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!

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 are 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.

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Good Shepherd, Westfield
St. John the Baptist, Montello

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St. John the Baptist
July 24 - 29, 2022
Registration is open for 4K - 12th Grade

What is Totus Tuus?
The Totus Tuus parish summer catechetical program, a week-long “parish mission” for Catholic youth in the 4K through 12th grades, is dedicated to proclamation of the Gospel and promoting the Catholic faith through evangelization, catechesis, apologetics, Christian witness, the sacraments, Marian devotion, and Eucharistic adoration. Totus Tuus accomplishes this by having college students, young adults, and seminarians engage the youth of the parish with skits, songs, games and inspiring, interactive teaching.

Totus Tuus instructs young people in the basic tenets of the Catholic faith to cultivate both a firm intellectual grounding and a solid personal relationship with Christ.Totus Tuus demonstrates that one can be a faithful, practicing Catholic and still have a lot of fun!

Totally Yours 
Totus Tuus, a Latin phrase meaning “totally yours,” was the motto of Saint John Paul II. Taken from St. Louis de Montfort’s work, True Devotion to Mary, it signifies our desire to give ourselves entirely to Jesus Christ through the hands of our Blessed Mother Mary. It also expresses our effort to give all that we have to every young person we encounter.

Totus Tuus seeks to inspire in young people a true longing for holiness, a deep desire for daily conversion, and an openness to their vocation by challenging them to give themselves entirely to Jesus Christ through Mary and by continually strengthening their prayer lives in imitation of her.

Curriculum
The Totus Tuus program has divided the four pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church into a six year cycle. Additionally, each summer is dedicated to one of the mysteries of the Rosary.

In 2022, Totus Tuus will cover:
Theme: Prayer and the Our Father
Mysteries: The Luminous Mysteries

Please contact Briana Enger at sjbreled01@gmail.com or at the Parish Office for more information!
 

With the advice of the Marquette County Sheriff department, we implemented these changes to our security procedures during our weekend Masses:
· Once Mass begins, all doors to the church facility will be locked.  An usher will be posted at the Montello Street entrance to allow access to the church for any late comers.  A sign at the parking lot entrance will direct people to the Montello St entrance once Mass begins.
· People will not be allowed to celebrate Mass from the rear vestibule; they will be asked to take a seat in the church.  Those with children are most welcome to use the vestibule to quiet a child and then return to the church.
· All of the rooms of the parish center with the exception of the restrooms will be locked during Mass to prevent someone from hiding out somewhere in the building.
We implement these procedures to help ensure everyone’s safety at Mass.  We seek to be “proactive” instead of “reactive.”  Anyone with questions or comments is asked to speak to Dennis Klapper or Steve Zoulek.
 



GO MAKE DICIPLES 
Bishop Hying is embracing the occasion of the 75^th Anniversary of the Diocese of Madison in the year 2021, to launch a bold, robust evangelizing initiative. Find out more at:  https://madisondiocese.org/gmd

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.