CHURCH OF ST. BERNARD ASCENSION CHURCH · 13.05.2018  · Thurs. May 17th 8:00 am-8:00 pm: Adoration at Ascension Thurs. May 17th 6:30 pm: Respect Life Group-Ascension Sat. May 19th

212 Church St. East Cologne, MN 55322

323 Reform St. North Norwood Young America, MN 55368 Contact Information

Fr. Gregory Abbott, Pastor …………… ……….. …………………..952-856-1050 Rectory & Parish Office ..952-466-2031 Website ... www.st-bernard-cologne.org

Business Administrator Sherry Witte…………….952-856-1051 E-mail: [email protected] Parish Information E-mail: [email protected] Bookkeeper E-mail: [email protected] School Building ………952-856-1056

Parish Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday & Friday 9am-2pm.

Trustees Laura Templin .....……....952-994-9159 Andrew Kleindl.……...…952-442-9282

Finance Council Chairperson Ralph Laumann ….…… 952-466-3331

Parish Council Chairperson

Brenda Buckley-Jones…. 952-239-9436

Ladies Guild President Monica Kooiman ………952-466-5769

Prayer Chain Patsy Quinn….. …………952-466-3304 Lori Kasel ……[email protected]

Adoration Coordinator Helen Nicklaus …………952-466-2000 Catholic United Financial Carol Hoen …………..…952-466-2456

CHURCH OF

THE ASCENSION

ST. BERNARD CHURCH

Contact Information Fr. Gregory Abbott, Pastor…………… …………………………952-856-1050 Rectory & Parish Office-952-467-3351 Website ……www.ascensionnya.org

Business Administrator Sherry Witte……………..952-777-0110 E-mail:[email protected]

Parish Office Hours: Mon. , Tues., Thurs., & Fri. 10 am—2pm.

Trustees Rita Fahey ... ………….952-467-6478 John (Jack) Lano .……..952-467-3765

Parish Council Chairperson Brian Willems ….……...952-467-9654

Communion for Homebound Rita Fahey……….….....952-467-6478

Prayer Chain Carol Donnay …………952-467-2183 Lucy Kostecka ………..952-467-2576 E-mail: [email protected]

Adoration Coordinator Tamara Lemmer….....…612-759-0555 E-mail:[email protected]

Music Liturgy Marilee Widmer ……..952-467-3082

Social Hall Bookings Parish Office …..………952-467-3351

Catholic United Financial Dennis Stoks …………952-240-5001

Knights of Columbus-Grand Knight Donald Whitaker 952-454-1611

Bulletin Co-editors Patricia Quinn……….……..952-466-3304 E-mail …[email protected]

David Dettmann …………...952-467-2268 [email protected]

Joint Bulletin published weekly at: www.ascensionnya.org &

www.st-bernard-cologne.org DRE for 6th—10th Grades Julie Kleindl…………...952-807-3522 DRE for Pre-k-5th Grades Kara Wickenhauser……952-466-4719

SACRAMENTS Baptisms: By appointment.

Marriage Arrangements The couple should contact the priest as soon

as they become engaged. They must meet with the priest twice before setting a marriage date. These two meetings

need to be completed 6 months before the proposed date.

Sacrament of Reconciliation Ascension:Tues.5:40-6:05pm.

Sat.4:15-4:45pm.

St. Bernard:Mon.8:30am. Sat.7:15-7:45 pm. Additionally by appointment.

Communion for Homebound Call parish office.

Anointing of the Sick Call the parish office at any time.

MASS SCHEDULE Ascension-Weekend-Sat. 5 pm. Sun. 8 am.

Tuesday 6:15 pm. & Friday 7:15 am.

St. Bernard-Weekend-Sat. 8 pm. Sun. 10am. Monday & Wednesday 8:00 am.

SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER – MAY 13, 2018

SCRIPTURE READINGS For the week of May 13,–May 19, 2018

5/13 Seventh Sunday of Easter: Acts 1:15-17,20a,20c-26*Ps 103:1-2,11-12,19-20*1 Jn 4:11-16*Jn 17:11b-19. 5/14 St. Matthias: Acts 1:15-17,20-26*Ps 113:1-2,3-4,5-6,7-8*Jn 15:9-17. 5/15(St. Isadore): Acts 20:17-27*Ps 68:10-11,20-21 *Jn 17:1-11a. 5/16: Acts 20:28-38*Ps 68:29-30,33-35,35-36*Jn 17:11b-19. 5/17: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11*Ps 16:1-2,5,7-8,9-10,11*Jn 17:20-26. 5/18 (St. John I): Acts 25:13b-21*Ps 103:1-2,11-12,19-20* Jn 21:15-19. 5/19: Acts 28:16-20,30-31*Ps 11:4,5,7*Jn 21:20-25. Copyright 2017 by Creative Communications for the Parish, a division of Bayard, Inc. Used with permis-sion.

