SAINT WENCESLAUS PARISH
The Feast of St. Wenceslaus
September 25, 2016
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Father Victor Feltes, Pastor
P.O. Box 109, Eastman, WI. 54626
Rectory ( (608) 874 – 4151
Saturday Evening Mass 4PM - Sunday Mass 10AM
Confession Available Before Every Mass
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Contributions from September 17-18:
Adult Envelopes $890.00
Collection Plate $334.11
Youth Envelopes $2.00
Coffee & Rolls (Group #1) $35.00
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Mass Schedule:
Mon, Sept. 26 – 8am (Sts. Cosmas & Damian) for:
Jack & Norma Slama
Tue, Sept. 27 – 8am (St. Vincent de Paul) for:
Darcia Hall by Dale & Rosemary Hall
Wed, Sept. 28 – 8am (Weekday) for:
Fredric & Barbara Huebsch
Thr, Sept. 29 – 8am (Feast of the Archangels) for:
Bridget Achenbach
by Frank & Ginger Giacomazzo
Fri, Sept. 30 – 8am (St. Jerome) for:
Dale Duha by Bob & Irene Hagensick
Sat, Oct. 1 –4pm (27th Sunday in Ord. Time) for:
Fred & Margaret Becwar
by Loyde & Penny Beers
Sun, Oct. 2 –10am (27th Sunday in Ord. Time) for:
Larry Pelock by Cheryl Ryan
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Upcoming Liturgical Roles:
Saturday, October 1st : 4pm
Lector: Roger Wall
Ushers: Art Wall & Derek Wall
Servers: Any Available Servers
Sunday, October 2nd : 10am
Lector: Jane Achenbach
Ushers: Tom Boland & Chris Wolff
Servers: Group C: Lane Wall, Samuel
Kramer, Andrew Deegan, Chad Achenbach
Sunday, October 2nd Rosary Leaders:
The Don & Toni Lenzendorf Family
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Parish Announcements:
The Mercy Workers Youth Group
Our Youth Group will meet briefly this Sunday, September 25th around 12pm (following CCD) to pick up T-shirts discuss upcoming youth events:
§ Year of Mercy Day for Youth ~ Sunday, Oct. 2nd,
10am–5pm at the Diocesan Center in La Crosse
§ Speaker Chris Padgett ~ Sunday, Oct. 23rd, 12:30
to 2:30pm in St. Gabe’s school basement in PDC
§ Immersion Retreat ~ November 11th–13th,
at Wisconsin Dells (Registration due Oct. 31 )
Another Pilgrimage to Green Bay’s Shrine
St. Charles’ PCCW in Genoa is inviting us to join their Wednesday, October 5th pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help. A coach bus will leave their church parking lot at 5:30am and return about 7:30-8 pm. The costs are $25 for the bus and about $12 for catered lunch at the shrine. Call Anne Marie at 608-648-3450 to register.
Baptismal Preparation
Our next baptismal classes will be this Monday & Tuesday, September 26th & 27th, both at 7:15pm in the parish rectory.
Picnic & Homecoming Financial Statements
Summaries of our festival’s revenues and expenses are available in the back of church.
Our TV Mass Broadcasts
St. Wenceslaus’ previously-recorded Sunday Mass will broadcast at 9:30am on ABC “Channel 19” WXOW of La Crosse this Sunday.
Hospital Visit Reminder
Because of privacy laws, your priest is unlikely to know that you are in a hospital unless you direct that he be contacted. Be sure to give him a call if you would like to be visited, receive communion, and/or receive the Holy Anointing of the Sick.
Parish Redbox
All new CDs and DVDs are available for checkout in the back of church. Please return
your checked-out items for others to enjoy.
Household Blessings
Invite Father over to bless your home and family according to the rite of the Church.
Men of the Cross Conference
Come Saturday, October 22nd, to our second annual diocesan men’s conference at Our Lady of Peace Parish in Marshfield. Registration is $30
per person online or $40 at the door. Lunch is included. Register online at menofthecross.org.
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October Hospitality Activities:
Soup & Sandwich Supper (Oct 1st) Groups #1&3
Coffee & Rolls (Oct 16th) Group #2
Church & Hall Cleaning Group #1
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Who is Your Lazarus?
