Assumption Catholic Church Florian, Mn
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ASSUMPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH - FLORIAN
26932 - 390TH ST. NW - STRANDQUIST, MN
56758
www.wiktel.net/assumption ph: (218) 478-3578
Facebook Page: Assumption Church Florian
Fr. Luis Buitron,
Pastor: (218) 242-5689 lbuitron@wiktel.com
Parish Secretary: Kelly Nordine assumptionchurch@wiktel.com
Religious Education Coordinator: Sarah Youngstrand assumptionflorianre@gmail.com
If you or someone you know has been the
victim of sexual misconduct on the part of a priest, deacon, or individual
representing the Diocese of Crookston, its parishes, or its schools, your first
call should be to law enforcement. In addition, the diocesan, Victim
Assistance Coordinator is available at 218-281-7895 (24-hour
confidential number).
Mission Statement
of Assumption Church – Florian
As disciples of the teachings of Jesus
Christ we, as a Christian Community, focus our time, talent, and treasure on
sharing the Gospel of our Lord in Word and Deed.
The Sacramental
Life
Infant Baptism: Catechetical Class is required; please contact Fr. Luis
early during pregnancy or adoption.
Anointing of the
Sick: Please call the Parish Office during
serious illness or before surgery.
Shut-Ins: If you know anyone who cannot come to Church, please let the
office know, so they can be put on a visiting schedule by a Eucharistic
Minister.
Marriage: All Catholics who have decided to enter marriage must see a
priest six months prior to the desired date of marriage. If a Catholic is
contemplating marriage to a non-Catholic, the Catholic must still contact a
priest to fulfill the requirements of the Catholic Church for the marriage to be
validly recognized by the Church. Please contact Father Luis before booking the
date with the secretary.
New Parishioner (s) If you are
interested or know someone who is, in becoming a registered parishioner of
Assumption please call the parish office or visit with Father Luis
*Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults
(RCIA) is the means by which individuals
interested in becoming Roman Catholic may do so. The process will begin with a
simple informational meeting with Fr. Luis. If interested, please call Fr. Luis
at 218-242-5689.
Fr. Luis Office
Hours: St. Rose: Tuesdays 9:30 am to 12:00
pm; St. Stephen: Wednesdays 9:00 am to 12:00 pm Assumption-Florian:
Thursdays 9:30 am to 12:00 pm. Please call Fr. Luis to set up an appointment.
Tri-Parish Weekend
Mass Time October, November & December
Assumption: Saturday @ 5:00 pm; St. Stephen's: Sunday @ 8:30 am; St.
Rose: Sunday @ 10:30 am
TRI-PARISH WEEKDAY
MASS TIMES
St. Rose: Tuesdays: Adoration 4:00 pm & Mass @ 5:00 pm; St.
Stephens: Wednesday's @ 8:30 am
Assumption: Thursdays @ 6:00 pm and Friday @ 6:00 pm
Reconciliation: before
Saturday 5:00 pm Mass: 4:30-5:00 pm.; before Sunday 8:30 am Mass: 8:00-8:30 am;
no Reconciliation before 10:30 am Mass, or by Appointment (call Fr. Luis).
The Prayer Request
Book is on a table in the back of the church by
the Holy Water.
Assumption-Florian Parish Bulletin, October
4, 2025
“For God did not give us a spirit of
cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control.” 2 TIMOTHY 1:7 Many of us compartmentalize our Faith, we bring it out only
when we attend Mass or when we attend a parish event. Being a good steward
requires discipline and striving to put God first in everything - all the time.
The next time you are at a neighborhood party or at work or out shopping, would
your words and actions signal to others that you are a good and faithful
servant of our Lord?
Saturday, October
4, 2025: @ 5:00 pm Mass
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass
Intention: For Robert &
Delphine Safranski by Bob & Jean Safranski
Lector: John
Grandstrand Rosary: Philip & Sarah Kuznia
Eucharistic Minister: Phil & Heather Rogus Altar
Servers: Taylin, Brayla
& Ryar Rogus
The Lord replied, “If you had faith the
size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree,'Be
uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.” (Luke 17:6)
Ponder: What
is the state of my faith?
