Saint Mary Catholic Church 32 1

st St. NE

Winnebago, Minnesota

Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church 214 S. Holland

Blue Earth, Minnesota

Pastor: Rev. Peter Klein

Administrative Assistant: Pat Boettcher; Faith Formation & Youth Ministry: Angie Nagel & Pat Salic

Maintenance: Duane Rorman (SS Peter & Paul)

Office: 214 S. Holland, Blue Earth 56013; 507-526-5626 – Website: www.sspeterpaulmary.org

Office hours: Mon., 8 a.m. – 1 p.m., Tues., 8 a.m. – noon, Wed., 9 a.m. – 1 p.m., Thurs., 8:00 – noon.

Sunday, March 17th

, 2019 – 2nd

Sunday of LentSUNDAY MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday, 5:15 p.m., SS. Peter & Paul

Sunday, 8:00 a.m., St. Mary

Sunday, 10:00 a.m., SS. Peter & Paul

DAILY MASS SCHEDULE

Tuesday, 8:30 a.m., St. Mary

Wednesday, 7:30 a.m., SS. Peter & Paul

Thursday, 10:00 a.m., St Luke’s, Blue Earth

Friday, 8:30 a.m., SS. Peter & Paul (1st Friday

Mass is followed by Holy Hour)

Please check page 3 of bulletin for any

changes to the schedule

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Saturday, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., SS. Peter & Paul

Sunday, 7:15 – 7:45 a.m., St. Mary

Sacrament of Baptism

Arrangements are made by contacting the pastor in

advance of the date.

Sacrament of Marriage

Arrangements for preparation & the date are made by

contacting the pastor at least 6 months before.

Pastoral Care of the Elderly/Sick

Please contact the pastor when someone is hospitalized or

homebound.

Prayer Network

Anyone wishing to have the prayerful support of our

parish community may relay your prayer request to Ruth

Kastner (943-3478) or Jeanette Verdoorn (526-2333) to

initiate the calling tree.

For prayers requests for St. Mary's, call Mary Franta

(893-4326) or Chris Rockers (893-3729).

Faith Formation We have resources & activities for growth & formation of

faith in all members of all ages. For our young people, we

have programs & youth ministries coordinated by Angie

Nagel at SS. Peter & Paul (526-5626) & Pat Salic at St.

Mary (236-2195).

Joining or Returning to the Catholic Church

The rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is the

process for adults to become members of the Catholic

Church. For additional information, please contact the

pastor.

To rent the Social Hall of SS Peter & Paul

To schedule activities/events, please contact Pat

Boettcher(526-5626)

Bulletin notices Contact Pat by Wednesday afternoon at

the office (patsspp@bevcomm.net) or by phone (526-

5626).

PASTOR’S PARISHABLES

The Biggest Lie in the History of Christianity is easy to

read—maybe too easy. I’ve been tempted to read it too

fast, to not put it down enough or pause enough to ponder

over the insights that come one after another. The author,

Matthew Kelly, even tells the reader to pause over points,

but I’m sometimes too efficient a reader to heed. I tend to

read like somebody gulping down a meal. I’m trying to

slow down. I’m trying to save the book for all of Lent.

In “The Emperor’s New Clothes”—Hans Christian

Anderson’s little tale (which we mentioned at Mass a few

weeks back)—a little boy declares a succinct truth that

many others, right up to the emperor himself, were deny-

ing. The Biggest Lie… does that over & over: pointing out

lies that so many us believe (or treat as true even tho we

know in our hearts they’re not). In fact, the 4th of its 15

chapters is entitled, “I’ve Been Lying to Myself.”

The Biggest Lie… begins with a story of a little boy who

ingeniously puts together in minutes a puzzle that his dad

thought would occupy him for hours. The moral? “If you

get the man right, you get the world right.” And then,

flowing from that: “It is our own thoughts, words, &

actions that are at the epicenter of our circle of influ-

ence.” It’s not worrying about what other people think.

