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Cyprian is important in the m remember our modesty and discipline, not to broadcast our development of Christian thought and practice in the prayers at the tops of our voices, nor to throw before God, third century, especially in with undisciplined long-windedness, a petition that would be northern Africa. better made with more modesty: for after all God does not listen to the voice but to the heart, and he who sees our Highly educated, a famous thoughts should not be pestered by our voices, as the Lord orator, he became a Chris- tian as an adult. He distrib- proves when he says: Why do you think evil in your hearts? – uted his goods to the poor, or again, All the churches shall know that it is I who test your and amazed his fellow motives and your thoughts. citizens by making a vow of chastity before his baptism. In the first book of the Kings, Hannah, who is a type of the Within two years he had been ordained a priest and Church, observes that she prays to God not with loud peti- was chosen, against his will, tions but silently and modestly within the very recesses of her as Bishop of Carthage. heart. She spoke with hidden prayer but with manifest faith. She spoke not with her voice but with her heart, because she Cyprian complained that knew that that is how God hears, and she received what she the peace the Church had enjoyed had weakened the sought because she asked for it with belief. The divine Scrip- spirit of many Christians ture asserts this when it says: She spoke in her heart, and her and had opened the door to lips moved, and her voice was not audible; and God listened converts who did not have to her. And we read in the Psalms: Speak in your hearts and in the true spirit of faith. your beds, and be pierced. Again, the Holy Spirit teaches the When the Decian persecu- tion began, many Christians same things through , saying: But it is in the heart easily abandoned the that you should be worshipped, O Lord. Church. It was their reinstatement that caused Beloved brethren, let the worshipper not forget how the pub- the great controversies of lican prayed with the Pharisee in the temple – not with his eyes the third century, and helped the Church progress boldly raised up to heaven, nor with hands held up in pride; in its understanding of the but beating his breast and confessing the sins within, he Sacrament of . implored the help of the divine mercy. While the Pharisee was pleased with himself, it was the publican who deserved to be sanctified, since he placed his hope of salvation not in his con- Patron of North Africa fidence of innocence – since no-one is innocent – but he prayed, humbly confessing his sins, and he who pardons the Read the full bio at humble heard his prayer. N FrancsicanMedia.org DAILY READINGS PARISH OFFICE DAY 1ST READING 2ND READING GOSPEL Location Sat 6/12     900 W. Midway Blvd Sun 6/13      Broomfield, CO 80020 Mon 6/14     Tues 6/15      Website: www.nool.us Wed 6/16      Thurs 6/17    Fri 6/18      Phone: (303) 469-5171 Sat 6/19     Sun 6/20       Office Hours: Monday - Friday PARISH TIMES SUMMER TIMES 8:00am-9:00pm

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MASS INTENTIONS (Wednesday continued) Saturday, June 19 9:30 Oliver Francis Wilk 9:30 † Paul Rask Saturday, June 12 Monday, June 14 by The Wilk Family by Maria Rask 9:30 Ketchel 7:00 † James Jones 4:30 † Gilles Brouillard by Grandma by The Dean Family Thursday, June 17 by The Sermak Family and Pop Pops 9:30 † Elizabeth Novak 7:00 Tad and Mary Artis, 4:30 † Elizabeth Novak by The Coffman Family 25th Anniversary Sunday, June 20 by The Ondish Family by Tad Artis 8:00 Jayme Seufert Tuesday, June 15 9:30 Iveta Andrasova by The Wilk Family Sunday, June 13 7:00 † Elizabeth Novak by Hilda Fejka 9:30 People of the Parish 8:00 † Elizabeth Novak by Maryann Reyes 11:30 † Elizabeth Novak by Susan and 9:30 Luke Ketchel Friday, June 18 by Hans and Mike Walker by Grandma 7:00 Carrie Kudrna Wendy Fiedler 9:30 People of the Parish and Pop Pops by Joan Bridges 5:00 † Anita Eckert 11:30 † Jack Blackstock 9:30 † Alice Hammerlee by Allen Kassik by The Family Wednesday, June 16 by Bruce Hammerlee and Ligia Villegas 5:00 † Elizabeth Novak 7:00 Sarah Ketchel by The Coffman by Jacquie and Ryan Family

