"March 3rd is significant for us; it’s our birthday! March 3, 1868, the Diocese of La Crosse was born and in two years, 2018, we will be celebrating our 150th birthday, or our Sesquicentennial.
March 3, 1868 to March 3, 2018—a Sesquicentennial of Faith in action! I hope you’ll share as much as you can as we prepare for local and diocesan celebrations marking this landmark in our history. Watch for commemorative books and events that capture and share our past and set us free to move into our future. While looking back, we’re plugging in to the many electronic and interactive ways to discover the many treasures that make up the Diocese of La Crosse. Thanks be to God for the time He has given us and the ways He has allowed us to use His gifts, celebrate amazing talents, and Build on a Tradition of Faith!" Read More
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Youth Rummage Sale May 12 & 13 the youth will be holding a rummage sale at St. John’s in the Columbia Rm. You are invited to donate your gently used items by bringing them during office hours to St. John’s rel. ed. Office on Wed afternoon, May 11 from 3-6pm or Thur., May 12 from noon -3pm. You are also invited to come purchase items from this sale to support our youth. Sale times are Thurs., May 12, 3-6pm and Fri., May 13, 8am-5pm St. John's school Columbia Room 307 N. Walnut Ave. For more info. please contact Mr. Dan Kitzhaber.
Support Pilgrims preparing for World Youth Day Pilgrimage 2016. There are adults and youth from our parish attending “World Youth Day” from July 19th thru August 4. To raise monies for this trip there is : “Italian Date Night Dinner” offering a menu typical of Rome and its environs. Friday-April 1, 2016 * 6 p.m. Social with 6:30 pm dinner @ Schuh Hall of St. John the Baptist Church in Mfld. Advanced ticket sales only : cost per person $40.00 To purchase tickets or for more information please contact Dan Kitzhaber @ 715-389-4989 – Ext. 3
In order to learn how to use sacramentals properly, we need to differentiate them from the seven sacraments.
For starters, sacramentals only have potential for giving us grace and that we must be properly disposed to receive such graces from God. Sacramentals are not sacraments. Sacraments were instituted directly by Christ Himself, while sacramentals are instituted by the Church. This means that they do not have the same type of saving grace as the seven sacraments. Instead, they convey grace through the “work and prayers of the Church” (ex opere operantis Ecclesiae) and “by the work of the doer” ex opere operantis. This means that the grace put forth by God is more dependent on the disposition of the person performing the act. “Experience” the Passion of Christ * Shadow Stations on Wednesday-March 16, 2016 @ the LuCille Tack Center in Spencer at 6:30 p.m. * A free-will offering will be taken. The passion of Christ will be presented live by parish youth using biblically narrated accounts, music, reflection, special effects, prayer and a live multicolor reenactment of the last hours of Christ’s earthly life done in “shadows.” Make this a part of your Lenten journey by attending.
Pilgrimage to: ( Bus Trip) Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman* St. Rose Convent * Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI. ** Sponsored by Christ the King Sacred Worship Committee * Cost per person: $35.00 Date of Trip: Wednesday- July 20, 2016 * Watch for details in April as to registration and a schedule for the day of the trip. Holy Week Masses @ Christ the King Parish Holy Thursday-March 24, 2016 * Mass @ 8 p.m. Good Friday-March 25, 2016 * Service @ 1 p.m. Holy Saturday-March 26, 2016 * Mass @ 8 p.m. Easter Sunday-March 27, 2016 Mass @ 8 a.m. and Mass @ 10 a.m. Holy Thursday– March 24 -” Washing of the Feet” 12 participants are needed in order for this to take place Holy Thursday– March 24 - Eucharistic Adoration after 8 p.m. mass until midnight Please bring back to church your palms from last year and place in back of church in boxed labeled for them or you can burn them, yourself, in a safe manner. They are not to be thrown out in your regular garbage, because they are “blessed” . Decorating of the church for Easter starting @ 9 a.m. *** Your help is greatly needed *** Sign-up sheets can be found on table in gathering room of church. Thank you (-: Lenten Communal Penance Services Sacred Heart / Mfld. * Thursday - March 17 @ 5:30 pm
Kidnapped Priest Still Missing After Yemen Attack That Killed Four Missionaries of Charity3/11/2016 Kidnapped Priest Still Missing - ADEN, Yemen — Despite a lack of news and the prospect of difficult negotiations ahead, the Salesians remain hopeful that their priest kidnapped in Yemen last week will be freed.
Father Tom Uzhunnalil was kidnapped March 4 during an attack on a convent and nursing home run by the Missionaries of Charity in Yemen. The attack resulted in the deaths of four Missionaries of Charity, two staff members, eight nursing home residents and a guard, according to reports. Father Tom — a Salesian from Kerala, India — was praying in the chapel of the convent at the time of the attack and was then kidnapped by the attackers....Read more Vatican: Number of Catholics Increasing at Faster Rate Than Rest of the Population - VATICAN CITY — The number of Catholics has increased at a faster rate than the rest of the population, newly released statistics by the Vatican reveal. Over the course of nine years, the number of Catholics worldwide has increased by 17.8%, compared to the global population, which increased by 17.3%. From 2005 to 2014, the number of Catholics grew from 1.12 billion to 1.27 billion...Read more Support Pilgrims preparing for World Youth Day Pilgrimage 2016. There are adults and youth from our parish attending “World Youth Day” from July 19th thru August 4. To raise monies for this trip there is : “Italian Date Night Dinner” offering a menu typical of Rome and its environs. Friday-April 1, 2016 * 6 p.m. Social with 6:30 pm dinner @ Schuh Hall of St. John the Baptist Church in Mfld. Advanced ticket sales only : cost per person $40.00 To purchase tickets or for more information please contact Dan Kitzhaber @ 715-389-4989 – Ext. 3
Generally speaking, the use of sacramentals is one of the most misunderstood practices in the Catholic Church. They have been a part of the Church’s life from the very beginning, but are commonly viewed as some sort of superstition. This is largely due to the fact that many Catholics over the centuries have used sacramentals in a superstitious way and were not taught how to use them properly. Using sacramentals is an art form that requires careful attention and should not be viewed as something casual.
