Fourth Sunday of Easter

May 3rd, 2020 St. Louis, King of France, Parish

3310 S. Sherman • Englewood, CO 80113

Very Rev. Giovanni Capucci, J.C.D, J.V. Pastor Reverend Francesco Basso, Parochial Vicar Reverend William Jungmann, In Residence

Mladen Martinovic - Deacon

Office Hours: M-F 9 am - 12 pm; 12:30 pm - 3:30pm

Mass Schedule: Saturday: 5:00 pm Neo-Catechumenal Way - 7:30 pm Sunday: 8:00 am, 10:00 am, and 5:30 pm Holy Day Masses: As announced Weekday Masses: Monday-Friday 7:30 am Mass First Friday Of Each Month 7:30am Rosary: Monday-Friday 7:00 am Prayer Network Rosary – Thursdays 8:00 am Croatian Language Mass-Last Sunday of Month at 12 pm Croatian Contact: Deacon Mladen Martinovic 303-618-3564 Baptisms: By appointment. Marriage: Appointment required 9-12 months in advance. Confessions: Saturday: 3:30 – 4:30 pm Parish/Office ............................................................303-761-3940 Fr.Capucci: Email Address….father.capucci@archden.org father.capucci@stlouiscatholicparish.org Cell....…...……...............………......303-246-3106 Fr. Basso: Email…………...….father. Basso@archden.org father.basso@stlouiscatholicparish.org Fr. Jungmann Email…..….......father.jungmann@archden.org Parish Office-Bulletin………………....jleonard@stlouiscatholicparish.org Business Office…………………...sfritz@stlouiscatholicparish.org Parish Website……………………...www.stlouiscatholicparish.org All Saints Gabriel House ………… Cathye Woody 303-781-1164 cathyewoody@hotmail.com Neo-Catechumenal Way:……………………...Jim & Teresa Major majorfamily10@msn.com Parish Finance Council: Chairman: Austin Gomes, Fr. Giovanni Capucci, Fr. Francesco Basso , Cathy Darnell, Kevin Flanagan, John Rager, Steve Waymel & Phillip Nearing Parish Council: Fr. Giovanni Capucci, Fr. Francesco Basso, Jim Major, Carl Maschka, Jess Gerardi, John Leonard, Theresa Winters, Jeff Morton, Steve Waymel, Cathy Darnell, Steve Kelly, Dottia Matl, Phillip Nearing, Bill Beckman, Mark Chaffin, Valorie Santino Sue Van Doren, Pedro Garza, Austin Gomes Business Mgr: Sue Fritz Office Mgr: John Leonard Knights of Columbus........................................... ....Mark Chaffin Phone: 303-759-0476 KofC14443@gmail.com Ministry to Homebound:………………………….Carole Maschka carole592@comcast.net Eucharistic Ministry for Swedish Hospital:……..Steve Waymel stevewaymel@actioncoach.com Lectors & Extraordinary Ministers of Eucharist:. Cathy Darnell cmdarnell@msn.com Religious Education Director:………………………... Dottia Matl cell # text preferred 303-519-6383 Rite Christian Initiation Adults; ………...Bill & Martha Beckman Phone; 303-913-8473 wcbeckman@comcast.net

PASTOR’S PAGE

Dear Brothers and Sisters, as the Governor is relaxing some of the restrictions, also the Archdiocese is working on new guidelines that will help us transition to more public Masses. We will keep you posted as next Sunday might finally be the time when Public Masses may resume according to these new guidelines. I ask your patience as we will figure out a safe sys-tem to implement them. Meanwhile, follow us on YouTube and Flock-note and I will update

you on our initiatives. This Sunday is dedicated to Jesus as the Good Shepherd,

and this text speaks of the relationship between Jesus, the flock, and the Father who enters into this relationship offering his own life for our eternal happiness.

In the first reading there is a turn of events: Paul an-nounces the Good News and many follow him, but others reject and aggressively oppose him, not allowing him to speak, to the point that Paul and Barnabas flee to Pisidia. Paul tells them: “Since you do not want us, we will go to the pagans”. Paul finds out the hard way that there are people who welcome the Word and others who refuse it. This dynamic helps us to understand what Christianity is all about.

In the Gospel, Jesus describes the relationship with his own flock in these terms: “My own sheep welcome my word, they listen to me and [therefore] they follow me”. Why do we follow Christ? Because two things happen: 1) people feel “known”, or, for lack of a better term, “understood” by Christ and 2) the spoken Word enters the heart of the one who listens. Jesus does not establish a relationship based on rules or policies and structures, but on the fact that one feels that he/she is known by Christ, understood by Christ, and feels that voice enter his heart, a voice that resounds in the depths of the intimate heart of each man. We do not follow Christ because we must follow him, but because we are drawn by the beauty of his voice. Christ guides the people through a spoken Word which has the power to enter the heart of each man.

