Saint Anthony, Holy Family and St. Mary Parishes

Saturday
   4:00pm  Holy Family   Willard
   6:30pm  St. Anthony   Loyal

Sunday
   8:30am  St. Mary        Greenwood
  10:30am St. Anthony    Loyal
   
Monday
   Communion Service

Tuesday
    8:15am  Holy Family   Willard

Wednesday
    8:15am   St. Anthony   Loyal

Thursday
    8:15am   St. Mary       Greenwood

Friday
    8:15am   St. Anthony   Loyal

Sharing the Light of Faith
Fourth Annual
Thorp Deanery Convocation
September 5, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
St. Anthony's in Loyal
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listing all the workshops
 

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Dear People of Holy Family, St. Mary’s and St. Anthony’s:


This Sunday Fr. Felix is dong his mission appeal in our three parishes for his Home diocese and I am going to Viroqua to do mission appeal for my diocese in India (Diocese of Tirichirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India).
We celebrate 19^th Sunday in ordinary time. The first reading of this week end says that Elijah went a day’s journey into the desert. To strengthen him for the journey, God provides Elijah with cake and water, reminiscent of his ancestors’ Pasch. Thus he experiences the goodness of the Lord.
When we have journey towards the life after death we face lot of tiredness like lack of faith, temptations but it is the Lord who sends us the spiritual food and strengthen us and Lord sends His angel to give a continuous reminder in our journey.
The second reading indicates that all bitterness must be removed from us and we are called to be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven us in Christ.
In last Sunday's gospel text, the center of attention was upon Jesus as the gift from the Father for the life of the world. Building on that claim, this Sunday's text focuses on Jesus as the center of faith to which the Father draws people. Jesus says “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world”.
 

• August 15^th – THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

(Holy day of obligation (USA)
We are celebrating the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: the raising of Our Lady, body and soul, at the end of her earthly life, to be with her Son in heaven.
First of all, we should not be fazed that the Assumption was only declared official dogma in 1950.  It is not the case that the belief and practice were first conceived in 1950. The official declaration in 1950 was the culmination of long held beliefs and practices.
In England, pre-reformation art in the York Minster depicts the Assumption. There are multiple apocryphal accounts of belief in the Assumption dating back to at least the 4th century. St John Damascene writes that the Virgin’s empty tomb was attested to at the Council of Chalcedon in 451. Pope Saint Leo IV confirmed the feast of the Assumption in the 9th century, but it had already been celebrated for centuries.
I wish you all a very happy feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Let Mother Mary bless us all and take our intercessions to her son Jesus Christ.
God bless you all,
Fr Leo Johnson Stanislaus

Church Special Events and Notices:

• Local Food Pantry: Laundry soap, dish soap, Kleenex, pickles, salad dressing, cooking oil, hamburger helper, hot dogs, canned meats (not tuna), paper towels, syrup, soda crackers, cookies, ketchup, 1 lb hamburger, cake mixes, small margarine, shampoo, sugar, small cans coffee, jams, marshmallows, tuna helper, jello, cereal, jelly. Remember the collection boxes are in the back of church and the main collection for St. Anthony’s every month is the 3rd Sunday. The other churches in town each have a Sunday for their main collections too. Items are always needed and your help in collection is very much appreciated!!
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• PCCW Red and Blue cookbooks are available for sale - Contact  Barb Langfeldt or a member of the PCCW.

School Special Events and Notices:

• Remember to save your Milk Moola Caps & Bag Tops, Kemps Milk Caps, Campbell Soup Labels, Box Tops for Education, Kids Caps & Cash,and old printer cartridges for St. Anthony School. We appreciate your help to help us get a little extra money for the school. NEW: Price Ovals from the tops of Kwik Trip Glazer donuts means 10 cents for the school!
• Kwik Trip Gift Card SCRIP Program:  you can earn 10% of your purchases for our school through the Kwik Trip Gift Card Program. This is a wonderful way to help support St. Anthony School by simply using these gift cards for your purchases. Order forms are available online and in the back of church. You may also purchase gift cards directly from the rectory or school secretary (located in the library).