Bulletin: 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, 11/10/24
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
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: November 3, 2024: Offertory: $1212; Donations Mail: $180; R&I: $120; World Mission Sunday: Total $1002!!. 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 $400 in unpaid pledges with $9865 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)
Catholic Social Teaching – https://www.usccb.org/offices/justice-and-peace/catholic-social-teaching
Life and Dignity of the Human Person
Preferential Option for the Poor
Dignity of Work
Solidarity and Subsidiarity
Call to Family, Participation and Community
Rights and Responsibilities
Care for God’s Creation
‘Catholic social teaching emerges from the truth of what God has revealed to us about himself. We believe in the Triune God whose very nature is communal and social. God the Father sends His only Son Jesus Christ and shares the Holy Spirit as His gift of love. God reveals Himself to us as one who is not alone, but rather as one who is relational, one who is Trinity. Therefore, we who are made in God’s image share this communal, social nature. We are called to reach out and to build relationships of love and justice.’ USCCB Website
Veterans Day – Monday, November 11
“America, America, God mend thine every flaw
Confirm thy soul in self-control
Thy liberty in law!”
From America the Beautiful
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Homily Reflection:
The lessons from the scriptures today take on a particularly practical flavor when we apply the basic tenets of Christian Stewardship and Catholic Social Teaching. See left.
Stewardship basically says that everything good comes from God. Every gift of time, talent, treasure, energy, good health, competitive spirit comes from God. These gifts ultimately belong to God. We are expected to share in proportion to the gifts we have received with a special attention to the most vulnerable.
When we send our American troops out to protect American ‘interests’, we should understand very specifically what those interests are. How do those interests affect our relations with other countries throughout the world?
Check your retirement account – In which companies do you share some ownership? What do they produce and what market do they cater to? Economic? Security? Who benefits the most?
Consider sending your capital gains from this past week to Catholic Community Services or some group which lifts people up and prepares them to be good stewards such as http://www.givemeachanceutah.org/. Or give some of it to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. See insert from bulletin.
Give yourself a big pat on the back for every time you hired and helped train a new employee. (Solidarity, Subsidiarity, Dignity of Work, Rights and Responsibilities, community and Participation)
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“Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.” St. Rose Philippine Duchesne