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Welcome to St. Joseph the Worker Pastorate!“ Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.” (Matt. 28:19-20)
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St. Joseph the Worker Pastorate Activities
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Daily CalendarA monthly calendar is available in the "home" area at the top of this page
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Tuesday, January 14, 8:15 AM - 8:45 AM
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Tuesday, January 14, 8:15 AM - 8:45 AM
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Tuesday, January 14, 8:15 AM - 8:45 AM
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Tuesday, January 14, 9:00 AM
Please call Leigh Boorn at 309-370-6036 for more information.Read More -
Tuesday, January 14, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
We meet on Tuesdays at 9 AM in the parish office meeting room. Our gatherings last until about 10:30. Know that everyone is welcome!!Read More -
Tuesday, January 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Wednesday, January 15, 8:15 AM - 8:45 AM
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Wednesday, January 15, 8:15 AM - 8:45 AM
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Wednesday, January 15, 8:15 AM - 8:45 AM
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Come & Celebrate
Leigh's Birthday
You are invited to an Open House for Leigh Boorn's birthday on January 19 from 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. at 101 Church Street Potosi. Please R.S.V.P. to lboorn@stjworkerparish.com if you can come. Your presence is Gift enough, so please NO Gifts!
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Pastorate News
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Still considering a New Year’s resolution? Decide now to take part in one of Grant Co. Right to Life’s upcoming 2025 activities! 1. Pray for GCRTL’s efforts to bring a Safe Haven Baby Box to Grant County. 2. Help plan a movie night! Join a team to bring the full-length documentary, Unthinkable, by former PP clinic director, Abby Johnson, to a Grant Co. theater. (Or donate to offset costs.) 3. 2/4/25: Participate - from anywhere – in a 6 p.m. GCRTL Zoom meeting. Call for log-in info. 4. 3/1/25: Volunteer at a GCRTL table at a late a.m. Platteville Public Library Involvement Fair. 5. 4/5/25: Attend a free WI RTL Pregnancy Help Center conference in Wausau. By 3/21/25, register at https://www.classy.org/event/2025-pregnancy-help-center-spring-conference/e626057 . 6. Participate in a group to distribute small gifts to nursing home residents. Consider making a walker bag or lap blanket for residents. (GCRTL will provide materials.) For more info., text or call Marge at 608.732.0850 or email [email protected] (NEW address!)Read More -
Are You Looking For A Rewarding Summer Job Working With Children? Little Chargers Daycare in Cassville (a part of St. Charles Church) is looking to hire enthusiastic young people to provide care and activities for youth ages 2 years old - 12 years old. If interested, contact Kari Kelley, 608-725-5595. This is a great opportunity for a summer job.Read More -
This week in our continuing series on evangelization tips, we’re talking about evangelizing Protestants with One Good Reason. While we certainly have a lot in common with our separated brethren, there’s a lot that makes us different too. We need to strive for genuine Catholic ecumenism … promoting unity among the world's Christian Churches. Here’s a quote from a document of the Second Vatican Council that helps describe how we should practically approach this ecumenism: “Catholics, in their ecumenical work, must assuredly be concerned for their separated brethren, praying for them, keeping them informed about the Church, making the first approaches toward them … But their primary duty is to make a careful and honest appraisal of whatever needs to be done in order that its life may bear witness more clearly and faithfully to the teachings and institutions which have come to it from Christ through the Apostles.” (Unitatis Redintegratio, Ch. 1, Par. 4) You might still be wondering, what does this ecuminism look like in everyday life, applying the One Good Reason technique? Here are two examples: Maybe you’d like to focus on the beauty, truth, and mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist. You could say something like, “One good reason I’m Catholic is that we have the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. During the words of consecration, we believe that He becomes present under the appearances of bread and wine. We then consume Him, which means His divine presence lives inside of us. Having Jesus in me keeps me on the path to heaven.” Or how about the sacrament of penance? Here, you might say something like the following: “One good reason I’m Catholic is that I can go to Confession. Jesus established this sacrament in John 20:23, saying to the apostles, ‘If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’ He knew that we’d need to unload our transgressions to another human being, and hear the words of forgiveness … so he allowed the priest to stand in as a representative of Christ.” These are just a couple examples. However you approach it, just make sure to remain charitable without straying from the truth. This evangelization tip was brought to you by St. Paul Street Evangelization. Take our course One Good Reason for Protestants at evangelizationschool.com.Read More -
This week in our continuing series on evangelization tips, we’re talking about using the One Good Reason method to evangelize atheists. For our purposes, atheists are people who either say there is no God, or say they don’t know whether or not there’s a God. Here’s a refresher on the One Good Reason method: Listen. Start with questions and not arguments. Befriend. Search for common ground and try to relate to them. Make it personal. Share your struggles and let them know they’re not alone. One Good Reason. When the time is right, share your one good reason for (in this case) believing in God. Invite. Offer them to take the next step, whatever that may be. If they are open to listening to your one good reason for believing in God, let them know that God is the best and simplest explanation for so many things. God is, 1. The best explanation for why anything exists instead of nothing 2. The best explanation for why the universe began to exist 3. The best explanation for the fine-tuning of physics for intelligent life 4. The best explanation for our perception of of objective moral values and duties 5. The best explanation for religious experience, mystical experience, near death experience and miracles 6. The best explanation for why consciousness is not reducible to mere physical processes alone 7. The best explanation for the order and intelligibility of the universe 8. The best explanation for the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the rise of Christian belief This is just scratching the surface of the topic, for you will need to study one or more of these areas to get any traction in a conversation. But these should at least get you started. This evangelization tip was brought to you by St. Paul Street Evangelization. For more information, take our course One Good Reason for Atheists at evangelizationschool.com.Read More
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Information for Our Parish Members
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Are You an Evangelizer?
