Cathedral Basilica of the 1535 Logan St. Denver, CO 80203 Telephone: 303-831-7010 - Fax: 303-831-9514 Website: www.denvercathedral.org Email: [email protected] Archdiocese of Denver Website: www.archden.org

. CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION DENVER, CO

ARCHBISHOP OF DENVER: Most Reverend Samuel J Aquila, STL SCHEDULE AUXILIARY BISHOP OF DENVER: Most Reverend Jorge Rodriguez WEEKDAY MASSES PASTOR AND RECTOR: Very Reverend Ronald W. Cattany : 7:00 AM, 12:10 PM, 5:30 PM PAROCHIAL VICAR: Reverend Michael Rapp, S.S.L. (Mondays at 3:00 PM 65+ Mass) IN RESIDENCE: Reverend Andreas Hoeck Saturday: 7:00AM DEACONS: Deacon Robert Finan, Deacon Robert Rinne, Anticipated Saturday: 4:30PM : 8:30AM, 10:30AM, 12:30PM, & 6:30PM and Deacon Charles Goldburg

DIRECTOR OF WORSHIP: John Brooks VISITING HOURS DIRECTOR OF SACRED MUSIC: Phil Bordeleau Weekday: 4:00—5:15pm, 6:15pm—7pm (except Tuesdays) PASTORAL ASSOCIATE: Brigid Demko Sunday: 1:30pm—2:30pm and 7:30pm—8:00pm RCIA COORDINATOR: Brett Manero Please call the office as special events or recordings may RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Luciane Urban require closing.

COORDINATOR OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH: Dave Martinez MANAGERS OF FINANCE AND ASSETS: Elizabeth Odum & Joe Cavaleri SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION (Confessions) ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: Linda Flores BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, AND RECTORY OPERATIONS: Monday-Friday 11:00am—12:00pm, Saturday 3 PM – 4 PM, Sunday 5:30—6:30pm Sebastian Luke Oliver Or by appointment, please call the office and wait for a MAINTENANCE AND GROUNDS: Jacob Carper confirmation call. You will need to wear a mask.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK BAPTISMS In the event of a serious illness or Parents and Godparents are required a medical emergency, call the to attend a class prior to baptism. office. Pre-registration is required. If no one HOMEBOUND MINISTRY pre-registers, there will be no class. Please contact the office. FUNERALS RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Please contact the office. Lu Urban MARRIAGES RCIA/RITE OF CHRISTIAN Call the office at least 9 months prior INITIATION OF ADULTS

to the wedding to book the date. Brett Manero

Cathedral Basilica Budget

Offertory Jan. 4—January 10, 2021 $6,999.05

Projected Total Deficit June 30, 2021: $446,000 Vandalism expenses and income loss to arson: $124,000

Please donate at www.denvercathedral.org

Other Weekend Donations Poor Box-SVDP $1,096.00 Food Pantry $227.00 Retirement Fund for Religious $126.00 in Latin America $30.00

Please Remember The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Your Will

. SACRED LITURGY Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Pray for Us

MASS INTENTIONS Don’t forget to Sign Up Sunday, January 24, 2020 8:30 AM Curt Kenderes † for Mass at 10:30 AM Preservation for the Ages donors 12:30 PM Yenchit Promboon † www.denvercathedral.org 6:30 PM Father Roland Freeman Monday, January 25, 2020 or call the Office at 7:00 AM Mike Clancy 12:10 PM Jerry Simon 303-831-7010 3:00 PM Jean Holmes 5:30 PM Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Tuesday, January 26, 2020 7:00 AM Mary McManus 12:10 PM Yenchit Promboon † 5:30 PM Tim Turley Wednesday, January 27, 2020 7:00 AM Mike & Mary Gownley 12:10 PM Linda Flores 5:30 PM Father Mike Rapp Thursday, January 28, 2020 7:00 AM Tom Demko 12:10 PM Sebastian Luke Oliver 5:30 PM David Lemoine † Friday, January 29, 2021 7:00 AM Bill Christensen 12:10 PM Yenchit Promboon † 5:30 PM Lauren Franklin Saturday, January 30, 2021 7:00 AM Betty DeSimone 4:30 PM Joseph Thomas Simon 2nd at 5:30 PM

BLESSING OF THE THROATS on the OF At all Masses on February 3rd!

The will look a little different this year. See next week’s bulletin for more information!

