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June 23, 2019 Gym Masses From: Kathy Wedl & Cynthia Bailey Manns Presider: Fr. James Cassidy Archdiocesan Synod, 2021 ~ Ever since he assumed his current role, Archbishop Bernard Today we give thanks for parishioners Hebda has wanted to hold a Synod which has been described as a “coming together of the Christopher Hermann and Kortni local church.” The 1983 Code of Canon Law requires that lay people be involved along with Ringwall, who share their journeys clergy, and permits the involvement of non-Catholics as well. It is not a process for changing with us on this Pride Weekend. We Church teaching, but rather a “spiritual exercise” of listening and prayer, meant to engage the are blessed by your presence and Catholic laity to share their personal perspectives and ideas. Pope Francis has asked that leadership in this community. these sessions be based on “sincere and respectful mutual listening in which everyone has something to learn.” This morning we welcome our own George Maurer back to the keyboard The Synod is a two year process beginning with the first stage of twenty prayer and listening after his month long bike trek through sessions held in parishes and sites throughout the archdiocese in fall 2019 and winter 2020. Viet Nam raising money for cancer These sessions are critical to the Synod process, and the Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Communi- research. Congratulations, George! ty has an opportunity, and responsibility, to be a visible and vocal presence in these sessions. Singer, Deb Harley is with us today More importantly, this powerful discernment process will help us clarify SJA’s vision as we as well as fiddle player, Richard gather with one another and journey with others throughout the archdiocese. Kriehn. They will offer solos at our gym masses on this Pride Weekend The SJA Mission Statement states, Saint Joan of Arc is a joyful Christian community which Sunday. Thank you all! celebrates the loving Word of God in worship and in action. We transcend traditional bounda- ries and draw those who seek spiritual growth and social justice. We welcome diverse ideas The Sunday Morning Registration and encourage reflection on the message of the Gospel. We are committed to the equality and Information Office is located in of all our members and strive to ensure their full participation through liturgy, education and the Parish Center. In the office you may service. By these means we seek to empower all who come to grow in wisdom and bring to register to become a SJA parishioner, reality the promise of Christ. It is imperative that we inform the archdiocese, and our fellow get program information, sign up for a Christians, of our concerns, challenges, and hopes that we have as we strive to embody our program, and register to volunteer. The mission in our daily life experiences. office is open after both of our Sunday morning liturgies. In July and August, SJA will have information gatherings to help us prepare for participation in the listening sessions. Dates and times will be posted in the bulletin and on the SJA web page. We encourage everyone in the SJA community to participate, allowing the Spirit to guide us, with a goal of finding a better path to service for both clergy and laity. Additional information regarding the Synod can be found on the SJA web page as well as on the archdiocese web page (archspm.org/synod). This information explains the two year Synod process which concludes in 2021 with Archbishop Hebda’s Pastoral Letter addressing the Synod’s topics and the Pastoral Plan to shape the following 5 - 10 years. Kathy Wedl serves as SJA’s Parish Council Representative to Deanery 14 of the Lay Advisory Board. Cynthia Bailey Manns serves as a member of the Archdiocesan Lay Advisory Board. Weekend Masses are Celebrated at: 5pm Saturday and 7:45am Sunday in the Church 9am and 11am Sunday in the Gym Family Masses will resume on September 15 Visit: www.stjoan.com 4537 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55419 612.823.8205 Fax: 612.825.7028
