August 12, 2018

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

WELCOME TO ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH

1145 South Aspen Road Pueblo, CO 81006 Parish Office (719) 544-1886 Fax: (719) 544-5137 Website: stjosephparish-pueblo.com Facebook: St. Joseph Catholic Church-Pueblo

Vision Statement

We, the Catholic Community of St. Joseph, are committed to following Christ in faith and love through the sacramental tradition of the Catholic Church.

The Church of St. Joseph Mission Statement

We, the Catholic Community of St. Joseph, brothers and sisters in Christ with our rich and diverse traditions, accept as our Mission:

To know and practice our faith through the Gospel, to serve the needs of our parish com-munity with time, talent and treasure, to teach by example and, thereby, strengthen and inspire the parish community.

Pastoral Staff

Fr. Joseph Vigil, Pastor, Ex. 102

Fr. Gary Kennedy

Fr. Anthony Wojcinski

Rev. Mr. Peter A. Massaro, Deacon— R.C.I.A.—Adult Faith Formation

Office Staff Administrative Assistant: Josie Marrufo, Ex. 100 Business Manager: Carrie Wills, Ex. 108 Assistant Business Manager : Judy Martinez, Ex. 113 Religious Education: Maria Lopez, DRE, Ex. 103 Music Ministry Director: Marcos Le Blanc Custodial/Maintenance ; Abel Valero-Robbie Gonzales Larry Pacheco Youth Music Ministry Coordinators: Damian Leon—Jessica Benavidez

Altar Servers Coordinator: Maverick Wills

Quinceañera Coordinator: Maria Cornejo

Church Environment: Cheryl Hill

Father Murray Hall-Kitchen Coordinator: Chip DeLuca

Music Ministry Team

Marcos Le Blanc Katrina Dankert Damian Leon Jessica Benavidez Amanda Moore Kennedy Pugh Patti Pugh Rita Granato

Sacristans:

Crisanta Goldsberry Susan Genova-Humphrey Kathy Kyle Catherine Garcia Richard Noriega Betty Santistevan Rita Baca

ST. JOSEPH GIFT STORE Open: Monday thru Thursday 10 am to 3 pm

Weekend Mass Schedule— Saturday: 5:00 p.m. — Sunday: 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 am

Mass Schedule — Monday& Tuesday: Communion Service: 8:00 am / Wed.- Fri. ~ Mass: 8:00 am

Sacrament of Reconciliation—Saturday: 4:00 pm, or by appointment

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament—Friday: 8:30 am—9:00 am

Office Hours— Monday-Thursday 8:00 am—4 pm Office Hours for Friday— 8:00 am—12 NOON

ST. JOSEPH GIFT STORE

Come visit St. Joseph Gift Store located in Church office. Open Monday thru Thursday 10am-2pm & by appointment if needed.

Volunteers are needed for the gift store call Alberta at 542-7080 or Isabel at 565-8216.

Candles can be purchased in the Sacristy. Please speak to one of the ushers for your purchase.

From: Father Joseph’s Desk

ST. JOSEPH COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN

Next Meeting: September 26th Social at 5:30 Meeting at 6:00 pm.

Question contact: President -Stella Lopez 719-250-5843 or stellalopez.sl@gmail.com

Save the dates: St. Joseph Festival August 4th and 5th Don’t forget to volunteer for St. Josephs’ Festival T-Shirts available in the office.

District CCW Dates: September 8—Walk-A-Thon (City Park) 76th Annual Diocesan Convention September 14th sponsored by the La Junta District To be held at St. Pius X Hall More information later.

Men of Joseph

MISSION STATEMENT The Men of Joseph endeavors to bring together Catholic men to grow in faith, fellowship and stewardship to serve our parish and the surrounding community.

MEETINGS WHEN: First Tuesday of each month WHERE: Religious Education Center TIME: 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM All men are welcome to join us, as we all grow in our faith. Next meeting will be on August 7th.

