Bulletins
Are we burying God's gifts?
Sunday, November 15th, 2026
33rd 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. 14 7:00 PM St. Patrick Living & Deceased Members of the Alvin & Martha Scheckel Family (Dianne DuCharme)
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
Mon. Nov. 16 8:30 AM St. Patrick Blessings for Fr. Tom (Bishop Gerard)
Tue. Nov. 17 8:30 AM St. Philip + Sara Triggs (Family)
Wed. Nov. 18 8:30 AM St. Patrick + David Myszka (Dennis & Lynette Myzska)
Thur. Nov. 19 8:30 AM St. Mary + Royce Havlik
Fri.. Nov. 20 8:30 AM St Patrick + Alvina Wirkus (Dennis & Sharon Weisenberger)
Sat. Nov. 21 7:00 PM St. Philips + Jerry Murphy ( Ron & Bonnie Murphy)
7:00PM St. Patrick Health of Loyde Beers (Mark & Ann Johnson)
34th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sun. Nov. 22 7:30 AM St. Patrick Living & Deceased Members of my Parishes
9:00 AM St Mary Blessings for Fr. Tom
10:30 AM St. Philip Deceased Members of the Tiller Family (Tim & Carolyn Tiller)
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 and 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!
UPCOMING PARISH EVENTS:
Hunter's Mass at 7PM at both St. Patrick and St. Philip Parishes
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.
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.
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 payable 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.
Tri-Parish Announcements:
Tri-Parish Adult Faith Study will be Tuesday, November 17th at 6:00 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
All Souls envelopes can be found in the rear of your parish Church and in your donation envelope box. Please list your intentions on the back side of the envelope and make all checks payable to St. Mary Stipend Fund. We will be accepting All Souls envelopes through the end of November. Masses will be said throughout the year with All Souls as the stated Mass intention. Thank You!
It is time that we revised 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 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, that 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. The new prayer list will be published in the December 6th parish bulletin.
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
Isaiah Caya
Becky Kramer
Jada Murray
Susan Monehen
Mason Evens
Matt Donavan
Irene Hagensick
Income from Last Week:
St. Mary
Adults
745.00
Plate
66.00
Taco Stand Income
100.00
Christmas Flowers
100.00
Parish Fundraiser
5.00
Basement Floor Donation
480.00
Total
1,496.00
St. Philip
Adults
692.00
Plate
91.00
Raffle Ticket Sales
155.00
Total
938.00
St. Patrick
Adults
621.00
Plate
121.00
Youth
6.00
Votives
28.10
Total
776.16
Other Announcements:
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. 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!
Get into the holiday spirit at St. Mary Parish of Coon valley’s 25th Annual Craft Show on Saturday, December 5, 2026, from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the Coon Valley Village Hall, 108 Roosevelt Street, Coon Valley. Enjoy a wonderful selection of handmade crafts, baked goods, holiday treasures, and delicious concessions. Admission is FREE! Come shop, visit, and celebrate! For more information, visit www.stmarycv.org or call Nancy Peters at 608-790-6034.
Homeless for the Holidays. As temperatures drop, many of our neighbors face the harsh reality of homelessness. Through Catholic Charities of West Central Wisconsin, your generosity helps provide warm shelter, hot meals and compassionate support to individuals experiencing homelessness. This holiday season help ensure that those in need have a safe place to turn.
IN NEED OF HEALING?: A Season of Hope. An Invitation to Healing Event: Join us on Sunday, December 13th and experience God's s supernatural love at Sacred Heart Church, 1205 Front Street, Cashton, WI.
10:00 AM: Mass followed by Eucharistic Adoration
12:00 PM: Corporate Prayer for Healing
12:30 PM: Individual Prayer with Healing Teams.
Whether you are seeking physical, emotional, or spiritual healing, come encounter Jesus, the Divine Physician. All are welcome!
From the Priest’s Corner: What is our Relationship with our Master?
The gospel points out that although the master is away, he expects his servants to make good use of the goods he has entrusted to them. He may be absent, but he has placed his trust in his servants, and he asks them to use his goods for their own benefit and the benefit of their master.
After a long time, the first two servants show their appreciation of the master's trust and do their best to put to good use those things he had entrusted to them. The third servant, however, shows no appreciation of either the trust or goods given to him by the master. He excuses his irresponsibility on fear of the master and returns untouched that which had been entrusted to him, without any benefit to himself or his master. The problem with the third servant is that he desires no relationship with the master and wants to keep it that way, and so sadly the master confirms his desire for isolation, consigning him to the dark.
Every person has been created in the image and likeness of God. He desires to share His life with every person and entrusts them with both the physical and spiritual goods of this world. Most people appreciate the goodness they were given and develop these gifts, abilities and talents for their benefit and the benefit of others. Christians not only acknowledge, appreciate and develop these gifts, abilities and talents, for their benefit and the benefit of others, but also show gratitude to God for such blessings and form a relationship with Him.
There are some, for whatever reason, who neither appreciate nor develop the blessings they have been blessed with and live wasted lives. Then there are those who will use their gifts, abilities and talents for selfish, evil or destructive purposes. They see themselves as answering to no one, but themselves. When sin entered the world, it wounded humanity's relationship with God and brought immediate consequences: both spiritual and physical, along with guilt, alienation and broken relationships.
Yet, while we have life in this world, there is always hope and salvation. We know that God does not give up or abandon those who ignore Him or misuse the blessings He has bestowed upon them. It is into the darkness of such persons that God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to be the Light who shines in the darkness of their minds and hearts. From the Cross our Lord reaches out to those who dwell in the darkness of discouragement, sin and evil. Through His broken body He binds up those who are lost and wounded, gently nurturing those who allow Him to heal their wounds of isolation and emptiness, inviting them to enter the goodness of God, so as to share in their Master’s joy.
The Vatican unanimously advanced Father Joseph Walijewski's cause for canonization on Nov. 9th. This panel affirmed the case for the heroic virtue of Father Joseph Walijewski, a priest from the Diocese of La Crosse who devoted much of his life to missionary service in Bolivia and Peru. Founder of Casa Hogar Juan Pablo II, Father Joe remains a Servant of God while his cause advances through the Church's canonization process.
