Parish Office Hours:

Mon. thru Friday: 9:00 am-3:30 pm

Phone: (715) 546-2159 Fax: (715) 546-4046

P.O. Box 8, Three Lakes, WI 54562

Email: sttheresa@frontier.com

Web Site: www.sttheresathreelakes.org

www.stkunegunda.org

~Contact the office six months in advance

For Marriage preparation

~Contact the office one month in advance

For Baptism preparation

Parochial Administrator:

Fr. Patrick McConnell

(715) 479-8704

Email: frpatrick@stpeterseagleriver.org

Sacramental Minister:

Fr. Bala Reddy Allam

(715) 891-8142 or (863) 855-5696

Email: balaallam@gmail.com

Deacon:

John McCaughn:

(715) 479-6824 Email: mickcoin@hotmail.com

THE ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

“...IT IS AS IF A MAN WERE TO SCATTER SEED ON

THE LAND...AND THROUGH IT ALL THE SEED WOULD SPROUT AND GROW”

MARK 4:26-34

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Fr. Allam is available for sick calls

and visits to the home bound.

Please call the office to make arrangements.

Prayer Chain

Shirley Mann (715) 546-8020

Phyllis Pieplow (715) 437-0593

Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday: 3:15 - 3:45 p.m. Sunday: 7:45 - 8:15 a.m. & Anytime by appointment

YOUR PARISH COMMITTEE LEADERS:

St Theresa Thrift Shop

We are looking for volunteers.

If you have a few hours a week to help out,

Please give the office a call!

Hours:

Wednesday thru Saturday

9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

St Theresa

Parish Festival

Sunday July 15

Polka Mass at 10:30 a.m.

Festival

11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Family, Friends, Food, Fellowship & Fun

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YOUR PARISH COMMITTEE LEADERS: Jesus calls us to care for one another.

Do you have some time that you could

help feed the hungry among us?

Thank you to: Cathy Kautz, Sally Ketterer and

Celia Schwarm for providing the

meal this month for those in need at

the Frederick Place.

Please contact Nancy Thorn at (715)

272-1254 if you are able to help with

this very important ministry. It can be

prepared ahead of time or prepared on

site. Serving is not required.

Thank you in advance for answering

the Lord’s call.

Fr. Allam is available for sick calls

and visits to the home bound.

Please call the office to make arrangements.

Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday: 5:30 - 5:55 p.m. & Anytime by appointment

St. Kunegunda of Poland Mission Statement

St. Kunegunda of Poland Catholic Church is a sacramental community that celebrates

our faith in Jesus Christ by serving, bearing witness, educating and inspiring our com-

munity as we continue to grow as a people of God on our journey toward eternal life.

Adoration Encounter 6:00 p.m. Thursday

June 21st

Adore the Eucharistic Lord With Medjugorje

Instrumental Music

Prayer Chain

Shirley Sowinski (715) 272-1190

Terri St. Catherine (715) 272-1326

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MONDAY

June 18

1 KGS 21:22-24

MK 5:38-42

TUESDAY

ST ROMUALD

June 19

1 KGS 21:17-29

MT 5:43-48

WEDNESDAY

June 20

2 KGS 2:1, 6-14

MT 6:1-6, 16-18

THURSDAY

ST ALOYSIUS

GONZAGA

JUNE 21

SIR 48:1-14

MT 6:7-15

FRIDAY

STS JOHN FISHER &

THOMAS MORE

June 22

2 KGS 11:1-4, 9-18, 20

MT 6:19-23

SATURDAY

June 23

2 CHR 24:17-25

MT 6:24-34

SUNDAY

NATIVITY OF

JOHN THE BAPTIST

June 24

IS 49:1-6

ACTS 13:22-26

LK 1:57-66,80

From the Desk of Fr. Patrick Growing up as a child I was convinced that my father pouring his blood, sweat, and tears literally into our family garden. I would even to my friends this was the reason why our garden

grew so well. I was greatly disappointed when my father revealed to me the truth that all he did was prepare the soil, plant the seeds, and water. This simple formula has been now handed

down to me and I have come to realize that blood, sweat, and tears don’t make my garden

grow, neither does good soil, water, or sun. Don’t get me wrong they all help the process but there is more needed.

This fact, though spiritually meaningful, is often a truth that is forgotten or taken for granted. The truth that God’s grace and mercy are necessary for something to grow is often forgotten.

Yet, the truth remains, our ability to affect change in our lives, the good kind we call growing is not in our power. As we read in the Gospel reading from the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time

we hear Jesus Speak this parable, “This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man

were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and through it all the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.” (Mk4:26)

Try as we might to be in charge, to take over, to command the good in us, or for that matter, all

that is good to be, well that’s something that happens sometimes even despite our actions.

