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Our next SYNODAL LISTENTING SESSION will be held on Wednesday, December 14, 2022. We will start with social at 5:30pm, Listening Session at 6:00pm, and Dinner at 7:00 pm

OUR ST.CHRISTOPHER HARVEST BAZAAR will be held on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2022......from 9:00am -3:00pm in the PARISH HALL. This years BAZAAR will include a Silent Auction, the Country Store, Baked Goods, Book. BAKED GOODS and ITEMS FOR THE BAZAAR will be greatly appreciated, and can be brought in ahead of time and be left in the church hall on the back tables. Baked good can be should be dropped off the day before the Bazaar (September 25). Thank you in advance for your help and support of our HARVEST BAZAAR!

REMINDER: 2022 ANNUAL CARMELITE SILVER TEA - CRAFT & BAKE SALE is september 17th & 18th from 12:00pm-3:00pm. You can purchase raffle tickets at the Parish Office!

Our next Synod Listening Session at St. Christopher Parish is Wednesday, September 21, 2022 - at 6:30pm in the Parish Hall. All are welcome!

August is the month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary!

Thursday, September 1 - 12:45pm, in the St. Christopher Parish Hall.

Wednesday, August 17, 2022 -- 6:30pm in the Parish Hall

The BLUE ARMY OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA spreads the message of Our Lady and the devotion to Her Immaculate Heart. The Upper Peninsula group has a booth at the Escanaba U.P. State Fair every year. This has been an amazing evangelization opportunity! The Blue Army is requesting donations of religious goods to help with this effort. Books, rosaries, statues, etc. - new or used. All dontions can be dropped off at the Parish Office before August 15th. Thank you for your generousity.

You can help support CATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTRY by donating to the CCM 2022 MILES FOR MINISTRY! You can donate at nmucatholic.org/M4M. Your support will help to continue facilitating encounters with Jesus and His Church!

The Annual Milestone Wedding Anniversary celebration will be held on Sunday, August 28, 2022 - at St. Peter Cathedral at 3:30pm. The Marquette Diocese and Knights of Columbus will give special recognition to couples celebrating their milestone anniversary. Couples and their families are invited to attend the Mass and meal to follow. If you plan to attend, Registration Forms are at the St. Christopher parish office. Or, call 906-227-9155 before August 5th. Please include a recent photograph for the U.P. Catholic.

FROM THE DESK OF FR. DAN...... Thank you to everyone who attended our synod session last Wednesday. Special thanks to Sr. Rosalie for leading this session for us, for accompanying us in walking the synodal path and for infusing a spirit of synodality in our parish.
This Monday, July 25, is feast day of St. Christopher, our patronal feast. St. Christopher is the patron saint of travelers and motorists. It is also a special feast for me because both my grandfathers and my father retired from General Motors (Saginaw Parts Plant, Saginaw Transmission and Saginaw Steering Gear), both of my brothers work for General Motors (Fairfax Assembly, Kansas) and I worked in the Saginaw steering plants a couple summers during college. In Paris near where the first Citroën automo&ve factory was located the local parish is dedicated to St. Christopher (Paroisse Saint Christophe de Javel). The factory has since been closed and has been turned into a park, but the parish till exists. To commemorate our patronal feast we will have a blessing of automobiles after the Masses this weekend.
Anyone who prefers to continue wearing masks in church is encouraged to do so. KN95 masks are available at the church entrances. Let us continue prayer for one another and support each other as we continue to move through the pandemic.
Have a blessed week, Fr. Dan

FROM THE DESK OF FR. DAN....... This Wednesday (7-20-22) at 6:30pm, is our next synod listening session. Sr. Rosalie will lead the session. This will be at ime of prayer and listening. At the opening of the World Meeting Of Families in Rome last month Pope Francis reminded us that the task to build a listening Church must begin within the family, he said "Put yourselves in listening. Let yoursleves be transformed by Him, so that you too can transform the world and make it "home" for those who need to be welcomed, for those who need to meet Christ and feel loved. Anyone who prefers to continue wearing masks in church is encouraged to do so. KN95 masks are available at the church entrances. Let us continue prayer for one onother and support each other as we continue through the pandemic. Have a blessed week, Fr. Dan.

All parishioners have access to FORMED On Demand! Steps to take: (1) Go to formed.org/sighup (2)Enter St. Christopher Parish & Select (3) Register your name and email address (4) A link will be sent to your email address to begin using FORMED!

All men and women of the Parish are invited to attend a PLANNING MEETING to discuss Pasty Making, Holiday Bazaar, and Funeral Luncheons. DATE: Thursday, August 4th - 1:00pm in the Parish Hall. ALL ARE WELCOME!

FROM THE DESK OF FR. DAN...... This Saturday we are blessed to have Bishop Steven Raica, the Bishop of
Birmingham in Alabama, celebrate Mass at our church. Bishop Raica is here visiting his mother and brother who are parishioners. Prior to his installation as the Bishop of Birmingham in Alabama, Bishop Raica was Bishop of Gaylord, Michigan.

