The Epiphany of the Lord January 2 & 3, 2021

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish • 2771 Oakwood Drive • Green Bay, WI 54304

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In celebration of our patron saint’s feast day, we have goody bags for the taking after all Masses this weekend. Read more below about St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s life below.

Elizabeth Ann Seton was born in 1774 and died in 1821. She was a wife, mother, educator, and foundress. Born into a wealthy Episco-palian family, Elizabeth married William Seton. His untimely death in Italy, where the young family sought healing for his tuberculosis, left her, at age 29, a widow with five children. Inspired by the faith and charity of the Italian family with whom they stayed, Elizabeth embraced Catholicism despite her family’s disowning her and ceasing financial support. Elizabeth Ann Seton opened the first free Catholic school and founded the first American religious community for women. Tuberculosis also claimed her oldest and youngest daughters and, finally, at age 47, Elizabeth herself. In 1975, she was canonized the first native-born American saint. Once asked to summarize her spirituality, she replied: “Faith lifts the staggering soul on one side, hope supports it on the other, experience says it must be, and love says let it be!”

~Excerpts from Peter Scagnelli, J. S. Paluch Co.

You are children of

eternity. Your

immortal crown awaits

you, to reward your duty

and love. You may

indeed sow here in

tears, but you may be

sure there to reap in joy. These

booklets

are available in

the

hospitality

area and the brown pick-up

box outside door #1, while supplies last, to help you

in

your faith journey. The

daily devotions will

your soul and lift

your spirit.

Celebrated 60 Years of Marriage

Celebrated 44 Years of Marriage

Help with Books

Cade Milton

Christmas Trees Set Up

Bob Thut Dale Mocco

John Armbruster Tom Strenski

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Worship Area

Betty Arendt Barb Diederich

Deb Bell Jean Otradovec

Judy Trimberger Liz Ochs

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Saturday, January 2 St. Basil the Great St. Gregory Nazianzen

1 Jn 2:22-28; Ps 98:1-4; Jn 1:19-28

3:00pm Confession/Reconciliation 4:15pm Mass for the Living and Deceased

Members of the Stoller Family

Sunday, January 3 The Epiphany of the Lord Is 60:1-6; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-13; Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6; Mt 2:1-12 8:00am Rosary 8:30am Mass Tom Behling Livestreamed Mass on our YouTube Channel 10:30am Mass Joan Dryja

Monday, January 4 St. Elizabeth Ann Seton 1 Jn 3:22-4:6; Ps 2:7bc-8, 10-12a; Mt 4:12-17, 23-25

Tuesday, January 5 St. John Neumann 1 Jn 4:7-10; Ps 72:1-4, 7-8; Mk 6:34-44

8:00am Mass Fran Kaczrouske 5:30pm Worship Committee Meeting 6:00pm Praying the Rosary

Wednesday, January 6 St. André Bessette 1 Jn 4:11-18; Ps 72:1-2, 10, 12-13; Mk 6:45-52

8:00am Mass Bogomil Kranjec 10:30am Staff Meeting & Spirituality Group 6:00pm Holy Hour

Thursday, January 7 St. Raymond of Penafort 1 Jn 4:19 - 5:4; Ps 72: 1-2, 14, 15bc, 17; Lk 4:14-22a

8:00am Mass for the Holy Souls in Purgatory

Friday, January 8 1 Jn 5:5-13; Ps 147:12-15, 19-20; Lk 5:12-16

8:00am Mass for the Living & Deceased Members of the Polacek & Pfeifer Families

Saturday, January 9 1 Jn 5:14-21; Ps 149:1-6a, 9b; Jn 3:22-30 9-11:30am First Reconciliation Retreat and Sacrament Celebration 3:00pm Confession/Reconciliation 4:15pm Mass Gene Schiedermayer Family

Sunday, January 10 The Baptism of the Lord Is 42:1-4, 6-7 or Is 55:1-11; Ps 29:1-4, 3, 9-10

or Is 12:2-3, 4-6; Acts 10:34-38 or 1 Jn 5:1-9; Mk 1:7-11 8:00am Rosary 8:30am Mass David & Marge Burich Livestreamed Mass on our YouTube Channel 10:30am Mass Ervin Kurth 11:30am-12:30pm Hot Cocoa and Cookie Drive-Thru

