.. 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. 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. PASTOR Father José de Jesús García [email protected]PARISH STAFF Parish Secretary…………..……...…...…....Cathy Cancino [email protected]Business Manager…….……..………...Salvador Mendoza [email protected]Maintenance……………..……………...Jose Luis Valdez [email protected]School Principal...…...………….…....Carol Hovell-Genth . [email protected]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 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. “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.” His disciples recalled scripture, Zeal for your house will consume me.” John 2:13-25
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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.
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.
School Principal...…...………….…....Carol Hovell-Genth . [email protected] 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
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.
“Take these out of here, and stop making my
Father’s house a marketplace.”
His disciples recalled scripture,
Zeal for your house will consume me.”
John 2:13-25
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ST. JAMES CATHOLIC PARISH MARCH 4, 2018
Words from our Pastor
Brothers and Sisters:
We are temples of the Holy Spirit. Christ cleans-es the physical temple in Jerusalem of all that is not leading people to God. We ourselves must be cleansed of all that does not lead us to God.
The first reading today is from the Book of Exodus and gives us the commandments of the Lord. Knowing the commandments of the Lord and striv-ing to live in our lives these commandments is one of the way of being cleansed for God. We cannot achieve our own salvation but we can strive to cooperate with what God is asking of us and has asked of His People throughout the ages. The Book of Exodus makes it clear that God wants His People for Himself and is jealous in His love for us. This is a good jealousy that leads us to salvation and assures us that God is always there striving to love us and draw us to Himself.
Lent is a wonderful time to reflect on our own responses to God’s love. First we can always ask ourselves: Do I really believe that God loves me, just as I am right now? Do I believe that God is my ally in seeking to cleanse my life of all that impedes my relationship with God? Do I really trust the love of this God, who never wants to destroy me but who always wants me to be for Him?
The second reading is from the First Letter to the Corinthians. Saint Paul is clear that he proclaims Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gen-tiles. We can imagine how odd it must have sounded to people of the time of Saint Paul to say that a Savior had actually come and was crucified—but that the Crucified One was and is God! Even today people find it very difficult to believe that Jesus is Lord and God. We can think of a Eastern song that proclaims: Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life! That is the heart of our Christian proclamation. We must believe that Jesus is fully human and fully God, that Jesus lived among us, that Jesus was crucified for us—and, Jesus rose from the dead for us.
Over and over we return to the incredible Good News: Christ rose from the dead! Christ is risen! He died for us, but He rose for us as well, to show us that there is another life and that there is life after death
and that we are all invited to share in this Divine Life.
Today’s section of the Gospel of Saint John reflects on the cleansing of the temple and shows us Jesus telling those who doubt Him: “Destroy this temple and I shall raise it up in three days.” Those around Him did not understand until after the Resurrection. Jesus spoke to His followers and to others with clari-ty, even when they could not yet understand what He was saying.
Do we listen to the Lord? Can we believe His words? Lent prepares us to celebrate the death and resurrection of the Lord—when we have faith. Let us walk in the way of the Lord.
...Father Jesus
REMEMBER
ST. JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH & SCHOOL IN YOUR WILL!
WE WELCOME
Archbishop
Aquila
To St. James Parish
Thank you for all you do!
COME AND SPEND AN HOUR WITH ME!
Adoration Chapel hours: Noon to 10 p.m.—Mon. thru Thurs.
9:00 a.m.—all night to 6:00 a.m. Friday—thru Saturday
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THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT……………….……….....….…............................MARCH 4, 2018
From Audience with Pope Francis on February 14, 2018
We are continuing with the catechesis on the Mass. To what does listening to the Bible readings, which are elaborated upon in the homily, respond? It responds to a right: the spiritual right of the People of God to receive abundantly from the treasury of the Word of God (cf. General Introduction to the Lectionary, 45). When we go to Mass, each of us has the right to receive in abundance the Word of God read well, said well and then, explained well in the homily. It is a right!
And when the Word of God is not read well, not preached with fervor by the deacon, by the priest or by the bishop, then the faithful are deprived of a right. We have the right to hear the Word of God. The Lord speaks for everyone, Pastors and the faithful. He knocks at the heart of those who participate in the Mass, each one in his or her condition of life, age, situation. The Lord comforts, calls, brings forth sprouts of a new and reconciled life. And this is through his Word. His Word knocks at the heart and changes hearts!