It is unfortunate as sacramentals are meant to enrich our spiritual lives, not hinder them. They have been instituted by the Church to draw us into a deeper relationship with Christ and are focused on sanctifying every part of our lives. Sacramentals are extensions of the seven sacraments and bring the grace of God into everything that we do. Sacramentals are “radiations of the sacraments. Both are sources of divine life; both have an identical purpose—divine life" (Weller, Philip T., The Roman Ritual: The Blessings, xii). Additionally, they “continue the work of the sacraments or prepare for their reception” (Ibid). Here are some examples: “Baptism is followed up by the sacramentals of holy water... Confirmation is extended in the blessings of a school...library, an archive, an ambulance, or in those sacramentals which have a relation to the functioning of the Spirit’s Gifts. The consecration of a monk or of a nun is patterned on holy orders. Matrimony is followed by the blessing of a bridal-chamber, the blessing of an expectant mother...[and] the blessing of a home....Thus the sacramentals either lead up to or continue the grace of the sacraments....the sacramentals can be said to form an outer circle around the sacraments, all of them converging toward the Eucharist as the center" (Ibid). This teaching was echoed by the Second Vatican Council, which did not abolish sacramentals, but affirmed the proper use of them. In Sacrosanctum Concilium, we read, “Thus, for well-disposed members of the faithful, the liturgy of the sacraments and sacramentals sanctifies almost every event in their lives; they are given access to the stream of divine grace which flows from the paschal mystery of the passion, death, the resurrection of Christ, the font from which all sacraments and sacramentals draw their power. There is hardly any proper use of material things which cannot thus be directed toward the sanctification of men and the praise of God" (Sacrosanctum Concilium, § 62.) Sacramentals have the capacity to be the source of such powerful graces in our lives and can sanctify even the most mundane of activities. The Church does not limit sacramentals to just Miraculous Medals and rosaries, but encompasses all human activity. Sacramentals are not only religious articles that we carry with us, but also include blessings of “persons, meals, objects, and places” (CCC 1671). For example, when looking at the older Roman Ritual, we see blessings for: bread, wine, butter, beer, oil, fire, and tools for scaling mountains to name a few. There are also blessings for medals, rosaries, chalices, sacred vessels, churches, chapels, homes and schools. In the new Roman Ritual (called the Book of Blessings), the sacramentals are revised and expanded to cover more modern aspects of life. We see blessings for homes, libraries, offices, shops, factories and centers of social communication (radio, television, etc.). There are blessings for gymnasiums, fields for athletics (and athletic events) as well as various means of transportation (bridges, highways, cars, airplanes and boats). Included in this updated Book of Blessings, there are even blessings for fishing gear, tools, animals, fields, flocks, and meals. There are, of course, blessings for religious articles and rosaries as well as liturgical objects. Both of these ritual books are approved by the Church and can be used by any priest. Together they echo a single voice that says all must be brought under the dominion of Christ. This is something profound and often we lose sight of it. We think we can live a double-life. It is as if God only dwells in the four walls of the church and cannot see what we do in our own homes. On the other hand, we may think that God does not care what we do, so long as we go to Mass on Sundays. God wants us to unite our entire life in one act of praise to Him who has given us every “spiritual blessing” and sacramentals can help us do that. But how can we use sacramentals in a way that is not "superstitions?" That is the topic of the next several articles in this series. Holy Week Masses @ Christ the King Parish
Holy Thursday-March 24, 2016 * Mass @ 8 p.m. Good Friday-March 25, 2016 * Service @ 1 p.m. Holy Saturday-March 26, 2016 * Mass @ 8 p.m. Easter Sunday-March 27, 2016 Mass @ 8 a.m. and Mass @ 10 a.m. also on Holy Thursday– March 24 -” Washing of the Feet” 12 participants are needed in order for this to take place Holy Thursday– March 24 Eucharistic Adoration after 8 p.m. mass until midnight Saturday-March 26 - Decorating of the church for Easter starting @ 9 a.m. *** Your help is greatly needed *** Sign-up sheets can be found on table in gathering room of church. Thank you (-: “Experience” the Passion of Christ * Shadow Stations on Wednesday-March 16, 2016 @ the LuCille Tack Center in Spencer at 6:30 p.m. * A free-will offering will be taken. The passion of Christ will be presented live by parish youth using biblically narrated accounts, music, reflection, special effects, prayer and a live multicolor reenactment of the last hours of Christ’s earthly life done in “shadows.” Make this a part of your Lenten journey by attending. Lenten Communal Penance Services Sacred Heart / Mfld. * Thursday - March 17 @ 5:30 pm |
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Tuesday - Friday: 8:00 AM Saturday: 4:00 PM Sunday: 8:00 AM & 10:00 AM RECONCILIATION
Saturday: 3:15 - 3:45 PM OFFICE HOURS
Monday - Thursday: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM Friday: 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM Stay Connected with Our ParishWelcome from Our PastorWelcome to Christ the King Catholic Church! Ever since 1938 this parish has been assisting souls in their quest for deeper union with God. Our mission statement is essentially found in the stained glass window above the main altar: “For Christ our King.” Insofar as God made us and we belong to Him, we have come to... Read More
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