CALENDAR FOR ASCENSION AND ST. BERNARDS’ PARISHES

Sun. May 20th 10:00 am: 1st Communion Mass at St. Bernard Mon. May 21st 7:00 pm: St. Bernard Finance Council Wed. May 16th 4:00 pm: Ascension Finance Council Thurs. May 17th 8:00 am-8:00 pm: Adoration at Ascension Thurs. May 17th 6:30 pm: Respect Life Group-Ascension Sat. May 19th 5:00 pm: 1st Communion Mass at Ascension Sun. May 20th 10:00 am: 1st Communion Mass at St. Bernard Sun. May 20th 9:00 am: KC Meeting at Ascension Mon. May 21st 10:15 am: Rosary at The Harbor Mon. May 21st 7:00 pm: St. Bernard Finance Council Tues. May 22nd 7:00 pm: Joint Leadership Meeting at Ascension Mon. May 28th 8:45 am: Memorial Day Mass at St. Bernard

K-8 Summer Camps | St. Joseph Waconia St. Joseph School will be offering a sma ering of exci ng Summer Camps! Camp Inven on, STEM in the Kitchen, Basketball Camps, Volleyball Camps and full- me/part-

me/flexible summer care for school aged children (K-5) are just a few of the offerings we have open to the com-munity. You do not have to be enrolled at St. Joseph School to register. For more informa on visit our website and Summer Camps Catalog - h ps://school.stjosephwaconia.org/programs/summer-registra on/.

ST. BERNARD PARISH Ladies Lunch - Ladies it's time to lunch again! We will begin our lunch outings at Perkins Restaurant in Chas-ka (Jonathan) on Thursday, May 17, at 11:30 a.m. All ladies of St. Bernard parish are invited. Please call Mary Beckrich at 952-466-2679 to let her know if you are plan-ning to attend. Also let her know if you need a ride. We'll order off the menu with each person responsible for their own bill. Please help us out by bringing suggestions of the names of restaurants where you would like to eat. Re-member to call Mary so we have an approximate count to give the restaurant.

“My life was too ‘busy’” I was invited twice to go to the Catechetical Institute. The first time I wasn’t ready; my life was too “busy”, but a seed had been planted. I was more ready when the second invitation came just over a year ago. In-stead of a quick answer of no, I said I’d pray about it. There was a desire to go deeper, but I didn’t know how to do that alone, on my own. I asked a few questions of the Ascension and St Ber-nard parishioners who had already attended. They were so joyful! Each one encouraged me to go. It was evident to me that their enthusiasm was in response to the way Christ was working in them. We hear a lot about the fruit of the Spirit – love, joy, peace, pa-tience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. I recognized these gifts in them. I started at the two year CI program in September of 2016 and will graduate this May 15th. The class format is reading assigned paragraphs in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, answering questions in our work-books, discussing the lesson in small group and listen-ing to a lecture. That’s the process in a nut-shell. (See http://www.cistudent.com/ for more de-tails).

What really happens is that you encounter God’s plan of salvation for us. The plan He put in place at the mo-ment of the fall. You discover it on your own, meet with people who are on their own journey. All kinds of people – old, young, religious, converts, exploring, questioning, seeking. You make new friends. Then you listen to Priests, Deacons, Professors and Bishops share their knowledge about our Church. It is magnifi-cent. It is changing me in a way that I never anticipat-ed. There’s fullness to my life; the love that Christ pours in to me is overflowing – do you want some? There’s more than enough for everyone! I don’t have fancy words to describe this. I only know that Christ loves me and you and everyone. Anything we do to reach out and accept that love brings Him joy. If you’re interested in hearing more about the CI, please ask me. “There’s fullness to my life; the love that Christ pours in to me is overflowing – do you want some?” Lori Kasel

A Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend renews the promises you made to each other on your wedding day. Experience an enrichment for your marriage that will make your good marriage great! The next availa-ble Weekends are Jul 13-15, 2018 in Buffalo, MN and Jul 27-29, 2018 in EAGAN, MN. Early registration is highly recommended. For more information visit our website at: twincitieswwme.org or contact Brent & Tracy at [email protected] or 612-756-8720.

