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

April 22-23, Sunday of Divine Mercy

PARISH STAFF

Fr Michael Hickin, Pastor

Ursula Palmer, Secretary

Cathy Miller, Custodian

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Valerie Heth, DRE

St. Andrew’s Parish

Ursula Palmer, DRE

St. Mark’s Parish

WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday 5:30 pm, Bottineau

Sunday 9:00 am, Westhope

And 11:00 am, Bottineau

CONFESSIONS

Saturday, 4:30 pm, Bottineau

Sunday, 8:30 am, Westhope

Or by Appointment

OFFICE HOURS

Tue 12:30pm-5:00pm

Wed 9:00am-3:30pm

Thurs 12:30pm-5:00pm

Fri 9:00am-5:00pm

PARISH NEWS AND EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS St. Andrew’s— K-6 Religious Ed.— April 30 (CYO), May 7, 14, 21 Senior Sunday May 21st. Graduation, May 28th

St. Mark’s— Religious Ed Classes K-6— April 26 last day of class & store sale for the kids with the tickets they earned during the year.

Stewardship Moments

“Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’” - John 20:19

Are you good at making people feel welcome? When you meet someone new, a new neighbor, a new work colleague, a new parishioner, do you make them feel at home? Many of us can proba-bly do a much better job at this. When we make people feel welcome, we make them feel like they are included instead of being excluded. A simple “hello” and a smile goes a long way.

Report for April 16, 2017

St Andrew’s: Ad env $ 408 Pl $ 82 and Ch $ 10 Good Friday $ 119 Holy Land $61

St Mark’s: Ad env $ 2692 Pl $ 268 Ch $ 39.50 Build. Proj. $ 500 Holy Land $ 417

Sat, April 22, 5:30 p.m. St. Mark’s

(† Duane Sebelius)

Sun, April 23, 9 a.m. St. Andrew’s

(Parishioners)

Sun, 11 a.m. St. Mark’s

(† Stanley Estenson)

Tue, April 25, 12 p.m. NO MASS

Wed, April 26, 10:00 a.m. St. Mark’s

Marlys Hummel’s funeral

Thursday, April 27, 9 a.m. St. Andrew’s

(† Carlos Huaman de los Heros)

Friday, April 28 11 a.m. Good Samaritan

(† Mary Pugh & Albert Pugh)

Saturday, April 29, 5:30 p.m. St. Mark’s

(† Mary Pugh & Albert Pugh)

Sunday, April 30, 9 a.m. St. Andrew’s

(† Shawna Deschamp)

Sunday, 11 a.m. St. Mark’s

(Parishioners)

Home Communion Any St. Mark parishioners desiring

Holy Communion at home, call

Claudia Trebas (228-2339) by

Monday evening to be put on the list.

To add or remove a name, please

contact Deb Wyman at 245-6538 or

the parish office.

PARISHIONERS, FAMILY, AND FRIENDS: Military personnel

& their families, Cindy Volk, Ryan Volk, Donna Estenerson,

Brenda Marquardt, Tanya Buzzerd, Clay Gunderson, Sylvia

Frazer, Harvey Soland, Jodee Blaze, Dave Woeste, Everett

Lahr; Cool Baumann; a special private intention.

St. Andrew’s Health Center: Marion Honer Edgewood Vista, Minot: Everett Lahr

We would like to express our heartfelt

condolences to Rick Hummel and his

family on his wife Marlys’ passing.

Marlys died on Thursday, April 20th.

Our thoughts are with you and your

family during these difficult times.

Christ is Risen Christ is Risen: The world below lies desolate

Christ is Risen: The spirits of evil are fallen

Christ is Risen: The angels of God are rejoicing

Christ is Risen: The tombs of the dead are empty

Christ is Risen indeed from the dead,

the first of the sleepers,

Glory and power are his

forever and ever St. Hippolytus (AD 190-236)

St. Mark’s Ministries for May 6-7 DATE EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS READER GIFT BEARERS USHERS GREETERS COUNTERS

Satr. Bread: Carla Eisenzimmer Lenny McGuire / Vickie Gangl

Jessica Tagestad Tagestad family Merle Allard / Walt Pasicznyk

Marlys Richard / Eileen Lahr

Sun. Bread: Morris Holen, Jr. Megan & Tyler Rogers

Vicki Boehnke Cory & Susie Bercier Rob McGhan / Wayne Barbot

Tim Fedje family TBD

From the Pastor’s Pen

Divine Mercy consecration. Isn’t forgiveness just about the greatest gift you can give somebody? You’ve been hurt. You let them off the hook. They don’t need to pay you back. That’s the gift.

We’re tempted with resentment and withholding mercy when we count on our own store of goodness. We feel that if we forgive and forget we’ll become empty and vulnerable. We’re scared of that and hold back.