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COLLECTION COUNTERS NEEDED! PASTORAL COUNCIL NOMINATIONS Mondays | Morning Shift or Afternoon Shift Nominiations in Progress | June 6 — June 20 Our accounting department is in need of men and women ONE MORE WEEK! For one more week you can nomi- to volunteer a few hours a week on Mondays to count the nate parishioners for election to the parish Pastoral Council weekend collections. We meet Mondays to count during for the two seats that have opened up. The Parish Council two shifts in the morning or afternoon. If you are interested is a consultative council which aids the pastor in under- in volunteering, please reach out by email or phone to standing and addressing the pastoral needs of the parish Suzie Sloan, [email protected] or 303-469-5171 ext. 140. community. It meets a minimum of five times a year, but more frequently when there are specific issues. Any member in good standing at Nativity is eligible.

How to nominate: Simply write the name of the person USHERS NEEDED you would like to nominate on the provided card without We are looking for volunteers to serve as Ushers at Nativity further comment or your own name. The box to put it in will of Our Lord. Ushers are needed for every Mass time. We be on the countertop in the foyer. are looking for regular ushers (committed to serving each Sunday) as well as substitute ushers. Experience is not VOLUNTEERS FOR SOUND BOOTH necessary since we will be conducting training for all ushers in the coming weeks. If you are interested in serving the We are in need of several technically minded volunteers Parish in this capacity, please send your name, contact info, who would be interested in serving the Church's ministry and your preferred Mass time to Paul Fabian at from behind the soundboard. Spots are available for most 720-323-8456 or [email protected]. If you are weekend masses; training to be provided. If you are inter- currently serving as an usher, please send Paul your contact ested contact Brandon Clark at [email protected]. information as well. COFFEE AND DONUTS SACRED RELICS OF THE SAINTS: We have reintroduced coee and donuts following the 8:00am and 9:30am and 11:30am Sunday Masses. We are TREASURES OF THE CHURCH looking for volunteers to help us serve donuts—no experi- ence necessary. If you are interested, please contact Friday, July 9 | 6:30pm Main Church / Cabrini Hall Merrilyn at [email protected]. Featured on page 5. TOTUS TUUS EVENING PROGRAM Nativity of Our Lord Parish presents a teaching and expo- sition of Sacred Relics on Friday, July 9 at 6:30 pm. Father Sunday, June 27 — Thursday, July 1 | Cabrini Hall Carlos Martins of the Companions of the Cross will be here with an extraordinary Vatican collection of over 150 YOUTH NIGHT PROGRAM REGISTRATION OPEN relics, some as old as 2000 years. Among the treasures will be relics of St. , St. , St. Therese of Our pre-registration for the young adult night program is Lisieux, St. , St. , St. currently open for incoming seventh through twelveth and St. . There will graders. also be a portion of the Veil of Our Lady and one of the largest remaining pieces of the True Cross in the world. You can find more information and register online at: Those in attendance will be able to examine and venerate https//www.nool.us/totus-tuus each relic. Throughout history, many healings have been worked in the presence of relics; and thousands have been For questions, reach out to the Faith Alive team, occasioned through this ministry. Do not miss this oppor- tunity. You are encouraged to bring your articles of devo- Mark Thomason tion (such as rosaries, holy cards, etc.) and pictures of ill [email protected] | ext. 104 friends/family members, which you will be able to touch to the reliquaries as a means of intercession. Diane Irby [email protected] | ext. 103 Tricia Fankell [email protected] | ext. 103 6 N IN THE PARISH