Church of St. Bernard Cologne, MN

Banns of Marriage: Banns of Marriage are announced for Courtney Jacques and

John Scmitt. Please keep the couple in your prayers.

St. Bernard Tuition Assistance: We are pleased to support Catholic Education. Our goal is to keep active, young families as members of St. Bernard Par-ish. Active parishioners who are registered members of St. Ber-nard Church, and who do not otherwise qualify for a tuition dis-count or subsidy by reason of also being a member of the host school's parish, are invited to request tuition assistance for their children who are enrolled in K-12th grade in a neighboring Cath-olic School for the coming year. Please contact the parish office (952-466-2031) to request tuition assistance for the 2018-19 school year. Requests must be submitted by June 1, 2018. Each family must commit to being active in the life of St. Bernard Parish in an identifiable way (through discipleship, worship, so-cial outreach, stewardship, building and grounds upkeep, and/or community building) to support our parish by giving of their time, talent, and treasure. Giving of one's time and talent means making Sunday/Saturday mass a weekly priority and volunteer-ing in some aspect of the parish.

Cemetery Decorations: Spring is finally here!! Now that the mowing season is around the corner, we are asking that all decorations placed in the cem-etery during the winter be removed by May 11th. Below, please see the regulations for the St. Bernard Cemetery. No permanent plants or flowers may be planted on a lot. Decorations, including artificial flowers, potted plants, decorations, flags or other ornaments, may be placed on graves beginning at noon on the Thursday before Memorial Day and may remain there until the Sunday after Memorial Day. Deco-rations must be removed by this date. Decorations that are not removed will be discarded by St. Bernard’s Parish. Wreaths or other evergreen displays are permitted from November 1 to March 1. No other types of decorations are per-mitted. No decorations are permitted other than during these times. Loose, freshly cut flowers may be placed at graves. Such flowers must not be bound together with any wire, string, or ribbon, nor placed in a vase or pot. Cut flowers will be dis-posed of by St. Bernard's Parish during lawn mowing or when, in the sole discretion of St. Bernard's, the flowers become un-sightly, withered, or otherwise unattractive.

Congratulations: Briella Jones who received her First Com-munion Sunday, April 29th at Guardian Angels and to Brenna Jones who will be confirmed at the Basilica on Monday, May 14th. Both have been doing their preparation at Guardian An-gels with their classmates from Guardian Angels Catholic School and Holy Family Catholic High School.

Ladies Lunch - Ladies it's time to lunch again! We will begin our lunch outings at Perkins Restaurant in Chaska (Jonathan) on Thursday, May 17, at 11:30 a.m. All ladies of the parish are invit-ed. Please call Mary Beckrich at 952-466-2679 to let her know if you are planning to attend. Also let her know if you need a ride. We'll order off the menu with each person responsible for their own bill. Please help us out by bringing suggestions of the names of restaurants where you would like to eat. Remember to call Mary so we have an approximate count to give the restaurant.

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Archbishop Harry J. Flynn Catechetical Institute – Now Taking Applications for Fall 2018 This fall, the Archbishop Harry J. Flynn Catechetical Institute will begin another two-year course at The Saint Paul Seminary. The program follows the four pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and will make sense of all things Catholic, deepen your faith, and lay out the roadmap to heaven. Classes are divided into four eleven-week modules and meet on Monday evenings, 7 to 9 pm, with two Saturday morn-ing formative sessions per module. Applications are now being accepted through July 1, 2018, for the class beginning in Sep-tember. For more information and an application to become part of the Class of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, call 651-962-5028 or visit www.CIstudent.com. The parish (both Ascension and St. Bernard) will pay for half of your registration if you let us know you are registered to attend.

Cemetery Regulations Now that spring has sprung we are asking that any decorations placed on graves during the winter be removed immediately. For the summer mowing season, Ascension Cemetery does not permit plantings or artificial or potted plants except Memorial Day Weekend. Deco-rations can be placed after noon on Thursday prior to Memorial Day and must be removed before the following weekend. Do not dig holes. Remaining decorations will be removed and placed at the end of the cemetery by the large evergreen tree. During the grass cutting sea-son, only fresh flowers are allowed. When wilted, they will be removed.

Thank You! The Respect for Life Group would like to thank everyone who supported our Respect Life Spring Luncheon on April 21st. We appreciate everyone joining in the spirit of spring and wearing all the wonderful, awesome and unique hats. We hope everyone enjoyed it. Thanks again.

