St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church 710 10th Street South · Fargo, ND 58103

Parish Office: 701-237-6063 www.stanthonyfargo.org

St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church is a diverse community of people, unified in Christ on a faith journey to salvation through worship, education and service.

Staff Fr. Raymond Courtright, Pastor raymond.courtright@fargodiocese.org

Fr. Scott Karnik, Parochial Vicar scott.karnik@fargodiocese.org

Deacon Stuart Longtin, Pastoral Ministry/Outreach stuart.longtin@fargodiocese.org

Maria Gietzen, Religious Education/Youth Ministry recoordinator@stanthonyfargo.org

April Mitchell, Communications/Events/Technology cetcoordinator@stanthonyfargo.org

Samantha Dols, Music/Liturgy samantha@stanthonyfargo.org

Joe Hendrickx, Evangelization joe@stanthonyfargo.org

Deidra Lies, Office Administrator deidra@stanthonyfargo.org

Sunday Masses Saturday: 5:00 PM Sunday: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 AM, 7:30 PM

Weekday Masses Tuesday-Friday: 6:45 AM Monday - Thursday: 5:15 PM Saturday: 8:00 AM

Confessions Saturday: 3:45-4:45 PM 15 minutes before daily morning Mass 30 minutes before daily evening Mass Other times available by appointment.

Parish Office Hours Monday: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM Tuesday-Friday: 8:00 AM-5:00 PM

Closed 12:00-1:00 PM for lunch.

Eucharistic Exposition Thursday: 7:15 AM to 11:59 PM Baptism: Contact Parish Office during pregnancy to register for classes. Marriage: Contact Parish Office 6 months prior to schedule a date. To Register in the Parish: Please see a priest after Mass. Prayer Chain: 701-235-0308 St. Vincent de Paul: 701-566-0638

Please Pray For... Those of our Parish who are sick or suffering, especially Dick Niebauer, Shanie Martin, M. Louise Riveland, Germaine Everson, Catherine Scott, Robert Jundt, Madonna Sweeney, Larry LaMont, and Patricia Kercher.

Administration

**OFFERTORY FOR August 12

Here’s the latest news on the upcoming festival on September 30: 1. Our yard signs for advertising are ready for pick-up in St. Francis

Hall. This is one of the easiest ways to get the word out to the community about our fall festival. Please consider posting one outside your home.

2. The festival is our church's largest fundraiser of the year and we need 300+ volunteers to make it run smoothly! Please check out the sign-up sheets in St. Francis Hall.

3. We need donations for the craft booth, silent auction items valued at $25 or more, bingo items valued at $10 or more, jewelry, and kids’ prizes for the games. Donations can be left at the church office. Thank you!

4. Our next leadership and planning meeting will take place on Tuesday, August 21 at 6:30 PM in St. Francis Hall. All are welcome!

Whoever eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For My Flesh is true food, and My Blood

is true drink. Whoever eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood remains in Me and I in him.

~Jn 6:54-56

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 19, 2018

Amount Given Budget Sunday Collection $10,268.90 Online Giving $1,455.36 Total Giving $11,724.26 $12,827.00 Year to Date $85,524.12 $89,789.00

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GET MORE FROM EACH SUNDAY’S HOMILY Wish you could reflect more than just a few minutes on each Sunday’s homily message? A Sunday homily given at St. Anthony’s is available weekly on our website: www.stanthonyfargo.org under the ‘More’ and ‘Homilies and Resources’ tabs. Check it out today!

LAST WEEK FOR COMMITTEE COFFEE AND ROLLS! The liturgy committee will host coffee and rolls on Sunday, August 26. Please contact your committee chair to let them know if you can help. ALL parishioners are encouraged to volunteer when they can. Questions or want to help out with hospitality this fall? Please call Linette at 701-232-5441. Thank you for helping foster friendship in our parish community!

CONFRATERNITY OF CHRISTIAN MOTHERS, under the spiritual direction of Father Karnik, invite all mothers to our first meeting of the year. We will meet on Monday, September 3 at 7:00 PM in room 208 upstairs. Contact Camie Dickherber at jcdickherber@gmail.com with any questions or join our Facebook group: Confraternity of Christian Mother's-St Anthony's Chapter. Hope to see you there! COMING THIS FALL: ALPHA Are you or a friend thinking about becoming Catholic or Christian? Want a good refresher on why faith is so important in our modern lives? Come out to our Alpha courses this fall, starting September 12. Call Joe at 701-237-6063 or email him at joe@stanthonyfargo.org for details.