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Amit, Liliana, Joseph, Liam, Nicolad, Are you, or someone you know, going through a dicult and Shivani time? Our Stephen Ministers have been trained to follow Jesus’ model as a listener, spending a great deal of time learning and practicing these skills because of their impor- David, Jennifer, Cullen and tance as a caregiving tool. These, along with other essential Finley caregiver skills, are why Nativity's Stephen Ministry is able to oer you a very confidential relationship with someone who Paul, Lucia, Giacomo, and will listen with compassion and provide nonjudgmental care Maddalena and encouragement during your time of need. Your Stephen Ministers are equipped, ready, and waiting to Mitch provide the comfort and care God very much desires you to have! Chris, Katie, Benjamin and Miranda Please contact Stephen Ministry via our confidential email, [email protected] or leave a message on our confi- dential helpline, 303-469-5171 ext. 113. Brian and Casey

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Nativity: Faith & Reason School has two part-time sta openings for this fall for a lower-grade Spanish teacher and a school receptionist. Upcoming Feasts The mission at Nativity states that: We are a family of St. John Fischer and Tuesday, June 22 learners in the Catholic tradition, partnering with parents to Nativity of Thursday, June 24 build a community of faith and academic excellence. Our St. , Bishop and Martyr Monday, June 28 mission is to form saints and scholars who impact our world Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles Tuesday, June 29 with gospel values. The First Martyrs of Rome Wednesday, June 30 St. Thomas, Apostle Saturday, July 3 If you feel that the Lord is calling you to our mission, and Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati Sunday, July 4 are interested in discussing the details of either position, we St. Maria Goretti, and Martyr Tuesday, July 6 would be happy to speak to you. Please contact the school principal, Holly Peterson, at [email protected].

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THE HOPE CORNER: A MENTAL ST. VINCENT DE PAUL HEALTH MINISTRY We Need Your Help May: Mental Health Awareness Month “Each of you knows that the foundation of our faith is charity. By Becky Kusick, MA, LPC Without it our religion would crumble. We will never be truly Catholic unless we conform our entire lives to the two Across the world in the month of May, we unite for Mental commandments that are the essence of the Catholic faith: to Health Awareness Month. May is an opportunity to raise love the Lord, our God, with all our strength, and to love our awareness of mental health, take part in sharing information, neighbor as ourselves.” —Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati resources and support for mental health conditions. This May, due to the pandemic and unrest of 2020, it’s also a time Being a Vincentian is one of the most practical ways of to focus on our resilience and all we have overcome. Mental conforming our lives to the two great commandments. Health America is oering a free Toolkit that provides Charitable works are what Vincentians do. We are very practical tools to improve mental health and resiliency. Some grateful for the charitable support you provide us. It permits of the topics in The Toolkit include information on adapting us to carry out this great work. after stress and trauma, dealing with anger and frustration, taking time for yourself, and self-care. It also includes One of these tasks of being an SVdP volunteer is being a resources, tips, handouts, podcasts, worksheets and mental visitor. When we set up an appointment to hear a person’s story we have two Vincentians sit down with the person in health screenings. For all of this free information, visit: order to gather information and decide if we can help. These https://mhanational.org/mental-health-month-2021-tool- volunteers are called visitors. We need more volunteers to kit-download help with this aspect of our ministry. Crisis Lines: The primary requirements to be a visitor are having a desire to help others and being a good listener. If you’d like to help If you or anyone you know is experiencing a mental health with this task or even if you’d just like to learn more about crisis, please call Colorado Crisis Services at 844-493-8255 what we do, please come to our next meeting on Monday, or text “TALK” to 38255 or call any of the following crisis June 14 at 6:30pm at the church. lines: Please join our Flocknote for up-to-date information and Metro Crisis Service 888-885-1222 changes to our meeting times! Emergency Psychiatric Service 303-447-1665 Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 1-800-273-TALK (8255), Text https://nool.flocknote.com/svdp HELLO to 7417, www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/ Veterans Helpline 1-800-273-TALK National Crisis Text Line, text “home” to 741741 Substance Abuse and Addiction Hotline 1-800-662-HELP (4357) The Hope Corner is a free mental health ministry commit- ted to instilling hope and reducing stigma. Please contact MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER The Hope Corner with any questions or comments. If you or a family member are in need of a referral, information or Is your marriage bearing great fruit? Find out how to have a community-based resources, contact: Becky Kusick, MA, fruitful marriage. Sign up today for the next Worldwide LPC at, [email protected] or 303-907-6499. If Marriage Encounter Weekend. you are having a mental health crisis, please call Colorado Crisis Services at 844-493-8255 or text “TALK” to 38255. This Weekend: Virtual Worldwide Marriage Encounter Space is limited, so reserve your weekend early. June 11-13

