CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE KING  1410 Baxter Avenue, Superior WI 54880 Phone (715) 392-8511 - Fax (715) 392-3457

JUNE 8, 2008

TENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

Parish Web Site- www.superiorcathedral.org

Superior Diocese Web Site- www.catholicdos.org

In the event of an Emergency after Business Hours

Call Fr. Dan at 392-3544

MASS INTENTIONS

MONDAY, June 9, 2008

8:30 A.M. – Mary Catherine (Greene) Evered-M

- The Family

TUESDAY, June 10, 2008

8:30 A.M. – Lillian Kenville-M

- Gloria West & Annette Brunswick

WEDNESDAY, June 11, 2008

8:30 A.M. – LaVerna Cleary Topak-M

- Carol Cleary

THURSDAY, June 12, 2008

8:30 A.M. – Bernice Pedziwiatr-M

- The Family

FRIDAY, June 13, 2008

8:30 A.M. – Bill Berger-M

- Don & Mary Peterson

WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, June 14, 2008

4:30 P.M. – William Stack Sr.-M

- The Family

SUNDAY, June 15, 2008

8:30 A.M. – Spiritual & Temporal Welfare of

Cathedral Parishioners

10:30 A.M. – Austin & Margaret Grover-M

- Estate

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SANCTUARY CANDLE for the week of June 8^th:

Will burn in memory of Jim Cashin

By Rosanne Schulz & Marge Tucker

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VOCATIONS… Matthew’s dramatic call was a sign of God’s great mercy and love. Our call may not be so dramatic, but it, too, is a call to trumpet God’s mercy. God gives you the courage to follow! (Matthew 9:9-13)

Readings for the Week of June 8^th:

Sunday: Hos 6: 3-6 / Rom 4: 18-25 / Mt 9: 9-13

Monday: 1 Kgs 17: 1-6 / Mt 5: 1-12

Tuesday: 1 Kgs 17: 7-16 / Mt 5: 13-16

Wednesday: Acts 11: 21b-26, 13: 1-3 / Mt 5: 17-19

Thursday: 1 Kgs 18: 41-46 / Mt 5: 20-26

Friday: 1 Kgs 19: 9, 11-16 / Mt 5: 27-32

Saturday: 1 Kgs 19: 19-21 / Mt 5: 33-37

Next Sunday: Ex 19: 2-6a / Rom 5: 6-11 / Mt 9: 36-10: 8

CATHEDRAL CHURCH CALENDAR

Tues. June 10 – 5:00 PM 8^th Grade Graduation Mass at Cathedral with dinner to follow.

Wed. June 11 – Last day of School for Cathedral Students.

Sat. June 14/15 – National Concern Collection

Sun. June 15 – Father’s Day.

MINISTRIES

PRAYER MINISTRY

There are people in the parish willing to share your needs and prayers. Please call 392-1455 if you or a loved one is in need.

Notice: ALL MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION, READERS, SERVERS, USHERS & GREETERS…We will be scheduling for the months of August, September & October. If you know of dates you cannot volunteer please call the parish office (392-8511) no later than Tues. July 1^st. Thank you!

LITURGICAL ROLES for June 14^th & 15^th

MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION:

4:30 Lu Archambault, Angela Booth, Joni Tauzell Need One

8:30 Brendan Fouts, Betty Peterson, Louise Pope, Sharon & Larry Price, Mary Lou Reger

10:30 Helen Bachand, Mary Davis-Heikkila, Diann Nelson, Kent Phillips, Pat & Dale Piggott, Liz Schmidt

READERS: CANTORS:

4:30 Kay Gustafson Marcia, Deb & Dar

8:30 Nancy Carriar Paul B.

10:30 Andrea Dickenson Terry C.

