May 15 - Our Lady of Loreto Catholic Parish

The Loreto Letter
“In Christ Jesus you also are being built together into a
dwelling place of God in the Spirit” Ephesians 2:22.
CELEBRATIONS OF THE
EUCHARIST
Monday-Friday: 7:00am
Wednesday-Friday:
7:00am, 5:30pm
Saturday: 7:30am, 5:00pm
Sunday: 7:00am, 9:00am,
11:00am, 5:00pm
Accompany One Another With Mercy
Pentecost Sunday
May 15th, 2016 * Volume XIX, Number 25
SACRAMENT OF
RECONCILIATION
Saturday: 8:30am-10:00am or
by appointment
PARISH OFFICE HOURS
Monday-Friday:
8:30am-5:00pm
18000 E ARAPAHOE RD
FOXFIELD, CO 80016
303.766.3800 (Office)
303.766.3700 (Fax)
303.951.8330 (School)
www.OurLadyofLoreto.org
Welcome to Our Lady of
Loreto Parish!
St. Francis of Assisi, the
patron saint of Colorado,
teaches that hospitality is
the first of all the
virtues. I pray you find
here a hospitable and
virtuous Catholic Christian
community. Call upon us
if you need us. Know of
our prayer for yours and
you. Please pray for OLOL
and for me.
Father Ed, Pastor.
FEAST DAYS THIS WEEK:
Next Sunday: The most holy trinity
Mass Intentions for May 14th– May 22nd
PARISH STAFF
PASTOR
Msgr. Edward L. Buelt
[email protected]
PAROCHIAL VICAR
Fr. Nick Thompson
[email protected]
DEACON Michael Magee
[email protected]
DEACON Richard Miller
[email protected]
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR
Mrs. Jeanne Norville
[email protected]
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Mr. Joe Heasley
[email protected]
COMMUNICATIONS/
DIGITAL EVANGELIZATION
Mrs. Joia Farmer
[email protected]
FAITH FORMATION
Mrs. Shirley McDermott
[email protected]
CHILDREN/FAMILY FORMATION
Mrs. Joan Deeb
[email protected]
PRINCIPAL
Sr. Julia Balu, SOLM
[email protected]
LITURGY & MUSIC
Mr. Charles Nolen
[email protected]
YOUTH MINISTRY
Mr. Brad Farmer
[email protected]
YOUTH MINISTRY ASST.
Ms. Kiki Wallyn
[email protected]
PARISH SECRETARY
Ms. Peggy Burke
[email protected]
FACILITIES & MAINTENANCE
Mr. Gery Myhre
[email protected]
Saturday
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Sunday
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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
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Thursday
Thursday
Friday
Friday
Saturday
Saturday
Sunday
Sunday
Sunday
Sunday
7:30 am
5:00 pm
7:00 am
9:00 am
11:00 am
5:00 pm
7:00 am
7:00 am
7:00 am
5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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7:00 am
9:00 am
11:00 am
5:00 pm
PASTORAL SERVICES
Paul Carrera+
BAPTISM OF INFANTS
Rita Lafond+
Baptism preparation packets are
Walt Senter+ available in the religious education
OLOL Parishioners
area in the narthex or
Donald Alfermann+
on our website.
James Gresenti+
CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF
Georgianne Myers+
ADULTS
Angela Cunningham+
Non-Catholic adults who are
Ministry for the Sick
called to full communion in the
Bob Suter
Catholic Church are asked to
Anita Galvin+
contact Shirley at 303.414.2255
Gail Timmons+
for further information.
Nathan Gerard+
Fr. Matt Magee
MARRIAGE
Steven Ensafian+
Spiritual preparation is vital for the
Kelseigh Gorman
celebration of the Sacrament of
Bernadine Lynch+
Marriage. Couples are invited to
OLOL Parishioners
contact Father Nick Thompson to
James Michel Boyle+
arrange an individual meeting.
Gurly Titland
Readings for the week of May 15th
Sun
1st
2nd
Gospel
Acts 2:1-11
1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13
Jn 20:19-23
Mon
1st
2nd
Jas 3:13-18
Mk 9:14-29
Tue.
1st
2nd
Jas 4:1-10
Mk 9:30-37
Wed.
1st
2nd
Jas 4:13-17
Mk 9:38-40
Thu.
1st
2nd
Jas 5:1-6
Mk 9:41-50
Fri.
