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July 4, 2021 The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Parish Office Pastor 6673 West Chatfield Avenue • Littleton, CO 80128 Rev. John Paul Leyba www.sfcparish.org Parochial Vicars 303-979-7688 Parish Office Rev. Israel Gonsalves, O.C.D. Open: Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:00pm Rev. Ron Sequeira, O.C.D. (closed 12:00 noon-1:00pm daily) 303-979-7688 Voice mail access after 5:00pm 303-953-7777 Youth Office (Jr. & Sr. High, Young Adult) Deacons 303-972-8566 Fax Line Rev. Mr. Chet Ubowski 303-979-7688 SACRAMENTAL EMERGENCIES Rev. Mr. Marc Nestorick 24 hrs/day Rev. Mr. Brian Kerby St. Frances303-953-7770 Cabrini Weather/Emergency Hotline Rev. Mr. Spencer Thornber (for schedule changes due to inclement Rev. Mr. Paul Grimm (retired) weather/emergency situations) Rev. Mr. Witold Engel (retired) Welcome to Our Parish! We are glad you are here! If you are a visitor and would like to join our parish family, please pick up a registration form in the gathering space, visit the parish office during the week or you may visit our website to register. Sacramental Information Mass Schedule Infant Baptism: Please contact Deacon Chet at 303-953-7783. Weekend ... Saturday (Anticipatory) 4:15 pm; Sunday 7:15, 9:15, 11:15am & 5:15pm Marriage Preparation: Please contact Trudy at 303-953-7769 at Weekday .............. Monday-Friday 9:00 am; least 9-12 months prior to your wedding to make arrangements. Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. 6:30am RCIA: Interested in becoming Catholic or questions about the faith? First Saturday .............................. 10:00am Call Deacon Chet at 303-953-7783. Holy Day ............................. (Vigil) 5:30pm; (Day) 9:00am & 7:00pm Care of the Sick / Dying: Please call if someone is ill or hospitalized and would like the Sacrament for the Anointing of the Sick. In case of death, call the Parish Office immediately. Sacrament of Reconciliation Home Communion: Visits may be scheduled through the Parish Saturdays: 8-9:30am Office. Tuesdays: 6:30-7:30pm Our Parish Mission: To EMBRACE our Meditating on the Gospel Faith, to NOURISH our formation as The 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Catholics and to SERVE in a community It’s all so ordinary that we can easily miss it. The seagulls hunting and filled with the Holy Spirit.” diving for mollusks at the beach offer a display of determination and precision as they gather their food for the day. It’s simply what these Morning Rosary Returns creatures do. Yet, there’s a magical artfulness and skill to their work that Please join us every weekday morning, speaks volumes about the One who breathed life into their being. This is Monday - Friday, at 8:15am pretty much the way it is with God’s presence. God comes in common in the Church to pray the Rosary. ways through common things and ordinary people. Sadly, we are so The Rosary is being led by fellow engulfed in our little worlds of order and ideas to notice the beauty and wonder of it all. Many have numbed themselves to the Divine spark at parishioners. If you have never the essence of all life because that’s just the way it is. What’s so special prayed the Rosary as a group about it? A sunset is a sunset and a seagull is a seagull. That’s precisely before, this is a great opportunity what they thought about Jesus too. After all, isn’t he just the carpenter’s to come experience the joy of son? What merit can his words possibly have? praying together. All are welcome! If we’re looking for God to come in an event that is so dramatic and intense that it knocks our socks off, then think again. When pondering God’s relationship with His people and God’s action in our lives, we have to go back to the stable and the recurring, creative, unending power of God’s presence. It was a quiet, run of the mill kind of night. There was nothing spectacular or extraordinary. To the naked eye, a woman gave birth to a child and there wasn’t anything extraordinary to see. We have a hard time understanding God’s ordinary-ness. Jesus grew up in an ordinary town, had neighbors and did normal human things. Perhaps that’s why we don’t always like the Gospel. It doesn’t dazzle us with extraordinary things but simply challenges us to take a different look at our ordinary stuff. That makes us uncomfortable. We prefer things as they are. Our lack of faith can even cause us to take offense at what Jesus says and does, dismissing it as folly. God’s life-giving presence continues to sustain that seagull in flight and keep all things in being regardless of whether we have the faith to see and understand this. Our personal agendas, preconceived ideas, misconceptions, Faith Direct and expectations can often cause us to be hardened and blinded to what God