Sacrament of Reconciliation St. Mary’s: Tuesdays 5:45-6:45pm & Saturdays 3-3:30 pm

Sacred Heart: by request after Mass

St. Joseph’s : before Mass

Anytime by appointment

Homebound or in a health care facility? Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick Call pastor if Holy Communion/or a visit is desired. Hospitals will not call unless a patient asks that a priest be notified. Planning a Marriage or Baptism? Contact pastor for more information Parishioners Please notify the parish office of changes of address or telephone number. If you are new to the area or a seasonal parishioner please register with the parish office Abortion Alternative Birthright~1-800-550-4900 Crisis Pregnancy Helpline~1-888-4-OPTIONS Bemidjipregnancyoptions.com or 218-444-3035 Heartbeat International, optionline.org 1-800-712-HELP

Diocesan Victim Assistance Coordinator Cindy Hulst, LSW,

218-281-7895 (24-hour confidential number).

Parish Offices St. Mary’s

511 Cedar Ave NW PO Box 33 Warroad, MN 56763

218-386-1178 stmaryswarroad.org

Sacred Heart

104 1st St. SW P.O. Box 738 Baudette, MN 56623

218-634-2689 sacredheartbaudette.org

St. Joseph’s

400 Park Ave Williams, MN 56686 Contact Sacred Heart

Fr. Todd Arends-Pastor 218-280-7880

tarends@saintmarywarroad.org

Deacon Jim Lukenbill 218-766-5107

ourlady@mncable.net

Jennifer Hilligoss - Sec/Bookkeeper stmarys2@mncable.net

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t. Mary’s Warroad, MN

t. Joseph’s Williams, MN

acred Heart Baudette, MN

Mass Times St. Mary’s Warroad Saturday 6pm

Sunday 8:30am

St. Joseph Williams Saturday: 4:30pm Sacred Heart Baudette Sunday 10:30am

Our gift to God for

6-24-18

$1663.00

We thank God for all gifts!

