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In an apostolic letter released September 30, Pope Francis has declared that the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time will be devoted to the celebration and study of the Word of God. (September 30 is the feast day of St. Jerome, who is known especially for his translation of Scriptures into Latin.) The document is called Aperuit illis, from its opening words, taken from St. Luke’s Gospel, where the Evangelist describes how the Risen Jesus appeared to His disciples, and how “He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.” Recalling the importance given by the Second Vatican Council to rediscovering Sacred Scripture for the life of the Church, Pope Francis says he wrote this Apostolic Letter in response to requests from the faithful around the world to celebrate a Sunday of the Word of God. Read More...
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Formation Classes for Living in Your Daily Life : beginning on Monday - Oct. 21 @ 10 am * bi-monthly 1st and 3rd Mondays * Classes include teachings by Sister Mary Veronica, question and answer, community sharing, and Prayer. The Differences between Men and Women: beginning on Tuesday-Oct. 22, from 7-8pm * bi-monthly on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays.UnderstandingandLivingtheTeachingsoftheCatechismoftheCatholicChurch:beginningon Tuesday-Nov.5from 7 -8 pm * bi-monthly on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays. All are welcome and all sessions are free. Questions? Please call 715-451-2395 Where: 118065 Kraus St., Mfld. Directions from Mfld.: Go north on Hwy 97 toward Stratford. After County Road T, take the next right onto Kraus St. It is the first house on the corner with a blue roof and white siding. EVANGELIZATION - DAVID ALCOTT Ready for a change? Join a Small Group! Small groups provide supportive and encouraging communities that can help make faith grow. There are no teachers in small groups. Trained parishioners facilitate conversations. The groups will: discuss life and faith, reflect on God’s Word together, apply Bible passages to daily life, seek God together, and Pray together. Small groups meet for 6 weeks, beginning the week of September 29th, 2019. Listed below is a short bio of our new small group leaders. Interested? Please contact the Small Group leader directly to sign up — space is limited! Jina Wolf lives in Spencer with her four children. She enjoys traveling, music, and getting together with family and friends. Her small group for women will be at 6pm on Wednesday nights at her home. Please email Jina at [email protected] to sign up for this group. Matthew Wolf lives in Marshfield with his wife Betsy and their three daughters Trinity, Gemma, and Miriam. Matt works in the family business, Wolfcraft Furniture. When not spending time with his family, Matt enjoys playing and watching sports, hunting, fishing, video games, and brewing beer. Tim Jicinsky is a lab technician at Prevention Genetics. He and his wife Rose have a blended family of 7 children. He enjoys spending time outdoors camping, hiking and hunting. Matt and Tim will co-lead a men's group Sunday nights at Wolfcraft, M407 Mann St. Marshfield. Call or text Matt at (715) 897-3496. Call or text Tim at (715)741-7630. Dale Garfield has been married for 46 years. He has four adult children and 10 grandchildren. He is retired but is now working part-time because (as his wife would say), "He likes to yak." He enjoys listening to anyone of any background tell their story of life or experiences. He will lead a men's group in his home on Mondays 6:30 - 8:00pm. Call or text Dale at (715)383-2262. Mary Purkapile enjoys tending her square foot vegetable gardens, and is a cancer survivor. She is also a parish musician. If you are living with a chronic illness, she would love to journey with you! Her women's group will meet Sundays at 6pm for 8 weeks beginning September 29 with a potluck. Call or text (715)897-3250 or email [email protected] to register. Lori Greenwald enjoys gardening, canning pickles and jam, knitting, crocheting, & embroidery. Her women’s small group will meet for 7 weeks on Mondays 9:10-10:40am starting Monday, September 30th-November 11th at the Marshfield Public Library upstairs in the Mork Study Room. (Limit of 7) Contact Lori at (715)387–0244 (answering machine) or at [email protected] . Bernie & Donna Knoeck enjoy cards, walking, biking, snowshoeing, and dancing together. Separately, Donna enjoys reading, puzzles, flowers, and gardening. Bernie enjoys any kind of project that involves woodworking or using his hands. They will lead a mixed group (men, women, or couples). They will tentatively be meeting Wednesday evenings from 6:30pm to 8pm. Please call Bernie and Donna at (715)-384-2479. REMINDER to Parishioners * 24 Hour Eucharistic Adoration for 2019 - First Friday – Oct. 4 thru Oct. 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. Watch this year's Diocesan Annual Appeal Video for 2019-2020 and DONATE using the link below --> Donate to the 2019-2020 Annual Appeal Opening Mass / Anointing of the Sick - We will celebrate both our Opening Mass for Religious Education and the Anointing of the Sick Mass on October 2 at 6:40pm. A sign-up sheet has been placed in the gathering room for those wishing to receive the sacrament of Anointing. Since this is a sacrament, we need to keep a record in the parish sacramental books, hence the need for the sign up. We also thank you for signing up so we can plan accordingly with spacing needs. FALL CHECKLIST
