ST. MARK’S BOTTINEAU & ST. ANDREW’S WESTHOPE

PARISH OFFICE: (701) 228-3164 RECTORY: (701) 228-5164 stsmanda@utma.com

322 Sinclair St. • Bottineau, ND • 58318 - www.stmark-standrew.org

PARISH STAFF

Fr Jared Kadlec, Pastor

Vickie Gangl, Secretary

Cathy Miller, Custodian - St. A’s

Patty Graber, Custodian - St. M’s

OFFICE HOURS

Mon.-Fri. 9:00am-5:00pm

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Amanda Artz, DRE

At St. Andrew’s Parish

Mary Gorder &

Jessica Tagestad, co-DREs at

St. Mark’s Parish

MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday at 5:30pm at St. Mark’s

Sunday at 9:00am at St. Andrew’s

Sunday at 11:00am at St. Mark’s

CONFESSIONS

St. Mark: 4:30pm on Saturday

St. Andrew: 8:30am on Sunday

PARISH NEWS AND EVENTS Announcements

St. Mark

Sept. 15: Parish Council meeting 6:00pm Social Hall

Sept. 16: 1st CCD class. Registration of students

St. Andrew

The Rosary is prayed every

Saturday at 5:00pm at St.

Mark’s.

Report for September 5-6, 2020

St .Andrew’s St .Mark’s

Adult env. $ 423.00 Adult env. $ 4,115.00 Plate $ 20.00 Plate $ 162.00 Children $ Children $ 3.00 Lake Mass $ 169.00 Building Improvement Fund: $ 488.00

Saturday, September 12, 5:30p.m. St. Mark’s

(† Barney Honer)

Sunday, September 13, 9:00a.m. St. Andrew’s

(Parishioners)

Sunday, September 13, 11:00a.m. St. Mark’s

(† Greg Beyer)

Tuesday, September 15, 12:00p.m. St. Mark’s

(† Russ Picard)

Wednesday, September 16, 7:30a.m. St. Mark’s

(† Bill, Rose, & Steve Moncera)

Thursday, September 17, 9:00a.m. St. Andrew’s

(† Fr. Louden Flisk )

Friday, September 18, 8:00a.m. St. Mark’s

(† Curt Beyer)

Saturday, September 19, 5:30p.m. St. Mark’s

(† Duane Sebelius)

Sunday, September 20, 9:00a.m. St. Andrew’s

(† Ray Killoran)

Sunday, September 20, 11:00a.m. St. Mark’s

(Parishioners)

Home Communion Any St. Mark parishioners desiring Holy Commun-ion at home, call Anne Bergeron (228-2750) by Sunday evening to be put on the list. To add or remove a name for St. Andrew’s , please contact Deb Wyman at 263-1681 or the parish office at 228-3164.

PARISHIONERS, FAMILY AND FRIENDS: Military personnel & their families, Fiza Khalifa, Tammy Keller, Tom Haberman, Jo Khalifa, Ce-

celia Holen, Sylvia Bailey, Jesse Henes, Mary Keeling, Shirley Vandal, Pete Anderson, Neil Kinney, Lakken Wall, Hadley Hoffert, John Lacey, Drue Eliot, Mary Longtin, Audrey Phillips, Alice Christenson, Darrell Van Der Busch, Katie Torgerson, Marcie Dubrow, Linda Ysulan, Rosemary LaCroix, Bill & Cool Baumann, Amy Artz, Flora Carlson, Marlys Richard, Monte Mikkelsen, Susan Brandjord, Fran-cis Kritzberger, Marie Vargo, Sara Saville, Diane & Mike Lee, Janet Kraft, Noah Signalness, Mary Holen, and any special private intentions. Good Sam: Regan Benning, Pete Anderson, Judy Bau-mann, Harvey Soland Maple View: Shirley Pasicznyk Somerset Assisted Living: Pauline Deschamp The Wellington: Ray and Donna Sharkey Jenkins Living Center: Carol Carbonneau Watertown, SD

MASS INTENTION REQUEST

A Mass intention is requested for :

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From________________________________________

Suggested offering $10.00 per Mass intention.

Stewardship Moment : “For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.” – ROMANS 14:8 This is the essence of stewardship – everything we have and everything we are is a gift from God. We aren’t “owners” of anything, we are merely “stewards” of the gifts that God has given us, especially our very own lives. Pray to God, daily, and ask Him how He is calling you to the live the life that He intended for you.

September 12-13, 24th Sunday in

Ordinary Time

St. Mark’s Masses on September 19th & 20th, 2020 DATE EUCHARISTIC MIN. READER GIFT BEARERS USHERS GREETERS ALTAR SERVERS COUNTERS

Sat. NONE Mary Gorder NONE Dennis Lagasse/ Brad Trebas NONE NONE

Sun. NONE Deb Stewart NONE Steve Lorenz/ Chris Wilmot

NONE NONE TBD

Pastor’s Notes

St. Andrew’s Mass on September 20th, 2020

DATE EUCHARISTIC

MINISTERS READER GIFT BEARERS ALTAR SERVERS USHERS COUNTERS

Sun. NONE Paul Klokstad NONE NONE Lenny Artz &

Mike Artz Howard & Tom

punish the servant with the smaller debt!

