CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH

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1 April 8, 2012 Easter Sunday: The Resurrection of the Lord CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH 6300 McKenna Drive, Mobile, Alabama Website: TELEPHONE NUMBERS Parish Office: Fax School Office: , ext. 1 Fax Rel. Ed. Office: , ext. 7 Fax Preschool Office: Fax Youth Ministry: Fax PASTORAL STAFF Very Rev. James F. Zoghby, V.F., Pastor Rev. John S. Boudreaux, Associate Pastor Deacon Arthur W. Robbins, Deacon Sr. Donna Cooper, R.S.M., Visitation Chaplain Mrs. Judi B. Ankiewicz, Pastoral Assistant Mrs. Joan T. McMullen, School Principal Mrs. Linda M. Hawkins, Preschool Director Mrs. Kathleen Q. Jester, Parish Catechetical Leader Mrs. Colleen DeVoe, Youth Ministry Co-Director Mrs. Brenda Martens, Youth Ministry Co-Director Mr. Matthew F. Purvis, Music Director Mr. Jay H. Henley, Gym Manager TO REGISTER AS A MEMBER OF THE PARISH Please fill out a Census Form. Census Forms are available in the church vestibule and parish office. COMMUNITY CENTER RENTALS & SERVICES For rental information and kitchen services, please call the parish office at or SUNDAY MASSES Vigil: 5:30 p.m. Saturday Morning: 7:00, 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. W EEKDAY MASSES 6:30 a.m.: Monday through Friday 8:15 a.m.: Monday through Saturday SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday: 5:00 p.m. and by request, particularly after the 6:30 & 8:15 a.m. weekday Masses. BAPTISM, MARRIAGE, ANOINTING OF SICK Please call the parish office ( ) or information and scheduling baptism, marriage, anointing of sick. ADULT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (R.C.I.A.) Please see published schedule for specific dates and times, or call the parish office ( ). SUNDAY SCHOOL (C.C.D.) Grades K 12, Sundays during school year, 10:05-10:55 a.m. in school bldgs. SCHOOL, SACS-accredited for Grades K through 8. For info & registration, please call the school office. PRESCHOOL, State-licensed for 6-week to 4-yr. olds. For info & registration, please call the preschool office

