May 31 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 31, 2026
Trinity Sunday

Sunday (May 31)                                 9:00 am                                    For Summer Safety For Youth
Monday                                                                                                           Father Nat’s Day off
Tuesday                                                    5:00 pm                                       H&W Becky Corley by Hospitality Committee
Wednesday                                             7:30 am                                        For Seasonal Moisture
Wednesday                                                                                                    Bible Study
Thursday                                                  5:00 pm                                       H&W Our Sick
Friday                                                        7:30 am                                       + Alvin Ficco by Louise
Saturday                                                   9:00 am                                       Confession
Saturday (June 6)                              6:00 pm                                    H&W Pope Leo
Sunday (June 7)                                 9:00 am                                    + Carl, Ed, Sheri, Jimmy & Mickey Boyer
SILVERTON
Saturday (May 30)                             4:00 pm                                    For Parishioners

Saturday (June 6)                              4:00 pm                                    For Parishioners

Minister Schedule:                            June 6th                         June 7th                                 
Lector:                                       Mary Ann Guilinger                Nancy Nixon

Collection: St. Daniel                                                                     5/3/2026   $ 2382.00
St. Patrick                                                                    5/16/2026   $ 212.00           Bishop’s Special Collection  $66.20

This Friday is First Friday. There will be Adoration, Benediction and recitation of the Rosary after the 7:30 am Mass, all for the intention of more vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

This coming Saturday will begin the Saturday night Mass at 6:00 pm in Ouray. This Mass will run through the summer.

Next Sunday is Food Bank Sunday. Non-perishable food items as well as monetary donations may be left on the altar.

War, Peace, and the Catholic Tradition
In recent weeks there has been a vibrant and robust debate within the US about the morality of launching and sustaining was against Iran. Catholic moral teaching has been at the center of this national dialogue, and the statements of Pope Leo XIV on the war with Iran have been welcomed by many Catholics, recast by some and totally rejected by others. Because the war is a highly volatile issue in our polarized society, it is particularly important that Catholic teaching be clear and well understood as we seek to move forward to peace.
In reality, the fundamental stance of the church toward war is that it must be avoided. Pope John XXIII proclaimed in “Pacem in Terris” that “it is hardly possible to imagine that in an atomic era war could be used as an instrument of justice.” Pope Paul VI journeyed to the UN to plead with the world: “Never again war, never again war!”
Pope John Paul II taught that war is never an appropriate way to settle disputes among peoples. “It has never been and it will never be.” Upon his election, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger chose the name Benedict XVI to tie his entire pontificate to that of Pope Benedict XV, who tried to end all war. And Pope Francis wrote in “Fratelli Tutti” that “we can no longer think of war as a solution, because its risks will probably always be greater than its supposed benefits. In view of this, it is very difficult nowadays to invoke the rational criteria elaborated in earlier centuries to speak of a just war. Never again war.”
It is in this light that we must view Pope Leo’s statement that “God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.” Pope Leo’s strenuous opposition to war in every form is not a product of his particular papacy or his personal viewpoint but rather reflects the constant refrain of the popes for the last 60 years. It is a refrain that is rooted in the fundamental command for disciples to be peacemakers and to act on the conviction that war is always antithetical to the Gospel. And it is a refrain that has been accelerated by the enormous destructive power of modern weapons that have the capacity to destroy whole civilizations and indeed, humanity itself.
–Robert Cardinal McElroy