CHURCH OF CHURCH OF CHURCH OF SAINT BERNARD

1160 WOODBRIDGE STREET • SAINT PAUL, MN 55117

One block west of Rice Street on Geranium Avenue

CHURCH OF SAINT BERNARD

1160 WOODBRIDGE STREET • SAINT PAUL, MN 55117

One block west of Rice Street on Geranium Avenue

MAY 31, 2020

Anointing of the Sick & Communion for the Sick & Homebound

Please call the Parish Office to make arrangements

with Fr. Ivan

Baptism of Infants

Marriage Preparation

Couples anticipating Christian Marriage need to contact the Parish Office at least six months prior to the wedding

date they desire. After a pre-nuptial interview with a priest, a specific date will be set. Marriage preparation classes

are required.

Parish Staff Pastor

Reverend Ivan Sant

Associate Priest

Reverend Joseph Kureh

Accountant Jim Rice Secretary Gloria Nava

RCIA and Missionary/

Internship Program David Neira

Refugee Liaison Hsawreh Sharpoehtay

Music Director Mary Beth Redmond

Parish Administrator Ryan Thornton

Parish Office Phone: (651) 488-6733

Fax: (651) 489-9203

Website: www.stbernardstpaul.org

Facebook Page:

Ascension of the Lord

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A Word from Fr. Ivan

Dear Parishioners,

Since we first began taking steps to contain the coronavirus on May 20th, I am happy to offer the following updates on the health of our clergy

and seminarians.

First, I tested negative for the coronavirus on Saturday, May 23rd. I moved into the office building the following day to protect the parish fam-

ily and myself, as well as to preclude future infection. Yesterday, I went to my physician, who confirmed my health and approved of the steps

I have taken to stay healthy.

Second, Fr Joseph is feeling much better and his condition improves every day. Ray the seminarian has been monitoring Fr Joseph as he has

quarantined in his room and been taking care of him throughout this time. Thank you for all the support you have provided, from prayers to

food to medicine. This has made it easier for Ray and lifted Fr Joseph’s spirits.

Despite the unfortunate presence of the coronavirus in our rectory, we as a parish are moving forward little by little to the full implementa-

tion of the latest archdiocesan guidelines for reopening. Archbishop Hebda has encouraged us to reopen the church for public Mass, so long

as we take the proper precautions. These include limiting physical touch to decrease touch points, marking off pews for appropriate social

distance, and propping open the entrance and exit doors before and after Mass to create more space for entering and exiting the church

building. We have taped or closed the pews in the church limiting just the 25% of the church capacity, providing hand sanitizers by doors of

the church and we are asking everyone to wear masks in the church. We will have some extra masks if anyone needs. All the detailed proto-

col is in the last page of this bulletin.

Please remember that Archbishop Hebda has dispensed all parishioners from the weekly Sunday Mass obligation so that no one has to risk

their lives to receive the sacraments. Nonetheless, the Church recognizes that everyone needs the grace of the sacraments in this time, and

will provide them to everyone who seeks them, provided this does not pose an extreme risk to anyone’s health.

St. Bernard’s is here to serve you and minister to your spiritual needs. The coronavirus has made crystal clear the essential nature of this

role. If you need more specialized accommodations, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Peace be with you all.

Fr. Ivan Sant

P.S. Please stay safe during this weekend and pray for peace in our cities to Our Lady Queen of Peace.

O Mary, sweet Mother of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, behold at your feet your sad and perturbed children,

full of confusion, and without peace because of our sins. Intercede for us so that we may enjoy peace with God and

our neighbor, through your Son Jesus Christ. No one else can give it except this Jesus whom we receive from your

hands. When He was born in Bethlehem, the angels announced peace to us and when He left the world, He prom-

ised it and left it as His inheritance. You, O Blessed Queen of Peace, bring Him, the Prince of Peace, in your arms.

