October 11 2026 – Bulletin

                                             ST. DANIEL THE PROPHET CHURCH
                                                PO Box 565 614 5th St, Ouray, CO  81427
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                                                                        (970) 325-4373
                                              ST. PATRICK CHURCH- SILVERTON
                                                         1005 Reese, Silverton, CO. 81433
                                                                    Fr. Nathanael Foshage
                                                                          October 11, 2026
                                                             28th Sunday in Ordinary Time    
                                              
Sunday (Oct 11)        9:00 am   + Sara Fay by Rick & Patty Blackford
Monday                                           Father Nat’s Day off
Tuesday                       5:00 pm   + Phil Blackford by Rick & Patty Blackford
Wednesday                 7:30 am   + Steve Easley by Art & Ginny Ficco                             
Wednesday                                    Bible Study
Thursday                     5:00 pm   + Sara Fay by Rick & Patty Blackford
Friday                           7:30 am    For Parish
Saturday                      9:00 am   Confession        
Sunday (Oct 18)        9:00 am   + West Livaudais by Phil & Ann Plienis
  
SILVERTON
Saturday (Oct 10)     4:00 pm  For Parish
  
Saturday (Oct 17)     4:00 pm   H&W Katy Murray    

Minister Schedule:                          October 18                                                   
Lector:                                         Mary Ann Guilinger 

Collection: St. Daniel    10/4/2026   $ 2919.00
                    St. Patrick   9/26/2026     $ 405.45

Today, Sunday, October 11, 2026, Haven House, a transitional housing facility focusing on families with children, is having its 16th Annual Wine & Cheese Party hosted by the Reinhart family and co-hosted by the Wiens, Pecis, Calbeck & Jancar families.  Bring a friend; everyone is welcome!  Please join the festivities this afternoon at Laura & Eric’s home located 1365 Marmot Dr. in Fairway Pines (Divide Ranch & Golf) from 3 to 6 pm.   Bronco fans – no worries about missing the game the TV will be playing for all to see.  Mini flyers will be handed out after Mass with directions.  If you have any questions, call Lil Fredericken at (949) 903-6161.  Look forward to seeing you!

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

                                                           Creation – God’s Monastery

For those of us who are Star Trek fans, the perennial invite to boldly go where no one has gone before and chart our own path through that final frontier of space might feel a bit like a fallback plan – you know, in case we don’t get the rolling disaster of climate change sorted. We see this impulse to flee our ravaged Earth not only in science fiction and dystopian films, but in real life, too, as the influence and innovation of private spaceflight companies grow. Why bother investing in this planet’s future when we can find another?

Exploring the vastness of God’s creation is one thing: abandoning it – even the tiniest sliver – to destruction and decay is quite another. This planet is ours to care for, to tend to, the landscape through which we work and play and love. Through the endless delights of creation, God speaks to us. In short – and to echo one of the early Jesuits, Jerome Nadal – the world is our monastery. What does that require of us?

Drawing on the wisdom of the Benedictine tradition, we see the world-as-monastery as a clarion call to care for God’s creation. First, we commit to it – we pledge to stay here in this place, on this planet, resting in the gift of God’s great universe. And yet, this disposition of stability is a mystical one. If we are committing to a place, our entire disposition changes. We no longer hedge our bets that some scientific breakthrough will allow us to abandon a planet we’ve condemned to pollution, pesticide, and plastic. Instead, we look to ourselves, to our communities, to the change – even small – that we can affect. What is within our power to make this place – here and now – better? Healthier? How can my actions care for creation? Indeed, how is God speaking to me through the natural wonders that exist all around me?

If we are to see the world as our monastery, and our monastery as a permanent home in which we experience God and care for God’s people, then we would do well to tend to the tools and goods therein. For that, St. Benedict provides precise instructions. Rule 32 insists that the goods of the monastery must be properly cared for and returned in the same condition in which they were received.

How, then, do we treat the goods of our cosmic monastery? Do we treat God’s creation in such a way that, when we “return” it after our own use, we will face reproval? Do we treat the created world as our own private property? Or do we care for it as a gift that has been freely given and thus protect it so as to sustain others in their need?

We may still boldly go into God’s vast creation. But we cannot do so at the expense of God at work in the intimate nearness of our present lives. When we commit to a place, we commit to God’s Spirit at work here. Let us then also commit to nourish the fullness of creation for the good of all as it blooms at our very feet.  –Eric Clayton