Week at a Glance Saturday, September EAST GRAND AVENUE, LARAMIE WY (307) FAX (307)

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1 ST. PAUL S NEWMAN CENTER Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Jesus replied, Do not prevent him. For whoever is not against us is for us. Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward. - Mk 9:39a, Ministry to the Students, Faculty and Staff of the Univerisity of Wyoming since 1957 UNIVERSITY CATHOLIC COMMUNITY Liturgy of the Eucharist Saturday 5:00 p.m. Sunday 8:30 & 11:00 a.m., 5:00 p.m. Weekdays 5:00 p.m. Tuesday Student Liturgy 9:00 p.m. Mass on Campus 12:20 p.m. Prexy s Pasture or UW Union Room 203 Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturdays & Wednesdays 4:00 p.m. Week at a Glance Saturday, September 26 Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Stewardship of Time 5:00 p.m. or 30 minutes following the UW football game. Game me is at 1:00 p.m. Mass: Vaske Family Sunday, September 27 8:30 a.m. Mass: William Turner, Jr Stoellinger Bap sm 9:45 a.m. Diving Deep 11:00 a.m. Mass: Elly Kozlowski 5:00 p.m. Mass: St. Paul s Newman Center 6:00 p.m. Sunday Supper 7:00 p.m. Marriage Prepara on General Session 1 Monday, September 28 Noon Medita on 5:00 p.m. Mass: Special Inten on 7:00 p.m. Rite of Chris an Ini a on for Adults (RCIA) Tuesday, September 29 1:00-3:00 p.m. Staff Mee ng - Parish Offices Closed 5:00 p.m. Mass: Gary Mason 5:30 p.m. Music Rehearsal 6:00 p.m. Family Faith Forma on 7:30 p.m. Catholics on Campus 9:00 p.m. Mass: Vaske Family Wednesday, September 30 9:00 a.m. Alpha Course: Who is Jesus? 4:00 p.m. Sacrament of Reconcilia on 5:00 p.m. Mass: Marie Wolf 6:30 p.m. Middle School Youth Ministry 6:30 p.m. High School Youth Ministry Thursday, October 1 12:20 p.m. Mass on Campus 5:00 p.m. Mass: Mar nez Secudino 5:30 p.m. Adora on 6:30 p.m. Alpha Course: Who is Jesus? Friday, October 2 Staff Retreat Day-Offices Closed 5:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Word with Holy Communion Saturday, October 3 4:00 p.m. Sacrament of Reconcilia on Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 5:00 p.m. Mass: Kay Tencick Sunday, October 4 8:30 a.m. Mass: St. Paul s Newman Center 9:45 a.m. Diving Deep 11:00 a.m. Mass: Elly Kozlowski 12:15 p.m. Community Mee ng 5:00 p.m. Mass: Maria Madigan 1800 EAST GRAND AVENUE, LARAMIE WY (307) FAX (307)

2 Parish News Community Mee ng and Potluck Meal You are invited to the first Community Mee ng of the Fall Semester on Sunday, October 4, following Liturgy at 12:15 p.m. During this me, Fr. Rob will give an overview of past events and report on upcoming ones. Par cipants can weigh in on what is happening in our parish about issues that ma er to them. The mee ng will begin with a pot luck dinner. Please bring a dish to share. Adopt A Highway Volunteers Needed on October 2 The Knights of Columbus are asking for volunteers to help with trash pick-up along a sec on of highway outside of Laramie. This is in solidarity with Pope Francis encyclical, Laudato Si, in taking care of our common home. Volunteers are asked to be available from 9:00-11:00 a.m. Wear heavy shoes and bring work gloves. Vests and trash bags will be provided. A lunch will be served following comple on of the project. Contact Jason Phillips at with details on where to meet. Sunday Supper, September 27 at 6:00 p.m. This week s meal is being planned and prepared by Mari Hardjito, Rose Sax, and friends. They are going to delight our taste buds with Scalloped Potatoes with Ham, Green Salad and Dr. Pepper Chocolate Cake. Everyone is invited to come meet new parishioners while enjoying a homecooked meal. Formation Dates for: Diving Deep Adult Scripture and Faith Study 9:45 a.m. Sundays Family Faith Forma on 6:00 p.m. Tuesdays Adult Alpha Course* 9:00 a.m. Wednesdays 6:30 p.m. Thursdays *What is Alpha? The Alpha Course explores the basics of Chris an faith in a friendly, open, and informal environment. The first session is tled Who is Jesus? Sessions include a meal, a short talk, and a discussion where you can share your thoughts. This is for all who are seeking to enhance faith knowledge and who con nue to ques on our Catholic