2375 EAST ARIZONA AVENUE, DENVER, COLORADO 80210 303-744-6119 WWW.SAINTVINCENTS.ORG

SUNDAY MASSESSaturday: (Anticipatory) 5:00 pmSunday: 7:30 am, 9:30 am, 11:30 am

DAILY MASSMonday – Friday: 6:30 am and 8:00 amSaturday: 8:00 am

RECONCILIATIONMonday – Saturday: 7:30 – 7:45 amSaturday: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pmAlso by Appointment

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISMContact Parish Office to schedule.

SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONYContact Parish Office at least eightmonths prior to the wedding

SACRAMENT OF THE SICKContact Parish Office at onset of illness. In case of death in the family, contact Parish Office immediately.

FINANCE COUNCIL Jody Block, John Groneman, Craig Saeman, and David Wolf

PASTORAL COUNCILJulie Buckley, Chuck Masur, Katie McClosky, Philip Nearing, Lucas Stine, Shari Sullivan, Secretary: Virginia Zordani

PARISH STAFFPastor: Very Rev. Andrew Kemberling, V.F.Parochial Vicar: Rev. Douglas GrandonDeacons: Tim Kelly and Marvin HegartyPastoral Associate: Dcn. George Morin, ext 202Business Manager: Jeff Babcock, ext 207Director of Communications and Stewardship: Mila Glodava, ext 205Director of Music: Mary Beth Church, ext 222IT Director: Mark Weiland, ext 210Secretary/Receptionist: Meg Robinson, ext 203Bulletin Editor: Mark Weiland ext 210

PARISH SCHOOLPrincipal: Sr. Dominic Quinn, O.P., ext 100 1164 South Josephine StreetDenver, Colorado 80210303-777-3812info@svdpk8.com | www.svdpk8.com

THIRT Y-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | NOVEMBER 6, 2016

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Go and Make Disciples - Matthew 28:19

Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

This Week’s Mass Intentions:Monday, November 7: 6:30am Peggy Gallegos† 8:00am Sharon Voegtle† Tuesday, November 8: 6:30am Fred Bell† 8:00am Reid MaglioneWednesday, November 9: 6:30am Bob Clevenger† 8:00am Patricia O’Doherty†Thursday, November 10: 6:30am Daniel J. McCarthy 8:10am Molly Malecek Yerger†Friday, November 11: 6:30am Tom Peters† 8:00am Mary KwokSaturday, November 12: 8:00am Ted Hamilton† 5:00pm SVdP ParishionersSunday, November 13: 7:30am Kathy Fortune† 9:30am Janina Triebling† 11:30am Mary Ann Peters†

Stewardship of Prayer

Question & Answer

Readings for the Week ofNovember 6, 2016

Sunday: 2 Mc 7:1-2, 9-14/Ps 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15/2 Thes 2:16--3:5/ Lk 20:27-38 or 20:27, 34-38Monday: Ti 1:1-9/Ps 24:1-6/Lk 17:1-6Tuesday: Ti 2:1-8, 11-14/Ps 37:3-4, 18, 23, 27, 29/Lk 17:7-10Wednesday: Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12/Ps 46:3- 6, 8, 11/1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16- 17/Jn 2:13-22Thursday: Phlm 7-20/Ps 146:7-10/Lk 17:20-25Friday: 2 Jn 4-9/Ps 119:1-2, 10-11, 17-18/Lk 17:26-37Saturday: 3 Jn 5-8/Ps 112:1-6/Lk 18:1- 8Next Sunday: Mal 3:19-20a/Ps 98:5-9/2 Thes 3:7-12/Lk 21:5-19

Dear Parishioners,

I want to thank those who attended the Liturgy Work-shop this last week. We have a makeup session on Saturday, November 12th. We learned the importance of intentional discipleship. When liturgical ministers are purposeful when they serve, the impact is great on other’s faith. Thank you.The General Election is this week, (thank goodness!)

and we are reminded by our church that to be a faithful citizen is vote guided by our conscience. Principles are more important than person-alities just as policies are more important than politicians. Please do not get these mixed up this election. The difference this year could not be as clearly defined.Our stewardship of vocation is this weekend. Please remember it is everyone’s responsibility to promote vocations to church ministry and to the priesthood. Vocations come from families. Please tell your son or daughter how pleased you would be if they chose such a path.Sincerely in Christ,

BaptismsMazzy Joy Dahldaughter of Barton and Julie

Upcoming EventsNovember 8 is Elections Day

November 11 is Veterans Day; take a few moments to say a pray for all of those who served in our Armed Forces and gave the ultimate sacrifice to protect our Country’s freedoms.