As the Director of Evangelization, it is my job to direct Evangelizers. I can offer training, support and pray for your efforts, but without the action of speaking about Jesus--Evangelization is just a concept that does not bear fruit. If you want to become an Evangelizer, give me a call or email and let's bear fruit in the lives of those in your life who need Jesus. -Leigh
"In other words, evangelization is not primarily something we do; it is something we are. It starts with prayer, with asking the Lord throughout each day to bring someone to share Him with. Then, we’ve got to slow down enough to be aware of the people around us and to listen for a prompting of the Holy Spirit in case there is a conversation He would like us to have." Excerpt from Conversations that Bear Fruit by Heather Schultz a Blog Post from Renewal Ministries
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Saint Paul Street Evangelization
One Good Reason
Lukewarm Christian
This week in our continuing series on evangelization tips, and over the next three weeks, we'll be providing you with evangelization techniques utilizing an effective method called One Good Reason. We've found it's one of the best ways to share the Gospel with someone, because it provides the individual with your personal reasons why you are Catholic. They likely won't argue with your deeply held feelings, so it can have the effect of disarming them. The method fits in with our evangelization method, Listen, Befriend, Proclaim, and Invite. In the Proclaim stage, you simply ask, "Can I give you one good reason why I...(fill in particular reason vou love vour faith that relates to their issue)?" Today's topic is evangelizing lukewarm Christians. So, we're looking for something that might stir the heart of a Christian that is rather unmotivated when it comes to living the faith.
You are likely familiar with Our Lord's words from the book of Revelation 3:16: "Because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth." This is a stark warning from Jesus, and one that many of us don't like to think about. ("Lukewarm" means neither antagonistic ("cold") nor passionate ("hot") in the pursuit of one's Christian duties.) Certainly God loves those who are lukewarm, but He also warns that their lack of passion for the faith, is greatly endangering their own salvation. So we must give lukewarm Christians our "one good reason" for taking the faith seriously.
This message is brought to you by St. Paul Street Evangelization. If you'd like more information on SPSE, please visit us at streetevangelization.com. To learn more or to enroll in our online classes, make sure to visit the St. Paul School of Evangelization at evangelizationschool.com.
©Copyright St. Paul Street Evangelization 2024
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Come, let us adore Him!
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Mass TimesWinter Reminder: When School is canceled there will be no daily mass at that church.Sunday Mass Schedule
- Sat: 4:30 PM English English EN St. Charles Church, Cassville 5:00 PM English English EN St. Clement Church, Lancaster 8:00 PM English English EN St. Mary Help of Christians Church, Glen Haven
- Sun: 8:00 AM English English EN St. Thomas Church, Potosi 8:00 AM English English EN St. John Church, Patch Grove 9:00 AM English English EN St. Clement Church, Lancaster 9:30 AM English English EN St. Mary's Church, Bloomington 10:00 AM English English EN St. Andrew Church, Tennyson
Daily Mass Schedule- Tue: 8:15 AM English English EN CANCELLED - St. Andrew Church, Tennyson 8:15 AM English English EN St. Charles Church, Cassville 8:15 AM English English EN St. Clement Church, Lancaster
- Wed: 8:15 AM English English EN CANCELLED - St. Andrew Church, Tennyson 8:15 AM English English EN St. Clement Church, Lancaster (with School) 8:15 AM English English EN St. Charles Church, Cassville
- Thu: 8:15 AM English English EN St. Andrew Church, Tennyson 8:15 AM English English EN CANCELLED - St. Clement Church, Lancaster 8:15 AM English English EN St. Mary's, Bloomington (with School)
- Fri: 8:15 AM English English EN St. Andrew-Thomas School Gym, Potosi 8:15 AM English English EN CANCELLED - St. Clement Church, Lancaster 8:15 AM English English EN St. Mary's Church, Bloomington
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Adoration Times
- Wed: 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM St. Charles Church, Cassville
- Thu: 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM St. Andrew Church, Potosi (4th Thursday)
- 1st Fri: 8:45 AM to 9:00 AM St. Clement Church (8:45 am Fri - 9 am Sat)
- Sat: 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM St. Clement Church, Lancaster 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM St. Mary Church, Bloomington
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Confession Times
- Sun: 7:15 AM to 7:45 AM St. John Church, Patch Grove 9:15 AM to 9:45 AM St. Andrew Church, Tennyson
- Sat: 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM St. Clement, Lancaster 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM St. Mary, Bloomington 3:45 PM to 4:15 PM St. Charles, Cassville 4:00 PM to 4:45 PM St. Clement Church, Lancaster 7:15 PM to 7:45 PM St. Mary, HOC, Glen Haven
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Our Priests and Deacon
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Office Locations and Hours-
St. Mary & St. John Churches
535 Congress St
Bloomington, WI 53804
608.994.2526
Office hours:
8:30 a.m.-3:30 Monday-Friday
Mrs. Julie M Jentz - Secretary
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St. Clement Church
135 S. Washington St
Lancaster, WI 53813
608.723.4990
Office hours: 8:00a.m.-3:00 p.m. (Mon.) 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Tuesday-Friday
Ms. Katherine Bernhardt - Secretary
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St. Charles & St. Mary Help of Christians Churches
521 E. Dewey St
Cassville, WI 53806
608.725.5595
Office hours may vary, please call
Mrs. Cheryl Junk - Secretary
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St. Andrew & St. Thomas Churches
135 S. Washington St
Lancaster, WI 53813
608.723.4990
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