In ancient times seven was seen as the perfect number, so it was used to symbolize perfection or completeness, as in the creation story. When Peter suggests to Jesus that forgiving one’s brother or sister “as many as seven times” (Matthew 18:21) would be sufficient, he is suggesting that seven times would amount to total forgiveness. But Jesus responds that “not seven times but seventy-seven times” (18:22) is the answer, implying that there is no completion to forgiveness. Seventy-seven times implies boundlessness, a sense that forgiveness is not a task to be quantified and completed, but an attitude to be integrated into our way of living. We are called to be forgiving. Always. Really, how can be stop forgiving if we so often need forgiveness ourselves?

How can I keep a consistent forgiving attitude that assuages my anger? What leads me to forgive one who hurt me?

The Bottineau County Right to Life will hold a prayer ser-vice at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 23 at the “Unborn Child” monu-ment located at the St. Mark’s Cemetery next to the mauso-leum. The prayer for the Helpless Unborn and a dec-ade of the Rosary will be re-cited.

St. Peter Claver was willing to go places few others would have the stomach to do. Imagine as he entered the ships, he encountered the stench of plague and rotting flesh. “We must speak to them with our hands, before we try to speak to them with our lips. By the time of his death from exhaustion in 1654, Peter taught three-hundred thousand brutalized slaves about the mercy of God and saw to their baptism.

Reflection Points

Anger is a basic human emotion, its welling up within us perfectly natural in many situations. However, if left to fester, or expressed as wrath or vengeance, it can become poisonous. Sirach tells us that “the sinner hugs (wrath and anger) tight,” refusing to let go of their visceral reac-tion to being wronged (Sirach 27:30). Instead, we must embrace the golden rule, forgiving our neighbor so that we may be forgiven ourselves. Forgiveness opens the door for reconciliation.

When the king in Jesus’ parable forgave the loan, he didn’t just wipe away the servant’s debt, he restored him and his family to life. Had he not done so, the servant, his wife, and their children would have been sold, along with all their belongings, to pay his debt. He literally gave them their life back. How tragic to see him then go out and

Yesterday, May 30, 1627, on the feast of the Most Holy Trinity, numerous Africans, brought from the rivers of Afri-ca, disembarked from a large ship. Carrying two baskets of oranges, lemons, sweet biscuits, and I know not what else, we hurried toward them. When we approached their quarters, we thought we were entering another Guinea. We had to force our way through the crowd until we reached the sick. Large numbers of the sick were lying on the wet ground or rather in puddles of mud. To prevent excessive dampness someone had thought of building up a mound with a mixture of tiles and broken pieces of bricks. This, then, was their couch, a very uncomfortable one not only for that reason, but especially because they were naked, without any clothing to protect them.

We laid aside our cloaks, therefore, and brought from a warehouse whatever was handy to build a platform. In that way we covered a space to which we at last transferred the sick, by forcing a passage through bands of slaves. Then we divided the sick into two groups: one group my companion approached with an interpreter, while I ad-dressed the other group. There were two Africans, nearer death than life, already cold, whose pulse could scarcely be detected. With the help of a tile we pulled some live coals together and placed them in the middle near the dy-ing men. Into this fire we tossed aromatics. Of these we had two wallets full, and we used them all up on this occa-sion. Then, using our own cloaks, for they had nothing of this sort, and to ask the owners for others would have been a waste of words, we provided for them a smoke treatment, by which they seemed to recover their warmth and the breath of life. The joy in their eyes as they looked at us was something to see.

This was how we spoke to them, not with words but with our hands and our actions. And in fact, convinced as they were that they had been brought here to be eaten, any other language would have proved utterly useless. Then we sat, or rather knelt, beside them and bathed their faces and bodies with wine. We made every effort to encourage them with friendly gestures and displayed in their presence the emotions which somehow naturally tend to hearten the sick.

After this we began an elementary instruction about baptism, that is, the wonderful effects of the sacrament on body and soul. When by their an- swers to our questions they showed they had sufficiently understood this, we went on to a more extensive instruction, namely, about the one God, who rewards and punishes each one according to his merit, and the rest. We asked them to make an act of contrition and to manifest their detesta- tion of their sins. Finally, when they appeared sufficiently prepared, we de- clared to them the mysteries of the Trinity, the Incarnation and the Passion. Showing them Christ fastened to the cross, as he is depicted on the baptismal font on which streams of blood flow down from his wounds, we led them to reciting an act of contrition in their own language.

(From a letter by Saint Peter Claver, Liturgy of the Hours, volume IV, p. 2017-2018)

“This is how we spoke to them, not with words, but with our hands and our actions.”

This week, as we watch the news of unrest within our country, I was struck by the example of one of the saints. Obviously, over the decades, I have celebrated this saint at Mass on each September 9. There was something about his biography this week which spoke to my soul, and I believe can speak to our current national situation.

St. Peter Claver was a native of Spain. After joining the Jesuits, he was sent to South Ameri-ca. Specifically, he was ordained in Cartagena (in modern day Columbia). This man had a heart that was moved by the suffering of humanity. Cartagena had the sad reputation in the 1600’s for being the chief slave market of South America. To help quantify the reality, imag-ine what St. Peter Claver saw? He saw 10,000 slaves arriving in port every month. There was Peter Claver waiting for the ships’ arrival. What was his experience? Fortunately, we have a letter he wrote that describes how he responded to suffering humanity: