Go and Make Disciples. - Matthew 28:19. know your faith live your faith share your faith SUNDAY MASSES DAILY MASS

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1 2375 EAST ARIZONA AVENUE, DENVER, COLORADO SUNDAY MASSES Saturday: (Anticipatory) 5:00 pm Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:30 am, and 11:30 am T H E F O U RT H S U N D AY O F L E N T M A R C H 2 6, DAILY MASS Monday Friday: 6:30 am and 8:00 am Saturday: 8:00 am RECONCILIATION Monday Saturday: 7:30 am 7:45 am Saturday: 3:30 pm 4:30 pm Also by Appointment SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Contact Parish Office to schedule. SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY Contact Parish Office at least eight months prior to the wedding SACRAMENT OF THE SICK Contact Parish Office at onset of illness. In case of death in the family, contact Parish Office immediately. FINANCE COUNCIL Marc Br adac, Jody Block, Cathleen Gillies, and Cr aig Saeman PASTORAL COUNCIL Julie Buckley, Chuck Masur, K atie McCloskey, Philip Nearing, Lucas Stine, Shari Sullivan, Secretary: Virginia Zordani PARISH STAFF Pastor: Very Rev. Andrew Kemberling, V.F. Parochial Vicar: Rev. Douglas Gr andon Deacons: Tim Kelly and Marvin Hegarty Pastor al Associate: Dcn. George Morin, ext 202 Business Manager: Jeff Babcock, ext 207 Director of Communications and Stewardship: Mila Glodava, ext 205 Director of Music: Mary Beth, ext 222 IT Director: Mark Weiland, ext 210 Secretary/Receptionist: Meg Robinson, ext 203 Bulletin Editor: Mark Weiland ext 210 PARISH SCHOOL Principal: Sr. Dominic Quinn, O.P., ext 100 Assistant Principal: Mary Cohen ext South Josephine Street Denver, Color ado info@svdpk8.com Go and Make Disciples - Matthew 28:19 know your faith live your faith share your faith

2 THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT Pastor s Message Dear Parishioners, Stewardship of Prayer This Week s Mass Intentions: Monday, March 27th: 8:00am Courteney Saeman Tuesday, March 28th: 6:30am Mark Molendyk 8:00am Cesar Palencia Wednesday, March 29th: 6:30am Margaret Mandel 8:00am Merlin Johnson Thursday, March 30th: 8:00am Helen Jenkins Friday, March 31st: 8:00am Courteney Saeman Saturday, April 1st: 8:00 Mamma Marquez 5:00 Rose Plakaparis 7:30 Mamma Marquez 9:30 Ilma Simoes 11:30 St. Vincent de Paul Parishioners Do you believe in the Son of Man? Jesus is the Son of Man and he asks this question to the man born blind. Our world today is like the man born blind and the Pharisees. The scientific method and those who swear by science are those who say that religious people are ignorant and deluded. The secular progressive movement in our society is not much different and is hostile to religion. This weekend is the Fourth Week of Lent and the Man Born Blind is the Gospel reading. Belief is the focus of the reading and I find it odd when science uses the language of religion and asks its followers to believe. Belief is the language of religion not science. Religion provides evidence along with reasonable conclusions and asks us to believe. Our faith in Jesus Christ involves healing from the blindness that our world has embraced. Freed from absence of religious explanations we understand how everything came about with God s design. The problem with science is that when it lacks proof it speculates and asks us to believe. Evidence is not proof. Science is limited and when it reaches its limits, it is important for people like me to draw attention to it. Religion has a much better explanation than the random chance explanation that science has to offer. What they offer is frankly, unbelievable. Let us challenge the lack of proof that science is supposed to have and put our faith in God. Jesus is the Son of Man and he is truly the Son of God. Always be suspicious when science asks us to believe something. My belief is in God not science. Let us continue in our season of Lent. Sincerely in Christ, Our ill parish members & relatives: Larry Brooks Peg Doppes Roger Gardner Pat Merrill Marian Romaine Our deceased parish members & relatives: Rodrigo Garcia David Morin Fred White Veterans and deceased members of our Armed Forces who serve selflessly to protect our way of life. Due to the Privacy Act, only immediate family members may request a name to be placed on the prayer list. Please call the office at Parish Offices Closed Wednesday, March 29th - Staff Retreat Readings for the Week of March 26, 2017 Sunday: 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a/ Ps 23:1-6/Eph 5:8-14/Jn 9:1-41 or 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, Monday: Is 65:17-21/Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-12a, 13b/Jn 4:43-54 Tuesday: Ez 47:1-9, 12/Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9/Jn 5:1-16 Wednesday: Is 49:8-15/Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-15, 17-18/Jn 5:17-30 Thursday: Ex 32:7-14/Ps 106:19- Friday: Activities & Meetings Monday, March 27th: Boy Scout Troop 140 meeting - 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm, Cafeteria Healing Mass - 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm, Tuesday, March 28th: Catholic Biblical School 8:30 am to 11:30 am, Garden Room Tuesday Rosary - 8:30 am to 9:30 am, Wednesday, March 29th: Parish Offices Closed - Staff Retreat RCIA Meeting - 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm, Garden Room Thursday, March 30th: Thursday Bible Study - 9:00 am to 11:30 am, Garden Room Alpha 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, Garden Room Friday, March 31th: Patriarchs 6:30 am to 7:30 am, Garden Room Stations of the Cross - 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm, Knights of Columbus Fish Fry - 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm, Cafeteria Saturday, April 1st: Anticipated Mass - 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm, Pancake Breakfast - 8:30 am to 11:30 Am, Cafeteria 23/Jn 5:31-47 Wis 2:1a, 12-22/Ps 34:17-21, 23/Jn 7:1-2, 10, Saturday: Jer 11:18-20/Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-12/Jn 7:40-53 Next Sunday: Ez 37:12-14/Ps 130:1-8/ Rom 8:8-11/Jn 11:1-45 or 11:3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45