Prayer: Lord,
I am grateful for your gentle voice of love. Help me to speak with love and
peace everywhere I go.
Practice: With a grateful heart I will practice my faith in the power
of kindness.
Thursday, October
9, 2025: @ 6:00 pm mass
Responsorial
Psalm: Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
Mass
Intention: For Kenneth Kuznia by Family and Friends
[Jesus said to them] “If you then, who are
evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the
heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
(Luke 11:13)
Ponder: Whom
do I find it difficult to love unconditionally?
Prayer: Lord,
I am grateful that you answer my cries for help. Show me how to answer the
cries of those who need unconditional love.
Practice: With
a grateful heart I will visit someone who is home bound.
Friday, October 10,
2025: @ 6:00 pm mass
Responsorial Psalm: The Lord will judge the
world with justice.
Mass Intention: For Helen Goroski by the Adamski Family
Lector: Volunteer
[Jesus said] “Whoever is not with me is
against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.” (Luke11:23)
Ponder: What
can I do to share my faith with others?
Prayer: Lord,
I am grateful for your faithfulness. Increase my faith in you and strengthen my
commitment to be your messenger of love to all people.
Practice: With
a grateful heart I will reflect on and renew my relationship with God.
Saturday, October
11, 2025: @ 8:30 am
Mass Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass Intention: For Rosalia Stusynski
by Rudy Rogus Family
Lector: Alana
Kuznia Rosary: Jonathan & Rachel
Pearson
Eucharistic Minister: Veronica Knoll & Donalda Kuznia Altar Servers: Corbyn
Bring, Bromley Holmstrom, & Eva Rogus
Welcome to Assumption Florian faith
community, Sander John Grandstrand, son of Evan &
Shayne Grandstrand, who was baptized on Saturday,
October 4, 2025.
Collectors:
October: Mike
Budziszewski, Tim Budziszewski,
Larry Dziengel, & John Grandstrand
November: Jerome Kujawa, Gayle Kuznia, James V. Kuznia &
Jonathan Pearson
PRAYER LIST
Prayers for
Healing: Nettie Kuznia, Robert Blazejewski &
Vernon Stusynski
STEWARDSHIP
COLLECTION
2025/2026 Sunday offertory Budget:
$105,000.00 / 52 weeks - $2,019.23
September 28, 2025 - Adult: $1,112.00;
Youth: $14.00; Plate: $143.00; Children's Education: $20.00;
Total: $1,289.00.00; Online Giving: $80.00;
Cemetery Fund: $50.00
Thank you to all who have donated to the
cemetery fund and building fund. It is greatly appreciated.
**2025 Diocesan Annual Appeal **
As of September 24, 2025 – Goal:
$10,242.00, Received: $9,610.00, 93.83% of Goal, $632.00 under goal, with
36.17% parishioners' participation.
To date the Assumption Florian
Parish/Church has committed $9,610.00 towards our
$10, 242.00 goal. Did you know your gifts
to the Diocesan Annual Appeal
provide youth ministers and parish secretaries with the opportunity
to
participate in days of reflection and training. These and many other
opportunities benefit our parish! Please be as generous as possible! You
can
donate online at www.crookston.org/DAA. Thank you!
RELIGIOUS FORMATION
Our first RE Class was on Wednesday,
October 1. A huge thank you to volunteer teachers Tara Holmstrom,
Heather Rogus, Isabel Pearson and Trent Youngstrand.
**RE classes for K-10 is on October 8th at
7 pm.
**Upcoming on Sunday, October 12 is the
Diocese of Crookston Youth Conference. All Students in grades 6-12 are strongly
encouraged to attend. Registration forms went home from class. Please make sure
they are returned by October 8th.
**Upcoming is our annual Circle of Grace
training on Wednesday, October 22. If you do not want your student to
participate, please make sure your opt-out form is signed and returned by
October 15.
Thank you,
Sarah Youngstrand.
RE Coordinator.
