Bulletin: 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, 1/26/25
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.
Our next OPEN-DOOR SATURDAY is February 1, 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: January 19, 2025: Offertory: $1237; Los Angeles Fire Relief: $356. Thank you!
You can also donate on-line at kanabcatholicchurch.org
Diocesan Development Drive (DDD) This year (2025) our goal was raised slightly from $8800 to $9000. It seems most goals were raised and we will surely meet the challenge. Everyone will soon get their 2025 invitations to chip in once again.
PRAY FOR HEALING: Eva Montelongo, Joe Franta, Sergio Olvera, Selma Sierra, 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
Social Hour after Sunday Mass – Coffee, juice and bagels or muffins are served up along with some fabulous conversation. Everyone is invited.
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.
Annual Donation Letters for 2024 Tax Records are Available. If you have not received yours, see Fr. Rick. Also, if you have questions about our computations, see Fr. Rick or Jim Pashia
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
Science and Nature Talks at the Kanab Public Library
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument science program has organized a lecture series at the Kanab Library (374 N Main Street) that is open to all. If you have ideas for topics or speakers, contact Marc Coles-Ritchie (mcolesritchie@blm.gov). Times will be 6pm unless noted otherwise. See this year’s schedule posted on our parish social hall bulletin board.
Also check out https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/care-for-creation for a review of the Catholic call to Care for God’s Creation which is one of the central themes of Catholic Social teaching. One click away on our website bulletin.
An Online Public Dialogue from Georgetown University on Budget Priorities and Tax Policies to Help Poor Children and Families: Protecting the Safety Net and Strengthening the Child Tax Credit
Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. MST: Click below and refine your prophetic voice.
February 7-14th: National Marriage Week. Join the Salt Lake Diocese Office of Marriage and Family in celebrating this special time to reflect on the beautiful gift of the sacrament of matrimony. This year’s theme from the USCCB is Marriage: Source of Hope, Spring of Renewal, inviting couples to strengthen their bond and deepen their lifelong commitment to each other.
FREE National Marriage Week livestreams, February 7–14 (marriageweek.org/live-events). Sign up now to receive reminder emails and your private viewing link the week before.
At Home Couples Retreat:
English: https://www.usccb.org/resources/NMW2025AtHomeRetreatENG.pdf
Spanish: https://www.usccb.org/resources/NMW2025PreachingResourceESP.pdf
More Resources from For Your Marriage (USCCB): https://www.foryourmarriage.org/celebrate-national-marriage-week
SEEK Conference Replay: The recent National Seek Conference held in Salt Lake City has offered, for free, the video recordings of the Keynote Addresses. See the links below. I would recommend especially #46 also featured below and I will likely make more suggestions in the coming weeks.
https://seekreplay.com/video/146 Letting Jesus Take Care of Our Needs, Sr. Mirium James Heidland, SOLT.
HOMILY REFLECTIONS
Psalm 19:11 ‘(The precepts of the Lord are) more desirable than gold, than a hoard of purest gold; sweeter also than honey or drippings from the comb.’
Which precepts or laws of the Lord are ‘sweetest’ to you? How did people react when you shared your sentiment with them? Did they look ‘intently’ at you? Roll their eyes?
Lk. 4:20-21 “Rolling up the scroll, Jesus handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, ‘Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.’”
Consider yourself a devout Jew and seated in the temple listening to Jesus speak from the scroll of Isaiah. How would you feel at that moment as you looked intently at Jesus? What was the good news? What might make this moment also frightening? How do you think Jesus felt with the people looking intently at Him at this moment? What might happen as the word spread around town and region in a few days? When have you felt people stating intently at you when you announced a potential life-changing truth?
1 Cor. 12:27 ‘Now the body is not a single part, but many.
You are Christ’s body, and individually parts of it.’
When have you lived as if you were the whole body or just needed a few other parts? How did you realize that you needed the rest of the whole body to have a meaningful life?
Regarding 1 Corinthians, check out the link below for a quick self-inventory of what might be your unique part, your charisms. It’s $20, but it could be a good reflection starter for daily prayer. https://www.marazon.com/product-page/online-charism-inventory-for-catholics-10
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“The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.” St. Albert the Great