St. Leo’s Website: stleosminot.org
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Weekday Schedule
Daily Masses –Tuesday – Friday 6:45am & 8am, Saturdays at 9:30am
Rosary prayed at 7:45 a.m. – Tuesday - Friday
Confessions are heard at 7:30am Tuesday - Friday; and Saturdays from 9 to 9:30am and 2:00 – 3:30pm and after Mass by request, or by appointment.
Please Pray For: Stan & Irene Estensen, Margaret Muus, Mary Voeller, Sharon DesRoches, Esther Ruelle, Fr. Ken Wald, Dennis Lucier, Jr., Jon Thomason, Patricia Lesmeister, Rose Weigel, Dennis Klein, Aaron & Elaine Mooney, Margaret Klein Stacy, Devin Kaylor & family, Jessica Nush, Cindy Kramer, Tony & Dolores Feist, Lena Walter, Faye Rubbelke, Alice Brown, Marie Hager, Donna Christen, Jim Frank, Fr. Chris Walter, Kathy Lapre, Lisa Helseth, Jay Helseth, Dorothy Balucki, Duane Selfors, Catherine Selfors, Dorothy Ficek, Regina Regstad, Ray Dostert, Beth Rubbelke, Lori Amsden, Quentin & Trudy Weigel, Nathan & Samantha Pflugradt & family, Ronald Lee, Cindy Clark, David Baker, Lewis Bohl, Elizabeth Boechler, Pete Bachmeier, Kathryn M. Boechler, John Feist, Rose Koble, Tillie Feist, Kristie Root, Ellen Krumwiede, Lexie Klein, Russell Lee, Vickie Adams, Richard Ehli, Jeff Tescher, Mary Ann Bohl, Lisa Lathrop & family, Heidi Petrick, Patrick J. Schmidt, Burton & Margaret Olson, Marie Walter, Violet Christianson, Zac DeMers, Shirley Richter, LaVonHattel, Lorraine Klein, Betty Ann Spaulding & family, Lori Haas, Deployed Military Members & their families, Paul Buckley Jr., Duane Knudtson,JoEllenHalbert, Halbert family, Catherine Boechler, DakotaBoys & Girls Ranch, Brennon Beebe, Tibur Pumper, Lisa King, Kenny Thiesen, Dorothy M. Ahmannfamily ,Valentine Schell and Larry Bachmeier (Please notify the parish office for any changes, additions or deletions.)
Stewardship Corner: “Happiness lies more in giving than in receiving.” (Acts 20:35)
July 1, 2013- June 30, 2014
Yearly Budget (Adult, Children, Loose) $ 571,000.00
Year to Date collected 234,670.93
Dec. 2013 Monthly Goal 58,082.29
Month to date collected 26,030.05
Collections: Thru Dec. 8
Adult……………………… $11,774.34
Children………………….. 12.80
Loose……………………… 1.754.76
Total…….……….…………… 13,541.90
Spare-a-dime……………….. 1,099.00
Parish Improvement……….. 2,768.38
Building Restoration Project Cost: $3,100,000.00
Building Restoration Loan Balance: $1,629,009.33
Please keep using your Parish Improvement envelopes!
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR FUTURE PRIESTS:
Adam Maus, Doug Krebs, Gregory Luger,Jordan Dosch,Brandon Wolf, Gregory Crane, Scott Lefor, Jared Wolf, Tanner Harris,Christian Rodakowski, Ian Kenny and Matthew Koppinger. If you are considering a call to the priesthood, please call Father Joshua Waltz at 701-471-5758 or
ADVENT PENANCE SERVICES:
Sunday, December 15th – St. John’s – 2pm
Monday, December 16th – Little Flower – 7pm
Tuesday, December 17th – St. Leo’s – 7:30pm
Wednesday, December 18th – OLG – 7pm
MAY HE REST IN PEACE
We offer our prayers for Francis Bruce, Jr., that the Lord will open to him the gates of paradise. Please pray for his family and friends who endure the loss of their loved one.
Meetings & Special Events Calendar
Sunday, December 15th
Lessons and Carols – 5:30pm at the Church
Tuesday, December 17th
Penance Service – 7:30pm
Wednesday, December 18th
CCD – 6pm at Bishop Ryan
Adult Education – 6pm at Bishop Ryan
Thursday, December 19th
St. Leo’s serves noon lunch at All Saints
Happy Anniversary
Dec. 15Dec. 17
Dec. 19
Dec. 21 / Peter & Cheryl Richter
Terry & Julie Elsberry
Trevor & ShareenMendiola
Victor & Eva Vargas
Curt & Pamela Guss
Miguel & Maritza Garcia
Christopher & Mandy Weltikol
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Minot Catholic Parishes Adoration Schedule
St. Leo’s - Mondays – 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
St. John’s - Friday - 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Our Lady of Grace - Thursday 9:30 a.m. - Friday 8:00 a.m.
Little Flower - Wednesday – 8:30am to 8:00 p.m.
Adoration! If you are able to spend time in Adoration of our Lord please contact the parish office at 838-1026.We are looking for a couple of people to fill the 10:30 – 11:30.
Need a Sub? If you need a sub and are unable to find a friend, or family member to substitute for you, please call the Parish office at -701-838-1026.
Women’s Coffee Group: We invite all women to join us for coffee every Wednesday, 7:30 pmat Sammy's Pizza. As women of faith, we can discuss the Catholic perspectives on current news and issues affecting women while fostering a greater desire to know, love and serve Jesus Christ and His Church.For more information or to RSVP, please call Mary Edith Tims at 402-452-4717 or Carmela Seright at 701-400-1129.
