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The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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The Rosary is prayed before Holy Mass M-F @ 7:35 a.m.

MASS TIME

Monday, June 22nd St. Paulinus of Nola, St. John Fisher, St. Thomas More 8:00 a.m. Novus Ordo Tuesday, June 23rd Saint Ethelreda, 679 8:00 a.m. Novus Ordo Wednesday, June 24th Nativity of St. John the Baptist 8:00 a.m. Novus Ordo Thursday, June 25th Saint William of Vercelli, 1142 8:00 a.m. Novus Ordo Friday, June 26th Saint Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, 1975 8:00 a.m. Novus Ordo Saturday, June 27th

Saint Cyril of Alexandria, 444 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass 4:30 p.m. - † Joseph Schwabenbauer Sunday, June 28th – 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 a.m. - † Gary Melde 9:30 a.m. - Intentions of Fr. James Altman on his Ordination Anniversary 11:30 a.m. - Saint James Parishioners

CHURCH SUPPORT June 14, 2020

Envelopes $ 2,100.00 Plate Collections $ 309.00 Vigil Candles $ 15.00 Ascension $ 15.00 Giving Online $ 2,547.88 Total $ 4,986.88

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LIVE-STREAM MASS

Saint James will be livestreaming ALL Holy Masses, the Novus Ordo Monday through Friday at about 8:00 a.m., the Traditional Holy mass at 8 a.m. Saturday, and Sunday, in both the novus ordo at 9:30 and the Tradi-tional Holy Mass at 11:00. You can find these livestreams on YouTube by searching for “Saint James La Crosse” or by going here:

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THREE CANDLES DURING THE HYSTERIA Until the end of the order

restricting attendance at Holy Mass, three blessed candles continuously will burn

on the Altar of St. Joseph, a continuous prayer for his intercession

on behalf of our parish family.

SERVANTS SCHEDULE

Saturday, June 27th - 4:30 p.m. Knights of the Altar: Frederick Ellis Lector: Paul Squire Ushers: Geoffrey Alford

Sunday, June 28th -7:30 a.m. Knights of the Altar: Knights Lector: Gabriel Wateski-Hansen Ushers: Curt Riley/Colin Riley Sunday, June 28th - 9:30 a.m. Knights of the Altar: Ken Schelfhout Lector: Mary McConaghy Ushers: Tom McConaghy/Gary Brauer/ John Dawidowski/John Koelbl Sunday, June 28th - 11:30 a.m. Extraordinary Form Mass Master of Ceremony: William Coppernoll Thurifer: Sean Marshall Acolyte 1: Rhett Pronschinske Acolyte 2 Joseph Korger Crucifer: William Olson

“We must never be discouraged or give way to anxiety. . . but ever have recourse

to the adorable Heart of Jesus.”

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

“If you put all the love of the mothers into one heart it still would not equal the love of the Heart of Mary

for her children.”

Saint Louis de Montfort

Weekly Readings June 22nd - June 28th, 2020

Monday 2 Kgs 17:5-8, 13-15a, 18/Ps 60:3, 4-5, 12-13 [7b]/Mt 7:1-5

Tuesday 2 Kgs 19:9b-11, 14-21, 31-35a, 36/Ps 48:2-3ab, 3cd-4, 10-11 [cf. 9d]/Mt 7:6, 12-14

Wednesday Vigil: Jer 1:4-10/Ps 71:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 15, 17 [6b]/1 Pt 1:8-12/Lk 1:5-17. Day: Is 49:1-6/Ps 139:1-3, 13-14, 14-15 [14a]/Acts 13:22-26/Lk 1:57-66, 80

Thursday 2 Kgs 24:8-17/Ps 79:1b-2, 3-5, 8, 9 [9]/Mt 7:21-29

Friday: 2 Kgs 25:1-12/Ps 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 [6ab]/Mt 8:1-4

Saturday: Lam 2:2, 10-14, 18-19/Ps 74:1b-2, 3-5, 6-7, 20-21 [19b]/Mt 8:5-17

Sunday: 2 Kgs 4:8-11, 14-16a/Ps 89:2-3, 16-17, 18-19 [2a]/Rom 6:3-4, 8-11/Mt 10:37-42

HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS Monday-Friday 8:00 am Novus Ordo Saturday 8:00 am Traditional Holy Mass 4:30 pm Vigil - Novus Ordo Sunday Masses 7:30 am Novus Ordo 9:30 am Novus Ordo 11:30 am Traditional Holy Mass

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Fridays and Saturdays after morning Holy Mass

PARISH STAFF Fr. James Altman pastor Deacon Jason Hutzler permanent deacon Maria Stegmeier administrative assistant Donna Walz director of religious education

YEAR OF SAINT JOSEPH TIME TO GO TO SAINT JOSEPH

St. Joseph watched over and protected Jesus as He grew up. As a result, St. Joseph was declared the protector of the Catholic Church 150 years ago, and so we are honoring him during this anniversary year. As members of God’s family, the Church, St. Joseph is our spiritual father and protector. It is Time to Go to St. Joseph, invoking his protection over our families, our parish family and our country.

PRIESTLY ORDINATION SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2020, AT 10:00 AM

View this celebration Live Online at diolc.org/live

With gratitude to God the Father, you are invited to watch the Ordination to the Priesthood through the lay-ing of hands and the invocation of the Holy Spirit by the Most Revered William Patrick Callahan, Bishop of La Crosse.

Samuel Conner McCarty Joseph Michael Richards

Levi John Michael Schmitt Daniel Rexford Williams III

FATHER ALTMAN’S ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY MASS

With deep gratitude to God for 12 years of Priesthood of our Pastor, Fr. James Alt-man, we cordially invite all parishioners to give thanks at Mass on Sunday, June 28, 2020, at 9:30 a.m.

God Bless you, Father Altman!

“O how great is the Priest! If he realized what he is

he would die… God obeys him: he utters a few words and the Lord descends

from Heaven at his voice, to be contained within a small host.

Without the Sacrament of Holy Orders, we would not

have the Lord. Who put Him there in the Tabernacle? The Priest.

Who welcomed your soul at the beginning of life? The Priest.

Who feeds your soul and gives it strength for

the journey? The Priest. Who will prepare it to appear

before God, bathing it one last time in the blood of Jesus Christ?

The Priest—always the Priest. And if the soul should happen to die (as a result of sin) who will

raise it up, who will restore its calm and peace?

Again the Priest. After God, the Priest is

everything. Only in Heaven will he fully realize what he is.”