Parish Events and Happenings

LAY MINISTERS FOURTH SUNDAY: AUGUST 25/26

SATURDAY 5:00 PM

SUNDAY 7:30 AM

SUNDAY 9:00 AM

SUNDAY 10:30 AM

SUNDAY 7:30 PM

PROCLAIMERS Deidra Lies Deb Kuntz Barb Ruzicka

Janet Weinmann Carol Petty

Gina Kraushaar Chris Thoms

ALTAR SERVERS

Haison Nguyen Nina Vi Darin Vi

Emily Zurn Felicity Suda Allison Klose

Maddy Smith Michael Grensteiner

Dustin Hoffart

Leo Devick Max Devick Sam Devick

Joshua Van Raden Jack Duval

Andrew Naylor

HOSPITALITY Jim and Mary Bodensteiner

Jerry and Kathy Bodensteiner

Waldoch Family

Joe Hendrickx

Ross and Tammy DeSautel

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS

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COMMUNION

Donna Honek Lori Jones

Mike Mitchell Joan Schaefer Deidra Lies

Betty Kiser Tim McMullen Frank Paumen

Pat Paumen Theresa Stickel

Joe Hendrickx Gloria Hogue

Paul Knoll Bill Petty

Todd Weinmann

Tammy DeSautel Carmelle Nelson

Jenny Nielsen Rob Wagner

Marlys Hareland

Linette Knoll Nancy Monson Chris Thoms

Religious Education and Youth

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: STARTS SEPTEMBER 5! Maria will be available in St. Francis Hall after Masses to help with religious education sign-ups. Called to share your faith with young ones? Stop by and talk to Maria about the possibility of filling our remaining teacher and helper openings for this fall. Questions? Contact Maria in the parish office: 701-237-6063. Thank you! ATTENTION: RE TEACHERS AND HELPERS Our parish catechist in-service for the fall RE year will be Wednesday, August 22 at 6:30 PM. All teachers and helpers are requested to attend. Questions can be directed to Maria at 701-237-6063 or recoordinator@stanthonyfargo.org. OPPORTUNITY TO FURTHER YOUR SKILLS A deanery-wide catechist in-service will take place at Holy Cross, West Fargo, on Wednesday, August 29 from 5:30—9:00 PM. Topics from classroom management to evangelization will be covered. RE catechists, please RSVP to Maria: 701-237-6063 or recoordinator@stanthonyfargo.org.

ST. MARY’S 5TH ANNUAL CATHEDRAL BBQ Please join us at the Cathedral, Fargo, for delicious BBQ on Sunday, August 26 from 11:00 AM-1:30 PM in our front circle. Enjoy fellowship and some of the best BBQ served with our famous homemade cornbread, beans, and coleslaw. Child-friendly items available. Free-will offering meal. Call Jayme with questions: 701-235-4289. AMERICAN HERITAGE GIRLS TROOP ND0316 will be having an Information Meeting and Registration night on Thursday, August 30 at 7:00 PM in the Holy Spirit Church Social Hall, Fargo. Parents with girls ages 5-18 are invited to attend to learn about this wonderful opportunity for their girls to enhance their faith, service, and leadership skills! Please contact Lynn Kotrba at teamkotrba@gmail.com for more information.