OTHER ITEMS &
UPCOMING EVENTS
**First aid kit is located on the
counter in the Sacristy. White icing is
included in the kit for diabetic reactions.
**The Knights of Columbus –
Knights of Columbus members: "If you have insurance questions, please
contact Aaron Kaiser at 218-280-4707 or email at Aaron.kaiser@kofc.org"
**Online giving program – Our
online offertory giving program is set up. We will be doing the Sunday
collections and any of the special collections that stay here in our parish.
For the first few months. For the donation that go to the Diocese, please use
your envelopes Thank you. We will still have the
offertory envelopes. Here is the link www.osvhub.com/assumptionchurchflorian/giving/funds.
In the link above, the building/repair fund and cemetery fund have been added.
Thank you to all who have donated through our online giving program. It is
greatly appreciated, God Bless. Here is our QR Offertory Code. Please make sure
that the Assumption Church is on the
opening page when you go online.
The cemetery and building/repair fund are
also on here if you would
like to donate to that as well.
**Natural Family Planning Introductory
Session the Crookston
Diocese welcomes all couples to a free Natural Family Planning Introductory
Session presented by Laura Golden, FCP and Sarah McKeown, CFCP. Please see the
poster in the back of the church on the bulletin board for dates and times.
**Assumption Ladies Meeting –
Ladies meeting is on October 6 at 6:30 pm. All ladies are welcome to attend.
**Reminder –Please find your own replacement for Eucharistic Minister,
Altar Server, Lector and Rosary. It is your responsibility once the schedule
goes out. If anyone would like to volunteer to be a Lector, Eucharistic
Minister, Altar Server or to help with the rosary,
please contact the parish office. 218-478-3578. Thank you.
**Cursillo - Attention all Cursillista's! Now is the time to be praying about who you
are going to ask to make the fall weekend Oct 23-26 for men. Pray that
God puts a name on your heart of someone you know who would find making a Cursillo a milestone in their faith life. Is there someone
you have noticed that God is working on and seems to be searching for more in
their relationship with Jesus? Remember, Christ is counting on you! Registration
forms are available online at www.crookstoncursillo.weebly.com.
Undone: Freedom for
the Feminine Heart (Women’s Healing Retreat), November 20-22, 2025: The Dioceses and Fargo and Crookston
are sponsoring the Undone Women’s retreat offered by the John Paul II Healing
Center. This two evening (Thursday, Friday) and Saturday retreat will provide
women with an authentic encounter with Mary’s model of radical receptivity to
the Lord and will be an experience of truth, beauty, and transformation. Bring
yourself, your mother, your sister, your adult daughters and friends. This is a
weekend you won’t want to miss! Presented by the John Paul II Healing Center
and sponsored by the Diocese of Fargo and Diocese of Crookston, this event will
be held at Sts. Anne and Joachim Catholic Church in
Fargo. The retreat is being offered in person OR virtually via live stream!
Register online for either experience at https://fargodiocese.net/undone.
Registration opens August 18th. Scholarships, student and missionary discounts
available. Contact JPIIretreatFargoND@gmail.com for more information.
**Mercy Hour: Throughout the
year, Bishop Andrew Cozzens will lead monthly Mercy Hour services across the
Diocese of Crookston. Mercy Hours are services of Eucharistic healing for
individuals, couples and families. Join Bishop Cozzens for this hour of adoration
and prayer, culminating in an intimate moment of Eucharistic encounter. All Are
Welcome. Mercy Hour is October 5, 2025, at 3 pm at St. Joseph's Catholic Church
**Real Presence Radio - Come
enjoy a night of faith and fellowship at Real Presence Radio’s Fundraising
Banquets! Join us in Grand Forks with keynote speaker Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, or in Fargo with
keynote speaker Dr. David Anders on Monday, February 2, 2026. Reserve your spot
today by calling Sunshine Diem at 701-960-0453 for details!
**St Rose of Lima Fall Festival – Sunday,
October 26 from 12p-5p. Please see the poster in the back of the church.
**Cathedral Church Harvest Festival-Crookston
Cathedral on October 19th from 11am-2pm. Please see poster in the back of the
church for more information.
