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Weekend Mass Times Daily and Weekend Masses
are cancelled for 8 weeks.
Sacrament of Reconciliation By appointment only
Baptism
Holy Matrimony
Please contact the parish office for more infor-mation about baptismal preparation and
scheduling your baptismal ceremony.
Please contact the parish office six months
prior to the anticipated wedding date.
Highway 60 Catholic Cluster
Together we share our talents and
resources to foster unity among ourselves and one another as we strive to live a life of
Christian service with Christ as our exam-ple and the Holy Spirit as our guide.
Adoration You will be notified when adoration resumes.
Saint Mary 643 6th St., Ashton, IA 51232 Mailing address: PO Box 97,
Sibley, IA 51249 [email protected]
Phone 712-754-2739 Adm. Secretary Christy Funk
Saint Andrew Parish 716 8th St., PO Box 97
Sibley, IA 51249 [email protected]
Phone 712-754-2739 DRE/Adm. Secretary Christy Funk
Father Siby Punnoose, Pastor
Phone: 712-730-6480 Email: [email protected]
Website: hwy60catholiccluster.org Website: stpatssheldon.org
Saint Patrick Parish 310 10th St.
Sheldon, IA 51201-1530 [email protected]
Phone 712-324-0160 Adm. Secretary Nancy Claar
DRE Paulette Karolczak 712-348-3132
Saint Patrick School 1020 4th Ave.
Sheldon, IA 51201-1520 [email protected]
Phone 712-324-3181 Principal: Mrs. Jessica Schmalen
April 26, 2020
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St. Patrick’s School News
St. Patrick School for youth will resume in August. School Office hours will be 8:30-4:30 Monday through Friday through May. Scrip is available! Now is a great time to learn how to use it. Give Paulette a call at #324-3181. THANK YOU to all who enter Coke caps for our school! We received a $75 check from Coke.com. A special thanks to Paula Schwebach and Bonnie Roder for taking bags of caps to enter!! We have another large box of caps stored up if anyone else wants to help :)
Cluster Connection ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM AROUND THE CLUSTER
From the office of Bishop Walker Nickless, use the following link to keep up on the
latest updates https://www.scdiocese.org/messages-from-bishop
St. Andrew is hosting a Rosary, the Prayer to St. Michael and the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Je-sus (found on-line) for the intention of the over-
turning of Roe Versus Wade and the end of abor-tion and infanticide on Wednesdays.
Join us from home, praying the Rosary.
St. Patrick, St. Mary and St. Andrew Religious Education for St. Patrick and St. Andrew
Religious Education classes will resume this Sep-tember. We will plan First Communion and possi-bly a Graduation Mass once we are able to re-turn to Masses. Please do call or email Paulette [email protected] or #712-348-3132 cell or Christy at 712-754-2739 or [email protected] if you would like any faith activities for your families over the summer!
Due to the Coronavirus, the Diocese has cancelled the Quest Men's trip and Camp Cayoca for 2020.
Fr. Siby celebrates a private Mass daily at 3p.m. This Mass will be offered for the people of the parish and that day’s Mass Intention. If you are able, at 3p.m. light a candle then read the scripture, pray the Rosary or pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet. Offer your reading or prayers for the people affected by the virus.
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Mt 18:20). When unable to attend Mass or receive holy Communion, we can unite ourselves more closely through reading, study-ing, praying with and discussing the Scriptures as a family. Consider the daily readings offered in the Lectionary.
A prayer from St. Alphonsus Liguori “My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things and I de-
sire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there, and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.”
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Resources for Mass
Catholic Extension- Sundays at 10:00 AM—https://www.catholicextension.org/stories/sunday-catholic-mass-online
EWTN online and on TV: https://www.ewtn.com/ --televised, radio, and online each day at 7AM, 11AM, 6PM
Sioux City area: 88.1 https://www.fhcradio.com/--Mass at 9AM on Sunday
Carroll: 103.1 Trinity Radio Station --EWTN programming Western Iowa: https://spiritcatholicradio.com/ 7AM Sunday Mass from EWTN
Iowa Catholic Radio: https://www.iowacatholicradio.com/ 7AM Sunday Mass from EWTN
Daily Mass with Word On Fire: https://www.wordonfire.org/daily-mass
From CatholicTV Network: https://www.watchthemass.com
All Saints Parish of LeMars live streaming week day Mass at 8:45 am on their website. You can also watch the rebroadcast. Https://www.allsaintslemars.org
Holy Trinity Parish—Webster County live streams 7 am Monday—Saturday and Sunday at 9:30 am https://
www.facebook.com/pg/HolyTrinityWC/videos/?ref=page_internal or https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2gLyDrtGQ8YxH3JP-6o23A/videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9hi3ngYGdwU7DIwWMzvLIQ Celebrating daily Mass live with Fr. Pat Behm
You Tube –you can do a search for Catholic Mass and find many.
