Bulletin: 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time 10/20/24

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]

Email: 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.

Hurricane Relief:  If you would like to help the emergency response for the hurricanes in the southeast you can participate in the efforts of Catholic Charities USA at https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org.  Look for hurricane relief.

Today is World Mission Sunday: Collection to be taken up next week. Envelope in today’s bulletin.

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 November 2, 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:  October 13, 2024: Offertory: $1532; Donations Mail: $1300.  Thank you!

You can also donate on-line at kanabcatholicchurch.org

Diocesan Development Drive (DDD) for 2024. We are over!!  Our goal this year is once again $8800.  We have $550 in unpaid pledges with $9715 paid in!!  Fourteen households have participated.  Thank you all who have already given so generosity.

PRAY FOR HEALING:  Sergio Olvera, Stan Tuczakov, Hannah Mays, Darlene Wentch, 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!

Intermountain Catholic October is Intermountain Catholic Subscription Renewal Month.  You will see an envelope in last week’s issue of the IC.  Please insert your $30 and place it in the collection basket during the regular collection.  Please note that the Diocese charges St. Christopher’s about $2000 per year for the paper, so your contribution helps to alleviate the cost to the parish. 

Today is World Mission Sunday:  Collection to be taken up next week.

Instituted in 1926 by Pope Pius XI as a mandatory, global second collection, the banquet that is World Mission Sunday has since then been hosted by the Pope, and the table set by those who answer Christ’s call to “Go and make disciples of all nations” (Mt 28:19), extending an inclusive invitation to all corners of the Earth.

Meant to be held in every parish in the world, the proceeds benefit 1,150 territories where the Gospel has not yet been received, has been only recently embraced, or is courageously upheld in the face of persecution. More specifically the funds go to support seminarians, catechists, religious sisters, health centers, shelters and orphanages.

October is Respect Life Month

Besides being staunchly anti-abortion, St. Christopher’s Parish plays an active role in providing food to the local foodbank, providing support and meeting space for those recovering from addictions and keeping abreast of the needs of the local Childrens’ Justice Center.  One of our members also serves on the local Hospital Board to help ensure optimal health care for Kane County residents.  Also, this past year we had a 5-session discussion of the book, Adam and Eve are from Eden: A Study Guide to John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. This study will help participants teach that ‘pro-life’ actually begins BEFORE pregnancy (a point not emphasized in even our most conservative circles).

Intermountain CatholicOctober is Intermountain Catholic Subscription Renewal Month.  You will see an envelope in last week’s issue of the IC.  Please insert your $30 and place it in the collection basket during the regular collection.  Please note that the Diocese charges St. Christopher’s about $2000 per year for the paper, so your contribution helps to alleviate the cost to the parish.  Supporting the IC is a great way to remind us that we are part of a Church with a global mission that was given to us by Jesus Himself.  The IC carries all the recent Bishops Pastoral Letters that address issues most pertinent to our state nation and the responsibilities that come with our relative wealth and influence.

Homily Reflections:

  1. “Through his suffering, my servant shall justify many,
        and their guilt he shall bear.  Is. 55:11

Guilt?  What guilt?  What have we ever done (or failed to do) that would really cause or require the suffering of another in order for us to be justified (forgiven or excused)?

2. See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him,
    upon those who hope for his kindness,
To deliver them from death
    and preserve them in spite of famine.  Ps.  33:18-19

Delivered from death or famine?  When did we feel so lacking in hope or meaning that we might have actually wished we were dead?  At that point and perhaps others, what did we really hunger for?  How close were we to emotional, spiritual or physical famine?

3. “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has similarly been tested in every way, yet without sin.”   Heb. 4:15

What has been our greatest weakness that has finally caused us to understand a particular suffering of Jesus or the suffering of another?  How have we become more empathetic to the suffering of others and more willing to serve them?

4. James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” 

Today’s gospel starts off with this line.  When have we started our personal dialogue with Jesus by asking Him for what WE want?  When did we already have two or three ideas and just want God to pick one of OUR ideas?

5. “For the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”  Mt. 10:45

If Jesus came to serve us, why shouldn’t we just ask for what we want? 

What has so captivated or trapped us that we now realize that it is God alone who can set us free?  In our personal lives, our families, our Church, our nation?

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“God does not accept doctrines apart from good works, nor are works, when divorced from Godly doctrines, accepted by God.”  St. Cyril of Jerusalem