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Pastor Fr. Alvan Amadi Email: [email protected] Office: ………...(920)487-5005 Ext# 3
Parish Administrative Assistant Susan Dean…………………....487-5005 Email: [email protected]
Religious Education Barb Heiges Email: [email protected] Phone…..……........……..(920)255-3326
Lo-Sec & Grief Ministry Donna Moran ……….. (920)723-1948 Email: [email protected]
Parish Trustees Larry Feuerstein……………...487-3956 Mike Haase……………………..304-0252
St. Mary Grade School Lucinda Massey, Lead Teacher Email: [email protected]
School Secretary Marcia Cross, Secretary Email: [email protected] Phone………………….....(920)487-5004
Prayer Chain Barb Harz………...….....(920)255-2296
Gift Bearers Patti Donart……………..(920)487-2651
Chairpersons Pastoral Council Mark LeBotte………...…(920)487-5647 Jamie Stangel ………....(920)217-0124
Finance Council Mary Kay Bennett…....(920)255-2944
Buildings & Grounds Dan Vertz………………………..487-2091
Cemetery Association Earl Krueger…………………...487-3861 Larry Feuerstein……………..487-3956
Board of Education Jamie Dachelet …………...…487-5374
Stewardship Linda Andre ………………...…487-2542 Jan Guilette…………………..…856-6979
Worship Karen Wautlet ……………...…487-3754
St . Mary Catholic Church 214 Church Street, Algoma, WI 54201
. . . since 1860 VISION:
Love God, Love others, and form disciples for Jesus.
MISSION: To build a Catholic Community that discovers Jesus,
follows Jesus, worships Jesus, and shares Jesus with others.
Call Parish Office For Sacramental Prep
Baptism • Marriage • RCIA
(920) 487-5005 Ext #100
Confessions according to schedule
and Confessions and Sacrament of Anointing
anytime by request.
Contact Father Amadi (920) 487-5005 Ext #3
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Saint Mary Parish Lights Oct. 13 - 19
Steeple: Jan Schinderle Tabernacle: Loretta Annoye Grotto : Liz Westrich
This Week at St. Mary
Readings for the Week of October 13, 2019
Sunday: 2 Kgs 5:14-17/Ps 98:1, 2-3, 3-4 [cf. 2b]/
2 Tm 2:8-13/Lk 17:11-19
Monday: Rom 1:1-7/Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4 [2a]/
Lk 11:29-32
Tuesday: Rom 1:16-25/Ps 19:2-3, 4-5 [2a]/Lk 11:37-41
Wednesday: Rom 2:1-11/Ps 62:2-3, 6-7, 9 [13b]/
Lk 11:42-46
Thursday: Rom 3:21-30/Ps 130:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab [7]/
Lk 11:47-54
Friday: 2 Tm 4:10-17b/Ps 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18
[12]/Lk 10:1-9
Saturday: Rom 4:13, 16-18/Ps 105:6-7, 8-9, 42-43 [8a]/
Lk 12:8-12
Next Sunday: Ex 17:8-13/Ps 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 [cf. 2]/
2Tm 3:14—4:2/Lk 18:1-8
St. Mary Mass Schedule
Saturday, October 12 7:00 am Adoration 8:05 am † Loretta Annoye 8:45 am Confessions 4:00 pm † Earl & Grace Vanness
Sunday, October 13 8:15 am For the People of the Parish
Tuesday, October 15 7:00 am Adoration 8:05 am For the People of the Parish
Wednesday, October 16 8:05 am Mass at Holy Rosary, Kewaunee
Thursday, October 17 7:00 am Adoration 7:40 am Pray the Rosary 8:05 am † Ken Feld 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Adoration & Confessions
Friday, October 18 7:00 am Adoration 8:05 am † Dr. Valentine Ancheta
Saturday, October 19 7:00 am Adoration 8:05 am † Mary Jane Ebert 8:45 am Confessions 4:00 pm † Tara Krause
Sunday, October 20 8:15 am For the People of the Parish
Monday, Oct. 14 10:00 am –Scrip order is due in the parish office; pick-up will be the following week-end after masses.
Tuesday, Oct. 15 5:15 pm - Finance Council meeting. 6:00 pm - Thrivent Financial Retirement informational meeting.
Wednesday, Oct. 16 3:35 pm - 5:00 pm K—6th grade Faith Formation Classes 6:45 pm - 8:30 pm 7th—11th grade Faith Formation Classes Meet in the Religious Education/Social Hall
Thursday, Oct. 17 9:15 am - Bible Study “The Sunday Scriptures” in the Rosary Society Room. All are invited, come join us every Thursday!
2-4 pm - Grief Ministry in the Faith Formation office. Contact Donna Moran (920) 723-1948 or June Harmann (920)487-5507 for details. 6:15 pm - ALPHA meeting in the Cafeteria.
Sunday, Oct. 20 9:15 am - Free Coffee & Donuts in the cafete-ria sponsored by the Rosary Society. Everyone is welcome!
SAVE THE DATE!!
