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Saint James Catholic Church A Stewardship Community

“Be doers of the word not hearers only…” James 1:22

1314 Newport Street, Denver, Colorado 80220

Parish Phone Number: 303-322-7449

ST. JAMES MASS SCHEDULE

Monday-Saturday………..8:15 a.m.

Saturday Anticipated…...4:00 p.m.

Sunday*……..8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., &

12 Noon (Spanish)

Holy Days….8:15 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. &

7:30 p.m. (Spanish)

*Babysitting available for the 10:00 a.m. Mass for children two to five years old.

ADORATION OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST

Morning Prayer /Holy Hour...Mon.-Sat. 7:00 - 8:00 a.m. Adoration Chapel..Monday-Thursday Noon - 10 p.m. 24 Hour Adoration…....Friday 9:00 a.m.- 8:00 a.m.(Sat)

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri….….…...…....7:30 - 8:00 a.m. Every Saturday…...….3:00 - 3:45 p.m. or upon request Sunday……………………………...11:15 - 11:45 a.m.

PASTOR Father José de Jesús García

j_garciap@outlook.com

PARISH STAFF

Parish Secretary…………..……...…...…....Cathy Cancino parish.office@stjamesdenver.org

Business Manager…….……..………...Salvador Mendoza accounting@stjamesdenver.org

Maintenance……………..……………...Jose Luis Valdez maintenance.office@stjamesdenver.org

School Principal...…...………….…....Carol Hovell-Genth . principalstjamesdenver@gmail.com Religious Education……...….……...….…Pat Smaldone 303-477-3562 Spanish Religious Ed………………….Soraya Gonzalez 719-650-2241

PHONE NUMBERS Parish……………………………...….….303-322-7449 School……………………………...…….303-333-8275 Parish Fax …………………………...…..303-399-2850 WEB PAGE: www.stjamesdenver.org

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM:Preparation classes for baptism in English—of children under seven years old are held each month. Parents and Godparents, you need to register in advance at Call Jim Winders at 303-854-4446 for the English Class. Spanish Baptism Class, – call the parish office—303-322-7449.

SACRAMENT OF THE SICK: For Holy Communion, Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, or a visit by a priest, please call 303-322-7449.

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE:Arrangements are made at least twelve months in advance. Call Parish Office for details.

“A prophet like me will the Lord,

Your God,

Raise up for you from among your own kin;

To him you shall listen.” Deuteronomy 18;15-17

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ST. JAMES CATHOLIC PARISH JANUARY 28, 2018

Words from our Pastor

Brothers and Sisters:

God’s authority in our daily lives is important. Who speaks for God? Do we want to listen to God? Are we interested at all in finding the meaning of life outside of ourselves? The challenges of the readings today keep pointing us outside of ourselves and toward a divine authority who wants to communicate with us but who will never force Himself upon us.

The first reading today, from the Book of Deuteronomy, is strong. God’s peo-ple have told God Himself that they do not want to hear His voice directly! So God tells them that they will hear him now only through prophets. But real prophets, not the fake ones.

We may think that there is something odd in not wanting to hear God, but so often we ourselves do not want to hear God in His Word, in His Scrip-tures and in His Church. Yet at times, if a really strong and charismatic personality comes and is able to preach the Word of God, there are times when we listen. We are no different from the people of the time of Moses! We need prophets when we don’t listen to God. We need also to listen to God’s words about false prophets—for they will die!

The second reading is from the First Letter to the Corinthians. We are told that the unmarried person is able to be more concerned to listen to the Lord and to seek the Lord’s will. This does not mean such an unmarried person is better than a married person or even that such an unmarried person will actually be more concerned about the things of the Lord. Our holiness and our val-ue before the Lord is in doing the Lord’s will and surely many married people are more concerned about the Lord than some unmarried. On the other hand, it is clear that an unmarried person who truly seeks the Lord is able to be more concerned solely about the things of the Lord because of the lack of spouse and children. The point, however, is always the same: listen to the Lord!

The Gospel brings us back again to this then of listening to the Lord. The people in the Gospel are totally amazed at Jesus and his power over unclean spirits. They could see that Jesus spoke as a person having authority on His own. But did the people of the Gospel follow the Lord? Not always! Even when the Word of God is right in front of us, we are still able to resist. God has given us this freedom to choose and so often we choose against God and thus also against ourselves.

Let us pay attention today to the many ways that God comes into our lives. Let us seek to

be faithful to the voice of the Lord as it comes to us in Scripture and in the Church. Let us pay attention to the things of God and rejoice when God sends us the strength to be faithful.

