August 9 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
August 9, 2026
                                                    19th Sunday in Ordinary Time                                                  

Saturday (Aug 8)                     6:00 pm                     In Thanks for Rain
Sunday (Aug 9)                        9:00 am                     H&W Tony Viola & Mary Scuderi by Laura Boyer
Monday                                                                                Father Nat’s Day off
Tuesday                                         5:00 pm                       + Alexandra Curcio Pollio by Kathy
Wednesday                                  7:30 am                       + Kathy Russo & Wayne Drake by Laura Boyer
Wednesday                                                                         Bible Study
Thursday                                       5:00 pm                       + Alexandra Curcio Pollio by Kathy
Friday                                             7:30 am                        H&W Louise Ficco by Laura Boyer
Saturday                                        9:00 am                       Confession      
Saturday (Aug 15)                    6:00 pm                    For Parish
Sunday (Aug 16)                       9:00 am                   + Vicki Trujillo 

SILVERTON
Saturday (Aug 8)                     4:00 pm                   For Parish

Saturday (Aug 15)                    4:00 pm                  Larry & Rose Raab 55th Wedding Anniversary

Minister Schedule:            August 15                               August 16                                   
Lector:                              Karen Miller                             Jeff Keller

Collection: St. Daniel            8/2/2026                 $ 3001.00          Catholic Foundation $2428.14
                   St. Patrick           7/25/2026                     $553.75

Save the date. Tuesday August 18th after the 5 pm Mass, there will be a potluck in the church hall to celebrate Fr. Nat and Deacon Ed’s birthdays.  Meat and cake will be provided. No gifts please.

Blessed Among Us

The history of crimes (slavery, torture, holy war) committed in the name of Christianity is often excused as an unfortunate reflection of the times. Bartolome de Las Casas, who dedicated his life to exposing the rapacious violence inflicted on Indigenous peoples in the Americas, challenges such excuses. Originally a chaplain in the Spanish conquest of Cuba (while also benefiting as the owner of a plantation), in 1514 he underwent a dramatic conversion. After witnessing the genocidal cruelty imposed on the Natives, he joined the Dominican Order and became a passionate defender of their interests. For more than fifty years he traveled between the New World and the court of Spain, attempting to expose the cruelties of the Conquest.

Though the Conquest was justified with supposedly evangelical motivations, Las Casas believed the actions of the conquistadors revealed that their true religion was the worship of gold. He opposed the notion that the Gospel could be spread through slaughter or compulsion of any kind.

While others claimed the Natives were a lesser race, he affirmed their full humanity and entitlement to human rights. But he went further. Identifying the Natives with the poor in the Gospel sense, he argued that in their sufferings they represented the crucified Christ.

In 1544 Las Casas was named the bishop of Chiapas in southern Mexico, but he eventually resigned and returned to Spain, the better, he hoped, to promote the cause of social justice. He died on July 18, 1566, at the age of 82.

“I leave in the Indies Jesus Christ, our God, scourged and afflicted and beaten and crucified not once, but thousands of times.”    –Bartolome de Las Casas