Bulletin: 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 3/2/25
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.
Ash Wednesday is this Wednesday, March 5. Mass with ashes will be celebrated at 8:00 AM and 6:00 PM.
Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and abstinence, meaning abstaining from meat, no eating between meals and only one full meal with two small snacks.
We also abstain from meat during all Fridays in Lent.
If any of the Lenten dietary restrictions are detrimental to your health, refer to your doctor’s advice.
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Our next OPEN-DOOR SATURDAY is March 15, 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: February 23, 2025: Offertory: $1384. 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. THIS IS EXCITING!
PRAY FOR HEALING: Sherilyn Wentz, Brenda Caine, Eva Montelongo, Dusty Reese, Sergio Olvera, Jenni Bistline, Suzy Lingwall, Greg Lowenberg, Mary Andeway. 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.
Thank You Knights! Records show that our St. Christopher’s Knights of the Round Table (and their spouses) provided 1546 hours of service to the parish in calendar year 2024. Knights and their spouses will all be awarded free coffee and donuts at our Sunday morning social hours during the entire month of March!
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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:
3/5 Church in Eastern Europe
3/9 Black and Indian Missions
3/30 Catholic Relief Services
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.
Diocesan Development Drive (DDD) We are now accepting donations for the 2025 drive. You can donate online at https://www.dioslc.org/ddd making sure to select St. Christopher’s in the dropdown menu. If you need any other assistance making your donation, please contact Fr. Rick. Our goal this year is $9000. Thank you in advance for all your extraordinary generosity.
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SEEK Conference Replay: The recent National Seek Conference held in Salt Lake City has offered, for free, the video recordings of the Keynote
Addresses and more. See the links below. I would recommend especially #271 also featured below and I will likely make more suggestions in the coming weeks.
https://seekreplay.com/video/271 Dr. John Bergsma: ‘Jesus and the Jubilee – Living the Holy Year Well.’
Reporting Abuse Do you know how to report 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, or at a diocesan location, you must report the alleged abuse to local law enforcement and state agencies, and you must notify the Diocesan Office of Safe Environment at (801) 328.8641, x344.
Learn More: https://www.dioslc.org/offices/safe-environment/reporting-abuse
If you have any questions or need any other help and support, please contact the Safe Environment Office at: safeenv@dioslc.org or call (801) 456.9344.
Homily Reflections:
‘Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly…’ Lk. 6:46
Consider for a moment this wooden beam in your eye. To say the least, it would likely cause some distortion of vision right from the beginning. It would eventually cause an infection and if left unattended could even poison your bloodstream. It would likely HURT LIKE HECK! The pain would not be limited to just your eye, but soon your whole head would throb and the pain would travel throughout your body. Your ability to move your head around in tight spaces would be sharply restricted. It would look weird. Your whole attitude would change. You would become cranky and impatient. It would be especially difficult to focus on detail and complex conversations about anything but your pilloried eye. Of course, at this point you would probably not even be concerned about a sliver in someone else’s eye because your problem is so much worse.
The latest Religious Landscape Study by the PEW Research Center fielded over seven months in 2023-24, finds that 62% of U.S. adults identify as Christians. That is a decline of 9 percentage points since 2014 and a 16-point drop since 2007. However, the decline seems to have stabilized over the past 5 years. See below.
The fruit of a tree shows the care it has had.’ Sir. 26:6
The just one shall flourish like the palm tree, like a cedar of Lebanon shall he grow. They that are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. Ps. 92:13-14
‘No disciple is superior to the teacher; but when fully trained, every disciple will be like his teacher.’ Lk. 6:40
How fruitful are we as a Church? If the just one flourishes, what does it mean to be ‘just’? How were we trained for discipleship? And by whom? How do we resemble our teachers? What distortions need to be corrected in order to flourish? What beams must be removed?
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“To convert somebody, go and take them by the hand and guide them.” St. Thomas Aquinas