St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
313 East Second Street
Jordan, Minnesota 55352
Phone: (952) 492-2640, Fax: (952) 492-5683
www.sjbjordan.org
January 17, 2016, 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
January 17, 2016
Mission Statement
St. John’s Parish family prayerfully worships, studies, teaches and lives our faith in Jesus Christ.
A Note From Father Yanta
Sing a Little Louder
After a speech, pro life activist Penny Lea was approached by an old man. Weeping, he told her the following story:
“I lived in Germany during the Nazi holocaust. I considered myself a Christian. I attended church since I was a small boy.
We had heard the stories of what was happening to the Jews, but like most people today in this country, we tried to distance
ourselves from the reality of what was really taking place. What could anyone do to stop it?
A railroad track ran behind our small church, and each Sunday morning we would hear the whistle from a distance and then
the clacking of the wheels moving over the track. We became disturbed when one Sunday we noticed cries coming from the
train as it passed by. We grimly realized that the train was carrying Jews. They were like cattle in those cars!
Week after week that train whistle would blow. We would dread to hear the sound of those old wheels because we knew that
the Jews would begin to cry out to us as they passed our church. It was so terribly disturbing! We could do nothing to help
these poor miserable people, yet their screams tormented us. We knew exactly at what time the train whistle would blow,
and we decided the only way to keep from being so disturbed by the cries was to start singing our hymns. By the time the
train came rumbling past the church yard, we were singing at the top of our voices. If some of the screams reached our ears,
we'd just sing a little louder until we could hear them no more. Years have passed and no one talks about it much anymore,
but I can still hear them crying out for help. God forgive all of us who called ourselves Christians, yet did nothing to
intervene.
Now, so may years later, I see it happening all over again in America. God forgive you Americans for you have blocked out
the screams of millions of your own children. The holocaust is here. The response is the same as it was in my countrySilence!”
Sing a Little Louder was sent to me this week by Pro-life Action Ministries. I thought I would share it with you. Sometimes
we need a little jolt to wake us up. When I had visited Poland and Germany, the place that my ancestors came from, I also
visited the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Dachau. These places were built to house and exterminate the
“unwanted”. While visiting Poland, I found that at least 1.1 million prisoners were exterminated at Auschwitz, around 90
percent of them Jewish. And while visiting Germany I found that a total of 2,720 clerics were recorded as imprisoned at
Dachau, some 2,579 (or 94.88%) were Roman Catholics. I still have a rock that looks like a face crying out on my desk from
the compound where my brother priests were housed, to remind me the evil that had happened. What a horrible and dark
reality. Further, we know the Nazis performed horrific medical experiments on the “unwanted”. Every day, when I went to
Mass on my visit, I would pray for God’s mercy and healing of the evil and horror that had happened here. I prayed
especially for all those who were involved with such darkness and evil, that they could and would find God’s mercy and
healing.
Please join me, on this Friday January 22nd to pray for God’s mercy and healing for our Country. As we face the reality that
we as a Nation have allowed the extermination of over 56 million of our “unwanted” brothers and sisters since the 1973
decisions of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. It reflects with heartbreaking magnitude what Pope Francis means by a
“throwaway culture.” However, we have great trust in God’s providence. We are reminded time and again in Scripture to
seek the Lord’s help, and as people of faith, we believe that our prayers are heard.”
Friday, January 22 is a particular day of prayer and penance, called the "Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn
Children”. “In all the Dioceses of the United States of America, for the full restoration of the legal guarantee of the right to
life and of penance for violations to the dignity of the human person committed through acts of abortion.”
Fr. Yanta
Eucharistic Adoration Chapel
Open hours that need to be filled:
Wednesday, 1:00pm
Friday, 10:00am
If you would like an open hour, please call Sue
Pieper at 952.492.3340 or Wendy Niemeyer at
952.807.8664.
Welcome to St. John’s
We would like to welcome all those visiting with us today.
If you are interested in becoming a member of St. John’s,
please call Jean or Michelle at 952-492-2640 or visit our
website at www.sjbjordan.org to find our registration form.
