SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Arrangements must be made at least six months in advance. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Expectant parents are to participate in the Baptism preparation program. Classes are offered in February, June, and October. SACRAMENT OF PENANCE Weekdays 6:30 - 6:50 AM Fridays 7:00 - 8:00 PM Saturdays 3:45 - 4:15 PM and 6:15 - 6:45 PM SACRAMENT OF THE ANOINTING OF THE SICK Those preparing for serious surgery are to contact the rectory; the shut-ins and elderly contact Sr. Rita. PARISH MEMBERSHIP Call the Rectory Office 715-384-3252

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

201 W. BLODGETT ST. MARSHFIELD, WI 54449-2004 website: www.stjohnsmarshfield.org

ESTABLISHED IN 1877 XIV VOLUME 4 N0 9 SEPTEMBER 21, 2014 TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

CALENDAR OF PARISH ACTIVITIES SEPTEMBER 2014

MISSION STATEMENT: Our mission at St. John the Baptist Parish is to prepare people for the coming of the fullness of God’s Kingdom by sharing the Catholic Faith and its tradition.

PARISH PERSONNEL Fr. Samuel Martin, Pastor 715-384-3252 ext. 212 Fr. Nathaniel Kuhn, Associate Pastor 715-384-3252 ext. 213 Deacon Jeffrey Austin, Permanent Deacon 715-676-3186 Sister Rita Adlkofer, Spiritual Counselor 715-384-9929 Mary Gouin, Parish Secretary 715-384-9565 ext. 210 Lori Salzmann, Finance Office 715-384-9565 ext. 215 Deb Mlsna, DRE 715-659-4480 ext. 202 Dan Kitzhaber, Youth Minister 715-384-4989 ext. 3 St. John School Office 715-384-4989 ext. 1 David Eaton, CCS President 715-387-1177 MASSES Weekdays 7:00 AM Saturdays 8:00 AM / 4:30 / 7:00 PM Sundays 7:00 / 9:00 / 11:00 AM

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30 1 2 3 4

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

MASSES 7:00AM 9:00AM 11:00AM

CONFIRMATION 5:00PM

ADORATION

7:30AM-12:00PM CONFESSIONS

7:30-8:30AM

2:30PM MASS MFLD. LIVING

CENTER

PASTORAL COUNCIL

GATHERING 6:30PM

CCD BEGINS 6:15PM

CHOIR

PRACTICE 6:30PM

ROSARY 12:15PM

CONFESSIONS 7:00 - 8:00PM

TRUSSONI/ OSTRICKI WEDDING

2:00PM

MASSES 4:30PM 7:00PM

CONFESSIONS 3:45-4:15PM 6:15-6:45PM

MASSES 7:00AM 9:00AM 11:00AM

SPANISH MASS 5:00PM

ADORATION

7:30AM-12:00PM CONFESSIONS

7:30-8:30AM

1:30PM MASS THREE OAKS

CCD 6:15PM

CHOIR

PRACTICE 6:30PM

ROSARY 12:15PM

CONFESSIONS 7:00 - 8:00PM

SCHLAGENHAFT/

SABELKO 12:00PM

HAWKS / FAIT WEDDING

2:00PM MASSES

4:30PM / 7:00PM CONFESSIONS

3:45-4:15PM 6:15-6:45PM

MASS SCHEDULE / SCRIPTURE READINGS MON 9/22/14 7:00am Scott Kraft Scripture Readings: Prv 3:27-34 Lk 8:16-18 TUES 9/23/14 St. Padre Pio 7:00am Joseph and Iva Lang Scripture Readings: Prv 21:1-6, 10-13 Lk 8:19-21 WED 9/24/14 7:00am Ruby Brantner and Special Intention (T.B.) 8:00am Tillie Seidl Scripture Readings: Prv 30:5-9 Lk 9:1-6 THUR 9/25/14 7:00am Dorothy Nikolai Scripture Readings: Eccl 1:2-11 Lk 9:7-9 FRI 9/26/14 Sts., Cosmas and Damian, martyrs 7:00am Violet Hansen Scripture Readings: Eccl 3:1-11 Lk 9:18-22 SAT 9/27/14 St. Vincent de Paul, priest 8:00am Kathryn Nelke Scripture Readings: Eccl 11:9-12:8 Lk 9:43b-45

Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:30pm 55th Wedding Anniversary of Harvey & Donna Smazal 7:00pm Reinhold Panske SUN 9/28/14 7:00am John McQuillen 9:00am Albert, Sarah, and Marian Langreck 11:00am Eleanor Hlavac 5:00pm Spanish Mass Scripture Readings: Ez 18:25-28 Phil 2:1-11 Mt 21:28-32

LITURGICAL MINISTERS September 27th & 28th, 2014

LECTORS 4:30pm Patti Willkom 7:00pm Jonathan Rootellis 7:00am Laura Guldan 9:00am Phil Prusinski 11:00am Helga Krainz MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION 4:30pm Harvey Smazal / Sherri Smazal / Angie Pero Margie Rank 7:00pm Melanie Rootellis / Andy & Carol Wanta / Lori Greenwald 7:00am Pat & Gail Guldan / Laurel Rudolph-Kniech Sara Henrichs 9:00am Mary Ann Brinkman / David Fehrenbach / Carol Jonas Jill Hiller / Dan & Dorothy Flees / Donald Hansen Marlea Lescynski 11:00am Ellen Roehrborn / Christine Rutschow John & Lori Salzmann SERVERS 4:30pm Simone Rootellis / Emily McQuillen 7:00pm Mikayla & Julianna Kollross 7:00am Cody & Tyler Binder 9:00am Sarah & Emily Nemitz 11:00am Tylene Dierickx / Olivia Anderson MUSIC MINISTER 4:30pm Cathy Heuer 7:00pm Open 7:00am Mary Frey 9:00am Adult Choir / Kris Herr 11:00am Open

WEEK DAY SERVERS Sept. 22nd - Sept. 26th Denny Loughlin FUNERAL SERVERS Sept. 22nd - Sept. 27th

Dave Fehrenbach / Ardell Klein / Jeff Zondlo

AREA EVENTS Sept 21: Bingo, 6:00pm at the KC Hall. Sept 25: KC Meeting, 7:00pm at the KC Hall Sept 26: Christian Skate Night, 7:30-10:00pm at Melody Gardens.

PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS To have a prayer added to St. John’s Prayer Chain, please call Shirley 715-384-3613 and Donna 715-384-2479 (there are 2 lists). If you wish to become a member of the prayer chain, please call Jane Gerend at 715-387-2019 or Ann Bohnert at 715-389-2726. CCD classes begin this Wednesday, Sept. 24th. Please bring your children to the Columbia room. Classes begin at 6:15. Thank you to all parishioners who have returned their Diocesan Annual Appeal Pledge Card for 2014. If you have not made a contribution to this appeal we ask that you please help support your parish by making a heartfelt pledge. Please make sure to include the pledge card along with your payment and return to St. John’s. Sister Act II - St. John’s new Mission Club will hold an informational meeting on Monday, Sept. 29th in the Columbia room. Anyone interested in knowing what we have accomplished so far for Sr. Sabina and to discuss where we go next is invited to attend! Questions? Please call SAM at 715-384-4397. Cooking Up A Convent: We need your favorite recipes for the new parish cookbook. Recipe submission forms are on the table at the back of church. Take one home, complete it and place it in the box at the back of church. The recipes must be submitted no later than Oct. 5th, 2014. We hope to have the cookbook done in time for Christmas! In order to get an idea of how many cookbooks to print, please stop by the table and give us your name and how many books you plan to purchase. Any questions call Patti Willkom @ 715-384-9205. PROJECT MILK We will be collecting donations for Project Milk to help the orphans at Casa Hogar through this weekend. St. John Catholic Book Club will meet Tues., Sept. 23rd to discuss the books; The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak as well as A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor. Coming up this fall is Race With the Devil by Joseph Pearce Questions? Call Mari at 715-207-7744. Parishioners are invited to assist in serving the Fellowship meal at St. Vincent de Paul on Wednesday, Sept. 24th. Join us in helping at anytime. Prep is 3:00-5:00pm and serving begins at 5:00pm. For more information please call Jane at 715-387-2019. Bible Study - The Creed in Scripture: Join us for this 6-week Bible Study that will lead us through the Creed. This study begins this Monday, Sept. 30th at 6:45pm in the Bride’s room of St. John’s. Register by calling Carol Jonas at 715-676-3989 by Sept. 22nd. Rosaries for Sale To celebrate the month of the rosary, there will be a variety of rosaries available after the Masses on October 4th & 5th. Choir Recruitment! St. John’s adult choir is looking for new members! If you love to sing and want to add your voice to our choir, please join us. Contact Kris Herr at 715-389-2610. Marian Retreat coming this fall. St. John’s will offer the Marian retreat "33 Days to Morning Glory" beginning on Saturday, Nov. 1st

