BAPTISM OF THE LORD Ι JANUARY 10, 2021

B A R R O N , C A M E R O N , C H E T E K & S T R I C K L A N D , W I

ASSUMPTION BLESSED VIRGIN MARY P A R I S H C L U S T E R

SAINTS JOSEPH, PETER, BONIFACE &

ONE. HOLY. APOSTOLIC. UNIVERSAL CHURCH. WE ARE CATHOLIC. WE ARE FAMILY. WELCOME HOME!

Mass Schedule

Saturday

4PM—ABVM, STRICKLAND 6PM—ST. PETER, CAMERON Sunday

8AM—ST. PETER, CAMERON 9:30AM—ST. JOSEPH, BARRON 11AM—ST. BONIFACE, CHETEK Tuesday

5PM—ST. PETER, CAMERON Wednesday

7:15AM—ST. JOSEPH, BARRON Thursday

8:30AM—ST. BONIFACE, CHETEK Friday 8AM—ST. PETER, CAMERON

Cluster Administrative Office www.sspbandj.org 827 E. LaSalle Avenue • Barron, WI 54812 Phone: 715-637-3255 Email: sspbandj@outlook.com

Ministry Staff Fr. Bala Raju Policetty, Sacramental Minister…..715-292-8681 E-Mail………………………………………… . … bpolice@rediffmail.com Very Reverend John Gerritts …………………….Supervising Pastor Patty Gerber, Parish Director…………………………..715-642-2560 Email…………………………………………….pgerber4127@charter.net Office Staff Marsha Rheingans, Secretary/Bookkeeper Anne Stephens, Faith Formation Mindy Hamilton, Religious Education Coordinator

Sacraments Reconciliation: Father Bala will be present in the Confessional, for Reconciliation at all parishes, 30 minutes prior to all Masses, Tuesday-Saturday; and prior to Sunday Mass at St. Peter; and 9-10am on the1st Saturday of the month at St. Joseph. Reconciliation may also be received following most Masses or by appointment.

Anointing of the Sick: By appointment, please call parish office first. If an emergency, please call Father Bala Policetty directly.

Baptism: Please call the parish office to schedule. First time parents, please plan to attend a baptismal preparation session prior to your child’s baptism.

Marriage: Please make arrangements for marriage prep classes beginning six months before the wedding.

MON

6pm Rosary/Morning Star Prayer Group, STJ All are Welcome! (Covid guidelines are followed.)

Collections for the Weekend of January 2/3 ST BONIFACE ST PETER ST JOSEPH ABVM

January 3 Offerings 3739 1632 1181 482

Needed Weekly 1540 1945 1500 480

Vigil Lights 45

Building Maintenance 326 30 80

Christmas/Holy days/1st Off. 322 300 280 240

TOTAL 4387 2007 1541 722

Thank you! for your continued financial support!

Today for Tomorrow - helping your local parish maintain a

stable offertory during the COVID-19 crisis.

Your contributions are vital to your parishes. PLEASE continue to mail in your offertory envelopes/

contributions to the parish office at: 827 E LaSalle Ave. Barron, WI 54812

TUES

5pm 7pm

Mass, STP Knights of Columbus, STP

THURS

8:30am 9am

Mass, STB Eucharistic Adoration, STB

F A I T H F O R M A T I O N

WED

7:15am 8am 2:45pm 6pm

Mass, STJ Eucharistic Adoration, STJ Divine Mercy Chaplet, STJ Families of Faith, STP

FRI

8am

Mass, STP

SUN

8am 9:30am 11am

Mass, STP Mass, STJ Mass, STB

SAT

4pm 6pm

Mass, ABVM Mass, STP

P R A Y E R S & P R A Y E R F U L O P P O R T U N I T I E S

Saturday 4:00pm † Robert & Doris Eberhardy

by Dan & Emma Breed ABVM 6:00 pm All the People of our Parish Cluster SP Sunday 8:00 am † Gerry Hovde by Tom & Marie Whalen SP 9:30 am † Guidance & Direction for family members in making Major Decision SJ 11:00 am † Bill Kautz by Louise Adams SB

Tuesday 5:00 pm † Bertha Linehan by Phil SP Wednesday 7:15 am † David Cusick by Joanne Mizer SJ Thursday 8:30 am † Larry Schmidt by Family SB Friday 8:00 am † Dennis Sailor by Family SP

Saturday 4:00pm † Ray & Dorothy Kramer

by Ed & Jan Burak ABVM 6:00 pm All the People of our Parish Cluster SP Sunday 8:00 am † Mary Sailor by Family SP 9:30 am † Mike & Bud Mizer by Sharon & Harlon Millerman SJ 11:00 am † Donald Scott by Bill & Mary Morgan SB

