St. Catholic Parish & School Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time u August 9, 2020

“Peter got out of the boat and began to walk on the water toward Jesus.” Matthew 14:29

Saint Peter Attempting to Walk on Waterby François Boucher, 1766 SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020 pastor’s note

It has been a while since I can remember a week filled with as many notable whose lives and stories of faith, courage and virtue has been as powerful as this week’s assembly. We start off Monday with the who is the patron for deacons and a witness to speaking the truth of the faith in the face hatred and intolerance. St. Lawrence was a deacon in the Church of Rome in the mid-third century. He is the one who defiantly brought the poor, the lame and the blind to the Emperor, declaring that these were the riches of the Church. For this he was roasted on a gridiron. Let us give thanks for his witness and remember to pray in thanks for our deacons and their service to and witness of the faith.

Tuesday we remember a contemporary of St. Francis of Asissi, St. Clare. As a young eighteen year old, she renounced her wealth and all worldly comforts and started a community of women who witnessed their love of the Lord in the poverty and simplicity of their lives, lived in prayer and service of others. We are blessed to have a community of Capuchin Poor Clare’s here in Denver, who continue that witness of prayer and faithful devotion to the love of God. Pray for these and all women throughout the world who even to this day live that wonderful calling.

Wednesday we celebrate St. . A contemporary of St. in 17th century France, she was a wife and mother who, when she became a widow, dedicated her life to forming a community for women who were older or more infirm than most that entered religious communities at that time. Her community of Visitation nuns became so powerful a presence that there were eighty- five monasteries around Europe by the time of her death. As of 2014 there were around 50,000 nuns in this community present around the world.

Thursday remembers two martyrs from early third century Italy. Sts. Hippolytus and Pontian were both killed during the persecutions of Emperor Maximinus. An interesting fact about Hippolytus is that he was at one time an anti-pope but reconciled and is the only former anti-pope to die a martyr for the faith. He is also credited as having been an exceptional theologian who had a great impact on liturgical expression. In fact, the second Eucharistic prayer we use today is said to be based largely upon his influence and writings.

Friday’s saint is much more contemporary in the history of our Church. St. Maximillian Kolbe is the Franciscan priest who, although from Poland, worked at bringing the Marian movement to Japan as well as to much of eastern Europe. He was arrested in 1941 by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz. There he voluntarily gave his life to save the life of a fellow prisoner. His witness of courageous love and compassion is as important as his writings and devotion to our Blessed Mother, who is said to have appeared to him when he was ten years old.

And then on Saturday, we have the special Feast of the Assumption of our Blessed Mother. Normally a Holy Day of Obligation, the fact it falls on a Saturday, as well as the dispensation the Archbishop has given from Holy Days and Sunday obligations, means that this year’s celebration is not one of mandatory Mass attendance. Nonetheless, this is a very special day for us here at St. Thomas More parish. It was 27 years ago on this day that World Youth Day in Denver came to a close with the celebration of Mass at Cherry Creek State Park. Pope St. John Paul II was the main celebrant and people from around the world were present for the celebration.

An exceptionally large group from France was housed by many families here at St. Thomas More parish. And due to that connection, our pastor, Fr. Walsh, was able to convince the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger to bless the parish’s newest devotional setting, our Adoration Chapel. You can see a picture reflecting that blessed moment in the entry to the Adoration Chapel. And for well over a quarter century we have had a prayerful and committed presence of our faithful spending time in adoration of the Lord 24/7, 364 days of the year (no adoration on Good Fridays).

Just stop into our church during the week these days, where we have temporarily moved the Blessed Sacrament for spacing purposes, and you will see the power of the Lord’s drawing people to His presence in the Eucharist. Thanks to all who spend time with the Lord in this way, praying for yourselves, your loved ones and the whole Church. May God continue to bless us in this great devotion.