Boston College is offering a free online course “Discernment in Common and Decision Making in a
Synodal Church.” The course will take place in July. For more informa on please visit their website:
https://formaciononline.bc.edu

Masks are no longer required inside our church. Anyone who prefers to continue wearing masks in
church is encouraged to do so. KN95 masks will continue to be available at the church entrances. Thank
you for your cooperation with our Covid restrictions that have been in place since last Fall and let us
continue pray for one another and support each other as we continue to move through the pandemic.

I hope everyone has a blessed Independence Day celebration. As we enjoy this holiday let us especially
pray for those who sacrificed for the freedoms we enjoy.

Have a blessed week, Fr. Dan

ADORATION is held on Mondays from 5:00-6:00pm. Parish HOLY ROSARY time is on Tuesdays at 6:30pm. ALL ARE WELCOME! Come and join us!

Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers of our parish. As we remember our fathers today it is a good time to invoke the patron saint of fathers, St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus and the patron of the Universal Church.
This Monday at 6:30 P.M. is our next synod listening session. Sr. Rosalie will lead the session. This will be a time of prayer and listening. The USCCB documents on the synod states that the role of a pastoral leader is to “accompany Catholics in your community in walking the synodal path and to infuse a spirit of synodality and dialogue in your local settng (www.usccb.org/resources/Unpacking%20Synodality.pdf).” I am grateful that Sr. Rosalie is assisting our parish in this path.
Thank you to everyone who supported the Care Clinic Baby Bottle Boomerang Drive. Bottles can be returned to the labeled plastic bin in the back of the church.
Have a blessed week, Fr. Dan

FROM THE DESK OF FR. DAN - June 11/12, 2022 On Pentecost I announced that Sr. Rosalie Hughes, SPC will be taking on a new leadership position in our parish, Director of “Mission & Synodality”. To help understand this position I have included some quotes below of the Holy Father that address Mission and Synodality. During his 2022 trip to Malta, Pope Francis said that the Church's mission is not about numbers, but evangelizing. In 2019 Pope Francis said that “Another feature of authentic mission is to facilitate, not to complicate. Mission does not add ‘unnecessary burdens’ on people who are already worn out, nor does it impose ‘demanding programs of formation, in order to enjoy what the Lord gives easily.’” The Holy Father said that “mission means reaching people ‘right where they are and just how they are’ - and the ‘sensus fidei’ of the people of God, and special care for the little ones and the poor, which is not optional.” In an address to the Roman Curia last year the Holy Father said that “The Synod wants to be an experience of feeling ourselves all members of a larger people, the holy and faithful People of God, and thus disciples who listen and, precisely by virtue of this listening, can also understand God’s will, which is always revealed in unpredictable ways. Yet it would be wrong to think that the Synod is an event meant for the Church, as something abstract and distant from us. Synodality is a ‘style’ to which we must be converted.” Sr. Rosalie’s ministry will be to help us in our mission as Catholics, youth and adults, and guide us in the style of Synodality. I am also grateful to have a religious sister on our staff again who will serve in a pastoral ministry here. We will have a formal event soon to welcome Sr. Rosalie to our parish staff. Please mark your calendars for our next Synodal listening session. It will take place on Monday, June 20 at 6:30 P.M. in our parish hall. Sr. Rosalie will lead this session. This weekend we will continue the Care Clinic Baby Bottle Boomerang Drive. Bottles are available in the back of church and by the entrances. They can be returned to the labeled plastic bin in the back of the church the next weekend. Have a blessed week, Fr. Dan

FROM THE DESK OF FR. DAN....... Please mark your calendars for our next Synodal listening session. It will take place on Monday, June 20 at 6:30 P.M. in our parish hall.

The General Secretariat for Synod of Bishops has proposed that we dedicate our daily prayer of every
first Monday of the month precisely for this moment of grace, the Synod on Synodality. Pope Francis
reminds us that: the synodal process is first and foremost a spiritual process: without the guidance of
the Holy Spirit, our discussions, our reflec,ons, our very discernment risks falling into the
parliamentarianism, intellectualism and formalism. Our adoration this week, the first Monday of the
month (5:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M.), will be dedicated to pray for the Synod on Synodality. Please see the
following website for more informa,on: https://www.prayforthesynod.va.

This weekend we will have the Care Clinic Baby Bottle Boomerang Drive. Bottles are available in the back
of church. They can be returned to the labeled plastic bin in the back of the church next weekend. Have a blessed week, Fr. Dan

Each Memorial Day, an American Legion service followed by Mass... DATE: Monday, May 30, 2022 TIME: 10:15am LOCATION: Holy Cross Cemetary (Marquette) This will be held rain or shine. Refreshments and fellowship will follow Mass. ALL ARE WELCOME!