CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH

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1 April 28, 2013 Fifth Sunday of Easter 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. Linda M. Hawkins, Pastoral Assistant Mrs. Judi B. Ankiewicz, Pastoral Assistant Mrs. Joan T. McMullen, School Principal 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. WEEKDAY 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 ( ) for 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 FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Once a month during school year. rd 3 Sunday 5:30 p.m. Mass During the school year (Sept. May), we have an extra Mass on the rd 3 Sunday of the month at 5:30 p.m. The next one is on May 19. CHILDREN S FIRST EUCHARIST Practice: Sat., May 4, at 10 a.m. in the church for one hour. st 1 Eucharist Mass: Sunday, May 5, at 1 p.m. Children meet in designated classroom at 12:30 p.m. Info: , ext. 1 or ext. 7. Th is Week end, PARISH ELECTIONS FOR PASTORAL COUNCIL AND S CHOOL BOARD All parishioners at least 18 years old are invited to vote to elect or re-elect members for the parish pastoral council and also for the parish school board. Drop completed ballots in the designated collection box in the vestibule. Thanks to all nominees for their willingness to serve on the pastoral council or school board. Wedding Anniversary Celebration Saturday, May 18, 5:30 p.m. Vigil Mass Forms are in the vestibule for couples who, during this year of 2013, have or will have been married for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 or 51, 52, 53, etc. years. Those who wish to participate must complete the form. Their names will be Included in the program. They will be called to the altar area for the renewal of their wedding vows. All visitors, friends & parishioners are invited to join the anniversary couples at the reception in the banquet hall. Forms must be completed by Monday, May 13. Bible St udy Groups Sundays, 8:45-10:45 a.m. in the school counselor's conference room. Breakfast is served also. We are studying Isaiah. Tuesdays, 1:45-3:00 p.m.,in the Adult Ed. Room. Study of Exodus and Comparison to Hollywood Version. Info: Judi Ankiewicz, nd Tuesdays, 7:00-8:30 p.m. in the Conference Rm. (2 Flr, Community Ctr). The Acts of the Apostles. Info: Dave Burchette, Thursdays, 9:00-10:45 a.m., Conf Rm (2nd Flr), Com.Ctr. Penny Claiborne, , claiborneps@aol.com or Joanne Donaghey, , joannekd@aol.com 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., Men of St. Joseph Tuesdays, 7 to 8 a.m. in the Family Room nd Also Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m. in Room 6 (2 Floor) All men are welcome to meet for prayer, reading the Gospel, and discussion. Info: Jim Donaghey, jbd@orthomobile.com or Wed Evening Info: Walter Bracewell, or walter.bracewell@yahoo.com Corpus Christi Sunday School No Classes Next Sunday, April 28. Classes resume May 5. Info: Kathleen Jester, SundaySchool@CorpusChristiParish.com. CORPUS CHRISTI SCHOOL th Registration continues for K4 8 Grades, with a waiting list for K3. Info: , ext. 1, or jmcmullen@corpuschristiparish.com. School Play: Peter Pan, Friday, May 3. Info: , ext. 1 Website: Help with VBS! June Looking for Adult volunteers You don t need to prepare lesson plans or be in charge of a classroom for an entire morning. You pick your strength: singing, drama, games, showing video, preparing treats, crafts. Minimal prep work! Please fill out a registration form in the vestibule. Info: kjester@corpuschristiparish.com. High School Confirmation In our archdiocese students receive Confirmation in the 11 th Grade. In addition to regularly attending weekend Mass, religious education and confirmation formation are required: 1. High School students must be receiving religious education either at McGill- Toolen, Corpus Christi Sunday morning CCD, or Corpus Christi High School Youth Ministry on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month. 2. Two or Three times a year, students are required to attend Corpus Christi Parish Confirmation Formation Days for special Confirmation lessons, helping students build community as a Confirmation class. The next Confirmation Formation Day is Sunday, June 2, starting with 11 a.m. Mass and ending at 3 p.m. 