October 25 Bulletin

Church Cleaning
Oct 30 Brent & Shelly Kurtz
Nov 6 Joey & Kadee Irmen
Nov 13 Troy & Connie Hafner

Parish Collection Teams
Oct 25 Kristen Beckley & Donna Stringer
Nov 1 Deb Miller & Stephanie Polries
Nov 8 Bev Hafner & Cindy Tweed

Lectors EMHC
Oct 25 Lector-Donna Stringer EMHC-Kristen Beckley
Nov 1 Lector-Jon Polries EMHC-Deb Miller
Nov 8 Lector-Angela Kutz EMHC-Shelly Kurtz

Stewardship Moment: “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with
all your soul, and with all your mind.” – Matthew 22:37 Do you put other “gods” before
God? Is your love of money, power, status, comfort or some personal possession greater
than your love for God? Do you recognize that everything you have and that everything
you are is a gift from God? Putting God first in everything helps keep us from becoming
a slave to our possessions and to our pride.

Religious Education Reconciliation Service for grades 7 and 8 will be held on
Wednesday, Oct. 28th at 6:30 pm.

Looking Ahead: There will be an All Souls Mass on Monday, Nov. 2 at 5:30 pm at
Sacred Heart Church.

Kensal Mass Schedule: Starting SAT., NOV. 7TH – Mass at St. John’s in Kensal is
back to 4:00 pm through the winter months until the time change in the spring.
• Confessions will be from 3:30-3:50 pm
• Mass at 4:00 pm

Young Adult Rome Pilgrimage: May 15-17, 2027. The Diocese of Fargo is organizing
a pilgrimage for Young Adults, ages 19-30, to Rome & Assisi, May 17-25, 2027. The
pilgrimage will include all the major basilicas of Rome, papal audience, Mass in St.
Peter's Basilica, Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, Catacombs, overnight trip to Assisi
and much more! Pilgrims must either live, work or go to school in the Diocese of
Fargo. Cost: $1520 does NOT include plane ticket. More information and Registration:
www.fargodiocese.org/youngadultpilgrimage

 Heavenly Wisdom by Venerable Fulton Sheen: “Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them wrong. There is nothing wrong about hunger, but there is something wrong about gluttony; there is no sin in thirst, but there is a sin in drunkenness; there is nothing wrong with a man who seeks economic security, but there is something wrong with a man who is avaricious; there is nothing to be despised in knowledge, but there is something to be condemned in pride; there is nothing wrong with the flesh, but there is something wrong in the abuse of the flesh.”

October 18 Bulletin

Church Cleaning
Oct 23 Donna Stringer & Mary K Larson
Oct 30 Brent & Shelly Kurtz
Nov 6 Joey & Kadee Irmen

Parish Collection Teams
Oct 18 Larry Larson Jr & Dave Richter
Oct 25 Kristen Beckley & Donna Stringer
Nov 1 Deb Miller & Stephanie Polries

Lectors EMHC
Oct 18 Lector-Angela Kutz EMHC-Dave Richter
Oct 25 Lector-Donna Stringer EMHC-Kristen Beckley
Nov 1 Lector-Jon Polries EMHC-Deb Miller

Stewardship Moment: “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s. - Matthew 22:21 Everything we are and everything we have belongs to God. We aren’t “owners” of anything, we are merely “stewards” of the gifts God has given each of us. All God is asking is that we give back a portion of what He gave us. This is the essence of Stewardship. God should be our first priority in everything. All else comes second, especially our money.

October is Respect Life Month: Join Catholics nationwide praying a special novena for the protection of human life from conception to natural death October 22-30. Get daily intentions, brief reflections, and more. Sign up at respectlife.org/celebrate

Next Weekend: The World Mission Sunday collection helps the Church spread the Gospel in missionary lands. These are places (1,130 of them to be exact) where the Church basically barely exists, or where she is so young, poor, or persecuted that she cannot support herself in terms of personnel and resources. What’s raised on World Mission Sunday is used to make possible the heroic work of missionary bishops, priests, religious sisters, and lay catechists who labor, sometimes under threat of death, to share our faith. It helps build churches, seminaries, convents, and catechetical centers. It provides for basic needs like transport, food, and shelter. It helps pass on the faith to children and to their parents.

    •Please make your check payable to St. Elizabeth (memo line “World Mission Sunday”). The parish             deposits the checks and includes the donation in your individual giving record. We send a check to the       Diocese of Fargo remitting these funds and the Diocese of Fargo remits these funds to the national             office. Envelopes are in your box set.

Holy Father’s Prayer Intention for October: Let us pray that mental health ministry be established throughout the Church, helping to overcome the stigma and discrimination of persons with mental illnesses.

Heavenly Wisdom by Venerable Fulton Sheen: "Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own."