Spotlight on Social Outreach
Pinwheels for the Taking
The wonderful pinwheels that we had planted as a way to heighten awareness of child abuse are now available for you to take home. Feel free to help yourself and keep the children in mind.
Sunflower Seeds Ukraine |This Weekend: May 3-4 | Save a Spot in Your Garden
Our wonderful sunflower seeds will once again be available this weekend, May 3-4 after all the Masses. We will also have seed packets available in the back of church after the weekend. This year we are featuring the “Lemon Queen” sunflower and “Autumn Beauty” sunflower. We share the seeds as a way of supporting and remembering our sisters and brothers in Ukraine who continue to live in terror and loss in their war-torn country. We’ll support “Sunflower Seeds Ukraine” a non-profit out of Boulder with monetary donations. You can make a donation in person that weekend, or online at the Holy Family website: https://tinyurl.com/SunflowersUkraine25.
Learn more about this non-profit: “Sunflower Seeds Ukraine https://www.sunflowerseedsukraine.org/
Here to Serve | Tuesday, May 6 | Regis University
Now, more than ever, our most vulnerable neighbors need the daily necessities such as good food. Looking for a way to serve those in need? Volunteer to help at the Regis University Mobile Food Pantry. This is a wonderful experience to connect to our marginalized neighbors along with other Holy Family parishioners. This monthly outreach is now in its 2nd year of service. We will be working outside so dress for the weather. Come and serve Tuesday, May 6 from 8-11am. If interested in carpooling from Holy Family, contact Ann. To sign up and obtain more information: https://tinyurl.com/RegisFoodPantry
Caring Cards | Cards from Holy Family to Those Who Might Need a Lift
Thank you to the Caring Cards Team and Barb Frodin for their work in sending out cards to those who need to know we care. It might be a card for someone who is ill, recovering or perhaps lonely. In order to simplify the process for requesting a card be sent, all you need to do is contact Barb Frodin bfrodin@gmail.com. She will be sure your card makes it to the neighbor in need.
Guns to Gardens | Saturday May 10 |10am-noon | Most Precious Blood Parish
2200 S Harrison Street, Denver, CO 80210
Turn your gun into a garden tool. This event is a way to make our homes and streets safer. It is an opportunity to recycle your gun to create garden tools. Volunteers are needed during the session for various tasks: https://givepul.se/lmainc More information: gunstogardensdenver.org or pick up a flyer in the back of church.
Interfaith Vigil: Standing with Immigrants
Monday May 12 | 6:00- 7:00 PM | GEO Detention Center | 3130 N. Oakland | Aurora
Come and join with people of faith to show support for our neighbors being held in detention. This will be a peaceful rally to stand up and speak out for immigrant lives and immigrant rights. This is sponsored by: Interfaith Immigration Network, Ni1Mas and American Friends Service Committee. If interested in carpooling, contact Ann.
Companion Needed
A parishioner with mild dementia is looking for a companion for 4 hours on Tuesday mornings while her daughter is at work. There is a stipend for the time in companionship. If interested in this outreach, please contact Ann at the office 720.760.8062 for more information.
Remembering Pope Francis
Pope Francis Holds the Marginalized Close in His Final Easter Homily
“How much contempt is stirred up at times toward the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants!” he said in his Easter address, shortly before his death. “On this day, I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves or who come from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of life and ideas.”
Let us honor Pope Francis by continuing to take steps to respect and defend the vulnerable, marginalized and migrants.
Thomas Merton Conference | Regis University | June 19-22
The International Thomas Merton Society invites all to its 19th biennial Conference at Regis University in Denver this coming June 19-22, 2025. Scholars and presenters will offer insights into Thomas Merton’s contributions on such topics as prayer, ecology, social commitment, Indigenous wisdom, photography and art. The theme of the conference is “Thomas Merton and the Spirit of Place: The Calligraphy of Snow, Rock and Sky.” Pope Francis in his 2015 address to Congress said that “Merton was above all a man of prayer, a thinker who challenged the certitudes of his time and opened new horizons for souls and for the Church. He was a man of dialogue, a promoter of peace between peoples and religions”. Further information on the program and registration can be found on the web at merton.org/2025.
