SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER May 6, 2018

“The Lord has revealed to his nations his saving power.” PS 98

ST. MARY OF THE ROCKIES CATHOLIC CHURCH 236 Bulldogger Road,

Bailey, CO 80421

303.838.2375

Pastor: Father David Boroff dgboroff@yahoo.com

Sacramental Emergencies:

303.880.7489

Office:

224 Buggy Whip Rd.,

Bailey, CO 80421

303.838.2375

Hours: M-Th 8:30-2:30

Admin. Asst./Office Mgr.:

Janice Kraft

SCHEDULE OF MASSES Weekdays, Tues—Fri 8:30 AM Saturday Evening 5:00 PM

Sunday Morning 9:00 AM SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday 4:00 PM—4:45 PM Thursday 9:00 AM—10:00 AM or by Appointment ADORATION Thursday 9:00 AM

Concluding with Benediction at 10:00 AM BAPTISM Contact the Parish Office or Father David. MARRIAGE

Contact Father David at least six months prior to the wedding date. SACRAMENT OF THE SICK

If you are seriously ill or facing surgery, call Father David at 303.880.7489 If you are homebound and wish to

receive Holy Communion, contact the Office. Religious Ed. (K-8) and Confirmation Arleen Long 303.838.9258

WORSHIP COMMISSION COORDINATORS Readers

Juanita Johnson Music Sunday—Joe Morris Saturday—Ray Johnson EMHC Patty Schmidt Sacristans

Patty Schmidt Greeters & Ushers Rick & Juanita Kursevich Church Environment Grace Velasquez

PASTORAL COUNCIL Thomas Mann 303.838.7454 Juanita Kursevich 303.838.5409

Mary Beth Patterson 303.838.7312

Sonya Kohl 303.551.5813 Brian Kohl 720.951.6483 Christine Scott 571.438.3600 FINANCE COUNCIL Luci Berardi 303.816.6229 Chris Sauser 303.838.0811 Maureen Young 303.838.5393

Peter Petlak 303.816.0145

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Email us! stmaryrockies@gmail.com

May 6 - First Communion at Sunday Mass. Celebratory

cake in the church hall after Mass.

May 13 - Offertory tithed in support of Catholic

Communication Campaign

May 20 - Hospitality Hour directly after the

9:00AM Mass. Free breakfast goodies and

coffee.

Donald Jerome, Nick Steck, Dave DeCola, Tom Reynolds, Armondo Guzman, Mary Finley, Chelsea Craver, Sue Gibson, Bret Melby, Steve & Jean Bort, Liz Nieland, Betty Leach

We encourage parishioners to contact us if they have friends or family members in need of prayers. Contact the office with requests to be added or removed. Names will remain on this list for four (4) weeks unless otherwise requested.

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St. Mary of the Rockies

Saturday, May 5 Mass at 5:00PM Easter Weekday For: Eve Kuenn (D) By: Family Sunday, May 6 Mass at 9:00AM Sixth Sunday Of Easter For: The living & deceased parishioners of St. Mary of the Rockies Monday, May 7 NO MASS Easter Weekday Tuesday, May 8 Mass at 8:30AM Easter Weekday For: Bernard Lopes (L) By: Family Wednesday, May 9 Mass at 8:30AM Easter Weekday For: The Mamos Family By: Private Thursday, May 10 Mass at 8:30AM Easter Weekday For: The Mamos Family By: Private Friday, May 11 Mass at 8:30AM Easter Weekday For: Jim & Anna Marie McCloskey 61st Wedding Anniversary Saturday, May 12 Mass at 5:00PM Easter Weekday For: Bernard Lopes (L) By: Family Sunday, May 13 Mass at 9:00AM THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD For: The living & deceased parishioners of St. Mary of the Rockies

Contact the parish office for Mass intentions.

303-838-2375

Saturday May 12

EHMC: Karen Taylor

Altar Servers: Aiden Scanlon

Readers: Stephen Bort & Janice Kraft

Greeters/Usher: Maddie Mann

Sacristan: Juanita Johnson

Sunday May 13

EMHC: Alana Wright & Mary Beth Patterson

Altar Servers: Jack Bedortha

Readers: Laura Reid & Liz Neiland

Greeters/Collector: Barbara Behl

Ushers/Collections: Tom Karnowka

Sacristan: Tom Karnowka

May 7 Counters Gretchen Dyson & Linda Pearlman

TEN WAYS TO STEP UP YOUR MASS ENGAGEMENT

Improving etiquette during the central hour of the week. ARRIVE EARLY AND STAY. “Passing from a secular atmosphere to a sacred atmosphere requires some preparation,” a priest said. Arriving at least 10 minutes early would do. This helps prepare the heart and mind for the Lord who comes to us, he added. And don’t leave early. One can leave only after the celebrant processes out because “he’s acting in the presence of Christ,” a priest emphasized. DRESS UP FOR JESUS. What we wear says a lot about where we’re going. A priest recommended dressing “as if one was going to an audience with someone more important than the Pope,” which is certainly the case. For this reason, they discourage wearing anything that may seem as if you were going to the beach or a sporting event, for both men and women. “May your body and clothes manifest your heart before God and your brothers,” another priest added. Excerpted from Denver Catholic Register, March 10-23, 2018 (cont. in next bulletin)

CATHOLIC COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGN

Next week, our collection will be tithed in support of

the Catholic Communication Campaign. This

campaign connects people with Christ, here and

around the world in developing countries, through

the internet, television, radio, and print

media. And fifty percent of funds collected

remain in our diocese to fund local

communications efforts. Your support helps

spread the gospel message! To learn more, visit

www.usccb.org/ccc.

Congratulations to our first

communion recipients

Marlin Thomas

And

Jordan Wright

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Readings for the Week

of May 6, 2018

Sunday: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48/Ps 98:1, 2-3,

3-4 [cf. 2b]/1 Jn 4:7-10 or 1 Jn 4:11-16/Jn 15:9-17

or Jn 17:11b-19

Monday: Acts 16:11-15/Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b [cf. 4a]/

Jn 15:26--16:4a

Tuesday: Acts 16:22-34/Ps 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 7c-8 [7c]/

Jn 16:5-11

Wednesday: Acts 17:15, 22--18:1/Ps 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14/

Jn 16:12-15

Thursday: Acts 18:1-8/Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4 [cf. 2b]/

Jn 16:16-20

Friday: Acts 18:9-18/Ps 47:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 [8a]/Jn 16:20-23

Saturday: Acts 18:23-28/Ps 47:2-3, 8-9, 10 [8a]/Jn 16:23b-28

Next Sunday: Ascension: Acts 1:1-11/Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 [6]/

Eph 1:17-23 or Eph 4:1-13 or 4:1-7, 11-13/Mk 16:15-20

Fiscal Year 2017-2018 Offertory Budget: $115,675

Weekly Offertory Budget: $2,225

April 28/29 Offertory: $3,086

Difference: Over $861—THANK YOU!

FY 2017-2018 Weekly Offertory Average:

2018 Returning God’s Gifts Goal: $13,610

Pledged: $9,006 Percent of Goal Pledged: 66%

Collected: $5,210 Percent of Goal Collected: 38%

The Church - The people of God... Characteristics of the People of God The People of God is marked by characteristics that clearly distinguish it from all other religious, ethnic, political, or cultural groups found in history: “Christ is the Head of this Body”… Christ “is the head of the body, the Church.” He is the principal of creation and redemption. Raised to the Father’s glory, “in everything he is preeminent,” especially in the Church, through whom he extends his reign over all things. Christ unites us with his Passover: All his members must strive to resemble him, “until Christ be formed” in them. “For this reason we...are taken up into the mysteries of his life,...associated with his sufferings as the body with its head, suffering with him, that with him we may be glorified.” Christ provides for our growth: To make us grow toward him, our head, he provides in his Body, the Church, the gifts and assistance by which we help one another along the way of salvation. Christ and his Church thus together make up the “whole Christ’ (Christus totus). The Church is one with Christ. The saints are acutely aware of this unit: Let us rejoice then and give thanks that we have become not only Christians, but Christ himself. Do you understand and grasp, brethren, God’s grace toward us? Marvel and rejoice: we have become Christ. For if he is the head, we are the members; he and we together are the whole man…. The fullness of Christ then is the head and the members. But what does “head and members’ mean? Christ and the Church. Our redeemer has shown himself to be one person with the holy Church whom he has taken to himself. Head and members form as it were one and the same mystical person. A reply of St. Joan of Arc to her judges sums up the faith of the holy doctors and the good sense of the believer: “About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.” “The Church is the Bride of Christ”…cont. in next bulletin)

Volunteers needed to read at Saturday and

Sunday Masses. Readers are lay persons

who have been trained to proclaim God’s word

during the Mass. Readers embrace a special

feeling for Scripture and share this love with the

congregations.

Our readers rotate so your time would be needed only

occasionally. No experience or special talent required. Please

contact the office for further information or if you are

interested in signing up.

Question: Why do some dioceses move holy days, or not

even celebrate them at all? Doesn’t everyone do the same

thing?

Answer: The short answer is no, not everyone does the same

thing. Although the church is universal, there are many local customs and saints that each country, sometimes just a region, will honor. For example, feast days and patronal days may not be major feast days on the church’s universal calendar, but are celebrated as such in one place. Holy days of obligation are the same way. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has a certain amount of discretion in choosing days which best reflect the local church’s experience and history. Another reason certain feasts are moved is a practical one. With limited clergy, or a great difficulty for people to get to Mass, the feast day may be transferred to a Sunday. The rationale is that if a significant feast should be part of the church’s celebration, then better to do so on a Sunday when people and clergy are available, rather than to try to fit it on a day when one or the both cannot be there. Christmas and Immaculate Conception are always observed as days of obligation. In the USA we celebrate six holy days of obligation. There are also other special days and they are ranked, in order of importance, as solemnity, feast, memorial and optional memorial.

THE MASS CELEBRATING THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD WILL BE CELEBRATED ON

SUNDAY, MAY 13TH