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PastoralStaffFr. Bill O’Donnell, C.PP.S. (Pastor)
Fr. Jim Smith, C.PP.S. (ParochialVicar)
Br. Nick Renner, C.PP.S. Deacon Jerry Buschur
Deacon Randy Balster Deacon Gregg Elking
Of�iceStaff Pat Stachler Karen Heath
Sue Nietfeld Amy Brunswick Rachel Niekamp Joe Hemmelgarn
ParishLifeCoordinatorsSharon Ranly - St. Aloysius
Kelly Jo Siefring - St. Bernard
Mary Schmitmeyer - St. Francis Carmen Beyke - St. Henry
Karen Post - St. Wendelin
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Today is the fourth Sunday of Easter. It is something called “Good Shepherd Sunday.” That is because in all three cycles of the Liturgical Year, the Gospel presents us with an image of Jesus as the shepherd and we as the
sheep. Now preaching on this Sunday has its challenges. This was driven home to me several years ago while
helping out at Holy Redeemer Parish in New Bremen. After the Sunday mass, a parishioner came in the sacristy
with a criticism. She said, “I know its scriptural and all that, but I don’t like being compared to a sheep. Sheep are
dumb animals. They have very little initiative or energy, and they are easily led around by whoever would want to manipulate them. Is this image of being a sheep really a useful image for a disciple in the twenty =irst century?” I
thought the feedback was valid and I have pondered it every year since when we celebrate Good Shepherd
Sunday during the Easter Season.
That’s why it was good that in the midst of our “social distancing” I came across an article about sheep farmers. Each year Unites States sheep farmers bring in sheep shearers from Australia and New Zealand to
remove the wool from the sheep. But because of the present economic environment fewer and fewer sheep
shearers have been willing to come to the United States. Therefore, farmers have begun to train Americans to
shear the sheep. The newspaper interviewed a number of the trainees who insisted that the traditional image of
the sheep as being peaceful and docile is way overblown. Sheep will indeed, allow you to shear them but only if you know what you are doing, only if they trust you. If they do not trust you, they will assert themselves and run
away. And when a hundred-pound sheep decides to run away, it takes a great deal of experience and muscle to
hold them where you want them.
Now I thought that this new information for me might be used to enlarge and deepen the traditional image
of sheep. Sheep are peaceful for sure, but they can also be assertive and strong. These two qualities together provide a very useful image for discipleship in the twenty-=irst century and during the disruption in our lives
caused by the pandemic. We are called by Christ to be disciples who are not only peaceful but also assertive, not
only docile but also strong.
Our call to be people of peace comes directly from the Scriptures. Peace characterizes God’s kingdom.
Isaiah dreams of the day when the swords will be beaten into plowshares, and Jesus promises us a peace the world cannot give. So as followers of Christ we must be people of peace. We must be people opposed to violence.
Indeed, we must understand that although choosing violence appears to deliver what we want, it instead
contributes to a cycle which can destroy us. This is true both culturally and personally. Every time we as a nation
use our military might to bend another nation to our will, instead of using dialogue and negotiation, we choose an
option contrary to the kingdom of God. Every time we support a social solution based on violence, whether it be the violence of abortion or the violence of capital punishment, we take a step contrary to what God intends. Every
time we act personally out of anger or vengeance, every time we use our position of authority in the workplace or
home to coerce someone to do what we want them to do, we show that we are not acting as Christ’s disciples.
Violence is not the answer. We must be people of peace. But at the same time, we must be people of strength. The gospel does not call us to be wall=lowers or
doormats. We are not doing Christ’s will when we avoid taking a stand against evil and injustice. We are not being
faithful disciples when we follow the manipulations of our world, the dishonesty and confusion of our
government, the =laws of our culture. We are not following the gospel when we accept abuse in the workplace or
in our home, imagining that such acts of violence are acceptable – or, even worse, something which we deserve. It is part of our mission to oppose evil, to assert ourselves against those forces which can harm us and harm the
ones we love.
So, if Christ is the shepherd and we are the sheep, it is important to know what a sheep is: a peaceful
animal but one who is willing to assert itself against the evil which surrounds it. We are called to be people of
peace but also people of strength, willing to commit ourselves in non-violent ways to oppose the evil in the world, willing to stand against violence even as take steps to protect ourselves and our families. Now this mixture of
peacefulness and strength is an uncommon and delicate balance. But it is the balance of the gospel. And we who
are called to follow the shepherd commit ourselves to =ind that balance and to proclaim it with our lives.
