St. Michael's Parish-Junction City

St. Michael's Parish-Junction City This is a small parish located in Junction City, WI. We are in collaboration with two other local parishes. Mass is held every Sunday at 9:00 a.m.

💡 "The light of faith is unique: it is capable of illuminating every pathway of human existence." ~Pope Francis (Lumen F...
06/10/2026

💡 "The light of faith is unique: it is capable of illuminating every pathway of human existence." ~Pope Francis (Lumen Fidei)

Today's Gospel reminds us that our mission is to be light-bearers. The light we shine is a reflection of Christ burning inside us.

"This is the Fisherman who came down to catch the lives of the lost."⁣~St. Ephrem⁣Today the Church honors Saint Ephrem, ...
06/09/2026

"This is the Fisherman who came down to catch the lives of the lost."

~St. Ephrem

Today the Church honors Saint Ephrem, a 4th-century deacon, poet, and Doctor of the Church known historically as "The Harp of the Holy Spirit." During a time when complex theological debates were fracturing the early Church, Ephrem realized that ordinary people learned and remembered doctrine through what they sang. He spent his life composing hundreds of beautiful hymns, poems, and sacred music to teach the true Catholic faith and bring his flock into a closer, deeply personal encounter with Christ.

Today, the Gospel takes us straight to the side of a mountain to hear the most famous sermon ever preached: The Beatitud...
06/08/2026

Today, the Gospel takes us straight to the side of a mountain to hear the most famous sermon ever preached: The Beatitudes. Jesus looks at the people the world overlooks...the mourning, the poor in spirit, the peacemakers, the meek... and calls them blessed.

Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ | June 7⁣At the end of the Bread of Life discourse, recorded in John...
06/07/2026

Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ | June 7

At the end of the Bread of Life discourse, recorded in John 6, many of Jesus' disciples walked away. Not enemies, not Pharisees... but disciples. The people who had been following him.

They weren't confused. The Greek text is precise: where Jesus had previously used the ordinary word for eating, he switched at the critical moment to trōgō...to gnaw or to chew, the verb used for animals at feed.

The USCCB's own footnote on the passage acknowledges the shift directly. His listeners grasped what he was saying. That was the problem.

He did not call them back. He turned to the Twelve and asked: Do you also want to leave?

Seven men will be ordained to the Diaconate today at 10am at the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman. Watch live at diol...
06/06/2026

Seven men will be ordained to the Diaconate today at 10am at the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman. Watch live at diolc.org/live

Memorial of St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr | June 5⁣When Boniface set out on his final missionary journey at the age of...
06/05/2026

Memorial of St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr | June 5

When Boniface set out on his final missionary journey at the age of nearly eighty, he had already spent a lifetime doing what most men would have called enough... crossing from England to the Germanic lands, felling the sacred oak of Thor before a crowd that expected divine retribution, founding the Abbey of Fulda, organizing the scattered and half-pagan German Church into coherent dioceses, serving as Archbishop of Mainz.

He had written to the bishops of England: "Let us be neither dogs that do not bark nor silent onlookers."

He headed north the coastline where he had begun and failed forty years before. He knew what he was going back to and on June 5, 754, pagan raiders killed him and his companions as they prepared converts for Confirmation.

Please join us in praying for these seven men as they are about to be ordained to the Diaconate on Saturday.⁣All are wel...
06/04/2026

Please join us in praying for these seven men as they are about to be ordained to the Diaconate on Saturday.

All are welcome to attend the Mass being held at St. Joseph the Workman Cathedral on Saturday at 10am.

Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions | June 3⁣Among the twenty-two Catholic martyrs killed on this day in 1886 ...
06/03/2026

Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions | June 3

Among the twenty-two Catholic martyrs killed on this day in 1886 in Uganda, the youngest was thirteen years old. His name was Kizito. Charles Lwanga had baptized him in secret just days before their arrest. When the condemned were marched thirty-seven miles to the ex*****on site at Namugongo, eyewitnesses reported that Kizito went laughing and talking with his companions.
He had been a Christian for only a matter of days.

Charles Lwanga, their leader, was burned separately. As the flames consumed him, he told his ex*****oners: "You are burning me, but it is as if you are pouring water on my body."

His last word was Katonda — My God.

Memorial of Saints Marcellinus and Peter | June 2⁣At every Mass where the First Eucharistic Prayer is proclaimed, two na...
06/02/2026

Memorial of Saints Marcellinus and Peter | June 2

At every Mass where the First Eucharistic Prayer is proclaimed, two names are spoken aloud: Marcellinus. Peter.

A priest and an exorcist, martyred in Rome under Diocletian around 304 AD. Led to their ex*****on by a man who would later convert and carry their story to Pope Damasus himself.

Constantine built a basilica over their tomb and placed his mother's burial there... and the Church has never stopped saying their names.

Memorial of St. Justin Martyr | June 1⁣Born a pagan in Samaria, Justin spent his early life moving from one school of ph...
06/01/2026

Memorial of St. Justin Martyr | June 1

Born a pagan in Samaria, Justin spent his early life moving from one school of philosophy to the next, searching for something that could hold the weight of ultimate truth. None of it satisfied.

The turning point came in a conversation with an elderly stranger near the sea, who told him to set aside the Greeks and read the Hebrew prophets instead.

He did and he spent the rest of his life defending in writing, openly, before the most powerful empire on earth what he learned.

Not from a safe distance. He lived and taught in Rome itself.

In 165 AD, under Marcus Aurelius, he was arrested, tried and beheaded alongside his students for refusing to offer sacrifice to the emperor.

A philosopher who found the truth he was looking for... and paid the price the Roman Empire charged for it.

Address

324 Main Street
Junction City, WI
54443

Opening Hours

Monday 12am - 11:55pm
Tuesday 12am - 11:55pm
Wednesday 12am - 11:55pm
Thursday 12am - 11:55pm
Friday 12am - 11:55pm
Saturday 12am - 11:55pm
Sunday 12am - 11:55pm

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