SERVERS:

4:30 Reba Buczynski

8:30 Neil Baltes

10:30 Halee Kirkwood

USHERS:

4:30 Joe Mackiewicz (Lead)

Terry Mikel

Lenny Rouse

Need 1

8:30 Bob Ahlborg (Lead)

Jim Bleskan

Stan Semborski

Tom Tracy

10:30 Bob Bennett (Lead)

Jim Cirilli

Emil Osacho

Bernie Reger

GREETERS:

4:30 Terry Mikel (SW)

Mavis Moran (SE)

Penny Johnson (MW)

Krista Johnson (MC)

Jan Ronchak (ME)

8:30 Doris Magdzas (SW)

John & Pat Davy (SE)

Edith Livingston (MW)

Betty Sutherland (MC)

Need 1 (ME)

10:30 Theresa LaFlamme & Doris Mace (SW)

Kathy Moder & Kathy Schulties (SE)

Tom Henning (MW)

Sandy Henning (MC)

Denise Osterholm (ME)

STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE

FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS: For May 31^st & June 1 …233 Envelope Users (191 last week) contributed $8,493.00 in the Regular Collection, $662.94 in the Loose Collection, $25.15 in the Teen/Children’s Collection & $1,862.35 in the Mission Co-op Collection. Thank you!

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK

KRESS HALL

OUT WITH THE OLD – IN WITH THE NEW!!

After many years of use we are “retiring” old folding chairs and heavy 8 foot tables and furnishing our entire Kress Hall with lightweight, durable and comfortable tables and chairs.

By mid-June we will have in Kress Hall 12 round white tables and white chairs and 21 rectangular 8 foot tables in almond (through the generosity of the Funeral Luncheon Volunteers). We are not currently able to provide almond chairs to match the tables without donations from our generous parishioners. For our many meetings and events we hold in Kress Hall, comfortable chairs would be a blessing! Providing 8 chairs at each of the almond tables will cost an additional $3600. If you are interested in providing funds to assist us in replacing these chairs, please contact Fr. Dan at the Church Office (392-8511).

TABLE AND CHAIR SALE

Our “retired” tables and chairs will be for sale in the church parking lot on Friday, June 20^th from 10am until 12pm.

Chairs will be sold for $1.00 each, tables for $10 each. The items must be removed at the time of purchase. Cash only, please.

FATHER JOHN GOLOBICH

Fr. John Golobich will celebrate his 60^th Ordination Anniversary of Priesthood on Sunday, June 8^th at the 10:30 Mass at St. James Church in West Duluth. Fr. John’s address is: St. Anne’s Residence, 330 East 3^rd Street, Duluth, MN 55805. Congratulations Fr. John for your dedicated and devoted priestly ministry. God grant you much happiness and good health for many years! God bless.

Fr. Dan & Fr. Lee

WELCOMES

We welcome the newest member of our parish family.

Kristina Simpson

We celebrate our newly baptized into the Catholic faith.

Drew Michael Eisel

Matthew Michael Peterson

NOTE OF GREETING

“Greetings to all at Cathedral! I had a great weekend.”

Sr. Ann

OUR HOLY FATHER’S MONTHLY INTENTIONS 2008

Friendship with Christ. That all Christians may cultivate a deep and personal friendship with Christ so to communicate the strength of his love to every person they meet.

International Eucharist Congress. That the International Eucharistic Congress in Quebec may lead to greater understanding that the Eucharist is the heart of the Church and the source of evangelization.

VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY NEEDED!!!!!

Our Cathedral Rectory is in a sad state of disrepair and in dire need of some TLC. It needs scraping, caulking, puttying, and painting and cleaning, carpets ripped up and floors sanded and sealed.

Work needs to be done in two phases: inside and outside.

Target date for phase 1—inside: Saturday, June 14. We need about 6-8 reliable self-starting people to clean, rip up carpets and assess floors. Equipment needs are: buckets, rags, cleaning supplies, tools to rip up carpets, etc.

Tentative target date for phase 2—outside: Saturday, August 16. We need 8-10 strong, reliable, self-starting people to scrape, caulk, putty, prime, and paint the outside of the rectory. We will need ladders, scrapers, brushes, caulking guns, putty knives, and people not afraid to crawl up ladders.

This is your chance to do some very meaningful volunteer work for your Parish. WE NEED YOU.

If not you, who? If not now, when?

Call Sara Fouts at 392-6047 or Tom Henning at 392-2809 to help us out. Today.

THANK YOU

The priest of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit who was here this past weekend, Girard Kohler, c.S.Sp., extends his thanks to the parish for your generous response to his appeal on behalf of the Spiritans’ missionary activities. He is particularly appreciative of the personal interest and kindness shown to him during his visit.

