211 4th St.
N
Goodhue,
MN 55027
Ph/F (651)
923-4472
36483 Co
47 Blvd
Goodhue,
MN 55027
Ph: (651)
258-4307
221 Chester
Ave
Bellechester
, MN 55027
Ph: (651)
923-4305
Holy Trinity Church (HT)
St Columbkill Church (SC)
St Mary Church (SM)
Collection: $590
Collection: $469.07
Collection: $325
Catholic Home Mission Appeal Collection: HT - $47, SC – $90, SM – 81. Thank You!
2nd Collection: Next weekend to support the victims of the Nepal Earthquake.
Corpus Christ Procession after Mass at St. Columbkill on Sun June 7th. We will process
with our Lord out through the cemetery and then come back to the church and have
Benediction. It is a great way for us to show our reverence and respect for our Lord.
Rosary in May: We will be having the rosary said before mass in the month of May. Please
come to St Mary at 8:10AM or St. Columbkill at 10:10AM to pray the rosary.
VBS: June 3-4, 9a – 12p, Grades K-6 with Children's Mass at 11:15 and Potluck at 12:00 pm
on Thursday June 4. Everyone is welcome to attend the Mass and Potluck. Registration is
preferred. Please e-mail Micayla Ryan at [email protected] to register. We are in need
of youth volunteers so please contact Micayla or Becky Diercks if you are able to help.
SM CCW Officer: If you are interested in being an office for St Marys' CCW please contact
nominating committee: Jeanette Strauss(chair) or Kelly Huneke
Thank you to all Mission Sewing members for the 53 beautiful quilts you designed to give others
love and comfort. Thank you also to anyone who donated fabric and supplies to make this
possible. Patrice O'Reilly.
St. Mary Maintenance: We are looking at the stone and brick on St. Mary’s.
St Columbkill Maintenance: The windows are out and should be finished around June 15th.
SC/HT Cemetery: Water is going to be put into the cemetery. Thanks to some generous donors!
Local:
KC meeting on Mon, May 11 at 8pm at SS Peter and Paul's Church in Mazeppa.
2015 Walk for Life and 5K Run: First Choice Clinic will be holding their 9th Annual Walk and
Run for Life on Saturday, May 30th at Bay Point Park in Red Wing, MN. Race/Walk starts at 9
am. Join us with your family and friends for this fundraising event. New this year: Diaper Dash
and Toddler Trot, bouncy house and Daisy the clown! Registrations can be made now thru May
15th by going to our website firstchoiceclinicrw.com under the Walk/5KRun button. Same day
registration will be open at 8 am on the day of the race. Call FCC for information on forming a
team and raising support for First Choice Clinic.651-267-4357.
If you have a claim against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, the last day to file a
SEXUAL ABUSE CLAIM, GENERAL CLAIM, or GOVERNMENT CLAIM against the Debtor
is August 3, 2015. YOU MUST ACT NOW TO PRESERVE YOUR RIGHTS. For more
information on how to obtain and file a proof of claim and associated documents please: visit the
debtor’s website at http://information.archspm.org/ or call the Debtor’s toll-free hotline at 866868-4808. Please see notices in the back of the church for more information on this. Thank you
!!!!!
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY
!!!!!
6th Sunday of Easter
Holy Trinity Parish
May 10, 2015
Holy Trinity Parish, 211 4th St. N, PO Box 275, Goodhue, MN 55027,
Phone/Fax - (651) 923-4472, Email: [email protected]
Website: www.holytrinitygoodhue.org, Pastor - Fr. Paul Kubista – 651-923-4305,
[email protected], Deacon Paul Tschann - 507-732-5033
Mission/ (Vision): To grow closer to Christ and lead others to him striving to become saints.
Office Hours: Closed May 11th
Parish building use request - Call the office.
Mon 8:00AM
HT May 11
+Gladys O’Reilly
Confession; Sat 5:00pm at Holy Trinity, Sun
Tue 8:00AM
SM May 12
Michael Majerus
8:00am at St. Mary, Sun 10:15am at St
Wed 8:00AM
HT May 13
Joan & David Satnik
Columbkill, or by appointment.
Baptism – Contact Fr. Kubista at least 3 months
Thur No Mass
SM May 14
No Mass
before the birth to attend a class and set a date.
Sat
5:30PM
HT May 16
Intentions in Red Book
First Penance/Eucharist – Register for 2nd
Sun 8:30AM
SM May 17
Parishioners
grade Faith Formation classes.
Confirmation – Register for 9th and 10th grade
10:30AM
SC
+Henry Gorman
Faith Formation classes.
Marriage – Contact Fr. Kubista at least six months before the planned wedding date.
Anointing of the Sick – Contact Fr. Kubista especially if serious or near death.
Pastoral Care of the Sick - If you move to a nursing home/care facility, would like a priest to visit, or are unable to
attend mass and would like communion at home, contact Fr. Kubista. Funerals – Contact Fr. Kubista
Mass Intention requests: mail to the parish or place in the collection. ($7/mass) Please indicate preferred date(s).
Bulletin Items need to be emailed to [email protected] by Wed.
MASS SCHEDULE
If interested in becoming a member(welcome!) or becoming a Catholic, contact Fr. Kubista.
VBS – June 3 – 4
Events:
CYC – July 26 - 31
Prayers for the Sick: Please pray for Marcy Dilworth, La Wanda Keller, Oscar Ludwig, Steve
Matthees, Rita Arendt, Fr. Gorman, Fr. Peterson, Herman, Jeanette & John Gorman, Jim Stanton,
Ruth Gadient, Florence Sutter, Alice Rusch, & Becky Leifeld. Deceased - Lefty O’Reilly
Thank You: to all those who helped prepare
Quote: Jesus said to his disciples: “As the
our confirmandi and our first communicants, Scripture
Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you
especially the parents. Thanks Mom for life! keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I
Calendar/Events
5/18
5/18
6/3-4
6:00PM
7:00PM
9a-Noon
HT
HT
HT
Finance Council Mtg.
Parish Council Mtg.
VBS
have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and
your joy might be complete. This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you. No one has greater love
than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are
my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer
call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his
master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have
told you everything I have heard from my Father. It was
not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed
you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever
you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I
command you: love one another.” (Jn 15:9-17)
Note from the Pastor Fr. Kubista...
Air: The air we breathe is very important. The air provides mostly nitrogen and
oxygen which are essential things for life, just as the Holy Spirit is essential in the
spiritual life. Air movements help move things around and the Holy Spirit, who is
likened to a wind, helps move us and encourage us. We need the Holy Spirit who is the Breath of
Life and allows us to share in the very Life of God. We are called to be good stewards of the air
that we breathe and to be aware of various things which can inhibit us from flourishing as human
beings. We thank God for the gift of air and especially the gift of the Holy Spirit, and ask that He
would help us to keep our air clean and pure especially for future generations and allow the Spirit
to move us closer to Christ.
What is in air? “The common name air is given to the atmospheric gases used in
breathing and photosynthesis. By volume, dry air contains 78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen,
0.93% argon, 0.039% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases. Air also contains a
variable amount of water vapor, on average around 1% at sea level, and 0.4% over the entire
atmosphere. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth) We see how nitrogen is the
element which is most abundant in the air we breathe, it is very important in the life cycle of all of
us. “Nitrogen is necessary for all known forms of life on Earth.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_cycle) Nitrogen is foundational for life and is in the
fundamental building blocks of life. “It is a component in all amino acids, as incorporated into
proteins, and is present in the bases that make up nucleic acids such as RNA and DNA. In plants,
much of the nitrogen is used in chlorophyll molecules, which are essential for photosynthesis and
further growth.” (ibid) Nitrogen, though, is not mostly used in its direct form but rather has to be
processed or transformed especially for plants. “Nitrogen gas (N2) is the largest constituent of the
Earth's atmosphere, but this form is relatively nonreactive and unusable by plants [& animals].
Chemical processing or natural fixation (through processes such as bacterial conversion—see
rhizobium) are necessary to convert gaseous nitrogen into compounds such as nitrate or
ammonia which can be used by plants.” (ibid). Nitrogen, which is essential for life, then has to
be transformed into a usable form which is very interesting. Another medium has to take nitrogen
and transform it into a usable form for life especially for plants.
In the spiritual realm, we just don’t become children of God on our own, we are not adopted
sons and daughters of God on our own but need some Person who transforms us or adopts us. The
Person (Agent) which transforms and adopts us is the Holy Spirit. We need the transforming power
of the Spirit to be founded and alive in Christ. We hear how from the beginning in Genesis, the Holy
Spirit, who made us come alive as we hear in Genesis: “the LORD God formed man out of the clay of
the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being.” (Gen 2:7)
One could say that this was a spiritual birth; the life of God came to Adam who was filled with the
Holy Spirit and shared the life of God. It is a reminder to us of the power of the Holy Spirit and how
we are depended on Him to be transformed into Christ and continue to be converted, changed, and
grow into Christ. We have accept into our souls the Holy Spirit who will allow us to be more
converted into Christ, who transforms us, and builds up in us the Life of God.
