S T. I GNATIUS L OYOLA CATHOLIC CHURCH Colorado’s Only Jesuit Parish - Warm and Welcoming “Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me.” —St. Ignatius of Loyola
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Church Office 2309 Gaylord Street Denver, CO 80205
Monday: 8:00 AM - 2:30 PM Tuesday to Friday: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Phone: 303-322-8042 Fax: 303-322-2927
Pastor Fr. Dirk Dunfee, SJ 303-322-8042 x107 [email protected]
Associate Pastor Fr. Jonathan Harmon, SJ 303-322-8042 x 106 [email protected]
Office Manager MASS SCHEDULE Kathy Murzyn Saturday Vigil 5:00 PM 303-322-8042 x101 Sunday 7:30 AM & 10:00 AM [email protected] Monday - Friday 7:00 AM Business Manager Holy Days of Obligation 7:00 AM & 7:00 PM Patty Klopfenstein (unless otherwise indicated) 303-322-8042 x105 [email protected] SACRAMENTS Director of Music & Liturgy Reconciliation Saturday 4:15 PM & by appt. Suzie Wooldridge Anointing of the Sick 1st Sunday of month after 303-322-8042 x103 [email protected] 7:30 AM Mass & by appt. Baptism & Matrimony Contact office manager Ignatian Spirituality Program (ISP) Director Joe Lagan 303-320-9995 OTHER MINISTRIES [email protected] St. Vincent DePaul Society Young Adults Group Hotline for assistance Sarah Moss & Sydney Stulock Ignatian Volunt. Corps (IVC) Den. Reg. Dir. 303-955-2578 [email protected] Erin Benson 303-394-2997 Religious Education for Children Rite of Christian Init. for Adults (RCIA) [email protected] Toni Armstead Margaret Wright [email protected] [email protected] 303-283-8995 720-863-8429 25TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SEPTEMBER 22, 2019
Offertory September 14 & 15, 2019 Church should comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Offertory...... $5181.35 It’s not that the Gospel is deliberately provocative, but the fact Children’s Offertory…...... $62.30 remains that God’s ways are not our ways. If you get involved Building Fund……………………………………..……$15.00 with God, you’re going to find yourself at odds with the ways of Fr. Brady Fund for the Poor……………………………$20.00 the world. And – to quote John Wayne, saying something that people were saying long before Marion Robert Morrison became John Wayne – “that’s about the size of it.” Pilgrim. September has become the month in which a number of CALENDAR denominations consider and pray for the Earth. To that end KNIGHTS OF PETER CLAVER BREAKFAST: In Brady (BTW, September ends at midnight on September 30), this Hall after both Sunday Masses. $6 for adults; $4 for children. weekend we’re devoting our liturgies to our Common Home. ROSARY: Today at 9 am at Mary’s Altar. We’ll especially be talking about climate change – the defining CHILDREN’S CHURCH: Today at 10 am in the Gesu Rm. issue problem (my dear friend the eminent Jesuit scholar Steve RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Classes today at 11:30 in the Schoenig hates it when I say issue but mean problem ) of our time. school/convent/Family Center. Need a warm up? ( Warm up ? Get it? Climate change?) WOMEN’S CLUB: Meeting today at 11:30 in the Gesu Rm. In thinking about the issue problem, here’s what can be said with A JOURNEY THROUGH THE BIBLE: Monday, some authority: September 23, 6:30 pm in Brady Hall. • This is God’s world RCIA: Monday, September 23, 7 pm at Curé d’Ars Church. • Everything is connected to everything else LOYOLA FALL LECTURE SERIES : Thursday, • Climate change is both an environmental and a September 26, 6:30 pm in Brady Hall. social crisis LITURGICAL MINISTERS WORKSHOP: Saturday, • Every creature gives glory to God in its own September 28, 9 am to noon. See next page for details. way ELECTRONIC RECYCLE: Saturday, September 28, 11 am • Every creature has its own relationship with its to 2 pm in the church parking lot. See below for details. Creator • Our relationships with God are reflected in our relationships with the rest of creation • We’re in trouble, climate deniers in high We thank "Plants by Southwest Gardens,” (41st & Harlan) places to the contrary for providing the plants used for our environment this • We have no time to waste weekend to help us celebrate Care for Creation month. • We can do this We’re all aware, I’m sure, that in 2015 Pope Francis issued his encyclical letter Laudato Sì , or On Care for Our ELECTRONICS RECYCLING DAY Common Home . We’ll be talking again about the encyclical this This Saturday weekend. In it our Holy Father echoes God’s call for worldwide The Care for Our Common Home Ministry has arranged this conversion. We humans are indeed being called to an event in the church parking lot this Saturday, September 28 unprecedented (and quite holy, actually) effort on behalf of the from 11 am to 2 pm. Almost anything with a cord or battery Earth and her creatures, including ourselves. Big task. Huge task. can be recycled! Some items are free to recycle; there is a Mammoth task. Absolutely no reason not to be hopeful. Stay small fee for other items. Donations are also appreciated. See tuned! the north and east bulletin boards for items and their fees. On a somewhat related topic, please mark your Please do not bring: refrigerators, air conditioners, batteries, calendars for October 5, Saturday, from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. light bulbs, oil, gas or hazardous waste. That’s when we’ll hold our annual Blessing of the Animals to honor St. Francis of Assisi. We’ll be in the parking lot just outside the north doors to the church. A certain pastor is again hoping to bless a horse – rhinoceros, elephant, moose, hippopotamus, camel, condor, dromedary, bison – or other Notes from Fr. Dirk LARGE animal, but no matter: all God’s creatures, large and “A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a small, are welcome! So go ahead and bring those pet planaria! gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of God that does Treats for all. Please note that for the safety and comfort of all it not get under anyone’s skin or a word of God that does not touch is recommended that Tasmanian Devils be muzzled. the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed: what God is love. You are loved . That’s about the size of it. kind of gospel is that?” Pilgrim. St. Oscar Romero
So , has the Church gotten under your skin lately? For the right reasons? (I hope so.) If so, you’ve been paying attention. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION WANTS YOUR FEEDBACK! Now a rhetorical question. “But,” you ask, and quite Please visit https://forms.gle/sUa3P4g6LZHakvu69 to fill out a reasonably, “shouldn’t the Gospel be comforting?” Now a quick survey about religious education at St. Ignatius Loyola. rhetorical answer. “Yes.” Works two ways. As they say, the You can also pick up paper surveys from Miss Toni or the office. NEWS AND EVENTS PRAISE, WORSHIP &ADORATION Tuesday, October 1 Join us for our next night of Praise, Worship and Adoration of the LOYOLA FALL LECTURE SERIES Blessed Sacrament. All are welcome Tuesday, October 1 at 7 pm Continues This Thursday in the church. Come expecting to be lifted in spirit, moved in Join us again this Thursday, September 26 for “Understanding deep worship, and blessed by the true presence of Jesus. Your Beauty and Symbolism” presented by Fr. Harmon. We’ll begin at family and friends are welcome! 6:30 pm in Brady Hall.
BIBLE STUDY BEGINS SEPTEMBER 23 BLESSING OF ANIMALS ‘A Journey Through the Bible,’ led by Br. Glenn Kerfoot, SJ, In recognition of the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, begins this Monday, September 23, 6:30 to 8:00 pm in Brady Fr. Dirk will offer a Blessing of the Animals in the church Hall. We will meet every other Monday. If you are interested in parking lot Saturday, October 5 at from 10 am to 11 am. participating, please contact Kathy in the parish office at [email protected] or 303-322-8042. IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY PROGRAM OF DENVER 5 WEEK RETREAT LITURGICAL MINISTERS WORKSHOP Listening for God: The Prayer of Imagination Our annual workshop for Lectors and EMHCs is this Saturday, Deadline to Register is this Friday, September 27 September 28. Lectors will meet from 9:00 to 10:15 am; EMHCs St. Ignatius has been widely recognized for his ability to discern from 10:30 to noon. We will review current procedures and the movements of God in his life. For Ignatius and for us, the introduce any new information. Lector workbooks will also be Divine is not restricted to church, Scripture, or even formal available. If you are interested in becoming a Lector or prayer. Because all of experience can mediate the discovery of the Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, please join us. One who knows us, in this retreat we look for the invitation to that relationship through the particularities of daily living. With MINISTRY APPRECIATION EVENING the support of Ignatian spiritual exercises, Scripture and our own Please save the date! If you are a member of a ministry at the engaged imaginations, we seek the action of God in and through parish, please join us for a special Adult Only evening to thank the tangible experiences of our lives. These weeks provide an you for your time, care and commitment to serving our parish opportunity for retreatants to grow in intimacy with God while community. We’ll meet in Brady Hall on Saturday, October 5 discerning the implications of that growth for a person’s life. All from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm for heavy appetizers and to celebrate Tuesdays: October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at St. our many devoted ministry members. RSVPs are required. Please Ignatius Loyola Church, Brady Hall. The suggested offering is send your RSVP to [email protected] no later than Monday, $45 dollars; scholarships are available. Registration forms are September 30. available at https://ignatianspiritualitydenver.org and at the church entrances. For more information, call Joe, 303-320-9995 CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME SPEAKER
The Care for Our Common Home team invites the parish community to hear Rev. Peter Sawtell, Executive Director of Eco- MASS INTENTIONS Justice Ministries. Eco-Justice Ministries helps churches answer the call to care for all of God's creation. All are welcome Sunday, 09-22-19 Thursday, October 3, 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in Brady Hall. 7:30 am Peggy Crumbacher + 10:00 am People of the Parish SEW LOYOLA MINISTRY Monday, 09-23-19 Thomas Simms + The Sew Loyola ministry made 22 dresses that are being taken to Tuesday, 09-24-19 Fannie Taylor + Uganda by parishioner Marcellina Otii. The dresses will go to Wednesday, 09-25-19 Intentions of the Celebrant children from her hometown. Thursday, 09-26-19 Mattie Haliburton + The sewing ministry meets every third Tuesday from 10:00 am to Friday, 09-27-19 Richard Anzures + 2:00 pm in the Family Center. Join us! Call Vicky Gibson 703- Saturday, 09-28-19 Carol Ryerson 946-1009 for more information. PLEASE PRAY FOR... YOUNG ADULTS – NEXT SPIRITUALITY NIGHT Jason Abernethy, Elizabeth Achuil, Taeja Billingsley, Louise Bouta, Loretta Our next book study will be Fr. James Martin, SJ's Building a Burrell, Susan Carrillo, Deborah Cottle, Nelson Ezell, Jossy Eyre, Ann Feighny, Barbara Floyd-Hall, Juana Jara Garcia, Clarence Grier, Phillis Bridge. For our Thursday, October 3 meeting, we'll be listening to Harris-Brooks, Daniel Hogan, Hugh Hogan, Healis Howard, Anne & John a podcast together in which Fr. Martin is interviewed about Jackson, Isaac Joseph, Jamar Lindsay, Lindsay Family, Kelly McEnany, applying Jesuit thinking to current situations in life. Then starting James McKinney, Christina Pittaluga, Ronda Pruett, Marcello Puma, Megan in November, we'll discuss the first part of Building a Bridge . Reinholtz, Cordell Robinson, Carol Ryerson, Beatrice Scott, Katie & Melvin Scott, Barb Sercely, Mary Sewing, Angelita Sims, Ken & Carmen Therence, Linda Vialpando JULIA GREELEY BOOK FOR SALE
The Julia Greeley Guild is selling the book Julia Greeley: Denver's Angel of Charity , written and illustrated by the 2018- Please visit usccb.org/bible/readings for the daily readings. 2019 Annunciation Catholic School 5th Grade Class, as a fundraiser. The cost of the book is $15.00, and monies raised will If you have been abused by a Jesuit, please call the Central and assist in the process of the Canonization of Servant of God Julia Southern Province of the Society of Jesus to speak with a Greeley. For additional information or to order a book, please professional assigned to cases of abuse, 314-361-7765. You may contact Mary Leisring at the Cathedral Basilica 303-831-7010 or also call the Archdiocese of Denver, 720-239-2832 or our parish email [email protected]. office, 303-322-8042. You may be assured of compassion and discretion.