CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH

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1 June 26, 2011 The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ 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 THE MOS T HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIS T High School Youth Ministry Save the date for another Summer Cosmic Bowling Night For more info, us at youth@corpuschristiparish.com or leave a message at the parish office ( ). I Am Willing The words, I am willing, are all you need to make your commitment as a choir member. One to two hours a week, for one academic year, you will be matched with a vocal section that needs you. Training is available to prepare you to become a valuable contributor to the ensemble. Your experience as a choir member will be a win-win not only will you help the Corpus Christi Music Ministry, but you will also add a fulfilling experience to your week, and have fun! All you have to do is show up! To apply to become a choir member, or to learn more, contact Matthew Purvis, (text) or pianoguy36609@aol.com ( ) Bible Study Groups Sun: 8:45-10 a.m.: Will resume in the fall. Info: Ken Crowley, Tue:, 1:30-3 pm : Will resume in the fall. Info: Judi Ankiewicz, nd Tue, 7 p.m..: Com Ctr, 2 Flr, Complete Bible Course. Dave Burchette, 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.) Part-time Seasonal As-needed Our music director is putting together a phone list of anyone who would like to be considered a part time, seasonal, or asneeded choir member. These people would be asked to fill in for our regular choir members occasionally when needed. Please heartfully consider helping to make successful our excellent music ministry! To learn more, contact Matthew Purvis, (text) or pianoguy36609@aol.com ( ). Our SVDP Corpus Christi Food Pantry is in need of the following items: Canned Meat, Dried Beans, Rice, Peanut Butter. Any and all food donations are always greatly appreciated. Thank You! 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 Meetings resume Wednesday, July 6 Tuesdays, 9 to 10 a.m. OR Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m., in the Family Room. All women are welcome to meet for prayer, reading the Gospel, and discussion. Info: Judi Ankiewicz, , or Sr. Deborah Kennedy, R.S.M., Knights of Columbus nd Meeting: 2nd Tues. July 12, 7 p.m., Com. Ctr. Conf. Rm.. (2 Flr). Contact: Grand Knight, Bill Hamilton, Students who received Confirmation or 1st Eucharist may pick up their certificates, pictures and banners at the parish office, Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-4 p.m.. Fall 2011 CYO Sports Registration Registration forms for soccer, football, volleyball are due July 1. Registration Forms and Uniform Order Forms may be found at or in the vestibule. SPECIAL NOTES! 1. Send your address to church@corpuschristiparish.com 2. Please support our advertisers on the back of the bulletin. Their ads give us our bulletins & inserts free of charge. 3. Current & past bulletins are online: click Church then Sunday Bulletin. Welcom e New Pa ris h ioners Liz Rettig and her son, Joshua BAPTIZED IN CHRIS T Zane Vincent Goldsmith (son of Kevin Charles Goldsmith & Fara Juanita Impastato Goldsmith)

