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10 JULY 2022 | DENVER CATHOLIC 2022-2023 CLASS SCHEDULE DENVER CATHOLIC BIBLICAL SCHOOL YEAR 1 † St. Peter (Monument) Mondays 9:00-11:00am † Our Lady of Fatima (Lakewood) Mondays 6:30-8:30pm † Immaculate Heart of Mary (Northglenn) Wednesdays 9:30-11:30am † Most Precious Blood (Denver) Wednesdays 6:30-8:30pm † Tuesdays 9:00-11:00am OR 6:30-8:30pm † Thursdays 9:00-11:00am OR 6:30-8:30pm DENVER CATHOLIC CATECHETICAL SCHOOL YEAR 1 † St. Peter (Greeley) Tuesdays 6:30-8:30pm † St. Thomas More (Centennial) Wednesdays 9:45-11:45am † Our Lady of Loreto (Foxfield) Thursdays 9:30-11:30am † St. Frances Cabrini (Littleton) Thursdays 6:30-8:30pm † Mondays 9:00-11:00am OR 6:30-8:30pm † Tuesdays 9:00-11:00am † Wednesdays 6:30-8:30pm ENRICHMENT COURSES † Catholic Culture: Theatre and the Arts Thursdays 6:30-8:00pm † Dante's Divine Comedy: A User's Guide to Salvation Mondays 6:30-8:00pm † Life in Christ: Prayer and Conversion Tuesdays OR Wednesdays 9:30-11:30am † Pilgrimage: A Journey through Church History Tuesdays 6:30-8:00pm † The First Domestic Church: The Life of Jesus, Mary, & Joseph Wednesdays 6:30-8:00pm Classes are offered in person and online for anybody in the world to take! Make the choice to learn your faith! IN PERSON IN PERSON IN PERSON ONLINE ONLINE ONLINE sjvlaydivision.org | 303.715.3195 laydivision@archden.org NEW DENVER CATHOLIC BIBLICAL SCHOOL, CATECHETICAL SCHOOL, AND ENRICHMENT COURSES Know Him. Love Him. Serve Him. As a member of the Pro-Life Colorado coalition, and an advocate in its own right, the Catholic Church in Colorado continues to be one of the loudest voices in the state and country in its opposition to abortion and support for pro- life efforts. The Colorado Catholic Conference and Catholic Charities were very active at the Capitol opposing RHEA and supporting legislation that valued life. But perhaps most remarkable is the Colorado bishops' leadership on the issue. The Colorado bishops were especially active in per- sonally advocating against RHEA – Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver, Auxiliary Bishop Jorge H. Rodriguez of Denver and Bishop Stephen J. Berg of Pueblo all personally testified in Senate Health committee against the bill. As early as September 2021, the Colorado bishops made efforts to meet privately with the Catholic politicians representing the people within the three dioceses of our state to discuss Eucharistic coherence and the abortion issue. Only one of the 14 identified lawmakers responded to the invitation – and she voted against RHEA. After much prayer, on June 6 the Colorado Bishops, in their pastoral capacity as shepherds of the Church, jointly sent Catholic legislators a letter asking any of them who voted for the HB22-1279 Reproductive Health Equity Act (RHEA) to voluntarily refrain from receiving Holy Commu- nion because by voting for RHEA they "very likely placed themselves outside of the communion of the Church." 2 They did this out of concern for their souls and the souls of those whom they might lead astray by their example. Indeed, if the bishops did not make every effort to privately and publicly affirm the preciousness of human life and oppose the evil of abortion, they would be failing to fulfill 2  Colorado Catholic Bishops, "Open Letter to Catholic Politicians and the Faithful on Worthily Receiving Communion," cocatholicconference.org/ open-letter-to-catholic-politicians-and-the-faithful-on-worthily-receiving- communion (June 6, 2022).

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