2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Pray for Our Sick
Maureen Halloran (Michelle Bisek’s sister), Michael Geis,
Clara Kuechle, Lambert Meuleners, Don Undesser, Jim Klehr,
Dellie Breeggemann, Pam Jemmings (Marcy Pauly’s sister),
Josephine Deutsch, Rhonda Zweber, Laura Wolf, Ronald
Habstritt (Sue Zimitsch’s dad), Verena Seifert, Mike Shaw, Marion
Pearson, Kevin Keefe, Griffin Dahmen, Carol Segler, Tonya Beck,
Elizabeth Maresch, Sue Stifter, Albert Koenig, Les & Maria Thill,
Roger Neumann, Lexyn Grof, Beverly Juergens, Diane Roszelle,
Sean Dennehy and Florence Stocker.
Please call the Parish Office to be included in or taken
off the above list..
Families Moving Forward
Volunteers Needed
Mark your calendar for the next Families Moving Forward
hosting week, January 31 - February 7. We will need many
volunteers to help make this week a success including, set
up/take down crew, dinner hosts, evening hosts, overnight
hosts, and Saturday helpers. Volunteers for the week
(especially new volunteers) should plan to attend a meeting
at 3 p.m. on January 31 to review policies, procedures, and
expectations of the families we host.
You can sign up to volunteer online at http://
www.signupgenius.com/go/4090a4fabab2da75-families1.
Contact Michelle Lopez at 952-492-4572 or
mlopez@sjbjordan.org if you have questions or would like
to volunteer.
Weekly Stewardship Report
Sacrificial Giving: January 9 & 10, 2016
Envelope & Electronic Giving……………………….$ 6,576
Plate Giving (Loose Cash)…………………………...$ 375
Total…………………………………………………..$ 6,951
Collections on Mortgage/Debt………………………$ 3,388
Thank you!
Special Mortgage Appeal Update
Thank you to everyone who has given to the special
mortgage appeal! We originally were hoping to send in a
lump sum payment of $100,000, but your generosity has
been amazing and we now have $166,000 to pay towards
our mortgage. We will continue to collect donations
through January 31st and will make the lump sum payment
in the beginning of February. Again, thank you for your gift
of stewardship to our parish!
Knights of Columbus Corner
Annual KC Free-Throw Contest: Jan. 17th.
2:00-4:00 PM, at River Valley School in
Jordan. All girls and boys ages 9-14 are
invited to participate. Entry forms will be
available at contest site. For further info call:
952-492-5843. Good Luck!
Pro Life Minute: The scourge of legal abortion has forever
scarred our once-beautiful nation. More than one million
babies have been legally killed each year since the January
22, 1973, Supreme Court decision which struck down all
laws protecting mothers and babies from abortionists and
gave us the most liberal law in the world (legal through all
nine months).
Let your voice be heard on January 22 by attending the
MCCL March for Life. Join thousands of Minnesotans at
the State Capitol in St. Paul at 12:00 noon for the 42nd
annual MCCL March for Life. Your presence will help
show elected officials and the public the depth of support for
pro-life legislation protecting women and unborn babies.
For more information, visit www.mccl.org.
Catholic Services Appeal Foundation
The 2016 Catholic Services Appeal is about to kick-off!
In this Year of Mercy, we should remember Jesus taught us
the Corporal Works of Mercy: feed the hungry, give drink to
the thirsty, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, visit the
sick, visit the imprisoned, and bury the dead. These
Corporal Works of Mercy are precisely what the 17
Collective Ministries of the Archdiocese accomplish. The 17
collective ministries served by the Catholic Services Appeal
are: American Indian Ministry, Archdiocesan Council of
Catholic Women (ACCW), Campus Ministry - Newman
Center, Campus Ministry - Saint Paul’s Outreach,
Catholic Charities, Deaf Ministry, Elementary Schools,
Evangelization and Catechesis, High Schools, Hospital
Chaplains, Latino Ministry, Marriage, Family and Life,
Parishes, Prison Chaplains, Saint John Vianney College
Seminary, The Saint Paul Seminary, Venezuelan Mission.
Please begin to prayerfully consider your upcoming gift to
the Catholic Services Appeal. Please visit CSAF’s new
website at www.csafspm.org to learn more about the over
200 programs of the Ministries and the many thousand in
need who are served.
Archdiocesan Upcoming Events
• Prayer Vigil for Hope, Healing and Mercy
Thursday, January 21, 2016, 7 - 11 p.m., St. Mary’s Chapel
at The Saint Paul Seminary. Contact Sonya Flomo at
651-291-4515.
