Bulletin: Easter Sunday, 4/20/25
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.
Our next OPEN-DOOR SATURDAY is May 3, 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.
Next Sunday: Annual Collection for the Home Missions. See insert in bulletin.
FINANCIAL REPORT: April 13, 2025: Offertory: $1677; R&I: $25; Mail-In Donations: $80; Holy Land: $844 (and counting). Thank you!
You can also donate on-line at kanabcatholicchurch.org
Diocesan Development Drive (DDD) We currently have received pledges totaling $8310 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: Daniel Mays, Eva Montelongo, Rob Vogel, Sergio Olvera, Suzy Lingwall, Mary Andeway, Donald Wilkenson. 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.
Social Hour after Sunday Mass – Coffee, juice and bagels or muffins are served up along with some fabulous conversation. NOT OFFERED ON EASTER SUNDAY.
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.
Earth Day is April 22
Eating is a Moral Act from Catholic Rural Life.org
It is our human responsibility to grow what is good to eat and eat what is good to grow…
Do you know where your food comes from? Have you ever asked a child: “Where does your food come from?” More often than not, they will reply, “the store.”
Why is this an issue?
- We have lost touch with the origin of our food—the land and animals that give us nourishment and the hands of the farmers and ranchers who grow and care for them.
- The connection to the origin of our food was commonplace before the advent of the modern food system.
- This system separates us from the land, and it sometimes leads to poor treatment of our resources and those who care for them.
- Nutritious foods, healthy soils and humane treatment of livestock and poultry—often fall to the wayside as aggressive practices by producers, processors, and distributors seek to minimize cost and maximize profit.
- Farmers and farmworkers sometimes feel the hard hand of these
Eating is a moral act because so much depends upon growing what is good to eat and eating what is good to grow. As eaters, we should be aware of where our food comes from: Who grew it and where? How were the workers treated? How were the animals and land treated?
Learn more and get involved by visiting https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/programs/gods-planet/
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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
Bring Me Thy Pamphlet! Don’t forget the Speaker’s Corner where you can present your favorite religious message. Rather than merely lay your favorite pamphlet, magazine, bookmark or poster on one of the flat surfaces in the church, you could personalize the message in the handout and share it with the community at a prescheduled forum after Mass on Sundays. Garry’s recent presentation on his pilgrimage to Portugal was well received, inspiring and a good model of witnessing and sharing the faith journey. This is a great way to practice. See Fr. Rick for more details.
Homily Reflections
- Col 3:1-2 “If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth.” How has your recent experience of Lent enabled you to hear God’s voice among the many other voices, influencers, marketers and ideologies? What behavioral or attitudes changes have you begun? How will you continue this trend of truth-seeking?
- Acts 10:39 “We are witnesses of all that he did…” How has Jesus acted most obviously in your personal life during your biggest crisis or transitional periods? How did you share those events with others? How has Jesus acted in our nation over the past 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years? How have we responded most effectively? When might we have missed His presence altogether? When did we as a nation hear Jesus speaking to us through the Church and we blatantly ignored Him? What might have been the consequences?
- John 20:1-9 The younger disciple, John, ran faster than the older, Peter, yet he waited for Peter to arrive at the tomb before entering? When was the last time you consciously slowed down or interrupted your project or agenda to solicit the advice of an elder? How did you determine this person as a wise person? How did they cultivate their wisdom?
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“Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to Him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.”
St. Jane Frances de Chantal