That reminded me of “Bridge of Spies,” the movie I

watched, again, last Sunday night. Near the end, Francis

Gary Powers is coming back home from Russia where

he’d been held after being captured during a U.S. recon-

naissance mission over Russia. Military personnel on the

plane refuse to talk to him. He’s in fact reviled by many

who assumed that, to protect himself, he failed to destroy

evidence that then fell into Soviet hands & that he reveal-

ed top-secret information under pressure/torture in Soviet

prison. He tries to tell personnel on the plane that he

didn’t. He finally turns to the negotiator who gained his

freedom & pleaded, “I didn’t!” & Jim Donovan, hardly

listening to specifics, says simply, “It doesn’t matter what

they think. You know. That’s all that matters.” Or, as

Kelly concludes his 1st chapter, “It all starts with you.”

For St. Patrick’s Day we should pray—or

sing—some-thing like “Christ Be Beside

Me” (to the tune of “Morn-ing Has

Broken.” It’s from “St. Patrick’s

breastplate.” As I read in “Daily Bread” way back, it’s “a

profession of faith, a rune against evil powers, a love

poem to the divine. I remember the words of my former

pastor who said that Patrick reminds us that the ancestors

of us all, regardless of national or ethnic origin, were

probably evangelized by someone who, like Patrick, left

home, family, & friends to bring the gospel to a strange

land. So when we think of Patrick, let us also thank God

for that long-ago person, probably unknown to us, who

sacrificed much & took a giant leap of faith to bring the

faith to our forebears, who passed it on to their children,

to their children’s children, & to us today.”

Come summer, the 4 parishes of SS Peter & Paul & St.

Marys + the parishes in Fairmont & East Chain will be

pastored by 2 priests—as they are now. One of the

differences of course is that it’ll be Fr. Beerman of

Fairmont & a young priest (to be announced later) as an

associate of his. This is a personnel change, which

parishes & priests go through from time to time.

The more significant change is that the 2 priests will live

in the same rectory (Fairmont’s) instead of one living in

Blue Earth. As you must know, our neighbor Trinity

Lutheran has a pastor who does not have a residence in

Blue Earth. (As a matter of fact, she drives farther from

her residence to Blue Earth than the priests in Fairmont

will drive here.) From what I observe of the Trinity con-

gregation, they are not suffering because her residence is

farther from them than mine is from you. (I haven’t polled her

parishioners about that however.) Actually, it seems to me that

it’ll affect the priests’ lives more than the parishes’ lives.

Mainly, it will depend on how Fr. Beerman arrang-es &

manages the schedules & responsibilities of the 2 priests. Again: As now there will still be 2 priests serving 4 parishes.

The part of this equation that I want to keep before us is

our desire (& not just the bishop’s wishes) to give a young

priest a good experience of day-to-day life & mentoring &

collaboration with an older, experienced priest. (As I been

saying to many of you, for the 1st 10 years I was ordained,

I had the benefit of living in 4 different rectories with 11

different priests.) So with this plan to cluster our 4

parishes & add an associate we can both “save a pastor” in

our deanery & provide a mentoring experience for a priest

at the same time.

I noticed recently some at St. Mary’s noticing a new

detail in church. (Details add up to importance.) It’s just a

little stool. It’s for use alongside my presider’s chair. Or

for displaying, as we are currently, our Lenten bowl in

front of the altar. (Representing our Rice Bowl project,

that bowl will be filled on Holy Thursday with the fruit of

our Lenten sacrifices.) One of our principles in church is

to use materials—from decoration to

communionware—that are worthy. Not just

utilitarian; never careless or tacky. Worthy.

This little stool is a sign of the care both of

our parishes have used in keeping our sacred space clean

& uplifting & worthy. That little piece of furniture

matches a companion piece that displays an image of John

the Baptist in front of the pulpit. Each has a simple

“quatrefoil” (I had to look that up) design in it. People

who do things like this for us don’t like me mentioning

their names publicly, so I won’t here either. (He sits on the

right side of church, about 1/2-way back, near the side aisle.)

