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Public Daily Mass and Public Sunday Mass are currently not offered. ​Daily offerings are being said Tuesday—Sunday at
https://www.facebook.com/ChristOurHopeCluster/
-  Livestreamed 9 AM Holy Hour
-  Livestreamed 10 AM Mass
-  Livestreamed Noon Rosary
-  Livestreamed 1 PM Saint of the Day
-  Livestreamed 3 PM Divine Mercy Chaplet
-  Livestreamed 7 PM Fun Reading 
The Archdiocese of Dubuque has setup free access to FORMED.org, which has great resources to help form your faith at home. Parishioners can signup to get free access for 40 days at:
https://leaders.formed.org/dubuque.
If you are planning on following along during Mass, here is a prayer during Communion time. It’s a beautiful and old tradition in the Church, spiritually uniting ourselves to Christ, even if we can’t receive Him physically.
Also, if you are looking for beauty in a world that may seem ugly, the artist who made this available for free deserves credit: Tianna Williams. Check out her website for more art: https://ti-spark.ca

Welcome

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Christ Our Hope is a cluster of six Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese of Dubuque in Northeast Iowa.  As our mission statement says, "The "Christ Our Hope" cluster offers meaningful, fulfilling, and varied avenues of worship, Catholic education, social service, and community life for all ages within our six parishes to support the active practice of Catholic Faith in all that we do."

While each parish in our cluster has its own unique history and traditions the parishes collaborate, sharing staff and resources for the benefit of each other. Rev. Aaron Junge serves as the pastor for the cluster.

​The parishes of Christ Our Hope are Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Little Turkey, Holy Trinity in Protivin, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Lawler, St. John Nepomucene in Fort Atkinson, St. Luke in St. Lucas, and St. Mary in Waucoma.

To schedule an appointment with Rev. Aaron Junge, please click on the link below or contact the Christ Our Hope office at (563) 569-8259.
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Update from Fr. Aaron

​Friends, just to offer a bullet point overview of what is changing right now within the Cluster's liturgical schedule (that we know of):
 -  All Catholics in the Archdiocese are dispensed from their obligation to attend Mass on Sunday.
-  Public Daily Mass and Public Sunday Mass are cancelled, effectively immediately (dated: March 16) 
https://www.facebook.com/ChristOurHopeCluster/
Daily offerings Tuesday—Sunday 
-  Livestreamed Holy Hour: 9AM
-  Livestreamed Mass: 10AM
-  Livestreamed Rosary: Noon
-  Livestreamed Saint of the Day: 1PM
-  Livestreamed Divine Mercy Chaplet: 3PM
-  Livestreamed Reading 7 PM from "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"
-  Parish church buildings will remain open roughly until sundown (working on exact times), please go pray with Jesus!
-  Confessions: For the time being, by appointment only, pending clarification from the Archdiocese
-  Anointing: Call Father, either at the office or the rectory emergency line (563-534-7298)
-  Communion may still be taken to the homebound if you are an instituted extraordinary minister of Holy Communion. Please ask another minister or Father to cover for you if you believe you are ill!
-  This is a rapidly changing situation and things may change, but if they do, we will do our best to keep everyone up to date with reasonable heads-up.
Below you will find the link to the Archdiocese's page related to COVID-19
https://dbqarch.org/coronavirus
This is the rectory chapel. The image over the altar is St. Thomas Aquinas having a vision after having served the Lord faithfully in writing about Him.
Christ said St. Thomas could have anything in return. Thomas’ answer? “Nothing but Yourself, Lord.” And so the Tabernacle below the image has that phrase etched into it in Latin: “Non nisi Te, Domine.”
A great lesson at any time... but especially now. Let us all desire nothing but Jesus.
Message from Archbishop Jackels regarding the coronavirus

3/23/2020
Message from Archbishop Jackels regarding the dispensation from the obligation to abstain from meat on March 27 and April 3

Archbishop Jackels has dispensed the Catholic faithful in the Archdiocese of Dubuque from the obligation to abstain from meat on Friday, 27 March 2020 and on Friday, 3 April 2020. 

This dispensation does not apply to Good Friday, 10 April 2020.

This dispensation is granted in view of the difficulty people might have in finding meal alternatives to meat, or to go out for grocery shopping.

The Fridays of Lent remain days of prayer and penance. Those who are able to abstain from meat, should do so. Those who aren’t able to abstain, should perform some other act of penance.

An example of an alternative penance might be to bear up silently and with calm under the extra-ordinary strains and burdens of being cooped up at home.

3/16/2020
After consultation and considerable prayer, it has been decided – out of an abundance of caution and with devotion to the common good – to take steps aimed at slowing down the spread of the coronavirus, to flatten the curve, as they say, so as not to overburden the healthcare system.
 
Therefore, until further notice, the following provisions have been taken:
 
  • All public celebrations of Holy Mass are canceled. All Catholics in the Archdiocese of Dubuque are dispensed from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass.
  • The Chrism Mass will be celebrated, but with only the liturgical ministers present. The oils will be blessed, bottled, and distributed in some way to the parishes. 
  • During this time, the Archbishop will live stream a celebration of Holy Mass each Sunday, as well as the Chrism Mass (and the Triduum, if the situation has not changed by then), and will lead the Rosary each week on Thursday. Visit https://dbqarch.org/coronavirus for more information about these live-streamed events. 
  • The existing schedule for Confirmation is canceled (the Archbishop’s office will contact the parishes to reschedule). 
  • Funerals, Weddings and Baptisms may be held, but limited to the immediate family, or at least no more than 50 people present, according to the current CDC guidelines.
  • Communal penance services should not be held. The present circumstances do not constitute the grave necessity required for use of general absolution. Private, one-on-one confession can be scheduled by appointment.
  • All archdiocesan-sponsored events where 50+ people are gathered are canceled.
 
Pray to God for speedy deliverance from the evil of the coronavirus, for those who are sick or who live in fear of infection, for those who care for the sick and elderly, for those whose lives and livelihood are adversely affected by the spread of the virus, and that we might all remain calm and confident in God’s wisdom, power, and goodness.
 
Conscious of our great need, and confident of God’s loving care, with the above intentions in mind, all the faithful of the Archdiocese of Dubuque are invited to join in a day of fast, abstinence, and prayer on Wednesday, 25 March 2020; this is voluntary, not obligatory.
 
On that day, people ordinarily bound on Ash Wednesday to fast (only one full meal, taking less at the other meals) and abstain from meat are invited to make those same sacrifices. And as far as prayer is concerned, the Rosary is recommended as a powerful prayer, prayed alone or with others.
 
God, come to our assistance. Lord, make haste to help us. Mary, health of the sick, pray for us. St. Raphael, patron of the Archdiocese of Dubuque, and patron of healing, pray for us.
Christ Our Hope Cluster Office: 110 Commercial Ave, PO Box 205, Protivin, IA 52163, 563-569-8259