For Parish Membership, Baptisms, Weddings, Communion Calls or any other pastoral need, contact the respective parish office.Bulletin Announcements: Deadline is Monday at Noon to the St. Clement Parish Office or to st_clement@tds.net

Fr. William Vernon, Pastor 723-4990Fr. William Vernon, Pastor 723-4990Bill Manthe, Parish Associate 723-4990Bill Manthe, Parish Associate 723-4990Katie Crosby, Parish Secretary 723-4990Katie Crosby, Parish Secretary 723-4990

Website: www.saintclementparish.comWebsite: www.saintclementparish.com

Josh Jensen, Principal 723-7474Josh Jensen, Principal 723-7474Nick Crosby, CRE 7-12 723-4990Nick Crosby, CRE 7-12 723-4990Rebecca Dean & Melissa Martin, CREs K-6Rebecca Dean & Melissa Martin, CREs K-6

Email: st_clement@tds.net (Katie)Email: st_clement@tds.net (Katie)

Diocese of Madison, Bishop Donald J. HyingDiocese of Madison, Bishop Donald J. Hying

SAINT CLEMENT CATHOLIC PARISHSAINT CLEMENT CATHOLIC PARISH135 South Washington Street – Lancaster, Wisconsin 53813135 South Washington Street – Lancaster, Wisconsin 53813

Founded in 1859Founded in 1859

(1 Corinthians 13:8)(1 Corinthians 13:8)

723-7474723-7474

TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OCTOBER 11, 2020

STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE

October 3 & 4Church Support Envelopes � � � � � $6,407�00Offertory Cash� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �$603�00Weekly Electronic Giving � � � � � � $1,048�001st of Month Electronic Giving � � $1,440�00Total � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �$9,498�00

Budgeted Offertory for Oct � � �$32,350�00Offertory Received in Oct� � � � � �$9,498�00

Monthly Offertory Comparison September 2020 (4 weekends) � � � $30,295�00September 2019 (5 weekends) � � � $35,879�00

Weekly Mass Schedule

Tuesday, October 13 � � � � � � � � � 8:15 AM † Mary, Bob & Jack Kilcoyne

Wednesday, October 14 � � � � � � 8:15 AM (Saint Callistus I, Pope and Martyr)

† Tim IhmThursday, October 15 � � � � � � � � 8:15 AM (Saint Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church)

† Bob & Kathy ElliottFriday, October 16 � � � � � � � � � � 8:15 AM

(Saint Hedwig, Religious; Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin) † Frank & Pearl Fuerstenberg

Saturday, October 17 � � � � � � � � 8:15 AM (Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr) † Lawrence & Evelyn Fuerstenberg

5:00 PM † Frances & Lyle Bausch

Sunday, October 18 � � � � � � � � � � 7:30 AM Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

† Deceased Members of the Reuter Family9:30 AM

People of Our Parish

From Our Pastor:From Our Pastor:Each October, Jesus Christ and His Church invite us to deepen our devotion to Mary�

As the Mother of Jesus, Mary is the Mother of Mercy and Mother of the Eucharist (Catechism of the Catholic Church #963-975)� As Jesus calls us once again into communion with Him this Sunday (Matthew 22:1-14), we should never take for granted Our Lord’s invitation to prayer, to honor His Mother just as He did, to deepen our faith, to embrace His grace by which we are saved�

On October 7, we honored Our Lady of the Rosary at Mass, with all our school children and faculty attending, and parishioners praying the Rosary, as they often do, before Mass� The Rosary, as with all prayer, draws us into deeper communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit� In the Rosary, we meditate on the life of Jesus Christ and His mother, Mary, with prayers from Luke 1 (“Hail Mary…”); Matthew 6 (“Our Father…”); and Matthew 28, Luke 1-2, Ephesians 3 and throughout the Bible (“Glory be…”)� October is also Respect Life Month, reminding us to be a People of Life who defend God’s gift of life for all of His children, from conception to natural death (led by our Knights of Columbus, our parish family is participating in the 40-Days-for-Life campaign, please see this bulletin for details; we will also pray the Rosary on Tuesdays at 5:15pm at the Memorial to Unborn Children, by the fountain across from church)� The following, adapted from The Rosary of Our Lady by Msgr� Romano Guardini, helps us understand the tremendous spiritual value of praying the Rosary:

The life of Mary, as the Gospel tells it, is as humanly true as it can possibly be, but in this human quality it is filled with a mystery of divine communion and love, the depth of which is unfathomable� The Rosary points in this direction�

Jesus is the substance of Mary’s life, just as the Child is the lifeblood of His mother, for whom He is the one and all… Not only was Mary’s existence as a human mother achieved in her relation to Jesus, but also her redemption� Becoming a mother, she became a Christian� By living with her Child Jesus, she lived with God… Growing humanly along with the Child, as do all mothers who really love, releasing Him on the road of life with so much resignation and pain, she ripened in God’s divine grace and truth…

The prayer of the Rosary means a lingering in the world of Mary, whose essence was Christ� In this way, the Rosary is, in its deepest sense, a prayer to Jesus Christ… The essence of the Rosary, then, is a steady incitement to holy sympathy… Our eyes meet two eyes that also love and see� Those eyes add their range of vision to ours, and our gaze may now go beyond the narrowness of our own ego and embrace the beloved being, previously seen only from one side…� Our Lord enables us to see and to love not only with our own sense but also with His� Something of this sort, only on a higher plane, happens with the Rosary�

Please pray the Rosary today!Fr. William Vernon

A note of thanks from Fr� William for our delicious & successful Parish Fall Festival, October 4:

Thank you, parish family, for your generous support for our Parish Fall Festival, which helps us to do God’s work, with corporal and spiritual works of mercy, in our church, school and local community. Thank you, especially, to our chairpersons, Josh & Erin Jensen, Kevin & Cheryl Raisbeck, and Kevin & Rene Timmerman, and the “barbecue pit masters” and all the volunteers! God Bless you.

RECONCILIATIONBefore Daily & Sunday Masses

Saturday at 4:00 PMFace-to-face reconciliation by appointment only�

OFFICE HOURS:Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays:

9 am to 5 pmThursdays & Fridays:

9 am to 2 pm

OUR ST. CLEMENT FALL FESTIVAL NEWS THANK YOU to everyone for participating in any way

to make our parish festival a success! WINNERS OF THE RAFFLE:$5,000 Cash: Ian Schildgen • $3,000 Cash: Lisa Reuter • $1,000 Cash: Doug Wiedenbeck$500 Cash: Adam Fishnick • $100 Cash: Danielle McLimans, Laurie Meighan, Stephanie Moore, Becky Vaassen • $50 Cash: Rita Oyen, Tina Kirschbaum

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE: OCTOBER 17 & 18

5:00 PM Lector: Tom Schaefer5:00 PM Servers: Logan & Lucas Harding7:30 AM Lector: Rita Schmitz7:30 AM Servers: Oliviah & Elliott Webster9:30 AM Lector: Sheri Ihm9:30 AM Servers: Cassie & Nora Nemitz

**SERVERS: Your new schedules are in the sacristy!

NEW SCRIP APP OFFERSimply download the new RaiseRight mobile app and use it

at least once during the month of October and we will give you a free $10 SCRIP certificate�The new RaiseRight app makes supporting our wonderful parish school even easier and there is no extra time wasted or extra money spent� You can shop more than 750 top brands using gift cards - right from your phone, whether you're at home or at the store� Get started today by downloading the RaiseRight app for free from the App Store or from Google Play� If you already have a ShopWithScrip account, you can pick up right where you left off by using the same sign-in information as your gift cards and payment information automatically transfer to the app� If you have questions, call the school office, 723-7474 or ask at the SCRIP table following each of the weekend Masses� Thank you for your continued support and God bless you!