– Msgr. Tom

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Sunday, August 9: Thursday, August 13: Pray for our ill parish members & relatives: Nineteenth Sunday 6:30am Ave Maria & Vukoslav Aguirre, Brittsan, Kyle Davidson, in Ordinary Time Young † Sam Hambright, Vikki Johnston, Mallon, 7:00am Jane Davis † 9:00am Thomas McCoy † William McCarthy, Michael Moriarty, Kathleen Nett, 8:30am Charles Robert Friday, August 14: Thalken † Jeanne Rogers, Jim Rudy, Johanna Sanchez, 6:30am Donald Patrick Nikki Schroeder 10:30am Mass for the People of Stoeckel † Saint Thomas More 9:00am Betty Doyle † 12:30pm Jeffrey Sprague† Pray for our deceased parish members & relatives: 5:30pm Brian Ward † Saturday, August 15: John Corbisiero, Romeo De Real Elusorio, 7:30am Agnes Dechant † Monday, August 10: Catherine Fornnarino, John Gallagher, Carmen Houle 4:00pm Wolfgang Raue † Quin McVeigh, Mary Polsfoot, Christian Torres 6:30am Timothy Bauer † 5:30pm Dcn. Steve Stemper 9:00am Peggy Cropp Sunday, August 16: Due to the Privacy Act, only immediate family members may request Tuesday, August 11: Twentieth Sunday a name to be placed on the prayer list. Please call 303.770.1155. 6:30am The Montano Family in Ordinary Time 9:00am Lloyd & Dorothy 7:00am Mae Johnston Taylor, Jr † 8:30am Gary R. Chisholm † Wednesday, August 12: 10:30am Mass for the People of 6:30am Brenda Rastrelli Saint Thomas More & Family 12:30pm Allan Steinke † Reflections at Your Fingertips 9:00am Gertrude O'Keefe † 5:30pm Olivia Corpuz † Download our Our FREE parish app can give you easy parish app! access to daily readings, worship guide, reflections and more. Perpetual Adoration Download it today and be inspired!

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Enhance your Registration for children's Religious child's faith at home and in the Education classes and Restored Order parish! classes are open! Take advantage of the opportunities we have for your family and develop friendships in this supportive, collaborative community. We will be taking precautions during this time to insure everyone's health and safety.

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We invite you to join us for Mass Our website is stthomasmore.org. Livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube! Space is limited to 70 households in the Church Sunday Mass at 10:30am. and 40 in McCallin Hall.

Weekday Masses Masses are held on Saturdays at 4:00PM & 5:30PM Monday through Friday at 6:30am and Saturday at 7:30am and on Sundays at 7:00AM, 8:30AM, 10:30AM, 12:30PM & 5:30PM. To watch Mass on Facebook, go to facebook.com/ stthomasmorecatholicparish. For those who do not have access to a computer, please call 303.221.9144 on Monday mornings To watch Mass on YouTube, visit before noon. Leave your name, phone number, youtube.com/user/ STMCommunications. Mass time preference, number in your household attending and the number receiving Holy Communion. We will do our best to reserve a spot for you. Respect For All Life Please be considerate of your fellow parishioners "Always think of yourself as everyone's servant; look so that as many who want to attend are able to do for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all." so throughout the upcoming weeks. –St. Teresa of Avila

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We thank you for As businesses and churches continue to Our Church needs the Archbishop’s your generous support of our reopen, St. Thomas More still depends Catholic Appeal (ACA) more than ever. STM parish on online donations to support our family! ministry. Ministries are experiencing increased demand. We prayerfully invite you to sign up for eGiving from your computer, Parishes have had to find new and smartphone or tablet and set up a creative ways to connect and minister one-time gift or recurring donation. to their parishioners without the benefit of public masses and regular To enroll, visit faith.direct/CO739 or offertory. text the word ENROLL to 720.619.8959. To make a donation, please visit archden.org/givetoday. vocation our parish Traveling Chalice Praying for vocations this week: school The Wisniewski Family To sign up for one of the available weeks, contact Karen Smoody at [email protected]. Join Our School Family

STM Catholic Consider our wonderful parish school is a parochial school, deeply for your children's education! Celebrating an Anniversary rooted in the Gospel of Jesus In the spirit of Catholic tradition, STM Christ and the teaching of the Catholic brings the whole person to Audley & Janis Webster – 43 years . Jesus Christ and through excellence in education prepares our students to Happy anniversary! serve the Church and community now and in the future. If you would like your anniversary to be published, please email bulletin@ To learn more about our school for stthomasmore.org with your names, preschool through eighth grade anniversary date and the number of please visit stmcatholic.org or call years you will be celebrating. 303.770.0441.

