St.

James Parish Neshkoro, Wisconsin January 17, 2021 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

January 9-10, 2021

Envelopes $1,311.00
Offertory 201.00
Candles 12.00
Building & Improvements 255.00
Immaculate Conception 10.00
ATTENTION ALL PARISHIONERS
Christmas Offering 90.00
Wearing of facemasks are NOW REQUIRED during
Bless our Priests 406.00
Mass inside of St. James Place. Thank you for your
cooperation. TOTAL $2,285.00

COMING EVENTS - NESHKORO

MASS SCHEDULE - NESHKORO Jan. 20 (Wed) -
-
Noon
12:30 PM
Anointing Mass
Parish Council Meeting
Jan. 20 (Wed) - 7:00 PM AA Meeting (in basement)
Saturday, January 16 – 4:00 PM Jan. 21 (Thurs) - 3:00 PM Cenacle
3:30 - 3:45 PM Confessions
Intentions: Jack Nehmer, Health of J. J. Wheaton
Lector: Larry Kane
Eucharistic: Pearl Reese, Pierce Reese-Grimm
Ushers: Dave & Shannon Krentz,
Brian Ronspies

Sunday, January 17 – 9:30 AM ST. JAMES PARISH IS IN NEED OF A VOLUNTEER

Intentions: Carolyn Skrzypchak, Lillian Disterhaft BOOKKEEPER
Lector: Paul Kornaus St. James Parish is in need of a volunteer bookkeeper.
Eucharistic: Jack Nation Knowledge of Quick Books and accounting principles are helpful,
Ushers: Tom Murphy, Ralph Disterhaft but not mandatory. Volunteer hours would be approximately 2 to
3 hours a week at the parish office.
Saturday, January 23 – 4:00 PM If interested, please call the Parish office at (920) 293-4211 or
3:30 - 3:45 PM Confessions email (stjamesneshkoro@gmail.com) to set up an interview.
Intentions: Ken Sondalle, Jack Nehmer
AN ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
Lector: Pierce Reese-Grimm My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy
Eucharistic: Kathy Fitzgerald Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive
Ushers: Dave & Shannon Krentz, You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You
Brian Ronspies sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace
You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You.
Sunday, January 24 – 9:30 AM Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.
Intentions: Jan Schiro, Lillian & Ed R. Disterhaft
Lector: Becky Van Scyoc CCW IS AGAIN OFFERING A $500 SCHOLARSHIP
Eucharistic: Stella Sedlar The St. James Council of Catholic Women (CCW) will again
Ushers: Tom Murphy, Ralph Disterhaft offer a $500 Scholarship to a high school senior who is attending
schools in Marquette, Green Lake, or Waushara Counties.
The main stipulation is the student must be a baptized
PRAYER LIST
Catholic and the student’s parents or grandparents must be a
This week remember Aspen Ladwig, Barbara Faccio, Carole
member of St. James Catholic Church in Neshkoro.
Nation, John Ronspies, Joyce Vetrone, Jeanette Harmon,
Donna Paris, Roberta Naparalla, Ken Finnemore, Mary Jean The deadline for applying for the scholarship is
Nielsen, Betty Rohde, Julie Swartz, Sharon Bennett, March 15, 2021. Application blanks are available in the rectory.
Jerry Wallander, Joe Schumitsch, Christina Hope, Grant Wolf, If you would like the application mailed or emailed to you, please
Susan DeLain, Keith Farnham, Jan Schiro, Vic Schiro, call the office at (920) 293-4211.
Gail Fitzgerald, Marge Matthias, Dorothy Kasubaski, Jason
Philps, Julia Hampton, Barb McNary, and all the shut-ins of WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER HAS GONE
St. James Parish. VIRTUAL
Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them,
PLEASE REMEMBER TO PRAY FOR THE SICK “What are you looking for?” In this time of uncertainty, we should
When someone is seriously ill or in the hospital, it is up to family be looking for the graces of God in our marriage. Discover those
members to notify Fr. Grubba or the Parish Office, graces from the safety of your home on the virtual Worldwide
(920) 295-6209 or (920) 293-4211, and their names will be listed Marriage Encounter during Lent, February 18 – March 31, once
per week or roughly 2 hours each session.
in the bulletin the next week so that they may be remembered
with prayers and letters. This week I would ask that you For more information, visit our Website at: alifetimeoflove.org
remember…Shut-ins of the parish. or call (888) 574-5653.

