October 14, 2018 ~ 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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1 October 14, 2018 ~ 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time A Message from Our Pastor Indeed the word of God is living and effective (HEB 4:12) St. Paul is referring to the word proclaimed by the Apostles. We may get the impression that he is little bit surprised, with a touch a doubt. But, we couldn t be more wrong. St. Paul is actually emphasizing the power of the Word of God. The Word of God is a different type of word. It is not as human words are, but has a power which penetrates our souls. This Word has authority. It is like a shining star in the darkness of the world. Nothing can hide from it and nothing can be spared from it. This Word changes everything and everything exists because of it. St. John began his gospel: In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God. (JN 1:1) In our world where people say a lot of words without meaning and we are flooded with words pushing us to make unconscious decisions, God is the only one who really speaks with us and makes us different, better. He makes us alive. In Christ's Peace, Fr. Marek 14th Annual Thanksgiving Basket Drive The Knights of Columbus are collecting donations through November 16th for Pax Christi's 14th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner Basket Food Drive. Last year, Pax Christi Parishioners successfully donated over 500 Thanksgiving dinners to families in need throughout Colorado! The Knights will be signing up volunteers for food donations after each Mass. Please reserve Saturday, November 17th for families to join the Knights to assemble and deliver food baskets to various charities in Colorado. There are two ways to donate: Purchase your own ingredients (see shopping list) and assemble the dinner for direct delivery on November 17th. Or make a suggested donation of $50 to the Knights. Go to: for more information on how to donate and items needed. Pax Christi Marriage Retreat Staying Connected From I Do and Beyond Saturday, December 1st 9:00am to 4:00pm in the Great Hall How do you as couple stay connected after I Do? After all Life Happens! Give one another a gift and join other couples for a one-day Marriage Retreat. We will cover such topics as Your Beginning, Communication, Priorities, Identifying Needs, and How to Nurture and Enrich Your Marriage. Childcare is available and lunch will be served. Confession will also be available. Cost is $20 per couple. Go to (link is case sensitive) to register. For more information on these and other events, go to

2 Second Annual All Saints Celebration Hosted by the Wives of the Knights of Columbus Saturday, November 3 rd after the 5:00 p.m. Mass Festivities will include: All Saints parade and costume contest (come dressed as your favorite saint) Saints trivia contest with prizes Yummy casual supper $1 chance tickets to win prizes and baskets Games and coloring for the kiddos Bring the entire family for an evening of fun and fellowship! What you can do to help: Please bring your donations for the dollar chance prices and baskets to the parish office. Consider putting together an entire basket with a theme. You can also bring individual items or prizes for us to make the baskets. Suggestions for these items are as follows: Kids games, Legos, etc. (these were a hit last year) Restaurant and fast food certificates, activities such as bowling, Top Golf, Dave & Busters, etc. Wine baskets Jewelry, handbags and other ladies' accessories Themed baskets such as cooking, movie night... anything you can dream up would be appreciated. Other ways to help: We will be getting together at the church in our youth room on Monday, October 22nd from 9:00am to 1:00pm if you want to help put baskets together and tag the chance items. You can also come help set up the day before the event on Friday, November 2nd from 9:00am 2:00pm You can come to the event and help facilitate the fun starting at 5:00pm on Saturday, November 3rd throughout the evening. Please contact Vicky Hensen with any questions or if you d like to help out at vhint06@msn.com or Parish Office Closed Wednesday, October 17th Sunday Petition For the grace to respond to the Lord's invitation to give ourselves away for all who are poor and weak, especially the dying, the forgotten, and the unborn. We pray to the Lord. A retirement asset like an IRA or 401(k) makes an excellent legacy gift to Pax Christi. If your IRA were given to your family, much of the value would be depleted through estate and income taxes. These assets were never meant to be inherited! By designating us as the beneficiary of part or all of your IRA, the full value is transferred to us tax free at your death and your estate receives a charitable deduction. For more information contact the Office of Planned Giving at (719) or visit ************************* Intercessory Prayer That God, who calls us to remove all oppression, will enable our nation to restore equal protection to the lives of children still in their mother's womb. We pray to the Lord. 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time -2- October 14, 2018