Mass Schedule – BE=SS Peter & Paul, W=St. Mary’s

Mon No Mass Tue. /W 8:30 AM – Fritz & Karen Bleess Wed./BE 7:30 AM – Janaan Skaar Thur. BE – St. Luke’s 10:00AM – Francis & Phyllis Sohler Fri./BE 8:30AM – Dick Dummer Sat./BE 5:15PM – Loretta Wirkus Sun./W 8:00AM – Mike Ziegler Sun./BE 10:00AM – Norbert & Helen Bleess

NEXT WEEK’S MINISTRY SCHEDULE:

Sat. , March 23: Servers: Nick Frundt SSPP Joe Frundt Ministers of Communion: Barb Prescher/Skip Schimek & Mary Uppena Gift Bearers: Dennis & Mary Warner Ushers: Dirk Esser Group Sun., March 24: Servers: Spencer Salic St. Mary’s Dylan Preuss Ministers of Communion: Len Sonnek/Chuck Murry & Judy Johnson Gift Bearers: Pre-K & 1st Graders Ushers: Mike Findley & Rich Findley Sun., March 24: Servers: Ann Nagel SSPP Timmy Nagel Ministers of Communion: Shawn Hassing/Lee Mikolai & Roger Schoenfelder Gift Bearers: Kathy Lowery Ushers: Bob Dulas Group

KC Corner

March 24th-KC Breakfast @ St Mary's Church after

8am Mass

March 31stiKC Family Rosary @ St Mary's Church

before 8am Mass.

March 20th

Soup Supper after 5:30 Stations of the

Cross will be served by Circle 6.Cheddar Baked

Potato soup & Chili (soups from Chip Steak) will be

served with sliced roast beef sandwiches.

Many people think going to confession is hard.

What is harder is living without the Lord’s grace and

mercy. You don’t know what peace you’re missing

until you know it through the sacrament of

reconciliation. This Lent, we dare you to try it and we

dare you to share the good news that God is merciful

and creating a path of return for you. Learn more

about the peace and healing the sacrament brings at

www.TheLightIsOnSouthernMN.org . And

#DaretoShare !

You are invited to a Father Son Weekend

Dates: March 22-24, 2019

Friday at 7 pm to Sunday at 1 pm

Location: Schoenstatt Retreat Center

(507) 794-7727

Cost is $65 per person

(add $5 per person for sheets & towels)

Topic: Servants of Mary's Mission

Retreat Master: Fr. Mark Niehaus

Winnebago Area Museum Goulash Supper will be

held on Tuesday, March 19 from 5-7 p.m. for a free

will donation. Proceeds will go toward LED lighting

for the museum.

Seniors: If post-secondary education is in your plans

and you have a Muir Library Card, Friends of Muir

Library is offering a $1000 Scholarship. Pick up and

application at the library or on our website.

Winnebago Area Ambulance Pancake Breakfast

will be Sunday March 31st , 2019 at Winnebago

Municipal Center. Serving from 8:30am to

12:30pm. Pancakes, French Toast, Sausage, Coffee

Juice & Milk. Free Will Donation.

Potluck at St. Mary’s following 5:30 Stations of the

Cross, on March 21, 28 & April 4. Beverages will be

provided, just bring a dish to pass. All are welcome.

Knights of Columbus will be serving breakfast at St

Mary's on Sunday March 24th after 8am Mass.

Scrambled Eggs, Sausage, Biscuit/Gravy, Fresh Fruit,

Rolls, Orange Juice, Coffee.

SACRIFICIAL GIVING

Sacrificial Giving, SS Peter & Paul: 3/9 & 10/2019:

Adult/Plate giving needed weekly: $4,292.00

Adult/Plate giving last week: $5644.15

Adult/Plate giving needed yr-to-date: $158,804.00

Adult/Plate giving fiscal yr-to-date: $161,533.20

Sacrificial Giving, St. Mary: 3/10/2019:

Adult/Plate giving needed weekly: $1,057.00

Adult/Plate giving last week: $818.00

Adult/Plate giving needed yr-to-date: $39,109.00

Adult/Plate giving fiscal yr-to-date: $44,469.32

FAITH FORMATION/YOUTH MINISTRY NEWS Angie Nagel - 526-5626 (office) - 526-3485 (home) - 507-276-5114 (cell), angieyouthministry@bevcomm.net

MARCH CALENDAR 20 Classes for Grades K-10

Stations (5:30PM) -- Soup Supper (6PM)

No My Space during Lent!

