Welcome!

We are glad that you are here with us today to
mark the season of Lent.
During this season,
we are all in need of divine forgiveness,
and in need of power to lead a more faithful Christian life.
Acceptance and support
await you at our parish.

 Lakewood Church  

         Reconciliation Times
          9:00 A.M.  First Fridays
         3:30  P.M.  Saturday

    Silver Cliff Chapel  
        5:30  P.M.  Saturday

         Reconciliation Times
              First Saturdays
             following Mass

   
 Crooked Lake Chapel
         7:30 A.M. Sunday
          
         Reconciliation Times
              Second Sundays
              following Mass 
 

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Everyone is Welcome to Events
and all Meetings!  
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Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time March 3, 2019

Prepare Your Heart

Lenten Material Available

The Little Black Books,
Catholic Relief Services Operation Rice Bowl,
the Compass newspaper
& a book by MatthewKelly
“The Biggest Lie in the History of Christianity.”Communal

Lenten Penance Services
March 26th - 4:30pm
St. Ambrose in Wabeno

March 28th - 6:00pm
St. Mary’s in Lakewood

Stations of the Cross
Silver Cliff:
All Fridays at 4:00pm
Crooked Lake:
Friday, March 22nd 4:00pm Lakewood:
Friday, April 12th at 4:00pm
St. Ambrose in Wabeno:
at 6:30pm
Presented by our Religious Education Students

Lenten Fish Fry
Friday, April 12th  
4:30 -7:00pm at
St. Mary's of the Lake in Lakewood

St. Mary's of the Lake
in Lakewood
Seroogy’s Candy Sale
St. Mary's & St. Ambrose Youth will be
selling Seroogy’s Chocolates for their Lenten Outreachbefore and after Masses.

Closing of our
Centennial Year!
  
It has been a very exciting year filled with many activities:
brunches, book club, fish fry, Novena, Special Masses, Eucharistic Adoration, Bingo, pie & ice cream social, parade float, trip to Holy Hill, Anniversary Mass with Bishop Ricken & dinner, open houses at the Chapels,
an Ecumenical Concert, an Advent evening, and a recognition Mass for our founding families.
Please visit our parish website for pictures of the events!

Thank you to our Centennial Committee for all your planning and hard work and to all the parishioners and visitors who helped us celebrate our Anniversary year!

A Work in Progress

A parish history book is being
created. It will look back on our 100
years with detailed information.
Research was done over the past year
and a half, but many of you have contributed pictures, facts, and memories. These will be the“glue” that will bind this book together! Thanks!This book will be for everyone and we hope you will look forward to it. More details to come. . . .

St. Mary’s of the Lake church was incorporated 100 years ago on February 12, 1918.
 

New...

Visit Photo Album to view 
images of Centennial Events, Polka Mass & Parish Picnic. 

Prayer Requests . . .

For all the prayer requests written in our Parish Book of Petitions.

Prayer Shawls available in the office. 

We invite you to join
a Book Group at St. Mary's 
The group will read and discuss the book Falling Upward by Richard Rohr.

9:15 am - 10:15 am 
St. Mary's Gathering Space.
The Book Group will continue to meet 
one Wednesday each month.
Future dates are as follows; 
Wednesday, March 20th
Wednesday, April 17th
Wednesday May 15th
Please bring your favorite beverage.
A healthy snack will be provided.

We’ll listen and explore what the Spirit is calling forth in our individual lives.
The flow of the hour will be opening prayer, discussing the chapters using guided questions, and close with a prayer. The only cost is the purchase of the book Falling Upward.
It costs between $14-$20, depending on where you purchase it. If you’re interested in this opportunity, please sign up in the back of church by the elevator or call/text the facilitator Caroline Coughlin Lampereur
(715) 850-0816.
Read “The Invitation to a Further Journey and Introduction” for this meeting. Looking forward to the connections and conversations ahead. 

On the First Sunday of every month...
You are cordially invited for coffee, donuts, and
fellowship after;

 9:00 am Mass at Lakewood 
 7:30 am Mass at Crooked Lake. 

Father Roger Strebel
 

FR. Roger Walter Strebel
(Sept 22, 1938 – Feb 18, 2019)

With faith in the Resurrection of Jesus, we offer our prayers for Reverend Roger W. Strebel, who entered eternal life on Monday, February 18, 2019, at the age of 80.

Father Strebel was born in Green Bay to Martin and Grace (Paque) Strebel. He attended minor seminary at the College of Sacred Heart Seminary in Oneida, and studied philosophy and theology at St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee. Most Rev. John B. Grellinger ordained him to the priesthood on May 28, 1966, at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Green Bay. 

Father Roger’s first appointments were as assistant pastor of Nativity of Our Lord Parish, Green Bay, and then St. Margaret Mary Parish, Neenah. Prior to being appointed pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Marinette in 1975, he served as parochial vicar of Holy Innocents Church, Manitowoc, and St. Philip the Apostle Parish, Green Bay. In 1981, Father Roger was appointed pastor of St. Anthony Parish, Tigerton, and St. Mary Parish, Marion. He served as pastor and administrator of numerous parishes including Immaculate Conception Church, Glenmore, St. Hyacinth Church, Antigo, St. Mary of the Lake Parish, Lakewood, and St. Joseph Parish, Walsh. Although he retired in 2010, Father Roger continued to help out at parishes as an administrator and priest celebrant. 

He once said that working through the Catholic youth ministry of Boy Scouting was the impetus of his vocation to the priesthood. The basic promise of Scouting offers duty to God and service to others. The ordained priesthood is seen as the best way to live out that promise. Service to others is my life work of preaching the Gospel, building community and presiding at Eucharist. To accomplish the above, I need relevant knowledge, skills and attitudes of manly holiness and genuine faith. He was appointed Chaplain of the Boy Scouts in 1976 and served until 2016. 

Father Strebel pursued higher education throughout his lifetime. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Education at Holy Family College in 1971. He attended St. Mary University, Baltimore, Maryland in 1986, where he earned a doctorate in Ministry. Through Clayton College in Birmingham, Alabama, Fr. Strebel earned a Ph.D. and doctorate in Natural Health, a doctorate in Naturopath, and a Ph.D. in Nutrition. 

Reception of the body by the Regional Vicar, Reverend Philip Dinh-Van-Thiep, will take place at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, February 25 and visitation will continue until 11:00 a.m. at St Mary of the Lake Church, 15232 County F, Lakewood WI. The Funeral Liturgy, expressing our faith and our hope in the promised glory of the Lord’s Resurrection, will
follow at 11:00 a.m., with Bishop David Ricken, Celebrant, and Father Daniel Schuster, Homilist. Burial will be at Allouez Cemetery at a later date.