beliefs. Bulle ns for Family Members who are Homebound If your loved one would like to receive a mailed copy of the bulle n, please contact Myra in the parish office at or myra@newmancenter.org Current and Retired Catholic Faculty, Staff and Spouses are Cordially Invited to Evening Prayer and Reception Thursday, October 15, :00 pm St Paul s Newman Center We welcome you to extend this invitation to a colleague. Business Attire RSVP Myra at myra@newmancenter.org by October 12, 2015 Growing and Becoming... Are you interested in exploring the possibility of becoming Catholic? This is an opportunity to ask ques ons and inquire about the Catholic faith. Weekly sessions are every Monday at 7:00 p.m. Contact Anthony Allen for details at or anthony@newmancenter.org. Women s Faith Sharing Opportunity Pope Francis recently recommended that reading the Divine Comedy can serve as a spiritual prepara on for the Year of Mercy and for seeking the Merciful Face of God. With this in mind, Diana Marie Waggener invites women who are interested in faith sharing to begin a journey in the Inferno with an eye toward Paradiso, with God s mercy, some me around Easter. An informa onal mee ng will be held Wednesday, October 21, 2015, beginning at 7 p.m., at Diana s home. Women who are interested should either call ( ) or (dream@uwyo.edu).

3 Campus Ministry Students: Here are some event days and dates to remember. Tuesdays at Emmaus House 7:30 p.m. Catholics on Campus Tuesdays at Emmaus House 9:00 p.m. Late Night Liturgy of the Word Thursdays 12:20 p.m. in Prexy s Pasture or UW Union Sunday, September 27 6:00 p.m. Sunday Supper Friday - Sunday, October 9-11 SEARCH Retreat at Table in the Wilderness, Centennial, WY Searcher Applica ons can be found in Bishop Newell Hall. Thank You Last Saturday s Gi Offering $5,813 minus 10% the ($581) for our brothers and sisters in need My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it. -Luke 8:21 Electronic Giving: Easy op ons More and more parishioners are using the convenience and ease of electronic dona ons. Two regularly used op ons are: Click the DONATE, Support our Newman Center bu on at the bo om of each web page of our website, You can quickly and easily make a credit card dona on through PayPal Contact Sandy in the parish office sandy@newmancenter.org, to set up secure and easy automa c withdrawal from your checking account. St. Laurence School Members of Carae Domini at the Sarah Hart Concert Campus Alpha: Seven weeks of small group gatherings helping students to learn more about the Big Ques ons of the Chris an tradi on. Do you have ques ons you want answers for about Jesus, your faith, what we believe? We will try to answer these ques ons in the groups. Contact Amanda for mee ng mes, or amanda@newmancenter. org Slow Mo on Mass Next Sunday we will celebrate a special liturgy at 5:00 p.m. Fr. Rob will take me to explain por ons of the rite with me for ques ons. This will happen on Sunday, October 4 at 5:00 pm. Plan for liturgy to last about 90 minutes. This week was a special week for the students at St. Laurence School as Pope Francis visited our school, via live stream. Our students were able to watch the first canoniza on of a saint on American soil and were able to witness the Pope at a school in Harlem; this was a great opportunity to see another perspec ve of Catholic Schools in America and the Pope s venerable support for Catholic educa on. Would you like to know an easy way to support St. Laurence School? By simply saving Boxtops and Labels for Educa on you make it possible for teachers to supply the classrooms with needed equipment at no cost. Coupons can be le in the container on the back porch. Use Safeway Gi Cards when doing your grocery shopping. Every me you use these cards, you are giving 5% of your purchases back to St. Laurence. Our Mission As a Catholic community of Christian disciples filled with gratitude and the Holy Spirit, St. Paul s Newman Center celebrates and lives the Sacraments. We bring the Gospel to the students, faculty, and staff of the University of Wyoming through vibrant liturgies, hospitality, authentic stewardship, education, formation, empowerment, and support.

