e-Bulletin
Week of September 18 - 24, 2022
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... to Love, to Serve, to be Hope ...
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PANCAKES FOR ALL
SEPTEMBER 18
Join us this Sunday and WELCOME
New Parishioners and
Families with Newly Baptized kids!
Pancake Breakfast for all and Welcoming New Parishioners and Families of Baptized children and
All are invited to join us this Sunday, September 18 after the 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Masses for our pancake breakfast.
Connect with old friends and welcome the new people who have joined our parish during the last year.
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FOCUS ON MINISTRY
THIS WEEKEND
Weekend #2 September 17 and 18!
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Brief sharing from speakers from Worship and Caring ministries during Masses.
- ALL PARISH Welcoming Brunch after 9 and 11 a.m. Masses.
- New members and those newly baptized will be recognized and blessed at Masses.
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Council tables and representatives to answer questions in Commons.
Please return Gift Inventory forms in the baskets in the commons, or complete the Gift Inventory on our website under “Upcoming Events” by September 30.
For a fun weekend, volunteer to help out as a greeter or server of donuts one of the four weekends!
Call the office to find out how to volunteer.
NEXT WEEKEND
Weekend #3 Focus on Ministry
September 24 and 25
- Brief sharing from speakers from Fun and Fellowship and Parishioner Engagement ministries during Masses.
- Coffee, donuts and juice after Masses.
- Council tables and representatives to answer questions in Commons.
Please return the Gift Inventory forms in the baskets in the commons, or complete the Gift Inventory on our website under “Upcoming Events” the end of the month.
For a fun weekend, volunteer to help out as a greeter or server of donuts one of the four weekends! Call the office to find out how to volunteer.
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CALENDAR
Saturday, September 17:
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5:00 pm Mass, Fr. Tim - Deacon Mickey preaches
Sunday, September 18:
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9:00 am Mass, Fr. Tim LIVESTREAMED
- Welcome Breakfast, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
- 11:00 am Mass, Fr. Kevin
Monday, September 19:
- Girl Scout Troop 19026, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Year 2 Confirmation leader meeting, 7:00 pm
Tuesday, September 20:
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Directory Photography 2:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- AA meeting, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Choir Rehearsal, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Bell Choir rehearsal, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Wednesday, September 23:
- Directory Photography 2:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- K/Elem Catechist Training 6:30 pm 8:00 pm
- Middle School FF Catechist training, 7pm-8pm
Thursday, September 22:
- Lawn Mowing Crew 4
- Mass, 10:00 am
- Directory Photography 2:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Al-Anon meeting, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Finance Meeting, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Friday, September 23:
- Directory Photography 2:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Saturday, September 24:
- Directory Photography 10:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- 5:00 pm Mass, Fr. Kevin
Sunday, September 25:
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9:00 am Mass, Fr. Tim - Deacon Mickey preaches LIVESTREAMED
- SGS Training 10:00 am - 10:30 am
- Book Discussion, 10:15 am - 11:30 am
- 11:00 am Mass, Fr. Tim
- CLOW Training, 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
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GIFT OPPORTUNITIES OPEN HOUSE
OCTOBER 2
Gift Opportunities Open House
Sunday, October 2, 10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Room 205A
No registration required
How can you be intentional about developing and using
your gifts… to Love, to Serve, and to be Hope?
Attend the open house to learn about ways to explore your God-given gifts and details about the upcoming Living Your Talents and Strengths (LYTS) classes being offered at St. Thomas Becket.
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SEPTEMBER FEST
SEPTEMBER 23
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Family Fun Night
Please join us for Family Fun Night on Friday, September 23
from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
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Fun activities for all ages, including a giant obstacle course, pop toss, cake walk, face painting, beep beep cars for the littles, inflatables, caricature artist, balloon artist
- CASH GRAB for a chance to win cash and out of uniform passes
- Raffle prizes this year include an electric scooter, hoverboards, game tables, and a cotton candy machine!
- Food and beer/wine tents
SeptemberFest concert
This year’s concert features national act Big Head Todd and the Monsters, along with local favorites The World According to Garth, and Dazy Head Mazy!
Tickets are $40.
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RED PINE SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE
To Love, to Serve and to Be Hope
Saint Thomas Becket is holding a school supply drive for our friends at Red Pine Elementary in Eagan.
NEW Drop-off deadline, Friday, September 30!
Donations can be dropped off at STB before Mass or anytime the church is open. Bins are by the entrance.
Thank you for supporting our community’s children.
You do make a difference!
Suggested items to donate are listed below:
- 24 count crayons
- Colored, washable markers – both broad line and thin line
- Colored pencils
- Dry erase markers
- Highlighter markers
- Folders – 2 pocket
- Glue sticks
- Glue bottles
- School box 8”x5”
- Pencils
- Scissors (children size AND adult sizes for our intermediate students – grades 3 – 5)
- Spiral notebooks – wide lined or wide ruled
- Composition notebooks – wide lined or wide ruled
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HOMECOMING WEEKEND
OCTOBER 8/9
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SHARING PHOTOS
Last Weekend’s OUTDOOR MASS &
Blessing of School bags and devices
Beautiful day to celebrate!
