SAINT JOSEPH
THE
WORKMAN
Cathedral
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE DIOCESE OF LA CROSSEJanuary 10, 2021
Baptism of the Lord
Sunday Masses
Saturday: 4:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30 am and 10:30 am
Weekday Masses
Monday-Friday: 6:30 am, 12:10 pm Saturday: 8:00 am
Sacrament of Penance
Liturgy
Eucharistic Devotions
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Also see our website:
www.cathedralsjworkman.org
MISSION STATEMENT
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is held each Wednesday following 6:30 am Mass until noon, con-cluding with the Litany to St. Joseph and Benediction. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is held each Saturday morning following the 8:00 am Mass until 9:30 am, concluding with Benediction. Confession is available during Adoration from 8:55-9:25 am. Saturday: 8:55-9:25 am and 3:45-4:15 pm Monday-Friday: 11:30-11:55 am
We the parishioners of the
St. Joseph the Workman Cathedral,
serve Jesus Christ by
proclaiming the Gospel,
celebrating the Holy Eucharist
and extending hospitality
to God’s beloved children.
Rectory Office Hours
Monday-Friday: 8:00 am-4:00 pm Closed Wednesdays: 9:30-10:00 am
$1,332,434 pledged by 137 families!
Thank you to all of our early supporters whose generous pledges have given us this outstanding start!
This listing was updated on Wednesday, January 6th at 5pm. If you have already made a pledge but your listing does not appear (or does not appear as you would like it to), please contact Kate, our Campaign Director at (651) 497-7986. We will update it for next
week’s bulletin. Anonymous (36)
Glen, Mary, and Terry Bakalars James and Carol Ballas Carl and Lorna Barnes Mary Ann Bartel Rick Bath
Allen and Tamara Becker Anthony and Barbara Binsfeld Mary Bissen
Matthew Bissen
Kenneth and Carole Borsheim Virginia Brcka
Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke Mark and Caroline Burmaster Helen Buschman
Stephen and Sally Cahalan Charles and Barbara Callan Mrs. Marilyn Carroll
Cayden Cecilia Bauer Memorial Terry Cina
Drs. John and Margaret Cochran Robert Daley Sr.
Mr. Marvin Davis Ione De Boer
Patrick and Nancy Doerre Thomas and Mary Dolle John and Mary Dudley Mary Dunn
Mr. Michael Dunn Frederick Ellis
Norman and Mari Erickson Jack and Joyce Felsheim Anita Froegel
Zachary and Jennifer Gander Kathleen Gesley
Msgr. Richard Gilles Gene and Sandra Gonia
Dr. Erik and Marguerite Gundersen Andrew and Andrea Halvorson Brian and Jane Hanson George Hanson
Kenneth and Nancy Hauser (in memory of Virginia Larkin) Betty Hayden-Tauscher Herbert and Barbara Heili Joseph and Patricia Heim Lt. Col. Michael Hickey Evelyn Huebner Paul and Julie Jacobs Ms. Mary Jenks
Joseph and Mary Jungen Deborah Klug
L. Michael and Michele Klug Steven and Mary Knutson William and Janice Kroll Steve and Susie Lee John Leslie
Dr. Brian Luckner
Monsignor Matthew Malnar James and Dorothy Matuska Drs. Dennis and Jean McDonnell Marilyn McElligott
Nadine McKee Phyllis Miletto
Bonnie Minter and Frances Gamer (in memory of Jacob Becker) Ruth Myer
Jeanine Nauman Mrs. Amelia Neumann Miriam Olson
Lynne Ostervich
Robert and Patricia Perlock Drs. Mark and Sandra Perpich The and Anh Pham
Donald Rauterkus Brent and Heidi Reid
Deacon Joseph and Carol Richards John and Cherie Rifenberg Dr. Jonathan and Ann Rigden Roland and Betty Roskos Christopher and Clare Ruff Theodore and Jessica Skemp Nancy and Jay Soldner Eleanor St. John Patricia Stilp
Robert and Margaret Suhr Michael and Sara Taggart Frank and Patricia Tudahl Dr. John and Roberta Ujda Douglas and Jane Vinson Richard Von Arx
Colleen Walsh
Gary and Marie Walter
Patrick and Tamara Weinberger William G. Welch, Sr.
Ralph and Ruth Wettstein Jeff and Andrea Wieser Lois Wirkus
Terrance and Kristine Wirkus (in memory of Ed Liepins)
Richard and Cyndi Withrow Marilyn Zick
Paul E. Stry Foundation
MAKING YOUR PLEDGE: We are asking every household to make a planned pledge commitment over the next 3 years. Please
consider a pledge of $3,000 over 3 years. After a 10% down payment, that equates to $75 per month for 36 months, or just $2.50 per day. Additionally, every $1 given to the campaign will be matched with $2, provided by St. Ambrose Financial Services up to $3 million.
VOLUNTEER MEETING:Our next volunteer meeting will take place on Tuesday, January 12th at 7pm in the Undercroft of the Cathedral. If you would like to get involved or have any questions about the campaign, please contact our Campaign Director, Kate Gapp, at (651) 497-7986 or kgapp@lynchdevelopment.com.
CALENDAR REMINDERS & BUSINESS
INTERESTED IN BECOMING A PARISHIONER?
We welcome all new parishioners into our parish family. To register, contact the Parish office at 782-0322, or go on line to our home page or fill out the blue card in the Cathedral Atrium.
Saturday, January 9
8:00 am Mass (Mark Brunette)
4:30 pm Mass (The People of Cathedral Parish)
Sunday, January 10 The Baptism of the Lord 7:30 am Mass (Irene Schumacher)
10:30 am Mass (Intentions of Cherie Rifenberg)
Monday, January 11
6:30 am Mass (Intentions of the K of C Council 839) 12:10 pm Mass (Intentions of John Ujda)
Tuesday, January 12
6:30 am Mass(John Hovel) 12:10 pm Mass (Bill Warren)
Wednesday, January 13
6:30 am Mass (John McGrath)
12:10 pm Mass (Strittmater & Warren Families)
Thursday, January 14
6:30 am Mass (Fernando Berganza) 12:10 pm Mass (Mary Ann Melvin)
Friday, January 15
6:30 am Mass (Intentions of Paul & Arlene Zei) 12:10 pm Mass (Jeff Lundgren)
Saturday, January 16
8:00 am Mass (Harold & Marion Lankford) 4:30 pm Mass (The People of Cathedral Parish)
Sunday, January 17 Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 am Mass (Hovel & Reichert Families)
10:30 am Mass (Intentions of Joshua Sauppe)
MASS INTENTIONS
Jan 12 Building & Grounds Committee Meeting - 1 pm Jan 20 Parish Pastoral Council Meeting - 6:30 pm - Undercroft (Rescheduled from Jan 13th)
There are a number of ways to stay connected with St. Joseph the Workman Cathedral parish life
whether at home or on the go: • Like us on Facebook -
http://facebook.com/cathedralsjw
• MyParish App - text "app" to 88202 or visit the Google Play Store or visit the Apple App Store • Parish Website - cathedralsjworkman.org
• Live Streamed Masses - Sunday and Weekdays • Bulletin - Online & available in the Gathering Area • Email - office@cathedralsjworkman.org
• Telephone - 608/782-0322
STAY CONNECTED WITH
THE CATHEDRAL
FROM HOME OR ON THE GO!
DIOCESAN ANNUAL APPEAL STATISTICS
FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOSEPH THE WORKMAN
Cathedral Goal: $55,845.00 Total Pledged & Received: $54,475.00
Recurring Gift: $ 35.00
Recurring Recived: $ 210.00 Amount Received: $47,675.00 Over/(Under) Goal: ($ 1,370.00) % Goal Pledged: 97.55% % Goal Paid: 85.37% Average Gift Amount: $132.22 Number of Donors: 412
Number of Donors 2019 127
*The Steeple Improvements are separate from our operating budget FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP
Solemnity of Mary January 01, 2021 Weekend of January 03, 2021 Estimated Weekly Need • $8,548.15 Envelopes & Plates • $5,638.92
Solemnity of Mary • $ 911.00
ACH Contributions • $1,200.00
Total $7,749.92
St. Joseph the Workman Cathedral appreciates your continued generosity!
MARCH FOR LIFE
January 29th in Washington, D.C. While the Diocese of La Crosse is not taking pilgrims to the March for Life this year, you can choose to participate in the March for Life in n Washington, D.C. on Jan. 29th. For more information, visit prolifewi.org/marchforlife.
FORMED.ORG
This week we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord. This week on Formed.org listen to Changed Forever: The Sacrament of Baptism. In this presentation renowned Catholic speaker and priest, Fr. Mike Schmitz explores the beautiful gift of the Sacrament of Baptism and how its cleansing waters give new life.
With a new year starting , why not resolve to develop a stron-ger relationship with God in 2021? Do you want to see more clearly how God is acting in your life? Have you felt discour-aged this past year and want to know how best to deal with it? It is normal to have ups and downs in our spiritual life. This program helps us understand how we can use these events to bring us closer to God.
We will meet once a week for 10 weeks starting the week of January 25th. Three class time offerings:
Mondays (1st day 1/25) 9:00-10:30 am St. James the Less, La Crosse
Tuesdays (1st day 1/26) 6:30-8:00 pm St. Patrick's, Onalaska Thursdays (1st day 1/28) 9:15-10:45 am St. Patrick's, Onalaska The cost for the class is $10.00. Registration is Required. To register call Amy at (608)783-0847 or dcapelli@charter.net Online registration available at www.stpatsonalaska.com This class can also be done as a Home Study.
SACRAMENTS & SERVICES
Baptism: Parents may request the baptism of their infants at least two months prior to the anticipated date of baptism. To request baptism, please call 782-0322.
Marriage: Couples who want to request the celebration of the
Sacrament of Marriage should contact the rector/pastor at the time of formal engagement or at least six months prior to the an-ticipated date of marriage. Weddings are not ordinarily celebrated during Lent.
Cathedral Prayer Chain: Notice to all Cathedral Parishioners.
The parish has a prayer chain that you may request prayer to be said and pray for the needs of others. Send your prayer requests to Mari at https://cathedralsjworkman.org/prayer-request/.
Wills & Estates: As you prayerfully execute your will or do
estate planning, please consider keeping the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman in mind. The most common and simplest way to include the parish in your last wishes is to include a bequest in your will or trust.
Musings
MONSIGNOR’S
Hospital Visits & Visitation of the Sick:
To secure a priest for unplanned or emergency admissions to a local hospital, it is vitally important that the patient, if possible, or a family member and/or friends contact the hospital pastoral care department to have an on call priest administer the sacraments. The on call priest is considered part of the pastoral team and does not count toward the “one visitor per day” rule (Gundersen).
If you become homebound because of illness or due to a post hospital stay and would like to be visited; or those who are seriously ill or have been sick for a long period of time should receive the Sacrament of the Sick and Holy Communion. Those with imminent preplanned hospital procedures should call the parish office to make arrange-ments for anointing. To the greatest extent possible one should be anointed apart from a hospital stay since there are such severe visiting restrictions.
If I have anything to say about it, great places!
It’s a New Year, with Covid and all still lurking around, but I refuse to let that stop us! The watchword for the year is: Epiphany! In my homily on Epiphany Sunday, I laid out my vision for the future of our parish. The Nativi-ty (Dec 25) is great but doesn’t do us any good if we don’t experience it and its results. The Epiphany, Christ’s mani-festation to the world, answers that indispensable need. The need being: Our encounter with Jesus! This happens through engagement. Epiphany is engagement—with God through one another. Epiphany is the joy of discov-ering Jesus. God does not zap us into a relationship with Him. It comes through others. How can they believe if they have not heard, and how can they hear if the Gospel has not been preached to them? I’m looking at the idea of preaching in a more encompassing, all-inclusive way to be understood as the communication of Christ from one to another. And, this is everybody’s concern and activity. Either Jesus-Salvation is the most important gift or it is not, and if it is, then wouldn’t one with burning zeal want to share that unbelievable, incredible treasure with oth-ers?! Certainly one of the very questions Jesus is going to ask us when we meet him face-to-Face is: Whom did you bring with you to Heaven, to Me? It is our personal, bap-tismal obligation to facilitate Epiphany (encounter with Jesus) for others.
My sense is that we have been in a lull. Yes, Covid seems to have become the reason to shut everything down. But ooking at the numbers (parish census) we’ve been in a downhill slide for some time. My Friends, the lull is over! We are now entering into the Springtime of new birth! These God-willing waning months of covid shutdown do not need to be a death sentence for us. Quite the oppo-site! The new birth of our parish requires a period of ges-tation. These cold dark months of winter will be a rich fertile time in which we together will envision, dream, strategize and plan practically how to launch out of Co-vid with full vigor and zeal! I don’t want to get to next Summer/Fall and ask: Well, now what should we do? Being engaged with all of this now will give us a strong sense of purpose, excitement and even now new life! To that end I am pulling together a group of people whom I have dubbed as the Dream Team. I am so eager to move forward with all of you. I can hardly wait! It’s going to be all hands on deck. I’m telling you, we are going to rock this! Rock it on the rock of our magnificent, glorious Church founded on the Rock/Peter’s confession of Faith. That’s the most awesome thing about our Faith: nothing is lacking to us! So, the sky is the limit and I welcome your ideas, input, and involvement. We are going to be that shining gem in the Crown of our Lord’s Kingdom! But, I do want to say one extremely important thing: this whole thing will only work if each of us commits to grow in greater holiness through the Eucharist, the devotional life, and the practice of the virtues. Our Emmaus Hearts must be burning with Love which radiates outward to others! St. Joseph the Workman, pray for us!
Our 2021 EpiphanyManifesto: Where Are We Going
As A Parish?
OUR FEATURED BULLETIN SPONSOR THIS WEEK IS:Express Printing The Most Reverend William P. Callahan, OFM Conv,
Bishop of La Crosse
Reverend Monsignor Richard W. Gilles Rector of the Cathedral
Rector’s Email: msgr.gilles@gmail.com 608/ 782-0322 x221
Deacon Joseph A. Richards, RCIA 608/ 461-8000 Deacon Thomas Skemp, Front Door Ministry 608/ 782-0322 x223
608/ 385-7466 Cell
Dr. Brian W. Luckner, Director of Sacred Music 608/ 782-0322 x232 Jackie Craig, Administrative Assistant 608/ 782-0322 x0 Parish Email: office@cathedralsjworkman.org
Nathanael Rhody, Director of Maintenance 608/ 782-0322 x229 608/ 461-2123 Cell Maintance Email: sjcathedralmaintenance@gmail.com
RECTORY OFFICE 608/ 782-0322
RECTORY FAX 608/ 782-8228
Parish Website: cathedralsjworkman.org
DIOCESAN
The Aquinas Catholic Schools System:
We are proud of our schools and hope families will consider becoming part of the Aquinas Catholic Schools System.
Ted Knutson, President of Aquinas Catholic Schools
Nancy Pederson, Aquinas Catholic Schools Enrollment Coordinator Cathedral School 608/ 782-5998 Aquinas Catholic Schools Central Offices 608/ 784-8585 Catholic Charities 608/ 782-0719 Other Websites – http://www.cathedralsjworkman.org
– http://www.AquinasCatholicSchools.org – http://www.lacrossedeanery.com – http://www.dioceseoflacrosse.com
CATHEDRAL LEADERSHIP & STAFF
MARRIAGE PREPARATION RETREATS
The La Crosse Deanery, which consists of 14 area parishes, will be offering Married Love: Two Becoming One, a mar-riage preparation retreat for engaged couples, on February 6, April 24, and July 10, 2021. These retreats will take place at Mary Mother of the Church Parish in La Crosse. Couples must register at least one month prior to the retreat. To regis-ter for a retreat, please email Mari at mnerickson95@gmail. com or leave a voice message at 608-518-7655.
Bulletin Deadlines:
The Cathedral Bulletin deadline regularly is 4:00 pm each Monday. Prior to major holidays, announcements should be received at least three weeks prior to printing so all can enjoy the holiday.
The Knights of La Crosse Council 839 wish to express their deep appreciation to Msgr. Gilles and the parishioners of the Cathedral for their warm hospitality and VERY GENER-OUS support of our 4th Annual LifeSavers 4 Life Campaign. Our Council is a strong voice for the dignity of all life from the moment of conception to the last natural breath. Thanks to your support, we can continue to partner with local and state Pro-Life organizations. If you are a practical Catholic man and 18 years or older and interested in serving God, our Cathedral parish, the community, and families through the Knights of Columbus, please contact Charlie Peters at cjpeters2011@gmail.com or (612) 760-6192. Thank you! May God reward you!
DIOCESE OF LA CROSSE GUIDELINES FOR REPORTING INSTANCES OF CHILD ABUSE
The Diocese of La Crosse, through its policies and proce-dures, seeks to provide a prompt, appropriate and compas-sionate response to reporters of sexual abuse of a child by any diocesan agent (bishop, priest, deacon, employee, reli-gious, vendor or volunteer). Anyone wishing to make a report of an allegation of sexual abuse should send that report to Mrs. Karen Becker, Complaint Intake Agent, at the Diocese of La Crosse, P.O. Box 4004, La Crosse, WI 54602-4004. Alternatively, you can contact Mrs. Becker at 608.791.0179 or intakeagent@diolc.org. The reporting form is available through the Diocese of La Crosse Office of Safe Environment or on the diocesan website at: diolc.org/safeenvironment/re-porting. Individuals are also encouraged to take their reports directly to civil authorities. Copies of the diocesan policy are available through your local parish and on the diocesan website. If you have any questions about the Diocese of La Crosse and the implementation of the Charter for the Pro-tection of Children and Young People, please contact Teresa Brown, Diocese of La Crosse, at 608.791.2679 or tbrown@ diolc.org.
Thank You's!
Thank you to everyone who donated jackets, gloves, and hats to our Coat Drive and to our Mittens in the Manger Project!
LifeSavers 4 Life Campaign
Don't forget about Scrip!
Please go to the Cathedral website:https://cathedralsj-workman.org/parish-life/scrip/. Still have questions? Email Sara@sstaggart@gmail.com. Scrip is a great way to support the parish!
GIVE THE GIFT OF LIFE!!!
American Red Cross Blood Drive sponsored by La Crosse Council 839 & Holmen Fr. Rossiter Council 9385
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