2 EAS TER S UNDAY: THE RES URRECTION OF THE LORD Special Thanks to Deputy Chief Joseph Kennedy Corpus Christi is especially grateful to parishioner, Deputy Chief Joe Kennedy of the Mobile Police Department for his generosity in providing security during the Thursday, Friday, Saturday services of Holy Week, personally patrolling Corpus Christi's parking lots. Rejoice! With joy we welcome our brothers and sisters joining the Catholic Christian Community, and Catholics receiving Confirmation. CATE CH UME NS Those not yet baptized being received into the Catholic Christian Community with the 3 sacraments of Christian initiation: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist Jack Carney Joonseok Jeon Charles McLemore Jeffrey Greep Aeri Jeon Jacob McManus Jenna Greep Kelly Jeon Anthony Nguyen Jared Greep Grace Jeon Ann Selph Jihye Song CAND ID ATE S F OR FULL COMMUNION Christians of other denominations being received into full communion with the Catholic Christian Community with sacraments of Confirmation & 1st Eucharist John Baggett M K Harlesss Gerry McManus Wayne Barber Haley Hastings Renee McManus Joshua Barton Michelle Hastings Scott Moore Jessica Boren Carmen May Carmen Parrino Cindy Cooper Cheree Wimmer CATH OLIC CAND ID ATE S F OR CONF IR MATION Catholics Receiving Confirmation Robyn Dougherty Megan Hudson Jacqueline Moseley Donna Greep Sean Landry Hernando Palomino CH ILD BAP TIS M Child of Joonseok & Aeri Jeon Julia Jeon Ea ster Egg Hunt Meet at school courtyard right after Sunday's 11 a.m. Mass. rd Next Sunday, April 15! 3 Sunday 5:30 p.m. Mass Remaining date this school year for this extra Mass is: May 20 SUNDAY SCHOOL (CCD) No Classes on Easter Sunday, April 24. SCHOOL NEWS Spring Holidays: Monday-Friday, April Wednesday Night Dinner 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Banquet Hall $9.00 for Adults! $4.00 for Children (Age 12 & under) April 11 ~ [No Wednesday Night Dinner] Spring Break.. April 18 ~ Red Beans & Rice with Conecuh Sausage, Fried Okra, Mocque Choux Corn, Caesar Salad, Corn Bread, Chocolate Cream Pie. Kids Menu : Chicken Tenders & Fries. Must RSVP with your name & number in your party: 1. Return an RSVP Card, or 2. Call or 3. church@corpuschristiparish.com Bible Study Groups Sundays, 8:45-10 a.m., School Conf. Rm. Ken Crowley, Tuesdays, 1:30-3 p.m., Com. Ctr., Rm. 3. Judi Ankiewicz, Tuesdays, 7:00-8:30 p.m..: Com. Ctr., Conf. Rm. Dave Burchette, Thursdays, 9:00-10:45 a.m.: Women s Bible Study. Com. Ctr. Conf. Rm. Penny Claiborne, , or Joanne Donaghey, Society of St. Vincent de Paul Poor Box, Food, Clothing donations put in the designated places in the vestibule are distributed by our St. Vincent de Paul Society To obtain assistance, call and leave name & phone no. st rd nd Meetings: 1 & 3 Wed., 7 p.m., Com. Ctr. Conf. Rm. (2 Flr.) Men of St. Joseph Tuesdays, 7 to 8 a.m. in the Family Room All men are welcome to meet for prayer, reading the Gospel, and discussion. Info: Jim Donaghey, jbd@orthomobile.com or Women of Mary Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m., in the Family Room. All women are welcome to meet for prayer, reading the Gospel, and discussion. Info: Sr. Deborah Kennedy, R.S.M., Widowed Persons Support Group For information call parishioner Glen Porter at nd Knights of Columbus nd Meeting: 2 Tues., Apr. 10, 7 p.m., Com. Ctr. Conf. Rm.. (2 Flr). Contact: Grand Knight, Bob Wheat, Help with VBS! June To volunteer, please kjester@corpuschristiparish.com. AA Alanon OA COD A AA: Sun., 7 p.m., and Wed., 7 p.m., Cougar Den. Alanon: Sun., 7 p.m., and Wed., 7 p.m., Arts & Sciences Bldg. OA: Sat., 9 a.m., Arts & Sciences Bldg. CODA: Tues., 6:45 p.m., Arts & Sciences Bldg.

