Welcome to Church of the Holy Cross 

FATHER DAVID will be away on vacation from October 10th to October 17th.
MOTHERS CLUB BAKE SALE AND RAFFLE this weekend after the 4:30 p.m. Mass on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 12 after 8:00 and 10:00 Masses in Kolbe Hall. Everyone is welcome.
COFFEE AND DONUT SUNDAY TODAY after all morning Masses in Kolbe Center. All are welcome to come and visit with fellow parishioners. Coffee and Donut Sunday is the second Sunday of every month. If you are interested in helping, please call Amy at 612-789-3271.
CONTINUING OUR TRADITION - Oct. 5, 2003

Goal- $1,500,000.00
Pledges & Gifts - - $1.402.950.50
Needed to reach Goal - $ 97,049.50

Pledges & Gifts - $1,402,950.50
Paid to date - - $ 990.622.20
Outstanding - $ 412,328.30

Thank you for the gifts and pledge payments received this week: Gifts - $943.50; Pledge Payments - $1,935.00. All gifts are needed and greatly appreciated as we work towards our goal and continue to make bank loan payments.

Offertory Collection
October 5,2003...............................$5,963.37

ALL SOULS ENVELOPE - Included in the envelope packet mailed to your home is an envelope for All Soul's Day on which you may write the names of those deceased whom you would like remembered in prayer. The envelopes will be collected and placed in the sanctuary and will remain there throughout the month of November.
WORLD MISSION SUNDAY - Next Sunday Catholics all around the world - Catholics in the Missions as well - will gather, at the Eucharist around the table of the Lord, and offer our prayers and generous help so that the "Good News" of Jesus Christ may be proclaimed to the poor and the suffering in every corner of the globe. The help offered next Sunday through the Propagation of the Faith will provide for the pastoral and evangelizing work of more than 1,100 dioceses throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific Islands. Please be generous as possible to the collection for the Propagation of the Faith. May God bless you!
                            PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC
                                 ADORATION NEWS


October 7 was the tenth year anniversary of the Perpetual Adoration Chapel. How many hours have been spent in love, adoration, thanksgiving, reparation and petition? Let us continue with our visits, and pray for the continued success of the Adoration Chapel.

The Adoration Chapel is located in the convent of Holy Cross. For more information call 763-788-4729 or 612- 781-4806,. Thank you.
FOR RENT - Upper 2 BR, Duplex N.E., washer, dryer, garage available. Older couple/person preferred. Call Bernadette at 612-802-8639.
THE ST. FRANCIS GUILD invites you to come and join them for a fun afternoon of bingo, raffles, prizes, fun, and friendship TODAY, October 12, 2:00-4:00 in Kolbe Hall.
LIVING ROSARY - The English Rosary Guild invites you to join them in Church for a Living Rosary on Monday, Oct. 13 at 7:00 p.m. All are welcome to participate. Rosary Guild members meet in Kolbe at 6:30 p.m.
BANNS OF MARRIAGE:

        Bradley J. Linnell & Agnieszka M. Swietkowski - II

WEEKLY MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday, October 11
    
4:30 p.m. t Stanley Iskierka
Sunday,October 12
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
    
8:00 a.m. t Batkiewicz Family - Anniv. Paul
  10:00 a.m. t Karl & Maria Freiseis - Anniv. Maria
  11:30 a.m. t Maria Halak - Anniv.
    6:30 p.m. For the Parishioners
Monday, October 13
    
6:45 a.m. t Barbara (Zbylicki) Rostad
Tuesday,October14
    
6:45 a.m. t Helen, Alex and Matthew Bochnak
Wednesday, October 15
    
6:45 a.m. t Teresa Danaj
Thursday, October 16
    
6:45 a.m. t Victor Niziol
Friday, October 17
    
6:45 a.m. t Joseph & Emily Stanczuk
    7:00 p.m. t Helen Pasz
Saturday, October 18
    
8:00 a.m. t Martha Rekucki
    4:30 p.m. t Evelyn & Ted Krawczynski
Sunday, October 19
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
    
8:00 a.m. t Gary Schilling
  10:00 a.m. t Peter, Mary & Edward Bierch
  11:30 a.m. t Franciszek & Franciszka Strugalski
    6:30 p.m. For the Parishioners

Readings for the Week of October 12, 2003

Sunday: Wis 7:7-11; Heb 4:12-13; Mk 10:17-30
Monday: Rom 1: 1-7; Lk 11:29-32
Tuesday: Rom 1:16-25; Lk 11:37-41
Wednesday: Rom 2:1-11; Lk 11:42-46
Thursday: Rom 3:21-30; Lk 11:47-54
Friday: Rom 4:1-8; Lk 12:1-7
Saturday: 2 Tm 4:10-17b; Lk 10:1-9
Next Sunday: Is 53:10-11; Heb 4:14-16; Mk 10:35-45

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