Thank you for visiting our parish website.  St. John the Baptist, Montello/Good Shepherd, Westfield are a vibrant Roman Catholic parishes serving the Catholic Community of Marquette County, WI.  If you are new to our community, the Catholic church, or are visiting, Please join us!  We hope you will find among us the faith and love needed to grow in your relationship with God through the Proclamation of the Gospel, the celebration of the Sacraments, the faithful teaching of the church, and the friendship of our community. Join us for Masses and spiritual activities!

While accommodating larger congregations for our Christmas services, we must continue to follow social distancing safety protocols given by the Health Department and Diocese of Madison. To meet these challenges, we are requiring those planning to attend any of our Christmas Masses to make reservations for the Mass you wish to attend. Please call the parish office (297-7423) during regular office hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; 8 a.m.-3p.m.; Friday; 8 a.m. to noon.
Please do not email or leave a voice mail with your reservation information.
You may begin making reservations December 1^st. When making a reservation, please provide the number of people planning to attend and whether they are members of the same household. Then you will be given a pew assignment for the Mass you select. When you attend that Mass, you will be asked to check in as you enter church to confirm your pew assignment.  If a Mass fills with reservations, we will consider adding an additional Mass that day.
Christmas Eve Masses:  SJB at 4 p.m.       GS at 6 p.m.
Christmas Day Masses:  SJB at 8 a.m.       GS at 10 a.m.
 

lSee our Mass video playlists below for Sunday recordings.
See our Live Stream Videos -  Sundays @ 10AM 
Please click on the picture below to be directed to our Live Mass recorded on our Facebook page.

Individual confessions available by calling Fr. Savio Yerasani         
Sacrament of Baptism:  Please call the parish office                   
 Sacrament of Marriage:  Please call the parish office six months before the Marriage
Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick: Please call the parish office

We are limited to 25% capacity so we deeply appreciate everyone's financial help during this time of pandemic.   If your personal financial situation permits,  we ask that you continue to support our parishes.

Please go to www.dioceseofmadison.org/support your parish and search for St. John the Baptist, Montello or Good Shepherd, Westfield and make your offering.

You may mail your contributions to our parish office:  277 E. Montello Street, Montello WI 53949  or drop them off at the parish office on Tuesday through Friday.   You can also bring your envelope to the churches when they are open for prayer on Sunday morning.

We also offer automatic withdrawl of your contributions to our parish accounts.  Please contact Steve Zoulek in the parish office (608-297-7423) for more information on automatic withdrawl.

May God bless you for your generosity. 

Thank you to all who continued to give to our window fund during our quarantine.
We are more than halfway to our goal of $71,200.
Amount Received:  $50,403.04
Amount Needed:     $20, 796.96
We are very grateful for your donation. Please see the Parish Life Page for an article about the installment of our new windows.
 

If you would like to join our parish
please fill out registration forms below. 


St. John the Baptist Registration
https://www.marquettecountycatholic.org/documents/2015/12/SKMBT_C224e15120912550.pdf

Good Shepherd Registration 
https://www.marquettecountycatholic.org/documents/2015/12/SKMBT_C224e15120912500.pdf

End of Dispensation From Sunday Mass Obligation
In March as communities responded to the growing coronavirus outbreak, the bishops of Wisconsin’s five Roman Catholic dioceses granted a dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass.  As the outbreak grew all dioceses suspended the public celebration of Mass.
In recent months, dioceses and parishes throughout the state have been able to resume public worship by adhering to strict safety standards.  Throughout this time, the faithful have not been required to attend Mass on Sundays.
With measures in place to promote and preserve the safety of those attending Mass, the bishops of Wisconsin have announced plans to end the dispensation from the Sunday Mass obligation.  In the Diocese of Madison, the dispensation is revoked beginning next Sunday, September 26, 2020. 
Recognizing that it is not prudent to expect everyone to return to Sunday Mass, Bishop Hying has dispensed the following from the Sunday Mass Obligation: 
· Those for whom, in their own prudent and prayerful judgment, attending Mass would pose greater than normal risk, either to themselves , to their families and others with whom they have contact, or to those attending Mass, whether the source of additional risk is the age, health, possible recent exposure, difficulty in observing social distancing guides and other hygienic measures, gauged in proportion to the gravity of the obligation in question. 
· Those who attempt to attend Mass but, due to the limitations on church capacity imposed by ecclesiastical or civil authority, are either unable to enter the church or else upon arrival voluntarily abstain from doing so in order that others may attend, even if it would be possible to attend another Mass without extreme difficulty. 
In short, if you believe that because of your own health situation or the health situation of those with whom you live or associate,  it is a risk for you to attend Mass because of exposure to the coronavirus, you are currently dispensed from the Sunday Mass obligation. 
Should you have any questions, especially about your own situation, please contact Fr. Savio.