24 Joyful Noise Choir sings for 10AM Mass!

Coffee & Donuts hosted by Gr. 10!

Summer Camp & NCYC Meeting, 11:30AM

27 Classes for Grades K-10

Stations (5:30PM) -- Soup Supper (6PM)

No My Space during Lent!

Butter Braid Order Forms Due!! -- DATE

CHANGE!! 29 Cosmic Bowling & Pizza Night!! -- Gr. 5-12!

APRIL CALENDAR 3 Classes for Grades K-10

Stations (5:30PM) -- Soup Supper (6PM)

No My Space during Lent!

10 Classes for Grades K-10

Stations (5:30PM) -- Soup Supper (6PM)

No My Space during Lent!

First Eucharist Faith Sharing Centers -- 4-7PM

Butter Braids Delivered!!

17 No Classes during Holy Week!

24 Final Classes for Grades K-10

My Space -- 5:00 - 6:15PM

Cosmic Bowling & Pizza Night!

Who: Youth in Grades 5-12! When: Friday, March 29th Time: 7:00 - 11:00PM Cost: $20.00 -- includes supper at the Pizza Ranch (in Fairmont), bowling shoes and 2 games of Cosmic Bowling (Bowlmor Lanes) Parents are needed to drive and chaperone the evening! Please let me know if you are available to help!!

Grades 6-10 Lenten Schedule:

5:30PM Stations of the Cross in Church 6:00PM Soup Supper in the Social Hall 6:30-7:45PM Faith Formation Classes * There is NO MY SPACE during Lent! Instead, young people are encouraged to attend the Stations of the Cross and the Soup Supper.

Circle of Grace curriculum will be taught on March 20th! Circle of Grace is a safe environment program that the Diocese of Winona-Rochester requires all Faith Formation programs and Catholic schools to teach to

children and youth once a year to be compliant with The Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. Through Circle of Grace, adults assist children and youth to recognize that each of us lives within a Circle of Grace that holds our very essence in body, mind, heart, soul, and sexuality. Children and youth are taught to identify and maintain appropriate physical, emotional, spiritual and sexual boundaries; recognize when boundary violations are about to occur; and demonstrate how to take action when boundaries are threatened or violated. Circle of Grace is clinically sound and grounded in the Catholic tradition.

Butter Braid Fundraiser

The Butter Braid fundraiser will begin soon to raise money for summer camps and NCYC!! Youth will be taking orders for Butter Braids after Masses on March 23 & 24. Samples will be available in the Social Hall that weekend so you can get your favorites ordered! They come in eight different flavors, including the new 4 cheese and herb Butter Braid that comes with marinara dipping sauce! The cost is $13 per Butter Braid and we profit $5.50 for each Butter Braid we sell. Butter Braids will be delivered on Wednesday, April 10th, just in time for Easter!!

Summer Camp & NCYC Meeting! Who: All youth interested in attending Camp Summit, Steubenville or NCYC & a parent When: RESCHEDULED DATE: Sunday, March 24th at 11:30AM (after Coffee & Donuts) Where: Social Hall What: Registration information, cost for each trip, fundraising options

Youth Ministry Opportunities! 1. Steubenville North Youth Conference -- July 12-14, 2019 -- Mayo Civic Center in Rochester -- For youth in Grades 8-12 -- Cost is $355.00 (Includes Transportation, Hotel for 2 nights, T-Shirt, Registration and one Meal). 2. Camp Summit -- August 5-8, 2019 -- Eagle Bluff Environmental Center, Lanesboro, MN -- For youth currently in Grades 5, 6 and 7 -- Cost is $250.00 (Includes Transportation, Lodging, All Meals, T-shirt). 3. NCYC (National Catholic Youth Conference) -- November 20-24, 2019 -- Indianapolis, IN -- For youth currently in Grades 8-11 -- Cost is $600.00 (Includes Coach Bus Transportation, Hotel for 3 nights, 2 Meals, Breakfast every day, T-shirt, Daily Entry into NCYC).