For Parish Membership, Baptisms, Weddings, Communion Calls or any other pastoral need, contact the respective parish office.Bulletin Announcements: Deadline is Monday at Noon to the St. Clement Parish Office or to st_clement@tds.net

Fr. William Vernon, Pastor 723-4990Fr. William Vernon, Pastor 723-4990Bill Manthe, Parish Associate 723-4990Bill Manthe, Parish Associate 723-4990Katie Crosby, Parish Secretary 723-4990Katie Crosby, Parish Secretary 723-4990

Website: www.saintclementparish.comWebsite: www.saintclementparish.com

Josh Jensen, Principal 723-7474Josh Jensen, Principal 723-7474Nick Crosby, CRE 7-12 723-4990Nick Crosby, CRE 7-12 723-4990Rebecca Dean & Melissa Martin, CREs K-6Rebecca Dean & Melissa Martin, CREs K-6

Email: st_clement@tds.net (Katie)Email: st_clement@tds.net (Katie)

Diocese of Madison, Bishop Donald J. HyingDiocese of Madison, Bishop Donald J. Hying

SAINT CLEMENT CATHOLIC PARISHSAINT CLEMENT CATHOLIC PARISH135 South Washington Street – Lancaster, Wisconsin 53813135 South Washington Street – Lancaster, Wisconsin 53813

Founded in 1859Founded in 1859

(1 Corinthians 13:8)(1 Corinthians 13:8)

723-7474723-7474

THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OCTOBER 25, 2020

STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE

October 17 & 18Church Support Envelopes � � � � � $2,747�00Offertory Cash� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �$314�00Weekly Electronic Giving � � � � � � $1,048�00Mid-Month Electronic Giving � � $3,670�00Total � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �$7,779�00

Budgeted Offertory for Oct � � �$32,350�00Offertory Received in Oct� � � � �$23,710�00

Monthly Offertory Comparison September 2020 (4 weekends) � � � $30,295�00September 2019 (5 weekends) � � � $35,879�00

Weekly Mass Schedule

Tuesday, October 27 � � � � � � � � � 8:15 AM † Leonard & Virginia Schmitz;

Kenric & Rita SchmitzWednesday, October 28 � � � � � � 8:15 AM

(Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles) † James Giesen

Thursday, October 29 � � � � � � � � 8:15 AM † Cyril Weisenbeck

Friday, October 30 � � � � � � � � � � 8:15 AM † Don & Florence Pluemer

Saturday, October 31 � � � � � � � � 8:15 AM (Blessed Virgin Mary)

† Ray Wood 5:00 PM

† Gerald SchildgenSunday, November 1 � � � � � � � � � 7:30 AM

All Saints Day People of Our Parish

9:30 AM † Connie Koeller

From Our Pastor:From Our Pastor:Thanks be to God that we have the ability to heed Jesus Christ’s words in this Sunday’s

Gospel – “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind” – because of the seminal Truth that God has loved us first, and He does not want anything from us that He has not Himself first given us (Matthew 22:34-40)� In His love for us, God has given us life and He calls us to live our life for Him in the way that He wants us to live� The Lord made us, we belong to Him (Psalm 100); He knows us in our mother’s womb (Psalm 138-139); and even before we were in our mother’s womb, God knew us ( Jeremiah 1:5)� Thus, keeping this Great Commandment is how we give to God what is His, for He has first loved us in such a way that we can indeed love Him in return! Our love for others then flows from our awareness that God’s love came and claimed us as His own – therefore, the second of the two Great Commandments is like the first, as Jesus says: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself� The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments” (Matthew 22:39-40)� This is how we truly can become “imitators of the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 5:10)�

We keep these two Great Commandments by God’s grace, which we embrace in faith and receive by: praying (raising mind and heart to God, listening and talking to Him); reading and contemplating His Word, the Bible; frequenting the Sacraments, especially the Holy Eucharist and Confession; staying close to Him in His Church and His Teachings, consciously keeping His Commandments; loving one another in a selfless, self-giving way; and defending the God-given dignity of every human person made in His image and likeness, from conception to natural death�

Yes, loving God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, and our neighbor as ourselves, means loving all our neighbors, born and pre-born� Being pro-life is not a political issue, but a God-who-is-love issue, a moral one that is preeminent because God is the author of human life and no other “issue” could ever be more important than the right to be alive and be born� As we follow God’s teachings, we defend the lives of the most helpless and voiceless people on the planet: pre-born children� God will never call us to cooperate in the evil act of killing children, as Planned Parenthood and some political parties and politicians do� Rather, God tells us to cooperate in love, in proclaiming the Truth with love (Ephesians 4), loving and protecting all moms and dads and their children (mothers and fathers who’ve suffered an abortion need to know that God and His Church still love them, and we love them – and that they can experience God’s healing mercy and grace by turning to Him and seeking His forgiveness and healing)� Although it is legal in our country to kill children up through the day of their birth and even after they’re born in some states, it’s still evil to do so – intrinsically evil, for regardless of someone’s feelings or politics, it’s evil to directly end the life of innocent children and it’s evil to support those who advocate it� God calls us to conquer such evil with good (Romans 12:21), to love one another as He has loved us� While some political parties, politicians and judges cultivate a culture of death and destruction through abortion and infanticide, Almighty God continues to call all His children to build a culture of Life, to promote and defend the Gospel of Life, to truly love Him with all our being and our neighbors as ourselves� May we answer His call, always�

With peace and prayers in Christ,Fr. William

RECONCILIATIONBefore Daily & Sunday Masses

Saturday at 4:00 PMFace-to-face reconciliation by appointment only�

OFFICE HOURS:Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays:

9 am to 5 pmThursdays & Fridays:

9 am to 2 pm

INTERNATIONAL COMBINED COLLECTIONThis weekend, October 24-25, the International Combined Collection is being conducted

across the diocese in support of missions and ministry throughout the world� Please consider how you can make a difference in the lives of so many� A special envelope for the International Combined Collection is in your envelope packet and on the tables at the church entrances along with brochures or you may put your donation in an envelope marked ICC on the front with your name and drop it in the collection basket� Thank you for your generosity!

RECENTLY BAPTIZEDNATALIE LOUISE

Daughter of Bryant and Ellen (Friederick) Schobert

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE: OCTOBER 31 & NOVEMBER 1

5:00 PM Lector: Emil Everix5:00 PM Servers: Avery Crooks & Meg Walker7:30 AM Lector: Lenny/Carol Bass7:30 AM Servers: Zach Hermsen & Jackson Block9:30 AM Lector: Kitty Mumm9:30 AM Servers: Josy & Relly Hoerth

**SERVERS: Your new schedules are in the sacristy!

GET YOUR SAINT CLEMENT PIZZAS!!!Back by popular demand, we will be selling more of our delicious

Saint Clement Pizzas on Saturday, November 7th from 8:00 - 11:00 a�m� In order to maintain a small and safe group with limited contact during this pandemic, we will be holding this modified Pizza Sale just like our last one in June� Once again, we will only be making 1,000 of our delicious take-n-bake pizzas and selling them curb-side on a first come, first served basis that morning… sorry, no preorders will be accepted� Please help spread the word to family and friends and thank you for your continued support of the children of our wonderful parish school!!!