Show us this Jesus and lay Him in our heart. O Queen of Peace, establish your kingdom among us and rule with

your Son over your people who, full of trust, commit themselves to your protection. Drive far from us feelings of

selfish love; expel from us the spirit of envy, violence and discord. Bring Peace in our cities. Bless us by guiding our

steps on the road of peace, unity and mutual charity so that by being a part of your family here we may bless you

and your Divine Son in Heaven for all eternity.

Amen.

Now say 3 Hail Mary’s

Prayer Line Please call

Shirley Collett at (651) 488-6330

Judy Cloutier at (651) 224-2966

Mass Readings for the

Week of May 24th

Sunday: Acts 2:1-11/1Cor 12:3b-7,12-13/Jn 20:19-23

Monday: Gn 3:9-15,20/Jn 19-15

Tuesday 2Pt 3:12-15a 17-18/Mk 12:13-17

Wednesday: 2Tm 1:1-3,6-12/Mk12:18-27

Thursday: 2Tm2:8-15/Mk12:28-34

Friday: 2Tm 3:10-17/Mk12:35-37

Saturday: 2Tm 4:1-8/Mk12:38-44 Sunday: Ex34:4-6,8-9/2Co13:11-13/Jn3:16-18

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Please pray for the sick and homebound

Mary Nordine Margaret Datko

Lloyd Anderson Lorraine Eheim

Theresa Griffith Bernice Labarre

Devra Shepherd Yur Reh

J. Harringer Delores Schloesser

† Mass Intentions †

Saturday May 30

8:30am Souls In Purgatory

4:00 pm †

Sunday May 31 Pentecost Sunday

8:00 am For Fr. Joseph Healing

10:30 am † Edward Gunter

2:00 pm Parish

Monday June 1 Mary Mother of the Church

8:30am † Mario Sant

Tuesday June 2 St. Marcellinus and Peter

8:30am † Emauel Sant

Wednesday June 3 St. Charles Lwanga & Companions

8:30am † Marcie Carroll

Thursday June 4

8:30am † Josephine Troje

Friday June 5 St. Boniface

8:30am † Ray and Teri Neudauer

Saturday June 6 St. Norbert

8:30am † Marilyn & Hartley Connolly

4:00 pm † Dearly Departed

Sunday June 7 Trinity Sunday

8:00 am

10:30 am †

2:00 pm Parish

NOTICE ON GIVING VIA CREDIT/DEBIT CARD

OR BY CHECK:

We have implemented an new way giving to our parish through

online, on our website www.stbernardstpaul.org,

with a credit or debit card, you can make a donation on the

window on our parish website entitled “Donation to our Par-

ish”. At this window there is also an option to set up recurring

direct deposits on a weekly or monthly basis.

If you would like to make a donation by check, you can mail to

the address of the Parish Office:

1160 Woodbridge St, St. Paul, MN 55117

Capital Campaign Update Total Pledges: $920,298

Payments to date: $833,344

Amount Remaining: $ 86,954

Boiler Repair collected $16,200

Last week’s collection ill be in

next week’s bulletin.

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Parish News & Events

Apply for Marie Tschida Pranke Scholarship

Funds St. Bernard’s invites all parishioners with children at-

tending Catholic high schools to apply for a scholarship

from the Marie Tschida Pranke Scholarship Fund. This

fund was initially established when Marie Tschida

Pranke died. The funds were originally distributed to

students at St. Bernard High School until the school

closed in 2010. The amount of each award will be

based on the number of applicants. The funds are sent

directly to the Catholic high school that your child will

be attending. Please send a request to the parish office at 1160 Wood-

bridge St. or to the administrator at

rthornton@churchofstbernard-stp.org. Include the stu-

dent’s name, parents’ name(s), Catholic high school

name, grade your child will be in for the 2020-21 school

year. Requests should be submitted by May 13, 2020.

Funds will be sent to the high school when attendance is

verified by the school in the fall. However, we will notify

you of the amount of the award by June 17.

