Bulletin: 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time, 11/3/24
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]
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.
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 16, 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 27, 2024: Offertory: $1154; Donations Mail: $25; World Mission Sunday: $890 (and counting!). 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: Sean McDonald, Bill Kaiser, Michael Neptune, Deacon Sefo Manu (RIP), 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!
Safe Environment Requirements
The Diocese of Salt Lake City Office of Safe Environment is committed to the protection of children, youth, and vulnerable adults. All employees and volunteers wishing to work with minors or vulnerable adults must be safe environment certified. For information, please review the Diocese Safe Environment website at: https://www.dioslc.org/offices/office-of-safe-environment. Involvement and communication are important factors in helping to ensure safe environments for all of our children. Please contact the parish/school SEC at (Contact name & Contact Information) or email the Office of Safe Environment at safeenv@dioslc.org with questions.
Word of Life: November 2024 ———————————————-
National Adoption Awareness Month – Learn how to accompany women considering adoption: https://www.respectlife.org/mothers-considering-adoption (One click on our website bulletin)
National Hospice and Palliative Care Month
“Palliative care and hospice are precious and crucial instruments in the care of patients with serious and complex chronic or terminal illnesses, and they help provide comfort to both the patients and their families. While palliative care cannot entirely eradicate suffering from people’s lives, it provides an authentic expression of human and Christian care—allowing us to ‘remain’ at the side of a suffering person, as the Blessed Mother and the beloved disciple remained at the foot of the Cross…The path of accompaniment until the moment of death must remain open, with appropriate care for body and soul customized to the personal needs of the patient.”
USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities “The Witness of the Good Samaritan: Palliative Care and Hospice”
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Holiday Food Distribution at Kaibab Paiute Park. Wednesday, November 6. Food is available for anyone in need and volunteers are needed to help with distribution. See flyer in gathering space.
Fred Thielemann (now in Chicago) says “Hi”. He is in good spirits, keeping the faith and misses us all.
Rite of Acceptance: Burke Roberts will be celebrating the Rite of Acceptance into the Catechumenate this coming Thursday at the 8:00 AM Mass. Burke has been studying and discerning his entrance into the Catholic Church for some time and anticipates receiving the Sacraments of Initiation at the Easter Vigil in April of 2025. Please join us for this important moment as the parish members also declare our support for Burke along his journey. Burke is the husband of Joanna and father of Ben (our new organist). The Roberts have also been regularly hosting our social hour on Sundays.
Homily Reflection Questions:
1 Dt. 6:3 “Hear then, Israel, and be careful to observe (God’s statutes and commandments), that you may grow and prosper the more,
in keeping with the promise of the LORD, the God of your fathers,
to give you a land flowing with milk and honey.”
What type of prosperity do you think God has in mind in this promise? Describe our land flowing in milk and honey in contemporary times? What type of changes might God expect from contemporary Americans?
2 Ps. 162:2-3 “I love you, O LORD, my strength, O LORD, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer.”
At what moment in your life have you most intensely cried out for God’s strength? How did God respond? How do you remind yourself that God is that steady rock and fortress when you feel yourself being tempted or weakened?
3 Mk. 12:31 “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
What criteria do you use to determine if you are truly loving yourself? How have those criteria changed over the years or decades of your life?
How have these changes affected your relationships with others?
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“He did not say: You will not be troubled – You will not be tempted – You will not be distressed. But He said: You will not be overcome.” St. Julian of Norwich