ATTENTION YOUNG ADULTS! FM i.d. 9:16 September Disciples Night is coming up on Thursday, September 6 from 6:00-8:30 PM at Nativity, Fargo. "Chaplain for the Champs", Fr. Burke Masters, will be sharing his story of faith as chaplain of the Chicago Cubs. FM i.d. 9:16 will also be forming new men's and women's discipleship groups this fall. Groups of 4-6 meet twice a month to grow in fellowship and discipleship of Christ via discussion, study, and prayer. Register for Disciples Night or find out more at: https://www.fmid916.com/events/ THE 19TH ANNOTATION OF THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES OF ST. IGNATIUS An orientation to the Spiritual Exercises will be offered at 7:00 PM, on Tuesday, September 4, at the Presentation Prayer Center, Fargo. This version of the Spiritual Exercises involves a commitment to prayer for one hour each day, based on Scripture passages, and a weekly meeting with a spiritual director for a nine month period. The retreat is an encounter with Jesus as we walk in our daily lives. To register or for more information, contact Scott at presentationprayercenter@gmail.com THE SIXTH ANNUAL NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR ABORTED CHILDREN is Saturday, September 8 at 11:00 AM at Holy Cross Cemetery in North Fargo. It is the 30th anniversary of the burial of remains of 100 unborn babies at the Monument for the Unborn. The special prayer service will be led by Fr. Charles LaCroix, chaplain for Shanley/Sullivan Catholic Schools. The event is sponsored by the Sts. Anne & Joachim Respect Life Committee. For more info, contact Susan at 701-371-5196. CALLED TO COMPASSION Come explore the Christian notions of selfless love and service. The three classes will take place on Mondays, September 10, 17, and 24 from 7:00 – 8:00 PM. Classes will be held at the University of Jamestown’s Fargo Graduate Programs campus, 4143 26th Ave. S., Fargo. The suggested fee is $40. Students will also need to purchase a copy of the book, Boundless Compassion: Creating a Way of Life by Joyce Rupp. To register or for more info, contact Scott at presentationprayercenter@gmail.com 40 DAYS FOR LIFE – NORTH DAKOTA STARTS SEPT. 26! You are called to be part of this important prayer effort to bring an end to abortion across our nation and world. An opening prayer service will take place at 8:00 AM on Wednesday, September 26, in front of the abortion facility, 512 1st Ave N, Fargo. Our campaign will provide a peaceful, prayerful presence in front of the abortion facility from 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM every day of the campaign. Sign up to pray an hour by calling the Pregnancy Help Center at: 701-284-6601 or in Fargo: 701-356-7979. Email: phc@polarcomm.com or visit: www.40daysforlifend.com SCHOOL OF HEALING AND EMPOWERMENT Come to a conference aimed at growing one’s gifts in prayer ministry and healing, offered by the Archdiocese of St. Paul/Minneapolis from November 16-18 in St. Paul. Info and registration can be found at: www.ccro-msp.org or contact Rosalie: 701-324-2706. PILGRIMAGE TO THE SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE – MEXICO The pilgrimage, through St. John the Evangelist, Wahpeton, will be from December 8 – 13. Cost is $2,494 per person, including air fare from Fargo. For more information, please call Cathie or Michael Milano at 1-800-773-2660.

Community and Diocesan Events

MONDAY, AUGUST 20 St. Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church (Memorial) Ez 24:15-24/Mt 19:16-22 5:15 PM +Mary Cleary

TUESDAY, AUGUST 21 St. Pius X, Pope (Memorial) Ez 28:1-10/Mt 19:23-30 6:45 AM ++Fredrick and Catherine Colby 5:15 PM +Gertrude Neubauer

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22 The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Memorial) Ez 34:1-11/Mt 20:1-16 6:45 AM Sally Courtright 5:15 PM ++George and Thelma Menne and Family

THURSDAY, AUGUST 23 St. Rose of Lima, Virgin Ez 36:23-28/Mt 22:1-14 6:45 AM +For All Souls 5:15 PM +Jane Plante

FRIDAY, AUGUST 24 Obligatory day of abstinence (or some other penance) St. Bartholomew, Apostle (Feast) Rv 21:9b-14/Jn 1:45-51 6:45 AM Lisa Hoffart 10:00 AM Bethany Homes Mass

SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 St. Louis St. Joseph Calasanz, Priest Ez 43:1-7ab/Mt 23:1-12 8:00 AM John Tanner 5:00 PM ++Ken and Char Smith

SUNDAY, AUGUST 26 Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b/Eph 5:21-32/Jn 6:60-69 7:30 AM +Michael Kopp 9:00 AM ++George and Betty Widman 10:30 AM +Lawrence Petrowitz 7:30 PM Parishioners of St. Anthony of Padua JOIN US IN A NOVENA FOR THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF HUMAN LIFE The U.S. bishops invite you to participate in a nationwide Novena for the Legal Protection of Human Life each Friday through September 28. To download the Novena, go to: www.usccb.org/pray or call Rachelle at 701-356-7910. You can also visit our website: www.stanthonyfargo.org for more information.

Mass Schedule

SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time RE Registration Weekend Coffee/Rolls after AM Masses -served by the Welcoming Committee MONDAY, AUGUST 20 Parish Office Closed 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM TUESDAY, AUGUST 21 JP II Catholic Schools—First Day of School 6:30 PM Bazaar Leadership Meeting 7:00 PM St. Vincent de Paul Conference 7:15 PM Adult Education Committee WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22 3:00 PM Legion of Mary 6:30 PM Parish Catechist Orientation THURSDAY, AUGUST 23 1:00 PM Senior Card Player Group FRIDAY, AUGUST 24 Obligatory day of abstinence (or some other penance) 5:15 PM Chaplet of Divine Mercy SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 3:45 PM Confessions SUNDAY, AUGUST 26 Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Confraternity of Christian Mothers Sign-up Coffee/Rolls after AM Masses -served by the Liturgy Committee WOMEN’S RETREAT- “WALK LIGHTLY ON EARTH”: REGISTER SOON! Explore nature, silence, holy conversation, and your relationship with God and others on a weekend retreat at Lake Sallie, MN, beginning Friday, August 24 at 3:30 PM and ending Sunday, August 26 at 11:00 AM. Cost is $150 per person and the retreat is limited to eight individuals. Contact Scott at the Presentation Prayer Center, Fargo, to register or for more information: PresentationPrayerCenter@gmail.com or 701-237-4857. ***You may submit announcements to be considered for inclusion in this bulletin before noon on Tuesday via email: deidra@stanthonyfargo.org

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1. WHAT IS ROE V. WADE?