• Prayer Service for Life and March for Life Rally
Friday, January 22, 2016, 10:30 a.m., Cathedral of Saint
Paul. Please contact the Office for Marriage, Family and
Life at 651-291-4488
• Operation Andrew Dinner
Tuesday, January 26, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m., Archbishop’s
Residence. Reserve your spot at the table before January
19. Call (651) 962-6890.
• Wine: Catholic Women’s Conference
Saturday, February 6th from 9:30am to 3:30pm
Mary, Mother of the Church.. Call 651-291-4411
January 17, 2016
St. John’s School
Save the Date!
Preschool and Kindergarten Open House for families
interested in attending either preschool or kindergarten in the
fall of 2016!
Tuesday, Feb 23rd, 6:30 - 7:30pm
Please share this opportunity to check out our great school
with your family and friends! Watch for a flyer in the church
bulletin next weekend to share with others! Call the school
office at 952-492-2030 if you have questions.
Faith Formation
January Bible Study
A Biblical Walk Through the Mass
Sessions start this coming Tuesday, January 19 and will
meet every Tuesday for five weeks from 9:30am-11am. We
will meet in the Parish Dining Room.
If there is enough interest for an evening session we will
consider it. You can order your books online:
www.ascensionpress.com/Study Programs. Cost is $20 for
the materials. Please register or inquire with Tina Goetz:
(952) 492-5827 or sjbjordanff@gmail.com.
Confirmation Dinner and Meeting with Father Yanta
Students who will be confirmed this summer will have a
meeting and dinner with Father Yanta and Tina at 6pm on
the following dates:
Boys: January 20, at 6pm in the Parish Dining room
Girls: January 27, at 6pm in the Parish Dining room.
Steubenville
Registration forms are due February 3 with a $50 deposit.
This conference is open to incoming high school freshman
through graduated high school seniors. Information on the
conference and registration forms can be found at the
Information Desk in the Gathering Space.
YDisciple for Young Women
We have group leaders for YDisciple for young women
between the ages of 16 and 18! YDisciple is a tool to engage
teens in true life-changing discipleship through videos, small
group discussions and service. If interested in this unique
learning experience please contact Tina Goetz. We are
hoping to start classes late January or early February.
Parish Directory
Pastor, Rev. Timothy Yanta, Direct: 952-492-4560
Emergency 952-492-2640 (press 3),
FrYanta2012@sjbjordan.org
Parish Office, 952-492-2640
Office Hours: M-Thurs 8am-4:30pm
Michelle Lopez, Parish Business Administrator,
mlopez@sjbjordan.org
Jean Myers, Parish Administrative Assistant
jmyers@sjbjordan.org
Marty Huss, Maintenance, 952-492-2372
St. John’s School and Pre-School, 952-492-2030
Office Hours: M-F 8:00 am-3:30 pm
Dr. Bonita Jungels, Director of Education &
Evangelization, bjungels@sjsjordan.org
Lisa Wolf, Administrative Assistant, lwolf@sjsjordan.org
Faith Formation
Tina Goetz, Faith Formation Director, 952-492-5827,
sjbjordanff@gmail.com
Music Ministry
Teresa Schmidt, Director of Sacred Music
952-492-2640, sjbjordanmusic@gmail.com
Lay Leadership Positions
Trustees
Joe O’Brien, obrienlabs@frontier.com
Tim Sebenaler, sebenalertim@hotmail.com
Parish Council
Claire Robling, carobling@frontiernet.net
Donna Laabs, dlaabs.lenzen@yahoo.com
Finance Council
Mark Zimitsch, mk82nav@comcast.net
Pregnant? Need Help?
Call Parish Office or Deb Pauly at 952-492-2745
Sacraments
Confession
Tuesday 5:45-6pm, Friday 8:45am, First Saturday at
7:45-8am, Saturday 4-4:30pm
Baptism
Baptisms are celebrated on the first and third Sunday
of the month. Please contact the parish office for more
information.
Marriage
Contact Parish Office at least eight months in advance.
Pre-marriage preparation required.
Anointing of the Sick
Call the parish office anytime.
In today’s second reading, St. Paul tells the
Corinthians (and us) that all of our gifts are
from God and that they are given, not for
ourselves alone, but for the common good. But
the generosity of God knows no limits, the
miracle at Cana reminds us that whenever we faithfully do
as God asks, He can change our gifts of water into wine!
