November 10, 2019 • Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time Guardian Angels Catholic Church Guardian Angels Catholic Church Readings of the week 109 South 3rd Street P.O. Box 444 Monday: Wis 1:1-7, Lk 17:1-6 Mead, CO 80542 Tuesday: Wis 2:23—3:9, Lk 17:7-10 970-535-0721 Wednesday: Wis 6:1-11, Lk 17:11-19 [email protected] Thursday: Wis 7:22b—8:1, Lk 17:20-25 Website: MeadAngels.org Friday: Wis 13:1-9, Lk 17:26-37 Saturday: Wis 18:14-16; 19:6-9, Lk 18:1-8 Pastoral Staff Next Sunday: Mal 3:19-20a, 2 Thes 3:7-12, Pastor: Fr. Alan Hartway, C.PP.S. Lk 21:5-19 303-819-4741 ext.101 [email protected] Deacon: Rev. Mr. Tim McCann ext.105 Ministry Schedule [email protected] Children’s Formation Education: Angie McCann ext. 106 Saturday, November 16 — 5:00 pm [email protected] Lector: Ann Grenzenbach Youth Director: Regina Hubbard ext. 106 EME: Kathy O’Leary & Lou Bustamante [email protected] Server: Megan & Joshua G & Rj Pelletier Director of Facilities: Jim Hejlik 303-718-6020 ext. 103 Hospitality/Gifts: Jane Murphy & Ginny Lefever [email protected] Business Manager: Karen Surbrugg ext. 102 Sunday, November 17 — 7:30 am [email protected] Lector: Nancy Cardona Receptionist/Bulletin: Ann Lamphere ext. 100 EME: Mary & Dale Strutt [email protected] Server: Luke, Conor, Oliver Justice Music Director: Christine Honein Hospitality/Gifts: Diane & Anthony Heronema [email protected] Pianist: Jessica Pacheco Hjelmstad Sunday, November 17 - 9:00 am [email protected] Lector: Fran Champlin Event Coordinator: Linda O’Hare EME: Linda O’Hare & Patrick Sanchez [email protected] Server: Alessio O’Hare & Matthew & Jae Swanner Safe Environment Coordinator: Joanna Swanner Hospitality/Gifts: Suzanne & Scott Cavey [email protected] Sunday, November 17 — 10:30 am Ministry Schedule Coordinators: Denise Bustamante: [email protected] & Lector: Jamie McGowan Shannon McKinney: [email protected] EME: Mike Harrison & Rosie Hardwick Server: Alondra, Ernesto & Stephanie Villanueva Hospitality/Gifts: Jennifer & Dave Dusza **Bulletin submission deadline is Tuesday by noon. Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 9:00 am — 4:00 pm Altar Linens: Dorothy Kinch Friday Closed Sacraments: Baptisms, First Holy Communion, Confirmation, Marriage, Anointing of the Sick, Funerals, Mass Highlights for the Week ahead Intentions ~ Contact Fr. Alan or the Office Reconciliation: Saturdays 3:30 pm —4:30 pm Pancake Breakfast today Daily Mass times: Monday 5:30 pm Tuesday-Thursday 8:00 am Friday 8:30 am Veteran’s Day Monday November 11. Mass times: Vigil Saturday 5:00 pm Pray in thanksgiving for those who served Sundays 7:30, 9:00,10:30am our country. First Monday of every month is Benediction after 5:30pm Mass Guardian Angels Calendar ~ This Week and Announcements This Week Seminary Appeal Sun November 10 Priests are irreplaceable in the life of our Church. In appreciation for 7:30 am Mass Intention for Anne Lynch their pastoral labors, please donate generously to the Annual 9:00 am Mass Seminaries’ Appeal. Your gift of gratitude will help ensure the 10:30 am Mass Pro Populo continuation of the priesthood for years to come. If you’ve already Mon November 11 contributed, thank you. If not, please visit sjvrm.org to donate today. Thank you 5:30 pm Daily Mass Reparation for Victims of clergy abuse 9:00 am Sewing Group Mead Food Bank & Women's Group Cash Can 6:30 pm RCIA Tues November 12 The Giving Tree, sponsored by the Women’s Group, 8:00 am Daily Mass will be available beginning Nov. 23-24 in Bakhita Hall, 6:30 pm Financial Peace University Conference Room and will benefit the residents of Applewood Living 7:00 pm Knights of Columbus Center, Berthoud Living Center, and also the Caring Wed November 13 Hands Program of Weld County. Gifts need to be 8:00 am Daily Mass Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini returned to the Hall no later than Sunday, 6:00 pm Religious Education December 8th . The Youth Group will be wrapping the Thurs November 14 gifts; children from Faith Formation will be making the 8:00 am Daily Mass Intention for +Sister Mary Ann cards. Coyle The annual Cash Collection by the Women’s Group will 8:30 am Bible Study be held on Nov. 30-Dec. 1. The funds collected (cash or 6:30 pm Finance Council checks) will be used to purchase fresh fruit for the Mead 7:00 pm AA ~ Parish Hall Community Food Bank Christmas baskets this year as Friday November 15 well as for other non-perishable food items throughout 8:30 am Daily Mass Intention for +Ray & Jane the year. Look for the ladies holding the bright orange Murphy canisters at both entrances of the church! Saturday November 16 5:00 pm Mass Knights of Columbus News Life Touch Photo’s have arrived The Knights of Columbus will be collecting If you elected to have your complimentary 8 x 10 turkeys again this year for the Thanksgiving sent to the church, you can pick them up today. distribution at the Mead Food Bank. Signups are Please check the hospitality cart for your photo. Thank you!! next weekend (11/16 & 17) after all Masses. Turkeys need to be dropped off the following Journey of Faith/RCIA Friday night or Saturday morning (11/22 & 23) Every Monday evening the parish offers an for distribution on 11/23. Thanks again for your opportunity to increae your faith knowledge. generous support! This coming Monday November 11 at 6:30 pm the topic will be Church Mission and Organization. Please stop in for a delicious KoC Pancake This is a chance for you to dispel lots of myths about the Catholic Church. You’ll be surprised at the Breakfast after all Masses this Sunday! organizational piece. All are welcome. Congratulations to Norm Finke, Mike Harrison and Bob Volck for earning their 4th degree in Knighthood in October. Financial Stewardship November 3, 2019 Church collection $ 3,598.00 Online giving $ 3,250.00 TOTAL $ 6,848.00 Children’s collection $ 86.69 All Saints $ 505.00 $7,500 is required weekly to meet our budget. Reparations Program Independent Review Information Session and Q & A will be held Capital Campaign Tuesday Nov. 19 - 7:00 pm at St. John the November 3 Baptist, Longmont. $ 2,150.00 Pastor’s Page Dear Friends and Families of Guardian Angels Parish, Vocations—Called to Serve November is the Month of the Dead, at least between the first and Thanksgiving in our culture. So, in light of the Gospel this Sunday I’m reflecting on the question of the Saducees. Is there a resurrection? Actually, logically thinking, there are really only four options when you consider what happens after a person dies. The first is that nothing happens at all; you die. That’s it. Good-bye! Humans have by and A vocation is a way in which we large rejected this option historically and across human cultures. serve God in our lifetime by doing The second option is re-incarnation. The three major peoples of what God wants us to do when God the Book (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) reject this. It is largely an created us. This sounds strange in a Eastern option, and even there is still debated, especially among the culture of personal fulfillment and Buddhists. The idea is that you will endure a series of lives until you finding one’s own career path. We have only good karma accumulated and then you vanish into nirvana, are not here on Earth to make pure enlightenment. This may explain why there are so many money, but rather to serve the Lord. cockroaches. The seven sons realize this in the The option of most “mythological” religious systems has been first Reading and the disciples hear that there is some form of a shadowy afterlife which is inescapable; Jesus speak of the priority of the heroic people in this view are sent after death to some place near the reign of God in the Gospel. To be a gods and goddesses, for example in Greek myth, the Elysian Fields, just priest means to love God above outside the doors of Mt. Olympus. things and to endure as Christ. Are The fourth option is Biblical. The idea of the Resurrection is not you called to this life? often clearly stated in the Hebrew scriptures, but was much more highly developed and taught by Jesus in the New Testament. This is Catechism Connecting Lectionary the belief of the Church, and this Faith is central to the narrative of the Nicene Creed. Marriage and Ordination are the two What is the Resurrection like? It is some sort of transfiguration Sacraments in the Catechism under of our earthly bodies into heavenly bodies in which the person is united the same title: SACRAMENTS OF with God for eternal life of glory and participation in the Liturgy of SERVICE. In other words we are not Heaven. Belief in the Resurrection then shapes the pilgrimage of the here on Earth for ourselves but for disciple through this life by practice of the virtues and works of mercy God. Marriage serves the Lord by in order to purify us of this world so that we are prepared for the world creating the fundamental unit for a to come. sound society and for the procreation Because we are so effused and enmeshed in this world, of children. According to the distracted and scattered, we lose sight of the goal. The idea practiced teachings of Jesus it is not there for by the earliest Christians was to live the resurrection every day.