Be assured of the prayers of Spiritans worldwide for you and your intentions. Be assured also of their need for place in your prayers for themselves and for their ministries with God’s lowly ones, the lonely and the left out.

Do please continue to hold the missions in your hearts. Please keep the Spiritans in mind. And continue to witness to the Gospel in your lives.

God bless us all.

WEEKLY MEDITATION

JUNE 8, 2008

10^TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Readings: Hosea 6:3-6; Psalm 50; Romans 4:18-25;

Matthew 9:9-13

“I have called you by name; you are mine.” (Isaiah 43:1)

Do you remember the wartime poster of Uncle Sam with his arm outstretched and his finger pointing as he said, “I want you!”? Throughout history in the scriptures God has been reaching out to us to remind us that he really wants us. A major problem in all of this is that we usually respond only when we are in trouble. The prophet Hosea has to remind the people of this in our first reading. The Hebrews offered many sacrifices to the Lord, but he had to tell them that their inner spirit was not in their offerings. “It is love that I desire, not sacrifice” (Hosea 6:6)

The letter to the Romans deals a lot with the idea of faith. Abraham is given as an example of a person of faith. He responded to God’s call right from the beginning. Even when things did not seem to be working out as promised he remained faithful to the Lord. His faith was so strong that “it was credited to him as righteousness.” In other words, it is as if God owed Abraham something because of his strong faith.

However, in the Gospel we learn the real truth. No one can earn God’s love or deserve to be called to follow him. Matthew is a tax collector, someone who is an outcast in the society of that time. Yet, Jesus calls him to follow and Matthew responds immediately. Other outcasts are privileged to eat with Jesus in Matthew’s home. These people needed Jesus’ help and he responded with his love and mercy.

Then, as always, in the call and response, we are asked to share love and mercy with others. We see this especially in Matthew’s gospel from the Beatitudes in chapter 5 to the end of the gospel. This is a difficult thing to do in today’s society. We live in an atmosphere where people have to earn what they get. So if we accept God’s call, are we willing to give love and mercy as Jesus did to us? Do you suppose that one of the reasons young men and women are not responding to the call to follow Christ “more nearly” is that they expect to be given something? Are they willing to offer “mercy” rather than “sacrifice” as Jesus has asked? You might want to reflect on how God’s mercy, love and gift of faith have sustained your life.

Question for children: How do you help Jesus, as his friend and follower, to do his work today?

Questions for Youth: Jesus hung out with people who weren’t perfect and yet called them to follow him anyway. What is imperfect in you? How does this help you to follow Jesus?

Questions for Adults: What is your strategy for making sure you are able to hear when Christ calls you here today to follow him? How is that call sounded in your life?

“Because you are precious in my eyes and glorious, and because I love you.” (Isaiah 43:4)

Fr. Lee

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

Picnic Tuesday, July 15^th

6:00 – 8:30 PM

Billings Park (First Pavilion)

TON’s of food & fun!

CATHEDRAL SCHOOL NEWS

Cathedral School is looking for School Committee Representatives from St. Francis, Cathedral, and Holy Assumption. (Check with your pastor if you are interested.)

Cathedral School has an immediate opening for a Latchkey Supervisor. The position is from Monday to Friday, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. We are seeking a reliable individual to supervise young elementary students after school. Please contact Principal Tim Johnson at 392-2976.

Cathedral School is seeking a qualified individual for Vocal Music Education beginning with the 2008-09 school year. The music instructor is responsible for classroom music in K-5 and general music in grades 6-8. Piano skills are desirable. This position is approximately 20-25 hours per week. Please send a resume and credentials to Tim Johnson, Principal at 1419 Baxter Avenue.

8^th grade Graduation will be held on Tuesday, June 10^th. Mass will be held at 5:00 p.m. dinner and awards to follow.

Cathedral School’s last day of school is Wednesday, June 11^th.

COMMUNITY NEWS

SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL

“Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” Matthew 9:11

The Society extends mercy and some form of assistance to all in need, not discriminating against anyone who calls for help because in the face of the poor we see the face of Christ.

Come and join us at our next meeting on Tuesday, June 10^th at 6:30PM at the Catholic Charities Building, 1416 Cumming Ave. 394-6617.