3 CORPUS CHRIS TI CHURCH, MOBILE, ALABAMA J UNE 1 9, Around the Archdiocese: A retired RN or LPN volunteer is needed by the Service Center of Catholic Social Services (555 Dauphin St.) to assist clients in need of a referral to Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy, one to two days a week, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.. Some computer knowledge required. Info: Jamie Landry, , & Hope Bearers Sidewalk Counseling Training, Friday, June 24, 6: p.m., and Friday, July 22, 6: p.m. at Caire s Hope, 328 S. Sage Ave.; Interested persons will be trained in the gentle and powerful art of peer counseling at the abortion mill to save lives. Attendees will receive a free booklet with Alabama s laws, tips on sidewalk ministry and pro-life activities, such as reaching women and men after abortion. To register, contact bburgess@cssmobile.org. Classmates and friends of McGill-Toolen Class of 1974 (The 74 Club) are sponsoring the Lydia Leon Bennett Memorial Golf Tournament scheduled for Friday, July 22, at Springhill College Golf Course. Registration begins at noon with a shotgun 1:00 p.m. The tournament is open to anyone; proceeds from this and other 74 Club events will go to help others in need. Delicious hot dogs, ice cold beverages, and admission to a Post-Event meal and celebration are included in the cost to play of $100/per person. We are also accepting hole sponsorships for any donation. Contact any of the following: Mike Crenshaw ( ), Randy Copeland ( ), David Scott ( ), or Teresa O Brien (205/ ) for details. Ha p p y Fea s t Da y t o Us! FIRST COLLECTION TODAY for tithing offerings. SECOND COLLECTION TODAY for Peter s Pence. CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS COLLECTION: $ JUNE 19th BLDG FUND ONLINE & DONATIONS: $1, JUNE 19th TITHING ONLINE & COLLECTION: $17, Thank You and God Bless You for your tithes and contributions to the support of God's work here at Corpus Christi and for your bequests for Corpus Christi Church. To make a direct donation of stock, contact your stockbroker, or call Steve Setterstrom at Citigroup Global Mkts. at Receive a detail listing of your contributions by mail, or fax at any time: Call or Church@CorpusChristiParish.com Online Giving You can go online to either make a one-time contribution or set up automatic withdrawal 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, and you can make changes to your set up at any time: Go to click Church ; then click the green Online Giving icon on the left, and follow the instructions to make your contribution(s) to the tithing fund, building fund or special collections. For assistance, call , ext 4, or call the parish office, Luke 24:35 Do this in memory of me. (Luke 22:19) By this will everyone recognize you as my followers: your love for one another. (John 13:35) This is my commandment: that you love one another. (John 15:17)

4 The Body of Christ ~ Corpus Christi Is not the bread we break a sharing in the body of Christ? Because the loaf of bread is one, we, many though we are, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf. St. Paul, 1 Cor 10:16-17 You, then, are the body of Christ. Everyone of you is a member of it. St. Paul, 1 Cor 12:27 If you want to understand the body of Christ, listen to what the apostle Paul says to the faithful: You are Christ s own body, his members ; thus, it is your own mystery which is placed on the Lord s table. It is your own mystery that you receive. At communion, the priest says: The body of Christ, and you reply Amen. When you say Amen, you are saying yes to what you are. St. Augustine ( ) For Augustine, Christ s body is both on the table and gathered around it. Impact Homilies St. Augustine tells those who are to receive the Body of Christ in the Eucharist: Be what you see, and receive what you are (Sermon 272). In another sermon he says, If you receive worthily, you are what you have received (Sermon 227). United States Conference of Catholic Bishops When we receive Jesus in the Eucharist, we are assimilated into him. We become his Body, we take on his mind and heart, uniting ourselves to his love. When the host is offered to us as the Body of Christ, and we open our hand to receive it and say, Amen, we are saying yes not only to receiving Christ s Body but to being his Body. We are saying, in effect, Amen, yes, I believe that this is the Body of Christ, and that this is the Body I am called to be. I receive him to become him, to be Eucharist for others. St. John Chrysostom ( ) Do you wish to honor the Body of Christ? Do not ignore Him when he is naked. Do not pay Him homage in the temple clad in silk only then to neglect Him outside where He suffers cold and nakedness. He who said: This is my body is the same one who said, You saw Me hungry and you gave Me no food and Whatever you did for the least of my brothers, you did also for Me. What good is it if the Eucharistic Table is overloaded with golden chalices, when he is dying of hunger? Start by satisfying his hunger, and then, with what is left, you may adorn the altar as well. St. John Chrysostom The temple of our afflicted neighbor s body is more holy than the altar of stone on which you celebrate the holy sacrifice. You are able to contemplate this altar everywhere, in the street and in the open squares. St. John Chrysostom Respect that Table in which we all participate. After participating in such a Table, and communing such Food, why take up arms against one another? Not only arrows and javelins cause wounds. Certain words inflict more profound wounds. A word pronounced against your brother is poison shot from your mouth. If your neighbor harmed you, ask God to show mercy to him. He is your brother, a member of Christ s body. He is called to one and the same Table with you. St. John Chrysostom