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IN THE CLASSROOM SUMMER HOURS STRONGER TOGETHER MONDAY-THURSDAY FRIDAY To our Nativity school and parish community: 9:00am - 12:00pm Closed It's hard to believe that this school year has come to a close. After 185 days of in-person School Phone: 303-466-4177 learning, the summer promises to bring adven- ture and relaxation. We could not have made it through this year without all of you and your If no one picks up in the school, please strong partnerships. We really are stronger leave a message or call the parish front together. desk at (303) 469-5171.

BISHOP BARRON’S WORD ON FIRE CALL FOR SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS Take your kids (or grandkids) on an Are you or someone you know looking for a adventure through history this substitute teaching gig next school year? Nativi- summer! ty: Faith & Reason is looking for subs! We'd love to have you join our family of learners and lead- In this popular new book from the ers, helping us to carry out our mission of forming Daughters of Saint Paul and the saints and scholars. Word on Fire Institute, they’ll meet faith-filled pioneers in every field Please contact our assistant principal, from biology to astrophysics. Lissette Gutierrez, for more information at, [email protected]. Preview the book and purchase it online at the following link: Brilliant! 25 Catholic Scientists, 9 https://bit.ly/3uMMrX7 Mathematicians, and Supersmart N9 People Homily of His Holiness Francis A LETTER FROM OUR