Highlights This Week at SJA Looking Ahead… FFI check the bulletin, the SJA website or call the Parish Center. Sunday 9 and 11 am Gym Masses: The Upper Room is located in the Parish Center; Hospitality Hall, in the Church basement; the Arc, across 45th Street, 4457 3rd Ave. June 30: Presider: Fr. DeBruycker. We are thrilled to welcome pre-mass speaker, Dr. Mary Dana Hinton, president of the Tuesday, June 25 College of St. Benedict. 8am Mass in the Orleans Chapel July 7: Presider: Fr. Cassidy. A reflection on Nationalism and Thursday, June 27 Patriotism in readings and with special music from our guest 8am Mass in the Orleans Chapel Brother Timothy Frantzich. Sunday, June 30: July 14: Presider: Fr. DeBruycker. Sunday will include a brief ISAIAH - Legislative Session Debrief, after the 9 and 11am masses introduction to Camp St. Joan - a wonderful week in which our in the Upper Room kids will learn about the culture, history, food and traditions of this year's country, Germany. Parish Center Summer Hours (Memorial Day through Labor Day) July 21: Presider: Fr. Cassidy. Our Mission Sunday speaker is x Monday, 8:30am - 4:30pm Sr. Susan Gatz of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. She will x Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 8:30am - 9pm share her story, and a second collection will be taken to benefit x Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm the work of the sisters. x Saturday, 9am - noon x Sunday, 8:30am - 1pm July 28: Presider: Fr. DeBruycker August 4: Presider: Fr. Cassidy The Parish Center will be closed Thursday, July 4 and Friday, July 5. August 11: Presider: Fr. DeBruycker. Miriam and Alba, from our Sister Parish in Guatemala, will share their reflections of their time at SJA as the 10 day delegation draws to a close. Scripture Readings: Sun, June 23: Genesis 14:18-20; 1 Cor 11:23-26; Luke 9:11b-17 Gluten-free Communion is available upon request. Please see Mon, June 24: Isaiah 49:1-6; Acts 13:22-26; Luke 1:57-66,80 any of the Sunday sacristans in the gym before Mass. Tues, June 25: Genesis 13:2,5-18; Matthew 7:6,12-14 Enhanced Hearing Devices are available in the church and gym. Wed, June 26: Genesis 15:1-12,17-18; Matthew 7:15-20 They are located in the back of the church and the welcome center. Thu, June 27: Genesis 16:1-12,15-16; Matthew 7:21-29 Fri, June 28: Ezekiel 34:11-16; Romans 5:5b-11; Luke 15:3-7 SignUpGenius for Eucharistic Ministers is available online. It Sat, June 29: Acts 3:1-10; Galatians 1:11-20; John 21:15-19 is simple, user friendly and a reminder is sent 3 days before your Sun, June 30: 1 Kings 19:16b,19-21; Gal 5:1,13-18; Luke 9:51-62 scheduled volunteer day. FFI contact Marcia at mkurtz@stjoan.com. Prayer Corner: Please remember in your prayers those who are in need of healing: Chuck Abramson, Arlene Axelson, Ned B., Dennis Barta, Phyllis Berninger, Elaine Boehm, Marcia Boehnlein, Patty Brennan, Lorraine Bryant, Stacy Budd, Pam Burd, Allison Burgstahler, Catharine C., Courtney, George C., Dayna Cell, Kate Corey, Joe & Dave Culver, Meg & Nick Daoust, Mick Dease, Jim DeBruycker, Koko Dehn, Colleen Dooley, Bob Duffy, Kathie DuRocher, Henry F., John Fierce, Flo Francis, John & Margaret Frees, Amy Friedrichs, Kate Gilbert, Heidi Gregorich, Tom Griep, Abigail H., Emma H., Todd Harley, Brad Hinker, Jeff Hinton, Megan Hoffman, Jan Horner, Kathy Horner, Neysa Housley, Gina J., Ceil Jaisle, Dan Jay, Tom Jay, Paul Jonsson, Maria Karpinski, Glen Kelley, Sage Kirscht, Barbara Klebel, Kate Kline, Liam, Luke, Amy Lainus, Iva Lang, Jim Lappen, Melva Larson, Dorothy & Darlene Lawson, Tony Lescarbeau, Alex