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12 MARCH 7-13, 2015 | DENVER CATHOLIC Free Book! The Denver Catholic Biblical School hosted its annual Servant of the Word weekend February 13-14 and honored Father Michael Gaitley, best-selling author and speaker. Both the Friday night banquet and the Saturday workshop were well attended and raised money for the school's work of teaching people God's plan for their life as found in Scripture. Our friend Ben Akers, director of the Biblical school, told us that Father Gaitley shared his own journey with Christ and keys for revitalizing one's faith through devotion to the Divine Mercy and Marian consecration.¯Ben also let slip a secret tip on how to get a free copy of Father's new book, The Second Greatest Story Ever Told. Visit www.marianmissionaries. org, and click on the icon of the book. You didn't hear it from us. Shout Outs correction We're not perfect, and here's proof. The life-changing penance given to Frank Summers of the Family Missions Company was misreported. It was 1 John, chapters 1-2. Sorry for the error. Turning point Over the past two weekends, hundreds of catechumens from around the arch- diocese gathered with Archbishop Aquila for the Church's ancient rite of election. This rite is a turning point for those preparing to enter into the Church, as this is when the catechu- mens formally express their desire for baptism to their bishop. From then on they are called the "elect," and they live out the rest of Lent in a final period of discernment as they prepare to enter the Church at the Easter vigil. As we all continue to seek a deeper conversion and friendship with the Lord this Lent, let us also keep the "elect" here in the Archdiocese of Denver in our prayers as they draw closer to their entrance into the Church. They're so SMART Principal Sister Marie Patrice of Sts. Peter and Paul School in Wheat Ridge sends a shout out to the PTSO and donors in the auction paddle raiser for financing three of the four SMART boards needed to complete the school's SMART board project. They are also in the process of ordering Surface Pros thanks to a $21,000 grant and technol- ogy fees collected. The school's hope, Sister says, is to have a small set of per- sonal devices for each classroom. Another year, another TV Mass The Archdiocese of Denver's weekly TV Mass for the homebound turns 49 this month, making it the longest running broadcast in Colorado. Some 20,000 people watch the TV Mass every week on CPT12 at 7 a.m., and about 5,000 watch the TV Mass in Spanish. Thank you to all the priests, volunteers and production crew for bringing the Mass to those among us who are unable to participate at Mass in their parish due to illness or other circumstances. Almsgiving is easy The St. Thomas More School com- munity in Centennial reminded us of a good way to fulfill our Christian duty of almsgiving this Lent: donate diapers to Catholic Charities' Bottom Line Diaper Drive. Since Ash Wednesday, the school collected nearly 10,000 dia- pers to Gabriel House to be distributed to families in need in the metro area. Go ahead, give a little, already! It's easy, just visit www.thebottomlinediaperdrive. org for more information. Did we miss a Shout Out? Do you want to send a Shout Out to someone who has done something worth Shouting Out? If you do, send an email to DenverCatholic @archden.org. It would be nice if you put "Shout Out" in the subject line, but we'll get it either way. Shout Outs I S M S J O A S H H U L A D I E T O C C U R A T O R O N L Y S T A R E G A L A S S E D E E D R A H A B E G Y P T A F A R A R A H A G I N P A C B R E A D L I A B I L I T Y O T I C G A S P S H U E S V E N E R A B L E H A S N T E S E O B O E Y E S S U S S R M I L A N C U L P A J A E L A L L H E A P E M A I L J O I E E L L E G R I N D A M E N F E A R G I L E S G I S T m o c . s c i l o h t a c r o f s e m a g d r o w . w w w AIRING ON COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION, CPT12 SUNDAY, MARCH 8 7:00 a.m. English, Fr. James Fox 7:30 a.m. Spanish, Msgr. Jorge De los Santos SUNDAY, MARCH 15 7:00 a.m. English, Fr. Larry Christensen 7:30 a.m. Spanish, to be announced SUNDAY, MARCH 22 7:00 a.m. English, Fr. Scott Bailey 7:30 a.m. Spanish, Fr. Alvaro Panqueva TV MASS FOR THE HOMEBOUND CNN looks for Jesus Did you find Jesus on CNN last Sunday? The cable news network launched a six-week original series March 1 called Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery (Sundays at 7 p.m.). The first episode fea- tured an hour-long report on the Shroud of Turin and Sudarium of Oviedo. Denver's own Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Insti- tute in Greenwood Village, was interviewed for the series and is featured in several of the six epi- sodes. Pia de Solenni, academic dean for AI's campus in Orange, California, noted on her blog that while she "can't vouch for the entire¯Finding Jesus¯series," she hopes the programs "will be the sources of many conversations that help us¯to have deeper con- versations about our faith." A great Lenten project, if you ask us. Finding Jesus¯ends Easter Sunday, so we'll have to wait until then to find out if CNN found Jesus or not. PHOTO COURTESY OF CNN

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