Confession/Reconci l iat ion Saturdays from 3 to 3:40pm

Mass Schedule Mondays No Mass

Tuesdays 8:00am Fridays 8:00am Wednesdays 8:00am Saturdays 4:15pm Thursdays 8:00am Sundays 8:30 & 10:30am

~ January 10 - 11:30am to 12:30pm ~ Hot Cocoa & Cookie Drive-Thru

~ February 6 - Late Afternoon & Evening ~

Mardi Gras Meal Take Out & Virtual Fundraiser

Year-End Statements We plan to mail statements the early part of February. They will be available by mid-January in the parish office for pick up; exact date to be determined. If you have any questions, please contact Jeremy Borchardt, Business Manager at jborchardt@seasgb.org or 920.499.1546 ext. 112. The accounting department will have varying hours due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We appreciate your patience with response times in regards to questions you may have about year-end statements.

Church Cleaners Needed

Help Needed! Regular vacuuming and cleaning keeps our worship area neat and tidy. It provides a welcoming at-mosphere to all who visit our church.

With your help, we want to keep it that way. We are looking for individuals, couples, families, or groups who would like to vacuum, sweep and dust the worship area during weekday parish office hours. Cleaners are scheduled once a month, sometimes less. For cleaning purposes, the worship area is divided into six sections. Cleaners are assigned to one of the sections, not the whole worship area. Although we do have couples/families who volunteer to clean two sections instead of one. The decision is yours. If you are interested in helping clean the church, please call Kathy Vandersteen at 499-1546 for more information.

Dear Fellow Pilgrims,

When you stand on a moun-

tain ridge, having earned your

position by way of a rigorous

climb, the soul yearns to pause

and take inventory. Your feet

feel the solidity of the earth

you know so well, while your

eyes ponder the spacious wonders of the vista before

you and the mystery of the sky beyond you. Here, all is

gift. The moment, the beauty, even the pain and toil

that got you to this point­—all is gift. This sort of

reflective contemplation is certainly among the most

powerful forms of prayer, at least it has been in my

lifetime.

Hopefully, the steep ascents and surprising switch-

backs of the journey have changed you. Hopefully,

your heart has been made stronger, your mind has

been made clearer, and your soul has found its center.

Hopefully you have gained perspective and let go of

old angers and prejudices. Hopefully you stand in a

more profound peace and regard others with a deeper

compassion. Hopefully.

We stand together on such a ridge as we pass this

threshold into the new year before us. It has been a

rigorous, relentless climb. For many, there has been a

great deal of pain and significant loss. We have felt

weary and have lost our confidence in the solidity of

the earth beneath us. At times, the sky seems too

distant and the air too thin. Our souls yearn to pause

and take inventory, to enter into contemplative prayer.

As long as we keep wanting to change the mountain,

the mountain has no hope of changing us. And isn’t

that the whole point—to grow, to change, to expand

our capacity for love? Isn’t that the reason we journey

in the first place?

Around us, perhaps even within us, we hear voices

longing for a return to normal. We anticipate being

able to gather freely in stadiums, concert halls, class-

rooms, and high school gyms. We want to return to a

place where we can mingle at farmers markets,

weddings, and festivals without worrying that we

might get sick or, even worse, be the agent of someone

else’s devastating illness.

But let’s not forget that the old normal didn’t always

manifest our best selves. We were heavily burdened

with the baggage of anger, pettiness, inequality, and

even hatred. We lived in divided opposition before the

pandemic, and we carried all that weight as we climbed

the mountain. Has the journey tired us enough that we

are finally willing to change and to love more? As we

sit on this New Year’s ridge and contemplate, have we

journeyed far enough to see all as gift? Have we

emptied ourselves enough to where we are ready to

choose unity over division, peace over anger, and

compassion over injustice?

I pray that the New Year does not bring a return to an

old normal, but rather gives rise to a new dawn, that

we find within us the strength and fortitude to let go

of anger, hatred, and prejudice, and fill ourselves with

the new life of faith, hope, and love.

