Dear brothers and sisters in Christ:
May the Peace of Christ be with you!
God has called different people, of diverse backgrounds, from multiple origins,
races and cultures, of various ages and social status to become the one Body of
Christ. At St. James - a people with more than a hundred years of rich history
which is constantly renewed by our school students and the young couples moving
to this area of Denver - we discover the power of Christ's grace to tear down
the walls of separation and division that bring so much destruction and
discouragement to our modern and sophisticated society.
According to St. Paul, "the love of Christ compels us!" (2 Co 5:20). Christ's
salvation still speaks to all, it touches the lives of everyone, it shows the
true dignity of the human person, it heals us and consoles us in our sorrows and
failures, it forms and tansforms us into the People of God, and it makes of us
joyful witnesses of God's incredible power to bring about the love of Christ.
This is the new and eternal life that is given, taught, proclaimed, nourished,
and celebrated in St. James Catholic Parish.
God does not want us to live our Christianity in isolation, privately or
individualistically. We have been blessed and redeemed with the Christian
Community founded by Christ. The genuine love, unbreakable unity, and divinely
inspired faith of the Catholic Church, with its long standing traditions, its
life-giving teachings, and beautiful liturgies, saves the world from
selfishness, materialism, confusion, and despair.
"Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion,
kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and
forgiving one another... if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has
forgivien you, so must you also do. And let the peace of Christ control your
hearts, the peace into which you were also called in one body. And be thankfu.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, as in all wisdowm you teach and
admonish one another, singing psalms, hymns, and spriritual songs with gratitude
in your hearts to God." (Col 3:12-16).
In Christ, Father Felix