Weekly Readings
Sunday: Acts 2:14, 22-33/Ps 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 [11a]/1 Pt 1:17-21/Lk 24:13-35
Monday: Acts 6:8-15/Ps 119:23-24, 26-27, 29-30 [1ab]/Jn 6:22-29
Tuesday: Acts 7:51—8:1a/Ps 31:3cd-4, 6 and 7b and 8a, 17 and 21ab [6a]/Jn 6:30-35
Wednesday: Acts 8:1b-8/Ps 66: 1-3a, 4-5, 6-7a [1]/Jn 6:35-40
Thursday: Acts 8:26-40/Ps 66:8-9, 16-17, 20 [1]/Jn 6:44-51
Friday: Acts 9:1-20/Ps 117:1bc, 2 [Mk 16:15]/Jn 6:52-59
Saturday: Acts 9:31-42/Ps 116:12-13, 14-15, 16-17 [12]/Jn 6:60-69
Sunday: Acts 2:14a, 36-41/Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 [1]/1 Pt 2:20b-25/Jn 10:1-10
Saturday, April 25 Ashton Steve Schwebach Sunday, April 26 Sheldon/Sibley Tolentino Family, James McKenna (Español) For the Parishes of the Cluster, Special Intention-SP Monday, April 27—No Mass Tuesday, April 28 Sibley Fr. Richard Ries and Fr. Donald Ries
and For the Poor Souls in Purgatory and Special Intention
Wednesday, April 29 Ashton Earl Klosterman Thursday, April 30 Sibley Joanne Pohlen and Catherine & Clar-
ence Pohlen Friday, May 1 Sheldon Ascherl Family Saturday, May 2 Ashton Helen Kreber Sunday, May 3 Sheldon/Sibley Ruth Reekers, Janet Weppler, Tim
McCarty, John & Hilda Majerus and (Español) For the Parishes of the Cluster
Mass Intentions
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Our Parish Cluster, through the Diocese of Sioux City, is offering an app to make access to infor-mation for our parishes from any of your devices.
Go to your app store and download myParish—Catholic from Diocesan Publications.
From the menu choose Highway 60 Catholic Cluster. Search by city and state or zip code.
Create your sign in—when it asks for your age, click on the year first and choose your birth year, then go through the calen-dar to find your month and date. PLEASE CREATE AN AC-COUNT. This will help us to keep you notified of different events going on in the cluster.
There are many links currently available, such as the readings for the day, praying the rosary and many more. Watch for up-dates each week.
Check out myParish app to Stay Spiritually and Physically Fit.
When you are doing your exercis-es, you can listen to daily Mass,
homilies or the Rosary.
Prayers are needed. Take the time of handwashing and say a Hail Mary or an Our Father.
Encourage your children to practice their prayers while washing their hands.
THE LITURGY
INSPIRATION FOR THE WEEK
Is God a real Being for you or simply an idea to be entertained? Often, we reduce
God to a set of ideas, theories, and princi-ples and neglect to see Him as the One who takes joy in helping us understand all
of the events and mysteries of life. God delights in journeying with us and is the
only One who can fill us with joy and make our hearts burn with excitement and
jubilation. He is the one who assists us in recognizing the truth that is before us and interpreting not only the jewels of Sacred
Scripture but the events of history. If we recognize God, we can also see that He
inspires us to see the divine meaning of our own lives as well. Sometimes it takes us a
little time. After all, even Jesus’ closest friends had to walk with him for a while on the road to Emmaus before their eyes
were opened in the breaking of the bread.
Compassionate and Loving Father,
In the face of confusion and con-cern impart to us the calm of Your presence.
In You allow us to find hope and healing. Be with those who serve the sick and give them Your caring hands. Be with those who lead and give them Your spirt and wis-dom. Be with those who have fallen ill and give them Your com-forting heart. Wrap Your arms around our world and hold us in Your love. Allow us at this time of trial to then serve as instruments of that love to all we meet. We ask this in Your name. Amen.
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St. Patrick April 19 Adult $1,550 IRA Distribution $ 450 TOTAL $2,000 Holy Land $ 5 Retired Priest $ 45
Year to Date Income: 2020 $89,448.22 2019 $92,574.12 2018 $80,614.25
St. Andrew and St. Mary Stewardship April 19
Adult $2,305.00 Easter Offering $ 285.00 Cemetery $ 20.00 Religious Ed $ 10.00 Mission Trip/Camp $ 10.00 Holy Land $ 10.00 Retired Priests $ 190.00 Building Fund $ 50.00
Building Fund Drive Goal $75,000.00 Received $36,257.62
Together As One Goal $19,738.00 Pledged $17,145.48 Received $16,415.48
Weekly Giving
Thank you to everyone that has con-tinued their support of our parishes.
Your continued support has helped us to continue to pay our bills and main-
tain our buildings.
LITURGICAL LIFE
RESPONDING TO THE CALL EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP
Recognize God in Your Ordinary Moments Mean What You Say
Missouri is known as the “Show Me” state. There seem to be differing points of view as to how this motto came into existence, but today is said to speak of a people who operate with common sense and are not easily fooled by slick-talking or show. We would be prudent to adopt such a disposition ourselves. To be this way is not really like St. Thomas in the Gospel when he doubts what he clearly sees right in front of him. It is more about holding ourselves to a standard explained in another motto: “Say what you mean and man what you say.” If we claim to be Christians, disciples of the risen Jesus, then those around us should be able to tell by our actions. Can someone truly be a disciple of Jesus and not be a good steward of all he has given? Jesus makes himself known to us continually in the Holy Eucharist. When we come together to break bread at Mass, Jesus shows us his love by becoming truly present to us. He is willing to show. What are we in turn willing to show him? Every day, Jesus calls us to respond in some way. Our response shows whether we are who we claim; his disciples. I am pretty sure Jesus is not from Missouri, but I know he is not fooled by our half-truths and misguided intentions. He also means what he says and says what he means. Shouldn’t his disciples do the same? From Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS.