Total collection Goal Net income/(loss) September 6 $17,192 $15,000 $2,192 September 13 $8,908 $15,000 ($6,092) September 20 $ $15,000 September 27 $ $15,000 Sunday, September 20, 2020 SCHOOL NEWS FROM THE PRINCIPAL ST. GEORGE FALL FESTIVAL The annual Home and School “Fun”Raiser Raffle is We will be hosting a modified version of our Fall underway. Tickets are $20 and will be on sale from August Festival this year on Sunday, October 4. We will include a 12 to October 9. There are ten chances to win prizes ranging drive-through or carry out dinner available 11am – 7pm of from $100 to $1,500. All funds generated from this raffle fried chicken and German pot roast. The meal will not will directly benefit the students of St. George. If you are include desserts or homemade bread so those donations interested in a ticket, please contact a school family member from each family will not be needed. We will have a cash or call the school office at 897-3645 or email Mrs. Grellner raffle, the quilt auction, and the beer garden/soda stand. at [email protected]. Bidding will begin on our Facebook page for auction items September 20th we celebrate Catechetical Sunday. This later this month, prior to the Fall Festival. There will be no is a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the role that each kids games, Bingo, country store, or sandwich stand, but person plays, by virtue of Baptism, in handing on the faith many of those workers will be needed in other areas. This and being a witness to the Gospel. Catechetical Sunday is an event will require many hands to keep things running opportunity for all to rededicate themselves to this mission smoothly. There is still time to donate towards your as a community of faith. Parents are the primary educators neighborhood quilt or meat using your collection of the faith. They are passing down the faith to future envelopes. Each quilt costs the parish approximately $400 generations. Teachers work in a partnership with parents to so donations towards the quilts for each neighborhood are help build the Body of Christ through prayer, service and appreciated. Work lists and raffle tickets will be coming out knowledge of the faith. Catechesis is a distinct and special soon for parishioners to pick up in the back of church. The ministry in the Church. As the Catechism of the Catholic work list will also be posted to the St. George Facebook Church makes clear, “Catechesis is intimately bound up with page. We appreciate the support of all the parishioners to the whole of the Church’s life . her inner growth and help make this event a success. correspondence with God’s plan depend essentially on catechesis”. PARISH BOOKKEEPER POSITION St. George Parish is looking for a part-time bookkeeper WHAT IS CYO for 10-15 hours per week. Responsibilities include: CYO stands for Catholic Youth Organization. The main payroll and benefits, accounts payable/receivable, taxes, purpose of CYO is to guide young Catholics to live a reconciliation of accounts, and financial reports. Please Christian life from a young age, develop trust between peers contact the parish office for more information. and live a happy life in a positive manner. Here at St. George we bring our high schoolers together each month during the BAPTISM school year to help build relationships between the teens as Rowan Everly Hoelscher, daughter of Alex and Kayla well as their community. After an opening prayer and a Hoelscher, was baptized at St. George last weekend. We shared meal, we discuss topics, usually of their choosing, to extend our congratulations to Rowan and her family! help guide them and live their best lives. We also offer fun activities each month, outside of the meetings, to nurture LIFE OF THE SAINTS- ST. ANDREW KIM TAEGON, those relationships and just let kids have good, clean fun. PAUL CHONG HASANG, AND COMPANIONS Meetings are the third Sunday of each month, September The evangelization of Korea began during the 17th through April. Other activities are usually scheduled once a century through a group of lay persons. A strong vital month as well. All high schoolers are always welcome to any Christian community flourished there under lay leadership or all meetings. Our first meeting is Sunday, September th until missionaries arrived from the Paris Foreign Mission 20 at 6pm. We are looking forward to another great year! Society. During the terrible persecutions that occurred in the 19th century (in 1839, 1866, and 1867), one hundred CEMETERY MARKER REPAIRS and three members of the Christian community gave their The St. George Cemetery Board will be raising some of lives as martyrs. Outstanding among these witnesses to the flat markers and Veteran Markers that have sunken into the faith were the first Korean priest and pastor, Andrew the ground. If you would like to help fix your loved ones Kim Taegon, and the lay apostle, Paul Chong Hasang. marker, please join us and bring a shovel. We are meeting Among the other martyrs were a few bishops and priests, on Saturday, September 26, 2020 at 10am at the cemetery, but for the most part, lay people, men and women, married weather permitting. If you have any questions, please and unmarried, children, young people, and the elderly were contact Nathan Veltrop at 573-619-6088. martyred. All suffered greatly for the Faith and consecrated the rich beginnings of the Church of Korea with their blood THANK YOU! as martyrs. Pope John Paul II, during his trip to Korea, St. Ann’s Sodality would like to thank the family of canonized these martyrs on May 6, 1984, and inserted their Ralph Goans for the donation towards preparing and serving feast into the Calendar of the Universal Church. Their feast his funeral meal. May his soul and the souls of all the day is September 20.