5 The Eucharist does not just unite us to God as individuals who are isolated from one another. Rather, we are united to Christ together with all the other members of the Mystical Body. The celebration of the Eucharist should thus increase our love for one another and remind us of our responsibilities toward one another. Furthermore, as members of the Mystical Body, we have a duty to represent Christ and to bring Christ to the world. We have a responsibility to work against all the forces in our world that oppose the Gospel (the Good News), including all forms of injustice. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops The most Blessed Sacrament is Christ made visible. The poor sick person is Christ again made visible. St. Gerard Majella The Eucharist commits us to the poor. To receive in truth the Body and Blood of Christ given up for us, we must recognize Christ in the poorest, his brethren. (#1397) The Catechism of The Catholic Church The bread and wine are transformed in order to transform us so that we can transform the world. St. Francis regularly received the Lord and was changed. Then, he was able to change the world by his life and love. He was able to perceive Christ s presence in everyone, and people, in turn, could see Christ s presence in him. Bishop Paul A. Zipfel It is important to be ever mindful that communion with Christ is deeply tied to communion with our brothers and sisters. The Sunday Eucharistic gathering is an experience of brotherhood. The sign of peace is a particularly expressive gesture which the faithful are invited to make as a manifestation of the commitment to mutual love which is made in sharing the one bread. Pope John Paul II [The fact that all who share in the Eucharist are incorporated as one into his body means that] we cannot communicate with the Lord if we do not communicate among ourselves. If we want to present ourselves to Him, we also must go out to meet each other. The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Unity. Pope John Paul II We must not deceive ourselves: it s by our reciprocal love and, in particular, by the concern we have for those in need that we will be recognized as true disciples of Christ (Jn 13:55; Mt 24:31-46). This is the criterion on the basis of which the authenticity of our Eucharistic celebrations will be confirmed. Pope John Paul II In sacramental communion I become one with the Lord, like all the other communicants. As Saint Paul says, Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread (1 Cor 10:17). Union with Christ is also union with all those to whom he gives himself. We become one body, completely joined in a single existence. Love of God and love of neighbor are now truly united: God incarnate draws us all to himself. Pope Benedict XVI The Eucharist has a personal and social character : Christ unites himself with me, but also with those beside me, and so unites himself equally with my neighbor. We are all one bread, one body. And this is communion without solidarity with others the Eucharist is abused. Pope Benedict XVI Jesus, the bread come down from heaven and the bread of life, makes himself visible every day... where people are served and fed, without distinction of race, religion or culture. Every human, without distinction of race, culture, or religion, is created in the image and likeness of God. Every person is filled with the same dignity. Pope Benedict XVI

6 The celebration of the Mass, gathering everyone around the one table, is a reminder that all the faithful have been united into the body of Christ despite all their differences. Unity is the truth and strength of the Christian revolution. Around the Eucharistic table people diverse on account of age, sex, social condition (and) political ideology gather and become one. The Eucharist can never be a private act, reserved to people who have been chosen for their affinity or out of friendship. The Eucharist is (an act of) public worship, which has nothing esoteric (for the select few) or exclusive. Catholics must always be vigilant to ensure that at every celebration of the Eucharist all Catholics are welcome, no matter their differences of nationality, profession, social class or political ideas. Pope Benedict XVI Worship itself, Eucharistic communion, includes the reality both of being loved and of loving others in turn. A Eucharist which does not pass over into the concrete practice of love [of others] is intrinsically fragmented. Pope Benedict XVI Everybody has a place in the Church. Every person, without exception, should be made to feel at home, and never rejected. Pope Benedict XVI When attending Mass and receiving the Eucharist, Catholics must be filled with gratitude for God s great gifts. Despite the fact that we have nothing to give in return and we are full of faults, Jesus invites us to his table and wants to be with us. Pope Benedict XVI Make your left hand a throne for your right, make a hollow of your palm and receive the body of Christ, saying: Amen! St. Cyril of Jerusalem ( AD) Some say that they are not worthy to take communion often. We take communion not because we are holy, but in order to become so... Union with Jesus in communion makes us able to share in his holiness. St. John Baptiste de la Salle Our Lord does not come down from heaven every day to lie in a golden ciborium. He comes to find another heaven which is infinitely dearer to Him -- the heaven of our souls. St. Theresa of Lisieux Defending the Christians before the emperor Hadrian, the non-christian Aristides described the love and care Christians extended to others and said: This is really a new kind of person. There is something divine in them. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. 1 John 4:16 b The Body of Christ. Amen!

