Bulletin: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 7/20/25
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.
Our next OPEN-DOOR SATURDAY is August 2, 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: July 13, 2025: Offertory: $1251; Donations Mail: $40, Church in Africa: $968; Altered Attitudes to Charity Account: $540 Thank you!
You can also donate on-line at kanabcatholicchurch.org
Diocesan Development Drive (DDD) We currently have received pledges totaling $11,425 with $9195 paid in toward our goal of $9000. So far 15 out of 75 (?) families have participated. When everyone pays their pledge, we will be waaaay over!! Thank you!! Remember we get a rebate for the amount paid in over our goal.
PRAY FOR HEALING: Walter Steineke, Angela Casares, 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.
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 $6900 with interest and three 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.
Catholic Social Teaching
Since Pope Leo XIV is expected to emphasize Catholic Social Teaching in his leadership message, these blurbs from the US Catholic Bishops’ website could be a good refresher or primer.
Catholic social teaching is based on and inseparable from our understanding of human life and human dignity. Every human being is created in the image of God and redeemed by Jesus Christ and therefore is invaluable and worthy of respect as a member of the human family. Every person, from the moment of conception to natural death, has inherent dignity and a right to life consistent with that dignity. Human dignity comes from God, not from any human quality or accomplishment. Our commitment to the Catholic social mission must be rooted in and strengthened by our spiritual lives. In our relationship with God, we experience the conversion of heart that is necessary to truly love one another as God has loved us. (USCCB Website) https://www.usccb.org/offices/justice-and-peace/catholic-social-teaching
As the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains, “To receive in truth the Body and Blood of Christ given up for us, we must recognize Christ in the poorest, his brethren” (no. 1397).
Safe Environment
If you observe or have reason to believe that a child, young person or vulnerable adult has been subjected to abuse by a priest, deacon, employee or volunteer of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, you must report the alleged abuse to local law enforcement and state agencies, and you must notify the Diocesan Office of Safe Environment at safeenv@dioslc.org or call (801)328-8641, x344.
NFP Week – This week, July 21 to 26, is Natural Family Planning Awareness Week. It reminds us that being genuinely PRO-LIFE means being pro-life before pregnancy. We seem to be a little slow to catch on out here in Utah, but more Diocese are discovering St. JP II’s Theology of the Body with a deeper understanding of what it means to be a sexual person. American culture, in and out of the Catholic Church, is rising above the warped anthropology of the baby boomers and the ill-fated ‘sexual liberation’. Within a generation it’s likely that enlightened people will no longer accept as normative the need for girls and young women to put chemicals in their bodies in order to make themselves more available to the untempered passions of men (and boys!). Was that really EVER a good idea? After the social catastrophe of the past 60 years, self-mastery, inner freedom and temperance will emerge as the saner way to live. Consider spending an hour this week with some deeper consideration of this important Church teaching: https://www.usccb.org/topics/natural-family-planning
Chastity from the Catechism of the Catholic Church
2337 Chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person and thus the inner unity of man in his bodily and spiritual being. …
2338 The chaste person maintains the integrity of the powers of life and love placed in him. This integrity ensures the unity of the person; …
2339 Chastity includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery which is a training in human freedom. the alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy….
Homily Reflection Questions
- Lk. 10:39 “Mary…sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak…” How is Mary demonstrating the path to self-mastery and human freedom?
2 Which sister in today’s gospel is actually ‘waiting’ on Jesus? Explain.
3 Gen. 18:1-10 Why did Abraham insist on feeding and waiting on the three ‘men’ in today’s first reading? Did they ask to be fed? How is that similar to Martha in the Gospel? How do these characters speak to our busyness and presumptions about what God’s desires for us?
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“Truly matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.” St. Peter of Alcantara (circa. 1550)
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