Jake Rabas is scheduled to make a presentation on financial Planning and Legacies on Tuesday Oct. 29th here at St. Mary.
We are Baptized and Sent! Next week is World Mission Sunday, in a special Extraordinary Missionary Month. We are called through our baptism to be part of the Church’s missionary efforts, through prayer, self-sacrifice and support of missionary vocations through material aid.
Remembering that we are baptized and sent as a Universal Church of Christ on mission in the world, we can…
PRAY for the Church’s worldwide missionary work
OFFER financial HELP and CHARITY through the Society for Propagation of the Faith for vulnerable communities throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific Islands.
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Oct. 5 & 6 Stewardship & Loose Collection $ 3,221.85 School Operating Support $ 100.00 Building & Grounds Maintenance $ 0.00 Direct Deposit - Oct. 5, 2019 $ 2,610.00
The Witness of the North American Saints
The third-century Church Father Tertullian once said that the “blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.” That is to
say, wherever the Church has grown and flourished, it is because it has been planted and watered by the blood of numerous
men, women and children who utterly loved Christ and followed him so single-mindedly that they gave their lives as wit-
ness to a love that is stronger than death. The story of the flourishing Korean Church -- a church with the unique distinc-
tion of being sustained by the ministry of the lay faithful decades after all clergy had been expelled and also a church irri-
gated by the blood of innumerable martyrs during waves of persecution -- bears eloquent testimony to the veracity of Ter-
tullian’s assertion. As the Book of Revelation puts it, “Love for life, did not deter them from death” (Rev 12:11).
In laying down their lives for the cause of the gospel, the martyrs found it, just as Christ said: “Whoever loses his life for my
sake will find it” (Mt. 16:25). How so, one might ask, since the martyrs’ mission and ministry at their deaths were thought
by their killers and bystanders to have ended in resounding defeat and failure? Sometimes, it is only with the benefit of
hindsight and the passing of time that we realize that the martyrs’ lives were indeed not recklessly thrown away: they
amounted to something. Their blood poured out like Christ’s contained --like Christ’s-- the seed of immortality. Hence
their physical death was not the last word.
When the French Jesuits John de Brebeuf and Isaac Jogues were martyred in the 1600s, their ministry among the Native
American tribes seemed unsuccessful. Summing up their missionary expedition, a contemporary commentator observes:
“Their work among the Huron, Iroquois and Mohawks saw little progress while they lived; the natives blamed the
“blackrobes” (as they were called) for every misfortune. The missions grew, watered by their blood, which was spilled in
various massacres from 1642 to 1649. In the years that followed, many of the remaining natives accepted Christ, most no-
tably Saint Katheri Tekakwitha.” The martyrs were the “real winners” as Pope Francis recently proclaimed.
However, how does one realize that the seed of the Church planted in a particular land and watered by the martyrs’ blood
has flourished? We know this when it yields a harvest of trailblazing saints and revolutionary scholars who simultaneously
enrich the Christian community and challenge it to show greater fidelity to Christ and a more courageous witness to the
gospel. We call saints those friends of God who illuminate for others the beauty of dwelling in God’s love and thus become
conduits of hope and models of faith. The Church in North America continues to be enriched and challenged by the lumi-
nous lives of saints Katheri Takakwitha, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Katherine Drexel, Frances Xavier Cabrini, John Neumann,
Andre Bessette, Damian of Molokai and Marian Cope. The faith-filled lives of Blesseds Stanley Rother and Solanus Casey,
Venerables Fulton Sheen and Pierre Toussaint, Servants of God Thea Bowman, Augustus Tolton and Dorothy Day continue
to give hope and inspiration to many, both in America and across the world.
Furthermore, the presence of theologians and scholars who expound, articulate and teach the faith in new, creative and
ever more life-giving ways –always in dialogue with culture--- is also a further testimony to the Church’s state of health in a
particular land. The following American scholars past and present have helped the Christian community to contemplate
the mystery of Christ with fresh eyes and to listen to God’s word with new ears, reading the signs of the times and inter-
preting them in the light of faith: Avery Dulles, John Courtney Murray, John Tracy Ellis, Cyprian Davies, Richard John
Neuhaus, Thomas Weinandy, Matthew Levering, Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis, Elizabeth Johnson, John Cavedini, Sarah But-
ler, Walter Burghardt, Robert Barron, Scott Hahn, Raymond Brown and Dianne Bergant. By their teaching and writing,
they lead us deeper into the mystery of God revealed in Christ in “whom are hidden all treasures of wisdom and knowl-
edge” (Col 2:3). The Church in North America owes them a debt of gratitude.
In the face of the painful polarizations and internecine battles that we often encounter between conservatives and liberals,
traditionalists and progressives, with their debilitating consequences for effective Christian witness in America, we dare to
hope that our communion with these saintly disciples and illustrious figures will continue to encourage and challenge us to
proclaim the reign of God and to announce the lordship of Christ by working for justice and peace.
Fr. Alvan I. Amadi
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord. Let perpetual light shine on her.
Frances Frenette
Born to eternal life on September 14, 2019