4 Sacramental Preparation Hour of Prayer with Adora on con nues on Thursdays following daily liturgy at 5:30pm. Take me a er a busy day to quiet yourself in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. Start up dates for: Infant Bap sm Sunday, October 18 at 6:30 p.m. Monday, October 19 at 6:30 p.m. First Communion (age 7 or older) Thursday, January 21 at 6:00 p.m. Rite of Chris an Ini a on Mondays, September 21 at 7:00 p.m. For further details, visit the Educa on and Forma- on page on our website or contact Anthony Allen, at ext Diocesan Events Worldwide Marriage Encounter The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart. Let your marriage be filled with joy. Deepen your communica on, rekindle your romance and renew your sacrament by a ending the next Worldwide Marriage Encounter weekend. The next Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends are October 16 18, 2015 in Kalispell MT and November 6 8, 2015 at Ucross WY. Contact Tom and Mary Frances at or tomm urke@gmail.com. Check out our websites at or on9.org Make a friend, be a friend, bring a friend to Christ!! If you are interested in learning about Cursillo, come to the next faith sharing on Friday October 23, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at Holy Trinity Church, 1836 Hot Springs Avenue, Cheyenne. Contact Charlie Rando, , if you have ques ons. October 3/4 Saturday 5:00 Sunday 8:30 Sunday 11:00 Sunday 5:00 LECTORS D Aneiros/C Aneiros B Belser/K.Burkhart J. Peak/R. Peak NEEDED/K. Mercer SERVERS M. Hidecker K. Ballard W. Kozlowski B.Fuller HOSPITALITY Showacre Family Ballard Family Kozlowski Family Michaela Rich-Mooney/William Heili EUCHARIST D. Gaddis T. Leathers R. Guenzel R. Schuster S. Gaddis J. Roznowski A. Hayden J. Wolf K. Downey C. Pridmore B. Pier S. Beck M. Downey A. Rosales NEEDED M. Cummings T. Scherden NEEDED NEEDED G. Kirk Eucharis c Bread Baking: H. LaBore Liturgical Ministry Schedule Interfaith Good Samaritan Items that are always in demand are baby diapers and wipes. The size needed most o en is size 4, but all sizes are accepted. Please consider making a dona on of diapers and wipes for those young families in need. Dona ons may be le in the southeast corner of the parish kitchen. Staff (307) newman@newmancenter.org Pastor: Fr. Rob Spaulding ext. #105 rob@newmancenter.org Director of Campus Ministry: Amanda Castonguay (307) amanda@newmancenter.org Director of Pastoral Music & Liturgy: Maggie Warner ext. #101 maggie@newmancenter.org Director of Pastoral Ministry: Anthony Allen ext. #103 anthony@newmancenter.org Coordinator of High School Youth Ministry: Cassie Miller (307) cassie@newmancenter.org Parish Business Manager: Sandy Gaddis ext. #100 sandy@newmancenter.org Communica ons Coordinator: Myra Belser ext. #106 myra@newmancenter.org Administra ve Assistant: Kelly Fuller ext. #102 kelly@newmancenter.org Campus Ministry Interns: Brea Farley, Becca Thomson, Sandra Loza Music Ministry Intern: Tom Quinlivan New To Our Parish? Would you like to be a member of St. Paul s Newman Center? Whether you are new to Laramie or new to our community, we welcome and invite you to stop by the office weekdays between the hours of 9:00 a.m. & 5:00 p.m. for membership informa on or go to our website at newman@newmancenter.org. Cor ad Cor loquitur. Heart Speaks to Heart.

