Support Our Youth ! Rummage Sale on Thursday-August 3, 2017 from 8 a.m. until 5 pm. at the Seton Center on Wendell Street. Donations are wanted: We will gladly take your gently used items.
You may bring them to the Seton Center location on Wednesday-August 2nd from noon until 3 p.m. or call the parish office to make arrangements only during open parish office hours during the week. Parish Office phone number is: 715-659-4480 Buyers needed: we extend an invitation to come and purchase items from this sale to support the youth pilgrims on their spiritual journey You name the price. No reasonable offer will be refused ! Questions please contact Dan Kitzhaber.
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Praised be Jesus Christ! As you know, our Catholic hospital no longer exists and is now called the Marshfield Medical Center. What you might not know is that we are still bringing Jesus in Holy Communion to the Catholic patients and are grateful for the opportunity to do so. While there is no longer a Tabernacle in the hospital, we have worked out an excellent system for bringing Holy Communion from Saint John’s to those who are sick and in need of Jesus, the Bread of Life. However, and this is where you come in, we’re in need of more Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion so as to continue this remarkable work of charity. If you are already commissioned to distribute Holy Communion, this only requires that you ll out some paperwork as a hospital volunteer and that you receive some basic training from Spiritual Services. If you are not commissioned through the parish, then you would need to contact the parish secretary and have your name added to our list (please do this even if you are already commissioned). We’ll o er training some me this fall and then you could move on to the next step. Please pray about this and consider serving Christ in our sick brothers and sisters. It would only entail one or two days a month and we have a genuine need. Allow me to quote Saint Teresa of Avila as a source of inspiration: “Christ has no body but yours, no hands, no feet on earth but yours, yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world, yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.” I hope the Holy Spirit touches your heart to consider this beautiful, life- giving ministry. On a related note, someone passed along an edifying prayer for caregivers. Many of you are living out the 4th Commandment by diligently taking care of your parents or another sick relative. Some of you are nurses in the hospital or at the Clinic or in nursing homes or at assisted living homes. Whatever the scenario, the following prayer is one that might give you greater strength and charity as you treat both body and soul. I hope everyone in the parish will pray this for all of our caregivers – we are proud of you and grateful to God for you! A Caregiver’s Prayer: Heavenly Father, help me be er understand and believe I can do what you ask me to do. Forgive me for the mes, even now, when I ques on your judgment. As I go about the many daily tasks of caregiving, give me energy. As I answer his/her repeated ques on just one more me, give me patience. As I look for solutions to whatever is the most recent concern, give me wisdom. As I reminisce with him/her about the ‘good old days,’ give me a moment of laughter. As I get to know my loved one in a new way, seeing both his/her strength and frailty, give me joy. As I sit beside my loved one’s bed waiting for his/her pain medication to take effect, give me comfort. Lighten my burden, answer my prayer, and give me the strength to do what so o en seems im- possible. Give me a quiet place to rest when I need it and a quieting of my anxieties when I’m there. Change my a tude from a red, frustrated and angry caregiver to the loving and compassionate one I want to be. Remain my constant companion as I face the challenges of caregiving and when my job is through and it’s me for me to let go, help me remember he/she is leaving my loving arms to enter your eternal embrace. Amen,” (Source: Friends of St. John the Caregiver; FSJC.org) May God bless those who bring Christ to His people! Your friend in Christ, Father Mar n REMINDER to Parishioners * 24 Hour Eucharistic Adoration for 2017 - First Friday – August 4 through August 5
** Starting at 9 am on Friday an ending at 9 am on Saturday) Note: There will be a prayer petition book placed out the week prior to our First Friday Eucharistic Adoration. Anyone wishing to have petitions offered during Adoration may enter their petition into the book and they will be prayed for. Attention: Church doors are locked @ 9 p.m. until 6 a.m. if you are coming to pray during this time please knock on door (under carport) 5 minutes before the start of each hour and you will be let in by person already inside of church. Pictures of Father Aaron Becker’s ordination ceremony at the cathedral in La Crosse on Saturday-June 24th and his 1st mass here at his home parish on June 25th can be viewed by going to this website: www.catholiclife.diolc.org as reference: Look for the title Archives on right side of page and locate drop down menu for month and choose June 2017. Coming this fall !! The 1st bible study offered on DVD of the Gospel of John will be offered at St John the Baptist Parish stating the 1st Sunday after Labor Day. It is a 8 part series hosted by renowned apologist Edward Sri It will be followed by another study from Ascension Press’ Great Adventure Series. The Acts of the Apostles, which will run into May / 2018.Details and registration coming soon Holy Day of Obligation * The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary * Vigil Mass on Monday *August 14th @ 7 p.m. and Holy Day mass on August 15th @ 8:30 a.m. @ Christ the King parish. Ministry participants are needed and a sign up sheets can be located on back table . If you are attending any of these masses your help in the ministries is greatly appreciated. |
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Tuesday - Friday: 8:00 AM Saturday: 4:00 PM Sunday: 8:00 AM & 10:00 AM RECONCILIATION
Saturday: 3:15 - 3:45 PM OFFICE HOURS
Monday - Thursday: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM Friday: 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM Stay Connected with Our ParishWelcome from Our PastorWelcome to Christ the King Catholic Church! Ever since 1938 this parish has been assisting souls in their quest for deeper union with God. Our mission statement is essentially found in the stained glass window above the main altar: “For Christ our King.” Insofar as God made us and we belong to Him, we have come to... Read More
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