December 9, 2018

Second Sunday of Advent

April 12, 2020

Easter Sunday Of The Resurrection Of The

Lord

April 19, 2020

Second Sunday Of Easter

St. Joseph Endowment Fund received $220.00 for Thomas

Fleege Memorial.

If you are among the many online shoppers, please use St. Joe’s Scrip program as they could really use your support now more than ever. Barb has a box at school during the week call first (608)748-4442 and Sherry Grutz generously offered to deliver scrip to anyone who wanted to place an order. Your support is

greatly appreciated

We have received funding for both parishes from the Payroll

Protection Program. The purpose is to cover the cost for salaries and utilities for eight weeks. This “loan” if it is used for these purposes, will be forgiven. Because of the decrease in

contributions during the pandemic, this will be a great help.

Be sure to keep each other in prayer, find ways to maintain

contact with family and friends that still follow the social

distancing regulations, and know that you are in my thoughts and prayers. Going through Holy Week the way we did will certainly be something not soon forgotten. I just thought of the old saying, “You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.” That summed up Holy Week liturgies for me. I missed not having you there. Stay healthy. Fr. Ken

Welcome to St. Joseph and St. Francis de Sales • Hazel Green, Wisconsin

Bishop Hying is now streaming his daily Rosary on YouTube. Each

evening at approximately 6:30 PM, he will pray the Rosary and you are invited to join him. These streamed videos (either live or recorded) will be viewable at the following location: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2bjxQbqE8m1yOpJeaftSIeOnmKuY6mWc

This will be posted on Facebook and Twitter, after its completion.

During the Private Mass while you are at home watching, at the time of Communion, it is appropriate to say a Spiritual Act of Communion:

“My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite

myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen”.

Bishop Hying has a daily reflection (just a minute or two) that is on the diocesan website: Madisondiocese.org. Click on the bishop’s icon

“A Moment with the Bishop” OR text “Moment” to 84576.

The Plenary Indulgence is granted to the faithful suffering from Corona-virus, who are subject to quarantine by order of the health authority in

hospitals or in their own homes, if, with a spirit detached from any sin, they will join spiritually via the media in the celebration of Holy Mass, the recitation of the Holy Rosary, the pious practice of the Via Crucis or other forms of devotion, or if they will at least recite the Creed, the Lord’s Prayer and a pious invocation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, offering this trial in a spirit of faith in God and charity towards their brothers and

sisters, with the willingness to fulfil the usual conditions (sacramental

confession, Eucharistic communion and prayer according to the Holy

Father’s intentions), as soon as possible.

Second Sunday Of Easter

LETTER FROM THE BISHOP MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK IN OUR PARISHES

• Sunday Mass is live streamed on Facebook (St. Joseph School, Hazel Green, WI).

• Reconciliation in the Individual Form will be on Wednesdays at 5:pm at St Francis and on Saturdays at St Joe at 10am until further notice.

• There are a few bulletins in the atrium at St Francis and in the mailbox outside the south door at St. Joe. The bulletin can also be found on the St; Joe website www.stjosephscs.info click on “Parish Bulletin” at the top of the page.

• St Francis Church will be open during the day for individual prayer.

• No Finance or CCW meetings at St. Francis.

• First Communion has been postponed.

Please don’t forget financial support of your parish now that weekend collections have stopped. Options include:

• mail your contribution envelope to the parishes.

- St. Francis: 2720 Percival, Hazel Green, WI. 53811

- St. Joseph: 780 County Highway Z, Hazel Green, WI. 53811

• when watching our live streamed Sunday Mass, there is a button to click on to donate (funds will be split between our two parishes).

• contact your bank about direct deposit whereby a specific amount is taken from your account & deposited in parish account on a regular basis.

• St. Joe parishioners can use credit cards to donate one time or on a regular basis

on the parish bulletin page of the website, you can click on the “on line giving”

option next to this week’s bulletin.

Charitable Contributions & IRS & Stimulus Package

I want to help people who are suffering from the pandemic. Does the bill do

anything about charitable donations?

Yes. The bill makes a new deduction available — and not just for 2020 — for up to $300 in annual charitable contributions. It’s available only to people who don’t itemize their deductions, and you calculate this new one by subtracting the amount you give from your gross income.

To qualify, you have to give cash to a qualified charity and not to a donor-advised fund, which is a charitable account that affluent people often use to bunch contributions in a particular year in order to maximize deductions. If you’ve already given money since Jan. 1, that contribution counts toward the $300 cap.

I am lucky to have substantial wealth, and I want to give more to charity than I

usually do. Have the limits on charitable deductions changed?

Yes, they have. As part of the bill, donors can deduct 100 percent of their gift against their 2020 adjusted gross income. If you have $1 million of income, you can give $1 million to a public charity and deduct the full amount in 2020. The new deduction is only for cash gifts that go to a public charity. If you give cash to, say, your private foundation, the old deduction rules apply. And while the organizations that manage donor-advised funds are public charities, you do not get the higher deduction for donating cash to your donor-advised fund. If your assets are substantial enough that you can give more than your

income this year, you won’t lose the deduction for the excess amount. You can use it next year, as has always been the case.

Weekend of April 18 & 19 - Private Mass - People of Saint Joseph and Saint Francis de Sale Parishes Tuesday, April 21 - Private Mass - Carl and Marge Frisch Wed., April 22 - Private Mass - Jerry Heitkamp Thurs., April 23 - Private Mass - Rosanne Lewis

Friday, April 24 - Private Mass - Bob Behrens

Weekend of April 25 & 26 - Private Mass - People of Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Joseph Parishes