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Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
1535 Logan St. Denver, CO 80203 Telephone: 303-831-7010 - Fax: 303-831-9514
Website: www.denvercathedral.org Email: cbic2016@denvercathedral.org
Archdiocese of Denver Website: www.archden.org
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CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION DENVER, CO
ARCHBISHOP OF DENVER: Most Reverend Samuel J Aquila, STL
MASS SCHEDULE
AUXILIARY BISHOP OF DENVER: Most Reverend Jorge Rodriguez
PASTOR AND RECTOR: Very Reverend Ronald W. Cattany WEEKDAY MASSES: 7:00 AM, 12:10 PM, 5:30 PM
PAROCHIAL VICAR: Reverend Michael Rapp, S.S.L. (Mondays at 3:00 PM 65+ Mass)
IN RESIDENCE: Reverend Andreas Hoeck Saturday: 7:00AM
DEACONS: Deacon Robert Finan, Deacon Robert Rinne,
Anticipated Saturday: 4:30PM
and Deacon Charles Goldburg
SUNDAY: 8:30AM, 10:30AM, 12:30PM, & 6:30PM
DIRECTOR OF WORSHIP: John Brooks VISITING HOURS
DIRECTOR OF SACRED MUSIC: Phil Bordeleau Weekday: 4:00—5:15pm, 6:15pm—7pm (except Tuesdays)
PASTORAL ASSOCIATE: Brigid Demko Sunday: 1:30pm—2:30pm and 7:30pm—8:00pm
RCIA COORDINATOR: Brett Manero Please call the office as special events or recordings may
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Luciane Urban require closing.
COORDINATOR OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH: Dave Martinez
MANAGERS OF FINANCE AND ASSETS: Elizabeth Odum & Joe Cavaleri SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
(Confessions)
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: Linda Flores
BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, AND RECTORY OPERATIONS: Monday-Friday 11:00am—12:00pm, Saturday 3 PM – 4 PM,
Sunday 5:30—6:30pm
Sebastian Luke Oliver Or by appointment, please call the office and wait for a
MAINTENANCE AND GROUNDS: Jacob Carper confirmation call. You will need to wear a mask.
ANOINTING OF THE SICK
BAPTISMS
In the event of a serious illness or
Parents and Godparents are required a medical emergency, call the
to attend a class prior to baptism. office.
Pre-registration is required. If no one
HOMEBOUND MINISTRY
pre-registers, there will be no class.
Please contact the office.
FUNERALS
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Please contact the office.
Lu Urban
MARRIAGES
RCIA/RITE OF CHRISTIAN
Call the office at least 9 months prior INITIATION OF ADULTS
to the wedding to book the date. Brett Manero
Cathedral Basilica Budget
Offertory Feb. 8—Feb. 14, 2021 $6,016.75
Projected Total Deficit June 30, 2021: $446,000
Vandalism expenses and income loss to arson: $124,000
Please donate at www.denvercathedral.org
Other Weekend Donations
Poor Box-SVDP $175.00
Food Pantry $692.00
Black & Indian Mission $5.00
Church in Central & Eastern Europe $35.00
Please Remember The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Your Will
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SACRED LITURGY
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Pray for Us
MASS INTENTIONS
Don’t forget to Sign Up for Sunday, February 21, 2020
weekend Mass at 8:30 AM Manuel & Carolina Lovato †
10:30 AM Parishioners of the Cathedral Basilica
www.denvercathedral.org or 12:30 PM Gary Miller †
6:30 PM Lisa & Eric Von Bramer (25th Wedding Ann.)
call the Office at Monday, February 22, 2020
303-831-7010 7:00 AM Anthony Nguyen Van The †
(sign ups no longer required for daily mass) 12:10 PM Thomas Hinchy †
3:00 PM Joan & Richard Tougaw (35th Wedding Ann.)
Effective 2/16/21: max capacity at the 5:30 PM Simon & Carmen Flores †
cathedral basilica is 175 congregants Tuesday, February 23, 2020
7:00 AM Sister Katie Rice †
12:10 PM Margaret Utz
Year of Saint Joseph Prayer 5:30 PM Patricia Ann Hurt
Wednesday, February 24, 2020
7:00 AM William Bergin
12:10 PM Mary Jane Robles
5:30 PM Melissa Carnahan-Marquez
Thursday, February 25, 2020
7:00 AM Anthony Le Van Dinh †
12:10 PM Marcella Medina †
5:30 PM Boeing Laugan
Friday, February 26, 2021
7:00 AM Brigid Demko
12:10 PM Erma Abeyta †
5:30 PM Stella G. Rodriguez
Saturday, February 27, 2021
7:00 AM Anna Le This My Duyen †
To you, O blessed Joseph,
4:30 PM Paul Bordeleau †
do we come in our tribulation,
and having implored the help of your most holy Spouse,
we confidently invoke your patronage also.
