Bulletin: 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 3/30/25
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
ROUNDTABLE KNIGHTS: The Knights are meeting TODAY right after Mass in the parish library. Men of the Parish that are interested in participating in the Roundtable work, feel free to join us. We will be considering a Spring parish activity, so come with your ideas. If you have questions, contact Noel Poe or Mike Bzdewka.
NOTE: If you have a sacramental emergency after parish office hours, please call 435-673-2604 for assistance.
Our next OPEN-DOOR SATURDAY is April 5, 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: March 23, 2025: Offertory: $1211; R&I: $10. Thank you!
You can also donate on-line at kanabcatholicchurch.org
Diocesan Development Drive (DDD) We currently have received pledges totaling $7295 with $3705 paid in toward our goal of $9000. So far 10 out of 73 (?) families have participated. We are making great progress. Please jump in and join the fun!!
PRAY FOR HEALING: Sherilyn Wentz, Eva Montelongo, Sergio Olvera, Suzy Lingwall, Greg Lowenberg, 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.
Community Rosary: After the Monday morning Mass
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: Thursday from 4 to 5:00 PM.
Stations of the Cross: Fridays during Lent at 6:00 PM.
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.
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Please give us ALL your money. Since alms giving is a special part of the Lenten season, Holy Mother Church again offers you a number of extra opportunities to bask in the Lord’s riches while sharing your own.
The following special annual collections will be solicited in March and April.
3/30 Catholic Relief Services – TODAY
This year the need is particularly urgent. CRS has recently lost hundreds of millions of dollars in grants that the Federal Government has slashed in its USAID program. Those cuts have seriously compromised CRS’s ability to offer international aid to those in need. Please consider giving up some of your frequent creature comforts and offering the money to the CRS and Rice Bowl Programs this Lent. TODAY
4/13 Holy Land Collection
Rice Bowl: Collect your spare change (and $50 bills) during Lent, deposit in your very own personal rice bowl, submit to the parish to be donated to Catholic Relief Services. Bowls are available on the table in the gathering space.
Of course, DDD: See other side.
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Lenten Message on Abortion and Healing. Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities issued a message in advance of Lent: “I pray that God plants a seed of hope in every heart that is overwhelmed by sadness and despair from participation in abortion. This Lent, the Lord’s mercy awaits you. Allow Him to heal you and lift your sadness into joy.” https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/jesus-keeps-loving-you-no-matter-what-says-bishop-thomas-lenten-message
The Scrutinies which are celebrated during the Period of Purification and Enlightenment take place during the third, fourth and fifth Sundays of Lent. These special blessings have “the double purpose to reveal what is weak, sick and sinful in the hearts of the elect so that it can be healed; and what is honorable, strong and holy so that it can be strengthened. The Scrutinies are set forth to purify minds and hearts, to fortify against temptations, to convert intentions and to awaken the will so that the elect may cling closely to Christ and pursue more vigorously their desire to love God. The Scrutinies include a Rite of Exorcism whereby the Elect are set free from the effects of sin and from the influence of the Devil; they are strengthened in their spiritual journey, and they open their hearts to receive the gits of the Savior.” (Paragraph #141, Order of Christian Initiation of Adults).
This year we have one Elect, Burke Roberts, who will receive the Sacraments of Initiation during the Triduum Celebration.
Homily Reflections:
1 Jn. 9:27-29 “Do you want to become his disciples, too?” They ridiculed him and said, “You are that man’s disciple; we are disciples of Moses! We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this one is from.”
The people in this story are living at the dawn of a new age and the whole healing episode seems to be overwhelming them. The more evidence that is presented, the more fiercely they resist the miraculous power of Jesus and cling to the familiar. When have you began to experience a new spiritual awakening, but quickly stifled it for fear of the unknown? For fear of resistance, especially from family and loved ones?
2 When have YOU been the one to resist someone else’s miracle or spiritual awakening? What was the nature of the fear you may have experienced?
3 How is Jesus breaking into our nation and our world today? Define it as specifically as you can? How ready are we for a new age of faith and miracles?
4 Think of the decades of your life and the global community we have become? When might humans have missed the dawn of a new age? What is the consequence?
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“Withdraw often into the depths of your being, and there with living faith rest on the breast of God, like a child, in the sacred silence of faith and holy love.” St. John of the Cross