Bulletin: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 8-3-25

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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 16, 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 27, 2025: Offertory: $1258; R&I: $50.  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 way over!! Thank you!!  Remember we get a rebate for the amount paid in over our goal.

PRAY FOR HEALING: Daniel May, Walter Steineke, George Reese, Angela Casares, 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.

MANY NEW 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 NEW ITEMS.

TODAY: THE ANNUAL COLLECTION FOR RETIRED RELIGIOUS (NUNS, PRIESTS AND BROTHERS FROM RELIGIOUS ORDERS).  THANK YOU!

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 a central and essential element of our faith. Its roots are in the Hebrew prophets who announced God’s special love for the poor and called God’s people to a covenant of love and justice. It is a teaching founded on the life and words of Jesus Christ, who came “to bring glad tidings to the poor . . . liberty to captives . . . recovery of sight to the blind”(Lk 4:18-19), and who identified himself with “the least of these,” the hungry and the stranger (cf. Mt 25:45). Catholic social teaching is built on a commitment to the poor. This commitment arises from our experiences of Christ in the eucharist….

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.

From Reflections of the U.S. Catholic Bishops:  The Summary Report of the Task Force on Catholic Social Teaching and Catholic Education, 1998.  https://www.usccb.org/resources/sharing-catholic-social-teaching-challenges-and-directions.

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 Certification DID YOU KNOW? The Diocese of Salt Lake City requires all adults (>18) and youth minors (12 to 17) in contact (with or around) minors and vulnerable adults in our parishes and schools to complete trainings and background checks. Recertification of these trainings and background checks are every 3 years for adults, and every year for youth minors. This is just one of the efforts undertaken by our diocese to protect our children and vulnerable adults. For more information about child safety in the Diocese of Salt Lake City, visit https://www.dioslc.org/offices/office-of-safe-environment.

Relief for Gaza:  https://www.crs.org/ Catholic Relief Services is well established in the region especially with the ongoing crisis in Syria and Lebanon.  They are in very strategic locations to respond to refugees from Gaza.  Your help is urgently needed.  It’s possible that the Diocese of Salt Lake City will encourage parishes to support a special collection initiated by our Diocese, but that has not yet happened.

Homily Reflection Questions

  1. Lk. 12:18  What might be the contemporary versions of ‘bigger barns’ that we might invest in?  How is this a natural decision for people socialized in the United States?  What would YOU put in a bigger barn, or garage or storage unit?  What might be a better alternative to a bigger barn? 
  • Eccl. 2:22 “For what profit comes to man from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which he has labored under the sun?”  As you reflect on your life, what toils have caused you the most ‘anxiety of heart’?  Was there a clear alternative at the time of this great toil?  What might you do differently?  How could you use this experience to teach a younger person?
  • Coll. 3:5 “Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly.”  What ‘earthly’ parts of you are proving to be the biggest obstacles to God’s peace and love?
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  • “Don’t be anxious about what you have, but about what you are.  St. Pope Gregory the Great