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ARCHBISHOP'S CATHOLIC APPEAL | SPECIAL EDITION
A
s Catholics gathered in churches
all over Colorado last year on
the 29th Sunday of Ordinary
Time, they listened to the Gospel of
Mark — "For the Son of Man did not
come to be served but to serve and to
give his life as a ransom for many."
But at St. Bernadette Church in
Lakewood, parishioners experienced
those words more acutely through the
perceptive fingers of Art Yochim and
the fervent hands of Thomas Metz as
the pair of lectors uniquely shared the
Gospel as they often do.
Yochim, who is blind, drew his fin-
gers across the raised braille letters of
his liturgical text, while Metz, who is
deaf, stood by his side and used Amer-
ican Sign Language (ASL) to share
the Gospel's words in unison with
The
Archdiocese
Meets its
Flock Where
They Are
Serving
THE
Underserved
IN AN APOSTOLIC AGE
BY AMY BRYER BRUMLEY
St. Bernadette
parishioners Thomas
Metz (L) and Art Yochim
(R) proclaim the Gospel
through braille and
American Sign Language
translations.
