August 16 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 16, 2026
                                                    20th Sunday in Ordinary Time                                                  

Saturday (Aug 15)                6:00 pm                    For Parish
Sunday (Aug 16)                   9:00 am                    + Vicki Trujillo by Ron Trujillo
Monday                                                                          Father Nat’s Day off
Tuesday                                     5:00 pm                      H&W Louise Ficco by Laura Boyer
Wednesday                               7:30 am                      H&W Sally Highlander
Wednesday                                                                    Bible Study
Thursday                                   5:00 pm                      + Vicki Trujillo by Ron Trujillo
Friday                                         7:30 am                      In Thanks for Rain
Saturday                                    9:00 am                      Confession      
Saturday (Aug 22)               6:00 pm                     For Parish
Sunday (Aug 23)                  9:00 am                     + Vicki Trujillo by Ron Trujillo
 
SILVERTON
Saturday (Aug 15)                4:00 pm                    Larry & Rose Raab 55th Wedding Anniversary

Saturday (Aug 22)                4:00 pm                   + Jake Gallegos by Family

Minister Schedule:                     August  22                             August  23                                 
Lector:                                    Mary Ann Guilinger                  John Nixon

Collection:            St. Daniel    8/9/2026   $  2300.00        
                                St. Patrick   8/1/2026       $ 287.00                  Cath Foundation $ 149.00 

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

Neighbor to Neighbor in Ouray is seeking a few more volunteers to deliver a few meals in town. Please contact Nancy Nixon for more information or to volunteer: nixonouray@gmail.com

This Tuesday, 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.

The Rosary

What more can be said about the Rosary? I’m not going to try to add to the millions of words in praise of the Rosary, which I pray every morning on the way to work, but instead I’ll perhaps offer a few personal reflections.

My favorite story comes from a now-deceased Jesuit, who had finished doing extensive training in spiritual direction. He was planning on helping his mother, and elderly Irish –Catholic woman from Boston, learn some more “advanced prayer.” She told him she enjoyed the Rosary. So my friend asked what happened when she prayed the Rosary. She said, simply, “God looks at me and I look at God.”

I’ve always loved that insight. The Rosary can be prayed in many ways: you can use the traditional “mysteries” to meditate on events from the life of Mary and Jesus. You can reach for it as a kind of calming prayer to place you in the presence of God. Or you can pray it for a certain intention.

My own way of praying the Rosary is simple. I don’t use the mysteries (because I have a hard time remembering them); instead, I simply focus on the words of the Hail Mary and Our Father – prayers I’ve been praying since I was a boy. I love using rosaries I’ve bought from various holy places – Galilee, Jerusalem, Lourdes, Fatima, Knock – which remind me of my time in each place. And I still have the Rosary I was given on my First Holy Communion. The Rosary is a universal prayer you can make your own.
                                                                                                                   -Fr. James Martin, S.J.