St. John Vianney,

Patron Saint of Parish Priest

MYSTERIUM FIDEI - THE MYSTERY OF FAITH - THE HOLY EUCHARIST

CLOSE TO THE HEART OF THE SON IS THE HEART OF THE MOTHER The Church, in this month of June, giving us the solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, wishes us to understand the consequential devotion to Our Lady traditionally lived in the Marian month par excellence: the month of May. The Heart of Jesus is the See and Throne of Divine Mercy, revealed to the world in the passion, death and resurrection of Christ. The Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI speaking of the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus said: “In biblical language, "heart" indicates the center of the person where his sentiments and intentions dwell. In the Heart of the Redeemer we adore God's love for humanity, his will for universal salvation, his infinite mercy. Practicing devotion to the Sacred Heart of Christ therefore means adoring that Heart which, after having loved us to the end, was pierced by a spear and from high on the Cross poured out blood and water, an inexhaustible source of new life” (Benedict XVI, Angelus 5 June 2005). The call which comes from this important feast day is first of all a call to Eucharistic adoration, because in the Sacred Host the Lord Jesus is truly present and He offers each of us His Heart, His Merciful Love. To spend time in the Presence of the Eucharistic Lord, to adore Him, is the best expression of devotion to the Sa-cred Heart of Jesus which, as we know, spread all over the world thanks to Jesus' revelations to Saint Margheri-ta M. Alacoque in the 17th century: “Behold the Heart which so loved mankind”! As a prolongation and accomplishment of this message, the Lord appeared to another Sister in the 20th cen-tury revealing the abyss of His unfathomable mercy; she was Saint Faustina Kowalska who wrote in her Diary, now world famous, these words of Jesus: “I have opened my Heart as a living source of Mercy, from it all souls draw life, all approach with deep confidence this sea of Mercy. Sinners will obtain justification and the just will be strengthened in goodness. I will fill the souls of those who put their trust in My Mercy with My di-vine peace at the hour of their death. My daughter, continue to spread devotion to My Mercy, in doing so you will refresh My Heart which burns with the fire of compassion for sinners. Tell my priests that hardened sin-ners will be softened by their words if they speak of my boundless Mercy and of the compassion which My Heart feels for them. I will give priests who proclaim and exalt My Mercy wondrous power, unction to their words and I will move all the hearts to which they speak” (Book 5, 21 January 1938). The deepest longing of Christ's Heart is that we discover how much He loves us, the extent of His tender love for creatures who, cooled by their selfishness, look only inwards at themselves, as if they were afraid to let themselves be loved unconditionally by their Creator, who asks nothing and gives all! How society, culture, economy, politics today need this Heart! It is really true, the more man distances him-self from God-Love the more he becomes 'heartless', agitated about a thousand things because he has mislaid the principal one: to let oneself be loved by Christ and to respond to this Love with our love. Many times during history the Supreme Pontiffs have reminded humanity that without the Lord Jesus life has no real meaning, man gropes in the dark to find himself! Saint John Paul II introduced the Church into the Third Millennium with a mandate to become “Apostles of Divine Mercy”. Pope Benedict XVI picked up where his Predecessor left off and never tires to remind us of the necessity to rediscover the merciful Heart, this infinite Love of God, who reveals Himself in our lives if we open to Him. “Open, open wide the doors to Christ” the voice of the Holy Spirit continues to say. By means of Eucharistic adoration we are “opened” from within by His invisible working in us. The Most Holy Eucharist, celebrated and adored, as the Church teaches us, is the greatest and most effective treasure of our salvation, an infinite treasure which must be safeguarded with profound respect and deepest devotion. Close to the Heart of the Son is the Heart of the Mother whom the Church celebrates the day after the so-lemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Let it again be the Holy Father who illuminates us with regard to this mystery: “The heart that resembles that of Christ more than any other is without a doubt the Heart of Mary, his Immaculate Mother, and for this very reason the liturgy holds them up together for our veneration. Responding to the Virgin's invitation at Fatima, let us entrust the whole world to her Immaculate Heart, so that it may expe-rience the merciful love of God and know true peace” (Benedict XVI, Angelus 5 June 2005).