Therefore, after the homily, a moment of silence allows the seed received to settle in the soul, so that intentions to heed what the Spirit has suggested to each person may sprout. Silence after the hom-ily. A good moment of silence must be observed there, and each one should ponder what he or she has heard.
After this silence, how does the Mass continue? The personal response of faith is integrated in the Church’s Profession of Faith, expressed in the Creed. We all recite the Creed in the Mass. Recited by
the entire assembly, the Symbolum manifests the common response to what is heard together from the Word of God (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 185-197). There is an essential nexus between listening and faith. They are linked. Indeed, this — faith — does not arise from human imagination, but, as Saint Paul recalls, “comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes by the preaching of Christ” (Rom 10:17). Thus, faith is nourished by what is heard and leads to the Sacrament. In this way, reciting the Creed enables the liturgical assembly to “call to mind and confess the great mysteries of the faith ... before these mysteries are celebrated in the Eucharist” (General Instruction of the Ro-man Missal, 67).
The Symbolum of Faith joins the Eucharist to Baptism, received “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”, and recalls that the Sacraments are understood in the light of the faith of the Church.
The response to the Word of God heard with faith is then expressed in the common petition, called the Universal Prayer, because it embraces the needs of the Church and of the world (cf. girm, 69-71; General Introduction to the Lec-tionary, 30-31).
The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council wished to restore this prayer after the Gospel and homily, especially on Sun-days and feast days, so that, with the participation of the people, “intercession will be made for holy Church, for the civil authorities, for those oppressed by various needs, for all mankind, and for the salvation of the entire world (Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium, 53; cf. 1 Tim 2:1-2). Therefore, under the guidance of the priest who introduces and concludes, the people, “exercising the office of their baptismal priesthood, offer prayers to God for the salvation of all” (girm, 69). And after the individual intentions, proposals by the deacon or a reader, the congre-gation joins its voice, invoking: “Hear us, Lord”.
Indeed, let us remember what the Lord Jesus told us: “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you” (Jn 15:7). “But we do not believe this, because we have little faith”. But if we had faith — Jesus says — like the mustard seed, we would have received all. “Ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you”. And in this mo-ment of universal prayer after the Creed, it is the time to ask the Lord for the most important things in the Mass, the things we need, what we want. “It shall be done for you”; in one way or another, but “it shall be done for you”. “All things are possible to him who believes”, the Lord said. What did that man respond, to whom the Lord had addressed these words — “all things are possible to him who be-lieves”? The man said: “I believe, Lord. Help my little faith”. We too can say: “Lord, I believe. But help my lack of faith”. And we must pray with this spirit of faith: “I believe, Lord; help my lack of faith”. Worldly demands, however, do not ascend toward heaven, just as self-referential requests remain unheard (cf. Jas 4:2-3). The intentions for which the faithful people are invited to pray must give voice to the concrete needs of the ecclesial community and of the world, avoid-ing recourse to conventional and short-sighted formulas. The “universal” prayer, which concludes the Liturgy of the Word, exhorts us to turn our gaze to God, who takes care of all his children.
Santiago Ochoa Aurelia DiazRudy AndreasMarty McNalley Jose Guadalupe DelgadoJohn Williams, Sr.Twigs Adela Hartmann Henry Chu George Shoemaker
Mike Delaney Keeley Knobbe
ST. JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH
For the Week of: March 5—, 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.
Visit: www.kofc12800.com
ST. JAMES OFFERTORY: February 24 & 25, 2018………..…..….…$ 5,189.84
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.
MARCH 4, 2018
ST. JAMES FOOD PANTRY EASTER DESERTS:
(Cake mixes, jello, pie mixes, etc.)
CRACKERS & POWDERED DRINK
Each Friday in Lent:
STATIONS
OF THE
CROSS
7:00 P.M. in the
Church
&
Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus
4:30 p.m.—to 7:00 p.m. In the Parish Hall
UNIVERSAL EDUCATION SUPPORTERS
UES invites you to an informational meeting at Bishop Machebeuf High School Tuesday, March 13, at 4:30 pm.
Food safety and alcohol certification training will be con-ducted immediately following. We will have Spanish speaking volunteers available. Family and friends are all welcome to attend any part of the meeting they prefer.