1st
2nd
Jas 5:9-12
Mk 10:1-12
Sat.
1st
2nd
Jas 5:13-20
Mk 10:13-16
Sun.
1st
2nd
Gospel
Prv 8:22-31
Rom 5:1-5
Jn 16:12-15
Stay in touch, keep informed,
connect with the OLOL community!
Facebook: facebook.com/OurLadyofLoretoFoxfield
Twitter:
@mypastor
Instagram: @ololoreto
CARE OF THE SICK/DYING
Please call at the beginning of any
serious illness or hospitalization.
If you are ill and would like to
receive the Eucharist, please call
the office. In the case of death,
please call Fr. Ed before meeting
with the funeral director.
ADORATION
The adoration chapel is available
24 hours per day, seven days per
week. Please contact Fr. Nick if you
have questions or would like to
sign up for adoration.
COR JESU (HEART OF JESUS)
An e-mail prayer ministry
at OLOL Parish.
E-mail [email protected] to
join this prayer group, or to offer
your prayer requests.
THE GABRIEL PROJECT
Pregnant? Need help? Be not
afraid. For help, hope
and healing,
call 1.800.713.3021
COME HOME
If you are struggling with a past
abortion, please contact Father Ed
or Father Nick.
A Word from Father
Ed
Congratulations, Father Matthew Magee!
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
This weekend is one of great
joy: we rejoice and celebrate Jesus’
gift to the Church of Denver of six
new priests, one of whom is our very
own parishioner: Father Matthew
Magee, the son of Deacon Michael
and Susan Magee.
There is something very
“circle of life-ish” about Father
Magee’s ordination this weekend.
Eighteen years ago, soon after the
founding of Our Lady of Loreto Parish, Matthew’s parents approached
me to ask that he make his first holy Communion. I distributed first holy Communion to Matthew on May 17, 1998, making him the first parishioner to receive
first holy Communion in our fledgling parish. Eighteen years later, Father Magee
is ordained to the priesthood. Today, almost eighteen years to the day of his
first holy Communion, he celebrates his own “First Mass,” a Mass of Thanksgiving, offering gratitude in particular to his parents and parish for the faith he received from them and which as a priest he now proclaims, celebrates, and
serves.
It is said that the health of a parish can be “diagnosed” by the number
of vocations to the priesthood and religious life born of its company. If that is
true, then Our Lady of Loreto Parish has much to be proud of and for which to
give thanks. Father Matt is the second parishioner ordained to the priesthood in
as many years; Father David Hogan was ordained a priest in 2014. Three parishioners have been ordained deacons, including Father Matt’s father, Mike, Dick
Miller, and George Brown. Four parishioners are currently in seminary formation
to be ordained priests, one of whom, Daniel Eusterman, will be ordained a deacon in September, and one parishioner is in formation to be ordained a deacon.
Two parishioners have professed final vows in religious life, one has taken first
vows, and another is preparing to profess her first vows this summer. For all
these we do pray, and that God raises up more young men and women to serve
him and his church as priests, deacons, and religious.
The difference between false and true religion can be seen in the gift of
the priesthood. False religion is religion which uses God as a means to one’s
own ends, seeking God not for God’s sake but for one’s own. True religion is
religion which seeks to place oneself as a means for God, seeking God not for
what he can do for oneself but rather that his will be done. Initially true religion
seems opposed to the natural emphasis of one’s existence. But with time it
proves that precisely when the self becomes inconsequential, that is, when one
places oneself in God’s service and that of the other, are we truly liberated.
Congratulations, Father Magee. We love you, are proud of you, and assure you of our prayers. May God, who began this good work in you, bring it to
fulfillment.
Father Ed
G UIDED BY THE H OLY S PIRIT ,
O UR L ADY OF L ORETO C ATHOLIC
P ARISH IS A E UCHARISTIC
COMMUNITY THAT SEEKS TO LIVE
THE WORD OF
G OD ,
INSTILL THE
LEGACY OF FAITH , AND PROCLAIM
THE LOVE OF
THROUGH SERVICE
C HRIST
TO ALL .
Adult Formation
This Week:
Mystagogy:
May 15th, 9am in JPII
followed by 11am Mass
RCIA
Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
As our Blessed Mother brings us to her Son Jesus, it
is our task also to bring others to the Lord. Is there
someone you can invite to explore the Catholic
faith—someone unbaptized or baptized in a nonCatholic Christian tradition? Perhaps you know a
Catholic adult interested in being confirmed. If you
are interested in finding out more about how to become Catholic, contact: Shirley McDermott at 303414-2255 or [email protected]
Mystagogia May 15,-9am in JPII -11am Mass
OLOL HOSTING CATHOLIC CATECHETICAL SCHOOL!
Our parish will host the
Catholic Catechetical School this fall,
Thursdays @9:30am and Wednesdays @7pm!
Classes begin April 10th.
Visit www.sjvdenver.edu/catecheticalschool for more
information and to register. Information sessions before class begins will be held July 13th and August 4th
at 9am
and August 10th at 7pm at OLOL.
The Bible and THe Virgin Mary is a dynamic 12 part
video series that explains the Catholic truths about
Our Mother as revealed in both the Old and New Testaments to demonstrate she was part of God's plan of
Salvation for the world from the beginning of time.
This study includes discussion of church approved
Marian apparitions. It is sure to help Catholics and
non-Catholics alike to grow in appreciation of the
Mother of God.
Formed.org Parish Access Code BJ6J9M (FREE)
Mystagogia May 15,-9am in JPII -11am Mass
This Week:
Sunday: Restored Order of the Sacraments Mtg., 10:30am, CW
Saturday: First Reconciliation for the RCIC and RCIT neophytes
(for those who were newly baptized at the Easter Vigil)
CHILDREN & FAMILY FORMATION
Special Thanks
To all of our First Eucharist
catechists and cake reception
volunteers, especially Lisa
Redman, Mark Smoorenburg,
and Connie Schutte.
2nd and 3rd First Eucharist Classes
Congratulations to all of the first holy communicants
and their families! What a blessed day.
Photography Information
Please go to the photographers website (you
should have this in your paperwork) and enter the
code “first” to look at and order pictures.
Information Meetings about Confirmation next year,
the restored order of the sacraments
Sunday—May 15 at 10:30 am in Chapel of the Word
Monday– May 23 at 6:30pm in Holy Family Hall
Tuesday –June 7 at 6:30pm in Holy Family Hall
What is Pentecost?
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a
mighty wind coming, and it filled the whole house where
they were sitting. And there appeared to them parted
tongues as it were of fire, and it sat upon every one of
them: And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and
they began to speak with divers tongues, according as
the Holy Ghost gave them to speak (Acts 2:2-4).
A Story Worth Living
“An Adventure Story about
the Adventure of Living”
Thursday, May 19th, 7:30pm
Join us for a
one night only showing
at the Aurora 16 theater
Families invited to attend together!
$11.50 adult / $10.50 students
For more details, check out:
astoryfilm.com
Contact Kiki for details.
[email protected]
No 7th/ 8th Grade Youth Group
Thursday, May 19th
Join us for the movie instead
(see above).
Curious about registration for Confirmation
classes next school year?
Confused about the changes?
Email Brad at
[email protected]
YOUTH MINISTRY
This Week:
Monday:
High School Youth Group, 7pm, JPII
Tuesday:
6th Grade Youth Group, 7pm, JPII
Wednesday: Confirmation Track 1, 7pm, JPII
Thursday:
Movie Night, Aurora 16
(No 7th/8th Grade group)
Mission Trip 2.0
We did not receive enough indication of
availability for the Mexico Mission due to
the early start of the school year.
We are considering another mission to
Mobile Loaves and Fishes in Austin, TX
to work with the homeless sometime this July.
Open to High School students.
Please email Brad at
[email protected]
with interest.
SOCIAL MINISTRIES
LITURGY & MUSIC
This Week:
This Week:
All rehearsals are in room 107 of the St. Joseph Ministry Center.
Quote:. “(A) reflection of God’s own reality shines out in
the human person, in every person, whatever the stage
or condition of his life.” — Pope Benedict XVI, Address
of Feb. 27, 2006
Wednesday: Treble Choir - Probationers, 5:00pm
Thursday:
Treble Choir - Novices, 5:00pm
Cantati Loreti, 7:00pm
Saturday:
Sat. 5 PM Ensemble, 3:45pm
Sunday:
Sun. 5 PM Ensemble, 4:30pm
On the day of Pentecost when the seven weeks of Easter
had come to an end, Christ’s Passover is fulfilled in the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit, manifested, given, and
communicated as a divine person: of his fullness, Christ,
the Lord, pours out the Spirit in abundance. - CCC 731
Save the date! Sunday, 5/29, following the 11 AM Mass
will be the annual Corpus Christi procession. The procession will begin about 12:15 PM and conclude with benediction in the plaza in front of the church about 1:00 PM.
