Parish Bulletin for

Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Reynolds

And St Jude’s, Thompson

God so loved the world that he gave his only Son

Lent 4th Sunday—11 March 2018

Sunday—11 8:30—SJ Mass

10:30—OLPH Mass 4p—SJ Penance

Service 7p—OLPH Penance

Service

Monday—5

Tuesday—6 5:45p—OLPH Mass

7p—SJ Lenten Exercise

Wednesday—7 9:00—SJ Mass

530p—OLPH Mass 7p—Living Rosary—SJ

Thursday—8 5:45p OLPH Mass 6:15—OLPH Len-

ten Meal 7p—Lenten Exer-

cise

Friday—9 5:30p—SJ Mass 7p—SJ Stations

Saturday—10 4p—Confessions 5p—OLPH Mass

Lenten Journey

Lenten Penance Services—March 11

Thompson---St. Jude’s

March 11th, 2018 4p.m. Fr. KS Kopacz

Fr. James Gross Fr. Paul Kuhn

Reynolds---Our Lady of

Perpetual Help March 11th, 2018 7p.m.

Fr. KS Kopacz Fr. Paul Kuhn

OLPH: $10,912—60% of goal St Jude: $16,356—72% of goal

Annual Bishop’s Drive—God’s Gift as of 20180308

Living Rosary

14 March at St.

Jude’s

Both parish

Religious

Education

Programs will

participate. Join

the young in

celebrating the

rosary.

The First Reading from Chronicles proclaims the truth that God is always first calling out to us, inviting us into a relationship with Him. We read that “early and often did the Lord, the God of their fathers, send his messengers to them, for he had compassion on his people and his dwelling place.” The first message after the Fall was of good news, and throughout the years of broken covenants, the message God gave us time and again was still one of good news. He looked on us with love and compassion. From the gospel and second reading there’s an even starker truth revealed to us: it’s not enough that He calls us first. We must respond. We need to allow ourselves to be loved by God. We are challenged with the antidote to our brokenness and darkness: the light of Christ. Ultimately, we must choose just like our ancestors had to choose. Will we sing songs of sorrow for having missed the goodness of God being poured out on us like in the Responsorial Psalm? Or will we allow ourselves to be loved? That is the freedom we are called to as children of God … the truth we hear proclaimed in the Second Reading and Gospel this weekend. St. Paul reminds us that we have been saved through grace, a completely free gift of God by sending his Son. You and I are the recipients of divine and perfect love!

Please help with the expense of the Easter Flowers as best as you can. Envelopes are available in the

back of both churches.

Offertory Feb 25, 2018 OLPH—$1807.00 Online: $81.76

ST JUDE—$1715.00 Online: $252.76

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Rectory—(701) 847-3096

REL Education—847-2032

Rectory Address: POB 68, 421 Sanborn St. Reynolds ND 58275-0068

St. Jude’s

(701) 599-2574 POB 305, 329 Broadway

Thompson ND 58278-0305

jcavanaugh2952@gmail.com or

john.cavanaugh@fargodiocese.org www.olphsj.org

Future Event

Mar 16—Fish Fry—SJ 5-7pm

Mar 18 –SJ KC Coffee & Rolls after Mass

Mar 24 OLPH First Confessions 10-1130am

Mar 24 1:30p –Bridal Shower Ashley Lazur

March 25—Youth SJ Bingo—1:30p

Chrism Mass – Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 11:00

a.m. (St. Mary’s Cathedral)

Apr 1—Easter Sunday

Apr 7—Redeemed 2018 at Scheels Arena, Fargo

Apr 21—OLPH First Communion/Confession Retreat

April 22 2018—Confirmation at 1pm [Mayville]

