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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. &

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, Viaticum, or a visit by a priest, please call 303-322-7449.

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE:Arrangements are made at least twelve

*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…………..…..Maria Yudelka Leonard 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

The Sower went out to sow….

Will he find good soil in you?

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ST. JAMES CATHOLIC PARISH JULY 16, 2017

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Words from our Pastor

Dear Brothers and Sisters:

Today we can ask ourselves: how do I receive the Word of God? Jesus gives us a parable and an explanation in today’s Gospel, which comes from Saint Matthew. There are people who don’t understand the word of the kingdom and the evil comes and steals away what was sown in the heart. The second group are those who hear the word and receive it immedi-ately with joy but when difficulties come, these peo-ple immediately fall away. Then there are people who hear the word but then anxiety and the lure of

riches choke the word and it bears no fruit. The last person mentioned: a person who hears the word and understands it and who bears fruit.

Jesus is not telling us a parable to condemn us but to invite us to change our ways of living so that we can be more consistently in that last group: hearing and responding to the word and bearing fruit in our lives.

We heard in the first reading, from the Prophet Isaiah, that God’s word will accomplish the end for which it was sent. This word of God will continue to work on us for our whole life, seeking to draw us to the Lord. What lacks is our cooperation. We must do our part to cooperate with the word: begin the spiritual combat which means to fight all within us that is against the word. Our Christian life is a life of combat against ourselves and against all the cultur-al values which are not in accord with the word of God.

The second reading today is from the Letter to the Romans and tells us that actually all of creation is groaning with the desire to be transformed into the new creation. We ourselves have the first fruits of the Spirit within us, yet often we do not respond. So we also groan with all creation, hoping and praying for the complete adoption as children God and the redemption of our bodies.

This second reading is clear: we are redeemed body and soul. So often today we find those who think that only our soul might be saved. No! Our Creed and our longstanding believe is that we are saved body and soul. Again we have the challenge of spiritual com-bat both with our “soul” as well as with our “body.” Not all that we want or desire is in accord with the will of the Lord.

We have to struggle, as does all creation, in order to let God conform us to His will.

.....Father Jesus

During the month of July….

We need a copy of the child’s Baptismal Certificate unless you sent it last year

There will be people in the back of church to register your child.

The cost is $40.00 each year per child.

It is a 2 year program to receive the Sacrament of First Communion and Confirmation. Call the parish office (303-322-7449) for any questions or if you would like to register during the week.

REGISTRATION HAS BEGUN FOR: ST. JAMES

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PROGRAM

BOSETTI IN THE SUMMER!!

This Sunday JULY 16 at 3:00 PM: Colfax and Logan

Russian Organist: Marina Omelchen-ko will perform at the Cathedral

Basilica as part of her "USA Organ Tour"...AND the new

"Bosetti in the Summer" series!

Concert is free. Free parking at Knights of Columbus Hall at 16th and

Grant. Reception to Follow. See you there...

The Cathedral is Air Conditioned!!!

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FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME…….……….……...…….…...…....JULY 16, 2017

On the day of Baptism the invocation of the saints echoed around us. Many of us were infants in that moment, carried in the arms of our parents. Shortly before the anointing with the Oil of Catechumens, the symbol of God’s strength in the fight against evil, the priest invited the entire assembly to pray for those who were about to receive Baptism, invoking the intercession of the saints. That was the first time in which, in the course of our lives, we were given this gift of the companionship of “big” brothers and sisters — the saints — who had taken this same path before us, who knew the same struggles and who live forever in God’s embrace. The Letter to the Hebrews defines this company which surrounds us with the expression: “a great cloud of wit-nesses” (Heb 12:1). So are the saints: a great cloud of witnesses.

Christians do not despair in the fight against evil. Christianity cultivates an incurable trust: it does not believe that negative and disintegrating forces can prevail. The last word on the history of mankind is not hatred; it is not death; it is not war. In each of life’s moments, the hand of God assists us, as well as the discrete presence of all the believers who “have gone before us marked with the sign of faith” (Roman Canon). Their existence tells us, above all, that Christian life is not an unattainable ideal. And at the same time, it comforts us: we are not alone. The Church is made up of innumerable, often anonymous, brothers and sisters who preceded us and who, through the action of the Holy Spirit, are involved in the affairs of those who still live here on earth.

That of Baptism is not the only invocation of the saints that marks the journey of Christian life. When an engaged couple conse-crate their love in the Sacrament of Matrimony, the intercession of saints is once again invoked for them — this time as a couple. And this invocation is a source of trust for the two young people who embark on the “journey” of married life. In the wed-ding liturgy, we invoke the presence of the saints. And in difficult times, courage is needed to raise one’s eyes to heaven, thinking of the many Christians who have undergone tribulation and have kept their baptismal garments white, bathing them in the blood of the lamb (cf. Rev 7:14): so says the Book of Revelation. God never abandons us. Each time we need it, one of his angels will come to lift us up again and give us comfort; “angels”, at times with a human face and heart because God’s saints are al-ways here, hidden in our midst. This is difficult to understand and also to imagine, but saints are present in our lives. And when someone invokes a saint, it is precisely because they are near us.

Priests also cherish the memory of an invocation of saints prayed over them. It is one of the most touching moments of the Liturgy of Ordination. The candidates lie on the floor, face down. And the whole assembly, led by the bishop, invokes the inter-cession of the saints. A man would be crushed beneath the weight of the mission entrusted to him, but feeling that all of heaven is in his favour, that the grace of God will not be lacking because Jesus is always faithful, then one can set out feeling calm and en-couraged. We are not alone.

May the Lord give all of us the hope of being saints. But some of you might ask me: “Father, can one be a saint in everyday life?”. Yes, it is possible. “But does this mean that we have to pray all day?”. No, it means that you must do your duty all day: pray, go to work, take care of your children. But everything must be done with the heart open to God, so that work, even in illness and suffering, in difficulty too, is open to God. And in this way one can become a saint. May the Lord give us the hope to be saints. Let us not think that it is a difficult thing, that it is easier to be delinquents than saints! No. We can be saints because the Lord helps us; he is the One who helps us.

This is the great gift that each of us can make to the world. May the Lord grant us the grace to believe so profoundly in him as to become for this world the image of Christ. Our history needs “mystics”: people who reject all dominion, who aspire to charity and fraternity; men and women who live, also accepting a portion of suffering because they take on the burdens of others. But without these men and women, the world would have no hope. For this reason, I wish for you — and I also wish for me — that the Lord may grant us the hope of being saints. Pope Francis—Audience on June 21, 2017.

THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS

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Monday, July 17—Weekday In Ordinary Time 8:15 a.m. Matt Tynon & Fam. & Theresa Marion …..………..Ex 1:8-14.22/Mt 10:34—11:1

Tuesday, July 18—St. Camillas de Lellis, priest 8:15 a.m. Patricia Forkner Fam.....................Ex 2;1-15/Mt 11:20-24

Wednesday, July 19—Weekday In Ordinary Time 8:15 a.m. Anthony Paolucci & Darby McCullough ……….............Ex 3:1-6,9-12/Mt 11:25-27

Thursday, July 20—St. Apollinaris, bishop, martyr 8:15 a.m. Peggy McMillon..........................Ex 3:13-20/Mt 11:28-30

Friday, July 21—St. Lawrence of Brindisi, priest, doctor 8:15 a.m. +Donna Morrato....……..........Ex 11:10-12:14/Mt 12:1-8 .

Saturday, July 22—St. Mary Magdalene 8:15 a.m. For mothers who have aborted their babies

SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 4:00 p.m. +Quinten & Loretta Kelzenberg / +Elintor Travis

WIS 12:13,16-19/ROM 8:26-27/MT 13:24-43

Sunday July 23, 2017

8:00 a.m. +John T. Quinn 10:00 a.m. St. James Parishioners

12:00 Noon +Magdalena & Francisco Difuntos

+Louise Deras-Olague

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

Julian CarrilloPatty KaneMary KratzerAgnes & Bob Kratz Jack BlackwoodPatty CarrAndrea JanskyTerri Walker

April HueyJuana Moraza BanuelDana Tracy Marvine & Patricio LabatoLynda ValenciaJoseph Napoerola

Mike & Linda ThilvinSarah BruinElizabeth Flores Michael MaestasBeau MondragonFord McLiney Nancy GreweRose StoeberTony Heble Erick Ruiz Mary Lou HallerDebbie DawkinsLeonce LeBlanc Salvador HuichapaRobert Medina Betty Madonna

Leticia VitervoJames WoodKevin JarvisLinda Buckley Carrie KreslJim KindbladeAl Merendino Joan Dotson

Hope HernandezWalker Stevens Ford McCliney Patricia GibsonYusmari PereiraDick MorroniTerri Lenzo

Ron HuempfnerJames HaskellAngel Avelar Michelle Maestas Maximino FloresAndrea McKibbenKatlyn Stegman

Cindy FlickSantiago Ochoa Aurelia Diaz Rita Kadavy Jose Guadalupe DelgadoMarie Grumich

Deacon Francisco’s mother—Ines Calzavara John Williams, Sr. Boone SchulteSheri O’NealJoyce BoehmeBrian Ardke

ST. JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH

For the Week of: July 17—23, 2017

First Saturday Rosary at 7:15 a.m.

before the 8:15 a.m. morning

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.

Visit: www.kofc12800.com

ST. JAMES OFFERTORY: July 8 & 9, 2017…………..…….……...….$ 4,498.77

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Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

Mon.-Thurs. Noon—10:00 p.m. Fridays: All Night

JULY 16, 2017

ST. JAMES FOOD PANTRY Helping others who need a little help!

Canned BEANS Canned MEAT

HAMBURGER HELPER

THANK YOU!!!!!

RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITATION FOR ADULTS

Are you curious about the Catholic faith?. Or need to receive the sacrament of

Confirmation?

*Are you thinking about becoming Catholic?

*Have you been baptized in another Christian faith

and are interested in becoming a Catholic?

*Were you baptized a Catholic and would like to

receive the Sacrament of Confirmation?

*Do you know someone who might be interested in

becoming a Catholic?

The process to explore the Catholic faith is called the RCIA

(The RIte of Christian Initiation for Adults). This journey of

study and prayer generally takes about nine months. Classes

are held on Saturday.

The process is twofold. The first being an opportunity to

uncover God's loving presence in one's personal life and the

second, a means to help a person em-

brace the rich treasury of the Catholic

faith.

The celebration of the Sacraments takes

place at the Easter Vigil.

Pictures for the

FIRST COMMUNION &

CONFIRMATION

Are in the parish office …. Come and pick up your CD…...