3 LIVE love play CELEBRATING 6 YEARS OF SKD A Red Carpet Event honoring the stars of the show, our SKD preschoolers 6PM ON NOVEMBER 10, 2018 The Franciscan Event Center 6553 S. Revere Pkwy, Centennial, CO PLEASE JOIN US FOR DINNER, DANCING AND FUNDRAISING FUN! ENTERTAINMENT BY DENVER 7 NEWS ANCHOR ERIC LUPHER AND DANNY SHOWERS 5 PIECE BAND! Tickets ARE available: At Pax Christi after Masses Online at skdschool.paxchristi.org Or Mlupher@paxchristi.org St. Katharine Drexel Catholic School is growing! Help us raise funds to support the growth of an 8 classroom extension starting this summer. World Mission Sunday Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: World Mission Sunday, organized by the Propagation of the Faith, is a day set aside for Catholics worldwide to recommit themselves to the Church's missionary activity through prayer and sacrifice. This year World Mission Sunday is celebrated the weekend of October 20/21, This year, Pope Francis addresses his World Mission Sunday message to us as we live out the adventure of being children of God. What a wonderful way to imagine the mission we have received from the Lord! It is a revitalizing adventure. When all the children of God, at every stage of life, reflect on the fact that our lives are a mission, our faith remains ever young. As we pray and respond on World Mission Sunday here at home, we share in those celebrations taking place in every parish, seminary, school and convent all over the world. Together with children of God in every corner of the globe, we become voices for mission, providing the prayerful and financial support necessary to bring the Lord s mercy and concrete help to the most vulnerable communities in the Pope s missions. World Mission Day, promoted by the Society of the Propagation of the Faith, is a good opportunity for enabling the missionary heart of Christian communities to join in prayer, testimony of life and communion of goods, in responding to the vast and pressing needs of evangelization. Your support will truly make a difference. Thank you for your generosity in supporting missionaries around the world. Pax Christi Catholic Church -3- Littleton, CO

4 Music Ministry During Ordinary Time in Year B we will highlight passages from the General Instruction on the Roman Missal (GIRM) that pertain to music during the liturgy. The GIRM contains rubrics and instructions (some of them new) for the celebration of the Mass. The first section below is a direct quote from the English translation of the document. The second section is a commentary on the passage. The Functions of the Reader (GIRM #196) Liturgy of the Word The reader reads from the ambo the readings that precede the Gospel. In the absence of a psalmist, the reader may also proclaim the Responsorial Psalm after the First Reading. Commentary: The Sunday readings (including the Responsorial Psalm) are very clearly defined in the Lectionary. Knowing that some congregations may wish to reinforce a psalm/refrain by sequential repetition, or that a parish may want to unify a season with a consistent psalm, the Church allows us to substitute for the specific Responsorial Psalm of the Sunday a Common Responsorial Psalm for the season (including Ordinary Time). This exception clearly does not extend to musical "paraphrases" of the psalms, be they metrical hymn versions or lyric creations of the contemporary singer/songwriters. An example of this would be if the prescribed psalm was psalm 23 (the Lord is my shepherd there is nothing I shall want) and instead of singing that text the song Shepherd me, O God was done in its place. The text must be the Church's as presented in the approved books. The musical choice (within good taste) is ours. If a good setting of the proper (or common) Responsorial Psalm cannot be found or learned, I think it better to recite a correct psalm (as indicated above in GIRM #196) than to sing some individual's "version" of sacred Scripture. Note the use of the new term "reader" rather than "lector." This is perhaps to distinguish the lay minister in a parish situation from the Instituted Lector, an official designation of a seminarian on his way to permanent diaconate or priesthood. Should an Instituted Lector be present in the parish (for example, a seminarian on Christmas break), he should be offered the role of reading at Mass it is his official ministry, much like the Priest, Deacon and Instituted Acolyte have preference over the laity as ministers of Holy Communion. Raymond Ortiz, Music Director / rfortiz@paxchristi.org St. Elizabeth s Pantry In Douglas County, 10% of our neighbors must choose between paying the rent, heating their home, or feeding their children. Our parish s pantry is open to individuals and families twice per month, enabling visitors to shop for non-perishable foods, toiletries, and cleaning supplies. Most of our visitors are the working poor who struggle making ends meet. A few are transient homeless. All of our visitors are grateful! How can you help? Volunteer! Staff the pantry. Sort food donations. Host a food drive. Donate! Purchase extra non-perishable foods. Give a monetary gift. Plastic grocery bags are also needed. Pray! May God guide the feet of our St. Elizabeth's Pantry visitors as they journey towards self-sufficiency. May the non-perishable foods they receive fill their stomachs. May the loving support they receive from the pantry volunteers fill their hearts. For more information, please contact Jean Henry at jeanhenry210@gmail.com or th Sunday in Ordinary Time October 14, 2018

