Weekly Bulletin
This Week’s Schedule:
Sunday, February 5
Septuagesima Sunday/ St. Agatha/ St. Philip of Jesus
8:15 AM Confessions, Rosary (8:30)
9:00 AM High Mass
Int: Billy & Mary Rose Young – Happy & Holy Marriage
(Dale & Rebecca Sandberg Family)
Blessing of Throats
Monday, February 6
St. Titus/ St. Dorothy
11:00 AM Low Mass
Int: For the People of St. Hugh of Lincoln
Tuesday, February 7
St. Romuald/ Prayer of Our Lord in the Garden
Wednesday, February 8
St. John of Matha
Thursday, February 9
St. Cyril of Alexandria/ St. Apollonia
7:00 PM Holy Hour
Friday, February 10
St. Scholastica
Saturday, February 11
Our Lady of Lourdes
Sunday, February 12
Sexagesima Sunday/ Seven Holy Founders
8:15 AM Confessions, Rosary (8:30)
9:00 AM High Mass
Int: Isaiah Senti
(Keith & Linda Kimpel & Family)
Announcements
· If you wish, you may come to the communion rail after Mass today to receive the blessing of throats in honor of St. Blaise.
· After the blessing of throats will be the blessing of religious articles.
· Holy Mass will be celebrated tomorrow at 11 AM. No Masses will be offered this Friday or Saturday.
· A Look Ahead:
Wednesday, February 22nd: Ash Wednesday
6:00 PM Blessing & Distribution of Ashes
High Mass
· Next Week’s Mass:
Sexagesima Sunday
2nd Collect: The Seven Holy Founders
Preface: Trinity
Servers’ Schedule
Sunday, Feb. 12
MC: Brian Kimpel, TH: Andrew Kimpel,
AC1: Steve Heckenkamp, AC2: Michael Mueller,
CB: Tony Friel, TB’s: David Sandberg, Peter Mueller
Usher: Bob Mueller
Prayer of St. Bernadette
O my God, I beg Thee, by Thy loneliness, not that thou mayest spare me affliction, but that Thou mayest not abandon me in it.
When I encounter affliction, teach me to see Thee in it as my sole comforter.
Affliction strengthen my faith, fortify my hope, and purify my love.
Grant me the grace to see Thy hand in my affliction, and desire no other comforter but Thee.
Amen.
Note from Father
My Dear Faithful,
A thought came to my mind this morning after having read the Gospel for the feast of St. Andrew Corsini. The Gospel speaks of the three men who were given a certain number of talents: one was given five talents, another two, and yet a third man was given just one. The first two men went out and doubled the amount of talents their superior had given them. The other went out and hid his talent. We here at St. Hugh have been given many a talent – that is, many a grace and many a gift from God. I wonder how it will be when our Master, our God, comes back to us on judgment day. Will He come back to find that we have used well our talents (our graces), and have doubled them, or will He find that for fear of Him we have gone out and hidden them? Use well the gifts God has given you – the Mass, the sacraments, sacramentals, etc., etc. If you do, you will hear those beautiful words which only the faithful hear from God: “Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”
The feast of St. Blaise has always been a popular one among faithful Catholics in the United States. Certainly, it was kept well by many of you here at St. Hugh. We had quite a turnout for the whole evening, from Exposition all the way through Mass, the Blessing of Throats and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament which concluded at nine o’clock. This was a good use of the “talents” which God has given you. May you all persevere in your piety!
Fr. Larrabee made a long and difficult trip to North Dakota this weekend to perform the baptism of one of the babies at St. Teresa Mission. After having landed in Minneapolis he was told that his flight into Grand Forks was canceled due to fog which was freezing and making flights difficult. He also said that flights were canceled the day before. So he boarded a bus and made the five hour or so trip to Grand Forks, arriving around midnight. I sure hope his return trip is easier! It kind of reminds me of the difficulties that St. Paul experienced in his mission trips. But let’s not stretch it. We priests have never been shipwrecked, bitten by serpents, flogged by our enemies, put in prison, and all of the rest!
