ST. MARK’S BOTTINEAU & ST. ANDREW’S WESTHOPE

PARISH OFFICE: (701) 228-3164 RECTORY: (701) 228-5164 stsmanda@utma.com

322 Sinclair St. • Bottineau, ND • 58318 - www.stmark-standrew.org

PARISH STAFF

Fr Michael Hickin, Pastor

Vickie Gangl, Secretary

Cathy Miller, Custodian - St. A’s

Patty Graber, Custodian - St. M’s

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Amanda Artz &

Keari Beaudrie, co-DREs at

St. Andrew’s Parish

Mary Gorder &

Jessica Tagestad, co-DREs at

St. Mark’s Parish

WEEKEND MASS

SCHEDULE

Saturday: 5:30 pm, Bottineau

Sunday: 9:00 am, Westhope

And 11:00 am, Bottineau

CONFESSIONS

Saturday, 4:30 pm, Bottineau

Sunday, 8:30 am, Westhope

Or by Appointment

OFFICE HOURS

Mon.-Fri. 8:30am-5:00pm

PARISH NEWS AND EVENTS UPCOMING EVENTS

St. Andrew’s

St. Mark’s Feb. 19: Quilting at 1:00pm in the Quilting Room Feb. 20: SAHC Communion Service at 11:30am, Adoration at SAHC Chapel until 12:45pm.

Feb. 20: RCIA 7:00pm in the Rectory basement

Feb.22: Music workshop 8:45-12:00 in the Social Hall. This is open

to all parishes in our deanery.

Report for February 8-9, 2020

St .Andrew’s St .Mark’s

Adult env. $ .00 Adult env. $ 2,859.00 Plate $ .00 Plate $ 238.00 Children $ 0.00 Children $ 9.00 Building Improvement Fund: $ 260.00

Saturday, February 15, 5:30p.m. St. Mark’s († Duane Sebelius) Sunday, February 16, 9:00a.m. St. Andrew’s († Deceased O’Connell Family) Sunday, February 16, 11:00a.m. St. Mark’s (Parishioners) Tuesday, February 18, 2:00p.m. SAHC Chapel († Deceased Carbonneau Family ) Wednesday, February 19, 7:30a.m. St. Mark’s (Sophie & Tanner) Thursday, February 20, 9:00a.m. St. Andrew’s († Tom & Priscilla Fischer) Friday, February 21, 11:00a.m. Good Sam († Darrol Vad) Saturday, February 22, 5:30p.m. St. Mark’s († Del Haberman) Sunday, February 23, 9:00a.m. St. Andrew’s (Parishioners) Sunday, February 23, 11:00a.m. St. Mark’s († Loren Swanson)

Home Communion Any St. Mark parishioners desiring Holy Communion at home, call Anne Bergeron (228-2750) by Sunday evening to be put on the list. To add or remove a name for St. Andrew’s , please contact Deb Wyman at 245-6538 or the parish office at 228-3164.

PARISHIONERS, FAMILY AND FRIENDS: Military personnel & their families, Neil Kinney, Lakken Wall, Hadley Hoffert, John Lacey, Heidi

Schweitzer, Drue Eliot, Mary Longtin, Audrey Phillips, Alice Christenson, Linda Abel, Darrell Van Der Busch, Katie Torgerson, Marcie Dubrow, Linda Ysulan, Rose-mary LaCroix, Bill & Cool Baumann, Lyle Brandt, Amy Artz, Flora Carlson, Marlys Richard, Thomas Kersten, Monte Mikkelsen, Susan Brandjord, Francis Kritzberger, Marie Vargo, Sara Saville, Howard Beyer, Diane & Mike Lee, Janet Kraft, Noah Signalness, Mary Holen, and any special private intentions. St. Andrew’s Health Center: Barney Honer Good Sam: Regan Benning, Pete Anderson, Judy Baumann Maple View: Shirley Pasicznyk Somerset Assisted Living: Pauline Deschamp The Wellington: Ray and Donna Sharkey Jenkins Living Center: Carol Carbonneau Watertown, SD

Rosary @ St Mark’s: 5:00p.m., Saturday

MASS INTENTION REQUEST

A Mass intention is requested for :

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From________________________________________

Suggested offering $10.00 per Mass intention.

Stewardship Moment : “For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” MATTHEW 5:20

The scribes and Pharisees lived according to the letter of the law and they used this to elevate themselves above the other people. Jesus is clear – it’s the love that you have in your heart that will get you to heaven. Simply following church rules out of obliga-tion, not love, does not put you on the path to heaven. Attending Mass on Sunday and then gossiping about a fellow parishioner on the parking lot is an example of a modern day Pharisee.

1st Lutheran is hosting “A NIGHT OF

SONG” on Wednesday, February 19th, 6:30-

7:30pm with an ice cream social to follow. Any mu-sician, soloist, or vocal group is welcome to come and participate. Music should be of a Christian na-ture. To sign up call: Mary Lura at 701-228-6281, Glenda Heisler at 701-228-3519, or 1st Lutheran Church at 701-228-2228.

Do not think that I have come

to abolish the law or the prophets.

I have come not to

abolish but to fulfill.

(Matthew 5:17) February 15-16, 6th Sunday in Ordinary

St. Mark’s Ministries for February 22nd & 23rd, 2020 DATE EUCHARISTIC MIN. READER GIFT BEARERS USHERS GREETERS ALTAR SERVERS COUNTERS

Sat. Bread: Carla E. Vickie G./ Susan H.

