PARISH DIRECTORY

 

Parish Priests.................................... 612-789-7238

      Father Glen T. Jenson, Pastor

      Father Glen at St. Anthony.............. 612-379-2324

         (revglenjensen@onebox.com)

 

      Father Waldemar Matusiak, SChr

         (waldemarmatusiak@gmail.com)

      Deacon John Belian

 

Pastoral Ministry............................... 612-789-9168

      Sister M. Benita, OSF

      Sister Donna, OSF

 

Business Manager............................ 612-789-3430

      Janice Frakie         (JFrakie@comcast.net)

 

Parish Secretary................................ 612-789-7238

      Janice Godlewski  (JGodlewski@comcast.net)

 

Bulletin Announcements due by Monday, noon.

 

Telephone Numbers

      Parish Office................................... 612-789-7238

      Parish Office Fax............................ 612-789-5769

      Pope John Paul II Catholic School... 612-789-8851

      Convent......................................... 612-789-3256

 

Prayer Line

      Weekdays...................................... 612-789-7238

      Anytime.......................................... 763-572-1713

 

Website:    www.ourholycross.com

 

HOLY CROSS

FALL FESTIVAL

 

We’d appreciate your help!

612-789-7238

 

PADRE’S PEDAL PUB

 

Buy a ticket to win a

Nordeast Pedal Pub Party

with Fr. Glen on October 1

 

 

 

MAKE A BASKET

 

This is a fun project!

Choose a theme and fill a

basket with related items.

 

FANCY BOOTH

 

Crafts of all kinds

are needed.

Beads, needle art, etc.

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS

to Larry and Marilyn Presseller

as they celebrate their

50th Wedding Anniversary this weekend.

May they be blessed with many more

years of love, health and happiness.

 

 

OFFERTORY COLLECTION

 

August 8, 2010 - $6,224.31

Mission Collection for Geita, Tanzania - $2,125.00

Thank you!

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION - THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY!  Through the Blessed Virgin Mary let us go to the Adoration Chapel.  JESUS is awaiting our visits, and the Blessed Virgin Mary would be so pleased.  Chose an hour and experience peace.  Open hours: Tuesday 4:00 PM, Wednesday 3:00 PM, Saturday 10:00 AM.  For information call: 612-781-4806 or 763-784-1317.  Thank you!

             FATHER GLEN’S     THOUGHTS…..  

 

This weekend we celebrate the Solemn Holy Day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  This great holy feast was instituted in 1950 by Pope Pious XII to bring into focus the role of Mary in our salvation and the reward that awaits those who are free from sin.  The pope had been asked by bishops around the world to declare Mary’s Assumption, a teaching long held and accepted by all the faithful, as a solemn feast worthy of being a holy day of obligation. 

 

This year it falls on a Sunday and everyone will be able to attend mass and join in the celebration of the honor given to Mary by God Most High for her signal role in salvation history.  She was sinless from her conception and remained so throughout her life and we know that as St. Paul says, the wages of sin is death, hence she did not merit death and corruption in the grave which we experience.  She was the chosen mother of God and faithfully followed him to the cross.  She received the honor of being taken to heaven at the moment of her dying so that she experienced more of a falling asleep rather than the shock of death, and awakened in the glory of heaven in the presence of the Blessed Trinity.  In heaven she intercedes for all her spiritual children and hence we honor her this Sunday and everyday for her glorious holiness, purity, and faithfulness and divine maternity.  Glory to you O virgin mother of God assumed into heaven and praised by the angels!

 

Father Glen Jenson, Pastor

 

 

AS WE REJOICE & CELEBRATE

WITH SISTER BENITA

 

next weekend on her 60th Anniversary as a Sister of St. Francis of Sylvania, Ohio, and her 25 years of service to our parish, let us also take time to remember the gift of so many women from our parish who joined the Sisters of St. Francis, and also the Sisters of St. Francis who have served at Holy Cross.  Next weekend the Sisters will be remembered and named at the St. Francis altar.  Take a moment to stop at the St. Francis altar at the back of church and offer a prayer for these valiant women who have served the church and our parish so well.