FATHER JIM'S JOTS - Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time - February 11, 2024

 St. Elizabeth Catholic Church

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

February 11, 2024

FATHER JIM'S JOTS

Greetings!!

This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday.  We start Lent.  Masses will be at 12 p.m. and 6 p.m.  Please plan on attending Mass.  Lent is 40 days of prayer, fasting and alms giving.  We are Blessed as a Roman Catholic community to live out to embrace this special holy Lenten season.  Please click here for our full Lenten Calendar or visit our online calendar ar www.stelizcc.org/events/.

Recently, many of you received a letter from Bishop Knestout asking for your support of the 2024 Annual Diocesan Appeal.  We hope you will prayerfully consider this request.  For those of you who did not receive a mailing or have not had time to respond to it, we will conduct our In-Pew Process at all Masses during the weekends of February 18th and February 25th.

An important aspect of the Appeal is that all parishes receive back a portion of their funds collected to be used for important local priorities.  This year our Annual Appeal goal is $14,910.00.

Every year we get back more money from the Diocese than we give for the Annual Appeal.  Below is a list of grants that we received from the Diocese in 2023:

Food and Hunger Fund  $20,000

Respect for Life  $12,500

Home Mission  $8,500

Total  $41,000

Blessings,

Fr. Jim

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FATHER JIM'S JOTS - Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time - February 12, 2023

 Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

February 12, 2023

FATHER JIM'S JOTS

Greetings!

Did you know?

There are five African American Catholics who are being proposed for Sainthood.  They are Pierre Toussaint (New York), Henriette DeLille (New Orleans), Mary Elizabeth Lange (Baltimore), Augustin Tolton (Chicago) and Julia Greeley (Denver).

Other fun facts...

There have been 3 African Popes in the Catholic Church:

Pope Gelasius I, who was Pope from March 1, 492 to his death in 496.

Pope Miltiades, who was Pope of the Catholic Church from 311 to his death in 314.

Pope Victor I was the first Bishop of Rome born in the Roman Province of Africa.  The dates of his tenure are uncertain.  However, one source states he became Pope in 189 and died in 199.

There are 3 million African American Catholics in the United States.  Of Roman Catholic parishes in the United States, 798 are predominantly African American.  Most of those continue to be on the East Coast and in the South.

At present, there are 15 living African American bishops, of whom 8 remain active.

Currently, six U.S. dioceses are headed by African American bishops, including one archdiocese.

There are 250 African American priests, 437 deacons and 75 men of African descent in seminary formation for the priesthood in the United States.

There are 400 African American religious sisters and 50 religious brothers.

Blessings,

Fr. Jim Arsenault

Pastor

~ Information gathered from:  denvercatholic. org