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Middle School: Grades 6–8 High School: Grades 9–12

7:00pm – Boy Scouts Troop 770 Monday, August 10: 7:00pm – Boy Scouts Troop 770 Monday, August 10: 7:00pm – BYOT Camp Out Tuesday, August 11: 3:00pm – Zoom Bible Study Tuesday, August 11: 7:00pm – The UC (Grades 11–12) Thursday, August 13: 5:00pm – End of Summer ECHOFIRE Bash Wednesday, August 12: 7:00pm – Breakaway Zoom

High School UC BYOT Camp Out High School Upper Classmen are Come to a special Bring your own tent! All youth are invited to join us for a special weekly youth event on gathering! the fields! invited to join us for a camp out on the STM fields. Tuesdays at 7:00pm Middle School: Tuesday, August 11 to Questions? Email Cheyenne Secor at Wednesday, August 12 [email protected]. from 7:00pm to 9:00AM Cost is $10. Please bring your permission slip as well. High School Bible Study Questions? Please contactGreg Johnson at [email protected] Dive into the Discover the beauty of sacred scripture Gospel of St. Mark! with our High School Bible Study. We meet once a week on Zoom! Masks at Live Youth Events Tuesdays at 3:00pm For links to all of our Zoom meetings, Middle and high school youth have please email Cheyenne Secor at multiple opportunities each week to [email protected]. come together safely. Please bring a mask for inside activities. No masks are required for outside activities. Connect with Youth Ministry

Since it is public mandate, anytime we Phone: 303.220.3388 are inside we must require masks, and we sometimes have to move inside Website: stthomasmore.org/youth contingent on weather. This will be a Facebook: facebook.com/stmyouth standard through the fall. Instagram: @stmyouthcentennial If you have any questions contact Flocknote: flocknote.com/stmco Cheyenne Secor at cheyennes@ stthomasmore.org. & see the Youth Board in the Narthex!

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the world needs our comfort, forbearance, forgiveness — and our prayers

By Emily Stimpson Chapman now, however, we need more of the last four in our world. America’s pain has reached fever pitch. So has its fear, anger and We need more forbearance, confusion. more forgiveness, more comfort and more prayer. Months of lockdown and loss, followed by scenes of excessive For some of us, that goes against force by police, massive protests, type. We would prefer to be on wanton destruction, heated Twitter, telling everyone else conversations on everything from what they’re doing wrong. After face masks to race and a looming all, so much out there needs presidential election that will be correcting. If we don’t do it, who fun for no one, have infected us all. will?

Some of us would move to Italy if The answer? Lots of people. No we could. But we can’t. Because shortage exists of people, online Europe will no longer let us in. or in the real world, ready and willing to tell others how they How do you exist in a civil society should be thinking or acting. that has lost its civility? How do you even engage in conversations There is so much instructing, on Facebook without fear of admonishing and counseling doing more harm than good to going on today that it’s almost relationships you value? deafening. But precious few people are willing to just love I don’t have a clue. I’ve prayed. I’ve others in their pain, give others read. I’ve listened. And I haven’t the benefit of the doubt, let found a single foolproof answer. go of past wounds, and do the Too many people are walking The Conversion of St. Augustine by Fra Angelico, 1435 hard work of interceding for our around raw, bleeding and broken. broken world.