3 CORPUS CHRIS TI PARIS H, MOBILE, ALABAMA APRIL 8, Shakespeare-After-School presents The Tempest Thursday, May 3, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5, available at School Office. McGill-Toolen s Soccer Club s fund raiser for two of its sophomore students battling leukemia: Andre Colletti and Dante Piccini Tuesday, April 17 at Lipscomb Field, the women s & men s soccer games are at 5:30 & 7p.m. against Daphne High School. The gate fees go to St. Jude s Hospital and USA Women s and Children s, where Andre and Dante are being treated. Autographed footballs by A. J. McCarron and Gene Chizik to be raffled for $1 per ticket. Donations may be made out to St. Jude s Hospital in honor of Andre Colletti or USA Women s & Children s Hospital in honor of Dante Piccini. Info: Shani Robison or Susan Sheid, or Boy Scouts Troop 29 Troop Meeting: 5 p.m., Sunday, April 15. Ryan Griffin s Eagle Scout Court of Honor, Sunday, April 22, 4 p.m. Backpacking at Cheaha State Park, Friday-Sunday, April Committee Meeting: Monday, April 30, 6:30 p.m. Cub Scouts Space Derby: Tues., Apr/ 17, 6 p.m., Com. Center. Earth Day Cleanup Project: Sat., April 21, Time to be announced. Info or to join the Cub Scouts, contact Walter Bracewell or Mike Martin or visit ccspack29.scoutlander.com. Rosary after 8:15 a.m. weekday Mass. Around the Archdiocese: Mobile Deanery ACCW Card Party/Luncheon, Tues, April 17, 10 am-2 pm, St. Dominic Parish Hall. Help Catholic Social Services receive a part of the one million dollars from the Feinstein Foundation. The Foundation will divide the one million dollars among social service agencies based on the amount of funds each agency receives through April 30. Make your cash donation to Catholic Social Services, 406 Government St., Mobile AL FIRST COLLECTION TODAY for tithing offerings. NO SECOND COLLECTION TODAY. EASTER FLOWERS COLLECTION FINAL: $1, CHURCH IN AFRICA & EASTERN/CENTRAL EUROPE FINAL: $1, ST APR 1 BUILDING FUND ONLINE & COLLECTION: $22, ST APR 1 TITHING ONLINE & COLLECTION: $32, Thank You and God Bless You for your tithes, contributions & bequests to Corpus Christi Church. To make a direct donation of stock, ask your stockbroker, or call Steve Setterstrom at Citigroup Global Mkts. at Receive a detail listing of your contributions by mail, or fax: Call or Church@CorpusChristiParish.com Online Giving With Online Giving you can either make a one-time contribution or set up a recurring automatic withdrawal from a checking or savings or credit card account: Go to click Church ; then click the green Online Giving icon, and follow the instructions to contribute to the tithing or building fund or special collections. For assistance, call , ext 4, or parish office, Easter The Name of Easter In almost every language except English, the name for this annual memorial of the resurrection is some form of the word Passover (for example, Pasch, from the Hebrew Pesach, Passover ). When Christianity arrived in the north countries, its springtime celebration of the resurrection received a new name from the Teutonic people, a name used today by English-speaking people: Easter. At one time it was thought that this name came from an Anglo-Saxon spring goddess, Eostre. However, there is doubt that worship of such a goddess ever existed. A better explanation lies in people s misunderstanding of a Latin phrase for Easter Week, in white vestments (in albis), thinking it was the plural of alba in the Latin idiom for dawn. This was translated in Old High German as eostarun. Regardless of the exact origin of the term, the symbolism remains: Christ is the sun that rises at dawn in the east. Easter Eggs The egg has become a popular Easter symbol. Creation myths of many ancient peoples center in a cosmogonic egg from which the universe is born. The egg, therefore, is a natural symbol, not only of creation, but also of re-creation and resurrection. In ancient Egypt and Persia friends exchanged decorated eggs at the spring equinox, the beginning of their new year. These eggs were a symbol of fertility for them because the coming forth of a live creature from an egg was so surprising to people of ancient times. Christians of the Near East adopted this tradition, and the Easter egg became a religious symbol. It represented the tomb from which Jesus came forth to new life. Because eggs were at one time forbidden by the Church s lenten discipline of fasting and abstinence, they were a precious Easter food. Eggs are usually given to children, either in Easter baskets or hidden for the children to find. Easter egg hunts, and even the egg-rolling on the White House lawn, are contemporary versions of egg games played on Easter for centuries in European countries.

4 He is Risen! Resurrection Homily of St. John Chrysostom Let all pious men and all lovers of God rejoice in the splendor of this feast! Let the wise servants blissfully enter into the joy of their Lord. Let those who have borne the burden of Lent now receive their pay, and those who came after the third hour be grateful to join in the feast, and those who may have come after the sixth, let them not be afraid of being too late, for the Lord is gracious and He receives the last even as the first. He gives rest to him who comes on the eleventh hour as well as to him who has toiled since the first. Yes, He has pity on the last and He serves the first. He rewards the one and is generous to the other. He repays the deed and praises the effort. Come you all: enter into the joy of your Lord. You the first and you the last, receive alike your reward. You rich and you poor, dance together. You sober and you weaklings, celebrate the day. You who have kept the fast and you who have not, rejoice today. Let no one grieve over his poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed. Let no one weep over his sins, for pardon has shone from the grave. Let no one fear death, for the death of our Savior has set us free. He has destroyed it by enduring it. He has despoiled Hades by going down into its kingdom. He has angered it by allowing it to taste of His flesh. When Isaiah foresaw all this, he cried out: O Hades, you have been angered by encountering Him in the nether world. Hades is angered because it has been frustrated. It is angered because it has been mocked. It is angered because it has been destroyed. It is angered because it has been reduced to nothing. It seized a body, and, lo! It discovered God. It seized earth, and behold! It encountered heaven. It seized the visible, and was overcome by the invisible. O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? Christ is risen and you are abolished. Christ is risen and evil is cast down. Christ is risen and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen and life is freed. Christ is risen and the tomb is emptied of the dead. For Christ, being risen from the dead, has become the Leader and Reviver of all who had fallen asleep. To Him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen! St. John Chrysostom ( )