Another important element in the air is oxygen. With oxygen, there is a direct connection as
we breathe this element in and our lungs transfer it into our blood; we need oxygen to survive and to
READINGS FOR THE WEEK
help our body and its needs. We are dependent on plants to
Monday: Acts 16:11-15; Ps 149:1b-6a, 9b;
give off oxygen and use up carbon dioxide and we are
Jn 15:26 -16:4a
dependent them for nitrogen. Plants help sustain us for we
Tuesday: Acts 16:22-34; Ps 138:1-3, 7c-8;
need plants to breathe but also we need them to eat. The
Jn 16:5-11
Wednesday: Acts 17:15, 22 — 18:1; Ps
oxygen we get then goes throughout the entire body; it feeds
148:1-2, 11-14; Jn 16:12-15
and nourishes the entire body.
Thursday: Acts 1:1-11; Ps 47:2-3, 6-9;
The Holy Spirit nourishes our soul for the Holy Spirit
Eph 1:17-23, Mk 16:15-20
Friday: Acts 18:9-18; Ps 47:2-7; Jn 16:20is the Breath of Life, we need to Spirit to sustain and nourish
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us, we need to breathe in the Spirit, to follow the Word from
Saturday: Acts 18:23-28; Ps 47:2-3, 8-10;
whom the Holy Spirit proceeds. We are to follow the
Jn 16:23b-28
commands that our Father has given to us, to do His will, and
Sunday: Acts 1:1-11; Ps 47:2-3, 6-9;
Eph 1:17- 23, Mk 16:15-20
when we allow the Spirit to help guide and move us, we are
PAPAL PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR May
alive in the Spirit and share in the breath of God. The Spirit
Care for the Suffering: that, rejecting
enlivens us, the Spirit helps us to get over the deadness to sin,
the culture of indifference, we may care
for our neighbors who suffer, especially
and brings us Life; He gives life to our soul, to our spirit.
the sick and the poor.
“Then he said to me: Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, son of
Openness to Mission: that Mary's
man, and say to the spirit: Thus says the Lord GOD: From
intercession may help Christians in
the four winds come, O spirit, and breathe into these slain
secularized cultures be open to
proclaiming Jesus.
that they may come to life. I prophesied as he told me, and the
spirit came into them; they came alive and stood upright, a
.
vast army.” (Ez 37:9-10) Let us deeply breathe in the Holy Spirit to fill the lungs of our souls and
allow the oxygen to move us on to a greater oneness in Christ.
Another important thing which happens in the air is the wind. “Wind is caused by
differences in the atmospheric pressure. When a difference in atmospheric pressure exists, air
moves from the higher to the lower pressure area, resulting in winds of various speeds. “
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind) Wind takes what it has and moves it into the space in which
it blows. When the wind blows, it can purify the air, moving over water, oceans or through trees
or over the grasses and it picks up things which can help us. Have you even noticed after a rain
how fresh the air is or after the grass is mowed how good it smells or near the ocean, the fresh
smell of the ocean breeze; these smells are pleasing and can help move one to grow in spirit, to be
uplifted and energized. The fresh air, the things which the air picks up indeed can enliven us and
help us, the goodness in the air can move us to God. I think this is so important to remember that
in general, God made creation to move us towards Him, the good things He made help us find
Him and we can never let go of this. God is guiding His creation towards Him.
In the spiritual reality, it is the Spirit who is the wind for our souls. The Spirit wants to
move us from low levels in our faith to higher realms; the Spirit wants to move more of the Life
of God into our souls, to be more like Christ, to grow in holiness. We hear how on Pentecost the
Spirit is in the wind. “And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, *
and it filled the entire house in which they were.” (Acts 2:2) The Holy Spirit wants to move us
like He did for those in the upper room. The Holy Spirit wants to pick us up, to move us ahead,
to encourage us, to strengthen us, to help us to remain in hope and to let go of things which are
getting in the way of us moving closer to Christ. We can ask how is the Spirit blowing in our
lives, what are the smells and movements we experience from the Spirit? God bless you.