3 Stewardship of Time & Talent March 26, 2017 Knight of Columbus Fish Fry 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm - In our Cafeteria after the Stations of the Cross The Knights of Columbus Council 5161 invites you to join us for The Best Ever Friday Fish Fry Dinners following Stations of the Cross on March 3rd, 10th, 24th, and 31st. Wonderful Beer Battered Fried or Baked Fish with two sides for $8. Seniors / Children $5, Families $20. Treat yourself, treat you family! Bring your friends, bring your date! Pancake Breakfast Sunday, April 2nd - 8:30 am to 11:30 am, Cafeteria Please join us, Sunday, April 2nd, in our cafeteria for a pancake breakfast with all of the fixings. Juice, coffee, pancakes and much more round out this menu. Spend a few minutes to share stories with with fellow parishioners. Altar Servers Saturday, April 1st 5:00 pm Joe Donelson Jessica Garofalo Lauren Garofalo Ave Stine 7:30 am Harrison Schmitt Ryan Schmitt 9:30 am Patrick Buckley Ryan Buckley John Burns Liam Kiernan Sebastian Kiernan 11:30 am Eoin Canavan Jacob Swanno There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can. St. Vincent de Paul Your Photo is needed! Did you know that our Parish Photo Directory is crucial to the running our parish? When you call it allows us to put a face with a name and our contact becomes more personalized. We learn about our families and hope everyone will participate! Please watch our bulletin for upcoming details. St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School is celebrating 90 years of educating our youth. Our school opened in 1926 and this year s Photo Directory is a chance to be part of our community s history! On-line scheduling is available NOW and we encourage you to sign up early to get the best time for your family. Sign up at or call St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School Our Week at a Glance Monday - March 27th to 31st: No School - Spring Break School Resumes: Monday - April 3rd SVdP Catholic School s New Outdoor Learning Lab This year s paddle raiser presents a completely new opportunity for our school and for our children s learning environment. The outdoor lab presents an environment for active learning the kind of learning that research says shapes the kind of work going on in the brain. Our teachers are fantastic and find amazing ways to teach lessons with active aspects, but this entire classroom is designed for children s learning activities. We wish to thank everyone for their support!