Rosary at the Harbor The Respect for Life Group would like to invite anyone inter-ested to join them for the month of May in praying the Ro-sary at the Harbor in NYA. They will be gathering on the third floor at 10:15 every Monday morning in May. All are welcome.

Pans in the Kitchen Thank You to all the ladies who have brought bars and salads to the last several funeral lunches and other things. We are getting quite a collection of pans and bowls that have not been picked up and would appreciate if you’d stop down and check if any of them belong to you. They can be found on the open shelves on the left side of the kitchen.

Farmers, we need your help. Our faith formation Catechesis of the Good Shepherd program is looking for about 75 wheat seeds. We are also in need of about 10 wheat stems. If you can help please contact Kara Wickenhauser - [email protected] or (952)250-3620 or Lisa Whit-aker at 952-454-1622 or [email protected].

CHURCH OF ST. BERNARD STEWARDSHIP OF TIME

AND LITURGY SCHEDULE

May 14 through May 20, 2018

LECTORS: Saturday 8:00pm. Jake Kooiman Sunday 10:00am First Communicants

SERVERS: Saturday 8:00pm Amy Wickenhauser & Ella Wickenhauser Sunday 10:00am. Kieran Allisen, Holly Feist & April Henkel

EUCHARISTIC MINISTER Saturday 8:00pm. John Eiden Sunday 10:00 am. Eileen Fasching

USHERS: Saturday 8:00 pm Ralph Laumann & Andy Kleindl Sunday 10:00 am. Vern Elke & Brian Vos

GREETERS: Saturday 8:00pm Doreen Walter Sunday 10:00am. Eileen Fasching

GIFT BEARERS: Sat & Sun. Volunteers

MASS SCHEDULE INTENTIONS: Saturday May 12 8:00pm. People of the Parish Sunday May 13 8:00am. †Kaye Segelke Monday May 14 8:00am. †Isadore Knauer Tuesday May 15 No Mass Wed. May 16 8:00am. †Kenneth Tellers Thursday May 17 No Mass Friday May 18 No Mass Saturday May 19 8:00pm People of the Parish Sunday May 20 10:00am First Communicants

Sacrament of Reconciliation Monday 8:30 a.m.; Saturday: 7:15-7:45 p.m.

Stewardship of Treasure Budget for Week 3,516.50 Contributions 5-2-18 through 5-8-18 2,823.50 Total Actual Collection YTD 166,000.52 YTD Collection Over (Under) Budget 35.02 Forward in Faith Envelope Income 333.00 Electronic Donations 150.00 Forward in Faith Total 483.00 Forward in Faith YTD 71,786.26 Did you know you can have your contributions automati-cally deducted from your checking or savings account? For more information call the parish office 952-466-2031 ext.241, or visit www.st-bernard-cologne.org

CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION STEWARSHIP OF TIME May 14 through May 20

SERVERS: Sun. 5:00 pm: Bryce Urness, Hailey Stender Sun. 8:00 am: Ben Gallus, Bennet Molva READERS: Sun. 5:00 pm: Emma Dettmann Sun. 8:00 am: Amy Gallus EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS: Sun. 5:00 pm: Mike Williams Sun. 8:00 am: Kathy Kloempken COMMUNION TO THE HOMEBOUND May 20th 8:00 am Team A: Steve Lemmer, Jim Louwagie Team B: Paul & Corrine Prososki USHERS FOR MAY : Sat. 5:00 pm: Jim Louwagie, Kent Fabel Sun. 8:00 am: Leo Pouliot, Florian Schindler SACRISTAN: Sun. 5:00 pm: Sherry Witte Sun. 8:00 am: Pat Clark GREETERS: Sun. 5:00 pm: Darlene Mondor Sun. 8:00 am: Lisa Whitaker MASS SCHEDULE INTENTIONS Monday May 14 No Mass Tues. May 15 6:15 pm Cecilia Mead † Wed. May 16 No Mass Thurs. May 17 No Mass Fri. May 18 7:15 am Rev. Mark B. Dosh † Sat. May 19 5:00 pm Donaver Schrupp † Sun. May 20 8:00 am Elmer Dawson †

Weekly Collection Report Totals for 05/06/2018

Weekly Operating Budget: $3,264.43 Contributions: $3,238.00 E-Giving: $313.00 Weekly Budget YTD: $146,899.35 Actual Collection YTD: $149,587.90 Total Collected Over (Under) YTD $2,688.55 Capital Improvement Offering: $290.00 Capital Improvement-E-Giving: $5.00 Capital Improvement YTD: $11,480.00