Through that charity which bound you
to the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God
and through the paternal love
with which you embraced the Child Jesus,
we humbly beg you graciously to regard the inheritance
which Jesus Christ has purchased by his Blood,
and with your power and strength to aid us in our necessities.
O most watchful guardian of the Holy Family,
defend the chosen children of Jesus Christ;
O most loving father, ward off from us
every contagion of error and corrupting influence;
O our most mighty protector, be kind to us
and from heaven assist us in our struggle
with the power of darkness.
As once you rescued the Child Jesus from deadly peril,
so now protect God's Holy Church
from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity;
shield, too, each one of us by your constant protection,
so that, supported by your example and your aid,
we may be able to live piously, to die in holiness,
and to obtain eternal happiness in heaven.
Amen.
Source: US Conference of Catholic Bishops
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In the Company of Pope Francis "Jesus himself chose to identify with these our brothers and sisters enduring
pain and anguish by agreeing to tread the ‘way of sorrows’ that led to Calvary. By dying on the cross, he surrendered him-
self into to the hands of the Father, taking upon himself and in himself, with self-sacrificing love, the physical, moral and
spiritual wounds of all humanity. By embracing the wood of the cross, Jesus embraced the nakedness, the hunger and thirst,
the loneliness, pain and death of men and women of all times. Jesus is in them; he suffers in them and deeply identifies with
each of them. He is so closely united to them as to form with them, as it were, ‘one body’.” —Pope Francis
FROM YOUR PASTOR
Our Brothers and Sisters in Christ suffer in many ways - - spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, physically, and financially. Some of
the suffering is COVID Induced, some is the Natural Cycle of Life. In the face of their suffering, and perhaps your own suffering, is your
focus on WHY PEOPLE SUFFER, or HOW PEOPLE SUFFER?
Do you look To the World, or To Jesus for the Answer?
The World responds based on the Science, the Equity in the availability of health care, and Cost-Effectiveness of services provided. The
Limitations Define the Response.
Jesus responds based on the basic Dignity of the Human Person...a beloved Child of God...created in His Image and Likeness. His care is
as Unconditional as it is Unmerited...for the Sinner as well as the Saint...focused on Faith, Freedom, Trust, Compassion, and Love.
As Christians, we look at SUFFERING in terms of its Meaning or Purpose. As Humans, we wonder why God just doesn't End Our SUF-
FERING!
Here's a key. SUFFERING is central to our moral life. Why? Because it cleanses us. Our Daily Trials are not only Tests Of Our Faithful-
ness to God, but also the Fire by which we are Purified in Anticipation of Eternity in Heaven. For this Understanding to be Our Reality,
our FAITH reminds us of Our Eternal Continuum -- we come from God, live His Plan through this life, with the hope of Eternal Life
with Him… based on the way we exercise our Free Will.
Then, why does God let us SUFFER?
In many cases, our Trials are intended to Counter Our Vices. If we are vain or proud, we learn humility or are made meek. If we are
judgmental, we discover the hurt when we are misjudged by others. If we sin sexually, we are left unfulfilled and often lonely. But most
importantly, it is the Purification necessary to spend Eternity with God - - the Purest of the Pure and the One Who Is Vice-Free.
Sometimes we endure SUFFERING FOR OTHERS. The SUFFERING of one person may be intended in God's Plan to bring out the best
in another. As extreme as it sounds, one person's cancer may be God's Plan to save their Caregiver. As a Church, we sometimes under-
value the role of REDEMPTIVE SUFFERING. Simply put, we never know if we might be God's Plan for someone else.
Why does God do this? SUFFERING is hard for us to grasp because we only think in the present… especially if the hurt is deep or the
physical pain is unbearable. But SUFFERING has purpose… for ourselves or others. Most importantly, we MEET Jesus at the CROSS
OF OUR SUFFERING.
The Comfort of our FAITH IN SUFFERING is threefold:
>God is not excluded from SUFFERING. When things went wrong in the Garden of Eden, Scripture tells us that God was long-suffering
and deeply troubled by what was happening. But He did not give up on them, even though they gave up on Him.
