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6 OCTOBER 8-21, 2016 | DENVER CATHOLIC Around the Archdiocese Independent Living | Assisted Living | Adult Day Services 2835 West 32nd Avenue Denver, CO 80211 chilivingcommunities.org Home is here. Call 303.964.3804 and ask about how you may be able to receive 2 months of rent FREE. A place for reconnecting With God. Come for a day or week. Book your next retreat with us! 719-258-1600 For Tour or Reservations www.eltesororetreat.org Archdiocese of Denver Mortuary 12801 W. 44th Ave. Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 (303) 425-9511 Mt. Olivet Cemetery 12801 W. 44th Ave. Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 (303) 424-7785 St. Simeon Cemetery 22001 E. State Hwy. 30 Aurora, CO 80018 (720) 859-9785 • Professional, personalized service • Respectful • Compassionate The Archdiocese of Denver Cemeteries and Mortuary Caring for the faithful in Northern Colorado since 1893 in their most personal time of need. T hrough persistent prayer and dedication to sacred Scripture, Our Lady of Loreto parish in Foxfi eld has had a hand in four recent religious vocations. Over the past several months, two women« who attended Our Lady of Loreto have taken vows with religious orders, while one young man was ordained a transitional deacon. Addi- tionally, Father Matthew Magee, who was ordained in May, was a longtime parishioner of Our Lady of Loreto. Monsignor Ed Buelt, pastor of Notre Dame Parish in Denver, previously served as pastor of Our Lady of Loreto for 18 years, during which he came to know these four parishioners and their families very well. Monsignor Buelt insisted that he didn't do anything special during his time as pastor at Our Lady of Loreto to encourage people to discern religious life. What he did do, though, was begin the majority of his homilies with three simple words. "Open your Bibles," Monsignor Buelt told« Denver Catholic. "I encouraged everyone to bring their Bibles, to write in their Bibles, to open their Bibles. I didn't do anything special other than that. "We were just faithful to the Eucha- rist and to the breaking open of the Word as a homily in the Eucharist. The Word convicts people of its truth and they want to give their lives over to it." Not only the Word, but a whole lot of prayer too, he said. During his time at Our Lady of Loreto, Monsignor Buelt celebrated one votive Mass a week for religious vocations, and another for priestly vocations. He has since car- ried this tradition over to Notre Dame Parish. "The whole parish is praying a Eucharist for vocations, and the church o' ers those two Masses to pray for vocations," he said. FATHER MATTHEW MAGEE The fi rst of the vocations, Father Matthew Magee, was ordained a priest May 14 at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. He is now serving as parochial vicar at in north- west Colorado at a cluster of parishes: St. Michael in Craig, Holy Family in Meeker and St. Ignatius in Rangely. Sacraments, witness paved vocation paths for Loreto parishioners BY AARON LAMBERT aaron.lambert@archden.org @AaronLmbrt I owe Our Lady of Loreto so much for my vocation". FATHER MATTHEW MAGEE "