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O Mary, you shine continuously on our journey as a sign of salvation and hope.  We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick.

At the foot of the Cross you participated in Jesus’ pain, with steadfast faith.  You, Salvation of the Roman People, know what we need.

We are certain that you will provide, so that, as you did at Cana of Galilee, joy and feasting might return after this moment of trial.

Help us, Mother of Divine Love, to conform ourselves to the Father’s will and to do what Jesus tells us:

He who took our sufferings upon Himself, and bore our sorrows to bring us, through the Cross, to the joy of the Resurrection. Amen.

We seek refuge under your protection, O Holy Mother of God.

Do not despise our pleas – we who are put to the test – and deliver us from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin.
Amen.  

Read more here

• National Centers for Disease and Control Prevention website  (CDC)
• Wisconsin Department of Health Services COVID-19 Resource webpage
• Winnebago County Health Department COVID-19 webpage
• Diocese of Green Bay COVID-19 Response webpage

Beginning July 5 a Communion Service will be offered at 9:30AM at the St Peter site for those who are not able or not comfortable attending Mass in person just yet. 

Please participate in a virtual Mass (live stream, radio, or TV) and then enter through the handicapped entrance after the 8:30AM Mass has ended. A hospitality minister will take your temperature, provide you a mask (if you do not have one) and direct you where to go.  

NEW!! Radio Parking Lot Mass

Listen to the 8:30AM Mass from the parking lot! Tune your car radio to 87.9 FM from the parking lot of the St. Peter site to join us in prayer.

Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I am happy to announce that we are now entering Phase 2 of the plan to bring us safely back to communion and community! Public Masses with Moderate Limits on Public Gatherings and Moderate Social Distancing, will begin Corpus Christi weekend, June 13-14, 2020.

The Feast of Corpus Christi - also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ - celebrates the Real Presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. Our identity as Catholics and our identity as a parish, are wrapped up in the truth of the Most Blessed Sacrament - that the Bread and Wine becomes Jesus’ Body and Blood and is given to us to consume so that Jesus may dwell in us and we in Him. This year our parish feast day will be a source of double blessing as we begin our return to the Eucharist - the source and summit of our Christian life - to worship as the Body of Christ.

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Remember: no Catholic is required to receive Holy Communion during the pandemic. The faithful in the Diocese of Green Bay remain dispensed from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass for any reason.

Please review the  “Phase 2: Re-Connecting to Inspire" flyer for more detailed information.

6/9/20:  Health & Safety Guidelines for Mass at MBS

You can also check out this video walk-through of exactly what you can expect when you join us for Sunday and Weekday Masses:

Make a Reservation

One of the guidelines for Phase 2 includes limiting attendance to 25% of our church capacity. Those who feel safe, are not in one of the identified high risk groups, and are willing to take the precautions we are asking are welcome to make a reservation at daily and/or weekend Masses.

Please make a reservation online (bit.ly/MBSMass) or by calling the parish office. 

Weekend Mass Time Change

To facilitate the additional required sanitation procedures, we will be making the following changes to our weekend Mass times beginning Corpus Christi weekend (June 13 &14):

Masses will be held Saturday at 4PM at the St. Peter site, Sunday at 8:30AM at the St. Peter site, and Sunday at 10:30AM at the St. Mary site.

Daily Masses will be held Monday through Saturday at 7:30AM at the St. Peter site.

The 8:30AM Sunday and Daily Masses will continue to be live-streamed on our YouTube channel (http://bit.ly/MBSOshkoshLive).

Communion for Those At Home

To arrange for an extraordinary minister of communion to bring the Eucharist to you, please contact Laurie at (920) 231-9782 or mbslpollack@gmail.com.

Stay Up to Date!

We are excited to announce the parish has adopted some new ways to keep you connected to the life of our parish and keep you updated on any changes in our status. 

You may soon receive a welcome message from our new communication system, Evangelus.  This is not spam. We encourage you to open the message and follow the link to select your preferred form of contact. 

You can also text MBSOshkosh to 5532 or visit eva.us/mbsoshkosh to update your parish contact information.

Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

It is with great joy that I can announce that our Diocese of Green Bay and Most Blessed Sacrament Parish will begin the re-engagement process to bring us safely back to communion and community. As Bishop Ricken puts it, we are moving forward with both “bold faith and prudent action.”

As the first step in this re-engagement process, Bishop Ricken has granted permission for those who desire and can safely do so to receive Holy Communion under specific guidelines beginning on Pentecost Sunday, May 31st.

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It is important to remember no Catholic is required to receive Holy Communion during the pandemic. The faithful in the Diocese of Green Bay remain dispensed from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass. 


Our parish has had a team working diligently and quickly to develop a procedure that allows for the safe reception of the Eucharist in accordance with the Diocesan guidelines and in the spirit of our parish mission.

Beginning Sunday, May 31st, our parish will begin allowing groups of the faithful to receive Holy Communion outside of the Mass immediately following our 9AM live-streamed Mass.

Beginning Tuesday, June 2nd, our parish will be allowing 8 people to attend daily Mass Monday - Saturday at the St. Peter Site.

Please review the following documents for more detailed information:

• Parishioner Guidelines from the Diocese
• MBS Plan for Sunday Communion Services and Daily Mass with Small Groups.

You can also check out this video walk-through of exactly what you can expect when you join us for the Sunday Communion Services:

Seeking Donations

To assist with the additional sanitizing and disinfecting needs we will have during this time, we are currently seeking donations of hand sanitizer and disinfectant - both of which can be hard find and purchase in bulk. If you are able, we are asking each household to consider donating one of the following:


• one bottle of store bought (not homemade) hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol, or
• one container of disinfectant spray or wipes from the EPA’s Registered Household disinfectant list.

You are also welcome to bring your weekly giving envelopes and Brown Bag Sunday donations when you come. Thank you for continuing to live the Gospel by serving one another with your generous donations and giving!

Moving Forward with Charity & Patience

I appreciate your patience as our team works to smooth out any bumps in these new processes. If you run into challenges or issues, please be patient and kind with our volunteers and staff, with each other, and with yourself. We are all learning as we go and will do our best to tweak and adjust as needed. We will communicate with you as additional changes become necessary and as soon as our Diocese enters the next steps of the re-engagement process.

Communications: Stay Up to Date

One of the best and quickest ways for us to communicate with you is via email. Please take a moment to send your updated email address to mbswebmail17@gmail.com (please include both your name and email address) to get added to our parish communications.

Peace,
Fr. Jerry 

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from 3 to 6:00 p.m. at St. Peter Site

Tuesday Evening Eucharistic Blessing
As an extension of the 3 hour exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, there will also be an opportunity for a Eucharistic Blessing at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday evenings, prior to the regularly scheduled 6:30 p.m. Mass at the St. Peter site.  

Occupants should remain in their cars practicing safe social distancing.
 
Beginning this Tuesday, March 24^th and continuing every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. for the foreseeable future, Fr. Jerry will take the monstrance from the exposition table and process from car to car.  Once he has finished blessing the occupants in each car, he will place the monstrance back on the exposition table and adoration will continue until 6:00 p.m. 

Bishop Ricken has requested that churches remain open for at least 2-3 hours daily and on the weekends, so that the faithful may pray privately before the Blessed Sacrament present in the tabernacle.

After consulting with the staff and talking about the following challenges, we came up with the following solution.

Challenges: Meeting the requirement of having less than 10 people in church. Disinfecting part of church in the hope we don't miss anything. Security issues, because the entrance is not visible from the parish office. Promoting social distancing and the spread of the virus. Wanting it to be as safe as possible.

Beginning Friday at 9AM there is a tabernacle in the side entrance at St. Peters, visible to the parking lot 24/7. 

Please stay in your car and/or practice social distancing.  We will also be offering exposition of the Blessed Sacrament through those glass doors from 3PM - 6PM.  If you come at 3:00 PM feel free to tune into Relevant Radio (1050 AM) for the Divine Mercy Chaplet.

The doors will remain locked, but people are able to come and pray before the Blessed Sacrament from outside the building.