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3 DENVER CATHOLIC | FEBRUARY 2021 " Your Partner Legacy I want my kids and grandkids to experience Jesus Christ and His Church that is alive and thriving. The Catholic Foundation facilitates charitable giving for the long-term benefit of donors, and parishes, schools and ministries through: • Planned Gifts • Donor-Advised Funds • Charitable Gift Annuities • IRA Charitable Rollovers • Gifts of cash, stock, real estate, etc. 303.468.9885 • TheCatholicFoundation.com Call us today for a FREE consultation. Deacon Steve Stemper Lisa Kukura Joshua Gideon rest of Creation would be genuine, something we chose, mirroring God's own love. Part of being made in his image and likeness is to love, beginning with receiving his uncon- ditional love for us. The risk of genuinely free love, though, is that it can be corrupted and doubted. And that is what happened with Satan when he tempted Adam and Eve to distrust God's goodness, and this has been passed on to us. The events of 2020 should be convincing enough evi- dence for anyone questioning the effects of this break from God that sin and its effects are real. By believing the lie that we can be happy and better off apart from God, we allow ourselves to become enslaved to our sins. We become tyrants. If you think about it, each appetite and desire claims increasing amounts of control over our lives as we indulge it. If we are honest, we realize that in the end, we are outgunned. None of us can escape the ultimate consequence of man's separation from God: death. This is our story, but it is not the end of the story. Thankfully, God's love for us did not end with the orig- inal fall from grace or our ongoing failures to love as he does. As we just celebrated at Christmas, Jesus came in the unassuming form of a child to rescue us. He came, as the early Church Fathers said, to do battle against sin, death and Satan. In the next edition of the Denver Catholic magazine and El Pueblo Catolico, we will dive deeper into Jesus' mission and remember how he rescues us. If you want to walk through our story – your story – in a deeper, compelling and beautiful way, I encourage you to watch and participate in The Search with Chris Stefanick. You can participate as an individual or create a small discussion group with family and friends. Additionally, I will appear on Chris' show The Life You Were Made For on Feb. 18 to discuss The Search with him, and I invite you to tune in. To learn more, see page 15 and visit archden.org/the-search/ J O I N M E FO R ...