Bulletin: 2nd Sunday of Easter, 4/27/25
SAINT 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
Catholic Home Mission Collection Today. Forgot your checkbook? You can bring your donation back next week. THANK YOU!
NOTE: If you have a sacramental emergency after parish office hours, please call 435-673-2604 for assistance.
Our next OPEN-DOOR SATURDAY is May 3, 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: April 20, 2025: Offertory: $2049; Mail-In Donations: $200; Easter: $970. Rice Bowl: $188. Thank you!
You can also donate on-line at kanabcatholicchurch.org
Diocesan Development Drive (DDD) We currently have received pledges totaling $11,425 with $8495 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: Daniel Mays, Eva Montelongo, Rob Vogel, Sergio Olvera, Suzy Lingwall, Mary Andeway, Donald Wilkenson. 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 Masso
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: Thursday from 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.
A Mass for the Dead for Pope Francis will be celebrated on Monday, April 28 at the regularly scheduled 8:00 AM Mass. All are encouraged to attend.
PRAYER FOR THE SOUL OF POPE FRANCIS
Father, eternal shepherd,
hear the prayers of your people for your servant Franics,
who governed your Church with love.
In your mercy, bring him with the flock once entrusted to his care
to the reward you have promised your faithful servants.
May he who faithfully administered the mysteries of your forgiveness
and love on earth, rejoice with you forever in heaven.
In your wise and loving care,
you made your servant teacher of all your Church.
He did the work of Christ on earth.
May your Son welcome him into eternal glory.
May your servant whom you appointed high priest of your flock
be counted now among the priests in the life of your kingdom.
Give your servant the reward of eternal happiness
and let your mercy win for us the gift of your life and love.
We entrust your servant to your mercy with faith and confidence.
In the human family he was an instrument of your peace and love.
May he rejoice in those gifts forever with your saints. Amen.
Bring Me Thy Pamphlet! Don’t forget the Speaker’s Corner where you can present your favorite religious message. Rather than merely lay your favorite pamphlet, magazine, bookmark or poster on one of the flat surfaces in the church, you could personalize the message in the handout and share it with the community at a prescheduled forum after Mass on Sundays. Garry’s recent presentation on his pilgrimage to Portugal was well received, inspiring and a good model of witnessing and sharing the faith journey. This is a great way to practice. See Fr. Rick for more details.
Need Help with Immigration Issues?
Check out these links from our Diocese and / or talk to Fr. Rick
https://www.dioslc.org/documents/2331.pdf English
https://www.dioslc.org/documents/2333.pdf Spanish
Homily Reflection Questions:
1 Ps. 118:13-14 “I was hard pressed and was falling, but the LORD helped me. My strength and my courage is the LORD, and he has been my savior.”
When was I most profoundly rescued by the Lord in our life? How has that changed my life? How do I remember to put the Lord as the center of my life? When do I tend to forget my commitment to following Jesus?
2 Jn. 20:25 “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nailmarks and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
When were you most moved by the suffering of another and how might it have helped you understand the ability to know Jesus through our empathy toward this other person (s).
3. On Divine Mercy Sunday we are reminded in a special way that Jesus came to save us and not to condemn us, BUT we still need His mercy. As we live through major transitional moments in our country and our Church, for which commissions or omissions do we most need God’s mercy? (Remember that Jesus has conferred onto the Church all the power and authority of Heaven and Earth, we have been sealed with God’s Wisdom, God’s Knowledge, God’s Understanding, God’s Counsel and God’s Strength, and we received the promise that Jesus would be with us until the end of time). What accounts for our disorder?
4. When have you felt most alone in your suffering? Who reached out to you? How might it have helped you realize God’s personal attention (mercy)?
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“The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.”
St. Padre Pio