August 17 Bulletin

Church Cleaning
Aug 22 Troy & Connie Hafner
Aug 29 David & Anne Richter
Sep 5 Lar & Codie Larson

Parish Collection Teams
Aug 17 Luke Kutz & Jon Polries
Aug 24 Carrie Nichols & Karen Neumiller
Aug 31 Dave Richter & Larry Larson Jr.

Lectors EMHC
Aug 17 Jon Polries Luke Kutz
Aug 24 Carrie Nichols Karen Neumiller
Aug 31 Angela Kutz Dave Richter

Stewardship Moment: “Do you think I have come to give you peace on Earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.” Luke 12:51 Many of us like to play it safe, not cause waves with our family and friends, especially when it comes to politics and religion. We don’t want to cause any turmoil. However, many times this is at the expense of the truth. The truth being Jesus Christ. Too many people are misguided because they rely on their own limited human ability to reason and are not allowing faith in God to guide them. Form your conscience; take a stance for life, marriage, and religious liberty.

Altar Society Meeting Sunday, August 24th at 9:45am St. Elizabeth Parish Center
Agenda: Fall Bazaar

FFF (FAMILY, FAITH, FORMATION) Registration will be Sun., Aug. 17th and 24th before and after Mass at Sacred Heart. Sykeston students are paid for.

Man of the Shroud Traveling Exhibit at St. Mary’s Cathedral August 23-31. For the first time in the Diocese of Fargo, we will have an exact replica of the burial cloth of Christ, known as the Shroud of Turin, along with an exhibit of the fascinating details and history of this most precious holy cloth. The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth that bears a faint image of the front and back of a man who died of crucifixion wounds. It has been venerated for centuries as the actual burial shroud used to wrap the body of Jesus in after his crucifixion, and upon which Jesus's bodily image is miraculously imprinted. There have been countess studies through the ages that cannot explain the image by human knowledge. The exhibit, Man of the Shroud, will be at St. Mary’s Cathedral in the social hall for one week, August 23-31. Check the Diocese website for daily open hours of the exhibit.
https://www.fargodiocese.org/shroud-exhibit ***The Special Presentation on the Shroud of Turin by expert, Jim Bertrand, will be on Sunday, Aug 24 and then repeated again on Monday, Aug 25 both starting at 7pm in the church. The presentation on Monday, Aug 25 will be live streamed through the Diocese of Fargo Youtube channel  https://www.youtube.com/@dioceseoffargo4555

No Bulletin August 24th.

Heavenly Wisdom by Venerable Fulton Sheen:
“Very harmful effects can follow accepting the philosophy which denies personal guilt or sin and thereby makes everyone nice. By denying sin, the nice people make a cure impossible. Sin is most serious, and the tragedy is deepened by the denial that we are sinners…The really unforgiveable sin is the denial of sin, because, by its nature, there is now nothing to be forgiven. By refusing to admit to personal guilt, the nice people are made into scandalmongers, gossips, talebearers, and supercritics, for they must project their real if unrecognized guilt to others. This, again, gives them a new illusion of goodness: the increase of faultfinding is in direct ratio and proportion to the denial of sin.”

Holy Father’s Prayer Intention for August: Let us pray that societies where coexistence seems more difficult might not succumb to the temptation of confrontation for ethnic, political, religious, or ideological reasons.