The office will mail tax statements soon, please let linda know if your address has changed. 303-831-7010

. In the Company of Pope Francis "Among the vulnerable for whom the church wishes to care with particular love and concern are unborn children, the most defenseless and innocent among us. Nowadays efforts are made to deny them their human dignity and to do with them whatev- er one pleases, taking their lives and passing laws preventing anyone from standing in the way of this…Precisely because this involves the internal con- sistency of our message about the value of the human person, the church cannot be expected to change her position on this question… It is not ‘progressive’ to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life…” -Pope Francis

FROM YOUR PASTOR Here I am Lord, I come to do your will... Psalm 40 is not a 3000-year-old prayer...it is the essence of Our Being today as Children of God. This is Respect Life Weekend in the Archdiocese of Denver. With the restrictions of COVID, there is no Rally -- here or in Washington DC -- but there are dozens of Respect Life Masses and Para- Liturgies throughout Northern Colorado. Archbishop Aquila has led the Masses and Rallies since my Ordination in 2013. Archbishop Chaput punctuated my Conversion to Pro-Life during my Discernment in 2009. That Conversion began as I sat as a Delegate to the County Convention in 2008 and listened to the Party Platform. My Spiritual Conversion had begun in Summer 2007. As does in those conversions, He broke through my Heart of Stone on this issue and opened my ears as I listened to the Platform that day...and I knew I had a problem. Six months later, during a Discernment Retreat, Archbishop Chaput was asked about Abortion. His response was im- mediate and direct...he said, 'Give me the baby, and I will find a home for the baby.' WOW! My Conversation was complete at that moment...my Atonement was yet to come! Eleven months later, in Seminary, I participated in my first of four National Marches for Life in Washington DC. It challenged me then to EXAMINE MY CONSCIENCE about MY PASSIVITY FOR 37 YEARS. It caused me to ask myself whether I was always an AUTHENTIC FRIEND when the concept of Abortion came up in discussions with friends or as part of a public policy discussion. Was I authentically vulnerable to the implications of such convictions if they affected my future career or perceived friendships with colleagues? Was I a Man of Courage, or a Man of Accommodation? The answer came in WHAT I SAW and WHAT I EXPERIENCED. The majority of those attending the two days were young people -- over 13,000 at the Vigil Mass at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, over 17,000 at the Youth Rally and Mass, and many times the permitted 50,000 – estimated at several hundred thousand -- who marched, sometimes in falling snow, to the steps of the Supreme Court. Why did the March end there? Because on January 21, 1973, every American had a Right to Life. And every American born since January 22, 1973 -- the next day – the day of the Roe v Wade decision by the Supreme Court, has been born without a Right to Life. Since then, there have been over 62 million abortions in the US. And, thanks to YOUR PRAYERS at Clinics and Liturgies around the Country, the rate is declining. How did I REACT to what I saw? Ultimately, it was one the reasons that I made a GENERAL CONFESSION after the second March and before my Transitional Deaconate Ordination. I realized WHAT I WAS NOT as a Christian and as a member of the Church. I HAD NOT BEEN AN AUTHEN- TIC FRIEND in Conversations about Abortion. I WAS NOT AUTHENTICALLY VULNERABLE to what God was asking me to do in WITNESSING MY FAITH…and telling the truth in respecting life. I had not come to do God’s will…I was living my will…I was not holy. I did not let God’s GRACE guide my actions…give me COURAGE…give me PEACE. So, HOW DO WE SUPPORT LIFE? We do it by RESPECTING GOD’S PLAN FOR EVERY HUMAN LIFE. We do it by NOT IMPOSING OUR WILL ON THAT LIFE. We do it by being an AUTHENTIC DISCIPLE AND WITNESS FOR THE DIGNITY OF ALL HUMAN LIFE – from con- ception to natural death. REMEMBER, NO LIFE IS AN ACCIDENT. GOD HAS A PLAN FOR EVERY LIFE...EVEN THE 62 MILLION ABORTED LIVES. So, how do we live this RESPECT LIFE MISSION? First, through AUTHENTIC FRIENDSHIP. If you know someone who is pregnant and has doubts, talk with them and pray for and with them. Support the Father of the baby who may just want a quick resolution to the inconvenient reality. And among the Married Couples you know, if they are unable to have children of their own, talk to them about Adoption...just as Archbishop Chaput advocated. Second, through AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY. As the Mystical Body of Christ, Church, and Community, WE ASSIST -- NOT JUDGE. We ensure that the needs of the Mother, especially if she is single, are provided...through St Vincent DePaul Societies, the Pantries, or other forms of Community Assistance such as Catholic Charities. And, if in pregnancy the child is anticipated to be a Special Needs Child, we work as a Parish Community to as- sist the parent/parents...food, errands, house chores, date nights...or just a loving ear to hear or shoulder to cry on...Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mer- cy become powerful tools to touch and shape lives. Authentic Love Endures -- through your support of their Pregnancy and their Parenthood. Third, THROUGH COMPASSION. Abortions are never FORGOTTEN. If a baby has been aborted, encourage the Mother or Father to name the ba- by…and Pray TO the Baby every day. There is NO HATE in the purity of THAT BABY’S HEART. There is NO HATE IN HEAVEN. That baby is now your intercessor with God...looking at the Face of God...the same Face you hope to see someday. These actions require YOUR VIRTUES OF COURAGE, HUMILITY, AND OBEDIENCE...Courage to assist, defend, and not judge...Humility to re- spond to the situation with a Servant's Heart...and Obedience to follow the Promptings of the Holy Spirit in guiding the Mother or Couple to accept the Gift of Life and assisting as a Community to raise the child. Here I am Lord, I come to do your will ..for OTHERS, for MYSELF, and FOR LIFE... +May God Bless You and Keep You+ Very Reverend Ronald W. Cattany

. COMMUNITY OUTREACH Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Pray for Us Monday-Friday we serve around 200-300 peo- JOIN OUR ple each day in our breakfast sandwich line, food pantry, soup and sandwich To-Go at St. FLOCKNOTE Elizabeth of Hungary’s and Snacks on the Hill. Stay up to date on important parish Please donate to help us keep these outreach announcements: ministries operational.

Text: cbic to 84576 Our St. Vin- Or Cathedralbasilica.flocknote.com cent de Paul Society helps ~12 households each month with rental and utility assistance.

Thank you for your gen- erosity.

Third Sunday in I’m willing to be proved wrong about this. I’m willing to look naïve and unsophisticated. Here it is: I believe the guy who says that storming the Capitol on January 6th was the biggest mistake of his life, and the other guy who said he deeply regretted that his actions brought shame to him and to his family. I believe them, even though, now arrested and having lost jobs and health insurance, contrition is the best lifeline available. I believe them because I have looked at my own past behaviors and been remorseful and embarrassed. That Assyrian capitol city is the ultimate inspiration for taking stock of our sins and repenting of them. Ninevah was the Las Vegas of its day. Corruption and vile behavior oozed through its pores. And THIS was the city God instructed Jonah to lecture to and convert! But here’s the jaw-dropping part: they listened to him. They honestly and objectively looked at their sins. They “believed God.” How on earth did a nation that had never heard of the One True God simply turn from their sins, proclaim a fast, cover themselves in sack- cloth and ashes, and then experience the mercy of God? What would it take for us, addicted to our online platforms, radio and tv news stations whose algorhythms are all primed to send us more of what we already believe, to step back and look at the sin in our own lives? I know, it’s way more delicious to marinate in the sins of others. But by doing that we lose the ability to humbly listen. O Master, grant that ALL OF US may not so much seek to be understood, as to understand. How will I dismantle my own assertions so that I can humbly listen? Kathy McGovern©2020 www.thestoryandyou.com

