The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
The Sanctuary Candle in Church and at Xavier House
will burn the week of November 9 - 15
in memory of
Mike Lasee
at the request of Gerry and the girls.
Mass Intentions
Monday, November 10 (St. Leo the Great)
7:30am (SFX) U
Nick Baugnet
Tuesday, November 11 (St. Martin of Tours)
7:30am (SFX) U
John Pelke
8:30am (SM) URuth Rolf
Wednesday, November 12 (St. Josaphat)
7:30am (SFX) U
Leslie Blasing and John Donart
8:35am (SFX) ULan Kabat (School Mass)
Thursday, November 13 (St. Frances Xavier Cabrini)
7:30am (SFX) Living & Deceased Veterans
8:30am (SM) U
Helen Mueller
Friday, November 14
7:30am (SFX) U
Jerry Henrichs
Saturday, November 15
4:00pm (SFX) U
Raymond, Lorraine and Roland Gerrits
4:30pm (SM) U
John Van Rens, Jason Van Rens,
Roland Hockers and Millie Aschenbrenner
Sunday, November 16 (Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time)
8:00am (SM) U
Jerry Meulemans
9:00am (SFX) For the Parishioners of Our Parishes
10:00am (SM) U
Roberta Reisch and Patricia Dineen
11:00am (SFX) U
Walter, Lucille, and Brian Orde
Mass Schedule for November 15 & 16
St. Francis Xavier, 4:00pm........................................................... Fr. Judah
St. Mary, 4:30pm........................................................................Fr. Getchel
St. Mary, 8:00am & 10:00am....................................................... Fr. Judah
St. Francis Xavier, 9:00am & 11:00am....................................Fr. Getchel
In Gratitude
The parish gratefully acknowledges the memorial gift
of $490 for the Notre Dame Middle School Library,
from the friends and family of Norma Kolb.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is offered weekly, on Sunday
nights from 5pm-8pm, with Benediction at 8pm in the St. Mary Day
Chapel. If you wish to sign up for an hour, please contact Dustin
Katona in the Parish Office or just show up. Everyone is welcome!
Your Financial Stewardship
Freely Receive . . . Freely Give
For the week ended 11/2/14:
Weekly Sacrificial Envelopes..................................... $7,042.00
Offertory Collection................................................... $1,028.84
EFT Offertory for November.................................... $7,888.00
Continuing Maintenance Envelopes........................ $92.00
EFT Maintenance for November.............................. $561.00
Envelope Budget 7/1/14 thru 11/31/14................... $216,000.00
Envelope Income thru 11/2/14................................. $ 158,806.07
Amount needed to make budget thru 11/30/14..... $57,193.93*
Please note $19,134 was needed to make budget as of October 31.
This amount has been carried forward to November.
November 9, 2014
Thank You!
Thank you to Dave Diedrick, Ken Linssen and their crew of
volunteers for preparing and serving 250 gallons of booyah last
weekend that profited $3,765!! Thank you also to the Altar Rosary
Ladies for working the Bake Sale and to Helen Matzke and her
volunteers who managed the Parish Garage Sale!
Freedom House
Dinner was provided for 36 people (adults and children) on
Tuesday, October 28. Thank you, Kay Bougie, Sue Calaway, Jane
Cornell, Mary Handrick, Marge Hutjens, Peggy Lemerond, Mary
McGee, Mary Jane Van Remortel, Eva Schumerth, Marcella
VanDeWalle, and Kate Wiers. The next date is Tuesday, November
25. Please call Kate (337-2189) if you would like to donate or help
serve. Thank you!
Prayer Shawl Ministry News & Updates…
Prayer Shawl ministry volunteers will meet Tuesday,
November 11 from 1:00-2:00pm at the St. Francis Xavier
Parish Office or 6:30-7:30pm in the St. Mary meeting room near
lower parking lot. You are welcome to attend the time that is most
convenient for you, and feel free to bring your knitting/crocheting
projects with you. New volunteers are always welcome!
Helpers Requested for Poinsettia Delivery
St. Francis Xavier and St. Mary Parishes would like
to deliver poinsettias to our parishioners who are
homebound or in health care facilities. Drivers are
needed to help with deliveries on Saturday, December 6 at 9:00am.
If you are available to help you are asked to call the Parish Office
at 336-1813 (St. Francis Xavier) or 337-2330 (St. Mary). Care
Ministers – if you would like to take a flower to the person(s) you
regularly visit, you are welcome to do so, just let us know. Thank
you in advance for helping out with this very worthwhile project!
Parish Accountant
St. Francis Xavier Parish is seeking a part-time Accountant
Mondays-Thursdays, approximately 24 hours/week, with some
flexibility in the daily work schedule. Qualified candidates
will possess computer skills, including Microsoft WORD &
EXCEL and financial accounting systems. Responsibilities
include payroll, accounts payable, general ledger accounting,
contribution recording, and other recordkeeping duties. The
ideal candidate will have a minimum of a two-year Associate’s
degree in finance or accounting and at least 3 years of experience
with bookkeeping and payroll. Please submit resume and cover
letter to: St. Francis Xavier Parish - Search Committee
220 S. Michigan Street
De Pere, WI 54115
Or to: [email protected]
Baptism Preparation Class
To properly prepare for the sacrament of Baptism, first-time
parents need to attend a two-hour baptismal class. The next
class is scheduled for Saturday, November 22 at 9:00am at
St. Mary. Please contact the Parish Office to register for a class and
to schedule your child’s baptism.
Father, we could never thank our military men and women
enough for their
courageous service
and sacrifice to our
country and its
people. Yet today we
lift up our voices to
express gratefulness
and honor to these
military troops both from the past and present. Keep and protect
these heroes and their families, in the powerful name of Jesus.
Amen
St. Francis Xavier and St. Mary News
Please help us build a “WALL OF FOOD.” The collection will begin the weekend prior to Thanksgiving and continue
through the weekend after Thanksgiving. We will have 2 weeks; let’s make the wall 3 feet or higher! All nonperishables can be dropped off in the back of church; please help us help others! (All food will be donated to the De
Pere Christian Outreach Food Pantry.) Mass will be at 9:00am on Thanksgiving Day at both St. Francis Xavier
and at St. Mary. The Thanksgiving Day Offertory collection together with the food will be used for Christmas baskets for the needy.
Items needed to fill Thanksgiving food boxes:
boxed stuffing mix
boxed cornbread mix
canned evaporated milk
canned fruit cocktail
canned sweet potatoes
canned corn
instant mashed potatoes
boxed Jello
cream soups
boxed pie crust
canned pumpkin
canned cranberries
canned green beans
boxed Dream Whip
canned or mix turkey gravy
Sunday, November 9
Make a Joyful Noise
All parishes in the Diocese of Green Bay are invited every year
to celebrate Stewardship Sunday on the second weekend of
November. November was chosen because of its relationship to
gratitude and thanksgiving, the foundation for understanding
and living stewardship as “a way of life.” The theme for this year’s
celebration, is “Make a Joyful Noise.”
We understand stewardship as the grateful response of a Christian
disciple who recognizes and receives God’s gifts and shares
these gifts in love of God and neighbor. Pope Francis shares the
following quotes reflecting on stewardship:
• Let us try a little harder to take the first step and to become
involved. Jesus washed the feet of his disciples. The Lord gets
involved and he involves his own, as he kneels to wash their feet.
He tells his disciples: “You will be blessed if you do this” (Jn 13:17)
• Evangelizers thus take on the “smell of the sheep” and the sheep are
willing to hear their voice. (recognize and receive)
• I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting, and dirty because it
has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy
from being confined and from clinging to its own security. I do not
want a church concerned with being at the center and then ends by
being caught up in a web of obsessions and procedures. (sharing)
• An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come
back from a funeral! Let us recover and deepen our enthusiasm,
that “delightful and comforting joy of evangelizing, even when it is
in tears that we must sow.” (grateful)
What a profound Holy Father we have! One who not only speaks
stewardship, but embodies it.
As you read the bulletin, you will find several ways that
parishioners of St. Mary and St. Francis Xavier share their gifts
God entrusted to them.
Ecumenical Partnership for Housing Update
GREAT NEWS!!! Our guest family at our EPH Home has been
able to move to a more permanent situation. We have been blessed
to have prepared this transitional home last year for a mother and
daughter as they rebuilt their life from an abusive situation. We
are now ready to prepare the home for another homeless family
with children moving in shortly.
NEW Community Shelter
The NEW Community Shelter Food Fund has been depleted with
a balance of -$41.11. We feed 200+ people at the shelter the third
Monday of the month, at the cost of approximately $175. Please
consider supporting this important outreach.
Religious Formation and Youth Ministry
Grades Preschool–2: Class Sunday, November 23 at 9am and
10:00am Masses.
Reconciliation Retreat for children preparing for First
Reconciliation is Saturday, November 15, 2:30pm–4:30pm at St.
Mary Church for both parishes.
Grades 3–6: Classes resume on Wednesday, November 12 & 19.
Grades 7–10: Classes are Wednesday evenings, 6:30pm–8pm,
November 12.
Life Night Grades 9 & 10, Wednesday, November 19, 6:308:00pm at St. Francis Xavier. This night is an extension to our
already existing Religious Education program and will focus on
social issues and topics relevant to the teen’s everyday walk with
the Lord. Snacks and beverages will be served!
High School Youth Group Sunday, November 16, 23 & 30, 6:008:00pm in the St. Mary Youth Room. All High School youth are
welcome!
Middle School Youth Group Grades 6-8 meet Mondays,
November 10, 17 & 24 after school, 3:00pm-4:30pm, in the
Campus Ministry Room at Notre Dame Middle School next to St.
Francis Xavier. Please use the back parking lot entrance on the
east side of school.
*Questions or to sign up contact:
Dustin Katona – [email protected] - 615-1492
Area News
‘Bent Grass’ Benefit for Old Glory Honor Flight
Wednesday, November 12 at the Meyer Theater, 7pm
Admission is free, but donations are accepted and will benefit
Old Glory Honor Flight of Northeast Wisconsin.
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bulletin next week. Your Support is Greatly Appreciated!
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