4 THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT Stewardship of Faith Stewardship of Vocations The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Matthew 9:37 Parish Access Code: XFTDNJ for Formed.org The ECHO series from Ahava Productions will be a 36 part video-based study of the United States Catholic Catechism of Adults (USCCA) presented by Bishop Donald Hying of Gary, Indiana. These short and engaging videos introduce each chapter of the USCCA and provide an inspiring start to personal or group study of our rich Catholic Faith. Sacramental Preparation Thursday, May 18th - 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm Confirmation Rehearsal Friday, May 19th - 6:00 pm Celebrate the Sacrament (please have Confirmandi here by 5:20 pm) Please contact Kelly Archer at kelly@saintvincents.org or for clarification on our Sacramental Preparation Program. First Communion Meetings First Holy Communion: Evening preparation retreat for parents and kids: April 10th, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (Wednesday) OR April 11th, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (Thursday) *Both retreat evenings will be the same content Practice for parents and kids: April 28th, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm (Friday) Sacrament: April 29th, 10:00 am (Saturday) *Brunch reception following Next Healing Mass - This Monday, March 27th 6:00 pm Msgr. Peter Quang Nguyen, presiding. Our next Healing Mass will be on Monday, March 27th. The RAD Retreats is scheduled on April 30 from 10:00 am and end at 5:00 pm. For further details check the St. John Vianney Theological Seminary s website at Stations of the Cross Fridays During Lent - 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm Each Friday during Lent we host the Stations of the Cross! They are held from 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm except on Friday, March 17th where there is a time change to 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm due for Saint Patrick s Day. Gabriel House Gabriel House is committed to assist pregnant women and families with small children in need. If you would like to participate, we need diapers sizes: #4, #5 and #6, wipes,toiletries, formula, clothes T 0 to 6. We are always looking for volunteers to sort clothes and help clients. If you are interested, please contact MaKenzi Loutsch, or mloutsch@ccdenver.org

5 March 26, 2017 Stewardship of Treasure 4th Sunday of Lent One of the things we know for sure about Jesus is that he tried to divest people of the things they knew for sure. It s our sureties that need to be dismantled before we can clearly see God s work in our lives. The disciples knew for sure that blindness (and all misfortune) was the result of sin somewhere in the family tree. In an uneasy world of sky-high infant mortality and the ever present violence of the Roman occupiers, it was comforting to assign some kind of sin to those who had huge challenges. We can picture the disciples thinking, as they encountered the man blind from birth, How horrible to have to navigate the world without sight. I must find a reason why he is blind and I m not. I ve got it! He must have sinned somewhere along the line. Thank God I m not a sinner. Some contemporary ways in which we assure ourselves that bad things don t happen to virtuous people might be: I wear my seat belt, so I ll never have a catastrophic injury in a car crash. I ve never smoked, so I ll never get lung cancer. I made every sacrifice raising my kids in the faith, so of course they will love it and raise their kids in the faith too. Except, of course, people with their seat belts firmly fastened die in car crashes, and non-smokers get lung cancer every day. And we re all watching the culture lure this generation into a world view that dismisses religious faith. We can t distance ourselves from pain and hope it never finds us. But this we know this for sure: Jesus is with us in blindness and in sight. Stewardship Prayer My parish is composed of people like me. I help make it what it is. It will be friendly, if I am. It will be holy, if I am. Its pews will be filled, if I help fill them. It will do great work, if I work. It will be prayerful, if I pray. It will make generous gifts to many causes, if I am a generous giver. It will bring others into worship, if I invite and bring them in. It will be a place of loyalty and love, of fearlessness and faith, of compassion, charity, and mercy. if I, who make it is, am filled with these same things. Therefore, with the help of God, I now dedicate myself to the task of being all the things that I want my parish to be! from Our Sunday Visitor How do you walk in faith in a scary world? Kathy McGovern Support our Advertisers IRA Charitable Rollover is now a Permanent Law Each IRA owner over age 70½ may make a transfer of up to $100,000 per year to a qualified charity. IRA charitable rollovers are tax-free and not included in adjusted gross income. An IRA charitable rollover may fulfill part or all of your required minimum distribution (RMD). To learn how you and the can benefit, contact Jean Finegan at The Catholic Foundation at Facebook Please Like us on Facebook. St. Vincent de Paul Parish and School is available via this link: Did you know you can find our Bulletins on our website or via this link: