Bulletin 9-15-19
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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 www.loyoladenver.org Contact us at parish(loyoladenver.org Faith Direct ® - scan at right for information on e giving Church Office 2307 6aylord Street Denver, CO 80205 Monday: 8:00 AM - 2:30 PM Tuesday to riday: 8:00 AM - .:00 PM Phone: 303-322-80.2 ax: 303-322-2727 Pastor r. Dir1 Dunfee, SJ 303-322-80.2 x107 frdir1:loyoladenver.org Associate Pastor r. Jonathan Harmon, SJ 303-322-80.2 x 106 frharmon:loyoladenver.org Office Manager MASS SCHEDULE Aathy MurByn Saturday Vigil 5:00 PM 303-322-80.2 x101 Sunday 7:30 AM & 10:00 AM 1murByn:loyoladenver.org Monday - Friday 7:00 AM 3usiness Manager Holy Days of Obligation 7:00 AM & 7:00 PM Patty Alopfenstein (unless otherwise indicated) 303-322-80.2 x105 patty:loyoladenver.org SACRAME,TS Director of Music & Liturgy Reconciliation Saturday 4:15 PM & by appt. SuBie Wooldridge Anointing of the Sic1 1st Sunday of month after 303-322-80.2 x103 suBie:loyoladenver.org 7:30 AM Mass & by appt. 3aptism & Matrimony Contact office manager Ignatian Spirituality Program (ISP) Director Joe Lagan 303-320-7775 OTHER MI,ISTRIES ignatianspiritualitydenver:hotmail.com St. Vincent DePaul Society 5oung Adults 6roup Hotline for assistance Sarah Moss & Sydney Stuloc1 Ignatian Volunt. Corps (IVC) Den. Reg. Dir. 303-755-2578 youngadults:loyoladenver.org Erin 3enson 303-37.-2777 Religious Education for Children Rite of Christian Init. for Adults (RCIA) ebenson:ivcusa.org Toni Armstead Margaret Wright toni:loyoladenver.org margw8:aol.com 303-283-8775 720-863-8.27 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.