M., Kyle M., Michael M., Joe Mars, Janet Martens, Dawn McCelland, John McGarry, Kate Meyer, Kelley Meyer, Morley family, Royce Morrissette, Ted Mueller, Sheri Murch, Nate, Craig Nordby, Dick Olson, Paul Olvera, Colette Ott, Paula, Pam Paul, Bill Peterka, Joe, Mary & Dick Priola, Jim Rapp, Carol Reiland, Jack Riebel, Donald & Susan Roufs, Pat Russell, Joe S., Kay Samuelson, Don Schafer, Phil & Mary Margaret Schmidt, Steven Schuster, Fran Shepardson, Mattie Sieler, Sam Slagerman, Harold Sonnek, Teddy Sparrman, Priscilla Specht, Joan Speltz, Doug Stahlke, Joleen Strosahl, Tess, Irene Taddiken, Francis Taranto, Tom Tedford, Matthew Tennant, Echo Thoren, Glo Tonskemper, Martha Utz, Carin Vagle, Leroy Vague, Barbara Verthein, Mimi Villaume, AJ & Theo W., Nikki W., Floyd Ward, Pam Washington, Marlys Weber, Julie Wegscheild, Todd Weller, Bennett Wentworth, Mary White, Kathy Wiberg, Eric William, Jim & Jerry Wohnoutka, Jim Wolfe, Morley Woodruff, Ann Woolsey, Sofia Wright, Julie Wylie, Mike Wyman, Curt Youngren, Baby Zoey Grace, Bridget Zivirn, Annemaire & Ava Zubrzycki Prayer Corner Requests: To keep prayer requests current, names will be included in the bulletin for four weeks and then removed. To add a name or to renew your request, please call Nancy Becker at 612.823.8205 ext. 223. A Book of Prayer is located in our Gym vestibule. If you have a family member or friend who is ill or who has recently died, please write their names in our Book of Prayer before Mass so we may include them in prayers during our Sunday Masses.
Parish Life Choir: Summer is a good time to consider raising your singing voice South Bound I-35W to 46th St. Ramp Closed through early and joining the SJA adult choir in September. Do you love July 2019. Detour: Continue on I-35W and take the Diamond to sing and can carry a tune? Join this musical community Lake Rd. exit. Once the ramp reopens in early July 2019, there as we begin a new season on Thursday, September will be some periodic short-term closures through Fall 2020. 19. Teens especially welcomed. If you have questions, please call Anna Vagle at 612.823.8205 ext 235. Happy Summer! Cabaret: Join us at the 25th Cabaret to celebrate Music and Memories! Enjoy over 25 of your favorite performers at the Thank You Picnic Volunteers! More than 300 guests enjoyed the dinner and show on Friday and Saturday, October 4 and 5, or picnic festivities this past Friday night! Whether you helped with experience Prince Unplugged with our own Tommy Barbarella food prep on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, or fulfilled your picnic at The Sunday Show matinee on October 6. Tickets go on sale assignments, your time and work were very much appreciated! A Saturday, August 17. Email Cabaret2019@stjoan.com with special thanks to Kevin Bandy and Mike Senti who planned and inquiries for becoming a new table sponsor. executed another fabulous picnic menu. SJA Outreach Fund: Our Justice Grant committee awarded Catholic Social Teaching: The Foundation of Our Faith and Our the following grants to these remarkable Shared Future. The principles of CST offer us a powerful lens organizations, in which our parishioners through which to see and love the world as God does. They are are committed volunteers and leaders. a blueprint for us in overwhelming times: We are proud to partner with all of you! x Human Dignity: Every one of us is created in the image and x Health Care for All MN: $5000 likeness of God. x ComMUSICation: $5000 x Common Good: We realize our human dignity in relationship x Listening House of St. Paul: $5000 and community. x The Advocates for Human Rights: $5000 x Option for the Poor: The moral test of our society is how we x Casa Guadalupana: $4800 treat our most vulnerable. x Mind Body Solutions: $5000 x Rights and Responsibilities: We all have a fundamental right x Living