5 Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 27, 2015 Seeing and Naming Faults A Word from Pope Francis Lumen Fidei, 22 By Janel Esker As the saying goes, Nobody likes a tattletale. True, but I always enjoyed being a tattletale. Whether reporting my brothers incessant teasing or a classmate s misbehavior, I liked feeling morally superior to others. I felt proud to serve as the police officer for good behavior in my world. Perhaps you ve known and even enjoyed that somewhat smug feeling. Joshua, in today s first reading, and John, in today s Gospel do a bit of tattling as they complain to their leaders about people who appear to be outsiders acting in God s name. Their complaints are dismissed because Moses and Jesus affirm that God knows no human Sunday Readings Numbers 11:25 29 Would that all the people of the Lord were prophets! James 5:1 6 You have murdered the righteous one. Mark 9:38 43, 45, Whoever is not against us is for us. boundaries, and these outsiders are doing the Lord s work. Not only are the tattlers complaints rejected, but Jesus issues a challenge to turn the eyes of judgment inward. His images of cutting off limbs and plucking out eyes are dramatic, but his point is simple: Remove from yourself anything that causes you or others to sin. Stop worrying about others behavior and focus on purging yourself of sinful thoughts and actions. Seeing others faults comes easily it s more difficult to be the police officer of our own behaviors. Yet we re called to be vigilant about removing elements that lead to sin. Perhaps we need to stop associating with people who gossip. Maybe we need to stop consuming alcohol because we re disrespectful or engage in risky behavior after a few drinks. Perhaps we need to stop nursing grudges and forgive someone who begs mercy from us. Can we look at ourselves with the observant eye of the tattletale and ask God to help us eliminate what leads us to sin? Liguori Publications l Liguori.org The Christian comes to see himself as a member of this body [the Church], in an essential relationship with all other believers. The image of a body does not imply that the believer is simply one part of an anonymous whole, a mere cog in a great machine; rather, it brings out the vital union of Christ with believers and of believers among themselves...faith is necessarily ecclesial; it is professed from within the body of Christ as a concrete communion of believers. It is against this ecclesial backdrop that faith opens the individual Christian towards all others. Lord, I am grateful for your allembracing love. Open my eyes to see you in everyone I meet. Open my heart to welcome all of your people. From Grateful Meditations for Every Day in Ordinary Time, Rev. Warren J. Savage and Mary Ann McSweeny

6 Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael: Archangels By Norman J. Muckerman, CSsR When I was in grade school my favorite day of the year was September 29, the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel, after whom our parish and school were named. That day was a free day for us to the envy and disgust of the local public school students. In those days, St. Michael did not share his day with any other saint, angelic or human. His day was even called Michaelmas Day, thus affording a unique honor to this heavenly warrior called in the Book of Daniel the protector and guardian of the people of Israel. Michael (the name means Who is like unto God? ) is also cited in the Letter of St. Jude (v. 9) as taking on the devil over the disposition of Moses body, and again in Revelation 12:7 9, when Michael and his warriors throw Satan and his horde out of heaven. By the fifth century, Christians of both the East and the West began to call on Michael for protection against the devil in life and especially in death. By the sixth century, a basilica had been built in Rome, as well as in other Christian centers, in his honor. Two other archangels mentioned in the Bible became prominent in Christian devotion: St. Gabriel (Hebrew for man of God ) When do I deliberately exclude others? How can I seek forgiveness from and make amends toward those whom I ve wrongly accused? and St. Raphael (Hebrew for God heals ). Gabriel was God s special messenger; he announced to Zechariah the forthcoming birth of John the Baptist and, even more importantly, the Incarnation of Jesus to Mary (Luke 1). Gabriel and Raphael originally had their own separate feast days, but in 1969 the Church merged the feasts into one day for all three archangels. However, each saint retains his unique patronages. Michael is the patron saint of mariners, paratroopers, police officers, and grocers. Gabriel is the patron saint of telecommunications workers, messengers, diplomats, stamp collectors, and postal employees. Raphael has two major specialties: healing and travel, which automatically places physicians, nurses, health inspectors, and those who are blind under his care. Finally, the Catechism of the Catholic Church ( ) maintains the existence of the multitude of these spiritual, noncorporeal beings that we call angels as an article of faith, sustained by Scripture and tradition. They are creatures of intelligence and will; they are personal and immortal. Angels were abundantly evident throughout the Old Testament and even more so with the coming of Christ, whose birth in Bethlehem they proclaimed. They watched over him, and they continue to watch over us. WEEKDAY READINGS September 28 October 3 Mon. Weekday: Zechariah 8:1 8 / Luke 9:46 50 Tue. Sts. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels: Daniel 7:9 10, or Revelation 12:7 12 / John 1:47 51 Wed. September 30, St. Jerome: Nehemiah 2:1 8 / Luke 9:57 62 Thu. St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus: Nehemiah 8:1 12 / Luke 10:1 12 Fri. The Holy Guardian Angels: Baruch 1:15 22 / Matthew 18:1 5, 10 Sat. Weekday: Baruch 4:5 12, / Luke 10:17 24 September 27, 2015 Copyright 2015 Liguori Publications, One Liguori Drive, Liguori, MO Liguori.org. Editor: Julia A. DiSalvo. Designer: Mark Bernard. Scripture quotations in this publication are from the New American Bible, revised edition, 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, DC. Papal quotations are used with permission and copyright Libreria Editrice Vaticana For licensing information, call All rights reserved. Distribution rights granted only to license holders. BHW001