Journey well and pray always!

Peace,

Deacon Steve Meyer

BY SUZANNE WEISS | SPECIAL TO THE COMPASS

CLARKS MILLS — If any year could use an uplifting story, it’s 2020.

This story got its start a few weeks before Veterans Day, when students at St. Mary/St. Michael School in Clarks Mills began creating cards for area veterans to thank them for their service. The students take part in service projects each month, said Jeanne Duenkel, who teaches third and fourth grades, and the Veterans Day project is an annual one.

Students and veterans were paired at ran-dom. The school mailed about 220 cards and timed them so that recipients would have them by Veterans Day, she said. The school received more responses than usual to their cards this year, likely due to the pandemic, Duenkel said.

One response stood out among the rest.Third grader Sam Staudinger, 8, wrote

his card to Charles Spiering, a member of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Manitowoc and Vietnam veteran, who served in the U.S. Army and the Army Reserve. Spiering received Sam’s card the day before he was scheduled for routine surgery. He told Carol, his wife of 54 years, that she should make sure that Sam received a thank you card and one of his service medals in the event that something would happen to him. Spiering, 79, died at the hospital on Veterans Day, Nov. 11.

Our full story appears in the Dec. 18 issue.

IN T

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Small gestures can have big impactVeterans Day service project has emotional conclusion for student

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FRANKLY,FRANCIS

@PontifexFollow Him On

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Those who pray never turn their backs on the world. If prayer does not gather the joys and sorrows, the hopes and the anxieties of humanity, it becomes a “decorative” activity, a superfi cial, theatrical, solitary way of behaving. We all need interiority: to retreat within a space and a time dedicated to our relationship with God. But this does not mean that we evade reality. In prayer, God “takes us, blesses us, then breaks us and gives us,” to satisfy everyone’s hunger. Every Christian is called to become in God’s hands bread, broken and shared. That is, it is concrete prayer, that is not an escape.

So, men and women of prayer seek solitude and silence, not so as not be disturbed, but so as to listen better to God’s voice.

+ Pope Francis, Dec. 16, 2020

January 2021

Student exchange program continues to foster vocationsBY JEFF KUROWSKI | THE COMPASS

ALLOUEZ — An alumnus of the Global Outreach Catholic Exchange Program celebrated two mile-stone moments within a few weeks. Miro Hazy, a native of Slovakia who attended Roncalli High School in Manitowoc in 2012-2013, was married to his wife, Maria, on Aug. 8. On Sept. 9, he was ordained a Byzantine Catholic priest.

“After my wedding, there was one week to

be ordained a deacon, then one month later to be ordained a priest,” he said in a video call with The Compass. “We don’t have strict dates like the Roman rite that you have to be a deacon for a year or a half year. For us, it’s just the decision of the bishop.”

Fr. Hazy is the fi rst alumnus to be ordained in the Byzantine Catholic rite.

Fr. Larry Seidl, Global Outreach spiritual direc-tor, believes the mission of the program — “to

build a civilization of love by forming young, dynamic Catholic servant leaders for the 21st century” — helps young people discern their vocations. “Servant leadership, as practiced in Global Outreach, is all about inspiring young people to use their gifts in service to others and to help them become servant leaders by inspir-ing others through their example,” he said.

Our full story appears in the Dec. 18 issue.

SUBMITTED PHOTO | FOR THE COMPASS

Carol Spiering poses with Sam Staudinger, a third grader at St. Mary/St. Michael School in Clark Mills, Dec. 4 after presenting him with her late husband’s service medal and a thank you card.

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THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

About Paul’s ConversionBY PATRICIA KASTEN | THE COMPASS

1 Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles, was raised a Jew, a Roman citizen of Tarsus

and fi rst named “Saul.”

2 Paul was taught by one of the most famous Pharisees of the time: Gama-

liel. Gamaliel had advised the Sanhedrin to be tolerant of the new Christian faith (Acts 5:34).

3 Paul was such an enemy of Jesus’ fol-lowers that he condoned the stoning

of Stephen and went to Damascus to take Christians to prison.

