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This Week in Our Parish
Third Sunday of Lent March 19, 2017 Sunday Mass
Saturday 6:00 PM
Sunday 7:30 AM & 11:00 AM
Daily Mass Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday 8:00 AM Friday-Stations of the Cross at
5:00 PM followed by Mass
Religious Education Sunday’s
Religious Education Pre-K through Grade 5
9:45 AM Grades 6 -12
6:30 PM
Liturgy of the Hours This ancient communal prayer of the
Church is prayed after all weekday Masses.
Rosary The Holy Rosary is prayed 30 minutes
before all Saturday, Sunday, and weekday Masses.
Sacrament of Reconciliation Confessions are heard before all
Sunday Masses and after all weekday Masses
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
First Thursday of the Month 8:00 AM to Noon
Benediction at Noon
Bethel Home Mass and Rosary held on 3rd Friday of
each month at 10:15AM
Norseland Mass and rosary held on 2nd & 4th
Wednesday of each month at 9:30 AM
The new Parish Website is now open for public viewing, the old website address is
directed to the current one. www.stmaryviroqua.org
THE ROCK Youth Update - BIG thank you to Ryne Wiegel, Sophie Tubbin, Ellie Kane,
Terri Komay, and the Corr Men for all their help with the 1st Reconciliation Reception!!!
Reminder: 9th and 10th grade Confirmation Retreat is Sunday, April 2nd Noon - 8pm.
Food and fun provided! Just bring your holy selves. Any parents wanting to help? We'd still
love some donations of snack items. Our 2nd graders continue to prepare for their 1st
Communion on Sunday, April 30th. Pray for them and their families.
Penny Wars!!!! The pennies, nickels, quarters, and even dollars are rolling in! Such
excitement and such great enthusiasm for a great cause. Thanks for all the donations thus
far. We have well over $60 raised collectively. Stay tuned, students, to see where your cross
ended up this weekend!
PCCW News – To all those who have donated food, please pick up your serving dishes in
Marian Hall. Next PCCW meeting will be at 1:00 PM on Tuesday, March 21 in Marian
Hall. Discussion will include rules for renting of Marian Hall and planning the Marian
banquet. The Spring Assembly, originally scheduled for Saturday, April 29th has been
changed to Tuesday, May 9th at 6:30 pm. The meeting will be at St. Mary's in Richland
Center. It will still be a potluck and our speaker will still be Consecrated Marian Catechist
Luna Chou.
Ecumenical Lenten Services will be here at St Mary’s at 7:00PM onWednesday,
March 22. Deacon Don Tully will be leading us through the Stations of the Cross.
Next weekend will be “Commitment Sunday Weekend” within our parish. Parish life
depends on the shared time, treasure, and talent of the parishioners. The parish council
developed the “Commitment Sunday” form that is found in this weekend’s bulletin. The
council is hoping you will take it home this week and prayerfully consider ways you’d like
to be more involved within our parish. Next weekend, at each of the liturgies, a new copy of
the form will be passed out and time will be allowed to fill them out. This is for all
parishioners from 3rd grade through adulthood. Our parish has always thrived, and continues
to thrive through God’s goodness and the generous commitment of so many people. Lent is
the perfect opportunity to reflect on our involvement and recommit ourselves to our active
participation in parish life.
Lenten Program.
Communal Penance Service for all members of the parish will be held from
6:30 -8:00 PM on Sunday April 2.
Palm Sunday Mass will be celebrated at 6:00 PM on Saturday, April 8 and 7:30 AM and
11:00 AM Sunday April 9.
Holy Week
Holy Thursday Mass begins at 7:00 PM on Thursday, April 13 and will be followed by
Adoration, concluding with Night Prayer at 10:00 PM.
Good Friday Liturgy begins at 1:00 PM on Friday April 14.
Easter Vigil will begin at 8:30 PM on Holy Saturday, April 15.
Easter Sunday Masses will be at 7:30 AM and 11:00 AM on Sunday, April 16.
Fr. Joseph Arokiam OFM Cap, Parochial Administrator (715-937-5117)
Julie Moore, Bookkeeper <[email protected] Kris Matheys, Secretary<[email protected] Tara Lyons, Director of Religious Education <[email protected]>
400 Congress Avenue, Viroqua, WI 54665, 608-637-7711
March 19, 2017
Thirst for God
This week is the 3rd Sunday of the Lent during which we are invited to reflect on the
Encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman. As Jesus and his disciples were on
the way from Judea to Galilee they were passing through Samaria. Being tired of the
journey, Jesus sat on the ground by Jacob's well, while the disciples had gone out to the
city to buy food. As he was resting, a Samaritan woman came to draw water at the noon
time .Jesus asked for water from her. Jesus was thirsty and he had a deeper thirst. What
was his thirst? His thirst for this woman was a total conversion of faith and salvation.
