ST. BARNABAS-MAZOMANIE ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST-MILL CREEK MAY 23 & 24, 2015 Lectors Saturday Sunday Ushers: Saturday Sunday 4:00 PM Karen Lawler 8:00 AM Mill Creek Pam Taylor 9:30 AM St. Barnabas Janice Brunner 4:00 PM Dennis O’Connell & Volunteer 8:00 AM Mill Creek Steve Harrington & Peter Chlebeck 9:30 AM St. Barnabas Jerry & Mary Gust Gift Bearers: Saturday 4:00 PM Volunteers Sunday 8:00 AM Mill Creek Steve & Linda Harrington 9:30 AM St. Barnabas Volunteers Rosary: Saturday Sunday 3:40 PM Karen Lawler 9:10 AM St. Barnabas Mary Gust DIRECTORY Pastor……………………….Fr. Osvaldo Briones Contact info: 370-2751 [email protected] Cluster Administrator…………Fr. John Blewett Contact info: …………………………… 370-3784 St. Aloysius office …………………….. 643-2449 Parish website www.parishholycross.com Parish Secretary & Rel. Education Coordinator & Bulletin Editor: Fr. Osvaldo Briones Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 8:30 AM- 11:30 AM We are looking for some volunteers to answer phone calls. Please contact Fr. Osvaldo Holy Cross Parish Council (Peter Chlebeck) 795-4321 [email protected] Prayer Chain Requests (Mary Gust)……795-2555 Cemetery (Steve Hutson)…...…..….………767-2533 Saturday, May 16, 2015 8:00 AM TLM † Wilma Bernards 4:00 PM † Jim & Ron Endres Sunday, May 17, 2015 Ascension 8:00 AM Mill Creek Living & Deceased members of H. C. Parish 9:30 AM St. Barnabas † Marcia (Richgel) Marks Monday, May 18, 2015 8:00 AM Intentions of Fr. William F. Cleves Tuesday, May 19, 2015 8:00 AM † Judy Schendel Wednesday, May 20, 2015 8:00 AM † Judy Schendel 10:00 AM Nursing Home † Alice Marie Wittwer Thursday, May 21, 2015 8:00 AM † Bernadine Williams Friday, May 22, 2015 St. Rita of Cascia 8:00 AM † Pat & Connie Lucey Saturday, May 23, 2015 8:00 AM TLM † Mahala Kruchten 4:00 PM † Dale Anderson Sunday, May 24, 2015 Pentecost 8:00 AM Mill Creek † Hannah Zoromski 9:30 AM St. Barnabas Bernadine Krantz Williams Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Thursday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Latin Mass St. Barnabas Saturday at 8:00 AM St. Norbert's daily at 6:30 AM, Sunday at 11:00 AM, St. Mary's, Merrimac 1st Thursday of the month at 7:00 PM Sacrament of Reconciliation Individual confessions are heard one hour before Mass begins and Thursday from 4-4:45 PM Baptisms Baptisms and Baptism preparation sessions are by appointment. RCIA Anyone interested in beginning the initiation process of conversion into the Catholic Church call the Parish Office at 795-4321. Marriages Please contact the Parish office when you become engaged. Sacrament of the Sick, Anointing and Eucharist Contact Fr. Osvaldo, Fr. John, or St. Aloysius any time day or night. Seminarians Capital Campaign Diocese of Madison 1st in more than 50 years Ascension of the Lord MAY 16 & 17, 2015 You need to have a path Part 3 Channel of grace The Lord watches over us and guides us sometimes acting directly on the soul and sometimes, through chosen people, which will be like channels of His grace. Expressly says the Lord: He who hears you hears me (Lc 10, 16); to which you forgive the sins they are forgiven... And rest assured that I will be with you until the end of the time (Mt 28, 20). God can also work in our soul through parents, a friend or an acquaintance. The spiritual director is, however, that designated person who knows the path, to whom we opened our soul and he is a teacher, a doctor, a friend who accompanies us on our journey, he is the Good Shepherd in things involving God business. He points out the possible obstacles, suggests goals in inner life to fight effectively in concrete things, he encourages us in all circumstances. God in a simple and discreet way is present in him. He helps to discover new horizons and awakens in the soul hunger and thirst for God. Lukewarmness (always lurking) would like to extinguish on us that hunger and thirst for God. Spiritual director gives us light to recognize our vocation, or reaffirms us on it if we already know it. The spiritual director channel our desires for holiness; fighting against spiritual mediocrity and against sin. Therefore, these desires (at least ‘a desire to have desires’) to be better, to grow in friendship with Jesus Christ and care for others, are the foundation of spiritual direction. The Church recommends this practice since the early centuries, as an effective way to progress in Christian life. Inner life, God's love, is forged day by day, week after week, restarting many times over the same purposes. In order to move forward is necessary to have some concrete goals, clear objectives; knowing where we are going. The traveler -and every Christian is a homo viator, a traveler- needs to know the end, the purpose, of his journey, and what path has to choose. But sometimes the path is lost because «in life it is not enough with unspecific directions, somehow too general, it is essential knowing the way. We live often without a path. That is the origin of many of our hardships and our troubles. »Young people, for example, walk dazzled by a very diverse future in which there are many possibilities. This makes them often feel hesitant and they do not find a concrete pace to follow in the march of life. So young people can often end up in useless concerns. They have not a way. Future is still for them something unclear, no concrete. And, in mature life also, it sometimes happens that men live subordinated to lost memories of unfulfilled dreams, and all this produce in the soul a sterile melancholy. We are without a road, spiritually stuck in a situation that is always the same, no new interior landscapes. »Many times we have to recognize that we are living in a canyon landscape, always the same defects. We can live tied up to pride, irritability, bad temper, suspicion; chained to intolerance, laziness; tied up to cowardice that leads us to give up on things in the first obstacles...» (A García Dorronsoro, Tiempo para creer (4a ed.). Rialp. Madrid 1993, p. 107). Ordinarily, no one can guide himself on the path that leads to God. Our lack of objectivity, infatuation with which we see ourselves, laziness, can blur the path (so clear, perhaps, at beginning!). And when there is no clarity, it comes spiritual stagnation, discouragement, lukewarmness. Support that they can provide us in this case is huge! Similarly to «a ship that has a good helmsman, it arrives safely to port, so also the soul that has a good shepherd easily reaches port, with the help of God; even after he made many mistakes» (San Juan Clímaco, Escala del Paraíso, PG 88, 579-1254).
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