November 25, 2012 - Nativity of Our Lord

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FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES PANCAKE BREAKFAST The Knights of Columbus Pancake Breakfast will be held after the 7:30 and 9:30am Masses on Sunday, December 9. Everyone is welcome. The menu includes pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, fruit, coffee, milk and juice. The recommended donation is $5 for adults, $2 for children under 12, or $12 per family. Children under 5 are free. For more information on the Knights call Dennis Eichner at 303-466-1337, Leo Albiniak at 720-420-0623 or Phil Georgen at 303-469-8156. Our website is www.kofc10961.com. VISIT OUR WEBSITE: WWW.NOOL.US SIGN UP FOR FLOCKNOTE FLOCKNOTE IS HOW WE COMMUNICATE WITH YOU. SIGN UP TO STAY TUNED IN AT THE PARISH. PROJECT RACHEL POST ABORTION HEALING HOTLINE: 303-388-4491 ext. 153 Open 24 hours to women and men. PRAYERLINE: Call John & Jeanne Hoiland with any prayer requests. 303-466-6355 COUNSELING SERVICES Becky Kusick, M.A., L.P.C., offers counseling services through Nativity. Becky has a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology and is a licensed Professional Counselor. She has worked in the field for over 20 years. Becky works with couples, children, and adults. For more information or for an appointment, call 303-907 6499. Online Giving HEALING OPPORTUNITIES WHY ARE BAD THINGS HAPPENING TO ME A Stephen Minister can help you realize that God always cares. A Stephen Minister is a trained volunteer ready to listen in a non-judgmental way while maintaining strict confidentiality. Through a one-on-one caring relationship, those who are hurting receive the love and care they need to support them through difficult times. If you are going through hard times due to the loss of a loved one, unemployment, depression, addiction, divorce, financial burdens, or any other reason, call today and ask for a Stephen Minister who will suport you as you work through your problem. Please call 303-469-5171, ext. 113 and leave a confidential message. Your call will be returned within 48 hours. Nativity participates in an online giving program that serves as a consistent, reliable means of making your offering to our parish. To give online: 1. Visit our website at www.nool.us. 2. Click on the Online Giving button on the right sidebar. 3. Complete the registration. Questions: Contact Kyle Hubbart at k.hubbart@nool.us. When you participate in online giving, your gift will conveniently be transferred from your bank account or credit card directly to our parish. Among its many benefits, our online giving program allows you to provide consistent support without having to remember your envelopes and to contribute even when you’re out of town.
HOLY FATHER’S GENERAL AUDIENCE Dear Brothers and Sisters, Last Wednesday we reflected on the desire for God that the human being carries deeply within himself. Today I would like to continue and deepen this aspect meditating briefly on some paths to knowing God, remembering, however, that God's initiative always precedes any action of man, and even in the journey towards Him, it is He who first enlightens us, guides us and leads us, always respecting our freedom. And it is always He who allows us enter into his intimacy, revealing and gifting Himself us the grace to be able to welcome this revelation in faith. Let us never forget the experience of St. Augustine: it is not we who seek or possess the Truth, but the Truth that seeks us out and posses us. However, there are paths that can open the human heart to knowledge of God', there are signs that lead to Him. Of course, often we are in danger of being dazzled by the glitter of worldliness, which make us less able to travel these paths or to read those signs. However, God does not tire to look for us, He is faithful to the humanity He created and redeemed, He remains close to our lives, because He loves us. And 'this a certainty that must accompany us each and every day, even if certain widespread mentalities make it increasingly difficult for the Church and the Christian to communicate the joy of the Gospel to all creatures and all lead to an encounter with Jesus, the one Saviour of the world. This, however, is our mission, the mission of the Church and every believer must live it joyfully, feeling it to be his or her own, through a life truly animated by faith, marked by charity, service to God and to others, and capable of radiating hope. This mission shines above all in the holiness to which all are called. Today difficulties and trials are not lacking for the faith, often poorly understood, challenged, rejected. St. Peter said to his Christians: "Always be ready to respond, but with gentleness and respect, to anyone who asks you for the hope that is in your hearts" (1 Pt 3:15). In the past, in the West, in a society that is considered Christian, faith was the environment in which we moved; the reference POPE BENEDICT XVI ST. PETER'S SQUARE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2012 and adhesion to God were, for most people, part of everyday life. Rather, it was those who do not believe that had to justify their disbelief. In our world, the situation has changed and, increasingly, the believer must be able to account for the reasons of his faith. Blessed John Paul II, in the Encyclical Fides et Ratio, emphasized how faith is put to the test in these times, crossed by subtle and insidious forms of theoretical and practical atheism (cf. nn. 46-47). From the Enlightenment onwards, the criticism of religion has intensified, history has also been marked by the presence of atheistic systems, in which God was considered a mere projection of the human mind, an illusion, and the product of a society already distorted by alienation. The last century has seen a strong and growing secularism, in the name of the absolute autonomy of man, considered as a measure and artifice of reality, but depleted of his being created "in the image and likeness of God." In our time there is a particularly dangerous phenomenon for the faith: there is in fact a form of atheism that we define, as 'practical', which does not deny the truths of faith or religious rituals, but simply considers them irrelevant to everyday existence, detached from life, useless. Often, then, people believe in God in a superficial way, but live "as if God did not exist" (etsi Deus non daretur). In the end, however, this way of life is even more destructive, because it leads to indifference towards faith and the question of God In reality, man is separated from God, is reduced to a single dimension, the horizontal, and this very reductionism is one of the fundamental causes of totalitarianism that have had tragic consequences in the last century, as well as the crisis of values that we see in our current reality. By obscuring reference to God, the ethical horizon is also obscured, to make room for relativism and an ambiguous conception of freedom, which instead of being liberating ends up binding man to idols. The temptations Jesus faced in the desert prior to his public ministry, represent well the "idols" that fascinate man, when he does not look beyond himself. When God loses centrality, man loses his proper place, he no longer finds his place in creation, in relationships with others. That ancient wisdom evoked in the myth of Prometheus is still relevant: man thinks he can become
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