Bulletin: 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time. 11/16/25

ST. 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.

Our next OPEN-DOOR SATURDAY is December 6, 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:  November 9, 2025 Offertory: $930; Donations Mail:  $40. Thank you!

You can also donate on-line at kanabcatholicchurch.org

Diocesan Development Drive (DDD) We currently have received pledges totaling $11,425 with $10,783 paid in toward our goal of $9000.  So far 16 out of 75 (?) families have participated. Thank you!!  Remember we get a rebate for the amount paid in over our goal.

PRAY FOR HEALING: Michael Brydon, George Reese, Mar Smothers.  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 Mass

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: Thursday 4 to 5:00 PM.

Rosary with Psalms of Lamentation:  Fridays at 5:30 PM

Social Hour after Sunday Mass – Coffee, juice and bagels or muffins are served up along with some fabulous conversation.

The Catechism at a Glance:  A Visual Overview of the Foundations of Our Faith.  Each Thursday in the social hall at 5:30 PM.  Sessions last about 90 minutes.  More books are on order.  If you can’t make it to the weekly sessions, all lessons are available online.  On 11/20 we will be discussing Session 10, The Last Things.

Catholic Campaign for Human Development – Today’s special collection; please be your usual generous selves.  A hand up rather than a hand out.

 Religious Gifts – While you’re enjoying refreshments and stimulating conversations, check out our gift store selections conveniently located in the social hall.  How about a holy water font for that hard-to-buy-for spouse?  And don’t say they already have one.

2025 Fall General Assembly:  Monday, November 24, 2025, 6:30 PM This is the quarterly livestreamed Pastoral Meeting from Bishop Solis and other Diocesan Leaders.  All are invited to the St. Christopher’s social to watch and participate in the question and reflection period.

Catholic Relief Services Gift Catalog See this link for some great Christmas ideas. www.kanabcatholicchurch.org

The Word Among Us   Please pick up a complimentary copy of the November Word Among Usavailable in the entrance and the gathering space.

Reporting Abuse:

If you observe or have reason to believe that a child, young person or vulnerable adult has been subjected to abuse by a priest, deacon, employee or volunteer of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, you must report the alleged abuse to local law enforcement and state agencies, and you must notify the Diocesan Office of Safe Environment at safeenv@dioslc.org or call 801-328-8641, x344.       https://www.dioslc.org/safe-environment 

Local Food Support – St. Christopher’s maintains ongoing contact with the Kanab Care and Share Food Bank and is ready to make a substantive donation as is needed.  We will request more parish donations as needed.

Statewide Food and Family Support:  Catholic Community Services of Utah, https://ccsutah.org/

Homily Reflections

As we approach the end of Ordinary Time in the liturgical year, we hear of the ‘end times’ in the Scripture readings today.  We are told that at the end times we will hear of wars and insurrections, nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.  There will be powerful earthquakes, famines, and plagues.  Of course, all of these events recur throughout history and surely, they usher in ‘the end of the world as people of that time knew it.”  We should always be aware of the impending end of our own individual lives, and the end of all time, but also the end of times as we have known it.  For people living in the past 60 or 70 years we have seen the end of a somewhat simpler time, several times.  The ever-increasing complexity and speed of modern technology, a world increasingly based on materialism and recreation, the sexual revolution which has changed the cultural understanding of what it means to be man and woman, and the lower incidence of people practicing an organized religion are examples of the changes.  The end of how things used to be.  Affordable housing and affordable health care and even affordable food for the commoners in the United States are not as expected as they once were.  Who would have expected that 30 or 40 years ago?

            The big takeaway from today’s readings as well as the times we are living in is this, “The Lord comes to rule the earth with justice.”  We are living in the times where we can expect to see “the rising of the sun of justice with it healing rays.”  We should head the Lord’s warning that, “You not be deceived, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and ‘The time has come.’ Do not follow them!”

1   Malachi 3:20   “But for you who fear my name, there will arise the sun of justice with its healing rays.”  What constitutes ‘justice’ in biblical parlance?  (right relationship with God, with each other and with the rest of creation.).  What would right relationship look like?  (Garden of Eden?)  What would THAT look like?

2   Lk. 21:19  “You will be hated by all because of my name… By your perseverance you will secure your lives.”  When have you been most persecuted for your faith?  How did you persevere and emerge stronger in your faith?

3   Considering today’s special collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, what are three principles of Catholic Social Teaching practiced and taught in this effort?  How can this Campaign point to ‘end times’ and the ‘rising of the sun of justice’?

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“Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.”    St. Ignatius of Loyola