STRENGTHENED BY THE BREAD OF LIFE Today we resume the “Bread of Life” discourse from John’s Gospel that began two weeks ago. He makes reference to the Jews’ ancestors who ate manna in the desert. These days we would think primarily of Israel wandering in the desert, but faith-ful Jews would also have known the story of Elijah that we hear today. Strengthened by food and drink in the desert, the angel of the Lord sends him on his forty-day and forty-night journey (the biblical number for a preparation time). Like the food given to Elijah in the desert, Jesus tells his listeners that he is bread for the life of the world. It is very important that we not stop listening to Jesus after his promise of eternal life—a marvelous promise, but this “reward” is not the only reason we feast on the Bread of Life. We also come to the table to be made strong for the journey of mission, that the whole world might have life in the fullness of Christ. We are compelled, if we have eaten of the bread of life, to go forth in service to all. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

Dear Parishioners

What a great weekend we had for our St. Joseph’s Festival 2018! Thank you to all of you for your support! I am ex-tremely grateful to everyone who worked so hard in the various committees who did an outstanding job! To the staff for your dedication and hard work. To the Knights of Columbus, CCW, the Men of Joseph, Ladies Auxiliary and to our MC’s! Thank you to the sheriff’s department, and to all our youth “Thank You”!

We continue to grow as a faith community and trust in God and our patron saint, St. Joseph!! Thank you all !!! God’s Blessings

Your Brother in Christ

Father Joseph

+Mass Intentions

Saturday, August 11, 2018 5:00—+Mike Genova +Sue Giarratano +Debbie Humphrey +Gilbert Garcia +Anthony Carlino Sr. & Jr. +Jack Spinuzzi +Joey Ciruli +Richard &Ursula Matuzak +Louis Chantala

Sunday, August 12, 2018 7:30—+Jason Godinez +Frankie Molinaro III +Dorothy Martin +Cheryl Yaklich

9:00—+Richard & Ursula Matuzak +Ruben Tafoya +Jennifer Espinoza +Christopher Martinez +Lucille DeCarlo +Robert & Florence Martinez

11:00—+Bishop Arthur N. Tafoya +Rodney Stefano +Don Thornton +Antonia Benavidez +Atiana Aguirre Luciano Benavidez (HEALTH) Breeze DiSanti Family (HEALTH) Tony Olguin (HEALTH)

+Mass Intentions

Saturday, August 18, 2018 5:00—+Mike Genova +Sue Giarratano +Debbie Humphrey +Gilbert Garcia +Anthony Carlino Sr. & Jr. +Jack Spinuzzi +Joey Ciruli +Richard &Ursula Matuzak +Richard Frazier

Sunday, August 19, 2018 7:30—+Jason Godinez +Frankie Molinaro III +Marlene Nash +Addy Caporicci +Jim Brewer +Dorothy Martin

9:00—+Richard & Ursula Matuzak +Frank & Sofia La Combe Vicky Chavez (HEALTH)

11:00—+Don Thornton Tony Olguin (HEALTH)

ST. JOSEPH—August 5, 2018 Envelopes: $4,528.00 Loose Currency: $ 998.00 Loose Checks: $1,414.00 Capital Improvement/10 Buck $ 412.00 SVDP: $ 18.67 Candles $ 00 Designated Income $ 265.00

TOTAL: $7,635.67

ST. JOSEPH - DMF 2018 Goal: $88,572.00 Pledged: $52,110.00 Families: 228

ST. JOSEPH LADIES AUXILIARY #9456

St. Joseph Ladies Auxiliary meets every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month. We meet in the Education Center @ 6:30 pm. Next meeting September 6. Ladies you are all welcome to join us.

Knights’ Korner Membership Drive – Our membership is open to all Catholic men. Please contact Doug Kissler, (720-202-2667) current Grand Knight, or anyone of the Knights for more information.

TIME CHANGE

Starting September 23, 2018 mass at St. Therese will be at 8:15 am.

