Bulletins
Sunday, November 8th, 2026
32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
St. Mary, St. Patrick, St. Philip Parishes
Mailing address for all three parishes: PO Box 35, Seneca WI 54654
Website: https://www.catholicchurchesofncc.com
Confessions: Normally, 30 minutes before every Mass and by appointment.
Normal Monthly Eucharistic Adoration:
St. Patrick: First Friday after the 8:30 AM Mass
St. Philip: First Sunday after the 10:30 AM Mass
Mass Intentions This Week
Sat. Nov. 07 7:00 PM St. Patrick + Bill Sprosty (Owen & Dianne DuCharme)
Sun. Nov. 08 7:30 AM St. Patrick + Bob Trecek (Mike Boland)
9:00 AM St. Mary Living & Deceased Members of my Parishes
10:30 AM St. Philip Blessings for Fr. Tom (Bishop Gerard)
Mon. Nov. 09 8:30 AM St. Patrick Special Intentions of Fr. Tom
Tue. Nov. 10 8:30 AM St. Philip + Leo Triggs (Family)
Wed. Nov. 11 8:30 AM St. Patrick + Bill Sprosty (John & Bernie Kane)
Thur. Nov. 12 8:30 AM St. Mary Dorothy Myers & the Wolf Family (Ken & Peg Myers)
Fri. Nov. 13 8:30 AM St Patrick Living and Deceased Members of the Reilly Family (Fr. Tom)
Sat. Nov. 14 7:00 PM St. Patrick Living & Deceased Members of the Alvin & Martha Scheckel
Family (Dianne DuCharme)
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sun. Nov. 15 7:30 AM St. Patrick + Patricia Kramer (Bob & Nancy Ostrander)
9:00 AM St Mary + Connor Murray (Kevin & Risha Murray)
10:30 AM St. Philip Living & Deceased Members of my Parishes
Pastor: Fr. Tom Huff – Rectory 608-734-3252 email: frtomhuff@gmail.com
Bookkeeper, Bulletin, Mass Intentions, Membership: Kevin Murray 608-391-0434 or 608-734-3931
email: secretary@ncc.diolcparish.org
Bulletin Information Deadline: Mondays at 6:00 PM.
For Mass Intentions, if donating by check, please make all checks payable to: St. Mary Stipend Fund. To avoid errors, please print clearly the intention, who the intention is by, and if a specific date for Mass is requested. Thank You
To Sign into Formed.org: use St. Mary in Gays Mills as the parish and use the password Mary123!
Tri-Parish Announcements:
When writing checks to donate to Mission Sunday, please make out your check to your parish when giving the donation envelope in the Sunday Collection.
Tri-Parish Adult Faith Study will be Tuesday, November 10th at 4:00 PM in the St. Mary Parish Hall.
The Weekly Bulletin is available on our parishes website, this is the link to the bulletin page, updated every Friday: https://www.catholicchurchesofncc.com/bulletins
St. Mary Announcements:
Rosary – 30 minutes before Mass
First Sunday Potluck Brunch after Mass each first Sunday of the month. All are welcome, dish to share is appreciated, but not required. Next potluck is Sunday, December 6th.
Saint Mary’s is open 7:00am – 6:00pm daily (winter hours). Please feel free to visit, pray, and light a candle if you like.
Food Pantry Donations can be left in the basket in the rear of the Church.
It was time to retire our old organ. We have purchased a new electronic keyboard/organ so we can all continue to enjoy the beautiful liturgical music we have all come to expect. The new electronic keyboard/organ cost the parish just under three thousand dollars. Any help in covering the cost of this purchase would go a long way in helping St. Mary’s to remain solvent and ensuring that we will all be able to worship together here at St. Mary’s for years to come. $100.00 donation to date. Thank you.
St. Philip Announcements:
Food Pantry Donations can be left in the basket in the rear of the Church.
St. Philip Candles: Contact Bonnie Murphy. The cost is $5 per candle.
Are you still selling those Raffle Tickets? This is the biggest fundraiser for St. Philip's Church every year. We need your help to make this a successful fundraiser again this year. If you need more tickets; there are tickets at the back of the church or contact Bonnie Murphy. Thank you to everyone who has been busy selling tickets! A Big THANK YOU to everyone who donated raffle prizes! We all work together to make this a success!
There will be a ladies PCCW meeting on Wednesday morning, November 18 at 9 AM. Please come and join.
St. Philip Parish needs Mass intentions, when making a Mass intention please make your check out to St. Mary Stipend Fund.
St. Patrick Announcements:
The St Patrick’s CCD classes are hosting a Food Drive for the Gays Mills Food Pantry during the month of November. Please drop off non-perishable food items in the church hall from Nov 1-22. Contact Susie Garfoot with questions. Thank you for your support.
Other Announcements:
A Memorial Mass for children lost anytime from conception through infancy will be offered On Friday, November 13th at 6:00pm at Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Viroqua. The Mass will be followed by an hour of Adoration with prayer teams and confessions available, with a soup dinner to conclude the evening down in Marian Hall. This will be a time set apart to remember and pray for the little lives lost to miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth, or any other cause of early child loss. It also will provide a space to properly grieve the loss of these little lives. All are warmly welcome, whether you have personally lost a child, grandchild, niece/nephew, or friend, or you simply would like to support and pray for those who have experienced this kind of loss. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to Carly Zadow at 608-792-4872.