at Home Block Nurse Program: $3750 to what is needed to live in dignity - life, food, shelter, health x S. Stephen’s Human Services: $5000 care, education, employment. We also have a responsibility to x Conversations with Friends: $5000 participate in our public life together. x MicroGrants: $4000 x Role of Government: The state has a positive moral function x MN Literacy Council: $5000 to promote human dignity, protect human rights and build the x Urban Homeworks: $5000 common good. x St. Mary’s Health Clinics:$5000 x Economic Justice: All workers have the right to decent and fair wages and safe working conditions. No one is allowed to amass Mobile Loaves Twin Cities: excessive wealth while others lack the basic necessities of life. x Needs toiletry size soap, shampoo and lotion, toothpaste, x Stewardship of God's Creation: We are called to live in right toothbrushes and new lightweight socks. Please place your relationship with the earth. donations in the collection hamper across from the food x Promotion of Peace and Disarmament: Peace is not just the shelf bin in the Parish Center entrance. FFI contact absence of war. Peace is the fruit of justice. info@mobileloavestc.com. x Global Solidarity: We are called to work together globally in x MLTC also needs a commercial vacuum. If you can help, an interdependent world. please contact Floyd at feward47@gmail.com. Where Does My Coffee Cup Go? We strive to be a zero- An Interfaith Peace Vigil Against War: Wednesdays, 5 - 6 pm, waste campus and your help is needed making sure that at the Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Bridge. Join us! coffee cups are disposed of properly on Sunday mornings. Here's the info you need: Summary of contributions for the week and fiscal year. Includes 1. All hot cups brought in from outside SJA are TRASH (not plate, envelopes and estimated Sustaining Member payments. recyclable), unless marked "Certified Compostable" 2. Cold plastic beverage cups and lids are RECYCLABLE. Current (June 10 - June 16, 2019) Straws are not. Actual $33,452 Budget $32,197 3. All cups from within SJA are COMPOSTABLE - organic, Prior Year Actual $29,308 made from corn. Year to Date (July 1 – June 16, 2019) Thank you for your help! Actual $1,982,600 Budget $2,017,281 Prior Year Actual $1,899,734 Consider Carpooling or Riding the City Bus to Church: Go to metrotransit.org for more information. Thank you! Thank You!
Pastoral Ministries Peace and Justice FFI on Pastoral Ministries contact Sherri Stella at FFI on Peace & Justice programs contact Julie Madden at 612.823.8205 ext. 231 or sstella@stjoan.com. 612.823.8205 ext. 228 or jmadden@stjoan.com. Did You Know? You are not alone. If you or someone you know SJA ISAIAH Legislative Session Recap: In this past legislative is struggling, please reach out to a member of our pastoral care session, ISAIAH brought people of faith together to staff. advocate for clean energy, driver's licenses for immi- grants, health care and criminal justice reform and Coalition for Grief Support: Please join us this Thursday, June economic justice for working families. Next Sunday, 20, 6:15 - 8pm, at Richfield Lutheran Church (8 June 30, following both masses, please join our core team for a West 60th St) as Ann Dunagan RN, presents, brief recap of the session from these great people and learn about Self-Care While Grieving. The evening begins our next steps on the journey. with light refreshments followed by a presentation and facilitated small group sessions. FFI contact Summer in Peace and Justice Ministries: Mark your calendar! Jean Mills at 612.986.8217 or Sherri Stella at the Parish Center. July 21 - 24: SJA EcoSpirits present: The Nitty Gritty of Going Green: Films, Presentations, Discussion and Action! Pick up a Mental Health Ministry: Our program will continue in Septem- flyer next Sunday with