Come join us! We have vacancies in many of our liturgical ministries, especially in sacred music, and are always
happy to have new persons join us in serving Christ and
the parish! For more information contact Charles Nolen
at 303.414.2254 or [email protected].
Monday:
St Vincent de Paul Conf Mtg, 7 PM, RGA
Share Your Talents to serve through the ministries of
Catholic Charities; visit serve.ccdenver.org
A specific opportunity: Little Flower Food and Clothing
Bank (Our Life Closet) - is in need of 2 volunteers to help
on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays (10AM-noon,
1PM-3PM). You will be helping unload trucks and/or
sorting food donations and stocking shelves. Some lifting involved: should be comfortable lifting 25-35 lbs.
Call Donna @ 720-427-1618
A Thank-You: Thank-You so much for the donation of
clothing and personal items for the migrant workers.
From Laurie A Daso, the Site Mgr of Farm Labor Housing, Archdiocesan Housing.
8th Grade, Language Arts Teacher Opening
for the 2016-2017 School Year
Our Lady of Loreto Catholic School is hiring a 8th grade teacher
for the 2016-17 school year. Please see below for a general outline
of standards and competencies for this position. Candidates must
have a current teaching license or qualify for the alternative licensure program.
Interested candidates, send your cover letter and resume to
Sr. Julia Balu, Principal, at [email protected]
Candidates must:
 Recognize and support the unique Catholic mission of the
school, live Gospel values, and assume an active role in building the school’s faith community.
 Show instructional proficiency by effectively planning, demonstrating competence in the teaching process, and using effective methods of evaluation.
 Exhibit classroom management skills including a consistent
discipline approach promoting self-direction and positive selfimage and maintaining a functional and pleasant learning
environment.
 Work cooperatively and positively with administration, staff
members, students and parents.
 Demonstrate a sense of professional responsibility and maintain a professional manner.
OTHER EVENTS
This Week:
Sunday: Charismatic Prayer Group, 7pm, CW
Tuesday: Legion of Mary, 7pm, RGB
Wednesday: Wednesday Endow Group, 6pm, RGB
Endow, 6pm, Sacristy
Sew the Faith Quilters, 6:30pm, CL 109/111
Friday:
Bulletin Folding, 10:15am, CW
Cookies, Sandwiches and More provides food for the Holy
Ghost Sandwich Line in downtown Denver. Please leave your
peanut butter and jelly/honey sandwiches or cookies in the outer entryway to the Adoration Chapel over the weekend of May
21-22. The items will be picked up after 6:30 PM on Sunday. If
you have questions, please contact Sarah Warren at [email protected]
Charismatic Prayer Ministry Please join us this Sunday, May
15th for our PENTECOST CELEBRATION. Fr. Nick will be our
guest speaker. He will celebrate Mass at 5:00 p.m. Following we
will have a potluck dinner in the Chapel of the Word (The Upper
Room). Bring your favorite dish to share and a friend to this celebration. Praise and worship will follow dinner. All are welcome! For more information contact Vicky at 303.699.8927
Nursing Home Ministry: Our next visit to the Cherry Creek
Nursing Home will be on Saturday, May 21st from 10:15am 11:30pm. Families and children are welcome! For more information, contact Andy Burroughs at [email protected].
OLOL SCHOOL
Upcoming events:
May 25 Fun Run and Field Day
May 30 Memorial Day - No School
Welcome Sr. Rosaria & Sr. Eleanora!
We will be adding two new sisters to our school family
next school year! Sr. Rosaria, who will be a teacher’s aide,
and Sr. Eleanora, our new fourth grade teacher, both come
to us from Ft. Collins. Please help us make them feel at
home!
Wanted! Teacher Volunteers!
Are you a retired teacher who is missing the kids? Join us!
We are looking for dedicated, consistent, volunteers to
help 2 to 3 days a week with language arts and math in
5th grade and above. Come make a difference! Contact
the school office at 303-951-8330.
Fun Run and Field Day - May 25th
We will be having a Fun Run the morning of May 25th followed by our Field Day in the afternoon. Don’t forget your
sunscreen, hat, and water bottle!
