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‘Forgive your neighbor’s injustice; then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven.’

~ Sirach 27:30

Our Mission Statement

St. Francis Xavier is a -­Jesuit parish ignited by the Eucharist To Pray, Serve, Do Justice, and Love. Reminder: elcome! The Parish office is open 8:00 am W until Noon Monday thru Thursday We are delighted you are here. please note that Autumn will receive your calls remotely in the afternoon until 4:00 pm. Let us know if you Celebrating Sunday all the way home: or a loved one is in need of pastoral care. 542.0321 On the way home from Mass consider asking: When was the last time you forgave someone for hurting you? Have you recently asked for forgiveness?

Mass Scriptures for the Month of September, 2020

Saturday 9/12 1 Cor. 10:14-22 The Most Holy Name Ps. 116 of the Blessed Mary Luke 6:43-49 Sunday 9/13 Sir. 27:30-28:9 24th Sunday in OrdT. Ps. 103 Rom. 14:7-9 Matt. 18:21-35 Monday 9/14 Num. 21:4b-9 The Exaltation of Ps. 78 the Holy Cross Join us ! Phil. 2:6-11 John 3:13-17 Tuesday 9/15 1 Cor. 12:12-14 Our Lady of Sorrows Daily weekday Mass: 8:00 am Ps. 100 John 19:25-27 Weekend Liturgies: Wednesday 9/16 1 Cor. 12:31--13:13 Sts. Cornelius & Ps. 33 Luke 7:31-35 5:00 pm Saturday with 8:00 am, 10:00 am, & 6:00 pm Thursday 9/17 1 Cor. 15:1-11 St. Ps. 118 on Sunday (10:00 am will be live streamed) Luke 7:36-50 Friday 9/18 1 Cor. 15:12-20 Reconciliation: Ps. 17 Luke 8:1-3 Saturday 3:00 to 4:30 pm or by appointment Saturday 9/19 1 Cor. 15:35-37, 42-49 St. Januarius Ps. 56 Eucharistic Adoration: 9:00 – 3:00 pm Wednesdays, Luke 8:4-15 9:00 – 12:00 pm First Fridays

Prayers Mass Intentions for The Month of September, 2020 May --- Saturday 9/12 Ruth Tomlinson Sunday 9/13 Judy Spores Ron Smith, Belinda Nowatzke, Elvira Giuliani Agnes Gerra, and Larry Blazevich Gerald Sullivan receive His healing and consolation. Monday 9/14 Livia Mae Hughes* Tuesday 9/15 Tim Burger Wednesday 9/16 Jerry Sullivan Thursday 9/17 Helen Stoll* Friday 9/18 Jack McCoy Saturday 9/19 Jan & Rich Wherely* Sunday 9/20 Ron Cloninger James Giuliani For the People*

2 September 13, 2020

The 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time

A VIRTUAL, ONLINE RETROUVAILLE marriage help program starts Thursday evening, September A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal. 17th. This program is not group therapy and you will not be asked to share your problems with any- -Pat Conroy one else. The program (weekend and post weekend sessions) is led by people who have been through the In lieu of gathering together for the Parish Picnic, we are gathering recipes program themselves. They share their own stories of struggles and how they applied the program’s con- from parishioners! Food is love, so let’s make a cookbook filled with your cepts, values, and tools to begin overcoming those favorite recipes that you pour your love into every time you make them. issues. These experienced people, who have been Please visit the SFX Website or Facebook Page to find the link for the online there themselves, will lead you on your own journey recipe submission form. of healing and growth. For information please con- tact us at 406-761-4830 or register at www.helpour- Recipe submission deadline: October 18th, 2020 marriage.org. You can also submit recipe/food artwork from your children to the Parish Office or email to [email protected] Cover Photo/Artwork Contest Please submit a photograph or artwork depicting St. Francis Xavier Parish to [email protected] by October 4th, 2020. The top five entries will be put to vote on the SFX Facebook Page. Winner will receive a FREE cookbook! Cookbooks will be available at the end of November, price TBD.

Family Promise

We will be hosting Family Promise from October 11th - 18th. We will need meal providers to take dinners to the Family Promise Day Center and also VIRTUS Trained volunteers to stay at the parish center from 6:30 pm to 6:30 the next morning. During the Covid pandemic, there are emergency rules in place to keep contact at a very bare mini- mum. Please call Pam in the parish office for more information or sign using the white board in the west entrance. Thanks for helping out, especially in these challeng- ing times.

