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Bulletin article - Sunday, June 23rd, 2019

Bulletin Article - June 16th, 2019 LITURGY AND FAITH CROSSROADS: HANDS IN PRAYER Our soul intimately lives and works within every member of our body. But the members that most clearly reveal the soul are the face and hands. They speak a language that sometimes words cannot even express–thus why we use facial expressions and hand motions when we speak to others. When we speak to God in prayer, there are a few common ways we use our hands in a way that we do for no one else. Strikingly, the hands do a very good job of reflecting what the soul may be wishing to express! Firstly, by hands closely interlocked, fingers against fingers clasping the hands, we express a gesture of compression and control. It is as if we are keeping guard against losing the inner current between us and God; it reveals a desire to be alone with Him. Secondly, by open hands laid together, palm against palm, pointing to the heavens, we express a reverential, quiet homage and surrender at the same time as a confident attitude that our prayer pierces through the heavens, directly to the heart of God. Thirdly, by extending our hands outward; we open ourselves fully to God in order to let the river of the Holy Spirit stream out unhindered and to receive the spiritual waters for which we thirst. Finally, through crossing our hands and arms against the chest, embracing all we are and have, we sacrificially offer ourselves to God with full consent, as our gesture images the sign of the cross, the greatest image of sacrifice. Additionally, and not surprisingly, our hands can also reveal through other gestures, boredom, unchecked impulses, and distractions in prayer. But the good news is that because prayerful hand positions powerfully point to a state of prayer, they can also help lead us into prayer when we are distracted! These are all ways in which the Saints prayed at various times. Try them to help lead you into prayer! (Summary thoughts from Romano Guardini’s, Sacred Signs, with edits and additional comments)

St. Joseph’s is selling the rubber chips from the playground. There are 100-120 yards available. Will take offers. Please call 572-6731 if you are interested. They can be used for gardens, landscaping, gravel substitutes, equestrian footing and for residential and commercial play areas.

June is the Month dedicated to the Sacred Heart. Have you experienced the Love of the Heart of Christ for you? Consider developing this devotion. You may consecrate yourself and your family to the Sacred Heart, or do the Nine First Friday’s devotion for starters. And don't forget to tell others about the love of Christ’s Heart! The Solemnity of the Sacred Heart is celebrated the Friday following Corpus Christi Sunday, this year on June 28th. The following are 12 papal approved promises of Jesus given to the Church through St. Margaret Mary.

June 9th bulletin column by the Director of Religious Education LITURGY AND FAITH CROSSROADS ***For the next few weeks and beyond, I will take an element of the liturgical life of the Church and briefly expand on its meaning for our spiritual lives. This will include many of the things we commonly do and use at Mass, postures, gestures, and sacramentals, yet without much thought because they have lost newness and meaning, or their meanings have never initially been known. The goal is to awaken a new, spiritual way of seeing and entering into the liturgy played out, not only through the priest and ministers but also through every person in attendance. STRIKING THE BREAST At the beginning of Mass, we say in the Confiteor, “I confess to almighty God . . . that I have greatly sinned . . . through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.” At each “through my fault”, we strike our breast with our closed fist. What does this action mean in the Church’s mind? Its spiritual significance, expressed through a humble physical action, is that we are knocking and banging against the depths of our inner world, our heart, to awaken it to conversion. Do our sins and failings trouble us? If not, we need to be shaken up in some way. Striking the breast is a way of acknowledging both God’s call to repentance and our willingness to stir ourselves to change our sinful habits and actions. There are other times, too, in our Catholic lives when we have the opportunity to strike our breast, in the Lamb of God prayer in litanies and before Communion at Mass, at invocations to the Sacred Heart, and so forth, when we say “have mercy on us”. This action carries the same significance in those moments. The next time we use this profound gesture, let us do so with purpose and allow it to awaken our sleeping interior life! (Thoughts taken from Romano Guardini’s, "Sacred Signs", with edits and additional comments)

Our annual Parish Picnic is on Father's Day, June 16th, from 11am-2pm in Spring Lake Park at the Keel Boat. The Knights of Columbus are providing the meat. Families with the last name beginning with A-M, please bring a salad, and families with the last name beginning with N-Z, please bring a dessert.

SUNDAY SUMMER SOCIALS: All families are invited to socialize at Recreation Park from 10:00 am—12:00pm on Sundays during the summer. Recreation Park is located two blocks south of St. Joseph’s on 2nd Ave W.

An article about St. Joseph's and St. Boniface's new relics of St. Padre Pio https://bismarckdiocese.com/news/venerating-relics

Want to imitate the Apostles and Our Lady in praying for the coming of the Holy Spirit as they did on the very first Pentecost? St Joseph's invites you to join in praying the attached nine-day novena beginning Saturday, June 1st, to ask for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.

All are invited to celebrate the feast day of St Boniface on Wednesday, June 5th in Grenora. Mass will be at 5pm by the grotto. Please bring your own chair! A potluck will follow immediately after Mass.

Our congratulations go out to Sr. Rosa and Sr. Brenda who graduated with a master’s degree in Applied Leadership from Boston College on May 20th! Don’t miss the going away party for our Sisters on Sunday, June 9th, in the school gym following the 2:00 PM Spanish Mass. If you would like to contribute food for the dinner, please contact the parish office. Fifteen more side dishes or desserts are needed that serve thirty guests.

Feast of the Ascension. Please know that in the Diocese of Bismarck the Feast of the Ascension, which is forty days after Easter, will be transferred to Sunday, June 2nd. Hence, Thursday, May 30th is not a Holy Day of Obligation. However, there will be our normal daily Masses that day.

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