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St. James Parish Neshkoro, Wisconsin
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
SHRINE & GARDENS
IN ENDEAVOR, WISCONSIN
DEC. 12 IS SIGNIFICANT FOR SMALL GROUP OF
HOPEFULS WITH BIG PLANS TO RESTORE ORIGINAL
WISCONSIN SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
Photo Credit Bob Schneider, Jr.
ENDEAVOR, Wis. (Dec. 4, 2020) – Each Dec. 12, the
Catholic faithful celebrate the Feast Day of Our Lady of
Guadalupe, commemorating the 1531 appearance of
Mary to a poor Indian, Juan Diego, on a hillside near
Mexico City. While hundreds of years and thousands of
miles separate that event and a small religious plot in
Endeavor, Wis., there is, nonetheless, an important
modern-day connection that is playing out as volunteers
work tirelessly to save the little-known Our Lady of
Guadalupe Shrine, located at 409 Prairie Street. The
untold story of the shrine, created in 1964 and the
original shrine in Wisconsin to Our Lady of Guadalupe, is
of two young Dominican Sisters with little formal art
training who created the mosaic artwork as a way to
build bonds with the migrant workers and their children.
For more on the restoration efforts, log on to
www.ourladyofguadalupewi.com.
The volunteer effort to save the shrine from the ravages
of time is being led by Rev. Dale Grubba, a young
80-year-old and native of the area who was familiar with
the shrine, church and adjoining casa meeting space
from his younger days as a seminarian. “I would drive a
school bus to pick up children of the migrant workers and
take them to the casa to attend school taught by the
Dominican Sisters,” he said. That was back in the late
1950s. When the church and shrine no longer served the
community, the Diocese of Madison sold it in 2003 to a
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January 17, 2021 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
small group of friends and neighbors. When that
community group no longer had a use for the property,
they contacted Fr. Grubba, currently a pastor for
parishes in Princeton and Neshkoro, Wis., to see if he
would be interested in taking on the task of preserving it.
He agreed, with the first order of business to pay the
back taxes and assume the outstanding bills. That was
in 2018.
“When I looked it over, I thought, ‘What have I gotten
myself into,’ but for me it’s been a great thing, bringing
new inspiration to my life and my work,” shared
Fr. Grubba. The prophetic nature of the name of the
Wisconsin burg where it’s located, Endeavor, wasn’t lost
on Fr. Grubba either, who quickly understood this would
be an endeavor of some magnitude.
He gathered a small group of enthusiastic admirers of the
shrine and raised enough dollars to stabilize the shrine to
prevent it from toppling over. Plus, thanks to some
amateur sleuthing by the group that included use of
Facebook, they were able to track down the two
Dominican Sisters who spent the summer of 1964
creating the mural. Sister Joeann Daley lives in
Shorewood, Wis., and Kathleen Broderick Stagney, who
left the sisterhood, lives in Cleveland. Both are originally
from Wisconsin and both studied art in college before
teaching grade school. (The Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters
are a teaching congregation whose motherhouse is in
southwestern Wisconsin.) Both sisters celebrated 80th
birthdays this year.
A Zoom call brought the group together virtually, minus
Broderick who is communicating via text, to first
reminisce and then review the ambitious plans for the
restoration.
“It was Kathleen who drew the mosaic and she didn’t
think it was that special at the time,” began Sister
Joeann. “We worked with cement, plaster and grout and
were just hoping the tiles would stick, as we really didn’t
know much about creating a mosaic aside from a little
background we got during one of our classes at Rosary
College, now Dominican University, in River Forest, Ill.,
where we both graduated with art degrees.”
She went on to tell the story of how they sourced the
mosaic pieces, describing remnants of fine Italian tile
sourced from families whose children they taught at
schools in Illinois to the everyday objects, with the latter
being the more interesting story.
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“The blues were from Noxzema jars and Milk of left behind, we are going to bring new life to it with this
Magnesia bottles,” she said. “As for the other colors, project,” said Fr. Grubba.
Kathleen’s mother, who lived in nearby Wisconsin Dells,
would make stops at bars to get beer and whiskey bottles ###
and local souvenir shops for amber glass items, and she’d
also haunt the local car graveyards for broken red Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine &
taillights made of glass.” There was no careful cutting of Gardens
the tiles and glass. “We put the glass in a bag and 409 Prairie St., Endeavor, WI 53930
smashed it with hammers,” laughed Sister Joeann. www.OurLadyofGuadalupeWi.com

It was a messy undertaking, with the two sisters working

in their white habits and veils from sun up until sun
down, with both of them covered in plaster and dust by
the end of the day. Anyone who stopped by, including
the children of the migrant workers, were given a piece
of glass to place in the mosaic, symbolizing they, too, had
a hand in creating it.

When Sister Joeann learned a restoration was underway,

she was flabbergasted. “We are the memory of what it
felt like to make that shrine and I was amazed to be
found after 56 years.”

After discussion, the group decided not to entirely

modernize the mosaic, which measures 16 feet high by
13-and-a-half feet wide at the widest point at the base,
but rather make sure it simply doesn’t deteriorate
further.

Sister Joeann’s art practice today includes etchings and

monoprints, and there’s talk among the group of having
her create a small etching of the shrine, with prints to be
sold as a fundraiser. So far, about 15% of the $850,000
needed to complete the shrine restoration, develop
surrounding gardens, add outdoor Stations of the Cross,
and provide some much-needed attention to the church
and casa has been raised from private donors. Fr. Grubba
has plans for future phases too which may potentially
include a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes and an outdoor
labyrinth. “We are, however, going to stay with the
humble beginnings of this shrine and not turn this into a
multi-million dollar undertaking,” noted Fr. Grubba. The
hope is to finish in two years.

Fr. Grubba and his volunteer committee envision the

faithful making pilgrimages to the site as part of an
itinerary to visit other shrines in the state including the
modern-day shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe in La
Crosse, and church services and weddings taking place
from time to time. It will be open to people of all faiths.
“While right now Endeavor may seem like a little town

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