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DENVER CATHOLIC | FEBRUARY 2021 Turn your Clunker into Cash! Go to svdpUSAcars.com Or call 1-800-322-8284 e Society of St. Vincent de Paul has a quick and easy way to turn your unwanted car, truck or boat into cash and help those in need. Filling the Void of Loss with Faith Mt. Olivet & St. Simeon Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of Denver Mortuaries Leave a lasting gift of faith and love to your family and the Church by pre-planning your funeral and burial. Serving the entire Archdiocese with locations in: Wheat Ridge | Denver | Aurora | Centennial Please contact us at: (303) 532-5342 | cfcscolorado.org I will provide my honest and reliable service to you! Jon Manalo Your Real Estate Professional Parishioner of Notre Dame Catholic Church for 24 years 303-913-7735 CALL TODAY CONSIDERING BUYING OR SELLING IN 2021 consumers and citizens. Lay Catholics, John Paul wrote, have a particular obligation to be missionaries to culture, business, and politics, for lay witness in those venues car- ries special credibility. In being a Church of missionary disciples, we are to use the method of freedom. As John Paul II wrote in Redempto- ris Missio, italicizing his words for emphasis, "The Church proposes; she imposes nothing." But we must propose, we must invite, we must bear witness to the great gift we've been given – friendship with the Lord Jesus Christ and incorporation into his body, the Church. As the Lord him- self said in Matthew 10:8, because we have freely received, freely we must give. The Catholic Church of the 21st century is being called from maintenance to mission, which means the transfor- mation of our institutions into launch pads for evangeli- zation. The quality of our discipleship will be measured by how well we answer that call to share the gift with which we've been blessed. In apostolic times, Redemptoris Missio teaches, every Catholic is a missionary who has been given the mandate to 'go, make disciples of all nations' (Matthew 28:19)."

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