Vickie Gangl Denise Aide & Cynthia Kihle

Don Arends & Merle Allard

Denise Aide & Cynthia Kihle

Lauren

Sun. Bread: Vicki B. Wayne B./MaryAnn S. Pete Artz

Mitch & Nicole Schmidt

Mike Nero & Gabe Nero

Mitch & Nicole Schmidt Tianna & Mylee Marie M-B./ Addie B.

From the Pastor’s Pen

St. Andrew’s Ministries for February 23rd, 2020

DATE EUCHARISTIC

MINISTERS READER GIFT BEARERS ALTAR SERVERS USHERS COUNTERS

Sun. John & Lenny Paul Klokstad Thompson Family Calma & Isaac Terry & Jan Baumann Roger & Mark

Heart to heart. In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us not only to keep the Law but to go deep. Go deep? That means, go to the heart.

Certain laws are inscribed in the human heart, laws of right order—like not kill-ing, respecting the marriage covenant, telling the truth. Can you think of other laws inscribed in your heart? By what fundamental principles do you operate? Are these true and always true?

Welcome to the realm of what we call morality.

Jesus in this ‘Sermon on the Mount’ is giving his listeners a glimpse into his un-derstanding of the moral law. It’s about more than external actions (killing, cheating on a spouse, talking trash), but also about our internal dispositions (anger, lust, webs of lies).

This is a major theme with Jesus. This isn’t the only place he discusses these matters, but it is the lengthiest of his discourses about the Law. Elsewhere, he deals more specifically with marriage (Mt 19). In various places he challenges people to distinguish between God’s commandments and mere human traditions (Mk 7).

Living a moral life is never about simply keeping the Law. Jesus is helping us get beyond a minimalist mentality of ‘being good’ by not breaking the rules.

Living a moral life is about constantly making choices. “If you choose, you can keep the command-ments,” we heard in Sirach. “Before man are life and death, good and evil, whichever he chooses shall be giv-en him” (1st reading).

Can you think of some situation in the last day or so that demanded some kind of response from you, where you had to make a decision about how to re-spond? How did you respond at the time? And can you ask yourself now, ‘what is the law – perhaps an un-written law in my heart – that caused me to respond in this way?’

When Jesus talks of the Law, it’s not some arbi-trary code he’s talking about, but the Law that rises up in our hearts and comes from the heart of God.

Is there an area of your life where you’re not sure what the right thing to do is? What is God’s love’ ask-ing of you? You might like to talk to God about that.

It is in those inner conversations that we come to understand what Freedom is, what it means that God has given us the power to choose. In this discovery we find Christ’s central teaching of the “heart”.

"Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me” Mt 15:8. If we wish to be not far but close to the Lord, have with Jesus a good heart to heart. This is where Law becomes Life.

“Good News for a Bad Day” On Sunday, Mar 22, Fr. John Judie of the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky will preside at our Masses. At St. Mark’s, we will have a potluck following 11 a.m. Mass. Towards the end of the meal, Fr Judie will offer some wisdom for our lives.

Catholic Charities North Dakota is offering a presenta-tion to support our farming families and rural communi-ties. For more infor-mation see https://

www.catholiccharitiesnd.org/stress-management-in-rural-farm-communities/.

Rugby High School Auditorium at 7pm on Sat, Feb 22, 2020 with Clinical Therapist Erin Rocheleau, MA, LPCC

This free informational presentation is open to everyone interested in supporting our communities being impact-ed by rural stress. Follow up events may also be offered. If you are interested in bringing a presentation closer to your community please reach out to our Direc-tor of Counseling, Melissa Lee-Eckes at (701) 235-4457 or you can also email or call me to learn more as well. Sincerely, Chad Prososki

Please take care of the misselettes, they are new and need to last for the year.

KC Fish Fry dates have

been announced! They will be held on March 6th & 20th, and April 3rd.

St. Gianna’s Home wishes to thank all who donated to them this past year. “Thank you and God bless you all for your generosity to help the mom and babies of St. Gianna’s!”

RCIA, the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, is open to all. Listen to Bishop Robert Barron present the basis LIVELY teachings of our Catholic Faith. Thurs,

Feb. 20, 7 pm in St. Mark’s rectory basement.

Music workshop will be held on February 22nd, here at St. Mark’s in the Social Hall starting with registration at 8:45am and ending at Noon with a potluck lunch provided by mem-bers of St. Mark’s choir. It is open to anyone who likes to sing during Mass. We will be host-ing fellow choir members from churches in our deanery. The facilitators are Jeremy and An-gela Schmaltz from Grand Forks. Please call

Vickie at 228-3164 or Leanna at 220-4595 to RSVP.

You will learn techniques for: singing high notes well,

how to breathe for singing

proper posture

Overcoming fear

Mouth shape

Ash Wednesday is February 26, 2020.

SAHC will have distribution of

Ashes at 2:00pm

Mass at St. Mark’s is 5:30pm

St. Andrew’s is at 7:30pm.

God’s Gift. Please pray that this year's appeal is successful. God’s Gift Appeal supports 47 programs and minis-tries, most of which support our parish.

Our parishes rely on the financial sup-port of parishioners through weekly Sun-day offertory collections. The diocese also relies on the faithful people of East-ern North Dakota to make possible the many services it is able to provide.

The God’s Gift Appeal provides more than 50% of the annual funding for these ministries that keep our diocesan family

running smoothly. This appeal is an opportunity for each Catho-lic household to help further the mission of the Church.

Let’s do our best to meet our goals: St. Mark’s = $30,227; St. Andrew’s = $11,140.

Good News for a

Bad Day