Fr. Bill O’Donnell, C.PP.S.
CollectionUpdate(through04/26)
St.Aloysius Good Friday ................................... $30.00 prior to Easter ........................... $985.00 04/12 ........................................$1,150.00 St.Bernard Good Friday ................................... $10.00 prior to Easter..........................$1,210.00 04/12 .........................................$2,010.00 Candles ......................................... $159.75 Capital Imp. ..............................$1,250.00 St.Francis Good Friday ................................... $60.00 prior to Easter ............................ $940.00 04/12 ............................................ $575.00 Candles .......................................... $30.00 Capital Imp. ..............................$2,530.00 St.Henry Good Friday ................................. $290.00 prior to Easter ...................... $12,923.00 04/12 ...................................... $11,125.00 Candles ......................................... $405.00 Capital Imp. ................................. $150.00 St.Wendelin Good Friday ................................... $20.00 prior to Easter............................. $585.00 04/12 ........................................... $290.00 Candles ........................................ $234.00
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St.Francis:
AnnII:AndreaWatercutter, St. Francis, daughter of Steven & Mary Watercutter - ZacheryBaltes, Ithaca Ohio, son of Monte & Beverly
Baltes (5/16/2020)
St.Aloysius:
AnnII:AarenHemmelgarn, St. Aloysius, son of Wayne & Kelly
Hemmelgarn - KelseyCommager, St. Joe, Maumee, Ohio, daughter of
Roger & Julie Commager (5/16/2020)
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The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
Psalm23
FourthSundayofEaster
FirstReading Acts 2:14a, 36-41
Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed: “Let the whole house of Israel know for certain that God has made both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you cruci=ied.”
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other apostles, “What are we to do, my brothers?” Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every
one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far
off, whomever the Lord our God will call.” He testi=ied with many other arguments, and was exhorting them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” Those who accepted his
message were baptized, and about three thousand persons were added that day.
ResponsorialPsalm Psalm 23
TheLordismyshepherd;thereisnothingIshallwant.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. In verdant pastures he gives me repose; Beside restful waters he leads me; he refreshes my soul.
He guides me in right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk in the dark valley
I fear no evil; for you are at my side. With your rod and your staff that give me courage.
You spread the table before me in the sight of my foes;
You anoint my head with oil; my cup over=lows.
Only goodness and kindness follow me All the days of my life;
And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for years to come.
SecondReading 1 Peter 2:20b-25
Beloved: If you are patient when you suffer for doing what is good, this is a grace before God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example
that you should follow in his footsteps. Hecommittednosin,andnodeceitwasfoundinhis
mouth.
When he was insulted, he returned no insult; when he suffered, he did not threaten; instead, he
handed himself over to the one who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body upon the cross, so that, free from sin, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been
healed. For you had gone astray like sheep, but you have now returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
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Sunday’sReadings
Gospel John 10:1-10
Jesus said: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber. But whoever enters through the gate is the
shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice, as the shepherd calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has driven out all his own,
he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they recognize his voice. But they will not follow a stranger; they will run away from him, because they do not recognize the voice
of strangers.” Although Jesus used this =igure of speech, the Pharisees did not realize what he was trying to tell them.
So Jesus said again, “Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who came before
me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and =ind pasture. A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more
abundantly.”
TheSheepgate © Jan Richardson. janrichardson.com
Readingscontinued
Biblical faith gives believers a particular pattern by which to judge the truth of their own
experience. We see that service may be the way to greatness, poverty may be the key to freedom,
weakness may be the path to strength, death may be the gate to life. The Bible con=irms all these
suspicions, and while it may not make them any easier for us to act upon, at least it gives us courage
to go on when everything seems stacked against us. For those rooted in Christian memory and fed
by Christian hope, nothing in life is simply what it seems. Equipped with the paradoxical images and
stories of our historic faith, we see things differently than we would without them.