Our ill parish members & relatives: Margaret Weiland Jeanette Hoffman

Our deceased parish members & relatives: Fr. Bob DeRouen SJ Ned Duffy

Veterans and deceased members of our Armed Forces:

Due to the Privacy Act, only immediate family members may request a name to be placed on the prayer list. Please call the office at 303-744-6119.

Attention:Lectors, Communion Ministers, Hospitality Ministers, Cantors

Liturgy Seminar Make-up SessionSaturday, November 12, 8 a.m. - 12 noon

If you missed the Liturgy Seminar last Saturday, you are encouraged to come to this make-up session. We have new procedures which will be implement-ed the first Sunday of Advent (Nov. 26 and 27).It is extremely important for you to attend this seminar. If you have any questions or to RSVP, please contact Mila Glodava at 303-744-6119, Ext. 205, or email her at mila@saintvin-cents.org.

November 6, 2016

Altar Servers

Saturday, November 12:5:00pm Grant Toner Joe Donelson Jack KennedySunday, November 137:30am Ava Graef Grant Keelin9:30am Ryan Buckley Patrick Buckley Maggie McCloskey Molly Kate McCloskey Liam Kiernan Sebastian Kiernan 11:30am Gwynn Bogumill Grace Hoyt

Food PantryRequests for the Parish Food Pantry: Peanut Butter, plastic containers of jelly, soups, vegetables, and fruit. We could also use the orange Denver Post bags, and plastic Grocery bags if you have any.

Stewardship of Time & Talent

Stewardship of Faith

Walking with the SaintsSaturday, November 5 - Tuesday, November 8

St. Vincent de Paul Parish is hosting “Walking with the Saints: A Reliquary Experience of Saints throughout History” on Saturday, November 5, and Sunday, November 6, after all the Masses (Saturday, 5pm.; Sunday, 7:30am, 9:30am, and 11:30am). Catholic schools are invited for a special showing November 7 and 8 during school hours.

The exhibit will feature 46 first-class relics of saints throughout five periods of Church history: the Age of the Apostles and the Church Fathers, the Middle Ages, the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment and French Revolution, and the Modern Age.

If you missed the first Confirmation meeting its not to late to be involved contact at kelly@saintvincents.org or 303.744.6119 for information.

First Reconcilation and Communion meetings will be in January. More infor-mation forthcoming.

Sacramental Preparation

Sacred Song in a Sacred SpaceSunday, November 13 at 6:30pm

The music ministers (Adult Choir, Saturday Choir, Children’s Choir, Hand Bell Choir) along with the Dominican sisters will present Sacred Song in a Sacred Space. It’s an evening of prayerful music that will lift

your heart and soul in union with God.

Gabriel House is committed to assist pregnant women and families with small children in need. If you would like to make a donation, we need diapers sizes: #3, #4, #5 and #6, wipes,toiletries, formula, clothes T 0 to 6. We are always looking for volunteers, ifyou are interested, please contact MaKenzi Loutsch, 720-799-9302or mloutsch@ccdenver.org

Jesse TreeNovember 19, 2016

Please help us to support Mount St. Vincent Orphanage and the Samaritan House this Christmas Season. More information will follow but note these details:• The Jesse Tree begins on Saturday November 19th, 2016• All gifts need to be gathered by December 11, 2016• Please contact Lucas Stine if you have any questions at 303-656-5592• Volunteers to help sort and deliver are needed.

Closing of the Year of MercySaturday, November 20

3:00pmPlease join St. Vincent de Paul in closing this jubilee Year of Mercy. There will be expo-sition of the blessed sacrament, recitation of the Divine Mercy Chaplet, and adora-

tion. Confession will be available during this time. Refreshments will follow in the gymnasium.Mission of Mercy priests Msgr. An-thony McDaid and Fr. Michael Such-nicki join our parish priests to hear your confessions that day.If you have any questions, please contact the parish office at (303) 744-6119.

Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School

Veterans Day Assembly and Reception

Our annual Veteran’s Day Reception and Assem-bly is quickly approaching. If you have a friend or family member who served in our Armed Forces, please invite them to this event so that we can honor them and show our gratitude for their service.

Please have guests RSVP by calling the school of-fice at (303) 777-3812 or by clicking on the follow-ing link:https://goo.gl/forms/3fVBx883CTasr1mS2 The reception will begin at 1:30 in the Garden Room, followed by the All School Assembly at 2:10 in the gymnasium.

Thursday, November 10:All School Mass – 8:10amFriday, November 11:Annual Veterans Day Assembly

Our Week at a Glance

Stewardship of Treasure

Stewardship of Vocations

“There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.”

–St. Vincent de Paul“The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” Matthew 9:37

Jesus did not just tell his disciples to pray for” “laborers” in his vineyard, he also immediately “called to himself his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every infir-mity.” The Catholic Church has been very faithful in praying for vocations, and vocations directors abound in dioceses and religious orders and congregations. We are still experiencing, however, a shortage of priests and religious. The Serra Club has given us another way to promote vocations, and it is called, “Called by Name.” This is exactly what Jesus did. He actually identified and called his disciples by name. We can-not beat that model. This weekend please identify someone whom you think might have a vocation to the priesthood or religious life.

The total commitment to our 2017 Stewarship of Treasure:

Commitments Received:

Adults: 158Number of registered families: 1,037Percent: 15%Total Pledges Received: $458,383

Children: 78Number of Children Registered: 526Percent: 15%Total Pledges Received: $5,191

If you have not turned in your commitment envelope for Stewardship of Treasure 2017, by the weekend of November 12/13th, please do so whether you have made a commitment or not.

This way, we will not have to send you a follow-up letter which will go out on Wednesday, November 16, and save on time preparing the letters, the letterheads, and stamps. Please help us be good stewards of the funds you so generously give in thanksgiving for all of God’s blessings.

November 6, 2016

Votive Candles

The suggested donation for the votive candles is $1.50. When lighting them, please be sure to but the used match stick in the empty votive glass and not in the candle. This will help prevent possible fires.

This election season is even more important than normal for Coloradans because we are being asked to vote on the legalization of physician-as-sisted suicide. The people most at risk from this destructive proposal are the elderly, the disabled, those without adequate health care and the people with little or no support system. This kind of thinking comes from the “throwaway culture Pope Francis has warned about.

VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION 106 yard signs are free of charge. If you did not get one and would like to have one, please contact the parish office. Our faith demands that we participate in pub-lic life and make our voices heard in the public square.

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Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

There is something in us that remembers eternity. My favorite Old Testament passage captures it beautifully: God has made everything appropriate for its time, and yet has set eternity in our hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11). We long for those glimpses of heaven that come to us―a tender wink from a beloved who has gone to God, or maybe a near-death story that has the ring of truth to it. But whether we experience those particular graces or not, the nearness of the eternal is right there, in our memory and our soul. We are made for heaven.

But we are also made for the earth, because that is where we forge the materials we will take into eternity. In C.S. Lewis’s beautiful parable, The Great Divorce, we see the excruciating conundrum. Heaven is right there, just steps away from the bus that carries those caught in the limbo of indecision. All one has to do is get off the bus. The problem is, heaven is so solid, so real. The grass is like knives for those who try to take selfishness and grubbiness and gossip and meanness into heaven. They’ll need to lay those wimpy things down if they want to walk in the strength of the Divine Presence.

That’s another piece of eternity that we already experience in this life: the “muscle memory” that comes when we grow into who we are meant to be. When we knock temptation to the ground, when we stand up for justice, when we grow the muscles of compassion and honesty, we can feel ourselves getting fit for the sturdiness of heaven. The saints all got to the gym and got buff enough for eternity. Just do it.

Kathy McGovern ©2016 www.thestoryandyou.com