Communion Antiphon
God has called us through the Gospel to possess the glory of
our Lord Jesus Christ. Thessalonians 2:14
2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Liturgical Ministers, January 23 & 24, 2016
Greeters (Andrea Feist 492-2182)
5pm
Stephanie & Joe Harstad, Hedy Joachim,
Reaney Becker
8am
Colleen Eischens, Jim & Patty Huss
10am
Yvonne Sopata, Tom & Donna Laabs
Lectors & Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
Karen Umphress (karen@tnkent.com)
5pm Lector: Kathy Colling Ministers: Judy Tuma, Allen
Houdek, John Driscoll, Ed Breimhorst, Joan
Breimhorst
8am Lector: Angela Gutzmer Ministers: Jim Schwingler,
Mark Wolf, Jackie Wolf, Sue Malz, Tom Robling
10am Lector: Sheila Schmitz Ministers: Joe Hernandez,
Peter Breeggemann, Shannon Wick, Vernon Wick,
Jennifer Schmit, Laura Kvasnicka (Choir)
Communion to Homebound (Lisa Austen 492-6040)
Schule Haus Ruth Shotliff
Homebound Al & Katie Busch
Friendship Mnr/St. Gerts Jenny Gummert
Valley View/Oak Terrace Joe & Michelle Lopez
Ushers (Michael A. Hennen 492-6912)
5pm
Steve Hennen, Gene Steckman
8am
Frank Kipp, Francis Schatz
10am
Mike Behr, Joe Menke
Mass Servers (Jean Myers 492-2640)
5pm
Payton Wiegert, Mark Ferber, Hunter
Kvasnicka
8am
Kade Noyes, David Buesgens, James
Ringsmuth
10am
Ramona Driemeyer, Matthew Gummert, Joe
Hernandez
Sacristans (Jackie Wolf 492-3378)
5pm
Joan & Ed Breimhorst
8am
Denise Weber
10am
Jennie Hjerpe
Weekly Schedule
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Children's Liturgy of the Word
8:00am Mass
10:00am Mass
Monday, January 18, 2016
No School, Martin Luther King, Jr Day
12:30pm Quilting
3:00pm Prayer Shawl
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
9:30am Bible Study
5:45pm Confessions
6:15pm Mass
7:00pm Ave Maria Cenacle of Prayer (Chapel)
7:00pm Finance Council Meeting
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
8:15am Mass
11:00am Mass, Oak Terrace
6:00pm Choir Practice
6:00pm Boy’s Confirmation Dinner
6:30pm Catechist Training (Family Formation)
7:00pm Faith Formation
Thursday, January 21, 2016
8:15am Mass
6:30pm GROW Meeting (School Conference Room)
Friday, January 22, 2016
8:15am Mass
8:45am Confessions
6:00pm SJB Parents Association Movie Night (Louis Hall)
Saturday, January 23, 2016
9:00-11:00am 1st Reconciliation Workshop
4:00-4:30pm Confessions
5:00pm Mass
Sunday, January 24, 2016
8:00am Mass
10:00am Mass
Mass Intentions
Sunday, January 17, 2016
8:00am † Elmer Pieper
10:00am Parish
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
6:15pm † Fr. Paul Ardolf
Wednesday, January 20, 2016,
8:15am † Willard & † Arlene Hennen
11:00am † Fr. James Zappia
Thursday, January 21, 2016
8:15am † Evelyn Seifert
Friday, January 22, 2016
8:15am † Walter Kuechle (DA)
Saturday, January 23, 2016
5:00pm Living and Deceased Members of the Chvatal &
Winkler Families
Sunday, January 24, 2016
8:00am Parish
10:00am † Mickenzy Segler (BD)
Readings for the Week
Monday: 1 Sm 15:16-23; Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21, 23;
Mk 2:18-22
Tuesday: 1 Sm 16:1-13; Ps 89:20-22, 27-28;
Mk 2:23-28
Wednesday: 1 Sm 17:32-33, 37, 40-51; Ps 144:1b, 2, 9-10;
Mk 3:1-6
Thursday: 1 Sm 18:6-9; 19:1-7; Ps 56:2-3, 9-13;
Mk 3:7-12
Friday: 1 Sm 24:3-21; Ps 57:2-4, 6, 11;
Mk 3:13-19, or any of a number of
readings for the Day of Prayer
Saturday: 2 Sm 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27;
Ps 80:2-3, 5-7; Mk 3:20-21
Sunday: Neh 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10; Ps 19:8-10, 15;
1 Cor 12:12-30 [12-14, 27];
Lk 1:1-4; 4:14-21