Bulletin: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 7/6/25

ST. CHRISTOPHER’S CATHOLIC CHURCH

39 West 200 South, Kanab UT 84741

Office: (435) 644-3414 [Please leave a message and we will respond as quickly as possible]

parishinfo@kanabcatholicchurch.org

WEBSITE: kanabcatholicchurch.org

Sacramental Minister Rev. Richard T. Sherman, Kanab, UT

SATURDAY VIGIL MASS  5:30 PM (Suspended Indefinitely)

SUNDAY MASS 9:00 AM

MASS DURING THE WEEK  MONDAY – SATURDAY 8:00 AM

CONFESSIONS BY APPOINTMENT

NOTE: If you have a sacramental emergency after parish office hours, please call 435-673-2604 for assistance.

Solidarity with the Church in Africa – Annual Collection next week.  See insert and donation envelope and thank you in advance!

Our next OPEN-DOOR SATURDAY is July 19, 2025 from 10:00 AM-Noon.  If you have friends or relatives that are interested in the Catholic faith, or are thinking of returning to the Church, please tell them about us and have them stop by. We would love to meet with them!  OPEN DOOR is scheduled every first and third Saturday of the month.

FINANCIAL REPORT:  June 29, 2025: Offertory: $976; Peter’s Pence: $686 Thank you!

You can also donate on-line at kanabcatholicchurch.org

Diocesan Development Drive (DDD) We currently have received pledges totaling $11,425 with $8895 paid in toward our goal of $9000.  So far 15 out of 73 (?) families have participated.  When everyone pays their pledge, we will be way over!! Thank you!!  Remember we get a rebate for the amount paid in over our goal.

PRAY FOR HEALING: Walter Steineke, Denise Barger, Ria Tilley, Nancy Wadell, Eva Montelongo, Linda Tarrant, Rob Vogel. Our Wounded Veterans.  If you have specific prayer requests, please leave us a phone message or send us an email.  We will get your intentions on the list.  We also remember all the sick and infirm at our daily Masses.

Community Rosary:  After the Monday morning Mass

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: Thursday 4 to 5:00 PM.

Social Hour after Sunday Mass – Coffee, juice and bagels or muffins are served up along with some fabulous conversation.

Religious Items:  While enjoying the fabulous conversation and refreshments during our social hour, take some time and browse our extensive selection of religious gifts including some amazing sale items.

First Communion:  This coming Saturday Eilyn and Arlett Chavez will receive their First Holy Communion and Arlette will also be baptized at the regular 8:00AM Mass.  All are invited.  A little celebration will happen next Sunday during our social hour.  WE’RE EXCITED!!

St. Christiopher’s Parish Endowment Did you know that St. Christopher’s Parish has an endowment with the Utah Catholic Foundation?  It was started with a donation from the parish in 2020 with an initial corpus of $5000 and is intended for general parish use.  The fund has just over $6700 with interest and two additional donations. The fund is set up as ‘Permanent Restricted’ which means the corpus stays in the fund, but the earnings are available to the parish as needed.  If you would like to make a donation to our endowment for the long-term care of St. Christophers, please contact Fr. Rick for further details.

Entertaining Angels at the Social Hour.  We never know which holy messengers may be visiting the parish and offering us the opportunity to recognize them (Heb. 18:3).   We could still use a couple more teams to help host our Sunday post-Mass social hour.  It’s easy and VERY FUN.  See the sign-up list in the gathering space for more details.

America! America!

God mend thine every flaw,

Confirm thy soul in self-control,

Thy liberty in law!

On this Independence Day weekend, the second verse of today’s recessional hymn seems to address one of the great challenges to our modern American culture.  What types of flaws still need to be mended?  In what areas are there the greatest need for self-control?  At what point in our American history was it specifically recognized that our systems of free enterprise and democracy were not intended for an amoral people?  How would a common morality be most appropriately and effectively applied on a daily basis?  How are we doing in this area?  Upon what is our common morality based in 2025?

Homily Reflection Questions

1     Lk. 10:10-11:   “Whatever town you enter and they do not receive you, go out into the streets and say, ‘The dust of your town that clings to our feet, even that we shake off against you.’” Why this urgency?  How might this approach differ from our modern approach to ministry, at least in the United States?

2   Lk. 10:2.   ‘Jesus said to them, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so, ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.”’  In today’s Church in the United States how have you observed an abundant harvest?

3  Lk. 10:3  “Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves.”  Jesus is about to announce that “the Kingdom of God is at hand for your.”  Why would it be so dangerous for the disciples to announce such a hopeful and joyous message?

4  Lk. 10:4   In sending forth the disciples Jesus also instructs them to, *Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals; and greet no one along the way.”  How does this approach to ministry and discipleship compare and relate to contemporary Catholic ministry in the United States?  In Utah especially? How does traveling light allude to major aspects of the true nature of Christianity?  Hint:  Pilgrim people.  Stewardship.

5   Is. 66:10.  “For thus says the LORD:  ‘Lo, I will spread prosperity over Jerusalem like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing torrent.’”  How has this prophesy made over 600 years before Christ proved to be a faithful promise of God?

6  How many members of the Detroit Tigers have been named to the starting line-up of this year’s Major League Baseball All-Star Team?  Who are they?

7.  How many hot dogs did this year’s winner of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest consume?  Men’s Division?  Women’s Division?  Must contestants also consume a bun with each wiener?  Hint:  70.5, 33, Yes.

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“Don’t think that pleasing God lies so much in doing a great deal as in doing it with good will, without possessiveness and the approval of men” St. John of the Cross