SAINT CLEMENT SCHOOL

GO MAKE DISCIPLES“Prayer takes many forms� The greatest prayer is the Holy Mass

when we join our hearts and souls to the complete self-giving of the Son to the Father in the Paschal Mystery� Devotional prayer, such as the Rosary, novenas, intercession to the saints, nourishes our spirits� We speak to God in prayer, asking for forgiveness, praising and thanking Him, seeking help and blessings on our special intentions� Prayer is the ultimate human action by which we seek union with God through conversation, meditation, and contemplation…� Prayer is to our soul what eating is to the body� A life without prayer quickly becomes aimless and lost� Prayer is the compass that keeps us focused on our pilgrimage to the Lord; it elevates the heart, gives peace to the soul and roots us in the eternal, as we make our way through this passing and challenging world� Fill your life with prayer—the Mass and other sacraments, Scripture, the Rosary and other devotions, conversation with God in your own words� Seek silence and peace amidst the haste and the noise� We will hear the still, small voice of the Lord when we seek Him in prayer�” ~Bishop Donald Hying, Go Make Disciples October Newsletter

IN MEMORIAMPlease remember in your prayers this week Roger and Mary

Ellis of our parish who both died within hours of each other on Friday, October 2, and their Mass of Christian Burial was offered on Monday, October 5� Roger was 86 and Mary was 84 at the time of their passing from this life to life eternal� Throughout their lives Roger and Mary worked hard on the farm that they operated� In addition, Roger drove lime and gravels trucks, and Mary was a cook at various businesses in the area� All that they did, they did as one� They were devoted to one another, to their family, prayer and helping others in any way they could� As we pray for them, please pray also for their children Jane, James, Jack, Betty, Lisa, Joe, and Sandy, their grandchildren, and all of their family and friends especially in this time of sorrow, as Roger’s death happened so unexpected� May they know the compassion and comfort of the Lord, and the support of our prayers�“Eternal rest grant unto Roger and Mary, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. May their souls, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.”

RESPECT LIFE COLLECTIONOctober is Respect Life Month� The Respect Life collection was

conducted last weekend across the Diocese of Madison� Envelopes are in your monthly packet, as well as in the entrances of church along with brochures explaining the collection� Please consider how you can support God’s gift of life here in our diocese and beyond� Thank you�

$10 GRAND!!Family Promise of Grant County’s MAJOR fundraiser of the

year is coming up� $10 GRAND IN YOUR HAND will be held VIRTUALLY on Thursday, November 12 from 6:30 – 7:30 pm� While there will not be the usual delicious meal, you still have the chance to win $10,000! Plus, every 10th ticket will win a gift prize worth at least $100� Tickets can be purchased from Bill Manthe at the parish office� Buy your ticket and support a great cause – helping families with kids make the journey from being homeless to having a place to call home�

40 DAYS FOR LIFE!The 40 Days for Life Vigil has begun and the Knights of Columbus

will be taking part, and you can as well� On October 15, 22 and 29, members of the KC’s will be traveling to Madison to pray and give witness to life outside of Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinic from 7-8 pm� They will leave from St� Clement Church at 5 pm and return to the parish about 9:45 pm� Anyone who wishes to join them should be at the church before 5 pm� Contact Bill Seyer at 988-6543 to discuss travel options� Please know that during the 40 Days for Life campaign, anyone at any time can go to Madison and join others as they pray for an end to abortion and give witness to the dignity of human life�

You can also pray for an end to abortion here at St� Clement Church on Tuesday afternoons by praying the Rosary together� Every Tuesday, from now to November 3, the Rosary will be prayed at 5:15 pm at the Memorial to Unborn Children which is by the fountain across the street from the church� KC members or others will lead the Rosary and everyone is welcome to join them, even from their car� In the event of inclement weather, the Rosary will be prayed in the church�

FAMILY PROMISE: OUR HOST WEEK IS HERE!Our week to host families experiencing homelessness is this week,

October 11-17� We’ve already called some volunteers to assist this week with food and other items� If you can assist, there may be some day time hours at the Day Center that need to be filled� Call 723-3355 to help out if you can� Most of these “shifts” are only for an hour or two� If you have any questions, or are interested in helping as new volunteers are always welcome, please call Bill Manthe at 723-4990�

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