Grief Support Groups to Begin—If you have recently lost a
loved one and would like to meet, support, and care for others
in a Christ-centered faith sharing group, consider joining an
OLOL support group. Groups will meet for 6 Thursdays
beginning 6/23 from 6:30–8:30 p.m. in the parish’s office conference room (upstairs). Other sessions will meet for 6 weeks
beginning in August, November, and January. For persons who
have suffered infant loss (before or after the birth of the child),
we have a network of support we can offer in your time of need.
Please contact Lydia for more information. For further details
and to register, contact [email protected].
Sew the Faith Quilters will meet on Wednesday 5/18,
after 5:30 Mass, approx 6:15 in Room 108. Women of the parish
with some sewing experience are welcome to join us. We pray
and share our love of quilting. Show and Tell always
welcome. Call Bonnie Brewer 303-362-2023 with
questions. This will be our last meeting until September.
Altar flowers this weekend are courtesy of an
anonymous donor in gratitude for blessings received.
A reminder that you may sign up to sponsor flowers
in honor or in memory of a loved one. The white sign
up binder is on the welcome desk in the Narthex.
Suggested donation for altar flowers is $60 and
flowers for Mary is a suggested donation of $30.
MARRIAGE & FAMILY
This Week:
Knights of Columbus Council 12336
Thursday: Baptismal Preparation Class, 7pm, RG
Young Adult Potluck, 7pm, CL 109
Friday:
Home Educators Faith & Culture, 8:30am, RG
Saturday: Marriage Vow Reception, 6pm, CW
UPCOMING KNIGHTS ACTIVITIES:

Wed, May 18: 1st Degree Exemplification and Social in
Rectory Garden Room
Saturday, May 21: Semi-Annual Spring Arapahoe Road
Cleanup beginning at 8:30 am, just after morning Mass and
the rosary. We will meet at the front of the Church, and will
go to 11:30 am at the latest. Ladies and children are welcome to help with this valuable Knights service to our community. Afterward, we will grill some brats and Italian sausage for all the participants.
Saturday May 21: Respect Life Rosary at Planned
Parenthood Clinic. Meet in OLOL parking lot at 7:30am
Saturday May 21: Wedding Anniversary Reception –
6:00pm in the Chapel of the Word
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WANTED: Empty Gatorade or Powerade 20 oz bottles WITH
LIDS. We are gathering these for a craft project during Ave
Maria's Catholic Children for Christ summer program. Please
drop them off May 14-June 12 in the labeled box across from
the main school office. Thank you!
Ladies Auxiliary—You can support our Ladies Auxiliary by
purchasing King Soopers cards from one of our members. We
receive 5% of all sales including gas and groceries.
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Join us for our monthly meeting on the second Monday of
each month at a 6:30pm social followed by the meeting at
7pm in Holy Family Hall. All women of the parish are welcome.
Our speaker on June 13th is Margaret Decrescentis from the
Maryknoll Lay Missionary.
Our Grand Knight encourages all Knight’s, regardless of Degree,
to wear our name badges at Mass.
Bring a fellow Knight to one of our meetings.
Bring new ideas and new thinking
about how your Council can grow.
From Knights to Christ:
“Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact
with may feel your presence in my spirit.”
John Henry Newman
John 14:15
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I
will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate
to be with you always.”
GIFTS OF TREASURE
Offertory
Week of May 8th, 2016
Adults
Children
YTD Actual Offertory
YTD Budgeted
YTD Parish Tithing to Other Charities
$47,498
$326
$2,428,053
$2,470,000
$4782
(Fiscal year 7/1/15-6/30/16)
Capital Funding - Ministry Center West Wing
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Give electronically at
www.OurLadyof Loreto.org
or via your smart phone.
Savings currently held for construction
Building an Inheritance of Hope (BIH)
anticipated pledges to be collected
Total construction funding
Project expenses paid from BIH contributions
$3,990,000
3,814,000
$7,804,000
$340,000
Debt
Debt on Church
Mortgage payable through 2031*
Debt on St. Joseph Ministry Center
Bridge loan payable through 2023**
Total Debt Our Lady of Loreto Parish
* Pre-payment of mortgage would incur substantial penalties.
** It is to OLOL’s advantage to hold this loan to maturity due
$7,267,000
1,352,000
$8,619,000