El domingo pasado, enviamos a 35 catecúmenos y candidatos de nuestra parroquia al obispo Golka para su Rito de Elección. Si Dios quiere, serán bautizados, confirmados y recibirán su primera comunión con nosotros esta Pascua. Por favor, recen por ellos durante este tiempo de purificación e iluminación. Inviten a otros a conocer y amar a Jesús como ustedes lo hacen. Esta es también la temporada en la que 80 de nuestros chicos y chicas mayores se preparan para el sacramento de l

Last Sunday, we sent 35 catechumens and candidates from our parish to Bishop Golka for their Rite of Election.  God willing, they will be Baptized, Confirmed, and receive their first Holy Communion with us this Easter!  Please pray for them during this season of purification and enlightenment.  Please invite others to come to know and love Jesus like you do! This is also the season when 80 of our older boys and girls are preparing for the Sacrament of Confirmation.  They will

The Church considers every Friday and the season of Lent to be days and times of penance. The practice of penance is part of our Christian faith and life. When we do penance, we imitate Jesus, who himself recommended it as necessary for his followers and gave them the example of his prayer and fasting. The practices of Lent, as determined by our bishops in the United States, requires fasting to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. The law of abstinence from eating me

Let us pray for Bishop Golka as the new Archbishop-designate for Denver.  I was certainly surprised to here the news last weekend.  I am sad to see Bishop Golka leave us.  He will be installed in Denver on March 25.  Let us pray for a new Bishop for our Diocese.  That process can take up to a year. We began our Annual Diocesan Ministry Appeal last weekend.  Thanks to your wonderful generosity, we are, once again, the NUMBER ONE parish in the Diocese!  Number one out of 40 par

We begin our Annual Diocesan Ministry Appeal this weekend.  Thanks to your wonderful generosity, we are, once again, the NUMBER ONE parish in the Diocese!  Our goal is 234,080 dollars.  I am confident we can make it! In our first Bible reading today, the prophet Isaiah delivers unmistakable instruction: “Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the homeless; clothe the naked when you see them, and do not turn your back on your own.” There is no room for hes

One Jubilee after another!  —- Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed a special Jubilee Year coinciding with the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi!  Our Holy Father has established that from January 10, 2026, until January 10, 2027, a special Year of Saint Francis is proclaimed, in which every Christian, "following the example of the Saint of Assisi, may become a model of holiness of life and a constant witness of peace."  Noting previous jubilee celebrations relat

January 25 Bulletin, Flocknote and Website When I was a boy, I was an altar server.  One day, Father Fred, our Pastor, invited me to go fishing with him. I was so excited, I ran home and told my Mom and Dad.  Well, Father Fred and I never went fishing.  But I became a priest!  Maybe that’s what he meant when he invited me to “go fishing!” Peter, Andrew, James and John were real fisherman, not what we would consider proper training for becoming disciples and missionaries.  I w

The Lord called Isaiah in our first Bible reading today, Paul and Sosthenes in the second, and John the Baptist in the Gospel.  The Lord calls each of us to be His servant, to be a light to the nations, that salvation might reach the ends of the earth. All we can say is: “Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.”  How will you serve the Lord this week?  What is God’s will for you to bring light to others and point them to Jesus? This week, I’ll be joining Fr Brad and other pr

Today marks the close of the Christmas season, but before we return to Ordinary Time, we have one more great feast to celebrate — The Baptism of the Lord. Today’s feast is a perfect opportunity to use the privileges and responsibilities we all share as Christian stewards by virtue of our own Baptism, and how we might live them out more fully in this new year 2026. At the moment of our Baptism, whether in infancy or later in life, we became adopted sons and daughters of God, m

Happy New Year 2026!  As we recall the gifts brought by the Magi to the Christ Child today, I want to thank you for all the gifts you have brought to Father Michael, Father Carlos, and me during this Christmas season!  We are so grateful for your kindness and generosity!  We received so many greeting cards, gift cards, and food!  Thank you so much! Like the Magi, we are all on a journey in this new year to find the holy Christ and to offer Him our time, talent, and treasure. 