The Lord says through the prophet Amos, “Woe to the complacent,” to those warm and well-fed, comfortable on their couches without concern for others. Indeed, Scripture says, “whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.” (1st John 4:20)You know of Jesus’ concern for the needy. Though he was rich, dwelling in the comfort of the Trinity, our Lord came to earth and became poor for your sake, so that by his poverty you might become rich. (2nd Cor. 8:9)
The rich man in Jesus’ parable could not have been unaware of the man lying at his door. Apparently, the rich man even knew his name: “Father Abraham…Send Lazarus…” But the rich man came to deeply regret his indifference toward this neighbor.You know a Lazarus as well. He’s not sleeping on your doorstep, but you probably know his name. He (or she) maybe well-known to you or only an acquaintance. Maybe Lazarus goes to your church, or hasn’t come for years. Maybe Lazarus lives just down the street or in a nursing home far away. Your Lazarus is in great need, but probably not for food or shelter.
St. Teresa of Calcutta, who cared for many poor Lazaruses in India’s slums, said, “The spiritual poverty of the Western World is much greater than the physical poverty of our people.” The poorest of the poor are in our midst. Knowing this, I ask that you to earnestly pray to the Holy Spirit, that He may reveal your personal Lazarus to you, so that you may lovingly attend to that person as Jesus would have you do.
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“The first step to be taken by one who wishes to follow Christ is, according to Our Lord’s own words, that of renouncing himself – that is, his own senses, his own passions, his own will, his own judgment, and all the movements of nature, making to God a sacrifice of all these things, and of all their acts, which are surely sacrifices very acceptable to the Lord. And we must never grow weary of this; for if anyone having, so to speak, one foot already in Heaven, should abandon this exercise, when the time should come for him to put the other there, he would run much risk of being lost.” —St. Vincent de Paul (1581-1660 AD)
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The Little, Great Saint
St. Thérèse Martin (1873–1897 AD) was born in France into a devout, Catholic family. All five daughters entered religious life and both parents (Louis Zélie) went on to be canonized in 2015. Thérèse received special permission to join the Carmelite convent in her hometown of Lisieux at the young age of 15. She would live and pray and work there in obscurity until her death from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four.
After her passing, the publishing of her spiritual autobiography, “The Story of a Soul,” was phenomenally successful and there were widespread reports of prayers being answered through her intercession. St. Pope Pius X (1903-1914) privately described her as "the greatest saint of modern times" and she was canonized in 1925. Her feast day is October 1st.
Despite her greatness, Thérèse experienced everyday difficulties like our own. Amidst these she sought to do small things with great love; calling this her “Little Way” to holiness and Heaven. This is one episode St. Thérèse relates
in her (highly-recommended) autobiography:
“The practice of charity, as I have said, dear Mother [Mother Agnes, that is, her biological sister, Pauline, who was prioress at the time,] was not always so sweet for me, and to prove it to you I am going to recount certain little struggles which will certainly make you smile. For a long time at evening meditation, I was placed in front of a sister who had a strange habit and I think many lights [spiritual insights] because she rarely used a book during meditation. This is what I noticed: as soon as this sister arrived, she began making a strange little noise which resembled the noise one would make when rubbing two shells, one against the other. I was the only one to notice it because I had extremely sensitive hearing (too much so at times.) Mother, it would be impossible for me to tell you how much this little noise wearied me. I had a great desire to turn my head and stare at the culprit who was very certainly unaware of her ‘click.’ This would be the only way of enlightening her. However, in the bottom of my heart I felt it was much better to suffer this out of love for God and not to cause the sister any pain. I remained calm, therefore, and tried to unite myself to God and to forget the little noise. Everything was useless. I felt the perspiration inundate me, and I was obliged simply to make a prayer of doing it without annoyance and with peace and joy, at least in the interior of my soul. I tried to love the little noise which was so displeasing; instead of trying not to hear it (impossible), I paid close attention so as to hear it well, as though it were a delightful concert, and my prayer (which was not the Prayer of Quiet) was spent in offering this concert to Jesus.”
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