**A Biblical Walk Through the Mass - [Liturgy
is] the privileged setting in which God speaks to us in the midst of our lives;
he speaks today to his people, who hear and respond. Every liturgical action is
by its very nature steeped in sacred Scripture. ...From Scripture the
petitions, prayers and liturgical hymns receive their inspiration and
substance. From Scripture the liturgical actions and signs draw their
meaning. – Pope Benedict XVI, Verbum Domini, 52.Join us
at St. Stephen’s Church for a study by Dr. Edward Sri titled A Biblical Walk
Through the Mass. It is a scriptural tour through the prayers, hymns,
and rituals of the Liturgy. Practically every part of the Mass finds its
inspiration in Scripture, as Pope Benedict XVI has noted. After providing
a general overview of the Mass, this study devotes a session to each of the
major sections of the Mass: the Introductory Rites, the Liturgy of the Word,
the Liturgy of the Eucharist, and the Concluding Rites. Readings from the Bible
and the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) draw participants into the
meaning and background of the prayers and other elements of the Mass. We
will meet at 9:00 a.m. following 8:30 a.m. Mass in the St. Stephen’s Church
basement on five Wednesdays, October 15, 22, & 29; November 12 &19. The
format will follow past studies with prayer, video, and small group discussion.
Refreshments will be served! All are welcome to attend one, some, or all the
sessions. Please contact Tammi Anderson (218-478-4217) or Marilyn Kuznia (218-478-4273) if you have any questions.
Do Something
Beautiful for God – The Essential Teachings of Mother Teresa
October 3 – Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of
love by which you can catch souls.
October 4 – Meditation is talking to Jesus. It is a deep intimate
conversation with Jesus.
October 5 – From the cross Jesus cries out, “I thirst.” His thirst was
for souls even as He hung there dying, alone, despised. Who will bring those
souls to Him? Can you and I continue to stand by as mere spectators? Can we
pass by and do nothing?
October 6 – Look at Mary Magdalene; she was so in love in Jesus. She went
early in the morning to see Him…Are we like that at holy Mass? During Prayer?
Do we have that eagerness and longing to be with him?
October 7 – When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you
often see small and big wires, new and old, cheap, and expensive, all lined up.
Until the current passes through them there will be no light. That wire is you
and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through
us, use us, produce the light of the world. Or we can refuse to be used and
allow darkness to spread.
October 8 – You and I are called to do very humble work. There are many
people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the
small things.
October 9 – Charity for the poor is like a living flame; the drier the
fuel, the brighter it burns. In your service to the poor do not give only your
hands but also your hearts. Charity to be fruitful must cost us. Give, give, give. Give until it hurts. To love, it is necessary to give:
to give it is necessary to be free from selfishness.
Mass Schedule and
events
October, November & December
Assumption Mass is on Saturday @ 5 pm
St. Stephen mass is on Sunday @ 8:30 am
St. Rose mass is on Sunday @ 10:30 am
November 1-15 – Fall Church cleaning
November 8 & 15
– Deer Hunters mass at 7 pm at
Assumption-Florian
November 27 – Thanksgiving Day Mass – St. Rose at 9 am
December 8 – Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary – St.
Stephen's at 8:30 am; St. Rose at 5 pm and Assumption-Florian at 7 pm
December 10 – Church decorating
December 13 – Christmas Potluck
December 14 – Eucharistic Adoration from 12p-4p at Assumption-Florian
December 17 – Advent Penance Service at St. Rose at 7 pm
December 24 – Christmas Eve mass – 5 pm at St. Rose; 7 pm at St.
Stephen's; 9:30 pm at Assumption-Florian
December 25 – Christmas Day mass – 10 am at St. Stephen's
December 26 –Feast of St. Stephen – 8:30 am at St. Stephen's (No Friday
Mass at Assumption-Florian)
December 31 – Solemnity of Mary Eve holy day of obligation 5pm at
Assumption-Florian; 7 pm at St. Stephen
January 1 – Solemnity of Mary – 10 am at St. Rose