It is the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. A woman named Norma McCorvey ("Jane Roe”) said she was pregnant from rape and wanted an abortion. She sued a Texas district attorney (Henry Wade) to prevent him from enforcing a Texas law banning abortion except to save the mother's life. On January 22, 1973, the Court decided this case, and a similar case (Doe v. Bolton) in which a woman named Sandra Cano ("Mary Doe”) was denied an abortion by a hospital review committee and challenged Georgia's law. The Court struck down both laws, with the effect of striking down similar laws in all the other states as well. Norma McCorvey later admitted having lied about the rape. Horrified at these decisions' impact, she and Sandra Cano (both now deceased) urged the Supreme Court to reverse the decisions.

2. WHAT DID ROE V. WADE DO?

It said the right of privacy (not mentioned in the text of the Constitution) "is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy." The Justices ruled that a state may not restrict abortion at all in the first three months of pregnancy (first trimester). It may establish guidelines only to protect the mother's health during the next three months (second trimester). After "viability," when the unborn child could survive if delivered (which the Court placed at 24 to 28 weeks of gestation), the state may prohibit abortion unless it is deemed necessary to preserve the mother's "life or health."

6. WASN'T THE COURT ONLY CONTINUING A

TREND TOWARD "LIBERALIZING"

ABORTION LAWS BEGUN BY THE PEOPLE AND

THEIR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES?

No. In the years leading up to Roe, proposals to weaken laws against abortion were introduced in most states but usually not enacted. Some states did add narrow exceptions to their laws, and a few legalized abortions for any reason, generally up to 20 weeks' gestation. But then the trend reversed. New York's legislature voted to restore legal protection to unborn children (a move blocked by the governor's veto). And in 1972 the people of Michigan and North Dakota overwhelmingly voted to reject proposals to loosen their abortion laws. After studying public opinion against legalized abortion, demographer Judith Blake concluded that a Supreme Court decision striking down state laws would be "the only road to rapid change." Roe created a national policy more extreme than the law of any state, and it disrupted the democratic process by which the American people had begun to deal with the conflicting claims of the abortion debate.

7. IN MORE THAN FOUR DECADES, HAVEN'T

PEOPLE COME TO ACCEPT THE POLICY OF

ROE V. WADE?

No. Public opposition to legalized abortion remains strong. The vast majority of Americans oppose the policy of unlimited abortion imposed by Roe, and most believe abortion should not be legal for the reasons it is most often performed. A May 2018 Gallup poll shows that 65% of

3. SO, ROE ALLOWS STATES TO PROHIBIT

ABORTION AFTER VIABILITY?

Well, no. In the companion case Doe v. Bolton, which the Court said must be read together with Roe, "health" was defined in the abortion context to include "all factors—physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age—relevant to the well-being of the patient." By this definition, abortion must be allowed in the ninth month if the abortionist says it is needed to serve a woman's emotional well-being. Though the modern court has yet to confront a challenge to a post-viability ban, Doe suggests that no meaningful limits can be placed on abortion throughout the nine months of pregnancy.

5. DID THE COURT FIND THAT LIFE DOESN'T BEGIN

UNTIL BIRTH?

No. It argued that uses of the word "person" in the Constitution do not seem to include the unborn. Then, citing wide disagreement as to when human life begins, the Court said it "need not resolve" this difficult question. Instead of considering the scientific evidence that life begins at conception, or even allowing legislatures to protect those who have never been proven to be anything but human beings, the Court decided to treat unborn children merely as "potential life"—and to prevent the people or their elected representatives from determining otherwise.

4. HAVE COURTS APPLIED ROE TO OTHER ISSUES?

Courts have used Roe to strike down safety regulations protecting women, as well as laws protecting children born alive during abortion attempts. Judges have invoked Roe to

ROE V. WADE Questions and Answers

argue for a constitutional right to assisted suicide, to nullify federal regulations protecting handicapped newborns from lethal neglect, and to demand legal recognition of same-sex marriage.