As I was preparing for the letter this week, I came across an article for a fall checklist for the upcoming winter season. Although this was an article about getting our lawn mowers and summer equipment ready for an extended time of storage or looking at the needs for getting our winter equipment prepared for what we know soon will come, I thought of this in another light. Personally, am I prepared for the upcoming year? The end of our liturgical year is fast approaching, with Advent not that far away. School is back in session, and for the most part, summer get-aways are a thing of the past. So the question for us to ask is: am I prepared? How can I prepare? First, we need to plan. If we fail to plan, life will simply overtake us. Advent will be over before we even know it has arrived; Christmas becomes nothing more than a hectic time of celebrations, shopping and office parties that lead into New Year’s Day and mid-winter blues settling in. Planning puts us in charge of our schedule. There are times we need to say no, but without a plan things that come up can take on an importance of their own, and we can find ourselves agreeing to more things than we can do justice to, and we find the business of the season driving us. Planning today takes the burden of tomorrow and puts it into perspective. Another way to plan is to take advantage of an opportunity to receive the sacrament of reconciliation. There will be opportunities to receive this sacrament during Advent, but we have regular times in each parish as well. Many times I am asked ‘how often should I receive this sacrament?’There is no hard and fast rule, but I often suggest that we tie these into the seasons. Living in Wisconsin, with the four seasons being so drastically different from one another, is certainly a blessing. Time itself is both linear and cyclical, and the seasons reflect this in nature. This is also reflected in our lives, which unfold before us in these ways as well, with anniversaries and birthdays celebrated each year, but never two alike (except for one of my sisters-in-law, I think she is on her 23rd 29th birthday this year). However, in order to take advantage of the blessings and graces God desires to offer us, we need to have a clear path. Just as we need to have the sidewalks and roads plowed in order to get to our destinations in the middle of winter, our spirit needs a clear path as well. The sacrament of reconciliation is similar to a snow plow; clearing sin from our lives opens channels of grace so we can receive the good things God desires to give us. It is also similar to an oil change, allowing our souls to operate in grace, which is another way to say efficiently. When this is the state of our soul, the graces of Marriage, Holy Communion, Holy Orders or any other sacrament we celebrate continue to flow in our lives, and become more powerful, more effective and bring more healing. As we enter into this beautiful fall season, let it be a time of spiritual beauty for each of our families. God bless Fr Jim If you would like to have a “Mass Intention” for a deceased loved one or special intention in 2020 please call the parish rectory @ 715-659-4480 Ext. 0 and talk to Judy. There are openings for weekend masses and numerous openings for Tuesday and Thursday morning, weekday mass @ 8:30 am. To share with you, if your request is for a weekday mass, and if a funeral occurs at Christ the King or St. John’s on Tuesday or Thursday, mass will not take place. Build up Father/Son Bonds The 2019 Men of the Cross conference theme is The Father’s Way. A special rate is being offered for Father -Son attendees. Held in La Crosse on Sat., Oct. 26th, this year’s keynote speaker will be Steve Ray, a dynamic convert sure to engage men of all ages. To register, go to menofthecross.org.
Religious Education classes (CCD) are in session for every grade. All catechists have been filled, but we are in need of substitutes, if you are able to help with this need, please contact Deb. |
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Tuesday - Friday: 8:00 AM Saturday: 4:00 PM Sunday: 8:00 AM & 10:00 AM RECONCILIATION
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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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