United Country-Oakwood Realty, LLC is sponsoring the 5th Annual Something For Seniors gift drive throughout the month of November which is National Long Term Care Awareness Month. Something For Seniors is like Toys for Tots, but Christmas gifts are collected and given to our seniors living in local healthcare and assisted living facilities. Crafts, puzzles, body care products, socks, are just a few ideas of donation items.
A full list of ideas is found on the collection boxes located at: Hansen’s IGA and Westby Coon Prairie Lutheran Church in Westby, Valley Market in Coon Valley, & in Viroqua: Nelson Agri-Center, The Viroqua Food Coop, Dollar Tree, St Mary’s Catholic Church in Viroqua, Vernon County Aging & Disability Resource Center, and Sleepy Hollow Auto Group. We ask that only “New” items be donated. Gifts can also be purchased through Amazon. For more information and gift ideas, please visit: SomethingForSeniors.Org or join the Something For Seniors Facebook Group. Thank you!
It is time to update our Tri-Parish Prayer List. We are asking everyone who wishes to place anyone on the new revised Tri-Parish Prayer List to please send in their request to the appropriate parish contact.
For St. Philip Bonnie Murphy 608-386-4954
For St. Mary Sue Peterson 608-735-4865
For St. Patrick Ica Boylen 608-734-3287
The Tri-Parish Prayer List is intended to help our parishioners pray for other parishioners and the people close to them in their time of need. It is important that if you wish to place a person on the Tri-Parish Prayer List, you first speak with that person and receive their permission to do so, as this is a public list and there may be privacy issues that we should respect. We will continue to run the current prayer list for the next few weeks while we receive your new prayer intentions.
Ron McCormick
Tyrone Beaty
Michael Monehen
Rosanne Feye
David Jacobsen
Steve Trussoni
Janice Coggins
Sequohay Dockry
Mary (Moran) Orvis
Marian Beall
Karen McCoy
Jenna Friar
Maria Camacho
Bob Wharton
Jeri Gorman
Loyde Beers
Lisa Glass
Greg Roth
Wade Dull
Kiara Meier
Shirley Whitby
Shay Vought
Rick Boehm
Tom Gillette
Rita Helgerson
Jeff Croke
Joyce Fisher
Gary “Bucky” George
Marvin Hansen
Claudia Safley
Eve Trussoni
Rob Donohue
Larry Boehm
Todd Safley
John & Betty Lynch
Rhiana Morga
Joshua Ecklund
William Wright
Rob Tittle
Gene & Mary Murphy
Linda Cowan
Jerry Boehm
Phyllis Bell
Donnie Moran
Jess Zimple
Lea Whitby
Nicholas Currich
Robin Williams
Alan Whitby
Jenna Peterson
Janet Black Yznaga
Joni Peterson
Jeanette Wallenhorst
Becky Kramer
Jada Murray
Isaiah Caya and the 107th Company
Susan Monehen
Mason Evens
Matt Donavan
Income from Last Week
St. Mary
Adults
505.00
Plate
140.00
Total
645.00
St. Philip
Adults
1066.00
Plate
97.56
Raffle Ticket Sales
280.00
Raffle Prize Donation
50.00
Mission Sunday
200.00
Total
1,693.56
St. Patrick
Adults
581.00
Plate
130.00
Youth
1.00
Mission Sunday
25.00
Votives
24.00
Total
761.00
From the Priest’s Corner: Don't Just Hang Around
In this Sunday's Gospel, we hear of ten virgins, five foolish and five wise. The five wise ones have flasks of oil with their lamps. The foolish do not. Now, why couldn't the five who had thought of it simply share some of their oil with the others? While the foolish ones are off buying more oil, the bridegroom arrives. The door is locked, and they are not able to enter in.
What is the oil and what does it signify? From this parable it seems that the oil is the virtue of faith. It is something that one person cannot just give to another person. One either has faith or does not. To understand the oil in this way makes sense. A person who has the virtue of faith is able to accept as true the teachings of Jesus and His Church.
However, it is not enough just to wait around for the Lord's (the Bridegroom's) return. God does not want us just to "hang around". He wants our faith to mature so that the light of Christ within us does not go out, but instead, to grow and illuminate the world around us. To help keep the "oil flowing" our Lord has given us especially the sacraments and the weekly gathering at Mass. The wise virgins in the parable represent all the faith-filled Christians who actively await the Lord's coming by doing good in the world.
It doesn't matter if a person is the wisest theologian or a criminal on the cross; we are all called to deepen our relationship with Jesus throughout our life's journey. If we want to ensure that our inner lamps are always filled with God's life-giving oil, we have to allow Jesus into our life. Saint Augustine described this realization for him: Late have I loved You, O Beauty so ancient and so new; late have I loved You! For behold You were within me, and I apart from You; and I sought You apart from You and in my sinfulness fell upon those lovely things that You made. You were with me and I was not with You. I was kept from You by those things. . .. You called and cried out to me and broke open my deafness: and You sent forth Your light to shine upon me and chase away my blindness: You breathed Your grace upon me, and I drew in this breath and now desire You: I tasted You, and now hunger and thirst for You.
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