> God SUFFERED for us. God entered the World to fix the situation through his Son. Throughout his life, Jesus SUFFERED in every
way as we do. He was not spared anything even as the Son of God. He did not look for the easy way out because He wanted to identify
with us. His SUFFERING was excruciating and humiliating. Through His trust in His Father in the midst of that SUFFERING, His cir-
cumstances were in no way altered but His experience of them was changed. He knew God was with Him...and He knew that what lay
ahead in the Resurrection and the Ascension was better than the Tragedy of Calvary.
> God promises a World without SUFFERING. When Jesus comes on the Last Day, death will die… SUFFERING will cease...pain will
give way to joy...and tears will be no more. On that day, Jesus will make All Things New.
Bottom line… Jesus understands our SUFFERING, and unites Our Cross of SUFFERING with His. And it is that GRACE that will carry
us through our Trials and our SUFFERING.
Jesus is inviting us to Walk With Him during Lent - - - as a PARTICIPANT and NOT A BYSTANDER.
How do we do that?
By giving up a treat for Lent? By giving more to Charity? Or by giving Jesus our Greatest Sin, our Greatest Hurt, or our Personal Pain?
Let Him place that SUFFERING in his Open, Broken Heart, and carry it with Him on His Journey to Jerusalem and the Cross. There,
He will Purify Our SUFFERING with his Precious Blood.
That is how we encounter Jesus during Lent - - by Giving Him Part Of Us… in allowing our FAITH in Him to HEAL OUR SUFFER-
ING literally or figuratively...so that on Easter Monday, HIS GRACE WILL CARRY US FORWARD.
+May God Bless You and Keep You+
Very Reverend Ronald W. Cattany
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COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Pray for Us
Monday-Friday we serve around 200-300 peo- Servant of God
ple each day in our breakfast sandwich line, Father Leo Heinrichs, OFM
food pantry, soup and sandwich To-Go at St.
Elizabeth of Hungary’s and Snacks on the Assassinated at
Hill. Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Church
February 23, 1908
Please donate to help us keep these outreach Father Leo, Pray For Us!
ministries operational.
Our St. Vin-
cent de Paul
Society
helps ~12
households
each month
with rental
and utility
assistance.
Thank you
for your gen-
erosity.
First Sunday of Lent
Many years ago I was hospitalized several times over the course of five months. Probably the most visceral memory I have of that
terrible time is of a recurring dream. The Greeks had it right when they named “Morpheus” (morphine) the god of dreams. If you’ve
ever spent a length of time on morphine I’ll bet you’ve had some awful dreams too.
In this dream I was on an escalator, going down, down. There was no escape, no hope. I remember thinking how odd it was that every-
one was on the escalator, everyone was doomed to an eternity of going down without any glimpse of sky or light, and yet we all kept
pretending that we didn’t realize this.
Through the grace of God and the strength of the prayers of hundreds of people, I recovered. And over time the dream lost its power,
so much so that, nearly fourteen years later, I have to work to remember it at all.
But when I think of the Great Flood, the terrible waters covering the earth and all that dwelt upon it, I remember that feeling of going
down, down. A catastrophic flood is related in several ancient texts. There seems to be, lodged in our universal collective unconscious,
a sense that we are traveling down, down, without hope of rescue.
But, stronger than death, Rescue did arrive, and even the torments of Satan couldn’t keep him from us. Such is the fierce love of Jesus.
The early Christians imaged the Church as a boat on high seas, keeping us up, up. Jesus commands that boat, of course. Grab on that
boat. Grab on to Jesus. He will raise you up.
How will you cling to Jesus this Lent as you exercise a new discipline?
Kathy McGovern©2020 www.thestoryandyou.com
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PRAYER LISTS
Please pray for all those who are sick or in need of our prayers:
Michael Boston, Lawrence Brooks, Douglas Campbell, Joann Coules, Andrew Emmer, Jeannie Harder, Ilse Hartman,
Mallori Heeke, Andrea Helaine, Allie Kandt, John Krusinski, Lynn Lengyel, Kitty de Leon, Ethel Litzenberger,
Dominic Martinez, Michelle Martino, Mitchell A. Moreno, Randy S. Moreno, Pam Pappas, Melanie Parker, Jean
Pierre, Andrew Pink, Phil Scardova, Jodi Steward, Claude Stieha, A.J. Stiffler, Ana Tejada, Linda Winkler, Chloe
Young, Sheila Oliver, Ronald Arnold, Bill & Kim Agnew, Christina Hertz, James M. Schmitt, Linda Basquez, Mary
Figueroa, Shelley Carmosino, Susie Escareno, Ted Haner, Delfina Guzman, Mary Jo McHugh. Monique. Paul
Nohara. Zachary Quick, Janet Robson, Juanita Driscoll, Sydney Brisbane, Marlene Bargas, Wener Hahn, Tami Vicars,
Michael O. Machado, Joel Ray Asuncion, Patricia Capponi, Cliff Richard, Valeria Pacheco, Brady McHugh, Joseph
Delaney, Margaret Harrison, Kimberly O’Brien, Father Daniel Sinn, Joe Ann O’Brien, Father MacEwen, Mr. & Mrs.
Parish, Mary Ann Nightingale, Mike Lopez, Sheryl Ventura, George Martin Helfer, Alfred Deldon Sr., Brenda
Garrett, Basil Summers, Tina Alvarez, Nancy Clark, Bill Johns, Befus Brown, Ellen Trujillo, Dustin Clark, Roger
Amani, Sister Miriam McLean, Nancy Fox, Lauretta Proulex, Matthew Taylor, Holly Shess, Mary Jo McHugh, Rose
Marie Bruno, Gabriella McHugh, Joe Anthony Gonzalez, Bob and Donna Cornell, Patricia Hivley, Walker Stevens,
Melinda Montoya
Please pray for all those in our parish family who have died since Shelter in Place:
Mike Farley, Jossie Eyre, Tina Martinez, Jerry Priddy, Lou Jahde, Jessie Mangers, Kara O’Connor, Joe Vitale, Deacon
Anthony Dudzic, Billy Bruce, Kathleen Davis, Bob Roach, Sam Ochu, Scott Collier, Gerald Cucio, Fr. Joe Blanco,
Josephine Malesich, Louisa Orduna, Maureen Rittenhause, Sammy Lopez, Randall Cook, Mike McBride, Peter James
Chavez, Paul Bordeleau
SACRED MUSIC
Saint Cecilia, Pray for Us
March 14th at 3 PM
Livestream Concert
Mors et Resurrectio: A Journey
Music for the Lenten Season
Cyrissa Anderson: Soprano
Richard Robertson: Organist
Works by J.S. Bach, Nicholas de Gringy, Hendrik An-
driessen, Jean Langlais, and Jaromir Weinberger
To watch this program, visit our website at
www.denvercathedral.org/concerts
C ONGRATULATIONS!
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YOUNG ADULT & YOUNG FAMILY MINISTRIES
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frasatti , Pray for Us
Holy Family, Pray for Us
Welcome! We invite you to check out our SPORTS LEAGUES, YOUNG ADULT MEN’S
and YOUNG ADULT WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDIES! Find us on Facebook at Cathedral Young
Adult and Young Adult Families or feel free to contact our Young Adult Coordinator,
Georgie Messing at gmessing@catholicsports.net
The Search is an innovative video series that tackles
the key questions of every human heart. In seven
beautifully filmed episodes, Chris Stefanick and ex-
perts from multiple fields of science, medicine, psy-
chology, art, and religion examine our place in the
larger story of existence.
Whether you’re a practiced inquirer or a jaded skep-
tic, The Search will speak to you. You may be reas-
sured by some parts, and challenged by others. Ei-
ther way, you’ll find a lot here to think about. And
when all is said and done, life’s questions demand to
be answered.
Chris Stefanick and Real Life Catholic have de-
signed The Search to help you do those very things!
This Lent, Archbishop Aquila, along with several oth-
er bishops around the U.S., are themselves partici-
pating in an initiative to promote Catholics journeying through The Search together in small groups.
Throughout Lent, Chris Stefanick will be guiding participants on how to use The Search in their small group during his
weekly show The Life You Were Made For. Each week, he will be joined by a bishop discussing an episode of The Search
and sharing their conversion story. Our own Archbishop Aquila will be with Chris on the very first episode, February
18th. More details to come!
Find THE SEARCH on FORMED. The Cathe-
dral Basilica is happy to offer a complete
subscription for all our parishioners.
Simply go to www.formed.org/signup
Check out this
opportunity at
Holy Ghost!