and running through Saturday, Dec. 6th (Consecration Day). With the book, 33 Days to Morning Glory and the accompanying group-retreat materials, consisting of six 30-minute DVD lessons by Fr. Michael Gaitley, MIC, this retreat leads us to entrust ourselves to Mary, the way Christ did at the Annunciation and as He willed for us at the foot of the Cross. Contact Gretchen M. Gotz at (920) 737-2350. Gate of Heaven Cemetery Fall Clean-Up: Please remove any grave decorations by Oct. 1st . Any items left after that date will be removed. It is the families responsibility to maintain the headstones. Contact the monument service that may have installed it if you need assistance. Also now would be a good time to choose spaces before winter. Call the Sexton at 715-486-2098 for more information.

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK Praised be Jesus Christ! Congratulations to all who are being confirmed this weekend by Bishop Callahan! I’m especially grateful to Dan Kitzhaber and Deb Mlsna for all their hard work in preparing these students so that they can both receive and share the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Please pray that our students become even more visible in our parishes and our community. Sadly, some will treat Confirmation as the end of their religious training – we must pray for them most of all, so that our disappointment will never turn into judgment. And speaking of judgment, the most volatile of all the moral issues these days is without a doubt same-sex attraction. Recently I attended a meeting that featured the chaplain of Courage, which is a Catholic group for men and women with same-sex attraction who want to live according to God’s way of love (you can learn more about Courage at couragerc.org). It was a very inspiring and enlightening event, and one of the best components was watching a new video titled “Desire of the Everlasting Hills”. Sometime I would like to show this movie in the Columbia room because it does an amazing job of helping us to love the humanity of those who experience same-sex attraction. Moreover, it shows a better way to respond to the situation than secular culture’s “do whatever you want – it’s your life”. Given that we’re entering a political season, the debate about so-called same-sex marriage will only become more volatile. Rather than allowing it to cause us angst, I hope every time the topic comes up we will say a prayer for those who have same-sex attraction. My prayer for each person is that he/she realizes that we are all children of God and that we are so much more than just our sexual orientation. Okay, now to some of the questions I found recently in our trusty question box... first up is a question about Medjugorje. Since 1981 the Blessed Virgin Mary ostensibly has been communicating through apparitions and locutions to six people in Medjugorje. I visited that little town in Bosnia and found it to be a powerful and beautiful spiritual experience. However, the Vatican has made no pronouncement on its authenticity because the apparitions have not yet ended. I understand that the Vatican has been studying the case and will make a determination when the time is right (I suspect this will be in my lifetime, but it may not be anytime soon). In the meantime, a person is free to visit Medjugorje and many who have return again and again because of the beautiful graces they receive. The bottom line is that the Church will make the right judgment when the time is right – if the Church determines that the devil has been up to his tricks and thereby condemns the apparition, we will stay away. However, if the Church finds that it is of God, it will quickly become a Marian apparition site as popular as Lourdes and Fatima. Another question asked about the Catholic Church’s teaching about a person’s ashes after cremation. They should always be interred in the ground, preferably with a priest or deacon present to say the committal prayers and bless the ground with Holy Water. If you know someone who still has their loved one’s ashes in their home, encourage them to lay their loved one to rest – it’s best for both the deceased and the living. Someone asked about why priests no longer wear what would appear to be a wedding ring (symbolizing their marriage to the Church). Some still do, but it’s always been a matter of personal piety and preference. There is one more question but it will have to wait until next week. Please pray for our farmers this week, as Rural Life Day is being celebrated by Bishop Callahan in Loyal. May God stir up the zeal of the Holy Spirit in each of us, that we may bring His purifying fire to all people! Your friend in Christ, Father Martin

Estate & Nursing Home Planning: Free seminar presented by Attorney David Eckert on Sept. 25th at the Central City Credit Union. This informative program is beneficial to all regardless of age or assets.