May God Bless You and Mary Keep You,
Fr. McGuire
Prayer Corner
Christ’s Agony in the Garden
The Manual of the Catholic Church, the Second Part
O Jesus, praying in the garden, and apprehended by the Jews! I adore thee here, truly present, in this holy Sacrament. On entering the garden of Gethsemane, thy blessed soul was seized with fear and sorrow. O my Savior! it was the deplorable and criminal state of my soul, that thus afflicted thee, and caused in thee such strange emotions of pain and grief. Thou didst prostrate thyself on the ground, and the more violent thy agony, the longer, the more fervent and submissive was thy prayer to thy heavenly Father, at the sight of the bitter chalice he presented to thee, and which, O miserable sinner that I am, my sins procured for thee. Arising from thy prayer, thou didst go to meet thy enemies. Carried on by that ardor, thou hadst to suffer and to shed thy blood for me, thou permittedst thyself to be taken and bound as a criminal, by thy cruel and implacable enemies. Ah! my Savior and my God! in how lively a manner does thy adorable Sacrament represent to me thy bloody agony, and cruel capture. Thou art here the daily host and oblation for my sins; thou appliest to me the fruit of thy tears, of thy prayer, of thy bloody sweat, of all the interior sacrifices thou madest of thyself, and of all the indignities put upon thee. Ah! my divine Jesus! may there be nevermore a Judas to betray thee – a Peter to deny thee – apostles to fly away and leave thee – armed soldiers to seize thee – or ministers of Satan to bind thee! May I be in a state of perpetual homage before thee, to receive on the sterile land of my soul, that refreshing and fruitful dew of thy grace, which thou hast merited for me by so many sufferings. Amen, sweet Jesus! Amen.
“And he was withdrawn away from them a stone’s cast; and kneeling down, he prayed, saying: Father, if thou wilt, remove this chalice from me: but yet not my will, but thine be done. And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. And being in an agony, he prayed the longer. And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the ground.”
-Gospel of St. Luke
Foundation & Spread of the Church (Cont’d)
The Catechism Explained (First Published in 1899)
Constantine was led to this step by the appearance of the luminous cross in the heavens (312 A.D.), and still more by his holy mother St. Helena. The following were some of his ordinances: Sundays and feast days were to be observed with solemnity; the temples of the heathen were to be handed over to the bishops; the gladiatorial combats and the crucifixion of criminals were forbidden, and many churches were built. By the miraculous draught of fishes related in the fifth chapter of St. Luke and the two boats almost sunk with the weight of fish, was prefigured the future of the Church, which should suffer schism with the increase of its members, while Christians should sink down to earthly things. The heresy of Arius (318 A.D.) began its deadly work in the time of Constantine, and had a great following. At this time also ceased the test of the catechumens, so that it was easier to become a member of the Church. St. Augustine had reason to say: “If the Church is harassed by external foes, there are many in her bosom who by their unruly life make sad the hearts of the faithful.”
5. In the Middle Ages nearly all the heathen nations began to enter the Church.
In Austria about 450 A.D., the monk Severinus preached the Gospel for thirty years along the banks of the Danube. St. Gregory the Great, in 600 A.D., sent St. Augustine at the head of a number of missioners to convert England; eighty years later the country was Christian and had twenty-six sees. Germany owes most to St. Boniface, who preached the Gospel there for about forty years (755 A.D.). The Greek monks Saints Cyril and Methodius worked among the Slavs, mainly of Bohemia and Moravia, with great success. The Hungarians were converted by their holy king Stephen (1038 A.D.) “the apostolic king.” Christianity was gradually introduced into Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Russia and Poland after 1000 A.D.
The Church was hard pressed by Islam during the Middle Ages.
Islamism or Mohammedanism was founded by Mohammed, a native of Mecca, who gave himself out to be a prophet of the one true God, promised sensual joy after death, allowed plurality of wives, imposed a pilgrimage to Mecca, taught fatalism, and after propagating his doctrines by fire and sword, was poisoned in 632 A.D., by a Jewess. The Koran is the sacred book of the Mohammedans. They keep the Friday with great solemnity, and pray five times a day turned toward Mecca. Mohammed’s successors were the caliphs, who undertook wars of conquest on a large scale, everywhere rooting out the Christian religion. They overran a great part of Asia, North Africa, Spain and the islands of the Mediterranean. Charles Martel, in a series of victories (732-738 A.D.), arrested their advance into France, and ever since their failure in 1638 before Vienna, their progress in the West was arrested.
Wisdom from on High
“I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them.” -St. Bernadette
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” -G.K. Chesterton
“I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.” -G.K. Chesterton
“Regarding Christianity, ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.” -Cardinal Newman
“I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative!” -Hilaire Belloc, in a campaign speech before being elected to Parliament
(If only more of our own politicians thought this way, how great would be our country! –Fr. McGuire)
“Mary is the heart of the church. This is why all works of charity spring from her. It is well known that the heart has two movements: systole and diastole. Thus Mary is always performing these two movements: absorbing grace from her Most Holy Son, and pouring it forth on sinners.” -St. Anthony Mary Claret
“Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.” -St. Therese of Lisieux
“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing”; it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.” -Bp. Fulton Sheen