I'm the shortest one in nearly every picturein which I appear. It's not that I'm that short(about three inches below average), but I

am surrounded by taller people. Consequently,Zacchaeus has always been a particular favorite ofmine. I certainly would have tried to get higherto see Jesus, too. Maybe Zacchaeus and I wouldhave shared a branch. But Zacchaeus inspires mefor another reason. When Jesus, whom Zacchaeusknew only by reputation, called to him, hisresponse was immediate. He came down to standin front of Jesus. In their society, tax collectorswere considered traitors and ostracized by all. Inthe process of working for the Romans, Zacchaeusstrengthened Caesar's influence and likely chargedmore than he should have to support a wealthylifestyle when most Jews lived in poverty.

Seeing Zacchaeus in the tree, Jesus seized theopportunity to bring conversion to a sinner.Instead of judgment or bitterness from a stranger,Jesus offered him words of welcome. Zacchaeusheard the invitation (literal and spiritual) in Jesus'statement-"I must stay at your house"-and"received him with joy."

When Jesus enters our house, we find the strengthto turn from sin. The effect of Jesus' presence onZacchaeus was immediate. As they stood together,he turned from his sin and promised to care forthe poor and make restitution for anything hestole. Let us hurry to receive Jesus into our heartsand turn away from our sin as well.

MARY KATHARINE DEELEY5undaybulletin@/iguori.org

A Word From Pope Francis"One who leads a double life is corrupt. whereas onewho sins would like not to sin ... and asks to be forgiven.The Lord loves such a person. he accompanies him,he remains with him."

-MorningMeditation,·Sinners)'ts,(orruptno,*Novemberl1,2013

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Masses: Saturday - 5:00 PM (Brush), Sunday - 10:00 AM (Brush), 12:00 PM (Stoneham)Reconciliation: Saturday - 3:00 PM (Brush); Sunday - I :00 PM (Stoneham); 1/2 hr. before weekday Masses

Daily Mass: Thursday 5:30 PM (Brush) & Friday 8:00 AM (Brush)

Sat., Oct 295:00 p.m.

Sun, Oct 3010:00 a.m.12:00 p.m.

Mon., Oct 315:30 p.m.

Tues, Nov 18:00 a.m.

Thur., Nov 35:30 p.m.

Fri., Nov 48:00 a.m.

Sat., Nov 55:00 p.m.

Sun., Nov 610:00 a.m.

Mass IntentionsVigil MasstAnna31st Sunday in Ord. TimetSantos Guzman+Dolores, tHermanVigil MassFor Barbara Devlin (1)Mass / All Saints Dayt Marvin GardnerMassAll Souls Novena (2)Mass / St. Charles BorromeoAll Souls Novena (3)Vigil MassAll Souls Novena (4)32nd Sunday in Ord. TimeAll Souls Novena (7)

Archie TadoliniPaul RamirezSandra Garcia Madigan

PLEASE PRAY FORGeorge DoughtyJan WillichLeona BlackwelderJoe & Jenny MataDavid LawrenceArdell Bruce

Repose of the SoulChris HefnerOswaldo NunezBarry Quinlin

Please call Sarah Lopez: 842-3001 to be added tothe prayer list.

NEXT BIBLE STUDY:Tues, Nov 1, 6:30 pmReading: Matthew, Chapter 5

From the desk of Fr. Marek ....Through the Rosary October brings us back tothe hands and heart of our Blessed Mother,Mary. We bring to Her all our concerns andworries. Mary intercedes for us.Truly there is no need to fear the future becausewe have MOTHER.Let us continue to pray for our country andupcoming election. Let us pray that we all willvote for life and protect life from the conceptiontill natural death. May our Blessed Motherkeep us and our families in Her loving heart.

ANNUAL SEMINARIES' APPEALThis weekend, your parish priest celebratedMass; this weekend, your parish priest absolvedthe sins of penitents who approached him in theconfessional. Without question, our parishpriests are indispensable in guiding the faithfulto the path of holiness. Next weekend, the arch-diocese will conduct the Annual Seminaries'Appeal. Funds raised will be allocated to theeducation and spiritual formation of our semi-nanans.

November Building Fund Collection will bemoved to the Second Weekend ofthe month.

From St. John's, Stoneham ...Praying Patriotic Rosary: first and thirdThursdays of the month. Next Rosary-Thursday, Nov 3 at 6:30 p.m.

340 Stanford Street, Brush, CO 80723 • Phone: (970) 842-2216 • Fax: (970) 842-4461 • www.stmarybrush.org

All Souls Day NovenaIn the pews you will find the All Souls Day ofRemembrance envelopes. Please write thenames of your beloved deceased on the back ofthe envelopes and put your envelopes in thebasket in front of the altar.The Novena of Masses (9) will be offered forour deceased loved ones as follows:• Nov. 2, Wednesday 7:30 a.l11.- St. Joseph• Nov. 3, Thursday 5:30 p.l11.- St. Mary• Nov. 4, Friday 8:00 a.l11.- St. Mary• Nov. 5, Saturday 5:00 p.l11.- St. Mary• Nov. 5, Saturday 7:00 p.l11.- St. Joseph• Nov. 6, Sunday 8:00 a.l11.- St. Joseph• Nov. 6, Sunday 10:00 a.m. - St. Mary• Nov. 6, Sunday 12:00 p.m. - St. John• Nov. 8, Tuesday 5:30 p.l11.- St. Joseph

All Saints Day (Holy Day of Obligation)Masses:Monday, October 31 (Vigil):5:30 p.m. - St. Mary'S (Brush)Tuesday, November 18:00 a.m. St. Mary's (Brush)5:30 p.m. St. Joseph's (Akron)

Church Roof Building Fund-- Goal: $93,000

Total Raised: $36,504 (September 2016)Raised on Goal: $39%

-' ~ Every 1 st weekend of the 1110nthaI <51 '" second collection will be taken for(!) ~ the building fund. Thank you!

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Sat, Oct 293:00 p.rn. Confessions4:40 p.m. Rosary before Mass (Brush)5:00 p.m. Mass (Brush)

Sun, Oct 309:00 a.m. RE Classes (Brush)9:00 a.l11.Catholicism DVD Series (Brush)9:40 a.l11.Rosary before Mass (Brush)10:00 a.l11.Mass (Brush)12:00 p.l11.Mass (Stoneham)

Mon, Oct 31 - All Saints Day Vigil (Holy Dayof Obligation)

5:30 p.m. MassTues, Nov 1 - All Saints Day

8:00 a.m. St. Mary's (Brush)5:30 p.m. St. Joseph's (Akron)6:30 p.l11.Bible Study (Brush)

Wed, Nov 26:30 p.l11.Youth Group, Church basement

Thurs, Nov 35:00-5:20 p.l11.Confessions5:30 p.l11.Mass6:30 p.l11.Patriotic Rosary (Stoneham)

Fd, Nov 47:30-7:50 a.m. Confessions8:00 a.l11.Mass8:30 a.l11.Adoration9:00 a.l11.Altar & Rosary meeting2:30 p.m. Eben-Ezer Communion Service

Sat, Nov 5 - Annual Seminaries' collection3:00 p.m. Confessions4:40 p.m. Rosary before Mass (Brush)5:00 p.m. Mass (Brush)

Sun, Nov 6 - Annual Seminaries' collection9:00 a.m. RE Classes (Brush)9:00 a.m. Catholicism DVD Series (Brush)9:40 a.m. Rosary before Mass (Brush)10:00 a.m. Mass (Brush)I 1:00 a.l11.Coffee & Donuts following Mass12:00 p.m. Mass (Stoneham)

• Email: pastor@stmarybrush.org • Office hours: 9:00 AM -2:30 PM (Thursday & Friday, Brush)

October 30, 2016

Staying untilMass is overDo I need to stay until the very end of Mass? The shortconcluding rites feel anticlimactic after Communion.

The Mass is intended to contain "aconscious, active, and full participationof the faithful, ...fervent with faith,hope and charity" (General Instructionof the Roman Missal, 18). At Mass, thefaithful form one body, a holy people,to "give thanks to God and offer theunblemished sacrificial Victim not onlyby means of the hands of the Priestbut also together" (GIRM 95). This isachieved through "their deep religioussense and their charity toward brothersand sisters who participate with them"(GIRM 95). Thus, reverence for God atMass includes a proper respect for thepeople worshipping with you. Remaininguntil the recessional concludes-as wellas arriving on time-is a sign of thisreverence. It respects not only God and

Dear Jesus, even the times we have sinned can be offered toyou, as soon as we are sorry. It makes you very happy when werepent, and it brings us joy when we run to you for forgiveness.Thank you for your mercy, 0 Lord! Amen.

-From Heads Bowed: Prayers for Catholic School Daysby Lisa Mladinich (826443)

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your neighbors in the pew but also theministers (ordained or lay), ushers, andeveryone present.

After the faithful partake in theEucharist,there isa communal period ofsilenceto allow for personal prayer.Also, apsalm, canticle of praise,or hymn may beoffered and sung (GIRM 88, 164). "There isno prayer more agreeable to God, or moreprofitable to the soul, than that whichis made during the thanksgiving afterCommunion," wrote St.Alphonsus in TheHoly Eucharist. While an early departureor late arrival at Massmay be, at times,unavoidable, it is preferable to celebrateMassin its entirety, in heart, mind, soul...and body!

FR. BYRON MILLER, CSSR5undaybulletin@liguori.org

MondayOCTOBER 31

WeekdayPhil 2:1-4

Lk 14:12-14

TuesdayNOVEMBER 1

All Saints' DayRv7:2-4, 9-14

1 In 3:1-3Mt 5:1-12a

WednesdayNOVEMBER 2All Souls' Day

Wis 3:1-9Rom 5:5-11 or

Rom 6:3-9In 6:37-40

ThursdayNOVEMBER 3

WeekdayPhiI3:3-8aLk 15:1-10

FridayNOVEMBER 4

Sf. Charles Borromeo,Bishop

Phil 3:17-4:1Lk 16:1-8

SaturdayNOVEMBER 5

WeekdayPhil 4:10-19Lk 16:9-15

SundayNOVEMBER 6

Thirty-second Sundayin Ordinary Time2 Me 7:1-2,9-142 Thes 2:16-3:5

Lk 20:27-38or 20 :27, 34-38

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Prop 106 would allow Colorado doctors to write a suicide prescription for a consenting person who has been diagnosed with aterminal illness who the doctor believes has six months or less to live. But as 9 NEWS in Denver points out, the measure "requiresthe patient to self-administer the drug to end their own life." That's why it's called Assisted Suicide. A doctor is required to writethe prescription, but then patients are on their own. No doctor or trained professional will prepare or administer the deadlymedicine. And no professional is required to be there when the patient dies. That's just one major flaw •••

REFLECTING ON OUR FAITH

Toward the end of his own life Saint John Paul II was a livingwitness to the meaning of suffering. Here is one of the manybeautiful reflections he offered:

"But in general it can be said that almost always the individual enterssuffering with a typically human protest and with the question 'why'.He asks the meaning of his suffering and seeks an answer to thisquestion on the human level. Certainly he often puts this questionto God, and to Christ. Furthermore, he cannot help noticing that theone to whom he puts the question is himself suffering and wishesto answer him from the Cross, from the heart of his own suffering.Nevertheless, it often takes time, even a long time, for this answer tobegin to be interiorly perceived. For Christ does not answer directlyand he does not answer in the abstract this human questioning aboutthe meaning of suffering. Man hears Christ's saving answer as hehimself gradually becomes a sharer in the sufferings of Christ."

On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering, SI. John Paul II

DISCUSSING WITH REASON

Your friends and family will likely be unaware of the specifics andramifications of this bill. Please think about and discuss the following points:

The American Medical Association holds that "physician-assisted suicide isfundamentally incompatible with the physician's role as healer."

We all know that doctors can make mistakes. The fact is that patients can

outlive their prognosis by months or even decades.The opinion of a licensed mental health professional is not required for

those pursuing physician-assisted suicide

Long-term treatments for those with chronic illnesses, the elderly, disabled

and the poor will be branded as unnecessary economic burdens. This

could lead to coercion to commit suicide because of cost.

The long term implications for insurance are unknown. Cases are

documented where insurance has covered assisted-suicide but not other

life-prolonging treatments prescribed by doctors.The prescription typically requires a person to swallow 100 lethal pills that

can be picked up at a pharmacy or mailed to private homes.

La Proposicion 106 permitirfa a los doctores de Colorado escribir una prescripclon suicida para una persona consiente yque ha sido diagnosticada con una enfermedad terminal y que el doctor cree que no Ie quedan mas de seis meses de vida.Pero como indicaba 9 NEWS Denver, la medida "requiere que el paciente se auto-administre la droga para terminar con suvida." Esto es por 10 que se denomina Suicidio Asistido. Se necesita un doctor que otorgue la prescripclon, pero despues lospacientes quedan por su cuenta. Nlnqun doctor 0 personal cualificado preparara 0 edrnlnistrara la medicina letal. Y no serequiere la presencia de nlnqun profesional cuando el paciente muere.

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REFLEXIONANDO SOBRE NUESTRA FE

Hacia el final de su vida San Juan Pablo" fue un testigo viviente delsignificado del sufrimiento. Aquf est a una de las muchas y bellasreflexiones que ofreci6:

"Se puede sin embargo decir que casi siempre cada uno entra en elsufrimiento con una protesta tfpicamente humana y con la preguntadel «por que». Se pregunta sobre el sentido del sufrimiento y buscauna respuesta a esta pregunta a nivel humano. Ciertamente ponemuchas veces esta pregunta tarnblen aDios, al igual que a Cristo.Adernas, no puede dejar de notar que Aquel, a quien pone supregunta, sufre EI mismo, y por consiguiente quiere responderledesde la cruz, desde el centro de su propio sufrimiento. Sin embargoa veces se requiere tiempo, hasta mucho tiempo, para que estarespuesta comience a ser interiormente perceptible. En efecto, Cristono responde directamente ni en abstracto a esta pregunta humanasobre el sentido del sufrimiento. EI hombre percibe su respuestasalvffica a medida que el mismo se convierte en partfcipe de lossufrimientos de Cristo."

Sobre el Significado Cristiano del Sufrimiento Humano, S. Juan Pablo II

DEBATIENDO CON LA RAZON

Sus amigos y familia res probablemente no seran conscientes de los detallesy las ramificaciones de este Proyecto de ley. Por favor piense y debata sobrelos siguientes puntos:

La Asoclscion Medica de Estados Unidos sostiene que "el suicidio

asistido por un medico es fundamentalmente incompatible con la funcion

sanadora del medico."

Todos sabemos que los doctores pueden cometer errores. De hecho hay

pacientes que sobreviven su expectativa de vida por meses e incluso

decades.

No se requiere la opinion de un profesional de salud mental autorizado

sobre aquellos que buscan el suicidio asistido.

Los tratamientos a largo plaza para aquellos con enfermedades cronicas,

los ancianos, los discapacitados y los pobres seran catalogados como

cargas econornlcas innecesarias. Esto podrfa IIevar ala coaccion a

cometer suicidio debido a los costos.

Las implicaciones a largo plaza para las aseguradoras son desconocidas.

Hay casos documentados en los que la aseguradora ha cubierto el

suicidio asistido pero no otros tratamientos para la prolongar la vida

prescritos por los doctores.