7 The "New" Mass is the Old Mass The Mass has undergone many changes through the centuries. The 1570 "Tridentine Mass" received its latest revision in The 2nd Vatican Council ( ) directed that the Mass be restored "to the ancient usage of the holy Fathers." Thus, our Mass today has more similarities to the original Mass of the early Christians than any other format the Mass has enjoyed during the past 1,000 years. Some Examples: 1. We once again celebrate Mass in the vernacular: the language of the people celebrating. At the Last Supper Jesus spoke in Aramaic, the language that the Blessed Mother and the Apostles spoke when they celebrated the Eucharist following Jesus' death, resurrection and ascension. As Christianity spread, Greek became the language most commonly spoken, and so for about 200 years it was the language used in our liturgy. In the 4th century, Latin gradually became the vernacular, the everyday language most commonly spoken by the people. Pope Damasus recognized the need to translate the Mass into Latin not lofty, classical Latin, but the common, everyday Latin spoken by ordinary people. The Mass was put into Latin precisely because Latin was the vernacular. In doing this, Pope Damasus maintained the tradition of celebrating Mass in the vernacular, the everyday language ordinary people understood and spoke... just as Jesus, the Word of God incarnate, used the everyday language of the people to whom he proclaimed the Good News. Pope Damasus also commissioned the scripture scholar, St. Jerome, to translate the scriptures, the Bible, into Latin the vernacular. 2. Priest and people once again gather "around" the Eucharistic Table, as the first Christians did in imitation of the first Eucharist which Jesus shared with his apostles at the Last Supper. 3. In our "new" Mass, the 2nd Vatican Council restored an em phas is on, and clear er understanding of, the communal aspect of the Eucharist. The apostles and early disciples came together for "the breaking of bread" (Acts 2:42). The many who share the One Bread become One Body in Christ. (1 Cor. 10:17) As Pope John Paul II wrote, "It is important to be ever mindful that communion with Christ is deeply tied to communion with our brothers and sisters. The Sunday Eucharistic gathering is an experience of brotherhood. The sign of peace is a particularly expressive gesture which the faithful are invited to make as a manifestation of the commitment to mutual love which is made in sharing the one bread." (Pope John Paul II, The Day of the Lord) Thus, the 2nd Vatican Council restored the ancient and original practice of those at Mass exchanging a "kiss" or "sign" of peace as an expression of unity and peace, fulfilling the Lord's command to love one another and manifesting what Jesus said would be the one mark of his true disciples, love for one another. 4. The 2nd Vatican Council directed: "The treasures of the Bible are to be opened up more lavishly so that a richer fare may be provided for the faithful at the table of God's word." (Vatican II Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, No. 51) The scriptural readings provided in the 1570 Tridentine Mass and its 1962 revision included only 1 percent of the Old Testament and 17 percent of the New Testament, and had only a one-year cycle of readings with most of the Gospel readings taken from the Gospel of Matthew. In the Mass restored by the 2nd Vatican Council, the scripture readings include 13 percent of the Old Testament, 71 percent of the New Testament, and all four Gospels are presented with a 3-year cycle of readings for Sundays and a 2-year cycle of readings for weekdays. 5. The "new" Mass also restored what we call the "Prayer of the Faithful" which provides for petitions relevant to those who have gathered for Mass (e.g., storms & hurricanes, war, conflicts, the sick, peace, security, other special petitions, etc.) 6. Communion in the hand is also a return to the earlier tradition which was common in the Church for at least 1,000 years, and described by St. Cyril of Jerusalem ( ) who wrote that when you approach Communion, place one hand under the other and, with hand hallowed, receive the Body of Christ, and answer, 'Amen.' 7. The opportunity to receive Communion under the form of wine as well as under the form of bread is also a return to the original tradition, which had continued until around the 12th century. Therefore, what may be called "new" is the result of fulfilling the nd directive of the 2 Vatican Council that the Mass be restored "to the ancient usage of the holy Fathers." And what is commonly referred to as "traditional" is the way the Mass came to be celebrated in later centuries, far removed from the way of the apostles and the early Church.

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