August 31, 2025 | 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
In the first reading, Sirach encourages his child to conduct all his affairs with humility. In the second reading, the author writes, You have not approached that which could be touched…no, you have approached Mount Zion. In the Gospel, while dining at the home of a Pharisee, Jesus tells a parable about a wedding banquet. He says that the one who humbles himself by taking the lowest place will be exalted.
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September 7, 2025 | 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
In the first reading, the author asks who among mortal human beings could know God’s wisdom without help from God. In the second reading, Paul urges Philemon to accept Onesimus on his behalf no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a brother. In the Gospel, Jesus says that anyone who wants to follow him must carry his own cross. He encourages his listeners to consider the cost of discipleship.
September 14, 2025 | Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
In the first reading, the people complain against God and Moses, so the Lord punishes them by sending a plague of saraph serpents. Then God heals his people of the plague by instructing Moses to make a serpent and mount it on a pole. Anyone who looks at the serpent will be healed. In the second reading, Paul writes of Christ who emptied himself, becoming obedient even to death. In the Gospel, Jesus tells Nicodemus that the Son of Man must be lifted up like the serpent in the desert so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
Prayers for our Priests
The following are priests and deacons of our Diocese who have died. Please remember them in your daily prayers:
- Father Thomas Quigley (Aug 30)
- Fr. Edward Groesch (Sep 2)
- Fr. Thomas Masterson (Sep 4)
- Fr. James M. Huck (Sep 4)
- Fr. Geoffry Egan (Sep 5)
- Fr. Charles O’Reilly (Sep 5)
- Fr. Thomas Connolly (Sep 5)
- Msgr. James A. Suddes (Sep 5)
- Fr. William Hembrow (Sep 6)
- Fr. Henry Becker (Sep 11)
- Fr. Dennis Tierney (Sep 11)
- Fr. Herman Gesenhues (Sep 13)
- Fr. John Daw (Sep 13)
- Fr. Patrick Carroll (Sep 13)
- Fr. Francis Corbett (Sep 13)
- Fr. Anton Wieneke (Sep 14)
- Fr. Martin Mangan (Sep 14)
- Fr. Joseph Kuenster (Sep 15)
- Fr. John Reis (Sep 15)
- Fr. Aloysius Schwellenback (Sep 15)
- Fr. Robert McCarthy (Sep 16)
- Fr. John J. Goff (Sep 17)
- Fr. Robert Porter (Sep 17)
- Fr. Edward D. Adamski (Sep 18)
- Fr. John Savoree (Sep 18)
- Fr. D. Byrne (Sep 19)
- Fr. James McCarthy (Sep 19)
- Fr. Casimir W. Andruskevitch (Sep 19)
- Fr. William Overmann (Sep 19)
- Fr. Francis Trojan (Sep 20)
- Fr. J. B. Schnelten (Sep 20)
- Fr. Henry J. Schwener (Sep 20)
- Fr. Miles Sweeney (Sep 21)
- Fr. Peter Kaenders (Sep 21)
- Fr. Henry F. Kozak (Sep 21)
- Fr. Stanley J. Swiatek (Sep 21)
- Fr. Thomas Davenport (Sep 21)
- Fr. J. Michael Jenkins (Sep 21)
- Fr. Daniel Higgins (Sep 22)
- Fr. Stephen Schauwecker (Sep 23)
- Fr. Joseph P. Jordan (Sep 23)
- Fr. Augustine Schlegel (Sep 24)
- Fr. Charles Manuel (Sep 25)
- Fr. James Casey (Sep 25)
- Msgr. David Lantz (Sep 26)
- +Pope John Paul I (Sep 28)
- Fr. Anthony Wirtschorek (Sep 28)
- Fr. Joseph O’Boyle (Sep 28)
- Fr. Aloysius Schwarz (Sep 28)
- Fr. John William Houran (Sep 28)
- Fr. Donatus Grunloh, O.F.M. (Sep 29)
- Fr. James McCabe (Sep 30)
Prayers for our Military
- Nolan Yehling- USAF, Whiteman AFB
- Brandon Weidner- US Coast Guard, Sault Sainte Marie, MI
- Kody Presswood- Staff Sergeant, US Space Force, Colorado Springs, CO
- Nick Glasgow- USMC, CA