Bulletin: The Exaltation of the Cross, 9/14/25
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.
Thank you Knights of Columbus for hosting the parish picnic and gathering last Sunday. The food and service were great and the price was just perfect! Thank you to all who helped and attended. This parish gatherings of very essential to actually being in Communion with each other.
Our next OPEN-DOOR SATURDAY is September 20, 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: September 7, 2025: Offertory: $1135; Donation Mail: $463, R&I: $70. Priests Retirement: $1214. You are AWESOME! Thank you!
You can also donate on-line at kanabcatholicchurch.org
Fiscal Year-End Financial Statements are posted on the Social Hall Bulletin Board. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask Fr. Rick, Meredith Langley, Jim Pashia, Noel Poe or Garry Domis.
Diocesan Development Drive (DDD) We currently have received pledges totaling $11,425 with $10,343 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: Bobbie Jo Gunther, Walter Steineke, Cody Wentz, George Reese, Angela Casares, Robinson Family, 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.
Social Hour after Sunday Mass – Coffee, juice and bagels or muffins are served up along with some fabulous conversation.
WOW!! Thank you for your very generous contributions to the Utah Priest’s Retirement Fund last week. We collected $1214!!
Catholic Social Teaching
Since Pope Leo XIV is expected to emphasize Catholic Social Teaching in his leadership message, these blurbs from the US Catholic Bishops’ website could be a good refresher or primer.
The Church’s social teaching is a rich treasure of wisdom about building a just society and living lives of holiness amidst the challenges of modern society. Modern Catholic social teaching has been articulated through a tradition of papal, conciliar, and episcopal documents. The depth and richness of this tradition can be understood best through a direct reading of these documents. In these brief reflections, we highlight several of the key themes (one each week) that are at the heart of our Catholic social tradition. This week
(6) Solidarity We are one human family whatever our national, racial, ethnic, economic, and ideological differences. We are our brothers and sisters keepers, wherever they may be. Loving our neighbor has global dimensions in a shrinking world. At the core of the virtue of solidarity is the pursuit of justice and peace. Pope Paul VI taught that if you want peace, work for justice.1 The Gospel calls us to be peacemakers. Our love for all our sisters and brothers demands that we promote peace in a world surrounded by violence and conflict. https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/seven-themes-of-catholic-social-teaching
More on Solidarity Next Week: Care of God’s Creation
Coming This Thursday, September 18th. The Catechism at a Glance: A Visual Overview of the Foundations of Our Faith. Like our study of Salvation History in the Scriptures, this course by Ascension Press will have video presentations (20) and a Timeline Chart for the development of Catholic Doctrine through history. The workbook with timeline chart is $40 with scholarships available. (Make checks to St. Christoper’s Parish) Thursdays at 5:30 in the Social Hall. Sessions will last at least 90 minutes.
If you can’t make it to the weekly sessions, all lessons are available online.
Yes, to Communion! September 22 to October 25.
Mondays 8:30 AM: Rosary followed by Rosary Makers. All are invited.
Tuesdays 5:30 PM: Divine Mercy Chaplet followed by rosary
Thursdays 4:00 to 5:00 PM: Adorations of the Blessed Sacrament
5:30 to 7:00+/- PM: The Catechism at a Glance. See left.
Fridays 5:30 PM: Rosary. Sorrowful Mysteries and Prayers of Lamentation.
Sunday 9:00 AM: Mass with visiting priest (usually from St. George)
There will be no daily Mass or Communion Service Monday through Saturday during these dates (unless a visiting priest should become available).
BEING in Communion This disruption of our usual schedule can paradoxically improve our general sense of Communion at the parish. These opportunities to gather in prayer during the afternoon and to study together one evening each week connect us on a deeper spiritual level and enable us to take that strength and solidarity back into the world. Prayerful people bring a supernatural calm to a society and is readily felt by those most in need.
We have been reviewing the major themes of Catholic Social Teaching in the bulletin the past few weeks and this week the them is solidarity (See above). Solidarity has to start somewhere and it does so in our families and especially in our Church. We are reassured that we know that we came from God and that it is our destiny to return to God in the Heavenly Kingdom to which we are heirs. When we can align our own stories of conversion and new life with the ongoing stories of slavery and liberation, lost and found, death and resurrection in the Bible, we know that we are in good hands. Young people especially need this assurance of identity and destiny in order to stay hopeful about their futures. Please make every attempt to pray and study with us.
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“Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.” St. Teresa of Avila