Bulletin: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time 8/4/24
SAINT CHRISTOPHER 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]
stccc@kanab.net
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
This Sunday: Annual Collection for Retired Religious
NOTE: If you have a sacramental emergency after parish office hours, please call 435-673-2604 for assistance.
Social Hour after Sunday Mass – Coffee, juice and bagels or muffins are served up along with some fabulous conversation.
Our next OPEN-DOOR SATURDAY is August 17, 2024 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 28, 2024: Offertory: $1504; Donations Mail: $200. Thank you!
You can also donate on-line at kanabcatholicchurch.org
Development Drive (DDD) for 2024. We are getting there!! Our goal this year is once again $8800. We have $6158 pledged with $5625 paid in!! Twelve households have participated. PLEASE JUMP IN AND JOIN THE FUN!! Thank you all who have already given so generosity.
PRAY FOR HEALING: Linda Tarrent, Eva Montelongo, Deacon Sifo Manu, Rosemary Baron, Stan Tuczakov, Victims of Natural Disasters, Warfare Casualties. 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.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: Thursday from 4 to 5:00 PM.
Community Rosary: After the Monday morning Mass
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 on the way!
Diocese of Salt Lake City Marriage & Family Life Office Newsletter-June 2024 (cloud.microsoft) (New and Improved: Go to our website and click on this link).
Holy Day of Obligation – The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Thursday, August 15. Mass is at 8:00 AM.
July-August Word of Life Message from USCCB
“Married love differs from any other love in the world. By its nature, the love of husband and wife is so complete, so ordered to a lifetime of communion with God and each other, that it is open to creating a new human being they will love and care for together.” United States Conference of Catholic Bishops “Married Love and the Gift of Life”
Weekly Prayer for Vocations (From our Diocesan Office of Vocations)
God our Father, we thank you for calling men and women to serve in your Son’s Kingdom as priests, deacons, and consecrated persons. Send your Holy Spirit to help others respond generously and courageously to your call. May our community of faith support vocations of sacrificial love in our youth and young adults. Amen
Liturgy of the Hours Livestreamed – Experience the Prayer of the Church with the Monks at Mt. Angel Abbey.
Every day, every hour of the day, someone in the world is praying from these same liturgical prayers. This is a big part of what bonds the world’s 1.3 billion baptized Catholics together. Take a listen….
Homily Reflections:
Those of us who have lived in post WWII America or post WWII anywhere have experienced a variety of monumental changes. We often call these paradigm shifts. Periods where all or many of the rules and expectations of life have changed. In our case, changed very quickly. I’ve heard paradigm shift defined as a period when nobody knows the rules. So then, where do the rules come from?
Think race relations, women’s rights and expectations for equity, reproductive rights, sexual mores, technology of all sorts, number of people on the planet, a larger variety of people living together in the same space, an increased awareness of our relationship and impact on the natural environment. Wars have been fought on almost every continent in which we may or may not have participated. We experienced changes in what might be regarded as efficiency in the workplace. Humans have been largely relieved of much of the tiresome, daily toil of repetitive tasks such as laundry, chopping wood and ice, washing dishes, food production and preparation. How have we inserted more leisure into our lives? Are we more rested? Credit became more available to average people just as the sophistication of professional marketing techniques heated up. Many daily decisions were made, consciously or subconsciously, about how to utilize or participate in all the new developments. Seventy years later, how are we faring?
Remember, during all these changes Jesus was always with us as He promised. Most of us had probably been sealed with the gifts of the Holy Spirit sometime in adolescence. Jesus had conferred onto the Church all the power and authority of Heaven.
Reflection Questions: This week please take some time to consider your own conversion process of spiritual renewal, giving up the futility of human minds and deceitful desires.
- When were you most aware that you were probably not following God’s plan for your life?
- Describe the process when you gave up living in the futility of your mind and when you most definitively put away your old self and former way of life.
- How was your life previously corrupted through deceitful desires?
- How can you give witness to this process without overwhelming or embarrassing the listening or without compromising your own privacy and dignity?
- Describe your life since you have put on your new self and have been renewed in the spirit of your mind. Is this an ongoing process? How do you invigorate this ongoing renewal?
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“Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.” St. John Henry Newman