In today’s understanding of the Church, we must be careful not to think that good structures or good policies come before this Word. Christianity was not born from a good plan or a good idea, but from a Word that has entered the heart of man – because we do things according to what we are. We act according to the engine we have. Receiving our identity from the Word gives us true identity, which becomes the power of the Father that makes us follow Christ. I follow Christ not because of a moral duty, but because I cannot but desire to be with the Father.

In this sense, the moral life is a consequence of this new identity given to us by the Father. The contrary does not take us anywhere. The problem for all of us is to receive from the Church the true water, the true bread that comes from heaven. If this hap-pens, people will follow.

Week of May 4th - May 10th, 2020

Mon. 4th 7:30am Josephine Afuekwe

By Carla Butler

Tues. 5th 7:30am +Bill Schulz

By Gerri Schulz

Weds. 6th 7:30am Robert Becker

By Gerri Schulz

Thurs. 7th 7:30am Mike Schulz

By Gerri Schulz

Fri. 8th 7:30am Daniel Lee

By Stephanie Buches

Sat. 9th 5:00pm +Fidel & Manuela Garcia

By Jo Alamri

Sun. 10th 8:00am Happy Mother’s Day

Novena Begins

10:00am Mother’s Day Novena

5:30pm Mother’s Day Novena

Saint Louis, King of France Parish Englewood, Colorado May 3rd, 2020

In this time of pandemic, civil society has told us how to keep our body safe, even leading us to believe that certain “shops” are more essential than others. I am still puzzled by the fact that some “shops” have been considered essential and the Church is still restricted.

My dear brothers and sisters, if there is one thing that this pandemic is revealing it is that life is uncertain and only one thing is eternal and essential, and that is the Word of the Father, the true and essential food offered to us by the Good Shepherd. He is the only one who can give us the true food that can satisfy the hunger that we have in our hearts. If our spirit is fed by the Word, our body too, though out of shape at times, or even threat-ened by a virus, will not suffer fear! Courage! Let us raise our eyes to Heaven, like St. Stephen, the first Martyr, who despising his life out of Love for the Father, offered his body out of love for his enemies, like our Good Shepherd, Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Please mail your Mother’s Day Novena Intentions to St. Louis Church 3310 South Sherman Street Englewood, CO 80113 so we can place them on the altar at each mass during the novena.

Fourth Sunday of Easter

Stewardship

April 26 - 26, 2020 Offertory Collection ……………..…$ Online Donations………................$

March 2020 VANCO Online Donations……….....$5804.00

Please remember St. Louis Parish in your will.

Thank you for your generosity.

PRAYERS FOR THE SICK

Those who are sick and want their names an-nounced from the altar and listed in the bulle-tin please call the Parish Office 303-761-3940. Also, call the office if you wish to be anointed prior to entering the hospital or if someone in the hospital needs to be anointed. Names of the sick as well as the intentions in the book at the back of the church will be included in our prayers at every Mass. For urgent requests call Margaret 303-781-3523 or Stan 720-838-6260

IF YOU SHOP AT KING SOOPERS

PLEASE REGISTER YOUR KING SOOPERS LOYALTY CARD BY GOING ON-LINE.

1.) GO TO (kingsoopers.com) AND REGISTER YOUR LOY-ALTY CARD

2.) ONCE YOU HAVE CREATED YOUR PERSONAL AC-COUNT SIGN-IN AND OPEN YOUR ACCOUNT AND CLICK ON THE COMMUNITY REWARDS TAB.

3.) ONCE ON THE COMMUNITY REWARDS TAB YOU MUST DESIGNATE AN ORGANIZATION; OUR ORGANI-ZATION NAME IS; ”St. Louis King Of France” OUR ORGAN-IZATION NUMBER IS; QI104 (Q, EYE, AS IN THE CAPITAL LETTER “I”, 104.) (QI104)

Each time you sign onto your account, you can check and see how much money your account has donated to St. Louis Parish through your purchases at any King Soopers Store.

ATTENTION PLEASE In order to communicate with all the parishioners and to keep you abreast of all the news and infor-mation during this time of uncertainty please join our “Flocknote Venue.” It’s very easy and the in-structions are explained in the box below. Once you are connected you will receive all news and information on your smart phone and computer email.

PLEASE let us know if anybody you know is seri-ously ill and needs the sacraments. Contact us calling the office 303-761-3940 or Fr. Basso 720-366-9212.

PLEASE, all those who normally make their dona-tion/tithe at the weekend masses if you could go to our website; www.stlouiscatholicparish.org/give and click on the donation tab and make your payments there. Thank you!!!

Leonard Fuchtman, longtime parishioner at St. Louis passed away on the 21st of April. His wife Agnes, will have a memorial Mass celebration said at St. Louis after the pandemic is over; watch the bulletin for de-tails. Please keep Agnes and the Fuchtman Family in your prayers. May Leonard rest in peace!