May 17 2026 – 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
May 17, 2026
The Ascension of the Lord

OURAY
Sunday (May 17)                                      9:00 am                               + George & Zenaida McAndrews by Catherine Vallejo
Monday Fr. Nat’s day off
Tuesday                                                          5:00 pm                                 + Leon Luyckx by Art & Ginny Ficco
Wednesday                                                   7:30 am                                  + Mike Corley by Hospitality Committee
Wednesday Bible Study
Thursday                                                        5:00 pm                                  H&W of our sick
Friday                                                              7:30 am                                   + Elizabeth Clarke by Stovicek Family
Saturday                                                        9:00 am                                   Confessions
Sunday (May 24)                                     9:00 am                                For Our Parish and Nation

SILVERTON
Saturday (May 16) 4:00 pm For Parishioners

Saturday (May 23) 4:00 pm H&W Pope Leo

Minister Schedule:                                                            May 24th
Lector: Karen Miller

Collection:                          St. Daniel             5/10/2026           $ 1882.00
St. Patrick              5/2/2026            $ 302.00

As mentioned last week, Bishop Berg has requested a special collection today to be used to build a fund for aiding struggling parishes in the Diocese. Please mark any donations as “special collection”. These funds will be forwarded to the Bishop.

Parish Council meets this Thursday at 6:30 pm in the Parish Hall.

                                                                                                Peace
Many people today are deprived of peace because their attention is dominated by their foreground. They do not realize that peace is actually quite near, but that it is in their background.
Our foreground, what we see and experience at any given time, is not the same as it was for our ancestors. In the past, the foreground might have been limited to family and neighbors in the context of a farm or village. An individual’s foreground expanded as the scope increased with business and travel.
Today, with the explosion of electronic media and the instant availability of news around the globe, our foreground is the whole world – and it is always changing. Whenever we think that things have calmed down and there is nothing to worry about, “Breaking News” brings us back to chaotic reality. What our ancestors would never have known about or would have found out about only after a solution had been found to a problem or crisis, we learn about as it happens.
Dominance of the foreground means that one is never at peace, and can never be at peace, because the foreground is always changing – every moment, every second. Good things are happening all over the world, as well, but they are rarely part of the instant news cycle.
To have peace, one’s life must be dominated not by the foreground but by the background. And what do I mean by that? One’s background, like a backbone, is a stable and unchanging philosophy or faith, an anchor that holds a life together. For Catholics, this background is faith in a loving God and Jesus Christ, our Savior, who govern all reality and is embodied in the sacred Tradition, based on Scripture and enshrined in the Creed. Unlike the foreground, which is always changing, this background is stable and unchanging. We engage completely in the life of the world, but our life is grounded in our unchanging faith. Staying rooted in our background gives us peace, no matter what is going on in the foreground.
God gave our ancestors in faith a way to remain dominated by the background by the institution of the Sabbath. Regularly, the whole community ceases ordinary business and reaffirms the priority of God. All that goes on in daily life and business is good, but it may lead us to think it is essential. Only one thing is necessary: God will take care of us even when we briefly lay down our tools and our control. This Sabbath plan was not only a gift to the Jewish people, but to everyone.
In the rule of St. Benedict, this regular affirmation of the priority of God is provided by the regular return to the Work of God, the Divine Office, several times a day. One’s personal assignment or commitment, the work of the day, is holy and good, but it is secondary to the Work of God. Letting go of our project and turning to God’s project brings us back to the unchanging presence behind the constantly changing world – and restores peace.
–Jerome Kodell, OSB