FEBRUARY 2017

THE CATECHETICAL LEADER

CALENDAR

February 13

SUMMIT Gathering Cameron

February 15

Teen & Parent Worship Event Rice Lake

March 8

Diocesan Youth Rally Spooner

March 10

Parish Catechetical Leadership Hayward

March 11

SDCCW Lenten Retreat Eagle River

March 14

New Teacher Gathering Rice Lake

March 17

Parish Catechetical Leadership Tomahawk

March 21

Parish Catechetical Leadership Somerset

D IOCESE OF SUPERIOR

B ISHOP HAMMES CENTER

315 WEST 5TH STREET

HAUGEN WI 54841

715.234.5044

YOUTH RALLY : ENCOUNTER

SIGN YOUR PARISH UP !

Theme: Encounter

Guest Speaker: Fr. Paul Shovelain

Fr. Paul is a dynamic young priest from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. He loves Jesus Christ and enjoys sharing Christ's love with others. In his free time, Fr. Paul loves to run and play hockey and the past two years he has com-pleted the Red Bull Crashed Ice course. Fr. Paul currently serves as the Associate Pastor at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church and is the Chaplain at Totino Grace High School.

Contact Chris Hurtubise @ churtubise@catholicdos.org to register your parish. Flyer attached

Permission Slips can be found at catholicdos.org.

When: March 8

Where: St. Francis de Sales,

Spooner, WI

Time: 6:00– 9:00 p.m.

Who: Father Paul Shovelain

Cost: $15 per person

ASH WEDNESDAY : MARCH 1

Lent is just around the corner. It’s a wonderful time to enrich your spiritual life through prayer and the sacra-ments or participating in a Lenten retreat. If your parish is hosting an event this Lent that you would like to invite others from the diocese to attend, please send the infor-mation to gbusse@catholicdos.org and it will be included in the March Catechetical Leader. Thank you!

ST . BLAISE

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February 3rd

St. Blaise was a bishop and martyr in the early 4th century. He is the patron of illnesses of the throat.

“Through the intercession of Saint Blaise, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every other illness”

SUMMIT : SAVE THE

DATE FEBRUARY 13

Join the Superior Mutual Ministry Team (SUMMIT) for a time of networking with fellow members of ministry. This event will be in Cameron at St. Peter’s. Please contact either Kay Berg at dreyouth@smctomahawk.com or Kim Palmer at k.palmer@frontiernet.net

Please see attached flyer for details.

It’s hard to believe but it’s time to plan ahead for Extreme Faith Camp 2017!

Thursday, February 16 there will be a parish meeting. Parishes with youth attending EFC, or those who are interesting in sending youth in the future, are invited to the Bishop Hammes Center in Haugen at 1 PM.

If you have any questions about how to encourage youth in your parishes to attend, please contact Chris Hurtubise, at 715-234-5044 or churtubise@catholicdos.org

EXTREME FAITH

CAMP 2017–

PARISH MEETING What is your calling? This spring’s High School Lead-ership weekend explores what it means to be called by God and how to live out that call by responding to His plan.

Date: March 31– April 2

Time: 8PM Friday to 12PM Sunday

Place: CrossWoods, Mason WI

Cost: $110.00

Please contact Chris Hurtubise for more infor-mation at churtubise@catholicdos.org , or 715-234-5044. Registrations due by March 10. All youth must register through their parish and be accompa-nied by a chaperone in accordance with Diocese of Superior Safe Environment policies.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK :

JANUARY 29– FEBRUARY 4

The theme for this year is "Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service"

H IGH SCHOOL LEADERSHIP : VOCARE

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SCHOOL DATES

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL MATERIALS

January 20-February 4 Catholic Schools Week

February 6-10 SMDP Tracking Meeting #4

February 10 WCRIS Conference Pewaukee

February 28 Principal Pastor Meeting Rice Lake

March 3 SMDP Video Conference

March 14 New Teacher Gathering Rice Lake

March 21 Principal Meeting Ladysmith

PARISH CATECHETICAL LEADERSHIP DAY

There are three upcoming Parish Catechetical Leader Days. The topics being discussed are “Forming Ministerial Relationships” and “Fruitful Discipleship, Fruitful Apostolate”. We hope you will be able to attend one of the following opportunities.

March 10 in Hayward

March 17 in Tomahawk

March 24 in Somerset

These sessions are for ALL those involved in Children’s Programming, Youth Ministry, Adult Formation, RCIA, Sacramental Preparation, and Outreach Programs!

To register please email gbusse@catholicdos.org or call 715-234-5044. Please indicate which location you will be attending.

R ICE LAKE TEEN & PARENT WORSHIP EVENT

When: February 15th from 5PM to 9:30 PM

Who: 9th-12th grade and their parents.

Cost: $15 per person

Evening includes: Dynamic Talks, Praise and Worship, Adoration, Pizza & Refreshments

To Register: www.bit.ly/W4Ctwe17

Discovery Mission VBS A brand-new Catholic VBS program that teaches children all about vocations! It’s filled with fun activities and meaningful content about marriage, priesthood, and religious life.

Click the picture to learn more

WORLD DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE: FEBRUARY 4

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New Melleray Abbey, New Melleray IA Cistercian Order

March 31st to April 2nd

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Bloomington MN Women’s Discernment: Various Orders

February 18

New Ulm, MN Handmaids of the Heart of Jesus

March 17-19 & May 12-14

Bailey’s Harbor, WI Missionaries of the Word

Meet upon request

Milwaukee, WI Capuchin Franciscans

April 13-15

La Crosse, WI Mater Redemptoris House of Formation

February 17-19

Each year the Church celebrates the World Day for Consecrated Life on February 2nd, the Traditional feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple by His Parents. This year Do you know someone who is discerning a call to consecrated life? The following discernment retreats as well as come and see days are happing in this Spring. Click on the picture to learn more about the event.

EVENTS IN NEIGHBORING DIOCESES

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February 3-5th: Winter Weekend Retreat. Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Click Here for more information.

February 25th: WINE: Catholic Women’s Conference 2017. Archdiocese of St. Paul Click Here for more information

March 4: Men of Faith, Men of Wisdom. Diocese of Duluth Click Here for more information.

March 11: Women of Faith Conference. Diocese of Duluth Click here for more information.

Jared Dees, from Ave Maria Press, offers some great classroom tips for catechists. Check out his web-site, The Religion Teacher, to read this and other great articles to help your catechists to finish off the year!

NCYC REGSITRATION TEACHING T IPS

This year NCYC will be November 16-19. All youth must sign up through their Parish. If any youth from your parish would like to at-tend, please contact gbusse@catholicdos.org to obtain the registra-tion spreadsheet. Other forms can be found online.

1. Youth Rally

2. SDCCW Lenten Retreat

3. SUMMIT Flyer

4. Teen & Parent Worship Event

5. High School Leadership Weekend: Vocarè

6. NCYC Information Letter

ATTACHED

Encounter 2017 Youth Rally

Fr. Paul is a dynamic young priest from the Archdiocese of St.

Paul and Minneapolis. He loves Jesus Christ and enjoys

sharing Christ's love with others. In his free �me, Fr. Paul

loves to run and play hockey and the past two years he has

completed the Red Bull Crashed Ice course. Fr. Paul currently

serves as the Associate Pastor at St. John the Bap�st Catholic

Church and is the Chaplain at To�no Grace High School.

When: March 8

Where: St. Francis de Sales,

Spooner, WI

Time: 6:00– 9:00 p.m.

Who: Father Paul Shovelain

Praise God with Song!

Contact Chris Hurtubise to

sign your Parish up!

churtubise@catholicdos.org

715-264-5044

Permission Forms found at

catholicdos.org

Please bring canned or dry food items for the Washburn Country Food Pantry.