Merry Christmas, everyone!  Christ is our Hope and Hope does not disappoint!  While the worldwide Jubilee Year of Hope concludes this weekend, our Hope goes on!  I pray that this Holy Year has been an opportunity for you and your family to grow in this great virtue.  We are on our way to heaven.  Our true and lasting Hope is eternal life!  However, we live this Hope each day.  I pray that the New Year 2026 will inspire us to bring Hope to more and more people! On this Feast o

As Advent ends and Christmas begins, it is fitting that today’s Bible readings show the intensity of God’s perfect and passionate love for each of us.  What great love and patience our heavenly Father has shown us throughout the ages! God’s love culminates in the gift of His own Son, Jesus Christ.  This is the peace that the world cannot give. What can we possibly offer in return?   All we can offer is our entire lives as gift in return!  Living our stewardship way of life wi

Good news, everyone! Father Carlos is back from vacation, and we are half-way to Christmas!  It is time to take a moment to rejoice in the Good News that our Savior will come again in triumph one day. Today’s Bible readings on this Gaudete (“Rejoice”) Sunday are filled with reminders of God’s final victory over suffering and injustice, and encouragement to remain steadfast in our mission to live as faith-filled disciples. Such a day almost seems too good to be true, especiall

Thank you for joining us this Second Sunday of Advent in this Jubilee Year of Hope.  As we draw another week closer to Christmas, our hope in Jesus gets stronger as we honor our Blessed Mother, Mary with two great feasts:  Her Immaculate Conception, on Monday, December 8 (A Holy Day of Obligation) and as Patroness of All the Americas under her title of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Friday, December 12. This week, please pray with me this beautiful prayer to Our Lady of the America

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day!  Welcome to family and friends visiting us here this weekend!  We “burned our mortgage”.  Now, we look ahead with hope.  What more can we do for Jesus and His Church? Today we begin the beautiful season of Advent. It is a season meant for preparation. But what exactly are we preparing for?  In the weeks leading up to Christmas, it seems everywhere we turn we are pushed to spend more, do more, entertain more, and generally rush ar

How exciting that the annual Castle Rock Star-Lighting this weekend coincides with this great Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe!  Jesus is truly the light of the universe that shines in the darkness of sin and death!   Our Bible readings today show us that we serve the greatest of Kings, who is at the same time the humblest of Kings. Christ is the perfect model of servant leadership. And what an indescribable privilege that He has called us to be servant le

Thanks to everyone who helped to pay off our parish building debt.  Capital improvements and ongoing maintenance, of course, will continue.  Our monthly DEBT envelope will change into a CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT envelope in the months to come.  Our biggest project will be a new sewer line that is estimated to cost between 700,000-800,000 dollars.   We appreciate your ongoing support. Fr Mark Zacker Here are a few moments from the burning of the mortgage! (Thank you, Patty H., for f

The Feast of the Dedication of the St. John Lateran Basilica is unusual in the Church's calendar because it is a feast for a building rather than a saint or an event in salvation history. The Basilica of St. John-dedicated to both St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist-is the cathedral of Rome, the mother church of the mother diocese of the world. Most people think St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican is the cathedral of Rome, but it is not. St. John's church, locate

On this commemoration of All Souls’ Day, the Church turns our gaze toward all the faithful departed, entrusting them to God’s mercy and proclaiming once again our hope in the Resurrection. The Bible readings selected for this day speak with one voice: death does not have the final word, for those who live and die in Christ will share in His victory over the grave. This is where the message of our good stewardship comes into focus. Thanks to everyone who completed your annual

I was praying with this Gospel before daily Mass, and I immediately thought of all of us trying to get into our parking lot these days!  — “Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.” (Luke 13:22-24) Why is Jesus inviting us to pass t