9. HAS THE SUPREME COURT SPOKEN MORE

RECENTLY ABOUT THE VALIDITY OF ITS

DECISION IN ROE?

In 1992, in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Court abandoned Roe's trimester framework, but reaffirmed Roe's holding that no abortion could be banned before viability. Three Justices said they were doing this not so much because the original case was rightly decided, but because it had been the law for a long time and many people had come to rely on the availability of abortion. They said that "a decision to overrule should rest on some special reason over and above the belief that a prior case was wrongly decided." But if one realizes the decision was wrong, it is doubly wrong to keep imposing it on the country. In his Casey dissent, Chief Justice William Rehnquist noted that in the previous two decades the Court had "overruled in whole or in part 34 of its previous constitutional decisions." Reversal of Roe is long overdue.

11. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ROE WERE REVERSED?

Abortion would not automatically become illegal. Rather, the people and their elected representatives would be allowed to begin enacting abortion policies that respect the lives of both women and their unborn children. The move away from the Court's policy of virtually unlimited abortion would likely be gradual, leading to improvements in cultural attitudes toward women and children and in concrete support for women facing unplanned pregnancies.

13. WHY ARE ABORTION ADVOCATES SO STRONGLY

COMMITTED TO RETAINING ROE?

Roe v. Wade is increasingly recognized as bad law, bad medicine, and bad social policy. Most Americans object to an unlimited right to abortion. Therefore, such a policy can be kept in place only by extraordinary measures—by insisting that Roe is untouchable, regardless of the evidence. Abortion advocates know that any return of this issue to the democratic process would produce a very different policy from what the Court created. But false judicial doctrines do not have a right to live. Human beings do.

10. WHAT IS ROE'S IMPACT ON SOCIETY?

The legacy of Roe is virtually incalculable. In its wake it has left death and sorrow and turmoil:

• the deaths of millions whose lives have been destroyed before birth

• many women have been maimed or killed by legal abortion, and abortionists have been protected from legal scrutiny by courts applying Roe

• countless more women have been traumatized so deeply by abortion that they spend years struggling to find peace, healing, and reconciliation and increasingly they are making their stories public to warn other women

• far from emancipating women, Roe has helped create the expectation that women will resort to abortion—to "fit" into college and the workforce, and to free men from unwanted parental responsibility. It has blocked progress toward a society that welcomes women with their children

12. WOULD THIS MEAN A RETURN TO DANGEROUS

ILLEGAL ABORTIONS?

No. Claims that thousands of women were dying from illegal abortions at the time of Roe were fabricated for political purposes, as a chief strategist later admitted. Research confirms that the actual number of maternal deaths resulting from abortion in the 25 years prior to 1973 averaged 250 a year, with a high of 388 in 1948. In 1966, before the first state legalized abortion, 120 mothers died from abortion. While any death is a tragedy, by 1972, when abortion was still illegal in 80 percent of the country, the number dropped to 39 maternal deaths from abortion. Furthermore, a groundbreaking 2012 study of abortion in Chile published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal found that Chile's abortion prohibition in 1989 did not cause an increase in the maternal mortality rate (MMR). On the contrary, after abortion was prohibited, the MMR decreased by 69.2% in the following fourteen years.

8. DO ALL LEGAL EXPERTS APPROVE OF ROE?

No. Roe has been criticized by several Supreme Court justices and even by legal experts who favor legalized abortion. Justice Byron White called it "an exercise of raw judicial power." Yale law professor John Hart Ely has said that Roe is "a very bad decision .... It is bad because it is bad constitutional law, or rather because it is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be." Edward Lazarus, former clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun who wrote the Roe opinion, says that "Roe, as constitutional interpretation, is virtually impossible to defend."

Baby’s feet: Dan Dalton/Photodisc/Getty Images. Expectant mother: vadimguzhva/iStock/Thinkstock. Supreme Court: S. Greg Panosian/E+/Getty Images. Models used for illustrative purposes only. Photos used with permission. All rights re-served. Copyright © 2018, USCCB, Washington, DC. All rights reserved.

Updated July 2018

Americans said abortion should be illegal in the second trimester and 81% said abortion should be illegal in the last trimester. A 2018 Marist poll shows that 51% of women said abortion should never be permitted (9%) or permitted only in cases of rape, incest, and to save the woman’s life. (42%).

• men who grieve because they could not "choose" to protect a child they helped bring into existence

• problems that some claimed Roe would alleviate—"unwanted" children, child abuse and abandonment, etc.—have worsened

• a society increasingly coarsened by toleration and acceptance of acts that purposely destroy human life

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops www.usccb.org/prolife