our schedule. ber. Please watch for details! August 2 - 12: Our Sister Parish delegates will be here from Guatemala. All are invited to join us as we visit local community The Prayer Shawl Ministry: Please join us on the third Tuesday organizations (schedule coming soon), and to attend our potluck of each month, 9 - 10:30am in the Parish Center Geranium suppers, Sunday, August 4 and 11. Room. In the Fall, we will return to the first Monday of each August 18 - 21: Our Welcome the Stranger ministry invites month, 6:30 - 8pm. All are welcome! Our prayer shawl members you to, Border Connections, which will include presentations, are open to teaching new members to knit and crochet. FFI con- community meals, and visits to partner organizations serving tact Sherri Stella at the Parish Center. refugees, migrants and asylees. August 28 - 29: SJA's Antiracism Ministry will host a walking The Parish Visitor Ministry offers confidential listening, prayer, tour of our parish neighborhood and an open house with elders communion, and support in times of life chal- in our community, as well as local filmmaker, Daniel Bergin, to lenges or transitions. Through phone calls and learn more about the history of racism and the movement for visits, this quiet support is available to parish- racial justice very close to home. ioners who cannot join us for worship or would like an additional long or short term parish connection in the home, hospital, rehab Greet Dr. Mary Hinton Next Sunday: If you're an alum of St. or care center. FFI contact Sherri at the Parish Center or Carolyn Ben's, we hope to have a few moments between masses next Dobis at 651.485.2868. Sunday, June 30, in the Parish Center Sunflower Room for you to greet Dr. Hinton, the president of the college, who will be with TRUST’s Chore Program Needs Workers! The program us as our pre-mass speaker. We are thrilled to welcome her to provides household chore and maintenance services to older SJA and hope you will be able to meet her. adults living in South Minneapolis - helping them to continue living safely and independently in their own homes. Currently, A Thank You To and From Our SJA LGBTQ Group! To all who TRUST is looking for workers - or volunteers - that can do any of organized our presence at the Golden Valley Pride Festival, who the following jobs: yardwork, mowing, small repairs, and house attended our Pride Week Prayer Service here at SJA, who repre- cleaning. If you are interested, please call the TRUST Chore sent our parish at the Downtown Churches booth at the Loring Program at 612.827.6150. Park Pride Festival this weekend (please stop by booth #P041 if you're downtown today!) and who are with us this morning for our Join TRUST Builders This Summer! Work days are on reflection on the 50th anniversary of Stonewall - we thank you. Saturdays, July 13, August 10, and September 14. We start And to properly thank and celebrate the community of St. Joan of at 8:30am and work until about 3pm. To sign up, email John Arc, our LGBTQ group will serve cake in the Welcome Center after Corlett, TRUST Builders Coordinator, at jrcorlett@comcast.net both masses next Sunday, June 30. Hope to see you then! or call him at 612.839.6566 (evenings only). Food Shelf Donations Are Needed: You are encouraged to bring TRUST Meals on Wheels has openings for new Meals on non-perishable food items with you when you come to Mass on Wheels clients. If you or a parent, friend, or neighbor is in need Sunday and place them in our food shelf bins, located in the of a nutritious, hot daily meal delivered right to the door, call entrances to our Church and Parish Center. Your food offerings Eleonore at 612.822.6040. If you are outside our area, we will are donated to the Foodshelf at Sabathani Community Center direct you. each week. Thank you for your willingness to help those in need.