Others are so tightly wound, that one wrong word can cause That, however, is what we need most right now. That is how them to snap. No matter how hard we try, most of us are we heal and how we help others heal. So, how do we carry out going to do or say something to which someone else will take these spiritual acts of compassion? offense. To comfort the sorrowful starts with listening. We focus on the That’s not to say we’re totally without guidance, though. In other, not on ourselves. We don’t think about what we want the Church’s teachings on spiritual works of mercy, we can find to say; we simply hear what the other needs to say. And as we some help. listen, we don’t critique their pain; we enter into their pain with them. The spiritual works of mercy, like the corporal works of mercy, call Christians to imitate Jesus Christ by practicing justice and The sorrowful and grieving don’t need advice at the height compassion toward our neighbor. But while the corporal works of their suffering. They need to know they are not alone, of mercy focus on meeting our neighbors’ physical needs, the that someone sees them and loves them and will sit with spiritual works of mercy call us to tend to our neighbors’ souls. them when they hurt. A word of affirmation, a note of encouragement, an offer of prayer (or a bottle of wine) — all Through merciful acts of kindness, we can show others the can go a long way to bringing comfort to the sorrowful. compassion of Our Lord and lead them closer to him. To bear wrongs patiently requires us to assume the best about Traditionally, the Church teaches there are seven spiritual those who hurt us. It asks us to presume that the person works of mercy: to instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, who said or did the wrong, offensive or obnoxious thing was admonish sinners, bear wrongs patiently, forgive offenses perhaps trying to help us … or was acting out of ignorance … or willingly, comfort the afflicted and pray for the living and the is suffering themselves and acted out of their own pain. dead. In effect, it calls us to remember that we cannot see hearts All the spiritual works of mercy matter. All are important. Right or know minds and that we risk doing a grave injustice to

8 NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME someone when we leap to judgment. Because of that, when we bear wrongs patiently, we show ourselves mercy, too.

Along with giving others the benefit of the doubt, bearing wrongs patiently requires us to not return kind for kind: to not return insults for insults, offense for offense, or raised voices for raised voices. It is to obey Jesus’ injunction, “But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also …” (Matthew 5:39).

Lastly, bearing wrongs patiently calls us to not pity ourselves. When we are insulted, when we are attacked, when we are unjustly maligned, we should never see ourselves as an innocent victim. Because we’re not.

We’ve all done a thousand things wrong — made bad choices, said bad things, failed to do good things — and suffering through an injustice with patience and love is our chance to do penance for the injustices we’ve perpetuated against others.

Regardless of intent, though, hurts hurt. Wounds, however they’re inflicted, are real. They exist. We must respond to them somehow. And that’s where the spiritual work of forgiveness comes in. God asks us to forgive as we’ve been forgiven. And God always forgives, readily, freely and The Flagellation of Christ by Anton Mengs, 1769 absolutely. He also wants us to hold on to hurt and hate, forever feeling He doesn’t hold a grudge. He doesn’t nurse hurt feelings. He aggrieved, forever feeling the victim, forever feeling justified in doesn’t complain about what we’ve done to Him on Facebook. our bitterness and rage.

Instead, He pours out His mercy on us as soon as we approach. Prayer beats the devil back. It holds Him at bay. It binds Him Sooner, actually. and prevents His lies from reaching our ears and the ears of those for whom we pray. It also softens hearts and illuminates From the cross, God anticipated our requests for forgiveness. minds, forging chains of understanding. He didn’t wait for people to tell Him they were sorry before He died for them. He died for them — He died for us — while By prayer, wounds are healed. By prayer, relationships are we were still far from Him. God asks us to do the same, restored. By prayer, fears are driven out so peace can reign forgiving people who don’t deserve or want or even ask for our once more. forgiveness. In the weeks and months ahead, the world needs our comfort. That kind of forgiveness can take time. The deeper the wounds It needs our forbearance. It needs our forgiveness. And most of the harder it can be to extend mercy to others, asked for or all, it needs our prayers. not. But only those who can forgive can be forgiven. “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also Prayer makes the other spiritual works of mercy not only will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, fruitful, but possible. So, if the first three of these four neither will your Father forgive your trespasses” (Matthew discussed spiritual works of mercy are a struggle for you, start 6:14-15). with prayer, and ask God to let compassion, forbearance and forgiveness follow. Last but not least, we’re called to pray for the living and the dead. Make no mistake, we are in the midst of a spiritual To that prayer, God will never say no. battle. Fear, confusion, rage and chaos are the devil’s favorite children. He breeds them. He feeds them. He delights in them. He doesn’t want us to comfort the suffering, bear wrongs patiently or forgive those who hurt us.

He wants us to hurt the hurting. He wants us to take offense, Emily Stimpson Chapman, a wife, adoptive mother and author, wallow in self-pity and mercilessly judge those who think or writes from Pittsburgh. Originally published on Thursday, July 2 look differently from us. by National Catholic Register.

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