...Father Jesus

IT’S NOT TOO LATE! Catechesis for Adults & Youth

(13 yrs. and older) Mondays and Thursdays

Parish Hall - 7:30 pm

Come and Listen! St. James Catholic Church

1314 Newport St., Denver, CO 80220 303-322-7449

Baby-sitting will be provided!

Do the challenges in your life seem too heavy? Are you discouraged or depressed?

Are you looking for deeper meaning in your life?

Do you want to live out your Faith in a deeper way?

Neocatechumenal Way

LOVE YOUR MARRIAGE 1/2 Day Enrichment retreat:

Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church

February 10, 2018

Visit www.archden.org/loveyour marriage

“Servant of the Word” Workshop February 3, 2018

Immaculate Heart of Mary Church This year workshop, entitled “Follow Me—Answering the Call to Live as a Disciple—will honor Dr. Ted Sri, theologian, author and well known Catholic speaker. For more information and to register, go to www.sotwworkshop.org

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FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME……….....……...…...................JANUARY 28, 2018

Over the course of the series of catechesis on the Eucharistic celebration, we have seen that the Penitential Act helps us to strip ourselves of our presumptions and to present ourselves to God as we truly are, conscious of being sinners, in the hope of being forgiven.

It is in the very encounter between human misery and divine mercy that the gratitude expressed in the “Gloria” comes alive; “a very ancient and venerable hymn in which the Church, gathered together in the Holy Spirit, glorifies and entreats God the Father and the Lamb” (General Instruction of the Roman Missal, 53).

The beginning of this hymn — “Glory to God in the Highest” — recalls the song of the Angels at Jesus’ birth in Bethle-hem: a joyful heralding of the embrace between heaven and earth. This song also engages us, gathered in prayer: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will”.

After the “Gloria” or in its absence, immediately following the Penitential Act, prayer takes on a particular form in the oration known as the “collect”, through which the very character of the celebration is expressed, with variations according to the days and time of the year (cf. ibid., 54). With the invitation “let us pray”, the priest encourages the people to recollect themselves with him in a brief silence, so that they may be conscious that they are in God’s presence and so that all can formulate within their own heart the personal petitions with which they are participating in the Mass (cf. ibid., 54). The priest says “let us pray” and then there is a brief silence, and each one thinks about the things they need, that they wish to ask for in the prayer.

The silence is not confined to the absence of words but rather to preparing oneself to listen to other voices: the one in our heart and, above all, the voice of the Holy Spirit. In the Liturgy, the nature of sacred silence depends on the mo-ment in which it takes place: “within the Act of Penitence and again after the invitation to pray, all recollect themselves; but at the conclusion of a reading or the homily, all meditate briefly on what they have heard; then after Commun-ion, they praise and pray to God in their hearts” (ibid., 45). Thus, before the opening prayer, silence helps us to recol-lect ourselves and to contemplate why we are there. This, then, is the importance of listening to our heart, so as to then open it to the Lord. Perhaps we have experienced days of toil, of joy, of pain, and we want to tell the Lord about it, to in-voke his help, to ask that he be at our side; we may have relatives and friends who are ill or who are undergoing difficult trials; we may wish to entrust to God the future of the Church and the world. And this is the purpose of the brief silence before the priest; collecting everyone’s petitions, he expresses aloud to God, on behalf of all, the common prayer, which concludes the Introductory Rites by offering the “collect” of the individual petitions. I strongly recommend that priests observe this moment of silence and not rush: “Let us pray”, and let there be si-lence. I recommend this to priests. Without this silence, we run the risk of neglecting the recollection of the soul.

The priest recites this plea, this collect prayer, with outstretched arms. It is the prayerful manner practiced by Christians ever since the first centuries — as attested in numerous frescoes in the cata-combs in Rome — to imitate Christ with his arms outstretched on the wood of the Cross. And there, Christ is both the One praying and also the Prayer! In the Crucifix, we recognize the Priest who offers God the worship He cherishes, namely, filial obe-dience.

Prayers in the Roman Rite are concise but rich in meaning. One can have beautiful meditations on these prayers. Very beautiful! Returning to meditate on these texts, even outside the Mass, can help us understand how to address God, what to ask and which words to use. May the Liturgy become for all of us a true school of prayer.