One of the hardest things I do is to celebrate communion at a local nursing home on the poor side of
town, where most residents spend their days strapped in wheelchairs against the walls of the
television room. Once a month, nurses roll ten or =ifteen of them into the sun room and park them in
a semicircle around a small table. Some of them complain as I prepare the elements - “Get me out of
here! Take me back to my room right now!” - while others doze or stare or drool. Few stay awake
through the whole twenty-minute service. When it is time for them to take communion I go from
chair to chair, patting them awake and asking them if they want the bread and wine. About half let
me press the elements to their lips; the rest refuse to be roused or else they look at me as if I am a
burglar. It is one of the hardest things I do because I sometimes doubt the power of the sacrament
to break through their fog. I say all the comfortable words and wonder if anyone hears them. I stand
there with my arms raised over the bread and wine and suspect that I might as well be =lying a kite.
The last time I went was late on a Monday afternoon. One of the volunteers warned me that
everyone’s medication was wearing off, which was a mixed blessing. My congregation were more
awake than usual, but they were also more vocal. I could hardly make myself heard over the din in
the room. One woman sang, “Row, row, row your boat” throughout the beginning of the service,
bouncing so hard against her restraints that her chair lurched toward me as I read the opening
prayers. In a bid for attention, I clapped my hands and asked them to choose the gospel lesson for
the day.
“What shall I read from the Bible this afternoon?” I asked them. “What part would you like to hear?”
The commotion lessened long enough for one old woman’s broken voice to be heard above it.
“Tell us a resurrection story,” she said. I never saw who it was, but as her words settled down over
the room the movers and shakers held still for a moment and the sleepers opened their eyes. “Yes,”
someone else said, and then someone else. “Yes. Tell us a resurrection story.”
The Bible tells us the stories we need and want to hear—stories to help us live, stories to help us
die, and stories to help us believe we shall live again. Listening to them, we are called into
relationship with the One who tells them to us. Believing them, we are changed. The living words of
God heal our hurts and soften our hearts; they clear our vision and guide our feet. Like a lifeline
strung from the beginning of time to the end, they show us a way through all the storms of culture,
nature, and history. They show us the way to the Word beyond all our words, in whose presence we
shall be made eloquent at last.
Barbara Brown Taylor is an Episcopalian priest, author, and professor. This was originally published in ThePreachingLife, 1993.
TheStoriesWeNeed&WanttoHear
Let’s talk about fried rice. I don’t mean that overly brown, greasy pile of abused grains, peas, and carrots that my pro=iteering people sometimes pack into takeout boxes and label “fried
rice.” I mean the homemade dish that I grew up on. It’s amazingly versatile. Assuming you have the right leftovers in your fridge—obviously, you need some rice and maybe a remnant of that
roast chicken you got at Costco last week—and an egg and some vegetables, you can produce a decent version that testi=ies to new life wrought from old things…
I am insufferable, only =inished seminary last spring, and will talk about resurrection until
kingdom come. (I think we’ve got time, but who knows?) The key word here: “metaphor.” Stretch any metaphor too far and it breaks. Just as you should not overthink your fried rice,
please don’t overthink my fried-rice metaphor. My late grandmother is partly to blame for the meaning I invest in this dish. Hers was the =irst fried rice I remember. She had this old, hand-
hammered wok, and when I close my eyes, I can hear the clack-clack-clackof her metal spatula hitting that pan. To me, it still sounds like love. She’d take rice left over from the night before
and bits of meat from some container in her refrigerator. (That fridge and its contents undoubtedly violated numerous food-safety standards, but I’m still alive.) She’d cut green onions from the pot where she regrew them from old stems and roots. Then she’d toss it all into
the hot pan, crack an egg over it, and add soy sauce and sesame oil. She’d let a crisp bottom crust form, and then she’d dish up my breakfast, admonishing me to remember to pray before I
ate.
My grandmother’s frugality went back to her childhood poverty and the hardship of war. A
missionary’s eldest child and only daughter, she helped care for her eight brothers. During World War II, as the Japanese invaded southern China, she and my grandfather, who taught at a
Bible college in Canton, =led westward with their young kids and some students. She had to feed this ragtag band, and I imagine her throwing together fried rice, a dish that transforms humble
scraps into a satisfying whole.