4 On the road, Jesus appeared to Paul, who fell to the ground, blind. (No,

Scripture does not say Paul fell from a horse.)

5 Paul was led to Damascus and Ana-nias, who healed Paul’s blindness and

baptized him at Jesus’ word.

5 Deep listening is a way to build unityDear friends and followers of Jesus:

2 020 has been quite the year! It’s hard to believe that in just a few short weeks, the year will be over and we will be on to

2021. While there is always some excitement and anticipation for a new year, I sense that people are looking forward to 2021, and, as importantly, to an end to 2020, more than in past years. I know I am ready for a fresh start and the hope of brighter days for our families, our churches and our com-munities in the year ahead.

But as we approach the new year, brothers and sis-ters, let us pause to consider how to make the world a

better place in 2021. It’s easy to pin our hopes for a better year on the COVID-19 vaccines that are now being administered. Yet we would be naïve to think that the challenges we’ve faced this year are simply a result of the pandemic. Many of the issues we face as a church, as a nation and as a world cannot be blamed on this virus. This is why Pope Francis has often spoken, during the pandemic, of two viruses: the coronavirus and the virus that comes from within the human heart when we value ourselves above other people.

One of the main ways we have seen this

other virus this past year is in the growing divi-sion in society. This division exists on a variety of issues, but, regardless of the issue, it seems to have infected all areas of society including families, communities, government and, sadly, even the church. So as we approach 2021, I am suggesting a New Year’s resolution for all of us: We need to develop skills in deep listening.

Deep listening is a way of connecting with another person that recognizes their sacred dig-nity as a child of God. Too often these days, we see other people, especially those with whom we disagree, as a threat. But God calls us to regard each person as a gift, and deep listening allows us to do this. When we slow ourselves down to hear a person’s perspective and to understand their point of view, and when they offer that same grace to us, we have entered a place of safe and authentic dialogue.

Deep listening does not necessarily mean that two people will agree on everything. But when they disagree, rather than framing each other in either/or terms — you are either with me or against me — we see each other in both/and terms, recognizing that both people desire good even if they see things differently. This becomes the means for fostering unity in our relationships built on a foundation of love and truth.

The entire column appears in our Dec. 18 issue.

BISHOP’SCORNER Bishop DavidRicken

SUBMITTED PHOTO | SPECIAL TO THE COMPASSResurrection (Allouez), St. Francis Xavier (De Pere) and St. Mary (Ledgeview) churches sponsored “Follow the Light: A Drive-Thru Lights Adventure” on Dec. 13 in De Pere and Allouez. The parishes were able to fi ll an SUV full of food for an area food pantry and raised $77 for meal packs at the Salvation Army.

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Blessing of Epiphany Water Prayer Service, January 5 at 6:30pm at Nativity Parish, Green Bay. There is a special blessing for water on the feast of the Epiphany because of its connection to the cele-bration of Jesus' baptism. This service also includes the blessing of salt. Bring your own bottles of water for the blessing. Paper Drive Fundraiser, January 23-31, there will be a designated dumpster in the NE corner of the St. Jude parking lot, 1420 Divi-sion St. GB. Acceptable paper includes any clean paper you would normally put in a city recycling bin. Paper and cardboard only please. NO garbage. Pope Francis “Our Common Home” Encyclical, 6-week study program on Zoom, St. Bernard’s Appleton, Thursdays beginning January 14 from 7-8pm. Visit stbernardappleton.org for Zoom link and access to the Pope’s encyclical or call 920.739.0331. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops offers clarifica-tion regarding the moral permissibility of COVID-19 vaccines. “Neither the Pfizer nor the Moderna vaccine involved the use of cell lines that originated in fetal tissue taken from the body of an aborted baby at any level of design, development, or production. They are not completely free from any connection to abortion, however…” To read the entire memo, go to https://www.usccb.org/resources/memo-to-bishops-on-vaccines-for-covid-19.pdf.

It is our monthly collection time for St. Patrick’s Pantry. They have too much of some things and need more of others. Listed below is what they are in need of. The cart will be outside door #1 to collect items you wish to donate. Below is a list of suggested items.

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