SAINT CLEMENT SCHOOL

GO MAKE DISCIPLES: THE IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER“There is no other way to know and love

Jesus Christ but through prayer� To be a disciple of Christ we must have a lived relationship with Him through personal mental prayer� Prayer is not just a task to be accomplished� It is a call to respond to God from the heart: The living and true God tirelessly calls each person to that mysterious encounter known as prayer� In prayer, the faithful God’s initiative of love always comes first; our own first step is a response� As God gradually reveals Himself and reveals man to himself, prayer appears as a reciprocal call, a covenant drama� Through words and actions, the drama engages the heart� (CCC 2567) As part of the ‘Go Make Disciples’ initiative, Bishop Hying has challenged all of us to build or reinforce a habit of spending at least 15 minutes in prayer every day� What does that look like in practice? Fr� Mike Schmitz has a great video on Ascension Presents called Tips for Praying, where he shares four practical tips for building and maintaining an intentional prayer life�” These four tips are: deciding when to pray; creating a “sacred” space where to pray; choosing how to pray, ie praying the Rosary, praying Lectio Divina, the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, etc�; and asking why do I pray? Am I primarily seeking to grow in my relationship with God? “St� Louis de Montfort once said, ‘Pray with great confidence, with confidence based on the goodness and generosity of God and upon the promises of Jesus Christ� God is a spring of living water which flows unceasingly into the hearts of those who pray�”’ Michelle Nilsson ~ from the “Go Make Disciples” October Newsletter

REMINDERS:• Please remember that if you receive the official Diocese newspaper

Catholic Herald to send in your annual subscription payment ($23�00), made payable to ‘St� Clement Parish’ with your name for proper credit�

• Respect Life Collection due by Monday, October 26�• Please have “Box of Joy” items or donations to the parish office

by October 26�

SISTERS TO CELEBRATE!Two of our dear former teachers and religious sisters, Sr� Eva Marie

Lorscheter, SSSF and Sr� Angeline Kieler, SSSF are celebrating birthdays soon! Sr� Angeline will be turning 90 (hard to believe) years young on November 9, and Sr� Eva Marie celebrates her birthday the day before on November 8� If you would like to send them cards their addresses are: Sr� Eva Marie Lorscheter, 2735 W� Greenfield Ave�, Apt 1001, Milwaukee, WI, 53215 and Sr� Angeline Kieler, 2735 W� Greenfield Ave�, Apt 1004, Milwaukee, WI, 53215� In case you are wondering, Sr� Rose Marie Dielen’s birthday is on March 4, and her address is: Sr� Rose Marie Dielen, OSF, Juniper Ct� #107, 3209 South Lake Dr�, St� Francis, WI, 53235� HAPPY BIRTHDAY SR� ANGELINE AND SR� EVA MARIE! MAY GOD BLESS YOU!!40 DAYS FOR LIFE!

The 40 Days for Life Vigil continues and the Knights of Columbus are taking part, and you can as well� On October 29, KC members will be traveling to Madison to pray and give witness to life outside of Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinic from 7-8 pm� They will leave from St� Clement Church at 5 pm and return to the parish about 9:45 pm� Anyone who wishes to join them should be at the church before 5 pm� Contact Bill Seyer at 988-6543 to discuss travel options�

You can also pray for an end to abortion by praying the Rosary together at St� Clement Church on Tuesday afternoons from now to November 3, at 5:15 pm at the Memorial to Unborn Children, which is by the fountain across the street from the church� KC members or others will lead the Rosary and everyone is welcome to join them, even from their car� In the event of inclement weather, the Rosary will be prayed in the church�

HELP FIGHT CANCER LOCALLY!Due to COVID-19 and safety concerns, the Grant County

Cancer Coalition fundraising events in 2020 were cancelled� However, they will continue to financially support active cancer patients who are Grant County residents and have completed the application process� If you would like to assist them financially, your support is greatly appreciated by those they help� Donations can be mailed to: The Grant County Cancer Coalition Committee, PO Box 105, Lancaster, WI 53813� PayPal is available on their website, www�grantcountycancerco�org� Thank you!

ALL SOULS’ DAY REMEMBRANCEEnvelopes for remembering our beloved dead on All Souls’ Day

are on the table at the entrances of the church� The souls will be the intention of Fr� William at a private Mass on All Souls’ Day, Monday, November 2�

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