Dec 21st 2025 – Bulletin
ST. DANIEL THE PROPHET CHURCH
PO Box 565 614 5th St, Ouray, CO 81427
Email: sdouray@gmail.com
Website: stdanielouray.org
(970) 325 4373
ST. PATRICK CHURCH- SILVERTON
1005 Reese, Silverton, CO. 81433
Fr. Nathanael Foshage
December 21, 2025
Fourth Sunday of Advent
OURAY
Sunday (Dec 21) 9:00 am + Virginia Ast by John Ast
Monday Fr. Nat’s day off
Tuesday 5:00 pm + Thomas Hinds by Fredericksen Family
Wednesday NO Bible Study
Wednesday 6:00 pm + Larry Fredericksen Christmas Eve
Thursday 9:00 am Parish Family Christmas
Friday 7:30 am + Gilbert Martinez by Rosalie Lynn
Saturday 9:00 am Confessions
Sunday (Dec 28) 9:00 am + Ginny Bird by Sherry Lynn Nicolas
SILVERTON
Saturday (Dec 20) 4:00 pm For Parish
Wednesday(Dec 24) 4:00 pm Parish Family
Saturday (Dec 27) 4:00 pm + Carolyn & Robert Cassell by Biolchini Family
Minister Schedule: Dec 28
Lector: Mary Ann Guilinger
Collection: St. Daniel 12/14/2025 $ 3329.40
St. Patrick 11/29 /2025 $ 116.00
Boxes of offertory envelopes for 2026 are at the back of the church. If you don’t see one with your name and you want one, please tell Lynne.
St. John XXIII’s Christmas Prayer
O sweet Child of Bethlehem,
grant that we may share with all our hearts
In this profound mystery of Christmas.
Put into the hearts of men and women this peace
For which they sometimes seek so desperately
And which you alone can give them.
Help them to know one another better,
And to live as brothers and sisters,
Children of the same Father.
Reveal to them also your beauty, holiness and purity.
Awaken in their hearts
Love and gratitude for your infinite goodness.
Join them all together in your love.
And give us your heavenly peace. Amen
This Profound Mystery
“O sweet Child”. For those who have had the privilege of holding a newborn baby, there’s nothing more precious or vulnerable than a newborn child. Consider how carefully and gently one must support a newborn infant’s head while cradling him or her in the fold of one’s arm. At Christmas, we celebrate that God, the Creator of the universe, allowed himself to be held in such a manner. The “profound mystery of Christmas” is that the all-powerful One makes himself vulnerable out of love. In a world where humans desperately seek to assert power or gain peace by economic or military force, St. John XXIII invites us to ponder and imitate God who, out of love, makes himself small and vulnerable. It is in embracing Christ’s humility that we will find the peace God alone can offer.