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M I S S I O N S T A T E M E N T Saint Bernard’s is a Roman Catholic parish providing vital services to the diverse North End community of St. Paul.
As we extend the hand of welcome to all, our mission is to learn, love, and live the challenging Word of Jesus Christ, offering parishioners and neighbors direction and support at every phase of their faith journey.
SAINT BERNARD
CHURCH OF
Mass Schedule
Saturday at 4:00 pm Sunday at 8:00 & 10:30 am
Weekday Monday-Saturday - Mass at 8:30 am
Confessions
Mondays after the 8:30 am Mass Saturdays 3:30 and after the 4:00 pm Mass
Parish Staff
Pastor Reverend Ivan Sant
Associate Priest Reverend Joseph Kureh
Parish Administrator Karen Cronin Secretary Gloria Nava Faith Formation Director J. David Neira Refugee Liaison Hsawreh Sharpoehtay Refugee Liaison Assistant Julia Marksue Music Director Mary Beth Redmond
Parish Office
Phone: (651) 488-6733 Fax: (651) 489-9203 Website: www.stbernardstpaul.org
Facebook Page: Parish Life at St. Bernard's Catholic Church, St. Paul, MN
1160 WOODBRIDGE STREET • SAINT PAUL, MN 55117
One block west of Rice Street on Geranium Avenue
4TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JANUARY 29TH, 2017
SAINT BERNARD 1160 WOODBRIDGE STREET • SAINT PAUL, MN 55117
One block west of Rice Street on Geranium Avenue
HOLY TRINITY SUNDAY
JUNE 11TH, 2017
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A WORD FROM FR. IVAN
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
For this solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity I found some meditations by Fr. Pius Sammut.
It was Pope John XXII who in 1334 extended to the universal Church the Solemnity of the Most Holy
Trinity. A thousand years earlier the great Ecumenical Councils of Nicea (325) and Constantinople (381)
had defined this essential truth of the faith, that in the one Divine Nature there are three Divine Persons.
Trinity Sunday is however not so much a celebration of a doctrine but of a Family. God is not a lonely being, aloof from everything
for lack of equals, a solitary who creates a world to dispel idleness. He is a Trinity of persons. He is a communion.
A family so much in love that they overflow in us and for us. We become sons and daughters of the Father, brothers and sisters of
the Son and temples of the Holy Spirit. All fellowships, be it marriage, family, civil society, can be patterned on this Eternal
Communion. The vitality of this God puts everything in perspective.
St. Gregory Nazianzen, one of the earlier Fathers of the Church, explains how God prepared us for the revelation of this sublime
truth by the progressive revelation He provided in Sacred Scripture.
“The Old Testament proclaimed the Father clearly, but the Son more obscurely. The New Testament revealed the Son and gave us
a glimpse of the divinity of the Spirit. Now the Spirit dwells among us and grants us a clearer vision of himself.”
The Greek Fathers of the Church describe the life of the Trinity as PERICHORESIS – two Greek words, namely peri – around and
choresis – dancing. They see the Trinity as three persons dancing around! Three dancers with one dance.
Though seemingly irreverent at first, this insight is very profound. A divine dance where the Father goes out to the Son and gives all –
all His wisdom, power, love and life. But the Son moves out towards the Father and in turn gives him back all his wisdom, power,
love and life. This mutual self-giving is the Holy Spirit, the giving and receiving between Father and Son. Their inmost being is this
mutual self-giving. God is dynamic not static!
And more! The most amazing thing is that this dance of the Trinity is not simply a dance to be observed. God invites US to join the
dance. God who creates invites us to share in the work of creation; God who redeems invites us to share in the work of redemption;
God who sanctifies, invites us to engage in living this adventure of holiness. We are made for self-giving. Like God, our Trinity!
It is a fact that there is disorder in many of our homes. More than half of marriages wind up in the divorce court. Many are the
problems between parents and children. Political rhetoric usually generates more heat than light. There is disorder EVEN within
ourselves.
This Feast comes to help us look at the sources of our life. It invites us to fashion our lives on them, The Family Of Love.
Sister Elizabeth of the Trinity was a Carmelite nun, contemporary to Saint Therese of Lisieux. She was canonized in the year 2016.
She fashioned all her life on the Trinity. Her act of oblation is sublime and real : “O my God, Trinity whom I adore! Help me to
become utterly forgetful of self, that I may bury myself in Thee, as changeless and as calm as though my soul were already in
eternity . . . O my Three, my All, my Beatitude, Infinite Solitude, Immensity wherein I lose myself! I yield myself to Thee as Thy
prey. Bury Thyself in me that I may be buried in Thee, until I depart to contemplate in Thy light the abyss of Thy greatness!”
She used to say : ” I have found my heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.” What wisdom!
A little boy’s prayer. “Dear God, please take care of my daddy and my mommy and my sister and my brother and my doggy and me.
Oh, please take care of yourself, God. If anything happens to you, we’re gonna be in a big mess.”
I say Amen to that!
Fr. Ivan Sant
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Sacraments
Call the Parish Office to make arrangements (651) 488-6733
Anointing of the Sick This
Communion for the Sick & Homebound Please call the Parish Office to make arrangements. Baptism of Infants
Baptism of Older Children & RCIA To become a full member of the Roman Catholic Church, contact David Neira at the Parish Office. 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.
Ministries
Prayer Line………..Shirley (651) 488-6330 or Judy (651) 224-2966 Liturgy Parishioners are encouraged to offer to be readers and altar servers at Mass.
Faith Formation
Faith Formation………...… Fr. Ivan (651) 488-6733 Mass Readings for the Week of the 11th:
Sunday : Ex 34:4b-6,8-9/2Cor 13:11-13/Jn3:16-18 Monday: 2 Cor 1:1-7/Mt 5:1-12 Tuesday: 2 Cor 1:18-22/Mt 5:13-16 Wednesday: 2Cor 3:4-11/Mt 5:17-19 Thursday: 2 Cor 3-15-4:1,3-6/Mt 5::20-26 Friday: 2 Cor 4:7-15/Mt 5:27-32 Saturday 2 Cor 5:14-21/Mt 5::33-37 Sunday Dt 8:2-3,14b-16a/1 Cor 10:16-17/Jn 6:51-58
Please pray for the sick and home-
bound
Yvonne Spence Rosie Lynch
Lloyd Anderson Devra Shepherd
Lorraine Eheim Mary Lou Friedl
Dolores Burg Dick Kortekaas
Thanks for your Donations!
Mass Intentions
Saturday June 10
8:30am † Margaret Jones
4:00pm † Robert Platzer
Sunday June 11 The Most Holy Trinity
8:00am Parish
10:30 † Deceased members of the Steffel Family
Monday June 12
8:30 am Maria Tuyet Cao
Tuesday June 13
8:30 am † Bill Heck
Wednesday June 14
8:30 am † Catherine & Frank Fleischhacker
Thursday June 15
8:30 am † Rosaura Rodriquez
Friday June 16
8:30 am Joseph Neudauer
Saturday June 17
8:30am Parish
4:00pm † Martin & Barbara Tschida
Sunday June 18 Corpus Christi
8:00am † Schloesser Family
10:30am Young at Heart Living and Deceased
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Parish News & Events
CSAF Results Here are the results through Week 17: Goal $18,957 # Gifts 72 Total pledged $ 10,624 % of Goal 56% Last year we had 104 donors to the Catholic Services Appeal. Of course, this year we have the capital campaign in process which is very important to the parish. If you have not made but are able to make a donation to the CSA, please feel free to put it into the Sunday collection basket and mark it as Catholic Services Ap-peal. Thanks for your support.
SAINT BERNARD'S ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BULLDOG BLAST!!!!
Join us as we head back to Campus for the BULLDOG BLAST on Saturday,June 17th, 2017 from 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm.The Alumni Association is thrilled to invite all alumni (Grade School and High School) to an ALL ALUMNI SCHOOL REUNION in the High School Gym! We'll start the festivities with a Blue & Gold Mass at 4:00 pm. Social Hour will start at 5:00 pm and Dinner is served at 6:30 pm. Music by The Midas Touch will follow until 11:00 pm. Register at saintbernardsalumni.com. $27.00 in advance or $40.00 at the door. We look forward to seeing you there!
40 Hour Adoration
Corpus Christi Feast
From June 15 evening to June
17 afternoon
All Hours has been taken.
We encourage anyone who would like to come
to adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament
anytime the Church will be open.
Thank you to all who have signed up!
“Spend as much time as possible in front of the
Blessed Sacrament and He will fill you with His
strength and His power.” — Mother Teresa of
Calcutta.
Corpus Christi Procession—June 18
After the 8 am mass the blessed sacrament will
be exposed until 10am. We will start a 15 mi-
nute procession in our neighborhood from 10am on-
wards. Afterwards, we will proceed with the 10:30
mass.
We invite your participation. Communion Service between
Monday, June 19 to Thursday, June 22
Fr. Joseph and Fr. Ivan will be attending the
Presbyteral Assembly during these dates. It is a biennial
priests gathering in Rochester to spend some time to-
gether in prayer, sharing, reflection and to grow togeth-
er as fellow co-workers in the vineyard of the Lord.
Blest Art
Blest Art will be with us this weekend with a display in
the back of the Church of olive wood carvings and oth-
er holy items. They accept cash, checks and credit/
debit cards. They do not accept donations.
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From the Parish Administrator’s Desk
New Parishioners since March 1: Cristian Gonzales and Norma Cisneras and family Daniel and Alexa Lopez and family Bo Reh and Pray Meh and family Phar Reh and Bei Meh and family Brian and Carrie Weisman ———————————————————————————————————————— Baptisms since March 1: Sophia Marie Williams Da Reh Camila Geraldine Medina-Contreras Matthew John Selga Soe Meh Mathew Jonathan Contreras Julie Lin Bei Meh Joshua Daniel Contreras Jae Meh Pha Reh Me Meh Kar Meh Gie Reh Alin Ford Mee Reh Nga Reh Kevin Law Reh Law Meh Beh Meh Klaw Reh Nyai Meh Aye Meh Prae Reh Preh Reh Maria Aye Meh Oo Meh Pu Reh Htar Reh Noe Reh Boe Meh Bae Meh Mo Meh Kar Meh Bu Reh Keira Elizabeth O’Neill Ta Meh Soe Reh Hsaw Meh Nge Reh —————————————————————————————————————————— Deaths since March 1: Jerome Troje Catherine Steffel Edith Tauer —————————————————————————————————————————————-