St. Mary’s Week Ahead Saturday June 30

6pm Mass +Virgil Burger

Sunday July 1

8:30am Mass +Alvin Hokanson

Tuesday July 3

5:15pm Mass +Beverly Fox

Thursday July 5

10:30am Mass @WSLC +Evan Frutiger

Adoration 7-10pm

Saturday July 7

Rosary before Mass

6pm Mass +Bernie Burger

Sunday July 8

8:30am Mass +Milo Larson

7pm KC Meeting

Sacred Heart & St. Joseph’s Week Ahead Saturday, June 30

4:30pm Barb Nelson † by Les Nelson

Sunday, July 1, 10:30am Mabel and Ed Krause † by Roger

Krause Family

Wednesday, July 4

8:00am Simon J. and Mary L. Super † 10:30am Carol Scharfenkamp † by Roy

Scharfenkamp

Thursday July 5

11am-5pm Adoration

Friday, July 6 8:00am. Dorothy Hovde † by Don and Mary

McKay Saturday, July 7

4:30pm Mike Menard †

Sunday, July 8

10:30am For the Parishes

Stewardship of Treasure

June 23/24 Sacred Heart St. Joseph

Envelopes $1517.00 $460.00

Plate 130.00 131.00

Total $1647.00 $591.00

Liturgical Ministers Saturday July 7

Commentator— Barb Kotta

Reader— Bob Wennerstrand

Music—- Pat Sacristan— Olga

Sunday July 8

Commentator—Kim Hruba

Reader— Pat Larson

Music— Heather

Sacristan— Thiessens

Liturgical Ministers Saturday July 7 4:30pm St. Joseph’s

Eucharistic Minister: Sharon Hoskins

Lector: John Krousey

St. Joseph Church cleaning

July 7 Verna Pieper

St. Joseph Cemetery

July 7 Kenny & Verna Pieper

Sunday July 8 10:30am Sacred Heart

Eucharistic Ministers: Lector: Don Krause

Rita Krause, Joe Brucciani, Cantor: Connie Nesmith

Betty Jo Berg, Accompanist: Lori Gubbels

Bernice Merschman Alter Server: Emily Tange Ushers: Mike Gubbels, Liz

Lockner

Hospitality Time~ Sacred Heart

July 8 Tom & Terri Mio, Mike Gubbels

Bible Readings for the Week of July 2-8

Monday Am 2:6-10, 13-16/Mt 8:18-22

Tuesday Eph 2:19-22/Jn 20:24-29

Wednesday Am 5:14-15, 21-24/Mt 8:28-34

Thursday Am 7:10-17/Mt 9:1-8

Friday Am 8:4-6, 9-12/Mt 9:9-13

Saturday Am 9:11-15/Mt 9:14-17

Adoration Moment "In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of

Jesus Christ."

Pope St. John Paul II

June 27, 1999 – Homily, Papal Mass, Trans World Dome St. Louis, Missouri

July 1, 2018 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time “…as a matter of equality your abundance at the present time should supply their want, so that their abundance may supply your want, that there may be equality.” (2 CORINTHIANS 8:14) We are responsible not only for our own lives, but for the lives of those around us. It is important that we not only

grow, nurture and share our gifts; but that we also teach our children and encourage others to do the same. This is

the communal aspect of our Catholic faith. We are the “Body of Christ”. We are called to be dependent on each

other and not live in isolation.

St. Mary’s

Knights of Columbus

Meeting July 8

7pm

FOUND There was a battery charger with canon battery found

in the fellowship hall. If it is yours it is in the office

Church Lawn Mowing

Volunteers Needed for Lawn mowing at the Church.

Please check the sign up sheets by the bulletin board.

Help is also needed at the Cemetery.

Rosary Garden Thank you to all who helped with the installation of the Pergola and the garden clean up. Come and check it out.

HONOR OUR SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN

We Keep in our prayers… Maksymilian Crompton, Jacob Larson, Tyler Larson, Brett Hebel,

Nic Gray, Joseph Larson, Shane Thompson, Krista Johnston, Kamp-

ton Carpenter, Alex Johnston, Pamela Genereaux, Derek Wood-

ward, Jason Hilligoss, Deb Lien & Kyle Mohrbacher.

Birthday wishes (July 2-8) go out to….. Tonie Scheef, Joy Buckowiec, Dawn Spenst, Jerrica Johnston, Gator

Johnson,

Prayer Requests Vance Kleinschmidt, Roberta Brunell, Kassie Horner,

George Ganyo, Frank Cieklinski, Tony Penkevich, Susie Lykken, Fr. Don Braukmann, Harold Forpahl, Dave Willems,

Loren Olson, Jacob Hartman, Walter Hurst, Tami Gregory,

Denise Hall, Arne Freije, Lisa Lewis, Dale Telle, and

Stephanie Schmitz.

Please remember to call the office when a name should be added or

removed. Those listed in the “Prayer Request” box will listed for

two months and then removed unless a request is made to keep them on

St. Joseph’s & Sacred Heart

Sacred Heart

Coffee and rolls are served downstairs after the 10:30

AM Mass this Sunday. Everyone is welcome to come

relax and visit.

Congratulations to

Stephen Slick and Holland Johnson

and

Braydon Bonhomme and Laura Ellis

Who were married this weekend at Sacred

Heart

Our Bulletins You will notice this weekend that we are trying something

new with our bulletin, printing one bulletin for all three of

our parishes. There are numerous reasons for trying this:

to save on staff time, to save resources, to be able to better

communicate what is taking place in all three of our par-

ishes. In the end by combining our bulletins into one we are

striving to be good stewards of the resources of all three of

our parishes.

If you have any questions or suggestions about this new

bulletin format please feel free to contact Fr. Todd at the

Parish office.

