August 23
Weekend Bulletin
Children’s Bulletin
Life Chain & Registration
Fr Terry’s Teaching…
The weekend obligation is back this weekend. I really encourage each of you to make a commitment to pray for each other as we go through these changes the Bishop has asked of us. In many ways these are confusing times and Bishop DeGrood is working hard to be the best shepherd he can for our Diocese. Naturally we are all over the place in dealing with the virus. This is a time for prayer for ourselves, for our parish, for our Bishop and Diocese.
Someone I taught with when I was in the Twin Cities, was a man named Kevin Zenner. Kevin had studied to be a Jesuit, but after 3 years decided God was calling him to the vocation of marriage. So why am I telling you about Kevin? He recently won an award from the University of Notre Dame Teaching Human Dignity nation-wide contest. To help his students in advanced morality class (which has a section on poverty and economics) understand what some of the people in our nation are going through, he has them do a project of awareness. These students are just starting to know all the extra costs of living that they will soon face. The project is that each student will search for a job of a fictional single mother with two children, one of them an infant. They are assigned to research different cities. What are the costs for things like: rent, car insurance, transportation, health insurance, day care, a week’s worth of groceries, and other items.
The students are utterly amazed by how hard it is for women in this situation. What especially blew them away, was the cost of child care in order for them to have a job. In almost every situation, the day care cost was almost everything they were earning from their job. They have to research job opportunities, what they pay, what the hours are, and what qualifications are required of the worker. While knowing the cost of living is valuable, the project also looks at how society can help the poor. Kevin says that the discussion and analysis, which follows completion of the projects is the greatest fruit of the class. He asks the students what should they do, as people, as human beings? As Kevin says: It really brings us back to morality. How best to follow Jesus’ consistent care for others? How best to love our neighbor? To recognize how Jesus treats all people with dignity and how He responds to their needs.
Something to share from the book I am reading: God would not have given anyone the gift of life if He did not intend it to be free, especially from sin and evil.
Religious Ed Grade 1-6 Update
A St. Michael Religious Education Guideline Pamphlet for the upcoming 2020-2021 R.E. year was mailed out this week to all registered families who have previously signed up for R.E. Please be sure to check your mailbox!
Classes will begin on Wednesday, November 3rd. The registration deadline for 1st through 6th Grade students is Sunday, September 20, 2020.
Registration forms are available online or in the church office. Registration fees for in-class and in-home learning is $50 per student..
If you have any questions please contact me at: 605-361-1600 ext. 209 or jackie@stmichaelsfsd.org.
MASS ON THE GRASS & ICE CREAM SOCIAL TAILGATE
What do Jesus, chicken and ice-cream have in common?
You can receive them all right here at
St Michael (OUTSIDE) on Sunday, August 30th!
Because we are tired of what COVID has taken away from us and to welcome everyone back we are announcing the
2020 Mass on the Grass and Ice Cream Social Tailgate Event!
Here’s the scoop!
1. Park you car, get out a chair to sit in the Parking Lot, by your car or sit in your car for Mass and tune in on the radio!
2. After Mass we will provide Cluckin’ Good Chicken, but you bring your sides and drinks to have a picnic in the parking lot!
3. We will play games right in our spaces in the parking lot, Bingo (paper sheets), a round of Trivia and then have a car/purse Scavenger Hunt all with prizes for our winners!
It will be fun and it will be safe all at the same time!