SB-St. Boniface • SJ-St. Joseph • SP-St. Peter ABVM-Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Please Pray For: All of our cluster parishioners in hospitals, at home and in the nursing homes & for those in the Armed Forces and their families. Especially for: Laura Johanson, Jackie Brohman, Declan Fisher, Judy Lentz, Joan Krug, Joyce Trotter, Darlene

Townsend, Barb Dennis, Diane DeMars, Nancy Kukla, Jo Ann Lundequam, Sandy Garr, Pam Luethi, Jim Haas, Doug Rutledge, Joan Fostvedt, Norma Licht, Joel Rivera, Carye Marach, Allen Klingelhoets, Bob Anderson, Barb Greene, Janice Flynn, Mike Haselhuhn, Betty Livingston, Kristina Chappell, Mary Weber, Jimmy Rippy, Cece Nelson, Beckie Lipp, Ceil Nelson, John Shimon, Elizabeth Vanlyll, Charlene Henk, George & Betty Scott, Rex Krueger, Frankie Moullet, David Wigchers, Gerri Kohler, Robert Newman, Anita Moullet, Donald Olson, Dan & Diane Novak, Mark Farmer & Gary Wigen. To be added or removed, please contact the parish office.

Attitude of Gratitude Every week, parishioners and employees of our parishes go over and beyond to make our Catholic Parish Cluster something special! Please contact the parish office if you would like to add someone to this recognition list!

~ To everyone involved in decorating our churches for the Christmas season. Special thanks to all of you who provide all that is needed to decorate!!! ~ To our special snow shoveling angels, Stan at St. Joseph and St. Peter and Ed at St. Boniface. ~ To Thomas Fisher for plowing the parking area at ABVM before Mass on December 31st. Your hard work was much appreciated! ~ Thank you to all who contributed blood, food, or your time to the December 28 blood drive. With 68 pints collected, we exceeded our goal of 65. May our Good Lord bless you all abundantly in 2021!

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C L U S T E R N E W S

Is your life unfolding the way you thought it would? Life does not turn out the way we expect—

sometimes it exceeds our expectations, sometimes it disappoints. What if we told you the BEST IS YET TO COME?

It’s a New Year, start a new prayerful you! Join us for four simple sessions to develop your prayer life in a life-changing way, according to Matthew Kelly. Everyone is invited to come to learn more about creating a habit of prayer that helps and guides you every day, based on the book I Heard God Laugh. This is a very casual book club / prayer group where you don’t HAVE to read the book if you don’t want to or don’t have the time, and you don’t have to already be a prayer warrior to participate. All are welcome and encouraged to give it a try! Sessions will be offered in person, via online in a Go-To Meeting, or you can join just by audio through a phone call. You can participate interactively or you can just listen/watch, whatever you desire.

Sessions will run on Mondays, with both a morning and evening session from 10am-11am at St. Joseph in Barron, and from 6pm-7pm at St. Peter on Jan. 25th, Feb. 1st, Feb. 8th, and Feb. 15th. To join, please call the cluster parish office at 715-637-3255, and let us know what session time and in what format (in person, online, or by phone) that you would like to participate. Personal journals for this book club/prayer group will be sent out ahead of the first session to all participants. To ensure timely distribution of these, your reply is requested by Jan. 19th.

If you know someone who is homebound or maybe feeling lonely through this pandemic, please reach out with an invitation to this club to them! They can join us by computer or phone and will get to pray along with some of their church family through these sessions.

Next council meeting to be held at 7:00pm, January 12 at St. Peter Church in Cameron

Our Knights of Columbus invite you to join them, every day at 12:00 Noon, in praying one Our Father and one Hail Mary for the intention of combating the Covid -19 virus. Thank you for the opportunity to pray together!

We are asking for all Catholic men to prayerfully consider becoming a Knight. If you are interested in becoming a member or would just like to know more, or if you are a member and need a ride to meetings or events please contact us. Wayne 715-563-1746, Ray 715-642-0317, Dave 715-554-3273.

Calling all men!

DEAR LADIES OF ST. JOSEPH: Please mark your calendars and join us for our Ladies Guild Meet-

ing at St. Joseph (in the base-ment) on Sunday, February 7th at

10:30am (after Mass.) We will practice safe Covid 19 guidelines

for our meeting.

We are very blessed to have volunteers and paid personnel who help out with the lawn care and snow removal at all of our parishes, however most of these people have been doing this for years, and could use a little help or back-up. Please give the cluster office a call if you would be willing and able to help out on a casual basis or if you would be interested in a possible job as one of our grounds keepers! Do you have a green thumb or love to garden? Let us know! We always can use help with beautification of the grounds in the spring and summer. Thank you for your consideration!