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GROWING THROUGH LOSS
AN INTERDENOMINATIONAL COALITION OF SOUTH SUBURBAN
“Turning Loss to Legacy, The Journey to Find Joy Again”
MITCH CARMODY, Writer, Artist, Grief Educator and Nationally Recognized Motivational Speaker
WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022
WHERE: Church of St. Michael, 22120 Denmark Avenue, Farmington
TIME: Registration, 6:30 pm; Speaker, 7:00 pm; Support Groups (facilitated by trained leaders), 8:00 pm
Freewill Offering
This program is offered to any adult experiencing a loss or major crisis
and to Pastoral Ministers, i.e., Befrienders and Stephen Ministers.
Questions? call: 651-452-8261 or growingthroughloss@gmail.com
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EASY AND FUN VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY
SEPTEMBER 25 (training)
Great for Middle Schoolers and Older Teens – Adults are needed too!
Sharing God’s Story (SGS) for 4- and 5-year old’s and Children’s Liturgy of the Word (CLOW) for 6 – 10 year old’s
Parents and grandparents, your middle school and high school teens have service hours to complete for many school related activities or honors requirements AND giving of yourself and doing service for others and your community is a Christian value we uphold and teach our children.
Here are two simple child programs that you or your teen or you and your teen can do while you are at the 9am or 11am Mass. VERY SIMPLE, very minimal preparation time and teens will earn 2 hours service every time they participate!
Quick Training provided on Sunday September 25 - SGS – 10:00- 10:30 - Rm 101 / CLOW – 12 :00- 12:30 – Rm 101
Please click on the two links below to learn more and sign up to help with these Sunday morning programs.
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IT'S TIME FOR A NEW DIRECTORY!
SEPTEMBER 20-24 & OCTOBER 18-22
Church Directory Photography
Schedule your appointment today!
PHOTOGRAPHY DATES:
Tuesday—Saturday
September 20-24, 2022
October 18-22, 2022
HOURS
Weekdays 2:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Saturdays 10:30 am - 5:00 pm
ONLINE SCHEDULING
(right column under “Photography appointment Scheduling login”)
Church Code: mn255
Password: photos
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VOLUNTEER
We need 1 or 2 Host/Hostesses to help greet parishioners, check them in and help them fill out a form.
It is also a nice time to connect with friends and meet new people.
Adults and teens are welcome to help out or a parent with a younger child.
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BLESSING OF THE BEASTS
OCTOBER 2
Plan to bring all your critters to the Blessing of the Beasts for the Feast of St. Francis, Sunday, October 2, at 2:00 pm. We will bless all the animals in our parish that walk, creep, run, fly, swim, or slither. Invite your friends to join us with their animals.
There will be treats for cats, dogs, rabbits and other furry friends. Sorry, we can’t feed the lizards and the snakes, but they are welcome to come and be blessed!
Service hours will be given for students who come to help with the animals on Sunday and/or help prepare treat bags on Saturday, the 1st.
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ADOPT A HIGHWAY
OCTOBER 15
Join us to help clean our Highway!
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Adopt-A-Highway Clean-Up Project. To move our mission beyond our parish doors, the Sustainability Committee has secured the adoption of Cliff Road, between Pilot Knob and Lexington, from Dakota County for the Catholic Community of St. Thomas Becket.
Saturday, October 15 is the next scheduled clean up of our stretch of road.
We will meet outside the front of the church at 8:30am to gather supplies and then move out to different zones along the road. Expect to spend two to three hours between safety briefing and clean up efforts.
Minimum age to participate is 12. Anyone under 18 must be accompanied by an adult, or have an adult available to sign waiver. Bring your own gloves, grabbers, sunscreen, and hats. Please bring a safety vest if you have one. The county will provide bags and some safety vests. Participants should wear long pants and closed-toe shoes.
Questions?
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DO YOU LIKE WATER?
We are currently putting together small groups for the JustFaith 8-week series, Sacred Water: Oceans and Ecosystems. If you are interested in facilitating a small group, or if you’d like to be contacted directly when facilitators are in place and dates/times are set, email Dez at dezs@stbeagan.org.
There are three books for this series, two of which will need to be purchased by participants, and one available to check out at STB. There is no additional cost to participate. Facilitators do not need to be experienced but should be comfortable leading a group, and sharing the role with a friend or spouse works great.
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WOMEN'S CLOTHING DRIVE
SEPTEMBER 24
South of the River
Womens’ Clothing Drive
Bring all sizes solid colored clothing to your church
Saturday, September 24th, 2022
Modest clothing to uplift sexually trafficked victims within our community
Call Kathy at 651 456-9378
Items needed:
- Tee shirts
- Sweatshirts
- Sweatpants
- Sport bras
- Bags of new socks
- and new underwear
- Tasteful tops, dresses, pants, and skirts appropriate for young women
All items without words or images displayed
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR:
General Schedules page HERE
By Ministry:
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Where to find schedule links:
Go to www.stbeagan.org and look under HELPFUL LINKS, there you will find “schedules”, click on it and you will be able to find the link to the signup. |
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STB VIRTUAL PRAYER WALL
Let's pray for each other!
When you get to this page, double click on the brick wall to post your prayer or a prayer request, or click on the "+" on the lower right of the wall.
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GOSPEL MEDITATION
September 18, 2022
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
“You cannot serve both God and mammon.” Merriam-Webster defines mammon as material wealth or possessions, especially having a debasing influence. While God does not take issue with our need to use money for the business of our lives, there can be a problem with the attitudes we bring to it. We can easily become so preoccupied and obsessed with money that it becomes the real “god” we worship. Do we serve mammon instead of God? In their book, Wealth, Riches and Money, Craig Hill and Earl Pitts outline symptoms of mammon’s influence in our lives. Some of these are worry and anxiety over money, money mismanagement, fear over “never having enough,” an “I can’t afford it” mentality, impulse buying, stinginess, greed, debt, and discontent.
Many of the things on that list can consume us to the point that we are distracted from what we really need to be doing. Many people spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about money and it becomes the source of their worst fears. If we are honest with ourselves, we need to admit that we place far more emphasis on our material securities than we ought. In fact, we have actually convinced ourselves that we cannot live without it. Are we that certain about the presence of God? Many of the world’s problems, especially those involving inequity and injustice, result from conflicts about money. Many equate money with happiness. Those successful in accumulating large amounts of it quickly realize just how wrong they are.
“Your ultimate allegiance is not to the government, not to the state, not to nation, not to any man-made institution. The Christian owes his ultimate allegiance to God, and if any earthly institution conflicts with God’s will it is your Christian duty to take a stand against it. You must never allow the transitory evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God (Martin Luther King, Jr.).” This is the point Jesus is trying to make. Unfortunately, when we look around our man-made kingdoms are far more prevalent than God’s kingdom. When we start seeing greater evidence of justice, equity, dignity, respect, opportunity, gentleness, holiness, solidarity, honesty, simplicity, care for creation, and a decrease in ambition, then we will know that God’s kingdom is being served. We will be doing what we are supposed to do.
©LPi
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EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP
RECOGNIZE GOD IN YOUR ORDINARY MOMENTS
Fixing the Scales
Most people don’t intend on being selfish. The reality of selfishness usually lies in the grey shades of our decision-making. We would never go out of our way to kick a homeless person begging by the highway exit. We would never steal money from our parish collection plate.
But would we drive past the homeless person without even extending a thought or a prayer toward his need? Would we justify stinginess in time, talent, and treasure because of our own comfort? We all have been guilty of transgressions such as these in the past. We will fall again in the future.
Most of the evil in this world can be traced back to a feeling of entitlement that lurks deep within each of us — a frantic concern for our own good that we find difficult to shake. The same instinct that compelled Eve to reach for the fruit that would give her the knowledge of good and evil still compels people to focus on what they are owed, on what they have “earned,” on what they have “coming to them.” We are so tempted to fix the scales. We are so tempted to keep score.
We would do well to remember that our God is not a God who keeps score. He is not a God who acts entitled or who tacks on extra dues, taking as much as He can get. He is a God who seats the lowly with princes. He is a God who seeks avenues for reconciliation and mercy.
— Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS
©LPi
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PRAYERS FOR THE SICK
Please hold these parishioners in your prayers:
Bob Carraher
Lisa LaFrance
Mary Cloutier
Judy Schmidt
If you have someone you would like added to our confidential Prayer Line call Bonnie Berquist at 651-450-1043 or email her at Bonnie_B_02@msn.com.
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READINGS
Sunday:
Am 8:4-7/Ps 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-8/1 Tm 2:1-8/Lk 16:1-13 or 16:10-13
Monday:
Prv 3:27-34/Ps 15:2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5/Lk 8:16-18
Tuesday:
Prv 21:1-6, 10-13/Ps 119:1, 27, 30, 34, 35, 44/Lk 8:19-21
Wednesday:
Eph 4:1-7, 11-13/Ps 19:2-3, 4-5/Mt 9:9-13
Thursday:
Eccl 1:2-11/Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17bc/Lk 9:7-9
Friday:
Eccl 3:1-11/Ps 144:1b and 2abc, 3-4/Lk 9:18-22
Saturday:
Eccl 11:9—12:8/Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17/Lk 9:43b-45
Next Sunday:
Am 6:1a, 4-7/Ps 146:7, 8-9, 9-10 [1b]/1 Tm 6:11-16/Lk 16:19-31
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The Catholic Community of Saint Thomas Becket is dedicated to protecting children and vulnerable adults. Your cooperation and support strengthens our parish’s commitment to keeping children and vulnerable adults safe in our community. Volunteers serving with minors and vulnerable adults must complete requirements before engaging in ministry. For more information contact:
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