There have been times in all our lives I am sure where this truth has been made very clear. We have had an encounter where there is no other explanation other than that God must have done

it. These moment, God moments, are much more blatant than the countless other moments

where God’s hand in growing the good goes unnoticed. This is why we must look to the fruits of God’s grace in our lives as proof of the growth.

I do not think that anyone can see a plant grow from one minute to the next but after a couple

days you can even see the change in its size or the presence of fruit on the plant. To see growth

the trick is to take a bigger picture. In our Church it is clear that God has been working to grow or develop our Church for so many, try not to allow your vision to get too narrow.

We at St. Theresa of Avilla can attest to God’s active work in our parish community simply by all the good that has been born by God in our parish. I am praying that as we begin the capital

campaign, “Raise Us UP”, we will be first mindful of what God has done with us thus far and

also what God desires to do with us in the future. As we begin to raise money for this campaign I pray that the fruits go beyond the fiscal needs of our parish but to the deeper

spiritual fruits of a deeper trust in the Lord.

In our Gospel Christ is speaking of the necessity of trusting that God is the one who will make

the growth happen. If we believe this to be true in our parish community than we must trust

that if it be God’s will for us to provide an elevator, air cooling system, handicapped

bathrooms, and a new entrance than he will make it work. However, let us not forget the blood,

sweat, and tears. I pray that we may all come together to provide for the needs of our

community so that God may continue to plant seeds of faith in our hearts for many more years

to come.

God Bless, Fr. Patrick

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Support Priestly Ordinations

by Your Presence at the

Cathedral on June 24th

The entire diocese is invited

to the Cathedral of Christ the

King in Superior on Sunday,

June 24th at 4:00 in the

afternoon to celebrate the

Ordination of Richard

Rhinehart to the Priesthood.

This Mass fulfills the obligation for that

Sunday. Bishop James Powers is our Priest-

Celebrant and homilist.

Show your support for Rich and the Sacrament

of Holy Orders, along with our Diocesan

Chorale, a combined Knights of Columbus

Honor Guard, and many others.

When our diocesan family gathers, we witness

to the world in a powerful way—come and be

a part of this happy occasion!

SUMMER FUN TIME...

NOAH’S ARK WAS A BLAST!!

NEXT UP: BOND FALLS ADVENTURE!

June 23 9 a.m.- 2p.m. Open to anyone entering 6th - 12th grade Contact Jen to register!

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Ministers Schedule

Ministers; your presence is a clear sign of the Spirit of God working and bringing all together as a church family. You are the living stones of our parishes.

For those of you who have been thinking of participating in a ministry, may the Spirit invite you to come, and be the good shepherds and good sheep building the kingdom of God here and now.

St. Theresa

Saturday

June 23

4:00 p.m.

St. Kunegunda

Saturday

June 23

6:00 p.m.

St. Theresa

Sunday

June 24

8:30 a.m.

St. Kunegunda

Sunday

June 24

10:30 a.m.

Monday

June 25

9 a.m.

Greeters Leslie Miles

Debby Hintz

NOT FILLED

Pam Cira Jennifer Nickel

Ed Grajkowski

NOT FILLED

Michele Cornelius

Head Usher Mark Zupan Dan Harlow

Ushers Jerry Koslowski

Jerry Freeman

Jerry Diehl

Ron Stys

Lou Bruckmoser

John Kuglitsch

NOT FILLED

Scott Patulski

Justin Szews

Dave Jakubowski

Tim Howell

Phil Kerins

Joe Kwaterski

Leonard

Osuchowski

Mark Nowak

Dean Diorio

Jim Greene

NOT FILLED

Walter Prien

Dave Cornelius

Brenden Kortenhof

Bob Zmek

Lectors Jim Levandoski (1) Laurie Levandoski (2)

Bryan Young (1)

NOT FILLED (2)

Eileen Hansen (1)

Mike Kwaterski (2)

Carol Lorbetske (1)

Vern Stefonek (2)

Altar Servers NOT FILLED

NOT FILLED

Kaya Szews

Mari Szews

Sawyer Szews

Jack Hayes

Meg Hayes

NOT FILLED

NOT FILLED

Eucharistic

Ministers

Janet Zupan

Maureen Brand

Nancy Korth

Pam Berdal

Dianna Blicharz

NOT FILLED

NOT FILLED

Cup

Diana Kunda

Teri Maney

Plate

Terri St. Catherine

Christina Nowak

LuAnn Williams

Lindsey Riker

Mike Miller

Kathy Miller

Donald Miller

Cup

Lesa Servant

Pat Sand

Plate

Jayme Hibbard

Sunday

Catechist

NOT FILLED

NOT FILLED

Lori Weber

Carmen Cornelius

Money

Counters

Jayme Levandoski

Terri Kroll

Shirley Sowinski

Willy Stefonek