Jesus sends his disciples to prepare the Father Primo Mazzolari said of that person: place where they will celebrate the Passover “Here is a nameless man, the owner of a Corpus Christi Sunday meal. They themselves had asked: “Where house, who lent Jesus his finest room… He 6 June 2021 do you want us to go and make the prepara- gave Jesus the best he had, because every- tions for you to eat the Passover?” (Mk thing surrounding the great sacrament should 14:12). As we contemplate and worship the be great: a great room and a great heart, Lord’s presence in the Eucharistic Bread, we great words and great deeds” (La Pasqua, La POPE FRANCIS too should ask where, in what “place”, we Locusta 1964, 46-48). A large room for a tiny want to prepare the Lord’s Passover. What piece of Bread. God makes himself tiny, like a are the “places” in our own lives that God is morsel of bread. That is precisely why we asking to be our guest? I would like to need a great heart to be able to recognize, answer these questions by reflecting on adore and receive him. God’s presence is so three images from the Gospel we just heard humble, hidden and often unseen that, in (Mk 14:12-16, 22-26). order to recognize his presence, we need a heart that is ready, alert and welcoming. But if The first is that of the man carrying a pitcher our heart, rather than a large room, is more of water (cf. v. 13). This might seem like a like a closet where we wistfully keep things superfluous detail. Yet that nameless man from the past, or an attic where we long ago became the guide who would bring the stored our dreams and enthusiasm, or a disciples to the place later known as the dreary chamber filled only with us, our prob- Upper Room. The pitcher of water is the sign lems and our disappointments, then it will be by which they recognize him. It is a sign that impossible to recognize God’s silent and makes us think of our human family, a thirst, unassuming presence. We need a large room. constantly seeking a source of water to We need to enlarge our hearts. We need to slake its thirst and to bring refreshment. All break out of our tiny self-enclosed space and of us walk through life with pitcher in hand: enter the large room, the vast expanse of Bread unless we share the all of us thirst for love, for joy, for a fulfilling wonder and adoration. That is what we really sufferings of our brothers and life in a more humane world. To sate this need! It is what is missing in the many move- sisters in need. In the end, and thirst, the water of worldly things is of no ments we create to meet and reflect together the end of our solemn Eucha- avail. For ours is a deeper thirst, a thirst that on our pastoral outreach. But if wonder and ristic liturgies as well, only love God alone can satisfy. adoration are lacking, there is no road that will remain. Even now, our leads to the Lord. Nor will there be the synod, Eucharistic celebrations are Let us briefly consider this image and what nothing. Adoration: that is the attitude we transforming the world to the it symbolizes. Jesus tells his disciples that need in the presence of the Eucharist. The extent that we are allowing the Passover meal can be eaten wherever a Church too must be a large room. Not a small ourselves to be transformed man carrying a pitcher of water leads them. and closed circle, but a community with arms and to become bread broken To celebrate the Eucharist, we need first to wide open, welcoming to all. Let us ask for others. recognize our thirst for God, to sense our ourselves this question: when someone need for him, to long for his presence and approaches who is hurting, who has made a Brothers and sisters, today love, to realize that we cannot go it alone, mistake, who has gone astray in life, is the where should we go “to but need the Food and Drink of eternal life Church, this Church, a room large enough to prepare the Lord’s supper”? to sustain us on our journey. The tragedy of welcome this person and lead him or her to The procession with the Bless- the present time – we can say – is that this the joy of an encounter with Christ? Let us ed Sacrament – a hallmark of thirst is felt less and less. Questions about not forget that the Eucharist is meant to the feast of Corpus Domini, God are no longer asked, desire for God has nourish those who are weary and hungry yet one that for the moment faded, seekers of God have become increas- along the way. A Church of the pure and we cannot celebrate – reminds ingly rare. God no longer attracts us perfect is a room with no place for anyone. On us that we are called to go out because we no longer acknowledge our the other hand, a Church with open doors, and bring Jesus to others. To deep thirst for him. Yet wherever there is a that gathers and celebrates around Christ, is go out with enthusiasm, bring- man or a woman with a pitcher for water – a large room where everyone – everyone, the ing Christ to those we meet in like the Samaritan woman (cf. Jn 4:5-30)– righteous and sinners – can enter. our daily lives. May we there the Lord can reveal himself as the One become a Church with pitcher who bestows new life, nurtures our dreams A third image from the Gospel is that of Jesus in hand, a Church that reawak- and aspirations with sure hope, a loving breaking the bread. This is the Eucharistic ens thirst and brings water. presence to give meaning and direction to gesture par excellence. It is the distinctive Let us open wide our hearts in our earthly pilgrimage. The man carrying a sign of our faith and the place where we love, so that we can become pitcher of water led the disciples to the encounter the Lord who offers himself so that the large and welcoming room room where Jesus would institute the we can be reborn to new life. This gesture where everyone can enter and Eucharist. Our thirst for God brings us to the also challenges us. Up to that point, lambs meet the Lord. Let us break altar. Where that thirst is lacking, our were sacrificed and offered to God. Now the bread of our lives in celebrations become dry and lifeless. As Jesus becomes the lamb, offering himself in compassion and solidarity, so Church, it is not enough that the usual little sacrifice in order to give us life. In the Eucha- that through us the world may group meets to celebrate the Eucharist; we rist, we contemplate and worship the God of see the grandeur of God’s need to go out into the city, to encounter love. The Lord who breaks no one, yet allows love. Then the Lord will come, people and to learn how to recognize and himself to be broken. The Lord who does not he will surprise us once more, revive their thirst for God and their desire for demand sacrifices, but sacrifices himself. The he will again become food for the Gospel. Lord who asks nothing but gives everything. the life of the world. And he In celebrating and experiencing the Eucharist, will satisfy us always, until the The second image from the Gospel is that of we too are called to share in this love. For we day when, at the heavenly the Upper Room (cf. v. 15). This room where cannot break bread on Sunday if our hearts banquet, we will contemplate Jesus and his disciples would celebrate the are closed to our brothers and sisters. We his face and come to know the Passover meal was located in the house of cannot partake of that Bread if we do not give joy that has no end. someone who offered them hospitality. bread to the hungry. We cannot share that Emily Perrotto, Realtor 14697 Delaware Street, Suite 1200 | Broomfield, CO 80023 (303) 920-9202 | Office (561) 914-1855 | Direct [email protected] Your Nativity Realtor! Proud Nativity Parishioner and Parent $150 will be donated to Nativity upon closing transactions from parishioners

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