. PRAYER LISTS

Please pray for all those who are sick or in need of our prayers: Michael Boston, Lawrence Brooks, Douglas Campbell, Joann Coules, Andrew Emmer, Jeannie Harder, Ilse Hartman, Mallori Heeke, Andrea Helaine, Allie Kandt, John Krusinski, Lynn Lengyel, Kitty de Leon, Ethel Litzenberger, Dominic Martinez, Michelle Martino, Mitchell A. Moreno, Randy S. Moreno, Pam Pappas, Melanie Parker, Jean Pierre, Andrew Pink, Phil Scardova, Jodi Steward, Claude Stieha, A.J. Stiffler, Ana Tejada, Linda Winkler, Chloe Young, Sheila Oliver, Ronald Arnold, Bill & Kim Agnew, Christina Hertz, James M. Schmitt, Linda Basquez, Mary Figueroa, Shelley Carmosino, Susie Escareno, Ted Haner, Delfina Guzman, Mary Jo McHugh. Monique. Paul Nohara. Zachary Quick, Janet Robson, Juanita Driscoll, Sydney Brisbane, Marlene Bargas, Wener Hahn, Tami Vicars, Michael O. Machado, Joel Ray Asuncion, Patricia Capponi, Cliff Richard, Valeria Pacheco, Brady McHugh, Joseph Delaney, Margaret Harrison, Kimberly O’Brien, Father Daniel Sinn, Joe Ann O’Brien, Father MacEwen, Mr. & Mrs. Parish, Mary Ann Nightingale, Mike Lopez, Sheryl Ventura, George Martin Helfer, Alfred Deldon Sr., Brenda Garrett, Basil Summers, Tina Alvarez, Nancy Clark, Bill Johns, Befus Brown, Ellen Trujillo, Dustin Clark, Roger Amani, Cheryl Ventura, Sister Miriam McLean, Nancy Fox, Lauretta Proulex, Matthew Taylor, Holly Shess, Mary Jo McHugh, Rose Marie Bruno, Gabriella McHugh, Joe Anthony Gonzalez, Bob and Donna Cornell, Patricia Hivley, Walker Stevens, Melinda Montoya

Please pray for all those in our parish family who have died since Shelter in Place: Mike Farley, Jossie Eyre, Tina Martinez, Jerry Priddy, Lou Jahde, Jessie Mangers, Kara O’Connor, Joe Vitale, Deacon Anthony Dudzic, Billy Bruce, Kathleen Davis, Bob Roach, Sam Ochu, Scott Collier, Gerald Cucio, Fr. Joe Blanco, Josephine Malesich, Louisa Orduna, Maureen Rittenhause, Sammy Lopez, Randall Cook, Mike McBride, Peter James Chavez, Paul Bordeleau, Peter Chavez

SACRED MUSIC Saint Cecilia, Pray for Us

“Concerts at the Cathedral Basilica” January 31st at 3 PM Livestream Concert The Songs of : Music for the Presentation of the Lord

Emily Spirk: mezzo-Soprano Phil Bordeleau: Accompanist Works by Bach, Johannes Eccard, Kathryn Rose, Charles Griffen, Richard Shepherd, Christopher Upton, and traditional chants.

To watch this program, visit our website at www.denvercathedral.org/concerts

. YOUNG ADULT & YOUNG FAMILY MINISTRIES Blessed Pier Giorgio Frasatti , Pray for Us , Pray for Us

Welcome! We invite you to check out our SPORTS LEAGUES, YOUNG ADULT MEN’S and YOUNG ADULT WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDIES! Find us on Facebook at Cathedral Young Adult and Young Adult Families or feel free to contact our Young Adult Coordinator, Georgie Messing at [email protected]

The Search is an innovative video series that tackles the key questions of every human heart. In seven beautifully filmed episodes, Chris Stefanick and experts from multiple fields of science, medicine, psychology, art, and religion examine our place in the larger story of existence.

Whether you’re a practiced inquirer or a jad- ed skeptic, The Search will speak to you. You may be reassured by some parts, and chal- lenged by others. Either way, you’ll find a lot here to think about. And when all is said and done, life’s questions demand to be an- swered.

Chris Stefanick and Real Life Catholic have designed The Search to help you do those very things! This , Archbishop Aquila, along with several other bishops around the U.S., are themselves participating in an initiative to promote Catholics journeying through The Search together in small groups.

Throughout Lent, Chris Stefanick will be guiding participants on how to use The Search in their small group during his weekly show The Life You Were Made For. Each week, he will be joined by a bishop discussing an episode of The Search and sharing their conversion story. Our own Archbishop Aquila will be with Chris on the very first episode, February 18th. More details to come!

Find THE SEARCH on FORMED. The Cathedral Basilica is happy to offer a complete sub- scription for all our parishioners.

Simply go to www.formed.org/signup

CATHEDRAL NEWLY MARRIED and YOUNG ADULT FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN BIBLE STUDY

8-Session series will start January 27th Wednesdays from 8-9pm over ZOOM

Please email [email protected]

. JULIA GREELEY GUILD Servant of God, Julia Greeley, Pray for Us

Frankie Rachell-Bruce leads the Servant of God Julia Greeley Prayer and the Lita- ny of the at the January 1st Mass for Julia’s Canoe

JULIA GREELEY BOOK FOR SALE PRAYER THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF THE SERVANT OF GOD JULIA GREELEY Denver’s Model of Mercy The Julia Greeley Guild is selling the book Julia Greeley: Denver’s Angel of Charity, written and Heavenly Father, your servant Julia Greeley ded- icated her life to honoring the Sacred Heart of your son and to the humble service of the poor.

Grant me a generous heart like your Son’s, and if it be in accordance with your holy will, please grant this favor I now ask through Julia’s inter- cession. I pray this through Christ Our Lord. Amen.

-Archbishop Samuel J Aquila

JULIA’S CANOE During her life in Denver, Julia once responded to a illustrated by the 2018-2019 Annunciation request for prayers by saying, “I’ll put you in my ca- noe with everyone else that I pray for”. Catholic School 5th Grade Class, as a fundrais- Send your prayer intentions to [email protected] er. The cost of the book is $15.00, and monies We Pray for the Intentions in Julia’s Canoe during special raised will assist in the process of the Canoni- Masses scheduled: zation of Servant of God Julia Greeley. For ad- ditional information or to order a book, please Feb 5th @ 12:10 pm contact Mary Leisring at the Cathedral Basilica March 5th @ 5:30 pm 303-831-7010 or email mar- April 9th at 5:30 pm [email protected]. May 7th at 12:10 pm

. SPIRITUAL FORMATION Saint Philip Neri, Pray for Us

Saint of the Week QUO VADIS? St. Thomas Aquinas “Lord, Where you are you going?” These are the words that Peter spoke to Jesus when By universal consent, Thomas Aquinas is the preeminent Our Lord appeared to him on the Appian Way as Pe- spokesman of the Catholic tradition of reason and of divine ter fled persecution in Rome. revelation. He is one of the great teachers of the medieval , honored with the Jesus answered, titles Doctor of the Church and "I am going to Rome to be crucified again" Angelic Doctor. At five he was given to the Bene- As we each continue on our particular faith walk, dictine monastery at Monte Cassi- whether we are cradle Catholics or converts, prayer no in his parents’ hopes that he and sacraments are imperative to the vitality of our would choose that way of life and eventually became abbot. In 1239, Church. We come together to persevere in communi- he was sent to Naples to complete ty and education, prompted and sustained by grace. his studies. It was here that he was first attracted to Aristotle’s philos- Please join us on Wednesday evenings during our ophy. RCIA formation classes to learn about the most im- portant pillars of our faith and to give witness to By 1243, Thomas abandoned his family’s plans for him those becoming Catholic. and joined the Dominicans, much to his mother’s dismay. On her order, Thomas was captured by his brother and kept at home for over a year. WEDNESDAY NIGHTS at the Knights of Once free, he went to Paris and then to Cologne, where he Columbus at 16th and Grant finished his studies with Albert the Great. He held two pro- QUO VADIS 6:30 PM fessorships at Paris, lived at the court of Pope Urban IV, directed the Dominican schools at Rome and Viterbo, RCIA 7:15 PM combated adversaries of the mendicants, as well as the Av- erroists, and argued with some Franciscans about Aristote- lianism.

His greatest contribution to the Catholic Church is his writ- ings. The unity, harmony, and continuity of faith and rea- son, of revealed and natural human knowledge, pervades his writings. One might expect Thomas, as a man of the January 27th: The Eucharist gospel, to be an ardent defender of revealed truth. But he was broad enough, deep enough, to see the whole natural February 3rd: Walk through the Mass order as coming from God the Creator, and to see reason as February 10th: Penance and the a divine gift to be highly cherished. Anointing of the Sick The Summa Theologiae, his last and, unfortunately, un- completed work, deals with the whole of Catholic theolo- February 17th: Matrimony and Holy gy. He stopped work on it after celebrating Mass on De- Orders cember 6, 1273. When asked why he stopped writing, he replied, “I cannot go on…. All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.” He died March 7, 1274.

We can look to Thomas Aquinas as a towering example of Catholicism in the sense of broadness, universality, and inclusiveness. We should be determined anew to exercise the divine gift of reason in us, our power to know, learn, Picture: Church of Domine Quo Vadis in Rome and understand. At the same time we should thank God for the gift of his revelation, especially in Jesus Christ.

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