5 Easter means you can put truth in the grave, but it will not stay there. Clarence W. Hull We are sons and daughters of the Resurrection, and Alleluia is our song! St. Augustine Rejoice! The message, the spirit and the impact of Easter go on through the entire year. Every use of blessed water reminds us of our baptism into the death and resurrection of the Lord. Every celebration of the Eucharist is a commemoration of Jesus passion, death and resurrection. Every Sunday throughout the year is a miniature Easter celebration, reminding us: Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again. Alleluia: Praise God! The term alleluia is a Hebrew word meaning praise God. Surprisingly, it does not appear very often in the Scriptures only 15 times. From the earliest days of Christianity, however, it became a popular expression of triumph, of joy, and of hope. St. Augustine wrote that the entire life of a Christian should be an alleluia, a living expression of praise to God for His infinite goodness in lifting us up to be His children, and to share in His victory eternally. Fr. O Day, S.J. THEY FOUND THAT THE TOMB WAS EMPTY On the first d ay of the w eek, at the first sign of d aw n, w hen the w om en cam e to the tom b, they saw that the bod y of Jesu s w as not there. Su d d enly, tw o m en in brilliant clothes ap p eared at their sid e, and said to them, Why look am ong the d ead for one w ho is alive? H e is not here. H e has risen! (Luke 24:1-6) Philip s Easter Egg An eleven-year-old boy named Philip was in a religion class with eight other children. On Easter Sunday the teacher gave each child an empty plastic egg. The children were told to go outside and find something to put into the egg that would remind them of the meaning of Easter. They came back exited and happy. As each egg opened there were exclamations of delight upon seeing a butterfly, a twig, a flower, a blade of grass. Then the last egg was opened. It was Phillip s and it was empty! Some of the children laughed at Phillip. But teacher, he said, the tomb was empty. Sadly, Philip died a few months later. The newspaper article said that at the funeral eight children put a large empty egg on the small casket. On it was a banner that said, The tomb was empty.

6 In the Early Church... The Easter Vigil The Easter Vigil celebration of the Lord s resurrection goes back to the first generation of Christianity. For the first three centuries this was the only feast observed throughout the Church. There was no separate Easter Sunday celebration. Instead, Christians began during the night hours and into dawn to celebrate their experience of Christ victorious over death and sin and their victory with his. It was during those dark hours, turning into the first day of the week (Sunday), that this mystery had occurred, as recorded in the Gospels (MT 28:11; MK 16:1; LK 24:1; JN 20:1). It was lost... As time went on this magnificent liturgical treasure of the church the Easter Vigil became all but totally th lost. The absolute low point came during the past few hundred years, including the first half the 20 century. Prompted partly by the development of church laws which said that Masses could not be offered after noon, and requiring absolute fast from midnight in order to receive the Eucharist, the entire glorious ritual of the celebration of the Easter Vigil was compressed into an hour or two early Holy Saturday morning, the priest reciting all the scripture readings and blessings by himself in Latin, and then a simple Mass, much like any other weekday Mass of the year. In the Missal of Pius V (1570), the Vigil became fixed by church law as an early Holy Saturday morning liturgy. With no exaggeration, it was a sad caricature of what once was, and is now once again, the high point of our Christian liturgy, the supreme act of worship of the year. In that situation, with the Easter Vigil gone, the Sunday morning Masses were, of course the only Easter Masses....but was found Starting some years before Vatican Council II, the church realized the time had come to restore all of the Holy Week liturgies, with the Easter Vigil as the top priority. The renewal began in 1951 by way of experiment and was finalized in In its renewed form, the Easter Vigil is almost the same as that in early centuries, except that the ritual doesn t last all night! Each year, the Easter Vigil is becoming for more and more parishioners what it had been in its origin: the night of all nights and the primary celebration of resurrection: Easter. Easter morning... The theme of Easter morning Masses echoes that of the Easter vigil: joyful resurrection songs, renewal of baptismal vows, a sprinkling of the assembly with the new Easter water, and the joyful decorations. Easter morning Masses remember and celebrate the very foundation of Christianity: Jesus is raised from the dead and is Lord. Those who believe and are baptized share in this celebration of the resurrection to new life. This theme continues for the next fifty days of the Easter season. Catholic Customs and Traditions, Greg Dues. The New Question Box, Rev. John J. Dietzen, National Catholic News Service.

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