Faith Formation and Adult Learning We form the faith of our community through participation in prayer, liturgy, sacraments, education, community and works of justice. 2019/2020 Faith Formation Registration is open for Nursery Grade Schoolǣ(Grades 1-6) FFI contact Marie Bissonnette through 12th grade. Go to www.stjoan.com under the "News" at 612.823.8205 ext. 229. portion on the home page. Camp St. Joan: We Need Campers! It’s Not Too Late! Grandpar- Youth Ministry: (Grades 7-12) FFI contact Rose Aspholm ents, sign your grand kids up and spend the afternoons discussing at 612.823.8205 ext. 241 or raspholm@stjoan.com or Brennan Hall camp with them. Celebrate our 20th year learning about Germany, at bhall@stjoan.com. and help ensure 20 more years! July 15 -18. $85/individual and $150/family. Register online under the ‘Ministries’ tab. Adult Learning:FFI contact Cynthia Bailey Manns at 612.823.8205 ext. 226 or cmanns@stjoan.com. Want a Pen Pal? Two Guatemalan girls ages 10 and 13 from our Sister Parish in Tierra Nuevo II are looking for pen Questions to Ponder: Scholar and author Elizabeth Harper Neeld asserts that "A powerful connection exists between human beings pals! Pen pals write letters 2-4 times a year. Letters are carried by hand from SJA to TNII. When the and God, and any individual can choose to participate and grow Guatemalan delegation comes here, they often in this intimate relationship" (A Sacred Primer, Neeld, 1999). And bring letters; when our parishioners go there, we send the although our days are filled with opportunities to be aware of God's response letters with them. If interested, contact Tica Hanson presence, we are often unaware of God's movement in our life ex- at ticas.casa@comcast.net. ¡Gracias! periences. At SJA, we are challenged to continually ask ourselves, "Today, how did I notice God's presence, or how did I feel discon- nected from God?” and, “How am I creating quiet time for reflection Adoptive Families Book Club: Join us for some summer reading! and prayer to pay attention to God's desires for me?" We’ll meet in June to discuss Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff, and in August to continue talking about Being Adopt- Parish Book Club meets on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at ed: The Lifelong Search for Self by David M. Brodzinsky. Date 6:30pm in the Parish Center. Everyone is welcome anytime! TBA, time and place the same: 10am at Turtle Bread (4762 Chica- x July 10: The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen 83¼ Years Old go Ave. Mpls). Enjoy your reading. by Hendrik Groen x September 11: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck An Arm-and-Arm-in-Africa Update on Project Togo: We thought x October 9: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande you all would enjoy seeing the fruits of Arm in Arm's initial clothes x November 13: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante drive for school children in Togo. 23 boxes of clothes donations left SJA. They were packed into a cargo container which wound its way Centering Prayer, Sundays following the 9am Mass in the SJA by train through Chicago to New York, ultimately arriving at the Youth House. Centering Prayer is a meditative prayer that helps port city of Lome in Togo. We expect the cargo to arrive in late loosen the hold of our automatic thought patterns that drive us and July. Members of the parish, Mary, Queen of the Universe, will separate us from the Sacred. All are welcome! pick up the boxes and transport them to Vo-Koutime. A committee at the church will distribute the clothes to pre-K and school-age kids as they prepare to start school in August. Many thanks again Baptism: To have your child baptized at St. Joan’s you must to all who contributed to this project and to those who prepared the be a registered member and participate in a 90-minute Baptism donations for shipping! preparation class. FFI and to register call JP at the Parish Center. Nursery: FFI contact Michelle Dehn, Nursery Director at Wedding Policies: For a wedding to take place at SJA, it is neces- mdehn@stjoan.com or 612.823.8205 ext. 240. sary that one of the engaged couple be a reg- istered member of the parish for at least six Our Nursery, located in the lower level of the Parish Center, is months before a wedding date can be set. A open for the 9 & 11am Sunday Masses. The Nursery date can only be scheduled by one of the is a wonderful community of families and volunteers priests after an initial interview with the engaged couple. A mini- that allows parents to enjoy Mass and meet other mum of six months from the time the date is set to the wedding is families in the parish. Drop-ins welcome. necessary in order to complete requirements. In cases where there has been a previous marriage ending in divorce, it is not possible to Pre-schoolǣ(Ages 4-Kindergarten) FFI contact Magnolia set the wedding date until notice of an annulment is in hand. FFI Ditzler at mditzler@stjoan.com or 612.823.8205 ext. 230Ǥ call Sherri Stella at the Parish Center.
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