April 22—World Day of Prayer for Vocations

May 3-15—Pilgrimage Available to Holy Land and

Jordan—see parish website

May 6—SJ Festival of Tables 12-2pm

Jun 29—Wedding of Jerrod Truax & Rachel

Sobolik—OLPH 4pm

Sept 9—SJ Fall Dinner

MASS INTENTIONS

MARCH 2018

10 OLPH +Arlene Schultz by D Herbert

11 OLPH Mass for the people

SJ 13 OLPH Donnie & Karen Feist by D/V Moch

14 SJ

15 OLPH Richard Moch by D/V Moch

16 SJ

17 OLPH +Arnold Krile by F/S Argenziano

18 OLPH Mass for the people

SJ

20 OLPH Kahy Moch by D/V Moch 21 SJ +Vernon Adams by his family

22 OLPH +Judy Kuster by R/L Schumacher

23 SJ +Donna Weber

24 OLPH +Clemens Adam by C Adam

25 OLPH Mass for the people

SJ

27 OLPH +Judy Kuster by G/M Anerson

28 SJ +Yvonne Anglesburg by J Weber

29 OLPH Steve Schultz by D/V Moch

30 Good Friday – No Mass Intention 31 OLPH +Ronald Schultz by D Herbert

March 2017 – 10:30

Sunday – March 11th

Lector: Theresa West

EM HC:

Gifts: Ross & Amy Callier

Servers: Thomas Schumacher & Jordan West

Sunday – March 18th

Lector : Sarah Schettler

EMHC:

Gifts : Matt & Katie Chandler

Servers: Alexica & Thomas Zafke

Sunday – March 25th

Lector: Nancy Schumacher

EMHC:

Gifts: Ryan Cunningham & Chad Keller

Servers: Jacob West & Katie Zafke

Saturday, March 10 OLPH 5:00 p.m.

Lector: Jeff Sobolik Collection: Ryan Sondrol, Robert Schumacher

Ring Bell: Terry Wigestrand

Sunday, March 11 OLPH 8:30 a.m. Lector: Lance Keller

Collection/Gifts: Bill Leddige, Ryan Sondrol

Servers: Thomas Granger, Riley Sondrol

Ring Bell: Neil Breidenbach

Saturday, March 17 OLPH 500 p.m.

Lector: Jeff Sobolik

Collection: Rick & Rita Lang

Ring Bell: Robert Schumacher

Sunday, March 18 OLPH 8:30 a.m.

Lector: Joyce Riske

Collection/Gifts: Troy & Lisa Lazur

Servers: Lyola Pearson, Sarah Seyfried Ring Bell: Jerry Linneman

Saturday, March 24 OLPH 5:00 p.m.

Lector: Sue Argenziano Collection: Dan & Kim Lazur

Ring Bell: Frank Argenziano

Sunday, March 25 OLPH 8:30 a.m.

Lector: Beth Lemer Collection: Mike Scholand, Jake Unterseher

Gifts: Unterseher family

Servers: Addison and Avery

Save the Date: Sunday, May 6, St

Jude's 4th Annual Festival of Ta-

bles. We are soliciting prizes for

the Lucky Buck Auction. Would

any of you have a prize to donate,

such as a weekend at your lake

cabin, tickets to a sporting or en-

tertainment event, prize from your

business, cash to purchase a

prize? Anything big or small would

be used and appreciated. We list

all donors on the program. Ladies

we need your help. 1) sponsor/

decorate a table 2) purchase a

ticket ($20) and participate 3) help

in the kitchen. Please consider par-

ticipating. This is a fun event and a

primary fund-raiser for our Altar

Society. Call or text Rita West 701-

213-7275 if you can help.

March 25—1:30p –SJ Thompson Youth Group

Easter flower envelopes can be found in the display rack by the elevator in OLPH for those wishing to donate as memorials. Please not to which parish

you wish to donate (OLPH or SJ) Donations are tax deductible.

The Reynolds Knights of Columbus will have a meeting on Wednesday March

14th at 8:10 p.m.

The extraordinary form of

receiving the Eucharist under

both forms, the body and blood of our Lord will restart 1 April. This has

been discontinued during the flu season.

Beginning Experience, a non-denominational support group for separated, divorced and widowed person will be offering two separate 10-week programs: · “Coping with Life Alone” Begin-ning Thursday March 22, at First Baptist Church, 1501 17th Ave. South. Fargo, ND. · "Happiness" (Level 3) Beginning Monday March 19, at Liberty Lutheran Brethren Church 1702 32nd. Ave S., Fargo, ND. Registration for these sessions is at 6:30 p.m. with sessions beginning at 7:00 pm. Newcomers are welcome all ten weeks. For more infor-mation, call 701-277-8784. Please leave a message and we will return the call.

Medi tations for th e Fourth Wee k of Lent

W E TH I RST F 0 R

Proclaiming the Faith John 3:74-27

The events that give r ise to the teachings in today's Gospel begin

a few verses before when the Pharisee Nicodemus comes to visit Jesus secretly in the night. Nicodemus has hea rd about Jesus and is curious, but he is also afraid. He wants to believe, but he isn't quite ready to make a public commitment.

The people of the Gospels aren't so very different from us. Nicodemus

is intrigued by Jesus but unwilling to be seen publicly with him. How often have you learned that someone you've known for a long time is or was raised as a Catholic? This is pa rticularly true of famous people who are afraid that making their fa ith public will harm their careers. Sometimes we fall victim to this same temptation, hiding ou r faith out of fea r. However, we should remember that while we fear that we may be mocked or made fun of for our fa ith, in some parts of the world today, people

Y o u

actually are being killed for their Christian beliefs.

Truly the words of John 3:16 ("For God so loved the world that he gave his on ly Son, so that everyone who believes in him migh t not perish but m ight have eternal life") are at the heart of our Catholic fa ith. The season of Lent is the perfect reminder that we are ca lled to let our fa ith show in our daily lives -with joy and fervor!

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A lthough the word "Pharisee" has come to have a very negative connotation, not

all Pharisees were wicked. Nicodemus, the curious Pharisee in today's Gospel, was one

of those who eventually followed Jesus. Besides his secret visit to Jesus at night, he appears twice more in Scripture. A member of the Sanhedrin, he defends Jesus when the chief priests and other Pharisees are debating what to do with Jesus. And after the Crucifixion, along

with Joseph of Arimathaea, he brought about a hundred pounds of myrrh and aloe

to anoint Jesus' body. Tradition says that he was martyred for the Faith.

CatechismCONNECTION "By g iving up his own Son for our sins, God manifests that his p la n for us is one of

benevole nt love, prio r to any merit on our part: 'In this is love, not that we loved

God but that he loved us a nd sent his Son to be the expiation fo r our sins.' God

'shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died fo r us."'

- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 604

FAMILY ACTIVITY

Pretzel Prayers Once considered the official

Catholic food of Lent, pretzels date back at least 1,400 years. Because fat, eggs, and milk were part of the Lenten abstinence, these little bites of bread made only with flour, salt, and water were invented. They were wrapped in the shape of arms crossed in prayer and the three holes in the middle represented the Trinity. Traditionally, pretzels were the perfect food to share with people who were struggling for food or living on the streets because they didn't spoil easily. Make your own pretzels as a family (find a recipe on the Internet) and share them with someone in need in your neighborhood or community.

Lenten Prayer Unto to you, I cry, my God!

"No one who lights a lamp

hides it away or places it [under a bushel basket] , but on a lampstand so that those who enter might see the light." -Luke 11 :33

Lord, give me the courage to

be a brave and bold witness to

you in all that I say and do.

SIGNS OF THE SEASON

The Color Purple The litu rgical color for Lent is

purple, symbolizing pain, suffering ,

and mourning. But why purple?

Purple was the most expensive

color in biblical t imes. Extracted

from a sea snail, it took as many as

12,000 she lls to get enough dye

to co lo r a handkerchief. Because

of the enormous cost, only the

wealthiest (almost exclusively

royalty) wore purple garments.

W hen sold ie rs mocked J esus for

being the "King of the J ews," they

put a purple robe on his shoulders

to belittle his claim. T he refore, we

use the color purple during Lent to

remind us of the Passion and death

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