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JULIA GREELEY GUILD
Servant of God, Julia Greeley, Pray for Us
Frankie Rachell-Bruce leads the Servant
of God Julia Greeley Prayer and the Lita-
ny of the Sacred Heart at the January 1st
Mass for Julia’s Canoe
JULIA GREELEY BOOK FOR SALE PRAYER THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF THE
SERVANT OF GOD JULIA GREELEY
Denver’s Model of Mercy
The Julia Greeley Guild is selling the book Julia
Greeley: Denver’s Angel of Charity, written and
Heavenly Father, your servant Julia Greeley ded-
icated her life to honoring the Sacred Heart of
your son and to the humble service of the poor.
Grant me a generous heart like your Son’s, and if
it be in accordance with your holy will, please
grant this favor I now ask through Julia’s inter-
cession.
I pray this through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
-Archbishop Samuel J Aquila
JULIA’S CANOE
During her life in Denver, Julia once responded to a
illustrated by the 2018-2019 Annunciation request for prayers by saying, “I’ll put you in my ca-
noe with everyone else that I pray for”.
Catholic School 5th Grade Class, as a fundrais- Send your prayer intentions to juliascanoe@gmail.com
er. The cost of the book is $15.00, and monies We Pray for the Intentions in Julia’s Canoe during special
raised will assist in the process of the Canoni- Masses scheduled:
zation of Servant of God Julia Greeley. For ad-
ditional information or to order a book, please March 5th @ 5:30 pm
contact Mary Leisring at the Cathedral Basilica April 9th at 5:30 pm
303-831-7010 or email mar- May 7th at 12:10 pm
yl@denvercathedral.org.
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SPIRITUAL FORMATION
Saint Philip Neri, Pray for Us
Saint of the Week
QUO VADIS? Blessed Sebastian of Aparicio
“Lord, Where you are you going?” Sebastian’s roads and bridges connected many distant
These are the words that Peter spoke to Jesus when places. His final bridge-building was to help men and
Our Lord appeared to him on the Appian Way as Pe- women recognize their God-given dignity and destiny.
ter fled persecution in Rome.
Sebastian’s parents were Spanish peasants. At the age of
Jesus answered, 31, he sailed to Mexico, where he began working in the
"I am going to Rome to be crucified again" fields. Eventually he built roads to facilitate agricultural
trading and other commerce. His 466-mile road from Mex-
ico City to Zacatecas took 10 years to build and required
As we each continue on our particular faith walk, careful negotiations with the indigenous peoples along the
whether we are cradle Catholics or converts, prayer way.
and sacraments are imperative to the vitality of our
Church. We come together to persevere in communi- In time Sebastian was a wealthy farmer and rancher. At the
ty and education, prompted and sustained by grace. age of 60, he entered a virginal marriage. His wife’s moti-
vation may have been a large inheritance; his was to pro-
Please join us on Wednesday evenings during our vide a respectable life for a girl without even a modest
RCIA formation classes to learn about the most im- marriage dowry. When his first wife died, he entered an-
portant pillars of our faith and to give witness to other virginal marriage for the same reason; his second
those becoming Catholic. wife also died young.
At the age of 72, Sebastian distributed his goods among
the poor and entered the Franciscans as a brother. Assigned
WEDNESDAY NIGHTS at the Knights of to the large (100-member) friary at Puebla de los Angeles
Columbus at 16th and Grant south of Mexico City, Sebastian went out collecting alms
QUO VADIS 6:30 PM for the friars for the next 25 years. His charity to all earned
RCIA 7:15 PM him the nickname “Angel of Mexico.”
Sebastian was beatified in 1787 and is known as a patron
of travelers.
According to the Rule of Saint Francis, the friars
February 24th: A Catholic Moral Vi- were to work for their daily bread. Sometimes, howev-
sion: Virtue, Grace and Happiness er, their work would not provide for their needs; for
example, working with people suffering from leprosy
March 3rd: A Love that Lasts: Discov- brought little or no pay. In cases such as these, the
ering Authentic Love friars were allowed to beg, always keeping in mind
the admonition of Francis to let their good example
March 10th: A Love that Lasts: God’s commend them to the people. The life of the prayerful
Sebastian drew many closer to God.
Plan for Sexuality
March 17th: Saint Patrick– Apostle to
Ireland and Catholic Social Teaching
March 24th: Catholic Social Teaching:
Protecting Human Dignity
Picture: Church of Domine Quo Vadis in Rome
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MORE THAN YOU REALIZE
Denver and Beyond
Read Archbishop Aquila’s full Pastoral Note:
www.archden.org/our-apostolic-moment/#
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