Welcome to the website of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Beulah, ND. As you surf through the pages of this web site, I hope and wish that you will become more familiar with the Catholic community of St. Joseph Church and will come to know the different activities we have here in our community to enrich our faith filled life. The main goal and mission of our community is TO BRING CHRIST TO BIRTH into OUR day to day life. In our effort to make the incarnation of the WORD a reality again in our daily life, we as one community gather together to break the Word and the Bread. Each time we gather we renew our commitment to take Christ to the world and become the Gospel of Life here and now. This website is another effort of our community to bring out the values of the kingdom of God into today's world. I hope and pray that you also will join us in Gospelizing the world of today.

August 1 , 2010 - The 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Don't Give In To Fear! by Rev. Robert F. Dueweke, OSA

"That is yours, this is mine!" This ancient saying marks the beginning of an attitude of discord. We see it active in disagreements among family members, in communities that are gated for fear of theft, and in restrictive immigration policies. In business, profit-making is one thing, but the maximization of profit at all costs is something else. "What is yours is paltry, what is mine is abundant." The attitude of seeing the world divided between the "haves" and "have-nots" begins the dangerous cycle of violence.
     The gospel today teaches a lesson about greed. The rich man hoards his harvest into large barns in order to "eat, drink, be merry."  His possessions give him security and a way to define himself and enjoy life. Yet fear and insecurity plague his soul and drive him to withering greed.
     What fears lurk in the dark regions of my own heart? What kinds of "securities" am I hoarding into barns for an uncertain future? For some of us, it is prestige, entitlement, wealth or recognition. And our fear, which gives birth to greed, affects all our relationships.
     Jesus challenges greedy behavior and systems that see the poor as "objects." What matters to God is who we are, not what we have. We are called to remember Jesus' words: "What you have done to the least... you have done it to me." In the Eucharist we celebrate - and share - the table of plenty.  

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  It is most important that the Holy Eucharist becomes life's focal point: 
   that the Eucharistic Savior is the center of existence;  
   that every day is received from His hand and laid back
   therein; that the day's happenings are deliberated with Him. 

In this way, 
    God is given the best opportunity to be heard in the heart, 
    to form the soul, and to make its faculties clear-sighted and 
    alert from the supernatural.  
                        
                                                            St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)