DIOCESE OF PUEBLO Present Situation

Active Priests Diocesan 26 International Externs 7 Religious 13 Number of Priests by Deanery Pueblo 14 Trinidad / La Junta 6 Alamosa 7 Durango 5 Grand Junction 10

Total 42 Priest Religious Communities Theatines Spiritans H G N (Heralds of the Good News) Benedictine S O L T (Society of Our Lady of Most Holy Trinity)

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Careful readers of the “Treasures” will have noticed that the two columns about the oldest monastic com-munities in the United States refer to the colonial states. The Louisiana Purchase gained a great treasure for our nation, the Ursuline monastery of New Orleans. Among the greatest pioneers of that city were nuns who came from France on a perilous voyage in 1727, pestered by pirates and tossed by fearsome storms. These were genteel, well-educated Ursulines, yet their first task was to roll up their sleeves and open a hospital to care for the pestilence-ridden colony. Next, they opened a school for girls and launched a plan to educate the women being shipped over from France to marry settlers. In this way, they had enormous influence in mold-ing patterns of family and domestic life. At Christmastime in 1814, the threat of a British assault on the city was growing. On the terrifying night of January 7, 1815, the women of New Orleans gathered in the monastery chapel to pray that the city be spared from destruction in battle. The mother superior made a vow to have a Mass of Thanksgiving on that date every year should the Americans win. That night, Our Lady of Prompt Succor, to whom the nuns had great devotion, became the protector and patron of this great city. The convent in the French Quarter is the oldest standing building in the Mississippi valley, and the only surviving building of the French colonial pe-riod. The nuns relocated in 1824, but their old monastery is preserved as a museum and archives for the Arch-diocese of New Orleans. The school the nuns began, Ursuline Academy, is the oldest continuously operating Catholic school, and school for women, in the United States. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

2019 FUNDRAISERS

PLEASE JOIN OUR YOUTH ON THEIR JOURNEY TO NCYC 2019

OCTOBER 6, 2018 – 6 PM – 9 PM DINNER & BINGO

BIG RAFFLE – TICKETS SALES START AUGUST 18, 2018

OLIVIA CORDOVA LENA GOMEZ

IVAN GONZALEZ MARISSA GONZALEZ

JACOB HAYNES JOSEPH HAYNES

LUKE HAWKINS JOSEPH MARTINEZ

RENAY MARTINEZ VANESSA MARTINEZ

CHARLES MC CULLEY-SEDILLO CIANDRA RACINE

JULIANNA RENDON SIENNA REYES

SIERRA REYES SARAH STEELE

AUSTIN STEVENS JC TUCKER

JESSICA TUCKER TRINA TUCKER

LOGAN WILLS MAVERICK WILLS

BAPTISM CLASSES Next Baptism Classes will be on August 24th and 31st!

PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS

LORD, JESUS, we ask you to send more servants to your people. Choose from our parishes, from our homes, from our schools and col-leges, an abundant harvest of apostles for your Kingdom: priests, sisters, brothers, dea-cons and lay ministers. We pray that those you call may never lose awareness of the dignity and need of their vo-cation. O Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, teach to all those the Master calls to say a joyful "yes" as you did at the Annunciation. Amen.

THE CHALICE FOR VOCATIONS PROGRAM

If you would like to accept the Chalice for Vocations for a week, please email stjoechalice@gmail.com.

Thank you for your ongoing prayers for vocations; your prayers are heard.

RCIA 2018-2019 The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults will begin Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 10 am. We invite anyone who is interested in learning about the Catholic Church to join us to have your questions answered. Any baptized or un-baptized person is invited. If you are a Catholic who has not com-pleted receiving the three sacraments of Baptism, First Communion and/or Confirmation, you are invited to join us. If you are not a Catholic, but want to know about the Catholic Church, you are invited to join us. If you want to help the people coming into the Catholic Church, you are invited to join us as a team member, or, as a sponsor, or, as a guest.

Spouses, significant others and sponsors are invited to join us for all ses-sions.

Below is a registration form. Please fill it out and turn it in the collection basket, or give it to the Deacon.. For more information call Deacon Peter at 719-557-0118.

RCIA St. Joseph Catholic Church

Registration Form Name ______________________________________________________

Address ____________________________________________________

Phone (Home) __________________________________________

(Cell) __________________________________________

__ RCIA __ Team __ Sponsor __ Guest

Baptized? Yes___ No___ Where? ________________________

When? ____________________________

Marital Status? Single Married Divorced Remarried (Circle one or more)

Present Church Affiliation _______________________________________

Registration Fee ($25) [RCIA only] __________________