NOTES FROM FR. MARTIN Donor fatigue: I’ll be writing a bulletin column about this phenomenon soon. What should we do when it feels like we’re being asked too often to give, even when the cause is a commendable one? I realize we have a lot of things going on in our parishes and it has been rightly pointed out to me that it may be too much at times. Please tune in the weekend of Oct. 18th-19th for my longer response to what we can do about what many have termed “donor fatigue”. Baptism Class for those requesting the baptism of their children will take place Tuesday, October 7th, 5:30-8:00pm in the Columbia Room. Pre-registration is required and you can do so by calling 715-384-9565 ext 2. For those not registered in the parish, information will be given on how to do so. This class is for all parents of their first child and/or those who have not yet taken Father Martin’s Baptismal class. Holy Land Pilgrimage Update: One of the most effective ways to better know a person is to visit his home. Would you like to visit Jesus' earthly home? As St. John Paul II famously said, "The future starts today, not tomorrow." I will not be leading another trip to the Holy Land during my time in Marshfield and Spencer - and though the trip is already over half full, there are about 20 spots remaining. I am confident that God will protect us (statistics show that you're safer as an American in the Holy Land than you are in Chicago) and that the graces we will receive will be a gift to all who cannot travel. Please pray and ask God if He would like you to visit the home of His Only-Begotten Son. Then sign up soon - the trip closes at the end of Sept. Questions? Please call me at 715-650-7893.

Holy Smokes! The 2nd Annual Pig Roast and Gun Raffle is scheduled for Tuesday, October 21st at 5:00pm at the KC Hall. Tickets will be sold at St. John’s after all Masses on Sept. 27thand 28th; this includes meal tickets as well as gun and gas grill raffle tickets. Cost is $10/ticket or $40/family within the same household. Please join us for a fun evening that includes bucket raffles, 50/50 raffles and card raffles throughout the night. Pig Roast Silent Auction: Once again we will have a silent auction as well as bucket raffles. We will be in need of items of a $50.00 or more value for the silent auction and smaller items for the bucket raffles. If you would like to donate to the silent auction, please contact Jill Hiller at 715-305-6068. Thank you! Rural Life Day On Wed. Sept. 24th, the Diocese will hold the 34th annual Rural Life Day by St. Anthony’s parish in Loyal. The event will be held on the farm of Allan and Connie Walter. The day begins with 10:00am Mass celebrated by His Excellency Bishop Callahan and is followed by awards, recognitions, a blessing of crops and machinery, and a meal catered by the women of the parish. The Walter farm is at W-4077 Heintown Rd., Loyal, WI 54446. For more information, contact Dan Kitzhaber, Rural Life Committee Liaison, yministry@frontier.com , or via phone 715-384-4989x3.

YOUTH ACTIVITIES Pilgrims for Life Fundraiser The youth preparing to participate in the March for Life will again be making and selling delicious Jar Mixes. We need more pint size canning jars as well as Christmas colored cloth scraps for covering jars. If you have some to donate, contact Dan Kitzhaber at 715- 384-4989 x3, or 715-659-4480 x4. Immersion Diocesan Retreat On Nov. 8th-9th join more than 500 teens from across the Diocese for a powerful retreat at the Wilderness Lodge in Wis. Dells. You’ll grow in your faith while enjoying a great weekend of fun. The waterpark will be great, but the rest of the retreat will be even better!! You need to sign up by Oct. 15th. Contact Mr. Dan Kitzhaber at 715-384-4989 x3, 715-659-4480 x4 or yministry@frontier.com

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