Next week, we will

take the Peter’s Pence

Collection, which

provides Pope Fran-

cis with the funds he needs to carry out his charitable

works around the world. The proceeds benefit our

brothers and sisters on the margins of society, includ-

ing victims of war, oppression, and disasters. Please

be generous. For more information, visit

www.usccb.org/peters-pence.

July 4th, Human Dignity and the Catholic Church

Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.

Fireworks. Baseball games. Picnics. This is what

the 4th of July means to most Americans today.

But July 4th in 1776 was a very solemn day for

the 55 men who affixed their signatures to the

Declaration of Independence. For in so doing, they

were risking their lives and fortunes to defend the

proposition that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalien-

able Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Liberty was a corollary of

human dignity and to safeguard human dignity was the reason for their war of independence.

So, what does the 4th of July have to do with the teaching of the Catholic Church?

To answer this question, we must remember that the Catholic Church is the original Bible Church. Its of-

ficial teaching is no more than interpretation and application of God’s Word. So, when we ask how the

Church reaffirms the inherent dignity of human beings, we have to start with the Bible. …

The Bible proclaims that human beings are made in God’s image and likeness. And the God of the Bible is

a community of persons who give themselves to each other eternally in love. And this God of love is a

sublime artist who creates the world in love as a masterpiece of beauty and nobility. In creating man and

woman in his image and likeness, he invites them to an intimate personal relationship with himself and

offers them the incredible privilege of being co-creators with him.

Sin gets in the way of all this, of course, defacing God’s likeness in us. Every sin is an offense against

God precisely because it debases us as well as others. But how does God respond to the outrage and ug-

liness of sin? He does not draw back in revulsion but instead draws close. He even assumes our human

nature so he can come to our rescue. He never loses sight of the divine dignity hiding underneath the

rags of our sin. He loves Matthew and Zaccheus, the tax-collectors, back into their dignity. He takes time

to listen to the Samaritan woman with five husbands and to offer her a new life.

The Second Vatican Council does nothing but draw out the implications of this biblical witness.

It bases the right to freedom of religion on human dignity. It teaches that morality can never just be im-

posed from without as so many rules and regulations but must be internalized in a sanctuary called con-

science. It teaches that not just a select few, but all, are called to the heights of holiness, regardless of

their state in life or occupation. It teaches that if all are created in God’s image and likeness, then all are

equal in dignity, whether man or woman, adult or child, born, or unborn, cleric or lay. It teaches that so-

cieties must strive to bring about living conditions that correspond to human dignity.

The teaching of Church is beautifully expressed in councils, encyclicals, and the Catechism. But it is ex-

pressed even more beautifully in the lives of its saints. The life of St. Teresa of Calcutta is a moving testi-

mony to the dignity of the human person. Plunging into one of world’s most disgusting slums, she recog-

nized and honored the image of God in people cast off by society and left to die in the gutter. Many

would judge such creatures useless and revolting. Mother Teresa and her sisters befriended them. Others

would judge unwanted children, conceived “by accident”, as equally useless and inconvenient. Mother

Teresa spoke out in their defense, making even presidents squirm.

And then there is Blessed John Paul, the apostle of human dignity. His courageous witness helped bring

about the collapse of communist tyranny in his native Poland and the entire Soviet bloc. His opposition to

the death penalty on grounds of human dignity caused a quite a stir. But let’s not forget how he himself

responded when gravely wounded by an assassin. He did not simmer in resentment and outrage. Neither

did he simply forget about the man. As the Good shepherd went out after the lost sheep, the wounded

pope went to the prison cell of his attacker, looked him in the eye and spoke to him of his forgiveness

and God’s love.

In raising these two witnesses to the dignity of the altar, the Church is reaffirming the dignity of every

single human person without exception. It is also affirming the duty to stand up for that dignity. It is in-

sisting that indeed “all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable

rights” – which means rights that no government can take away.

(used with permission)