Let us give thanks to God as a parish family by coming to the Holy Mass on Thanksgiving Day at 9:00. I encourage you to bring to church the bread and wine that you plan on serving for your Thanksgiving dinner; after the Mass we’ll bless them for your family’s use and send you home with a special meal blessing prayer. I also invite you to bring to Mass canned goods or other non-perishable food items. The food that you bring will be used for the Christmas baskets that Holy Trinity will prepare for needy families in our area.
With the First Sunday of Advent, our Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion begin a new three-year term of service to the parish. They have just been appointed by Archbishop Chaput and I am very grateful to them for their service at the Holy Mass and in the houses of our homebound parishioners. There will be an evening of formation on Tuesday, December 1st, at 6:30 pm in the church. This meeting is mandatory for all new Ministers and for those who are interested in being appointed. It is optional for our existing Extraordinary Ministers. For questions, please call Cindy Vega at 303-465-4342.
We need genuine health-care reform that helps to save lives — not to diminish and destroy them. Please act now! Contact your U.S. Representative and Senators and urge them to fix these bills with the pro-life amendments that would effectively exclude mandated abortion coverage, keep longstanding policies against abortion funding and continue to support conscience rights.
High Honor Roll
Straight A’s with no more than one B Religion, Reading, Math, English, Spelling, Social Studies, Science, Spanish, Music, Computer, P.E., and Art.
2nd Year CONFIRMATION
2° año de Confirmación
November 22nd NO CLASS
November 29th NO CLASS
December 6th Mass & Class 11am-2pm
*December 13th Mass & Class 11am-2pm *Saint Report is due
Last week, in the Denver Catholic Register (DCR) was a short article about a new Blessed, Chiara Luce Badano. I was intrigued because this new Blessed died in 1990, only 19 short years ago, and the Church usually takes much longer to investigate the life of someone who has been proposed for sainthood. So I went to the Italian web to read more about her.
Congress is preparing to debate health care reform legislation on the House and Senate floors. Genuine health care reform should protect the life and dignity of all people from the moment of conception until natural death. The U.S. Bishops’ Conference has concluded that all committee approved bills are seriously deficient on the issues of abortion and conscience, and do not provide adequate access to health care for immigrants and the poor. The bills will have to change or the bishops have pledged to oppose them.
Our nation is at a crossroads. Policies adopted in health care reform will have an impact for good or ill for years to come. None of the bills retains longstanding current policies against abortion funding or abortion coverage mandates, and none fully protects conscience rights in health care.
Auction ticket orders due November 9
Exciting New Items Up for Bid at this Year’s Auction
- An autographed John Elway Denver Broncos Football valued at over $750.
- 4 Suite Tickets to the Colorado Avalanche vs. Calgary Flames Game on Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 6:00 pm – Complete with a Parking Pass, Food and Soft Drinks
- Two Reserved Tickets to the Sunday, November 22, 2009 Denver Broncos Vs. San Diego Chargers Game at 2:15 p.m. along with Denver Bronco Memorabilia
- An Authentic Italian Dinner for 6 People, cooked by Nicoletta MacKenzie & with Our Own Parish Priests, Fr. Hilton & Fr. Carlos
2nd Year CONFIRMATION
2° año de Confirmación
November 15th Mass & Class 11am-2pm
November 22nd NO CLASS
November 29th NO CLASS
December 6th Mass & Class 11am-2pm
That’s right, “auction” not “action.” I love auctions. I always have, since the time, when I was a little girl, when I enjoyed watching the annual Assumption Day auction at the little church in the tiny village in the Alps where grandpa (nonno) had his cabin: Piani Resinelli. The village was, and still is, practically deserted in winter and spring, with a few skiers going to their cabins for weekends. The Pastor of a larger village some miles away would come up on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation to offer Mass, and had started what became a local tradition, the auction, in order to pay for repairs and improvements.