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SDCCW Women’s Lenten Retreat

St Peter the Fisherman Eagle River 8:45 am – 3 pm

$30 payment at the event

please bring journal, bible, rosary

gathering refreshments and lunch included

rsvp registration to: Sharon Thomas

sthomas1@tds.net or after 3 pm 715-748-5824

Featured Speaker: Elizabeth Kelly Elizabeth Kelly is an award-winning speaker and the author of five books, including Reasons I Love Being Catholic. She is trained as a spiritual director in the Ignatian exercises and leads retreats with a particular focus on helping women to flourish in their faith. She teaches in Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas (MN).

Teen & Parent Worship Event

F E B R U A R Y 1 5 T H , 2 0 1 7

www . b i t . l y /W4C twe 1 7

5pm

-9:30pm

9thannual

SONAR

Paul J.Kim

Grade 8-

12

5:30pm MassDynamic Talks

Praise & Worship / AdorationPizza & Refeshments

REGISTER at:

$15 per person

Joseph

Saint

Rice Lake

Date: March 31– April 2

Time: 8PM Friday to 12PM Sunday

Place: CrossWoods, Mason WI

Cost: $110.00

Contact: Chris Hurtubise churtubise@catholicdos.org 715-234-5044

What is your calling? High School Leadership Weekend

Registration Due: March 10 All youth must register through their parish and be accompanied by a chaperone in

accordance with Diocese of Superior Safe Environment policies.

D I O C E S E O F S U P E R I O R BISHOP GEORGE A. HAMMES CENTER

P.O. Box 280 315 W. 5th St. Haugen, WI 54841 (715) 234-5044 Fax: (715) 234-5241

www.catholicdos.org pschoenfuss@catholicdos.org churtubise@catholicdos.org mward@catholicdos.org

2017 National Catholic

Youth Conference

Called November 16-19, 2017

Indianapolis, IN

December 15, 2016

Pastors, Parish Life Coordinators, Parish Catechetical Leaders and NCYC Contacts,

It’s hard to believe, but we are already beginning preparations for the 2017 National Catholic

Youth Conference (NCYC). The 2017 conference will once again be held in Indianapolis and

our pilgrimage will go from Wednesday, Nov. 15th

to Sunday, Nov. 19th

.

The National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry (NFCYM), which hosts NCYC, is

undergoing a large transition and has not released any information on pricing yet. We know that

many of you want to get the ball rolling with advertising and recruitment: please feel free to do

so! For now, our estimate of the cost is between $550 and $600 per person again this year.

Payments and registration:

March 1st, 2016 $175 per participant and basic information spreadsheet

April 15th

, 2017 $175 per participant

June 1st, 2017 All paperwork and cost balance due (approximately $200-250)

All deposits are non-refundable, but are transferable for a substitute attendee. Once

registrations have been submitted to NFCYM (in the fall) a substitution fee of $40 will be

charged. No further substitutions will be permitted after October15th.

All registration and payments must come through the parishes. Please have all the individual

participants’ checks made out to your parish and then send one individual check for your parish

group. All checks must be made out to “Diocese of Superior” with ‘NCYC’ in the memo and

mailed to:

Bishop Hammes Center – NCYC

PO Box 280

Haugen, WI 54841

Registration will be done via a spreadsheet which will be emailed to you by me or Grace Busse

upon request.

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2017 NCYC Leadership:

The religious education team at St. Joseph in Rice Lake very generously organized and led the

NCYC pilgrimage in 2015. Thank you again Rose, Rhonda and Laura – you gals did an amazing

job! However, it was a tremendous amount of work for one of the parishes to have to take on; so,

Bishop Powers has asked that the diocesan staff once again facilitate the 2017 trip. Accordingly,

please direct all NCYC inquiries to me, Peggy or Grace at the Bishop Hammes Center.

Please visit the website (at catholicdos.org/nation-catholic-youth-conference) for promotional

flyers and forthcoming registration information.

We very much look forward to making this pilgrimage next year and to helping the youth of our

diocese encounter Christ in this powerful event. Thank you so much for your support of youth

ministry in the diocese and in your local parishes!

In Christ our hope,

Chris Hurtubise

Associate Director of Catholic Formation

Diocese of Superior