Faith Formation Update

Due to our present situation of the Covid-19 we have

postponed our 1st Communions/reconciliation and

Confirmation

Our Faith Formation Baptisms, 1st Communions and

Confirmation will be in the end of July and beginning of

August. They will be held in small groups of 10 children.

More information will be given to the parents as the situ-

ation get more clearer.

Projects Approved by our Finance Council

Church Tunnels Abatement. Our parish is moving forward

with the project to clean out all the asbestos in all the heat-

ing piping of the church tunnels. This is important for two

main reasons: firstly, to have safe access to the tunnels and

secondly it will start eliminating the problem of humidity on

the walls of the church. By cleaning the tunnels of asbestos

we will be able to open the vents that link the tunnels with

the church. This helps to have better heat flow and will help

to dry the walls. The cost of the abatement is $33K. Mavo

Systems will do the work, since they gave us the best bid.

Retaining Wall. The church’s retaining wall is also contrib-

uting to the humidity in the church by saturating the lime-

stone. Those were created to absorb all the rain water that

falls on the roof of the church. However our maintenance

manager John Vancura is realizing that this keeps the walls

humid. So we are eliminating this problem by taking the

wall down.

Grade School Brick work: As many of you know, the Grade

School building brick desperately needs a tuck pointing.

Our maintenance team has been looking into this to deter-

mine the most economical way we can do this work. They

reached out to various local tuck pointing companies. They

found a construction company called Quality Restoration.

The price of this work will be as follows: $38K for the tuck

pointing and all brick and mortar material, approximately

$10-15K for the high-lift renting, and approximately $20K

for the sheet metal capstone.

All these finance will come from our savings which we have

mainly saved from the school rental income.

If anyone is willing to give a donation toward these projects

you can do so by addressing your donation to Building Re-

pairs.

If you have any question about these project please do not

hesitate to contact Fr. Ivan or Tim Struntz (President of the

Finance Council) or John VanCura our maintenance man-

ager.

Archbishop statement Regarding the Death of George Floyd

in Minneapolis

The video of George Floyd in police custody Monday evening is gut

wrenching and deeply disturbing. The sadness and pain are intense.

Let us pray for comfort for his grieving family and friends, peace for

a hurting community and prudence while the process moves for-

ward. We need a full investigation that results in rightful accounta-

bility and veritable justice.

Particularly at this time when human fragility has been brought into

focus by the Covid-19 pandemic, we are called to respect the worth

and dignity of each individual, whether they be civilians in need of

protection or law enforcement officers charged with providing that

protection. All human life is sacred. Please join our Catholic com-

munity in praying for George Floyd and his family, and working for

that day when “love and truth will meet [and] justice and peace will

kiss” (Psalm 85).

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Important Information to attend Public Masses

Returning of Limited Public Masses Church of St. Bernard, St. Paul From: Father Ivan Sant, Pastor THESE DIRECTIVES AND INVITATIONS ARE A DDRESSED TO OUR PARISHIONERS. In order to avoid confusion, please don’t pass this information or invitation to people that are not parishioners. It is very im-portant at this time that the faithful follow the directives of their own respective pastors: every parish has different needs and challenges. Rules cannot be applied the same to all parishes. The following directives I am giving you here are meant ONLY for our parishioners.

SUNDAY DISPENSATION and THOSE AT-RISK: Archbishop Hebda has dispensed us from the obligation to at-

tend Sunday Mass until further notice. This means that you are

not obliged to come to Mass during this time until the dispensa-

tion is lifted.

If you can, we still encourage all our at-risk people, those with

underlying health conditions and the elderly to remain home a

little longer or until it is safer for you to come out. Since the

COVID-19 virus is a threat to our physical health and also a

spiritual health, we need the grace of the Sacraments. There-

fore, I am arranging that the Saturday 4pm and Sunday 8am

Mass is ONLY for those who are more vulnerable can attend

that Mass. We will do extra cleaning and sanitizing of the

Church before these Masses, will keep social distancing, etc. If

you are relatively healthy and have kept less of a strict self-

quarantining or socially distancing, please do not attend these

Masses. The Sunday Masses at 10:30am (English) and 2:00pm

(Spanish) are available to you.

NO PHYSICAL TOUCH: No greetings or holding of hands

at all times while in Church during our services. We are all ex-

pected to keep social distancing of at least 6 feet while in the

Church. Our pews are roped off to ensure this. Please proceed

only to the designated open pews. If you are of the same house-

hold, you sit may next to another. Otherwise, keep a distance of

6 feet please.

HAND SANITIZER AND MASKS: Please bring your own

hand sanitizer and personal mask if you can. We will still pro-

vide hand sanitizers at the open church entrances and exits. We

will also have some disposable face masks for those who cannot

bring their own.

We will be cleaning and sanitizing the Church before and after

every Mass, giving special attention to the restrooms and door

handles.

ENTRANCE AND EXIT DOORS: To decrease surface

exposure and to make sure everyone sanitizes his hands and has

face masks upon entry, the only entrance into the church will be

on Geranium Avenue. Please exit the church from the opposite

side of the church, facing the school. The front door of the

church will be opened before Mass for more space for exiting.

We want to avoid touching door handles and other church ob-

jects as much as we can.

Signs have been put up to indicate the entrance and the exits, so

people may walk in one direction and do not bump on each

other. Certain doors will be opened at certain times or

all the time to ensure air circulation and a socially distanced traf-

fic flow.

PEW SEATING: When you come to the church you may sit

either: two people per pew, or one family per pew. People will

be seated in EVERY THIRD PEW. Please follow the signs and

sit only in the pews that are open and available. The pews that

are blocked will have a written sign that says “NO SEATING

HERE.”

MISSALLETTE AND MUSIC ISSUE: We are not leaving

books in the Church pews. We are asking parishioners to take

home a missalette and hymnal. That will be your PERSONAL

worship aid which you can bring to Church and to bring back

when you return home. This still make book usage consistent

and will avoid the cross-contamination of different people using

different books.

HOLY COMMUNION: During this time, I will be administer-

ing Holy Communion in the hands ONLY. Please refrain from

receiving on the tongue during this time. There won’t be conse-

crated wine for the people during this time. I WILL BE COM-

ING TO YOUR SEAT to bring you the consecrated host so

there will be no need to line up and return to your pews, reduc-

ing movement and surface contact. To facilitate this, the Archdi-

ocese has allowed us to give Communion after the Final Bless.

A designated seminarian or Eucharistic minister may help as

well, when necessary.

THE SACRED VESSELS: The vessels for Mass will be washed

and sanitize before and after every Mass as well. Before Mass,

there will be designated sacred vessels with unconsecrated hosts

RESERVED ONLY FOR THE PEOPLE and another vessel

reserved for the priest alone. I won’t be mixing or touching

those reserved vessels and will make sure that I sanitize my

hands before administering Holy communion to the people

within their designated vessel.

BULLETIN: You can find a copy of the bulletin in the church

entrance. There won’t be anyone handing the bulletins at the

door during this time.

TITHE COLLECTION: We won’t be passing the collection

during Mass, but can you drop your envelope or cash donations

in one of the two baskets BEFORE or AFTER Mass. The two

baskets will be placed in the middle aisle so that they are visible

to most people. You can also mail your donation or drop it in

the rectory anytime or use the online donation on our website.

We highly encourage you to move to monthly on-line giving if

you are able in the parish website.

There are many other details that is not included in here yet

these are the most immediate and practical things you need to

know before coming to St. Bernard. If you have any questions,

problems or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me in

the office.

Also, if you know of any parishioner whom we may not have

been able to reach please let me know.

Let us keep supporting our Bishops through our prayers and

ask the Lord to always give them discernment and fidelity to

Christ.