St. Frances Cabrini Parish continues to is doing or desiring to do. While God continues to do what he has done for depend on your donations to continue our all eternity, faith is needed for God’s presence to bear fruit. The blinders we ministry. We prayerfully invite you to sign wear and the expectations we bring to life can up for eGiving from your computer, often prevent us from seeing graced moments smartphone or tablet and set up a recurring that radiate with God’s graceful presence. donation or make a one-time gift. They also prevent God’s transforming, Sign up today by visiting sfcparish.org/give healing, and hope filled vision for our world or text “enroll” to 720-713-3309. from being realized. Without faith, God won’t Thank you for your continued generous be able to do much for us either. ©LPi support of our parish family! St. Frances Cabrini 2 Littleton, Colorado SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS We Welcome Deacon Spencer Archbishop Aquila has assigned How Free Can We Be Deacon Spencer Thornber, one of the two men ordained to the permanent diaconate from our parish this year, to Freedom in America St. Frances Cabrini for ministry. We celebrate that Deacon Spencer can minister in his local and The Catholic Ethos parish. We are grateful for this assignment and we welcome our new Deacon in his new role as a A Presentation by Fr. John Paul, member of the clergy. Please congratulate Deacon Spencer when you meet him and a Few Squirrels, and a Guitar welcome him as part of the Cabrini clergy team. For those who are interested, Archbishop Aquila also assigned our other former parishioner, the Thursday July 8th, 6:30pm newly-ordained Deacon Michael Seback, to St. in the Parish Halls Mary parish in Littleton, for ministry. Office Closure: The Parish Office and Adoration Chapel will be closed on Monday, Dear God, we pray that you watch and protect July 5th in honor of Independence our country, the United States of America, one Day. Mass will be celebrated at nation under God. We pray that you keep us from 6:30am and 9am. harm, from evil forces who threaten the stability of love, peace, togetherness and wholeness as a Office Closures nation under your protection. The Parish Office will close at noon on We pray that you restore our country to pray for Fridays during the month of July. understanding, protection, kindness and love among all the people whose ancestors created this Garden Angels Wanted great nation and continue to live and believe that Our prayer gardens God is the overseer of us all as One Nation Under are in need of pruning, God! mulching and all-around - Written by Lu Liñan, the mother of a parishioner care. If you have extra “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish time and love to get your together as fools.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. hands in the dirt, please contact JoAnn at 303- 979-7688. If you would like information about upcoming funerals, you may click on the “Upcoming Funerals” box on the main page of our website, www.sfcparish.org. Denver Marian Conference: “Be Not Afraid” Knights of Columbus October 1st-3rd at Crowne Plaza Denver Airport All men of the Parish are invited to Convention Center join the Knights of Columbus at Speakers include Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, Fr. Chad Ripperger Cabrini. Please visit https:// FSSP, Fr. Timothy Gallagher, OMV, Susan Tassone and much more! www.kofc.org/secure/en/join/join- There is limited seating due to COVID restrictions, so reserve your seat the-knights.html to sign up. now at www.denvermarianconference.com. The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 3 July 4, 2021 OUTREACH & ASSISTANCE St. Maria Goretti Stuff the Bus - Feast Day July 6 July 31st/August 1st It is time to start looking ahead at “Stuffing the Bus!” Many office supplies and discount stores continue their back to school sales and it’s the perfect time to stock up with some great deals. We need pencils, mechanical pencils, washable Crayola markers, erasers, boxes of 24 crayons, glue sticks, white glue, pocket folders, ballpoint pens, red pens, 3-ring notebooks, composition books, 3 and 5 subject spirals, highlighters, sandwich bags, hand sanitizer and backpacks, to list just a few of the needed items. “He loves, He hopes, He waits. We will have the list up on the website and in the Our Lord prefers bulletin soon. to wait Himself for the sinner for years Annual Priest and Seminarian rather than keep us Appreciation Day waiting an instant.” Monday, August 23rd Priest and Seminarian Appreciation Day is happening!!!! Due to the Baby Bottle Boomerang tireless efforts by Karen M and her core team of volunteers thinking, Thank you to everyone who picked up a planning and re-organizing, they are making this event possible.