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9 DENVER CATHOLIC | MAY 2021 L O V E Y O U R N E I G H B O R With your help, Dominican Home Health is able to assist older adults to remain safely and independently in their homes. Although small tasks like taking medication, eating regularly and bathing can seem simple, it is often these routine activities that can result in unnecessary emergency room visits and premature moves to more costly levels of care. By making a donation today, you provide patients with the gift of healthcare at home – the most cost-effective and comforting place to receive care that assures them they are loved. Help us love our neighbors. Donate today at DominicanHHA.org Denver's Catholic Care Partner A Fundraising Event for Marisol Health Thursday, June 24, 2021 The Denver Athletic Club 1325 Glenarm Place | Denver, CO 80204 7:00 am Rooftop Mass celebrated by Bishop Jorge Rodríguez 7:45 am Breakfast & Program KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR. BRANT PITRE Dr. Brant Pitre is a Distinguished Research Professor of Scripture at the Augustine Institute in Denver. He is the author of numerous books including "The Case for Jesus" and is a speaker who lectures regularly across the United States. $100 per person | $800 per table of 8 | $1,000 Sonrise Sponsor For tickets and sponsorship information, please contact Shelly Saeman at ssaeman@ccdenver.org or 720.799.9289 ccdenver.org/sonrise MEN'S BREAKFAST As Father John Riccardo of Acts XXIX writes, "God did not crush the powers of sin and death so that only a hand- ful of people would know about it." As Catholics, we should be ambitious for God and His Kingdom. It should not be something we hope someone else figures out how to do. We should be anxious that everyone in the world hear this message of the love of God. This mission should compel and drive us. Listen to these words from St. Paul, in his first letter to the church at Corinth: "Although I am free in regard to all, I have made myself a slave to all so as to win over as many as possible... I have become all things to all, to save at least some. All this I do for the sake of the gospel, so that I too may have a share in it. Do you not know that the runners in the stadium all run in the race, but only one wins the prize? Run so as to win. Every athlete exercises discipline in every way. They do it to win a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one" (1 Cor 19-24). Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. All for the greater glory of God. The same level of ambition for the kingdom of this world that drives the building of great companies, great athletes or artists, or great political campaigns, should be the level of ambition we have to see the kingdom of God made manifest. Run so as to win. The great mission God is calling us to, however, is likely more about the people around us than it is about foreign lands and founding apostolates. Mission is about charity, love of God which flows to love of neighbor. As C.S. Lewis described it, mission is not about making people projects but is about "the burden of my neighbor's glory," being "laid daily on my back." Do this exercise with me. Sit in prayer and ask God, "Who are the people you are calling me to accompany right now, that they might know you deeper?" Write down no less than three and no more than five names. Commit to praying for those three people every day and prioritize them with your time. ⊲ 3 M I S S I O N