Catholic Traditions Because The Catholic Church is ESSENTIAL

June 7, 2020 Holy Trinity Sunday

Mr. President, In recent months we have been witnessing the formation of two opposing sides that I would call Biblical: the children of light and the children of darkness. The children of light constitute the most conspicuous part of humanity, while the children of darkness represent an absolute minority. And yet the former are the object of a sort of discrimination which places them in a situation of mor-al inferiority with respect to their adversaries, who often hold strategic positions in government, in politics, in the economy and in the media. In an apparently inexplicable way, the good are held hostage by the wicked and by those who help them either out of self-interest or fearfulness. These two sides, which have a Biblical nature, follow the clear separation between the offspring of the Woman and the offspring of the Serpent. On the one hand there are those who, although they have a thousand defects and weaknesses, are motivated by the desire to do good, to be honest, to raise a family, to engage in work, to give prosperity to their homeland, to help the needy, and, in obedience to the Law of God, to merit the Kingdom of Heaven. On the other hand, there are those who serve themselves, who do not hold any moral principles, who want to demolish the family and the nation, exploit workers to make themselves unduly wealthy, foment internal divisions and wars, and accumulate power and money: for them the fallacious illusion of temporal well-being will one day – if they do not repent – yield to the terrible fate that awaits them, far from God, in eternal damnation. In society, Mr. President, these two opposing realities co-exist as eternal enemies, just as God and Satan are eternal enemies. And it appears that the children of darkness – whom we may easily identify with the deep state which you wisely oppose and which is fiercely waging war against you in these days – have decided to show their cards, so to speak, by now revealing their plans. They seem to be so certain of already having everything under control that they have laid aside that circumspection that until now had at least partially concealed their true intentions. The investigations already under way will reveal the true responsibility of those who managed the Covid emergency not only in the area of health care but also in politics, the economy, and the media. We will probably find that in this colossal operation of social engineering there are people who have decided the fate of humanity, arrogating to them-selves the right to act against the will of citizens and their representatives in the governments of nations. We will also discover that the riots in these days were provoked by those who, seeing that the virus is inevitably fading and that the social alarm of the pandemic is waning, necessarily have had to provoke civil disturbances, because they would be followed by repression which, although legitimate, could be condemned as an unjustified aggression against the population. The same thing is also happening in Europe, in perfect synchrony. It is quite clear that the use of street protests is instrumental to the purposes of those who would like to see someone elected in the upcoming presidential elections who embodies the goals of the deep state and who expresses those goals faithfully and with conviction. It will not be surprising if, in a few months, we learn once again that hidden behind these acts of vandalism and violence there are those who hope to profit from the dissolution of the social order so as to build a world without freedom: Solve et Coagula, as the Masonic adage teaches. Although it may seem disconcerting, the opposing alignments I have described are also found in religious circles. There are faith-ful Shepherds who care for the flock of Christ, but there are also mercenary infidels who seek to scatter the flock and hand the sheep over to be devoured by ravenous wolves. It is not surprising that these mercenaries are allies of the children of darkness and hate the children of light: just as there is a deep state, there is also a deep church that betrays its duties and forswears its proper commit-ments before God. Thus the Invisible Enemy, whom good rulers fight against in public affairs, is also fought against by good shep-herds in the ecclesiastical sphere. It is a spiritual battle, which I spoke about in my recent Appeal which was published on May 8. For the first time, the United States has in you a President who courageously defends the right to life, who is not ashamed to denounce the persecution of Christians throughout the world, who speaks of Jesus Christ and the right of citizens to freedom of wor-ship. Your participation in the March for Life, and more recently your proclamation of the month of April as National Child Abuse Pre-vention Month, are actions that confirm which side you wish to fight on. And I dare to believe that both of us are on the same side in this battle, albeit with different weapons. For this reason, I believe that the attack to which you were subjected after your visit to the National Shrine of Saint John Paul II is part of the orchestrated media narrative which seeks not to fight racism and bring social order, but to aggravate dispositions; not to bring justice, but to legitimize violence and crime; not to serve the truth, but to favor one political faction. And it is disconcerting that there are Bishops – such as those whom I recently denounced – who, by their words, prove that they are aligned on the oppos-ing side. They are subservient to the deep state, to globalism, to aligned thought, to the New World Order which they invoke ever more frequently in the name of a universal brotherhood which has nothing Christian about it, but which evokes the Masonic ideals of those want to dominate the world by driving God out of the courts, out of schools, out of families, and perhaps even out of churches. The American people are mature and have now understood how much the mainstream media does not want to spread the truth but seeks to silence and distort it, spreading the lie that is useful for the purposes of their masters. However, it is important that the good – who are the majority – wake up from their sluggishness and do not accept being deceived by a minority of dishonest people with unavowable purposes. It is necessary that the good, the children of light, come together and make their voices heard. What more effective way is there to do this, Mr. President, than by prayer, asking the Lord to protect you, the United States, and all of humanity from this enormous attack of the Enemy? Before the power of prayer, the deceptions of the children of darkness will col-lapse, their plots will be revealed, their betrayal will be shown, their frightening power will end in nothing, brought to light and ex-posed for what it is: an infernal deception. Mr. President, my prayer is constantly turned to the beloved American nation, where I had the privilege and honor of being sent by Pope Benedict XVI as Apostolic Nuncio. In this dramatic and decisive hour for all of humanity, I am praying for you and also for all those who are at your side in the government of the United States. I trust that the American people are united with me and you in prayer to Almighty God. United against the Invisible Enemy of all humanity, I bless you and the First Lady, the beloved American nation, and all men and women of good will. Carlo Maria Viganò Titular Archbishop of Ulpiana Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America

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