5 Liturgy Are You In It? On our journey through the Liturgy, it is time to look at the elements of the Mass. All of them are present in the Mass for a certain reason and they express the different meanings of our celebration. Processions: The symbol of a procession is very universal. It contains elements reflecting the journey of people through history, our personal journey through life, our journey towards eternity, etc. The universal truth is that man was created to travel, to move, to be on a journey, to be in motion. Only in motion can we reach our goals and share ourselves with others. It is the dynamic reality of our existence and only death will stop it. The entire liturgical procession cannot be an affect or a coincidence. It has to be prepared, made in order. This order reflects the direction of our existence. The holy assembly gathers for a reason and the procession takes place in it. It has to be organized. It is the entrance procession that begins the Holy Mass. The procession begins with the Holy Cross and two candles, then the altar servers, acolytes, lectors, cantor, deacons, including a deacon with the Book of the Gospel, and the priest. The tradition of this procession comes from the 4 th century. After Constantine gave freedom to all Christians, some elements of the Liturgy already accepted traditions from the world. One of them was the procession. In ancient Rome, the empire walked into the pagan temple or to the capitol with a procession. In the 4 th century, popes accepted this solemn entrance as the beginning of the Eucharist. All people gathered in the church were standing as a sign of respect. It was the way to welcome the pope who represents the presence of Christ. The entrance procession is accompanied by a hymn as a sign of the unity of all gathered together. This hymn becomes a prayer of praise we give to our Savior. This first hymn is very important because it prepares us to experience the entire Mystery of Salvation related to the liturgical season. This entrance procession also gives homage to the Altar, therefore, the entire procession bows down before the Altar and the priest will kiss and incense it. Giving praise and homage to the Altar is a way of giving themselves to Christ. It is also a symbol of the unity between things visible and invisible, between earth and heaven. Youth Ministry Middle School Program - Our Middle School program is for all teens in 7th and 8th grade who meet on Wednesday evenings from 6:00-7:30 p.m. in the Youth Room. Summer Mission Trip fundraisers coming up! High School Program - Our High School Discipleship program is for all teens in 9th through 12th grade who meet on Thursdays from 7:00-9:00 p.m. All those currently in 8th - 12th grade are invited to join us this summer 2019 as we go to Dallas! There are fundraisers scheduled every month until the new year! Also, if you haven t registered for middle or high school youth group yet, please find forms on our website under YOUTH. We are looking forward to this year and seeing you. For more information or questions, contact Chenele at cshaw@paxchristi.org or call (720) Follow us on Instagram at PaxChristiyouthHR. Pax Christi Catholic Church Littleton, CO

6 THE WEEK AHEAD Monday October 15 9:30a-11:30a Biblical School 6:30p-8:00p Baptism Preparation 7:00p-9:00p Youth Core Team Tuesday October 16 9:30a-11:30a Pax Moms 1:00p-3:00p Prayer Shawl 4:15p-5:30p Choir-2nd Year Novices/Choristers 5:30p-7:30p St. Vincent de Paul 6:30p-7:30p The Path Wednesday October 17 Parish Office Closed 9:30a-10:30a Prayer Chain 9:40a-11:40a ENDOW 10:00a-12:00p Pantry 3:30p-7:30p SKD Conferences 5:15p-6:30p Choir-3rd Year Novices/Choristers 6:00p-7:30p Edge (Middle School) 6:00p-7:30p Finance Council 6:30p-8:30p ENDOW 6:30p-8:00p Unlocking Mysteries of the Bible 7:15p-9:00p M/W Schola 7:30p-9:00p Parish Council Thursday October 18 9:45a-11:15a Lectio: Phillipians 11:45a-1:00p A Biblical Walk Through the Mass 3:30p-7:30p SKD Conferences 4:15p-5:30p Choir-1st Yr. Novices 6:00p-7:00p H.S. Confirmation 6:30p-7:30p Adoration/Confession 6:30p-8:00p Spiritual Exercises 7:00p-9:00p H.S. Discipleship Friday October 19 6:00a-7:15a Point Men 10:00a-11:00a FORMED (Spanish) 10:00a-12:00p Pantry Saturday October 20 9:00a-1:00p Project Linus Sunday October 21 9:30a-12:00p Donuts - KoC 9:40a-10:30a Bible Blast 9:45a-11:30a RCIA/RCIC 10:30a-12:00p Respect Life 12:30p-2:30p GIFT B1 4:00p-6:00p GIFT B2 Information Wall Did you know there is a wealth of information on the wall in the Great Hall? Stop by and see what resources are available to you, or someone you know. Find ministry pamphlets, parish opportunities, prayer guides, support booklets and more! While you're there, admire the Baptism garments that commemorate those who began their faith journey at Pax Christi. How does the program work? Purchase a reloadable gift card for $5.00 at the Parish Office. You will receive a card with $5.00 on it. Take it to the customer service desk or the checkout line at King Soopers and reload it when doing your shopping and Pax Christi will receive 5% back. You can buy as many cards as you would like. Additional Information. Cards with a zero balance will become inactive after 90 days and you will need to purchase a new one. Lost, stolen, damaged, destroyed or tossed cards will not be replaced by King Soopers. Gift cards cannot be purchased directly from King Soopers for this program. 10/13 5:00 Deacon Tom Sandusky 10/14 8:30a Christophe Damay 10/14 10:30a Gary Craven (d) 10/14 5:00p Carrie Ann Freimuth 10/15 9:00a Souls in Purgatory 10/17 9:00a Marj Rees (SI) and Forest Rees (d) 10/18 9:00a The Rees Family 10/19 9:00a James O'Connor (d) Shopping at Amazon.com? Did you know that by shopping at Amazon.com (Smile.Amazon.com), you can generate $$ for Pax Christ? It s EASY! To shop, simply go to smile.amazon.com. Select Pax Christi Catholic Church, Littleton. This will be your default charity for all future purchases. Pax Christi will receive.5% of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases. The money earned from this website is electronically deposited into a Pax Christi bank account. You can change your default charity at any time. Shop and support Pax Christi at the same time! 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time October 14, 2018