Collections for September 6, 2020 Will appear in our next bulletin due to early holiday submission. Thank you for your generous giving!

420 West Pine Street, Missoula MT, 59802 406.542.0321 sfxmissoula.org 3 Faith Doing Justice

Jon Sobrino, S.J. offers us a deeply personal and penetrating way to understand the kind of encounters we might seek if we are to deepen our commitments and clarify our vision: “…from the point of view of the poor we will see more and see more clearly than from any other position.” Our faith in Jesus calls us to encounter the poor, to listen to the excluded. We get a better look at EVERYTHING when we stand with the poor, where they are, on their terms. This is the way of truth and life. We have to stand somewhere. When we stand with the poor we are more likely to see it like it is - in truth, for life.

Jesus of Nazareth stood in the heat of midday at ’s well with a Samaritan woman (cite) and asked her for water in a moment of encounter which disrupted legally and culturally predicated manners of exclusion and segregation - not unlike the mid 20th-century sit-ins at ‘white-only’ lunch-counters.

St. Francis Xavier and the International Refugee Committee (IRC), Missoula have a long and close relationship. We share a Jesuit Volunteer each year who works part time for each organization. Numerous refugee families find community and faith formation at our parish, and the parish has supported housing efforts for them through our Lenten Donations and previously through the House. IRC is asking local friends of refugees like us for some support right now.

This weekend, we will be handing out informational postcards regarding the Guaranteed Refugee Admissions Ceiling Enhancement (GRACE) Act that will be voted on in October by Members of the Congress. Refugees and asylum seekers are a vulnerable population who need us to stand with them. The postcards will be stamped and ready to send to our legislators once they have been signed by you!

“The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin. Public authorities should see to it that the natural right is respected that places a guest under the protection of those who receive him.” Catholic , 2241.

ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE, Part 3

What the Church Says:

In the Encyclical Laudato Si, by Francis, from May of 2015 he puts to us in the introduction an “urgent challenge to protect our common home … to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change” and he invites us to an environmental assessment of climate change, water, loss of biodiversity, human life, & inequality. This year marked the 5th anniversary of the encyclical.

The Bishops add, “The continuing debate about how the United States is responding to questions and challenges surrounding global climate change is a test and an opportunity for our nation and the entire Catholic community.”

They further call for “a civil dialogue and prudent and constructive action to protect God’s precious gift of the earth’s atmosphere with a sense of genuine solidarity and justice for all God’s children.” 4 “Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight.” (Sirach 27:30)

For an Angelino, Montana can seem like an isolated place, far from those familiar city lights. Those same city lights, however, block those celestial lights much farther away, those heavenly guides that I haven’t seen in years when one lives overly populated communities. community, those sinners who refuse to listen. Last week the moral of the story was not so much about theLast person Sunday sinned the readings against, offered it was aboutan ancient the person church who model refuses on when to listen to isolate to the truth.difficult With people a remarkable from the we are invited to consider the radical posture of openness towards that unmovable sinner who needs the community’stwist, while the support end game more appears than anyone at first else glance in that to removecommunity. such What individuals an awesome from the responsibility. community, in fact

Let’s consider perspective for a moment. This Sunday’s focus is on the person refusing to forgive gener- ously. The irony is ripe. Last week we talked about the person who harms and who refuses to listen to the truth about his actions. This week we turn our attention to the person harmed and who refuses to listen about how compassion operates in the kingdom of God.

Both sides are guilty of not listening! Which one are you? Are you the one who doesn’t listen or the other one who doesn’t listen?

Take a good look at the cover of this week’s bulletin. What we see is a vicious battle between two sinners. Who’s right? Who’s wrong? One looks to be taunting his precious goods, a toy semi-truck and a nice juice

Incup. Sirach The otherwe hear points about the the finger sinner with who righteousness hugs tight to on wrath his side. and Can anger, you to see hateful yourself things. in this From picture? God’s per- spective, it is easy to imagine God looking down at both toddlers in the bulletin cover and sweeping them up to give them both one big-great-divine-hug.

The radical posture of our church today needs that kind of divine perspective. Sure, it’s irresponsible, it’s radical, it’s reckless, but it’s also the message of the kingdom’s radical compassion in today’s Sunday .

Fr. Victor Cancino, SJ

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