Bulletins
Sunday, November 1st, 2026 - Solemnity of All Saints
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. Oct. 31 7:00 PM St. Patrick Special Intention of Fr. Tom (Fr. Tom)
Sun. Nov. 01 7:30 AM St. Patrick Living & Deceased Members of my Parishes
9:00 AM St. Mary + All Forgotten Souls
10:30 AM St. Philip + Gloria Gorrell (Ruthann Gundenschwager)
Mon. Nov. 02 8:30 AM St. Patrick Living & Deceaced Memebers of the Huff Family (Fr. Tom)
6:00 PM St. Philip + All Souls (Added Mass)
Tue. Nov. 03 8:30 AM St. Philip + Sid & Sue Tiller (Tim & Carolyn Tiller)
Wed. Nov. 04 8:30 AM St. Patrick Living & Deceased Members of the Myers & O’Connor Families (Ken & Peg Myers)
Thur. Nov. 05 8:30 AM St. Mary + Sue Ann Galle (Don & Sue Peterson)
Fri.. Nov. 06 8:30 AM St Patrick + Ron Becwar (Beverly Becwar)
Sat. Nov. 07 7:00 PM St. Patrick + Bill Sprosty (Owen & Dianne DuCharme)
32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
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)
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, October 27th at 4:00 PM at 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 made 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!
Thank you, Tom & Sally Murphy for your donation of the guard railing, and to the crew who installed the railing on the parking lot; Jody Riley, Ryan (Buck) Roth, Dennis Bell, Terry O’Donnel, Gary Schmitt, and Pat Murphy.
St. Patrick Announcements:
None currently.
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.
DIVINE MERCY IN MY SOUL - To bring relief to the Poor Souls in Purgatory, Jesus told St. Faustina, “It is in your power to bring them relief. Draw all the indulgences from the treasury of My Church and offer them on their behalf.”
From the Priest’s Corner: The Solemnity of All Saints By Father Robert Verrill, O.P.
Today we celebrate the many souls among the Catholic faithful who really have made it to heaven. However, the vast majority of them have attained this goal without achieving any type of fame. Although some of the most famous people of all time are saints, being famous does not of itself get us any closer to heaven.
In an age of mass media where so many people are obsessed with self-promotion, the obscurity of the many thousands of unnamed saints can make them seem rather appealing. For the saints we celebrate today didn’t go about trying to make a name for themselves so that their lives would be remembered. They simply spent their lives persevering in the love of God and sharing that love with those around them. And so, their lasting legacy is not something that has been recorded in history books, but rather their legacy is Christ’s Body the Church, and the part they played in building it up and sustaining it.
Now we like them, are also called to build up the Church – for we too have an active part to play in sustaining Christ’s continued presence in the world. The Church of today owes its existence to the countless saints of Christian history who have maintained the faith of the apostles. And likewise, the Church of the future will depend on what we do in our lives in continuing this tradition. So, we are called to be holy like the many saints who have gone before us. And these unassuming saints remind us that in our call to holiness, we are not being called to some impossible ideal, but rather we are being called to something that can be easily realized through the grace of Jesus Christ.
When Jesus delivered His sermon on the mount and looked out across the crowds of people, He would have surely seen many saints before Him. And in beginning His sermon with the beatitudes, Jesus was highlighting those characteristics that signified their sanctity.
From a natural perspective, the beatitudes listed in today’s Gospel could sound rather ludicrous to us. For the word beatitude itself comes from the Latin beatus, meaning happy or blessed, but naturally, poverty and persecution is the last place we would expect to find happiness and blessedness. Supernaturally, however, poverty in spirit and being persecuted for doing what is right are in fact ranked first among the places where happiness and blessedness are to be found. For although poverty and persecution are bad in themselves, those who do not or cannot place their trust in worldly riches, and those who would rather suffer persecution than deny what is right are uniquely receptive to the Kingdom of God.
In our call to holiness, Christ is therefore calling us to a radical new perspective where we would prefer union with Christ to all the riches in the world, and where we would prefer to unite our sufferings with the sufferings of Christ than deny the cause of righteousness. And the proof that we can embrace this radically new Christ-centred perspective is that countless men and women who have gone before us have done just that. These are the saints we celebrate today, saints who didn’t strive for self-publicity, but saints who strived to unite themselves completely with Christ. The goal of our life is not to live on in the memories of others, but rather it is to live on in God’s loving presence with all the saints forever in heaven. And so we ask for their prayers, that what God has done for them, may also be done for us as well.
Income from Last Week:
St. Mary
Adults
630.00
Plate
57.00
Organ Donation
100.00
Total
787.00
St. Philip
Adults
635.00
Plate
53.00
Mission Sunday
250.00
Raffle Ticket Sales
360.00
Raffle Prize Donation
100.00
Total
1,398.00
St. Patrick
Adults
567.00
Plate
237.00
Youth
7.00
Votives
27.53
Total
838.53
Tri-Parish Prayer List – We want to pray for the sick and others in our parishes who need ongoing prayer. To be placed on or to place someone on our prayer list, please call: Sue Peterson 608-735-4865, Bonnie Murphy 608-386-4954, or Ica Boylen 608-734-3287.
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
Matt Donavan
Susan Monehen
Mason Evens
Isaiah Caya and the 107th Maintenance Corp.
All Saints Day and All Souls Day
On ALL SAINTS DAY (November 1st) we honor all the various saintly people who are from all walks of life: married, single, priests, nuns, monks, young and old, healthy and sick, poor and rich, highly intelligent and very simple persons. Persons like us in many ways who possess a love for Jesus, and a willingness to serve Him by follow His teachings with love and fidelity. And while the Church has many within Her who are unfaithful to Christ and His teachings and neglect to practice their Catholic faith. The Church also has many others who struggle to be faithful. And in the Church we also have those who live saintly lives even in 2026, which ought to be an encouragement to our own faith-journey in life.
In the first reading we hear of "a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people and tongue". But "of what use is our praise of all these Saints" Saint Bernard asks. And we might ask that same question ourselves. Saint Bernard answers: "The Saints, have no need of our honors, but for myself, thinking of them and celebrating them, I feel inspired to imitate them to grow in greater holiness myself so as to strive to become a saint."
This is the meaning of today's solemnity: Looking upon the marvelous example of the Saints, so we too can be inspired by them, to become living witnesses and friends of Jesus. And this is the vocation of every Christian and each one of us!
ALL SOULS DAY (November 2nd) reminds us to pray for those who are in purgatory, awaiting purification to enter heaven. The souls in purgatory need those of us on earth to pray for them to assist them in entering their heavenly home. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church states, “all who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven” (CCC No. 1030). Let us offer Masses and prayers for all the deceased. If possible, let us also make visits to cemeteries during the month of November to pray for all the dead: Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let the perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace.