His thirst for her was that she should be liberated from all of her sensual pleasures and
immoral life and she should have a total change to a new life in God. She needed to
thirst for the forgiveness of the Lord for all her past sins. She was desperately in need
of the savior to help her in this regard, because she lived a very bad life.
She was thirsting for a genuine relationship with God. She was a woman with a bad
reputation and everyone knew her past life. The Lord said that she had five husbands
and the current one, with whom she lived, was not her husband and she lived in sin.
Indeed she lost her peace, because of her immoral life. She was thirsting or longing for
forgiveness and a release from all of the chaos in her life. Jesus knew her real and
genuine thirst was for a change of life. After her encounter with Jesus she perceived
that real and genuine thirst for God and God experience only can satisfy her life, but not
the sensual pleasures of the flesh. Once she realized this thirst for God she became a
renewed person and witnessed this experience to other women and they all came to
know about Jesus.
In conclusion, the Samaritan woman was thirsty at the well. There are a lot of people
thirsty for so many things. Some are thirsty for material goods, some for bodily
pleasures, some for honor and prestige, and some for powers and positions. Like the
Samaritan woman we need to look at or introspect our own lives and see what we are
thirsting for. We need to thirst for God alone who can satisfy our lives. During this
Lenten season let us come to the well of Jesus our living water which is the water that
does not run out and quenches our deepest thirst for God. My soul thirsts for God, the
living God. This is the good news this week.
Fr.Joe
March 19, 2017
FINANCIAL REPORT Weekend March12, 2017
Adults: $2871.00 Youth: $0.39
Offertory: $267.02 Total: $3138.41
Needed Weekly: $3,400.00 Special Collection:
Easter Flowers: $607.00 DIOCESAN ANNUAL APPEAL
2016-2017 Target: $36,869.00
Total Pledged & Received: $37,909.00 Thank you!
MASS INTENTIONS THIS WEEK Saturday, March 18, 6:00 PM + Sandi Kuehn Sunday, March 19, 7:30 AM + Youth of St. Mary Parish (PCCW) Sunday, March19, 11:00 AM + Lorraine Groh (Dan Groh) Monday, March 20, 8:00 AM + Richard Trussoni
(Paulette Oldham) Tuesday, March 21, 8:00 AM + Darlene Gilardi (Jim & Ann Graham) Wednesday, March 22, 8:00 AM+ Helen Fanta
(Dave & Kris Matheys) Thursday, March 23, 8:00 AM + Mass Friday, March 24, 5:00 PM + Stations of the Cross followed by
Mass Saturday, March 25, 6:00 PM +People of St. Mary Parish Sunday, March 26, 7:30 AM + Ed & Verna Mashak (Mashak Family) Sunday, March 26, 11:00 AM + Sandi Kuehn
Saturday, February 25, 6:00 PM + People of St. Mary’s Parish Sunday, February 26, 7:30 AM + Ed & Verna Mashak (Mashak Family) Sunday, February 26, 11:00 AM + Chuck Hemmersbach (People of St. Mary’s Parish)
Saints of the week:
*St. Joseph
* St. Turibius
FURTHER INTEREST Marriage Preparation Retreats – The La Crosse Deanery, which consists of 14 area parishes, will be offering Married
Love: Two Becoming One, a marriage preparation retreat for engaged couples, on April 28-29 and July 14-15, 2017. Both of
these retreat dates will take place at Blessed Sacrament Parish Hall. Couples must register at least one month prior to the
retreat. To register for Married Love: Two Becoming One, contact Maggie at Blessed Sacrament Parish, 608-782-2953.
One Last Call for Names and Contact Information for 50th Jubilee Couples All parishes are asked to submit the names of married couples who are celebrating 50 years of marriage in 2017. Please send us
the names, addresses, and phone numbers of those couples in your parish who are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary
this year. Completed forms must be returned to the Lacrosse Diocese office by March 20, 2017. If you have any questions about
the 50th Jubilee event, please contact Mary Lou Berg at [email protected].
Rice Bowls can be found in the large basket in the Atrium. Jesus urges us to pray, fast and give alms during Lent. Youth in
our REP program participate in the Mite Box collection in support of our diocesan mission parish in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Please take your rice bowl home today and return during Holy Week with your offering!
Ecumenical Lenten Prayers Services schedule -all services are held on Wednesdays and begin at 7:00 PM:
March 22 at Annunciation of the BVM, service will be Stations of the Cross
March 29 at United Methodist, Liberty Pole
Representative, Matt Poje, from the Knights of Columbus Saint Juan Diego Council headquartered at the Shrine of Our Lady of
Guadalupe, will be here to show a video about the Knights of Columbus and to field questions from men interested in learning
more about the Knights of Columbus. Matt will be in the Atrium after the Masses on Saturday March 25 and Sunday March 26.
This Week we highlight M and K Carpentry, LLC as the bulletin sponsor of the week
Please Support the Businesses that Support Our Parish Bulletin
“A population that does not take care of the elderly and of
children and the young has no future, because it abuses both
its memory and its promise.” Pope Francis