I’ve made fried rice from all manner of leftovers: Thanksgiving turkey, a half-eaten pork chop,
honey-baked ham (the sugary bits work surprisingly well in the savory rice), even Spam (guilty pleasure). Lettuce too sad and limp for salad can come back to life in the wok. Half-shriveled
mushrooms, yellowing chive (I can never use all the herbs in a supermarket packet), the glum half of a bell pepper languishing at the bottom of the produce drawer—all have found
resurrection in my fried rice. I’m =ixating on fried rice right now because it’s my ultimate comfort food. The word “comfort” has acquired a self-absorbed air in modern America, but its
roots are in mutual encouragement and exhortation; comfort was always meant for sharing. Whenever I visit my parents, my mom always packs a container of fried rice for me to eat on the
plane. Fried rice comforts me because it carries the hope of restored relationship. It reminds me that I’ve been loved well before, especially amidst dif=icult circumstances. It exhorts me to try
to love well too.
The best fried rice I’ve cooked was a version I made last year with brisket that Tristan bought
at our favorite barbecue place in Austin and lovingly carried back to New Jersey. The brisket’s fat rendered in the wok and coated all the rice. I diced up extra yellow and orange bell pepper
Food,Memory,&GracesGettingUsThrough
This weekend was originally scheduled to be First Communion for our students and their families in St. Aloysius, St. Henry, and St. Wendelin. Please include in your prayers this
weekend our 2nd graders in the cluster preparing for this sacrament.
Charlotte Fortkamp
Frank Albers Paul Albers
Aubrey Bishop Camden Boeckman Hannah Broering Cameron Buschur
Karsyn Cooper Nora Cordonnier Audrey Cramer
Carson Feltz Rudy Garman Luke Hartings
Collin Holdheide Savannah Holdheide
Emme Homan Faith Horstman
Kasen Kaiser Kate Klenke Evan Knapke
Cy Kremer Isaac Lammers
Cruz Lange Bennet Lefeld Gavin Lefeld Ross Lefeld
Braxton Miller Owen Moeller Reid Moeller
Lane Niekamp Wade Niekamp
Evan Nieport Dominic Ranly
Aliyah Roessner Louis Schwieterman
Libby Speck Haden Stachler Halle Stammen
Macy Uhlenhake Vincent Van Skyock
Lindon Wendel Jack Woeste
Emma Brunswick Luke Sudhoff
as well as onion to balance the rich bits of brisket; sriracha helped too. That dish sang of our little Texan + Chinese household in a way that nothing else I’ve cooked has. Just thinking of it
recalls the many graces that have gotten us this far.
Tristan cautioned me not to make these letters too long, but just let me say this: Easter Sunday
wasn’t easy for me this year, but it was necessary. Death, loss, and grief have left their bloody claw marks on the past twelve months. Celebration, joy, and praise— my brain knows they
exist, but my heart has struggled to summon them. Especially throughout this Easter season, I need to remember the story of Jesus’s rising from the dead and the promise it holds for us…
Fried rice helps me remember. It helps me remember all I learned from my grandmother as well as the divine pledge of resurrection. It helps me remember how God has promised to
renew all things. It helps me remember how meals—meals received, meals prepared, meals served, meals shared—have nurtured me as well as allowed me to nurture others. And it helps
me remember that I believe in a greater feast to come.
Jeff Chu is an author and recent graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary. He currently serves as
Teacher-in-Residence at Central Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, MI.
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Some of the most affected at this time are our parishioners in our nursing homes. Please hold the following persons in your prayers this week.
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The Catholic Conference of Ohio, chaired by Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr of the Archdiocese of
Cincinnati, has released a statement extendingthetemporarysuspensionofallpubliclycelebratedMassesandliturgiesthroughMay29.
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LIVETHELITURGY-INSPIRATIONFORTHEWEEK
When you wake up in the morning, whose voice is the =irst one you listen to? Your own?
Someone else’s? Or God? We all listen to someone and follow some sort of guidelines and principles. If it
is a secular voice that propels us to get up in the morning and take up the task of the day’s agenda, then
we may =ind ourselves off track. The advice found in the Acts of the Apostles was as true then as it is
now, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” Most of what we listen to in secular voices is off
the axis of truth and distorted. It may sound attractive, but it is deceptive at best. Many have gone
astray like sheep and need to return to the Good Shepherd. Only Jesus can offer us the gate of life, and
only Jesus as the Good Shepherd can really motivate us to take on the challenges of life. If we don’t
recognize his voice, we can risk facing destruction.
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