But if Jesus breathes on us his Spirit (today’s Gospel scene), then it’s not from our own storehouse that we draw our resources. Believing in his Resurrection, we become conduits of his storehouse of Goodness, inexhaustible, at the right hand of the Father.

Try it and let Easter take hold of you. Share the wealth.

Consecrate yourselves and your families to Jesus’ Divine Mercy using the following prayer:

Act of Family Consecration To Divine Mercy

Centenary of Fatima. Pope Francis has granted a ple-nary indulgence opportunity throughout the 100th anniver-sary of the apparitions of Our Lady to the shepherd chil-dren in Fatima, May 13-Oct13, 1917. There are three ways of obtaining the indulgence.

To obtain the plenary indulgence, the faithful must ful-

fill the ordinary conditions: go to Confession and Com-munion, be interiorly detached from sin, and pray for the intentions of the Holy Father, in addition to the following:

1. Make a pilgrimage to the Fatima Shrine in Portugal. 2. Visit with devotion a statue of Our Lady of Fatima

solemnly exposed for public veneration in any church, oratory, or proper place during the days of the anni- versary of the apparitions. Devoutly participate in some celebration or prayer in honor of Our Lady. 3. For the elderly and infirm, those who, because of age, illness, or other serious cause, are unable to get around well, can pray in front of a statue of Our Lady of Fatima and spiritually unite themselves to the jubi- lee celebrations on the days of the apparitions, the 13th of each month, between May and October 2017. They must "offer to our merciful God with confidence, through Mary, their prayers and sufferings or the sac- rifices they make in their own lives."

St. Andrew’s Ministries

DATE EUCHARISTIC

MINISTERS READER GIFT BEARERS ALTAR SERVERS COUNTERS USHERS

Sun. May 7 Paul Klokstad / Roberta Henry

Roberta Henry Baumann family Calma Henry / Katie Wagner

Roger Heth / Tom Henry

Wayne Miller / Tom Henry FELLOWSHIP

Support for community members that are dealing with the death or terminal illness—We are interest-ed in forming a planning committee that will help us im-prove how we may improve our support for families that are experiencing, or have experienced, the death or termi-nal illness of a loved one. Please contact Warren Emmer 701-220-5042 or Janel Agnes 701-201-0294.

BOTTINEAU COUNTY RIGHT TO LIFE SPRING MEETING— We are meeting to-day, Sunday April 23rd at St. Andrew’s Par-ish Rectory following Mass. Anyone is wel-come to join us.

Saint Mark’s feast & Volunteer Apprecia-

tion—Sunday- April 30th

4:00: Rectory Open House 5:00 Social 5:30: Entertainment 6:00: Roast Pork Dinner with all the trimmings St. Mark’s Altar Society Drawing. Find the sign-up sheets in the back of the church and at the Hall- April 20 deadline. Please join us in a night of fellowship.

St. Mark’s Altar Society’s mtg May 4 @ 5:30 pm,Parish Hall.

ST. MARK’S RUMMAGE SALE

We are ready to accept items on May 1. Please leave them downstairs—Social Hall basement—on the table by the steps. Please don’t bring large furniture items. We appreci-ate your help in making our Rummage Sale a success.

Thank you!!!

Thank you to all whose belief in Jesus Christ drew them to the days of grand celebration. Your faith-filled presence does so much to deepen the impact that these sacred liturgies aim to make upon our lives.

Special thanks to those who helped create an at-mosphere appropriate for following Christ through his Passover mystery: the choirs, the decorators, and all who pitched in with so many details.

Thank you to our Youth, the Northern Light Apos-tles, for a great job on Living Stations and the Soup sup-pers.

Thank you to our 3rd graders Alice Hamilton, Ash-lyn Follman, Owen Wilmot, Paige Marsden and Hallie Nero for their contribution during our Easter Mass at St. Mark’s. Great job!

May Our Risen Lord richly reward all you who con-tribute in one way or another to celebrating the truth that He is Alive and in our midst.

Clergy Continuing Education. Every Spring the priests of the Diocese of Fargo gather in Carrington for continuing edu-cation. Dr. Leroy Huizenga will be speaking to the clergy about the Gospel of Matthew. He is Administrative Chair of Human and Divine Sciences at the University of Mary in Bis-marck, N.D.

O Jesus, Divine Mercy, We consecrate our entire life,

from this day forward, to You without reserve.

Into Your hands we abandon our past, our present, and our future. Jesus, we ask You, from this day on,

to look after our family. Help us to be true children of God

and children of your Blessed Mother Mary.

May Your Divine Mercy triumph over all the powers of evil.

Make us channels of Mercy to all, near and far.

To receive and share Your Love is our joy in life, our hope in death

and our glory in Eternity. This we ask through Christ our Lord.

Amen