Need Last Minute Christmas Gift IdeasScrip gift cards make excellent gifts! It also saves time. We have gift cards available for department stores, salons, groceries, gas, home improvements, household supplies, and dining out. Scrip is available after the weekend Masses, in the parish offices during the week, and at the Bishop Ryan business office.
Lot-O-Dough Calendars make great Christmas gifts! Calendars are available for purchase after the weekend Masses, in the parish offices during the week, and at Bishop Ryan. There are over 300 chances to win. Cost is $25 each. Drawings start in January.
Pre-School Openings: Due to families moving, there are various spots open in Bishop Ryan’s Little Lions Pre-school for 3, 4 & 5 year olds. If interesting in enrolling your child or for more information, call Jaimie at 838-3355
LESSONS AND CAROLS!
Please join us for Lessons and Carols on Sunday, December 15th, at 5:30pm at St. Leo’s Church.
Following Lessons and Carols, please join us in the church basement for some wonderful Christmas fellowship.
GOODIES FOR LESSONS & CAROLS!
Please bring your best Holiday Treats to share in the church basement after Lessons & Carols on Sunday, December 15, 2013.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE – ONE STOP AT A TIME! The Holiday Train will be stopping in Minot on Wednesday, December 18, 2013, at 7:30pm. Please bring a cash or food donation to this year’s Holiday Train, which will benefit the Food Pantries and the Minot Area Homeless Coalition!
Catholic Daughters, St. Elizabeth's Court is having a bake sale onSunday December 15, in St. Leo's churchdining room after all Masses. This is a great opportunity to purchase some homemadeholiday baked goods. We will have cookies, breads, pies and candy for sale. We also will have some craft items for sale that will make perfect Christmas gifts.
VOCATION VIEWS: Lasting joy is a hallmark of a Christian. Where can you bring joy this week? Find your strength in God’s promise. (Isaiah 35: 16, 10)
St. Leo’s website is up and running! Please go to stleosminot.org for our exciting new site!
THE NINE FIRST FRIDAY’S DEVOTION AND THE TWELVE PROMISES OF THE SACRED HEART made to St. Margaret Mary with added prayer for daily neglect.
1. I will give them all the graces necessary for their state of live.
2. I will give peace in their families.
3. I will console them in all their troubles.
4. They shall find in my Heart an assured refuge during life and especially at the hour of death.
5. I will pour abundant blessing on all their undertakings.
6. Sinners shall find in my Heart the source and infinite ocean of mercy.
7. Tepid souls shall become fervent.
8. Fervent souls shall speedily rise to great perfection.
9. I will bless the homes in which the image of my Sacred Heart shall be exposed and honored.
10. I will give to priest the power to touch the most hardened hearts.
11. Those who propagate this devotion shall have their name written in my Heart and it shall never be effaced.
12. The all-powerful love of my Heart will grant to all those who shall receive communion on the First Friday of Nine consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they shall not die under my displeasure, nor without receiving the Sacraments; My Heart shall be their assured refuge at the Last Hour.
This devotion consists in attending Holy Mass and receiving Holy Communion in reparation forthose who do not receive Our Lord, who do not love Him and who wound Him by their sinful lives.
Prayer for Daily Neglects
ETERNAL FATHER, I offer You, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with all its love, all its sufferings, and all its merits. First, to expiate all the sins I have committed this day and during all my life. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and shall ever be, world without end. Amen. Second, to purify the good I have done poorly this day and during all my life. Glory be, etc. Third,to supply for the good I ought to have done, and that I have neglected this day and all my life. Glory Be. etc.
St. Leo’s Knights of Columbus Council #9906 will host a benefit breakfast Sunday, December 15 from 8:30-12:30. The menu will consist of pancakes, scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy, sausage, coffee, and juice. A free will offering will be collected with a portion of the proceeds going towards the Our Lady of Grace Food Pantry. Please join us in support of this wonderful cause during the Christmas season.
THE “VOICES OF NOTE” women’s chorus will be performing a Christmas Concert on Monday, December 16th, at 7pm at Vincent Methodist Church, 1024 2nd St. SE. Everyone is invited to attend this evening of Christmas music and to stay for refreshments served in the fellowship hall following the performance. The concert is free and open to the public.
Did You Know? …During an anti-Catholic campaign in Mexico, a soldier from the Mexican army disguised as a worshipper placed a bomb in a pot of flowers beneath the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe near present-day Mexico City. Though windows shattered several blocks away, the image and the glass case were left unharmed.
Scientists have discovered some miraculous qualities of the tilma(cloak) on which appears the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. For example, under normal conditions the plant fibers that were made to make the tilmausually wear out after about 50 years. However, the tilmaofOur Lady of Guadalupe shows absolutely no deterioration after 482 years, including a period of over 100 years when it was left unprotected from smoke, dust, heat, humidity and frequently handling. NASA scientists have discovered that the colors on the image are not made from any known material on earth. Even more miraculous is that the colors actually "float" roughly 3/10 of a millimeter above the tilma. The Virgin's eyes on the tilma exhibit the same quality as a human eye as her pupils dilate and contract in response to light and darkness. Some scientists have also discovered that the temperature of the tilmaremains a stable 98.6 degees, our normal body temperature, and that heartbeats of a child (Christ) have been heard when a stethoscope was placed on the womb of Mary. The Church honors Our Lady of Guadalupe each year on December 12th.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us!
Tuba Christmas will be presented at Dakota Square Dec 21st (Saturday) at 12 noon-1 pm, come out and hear some fabulous Sounds of Christmas.
Location is Dakota Square/Sleep Inn Wing
If you would like to participate, practice is at 10 am (Sleep Inn Theater).
THANK YOU to ThompsonLarson Funeral Home for their generous gifts of our weekly bulletin and our missals!