7 Mass Schedule Monday, Wednesday-Friday: 9:00am Saturday: 5:00pm Sunday: 8:30am, 10:30am, 5:00pm Holy Days (weekday): 6:30am / 7:00pm Sacrament Of Reconciliation Monday, Wednesday-Friday: 8:30-8:50am Thursday: 6:30-7:30pm (Chapel) Saturday: 4:00-4:30pm Or by appointment Parish Office Hours Monday-Thursday: 9:00am - Noon and 1:00pm - 5:00pm Friday: 9:00am - Noon Parish Office: Fax: Holy Hour of Adoration: Thursday: 6:30-7:30pm (Chapel) 1st Friday: 6:30-7:30p (Chapel) Sacramental Emergencies: , option 2 Parish Stewardship of Treasure Contributions to Pax Christi for October 1-7, 2018 Offertory Collection Basket: $10,615 Online Giving: $9,145 Capital Improvements Collection Basket: $810 Online Giving: $940 Weekly Offertory Needed: $24,082 Number of registered Families: 928 Parish Staff Pastor: Fr. Marek Krol / mkrol@paxchristi.org Deacon: Tom Sandusky / tsandusky@paxchristi.org Business Manager: Lisa Walker / lwalker@paxchristi.org Director of Music: Raymond Ortiz / rfortiz@paxchristi.org Director of Adult Catechesis: Ginger Giesen / jgiesen@paxchristi.org Director of Children's Sacrament Preparation: Rachel Daugherty / rdaugherty@paxchristi.org Director of Youth Ministry: Chenele Shaw / cshaw@paxchristi.org Head Catechist: Becky Hensler / bhensler@paxchristi.org Administrative Assistant: Joanne Lafond / jlafond@paxchristi.org Maintenance: Victor Corral / vcorral@paxchristi.org St. Katharine Drexel School: Mandi Lupher, Director / mlupher@paxchristi.org Serving the Denver Catholic Community Since The heritage behind our mortuaries and cemeteries is one of history and tradition. Matt Whaley, Director Kathy Soltero, Pre-Planning Counselor Chapel Hill Mortuary (303) For ad info. call Pax Christi Church, Littleton, CO B 4C

8 Advanced Audiology, Inc. Hearing & Tinnitus Center Dr. Barbara Jenkins Parishioner Most Ethical Small Business BBB 25 years of hospital & clinical experience Colorado s first Board Certified Doctor of Audiology Progressive Home Health Services Home Health Services provider Now hiring for the following Positions: RN, LPN, CNA, PCW and Homemakers Call: (720) of Highlands Ranch/NW Douglas County Fire-Water Cleanup & Restoration Owned by Parishioner and Knight of Columbus Gary Mayfield OB/GYN services in-line with the Catholic Church. Natural family planning, infertility, obstetrics and gynecologic surgery Crown Crest Blvd., Suite 431 Parker, CO integratedobgyn.org Randy Johnson Voted Best of the Best Highlands Ranch Herald Serving Highlands Ranch for over 25 years. Call for a 1 hour free consultation. Estate Planning Probate Medicaid Bankruptcy Elder Law Wills & Trusts Michael T. Meurer Andrew J Hendel Financial Advisor Parishioner East Plaza Drive Parker, CO Contact Nik Alexander to place an ad today! nalexander@4lpi.com or (800) x Member SIPC Call LPi today for advertising info (800) Jackie Regnery, Parishioner Broker Associate 6501 E Belleview Ave, Ste 500, Englewood, CO Jackie.regnery@coloradohomes.com I m here to serve you. DOESN T YOUR CHILD DESERVE A PEDIATRIC SPECIALIST Happy Kids, Happy Smiles! Colorado Kids Pediatric Dentistry 9358 Dorchester St., Ste. 106 Highlands Ranch, CO Second Location: 361 Village Square Ln., Ste. 100 Castle Pines, CO Contact Nik Alexander nalexander@4lpi.com (800) x2665 Owner/Parishioner 1005 Commons Street Unit 270 Lone Tree, CO Located in the Super Target Center Open 7 days a week For ad info. call Pax Christi Church, Littleton, CO A 4C