General Audience with Pope Francis on January 10, 2018

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Monday, Jan. 29—Weekday In Ordinary Time

9:00 a.m. +Lou Madonna w/Liv & Dec. Mbrs. Of family ………...….2 Sm 15:13-14,30: 16:5-13/Mk 5:1-20

Tuesday, Jan. 30—-Weekday In Ordinary Time

8:15 p.m. +Isaac Lopez & Dec. Mbrs. Of family ….…..........2 Sm 18:9-10,14b,24-25a,30-19:3/Mk 5:21-43

Wednesday, Jan. 31—St. John Bosco, priest

8:15 a.m. +Joseph Dolan.……………...2 Sm 724:2,9-17/Mk 6:1-6

Thursday, Feb. 1—Weekday In Ordinary Time 8:15 a.m. +Norbert Tschauder……..1 Kgs 2:1-4,10-12/Mk 6:7-13

Friday, Feb. 2—THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD 8:15 a.m. +Ramona Hellstrom-Weis …..…..Ml 3:1-4/Hb 2:14-18/Lk 2:22-40

Saturday, Feb. 3—St. Blaise, bishop, martyr & St. Ansgar, bishop 8:15 a.m. +Ruth McCarthy......................1 Kgs. 3:4-13/Mk 6:30-34

FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

4:00 p.m. +Lee Williams

JB 7:1-4,6-7/1 COR 9:16-29,22-23/MK 1:29-39

Sunday February 4, 2018

8:00 a.m. +Sam & Christine Saraga w/Liv & Dec. mbrs. Of fam. 10:00 a.m. St. James Parishioners 12:00 Noon TBA

Please pray for those parishioners suffering sickness... Pat DonovanApril MonroeMary Ann MillerGary Miller

Julian CarrilloPatty KaneMary Kratzer Jack BlackwoodPatty CarrAndrea JanskyTerri Walker

April HueyJuana Moraza BanuelDana Tracy Marvine LabatoLynda ValenciaJoseph Napoerola

Mike & Linda ThilvinElizabeth FloresMichael Maestas Beau MondragonFord McLineyNancy GreweRose Stoeber Tony Heble Erick RuizMary Lou HallerDebbie Dawkins

Leonce LeBlancSalvador HuichapaRobert Medina Betty MadonnaLeticia VitervoJames WoodKevin Jarvis Linda BuckleyCarrie KreslJim KindbladeAl Merendino

Walker Stevens Ford McClineyYusmari PereiraDick Morroni Terri LenzoTom DoblerJames HaskellJoan Dotson Michelle MaestasMaximino FloresAndrea McKibben

Santiago Ochoa Aurelia Diaz Jose Guadalupe DelgadoJohn Williams, Sr.Twigs Adela Hartmann Henry Chu Marilyn Toepfer

ST. JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH

For the Week of: Jan 29 –Feb. 4, 2018

ST. JAMES KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

If you are interested

Call Pat Nash: 303-399-1255 Meetings are the

3rd Thursday at 6:30 p.m.

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ST. JAMES OFFERTORY: January 20 & 21, 2018………..……….…$ 4,366.12

THANK YOU!! eGiving Enroll in our electronic offertory program.

To sign up visit www.faithdirect.net. code is: CO394.

Adoration of the

Blessed Sacrament

Open:

Mon.-Thurs. 12 Noon to 10:00 p.m.

Fridays: All Night Adoration until Sat. at 7:00 a.m.

JANUARY 28, 2018

LEAVE A LEGACY: Regardless of your age, we encour-age you to begin thinking about the legacy you wish to leave behind and the message you hope to share with your loved ones, your com-munity and St. James Catholic Parish through their fund held at The Catholic Foun-

dation. Contact: 303-468-9885 or visit: The-CatholicFoundation.com

Thank you to all those who have already considered St. James Parish & School in your Will.

It helps us keep growing!

ST. JAMES FOOD PANTRY POWERED MILK CANNED CHILI

& CANNED TUNA

Thankyou!!!!

STEUBENVILLE OF THE ROCKIES 2018

Steubenville will be June 22-24, 2018 at the Crowne Plaza DIA. The cost is $195 per per-son. The Steubenville of the Rockies Confer-ence is for high school youth (rising 9th grad-ers to those who will graduate in the spring of 2018). Go to our website for this years' speaker line up and additional information about this amaz-ing high school conference

Morning Prayers: 7:oo AM Rosary: 7:15 and time for meditation

Mass: 8:15 AM SAT. February 3, 2018 Come & Join Us!

Our Lady of Fatima

First Saturday Devotions Please join us!