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. Join the Society of St. Vincent de Paul by attending a meeting. st rd nd Meetings: 1 & 3 Wed., 7 p.m., Com. Ctr. Conf. Rm. (2 Flr.) To obtain assistance, call and leave name & phone no. Corpus Christi s St. Vincent de Paul Shoe Drive Please put men s, women s, children s shoes in good condition or new in a bag or box; mark the size on the outside, and place them under or near the table for the Food Pantry in the church vestibule. Respect Life Help women & babies at 2B:Crisis pregnancy center. Info: Gabriel's Project: Serve as a Prayer Angel for a woman requesting help with her pregnancy, give assistance Visit gabrielangels4u@gmail.com. Maria at Donate items for newborn babies: Place diapers and other baby care items (wipes, baby bottles, powder, baby wash, oil, etc.) in box in the vestibule. Knights of Columbus Holy Rosary for LIFE at Planned Parenthood abortion facility every Saturday at 9 a.m. Join us! Info: Mae or Chris Rehm,

3 CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH, MOBILE, ALABAMA APRIL 2 8, The Corpus Christi Women s Club s Basket of Spirit s Raffle Purchase raffle tickets at their display table in the atrium for $1 each. Raffle ends Sunday, May 5, after the 11 a.m. Mass. Proceeds go to providing blinds for the 11 windows in The Parish House. The Women s Club Ice Cream Social for the Children at St. Mary s Home Tomorrow, Monday, April 29. All women are invited to help. To carpool/caravan, meet at the Corpus Christi Church plaza at 6 p.m. SHARP, or meet at St. Mary s Home, 4350 Moffett Rd. at 6:30 p.m. Bring a topping (syrup, sprinkles, etc.). For info call Brittany Comiskey, , or visit our website: Corpus Christi s High School Youth Ministry The Corpus Christi High School Youth Ministry meets on the 1st and 3rd Sunday evenings of each month during the school year. Our program, modeled after the USCCB's document, Renewing the Vision, is a comprehensive approach to youth ministry utilizing the eight components identified in Renewing the Vision as a framework: Advocacy, Catechesis, Community Life, Evangelization, Justice & Service, Leadership Development, Pastoral Care, and Prayer & Worship. CCHSYM offers students Religious Education, opportunities for leadership, service and prayer. Our 3rd Sunday of the Month 5:30 p.m. parish Mass offers the teens not only an opportunity to worship together but to serve as members of the parish in roles as lectors, altar servers and youth choir members. We build community through our social events and our collaboration with youth groups throughout the archdiocese. More information can be found on the parish website, the Corpus Christi High School Youth Ministry facebook page, or by ing corpuschristihsyouth@yahoo.com. The next Youth Ministry gathering will be Sunday, May 5, from 6:30-8:00 p.m. Partners in Education Recognition The following Corpus Christi School staff member and students were recognized at the April 23rd student Mass for their outstanding performance in the month of March: Jane Vrazel Outstanding Teacher, recognized by Silver Expressions nd Jase Alidor 2 Grade Student, recognized by Payne Environmental Services rd Aaron Morris 3 Grade Student, recognized by Donaghey Orthodontics th Andrew Heller 7 Grade Student, recognized by Community Bank If you or your company would like to join the Partners in Education, call School Principal Mrs. McMullen, , ext. 1, or Richard March, Cub Scouts: 4/28 Blue & Gold Banquet 5 pm Com. Ctr. 5/14 Spring Cub Roundup 6 pm Cougar Den. To Join Cub Scouts or for info contact Walter Bracewell or Mike Martin or visit ccspack29.scoutlander.com Widowed Persons Support Group For information call parishioner Glen Porter at First Friday Adoration 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the chapel. Please sign up for one of the hours at the table in the vestibule. Wednesday Night Dinner 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. in the Banquet Hall $9.00 for Adults! $4.00 for Children (Age 12 & under) May 1 ~ Southern Fried Chicken, Cajun Baked Fish w/crawfish Remoulade, Shrimp and Chicken Etouffee over Garlic Cheese Grit Cakes Seasoned Turnip Greens Creamy Succotash w/bacon Macaroni & Cheese Mixed Greens With Strawberry, Tomato, Cucumber, Red Onion, Broccoli Florets, Mushrooms, Bell pepper, Cheddar and Parmesan Cheese Assorted Desserts. RSVP: Return an RSVP Card, or call , or WedNightDinner@CorpusChristiParish.com. Eagle Scout Project Hello! I am Boy Scout Sean Griffin of Corpus Christi s Troop 29. I am ready to begin my Eagle Scout project. For my Eagle Scout project, I will be constructing ten wooden picnic tables for St. Mary s Home. Each bench will cost around $93, and I will need donations to complete this project. My goal is to raise $1,000. Checks can be made payable to Troop 29, and may be sent to 931 Regents Dr. East, 36609, Mobile, AL. Thank you for your support of Corpus Christi Parish and the Boy Scouts of Troop 29. AA Alanon OA CODA 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. Around the Archdiocese: McGill-Toolen nominations for distinguished alumni for its Hall of Fame: Deadline: May 23, noon. Info: Joseph Perez Golf/Tennis Tournament, May 4, Spring Hill College Golf Course & Copeland-Cox Tennis Ctr. 9 am tennis, 1:30 pm golf. Info & registration: , st K of C Council 2734, 1 Annual Speckled Trout Tournament, May 18; St. Margaret s Church, Bayou La Batre. Entry fee: $100/boat; get 2 free fishdinner tickets. Info: Tony Delcambre, , or Jay Jernigan, K of C th Council 666, 37 Annual Altar Servers Spaghetti Dinner, May 5, 4 p.m. at 3051 Pleasant Valley Rd. RSVP: The form distributed in class must be returned to the school or parish office by April 22. Tea at the Portier House, sponsored by the Cathedral Altar Society, Sun., May 5, with seatings at 11:30 and 1:30. Theme: Girls in Pearls and Guys in Ties. Tickets are $12 and must be purchased in advance. Info: The Providence Hospital Auxiliary s Masquerade $5.00 Jewelry & Accessories Sale Monday & Tuesday, April 29 & 30, 7 a.m. - 6 p.m., in the DePaul Center Atrium, located at the front of the hospital. Cash & credit cards accepted. Info: Volunteer Office, FIRST COLLECTION TODAY for tithing offerings. SECOND COLLECTION TODAY for Corpus Christi Building Fund. ST APR 21 BUILDING FUND ONLINE & COLLECTION: $2, ST APR 21 TITHING/EASTER ONLINE & COLLECTION: $21, 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, Thank You and God Bless You for your tithes and contributions to support God's work here at Corpus Christi, and for special bequests for Corpus Christi Church. To make a direct donation of stock, call your stockbroker, or call Steve Setterstrom at Citigroup Global Mkts. at

4 Pope Francis on GOSSIP: It happens to everyone, including me. Christians need to recover the value of meekness, particularly when they are tempted to speak ill of one another or gossip about each other. Complaining behind each other s backs is a temptation that comes from the Evil One who does not want the Spirit to dwell among us and give peace, meekness to the Christian community. Catholics today must strive to model their relationships on those of the earliest Christians, who truly lived the experience of having received a new life through baptism. The new life of the early Christians was expressed in that unity, unanimity, that harmony of feelings in mutual love. The virtue of meekness, which is a key to harmony, has been a bit forgotten. Meekness has many enemies, and the first is gossip. When one prefers gossiping, gossiping about another, it s like clobbering another. This is normal, it happens to everyone, including me it is a temptation of the Evil One. The struggle against such harmful chatter, is something that continually sows tensions in parishes, families, neighborhoods and among friends. Christians must not judge anyone because the Lord is the only judge. They should keep quiet, but if they must say something they must speak only to the person who could remedy the situation not the whole neighborhood. If, with the grace of the Spirit, we were able to stop gossiping, it would be a huge step forward, and it would do everyone good. I don t know why, but there is a dark joy in gossiping. Sometimes we begin by saying nice things about another, but then we slip into gossip, making the object of our chatter merchandise to be bartered. Let us ask forgiveness because when we do this to a friend, we do it to Jesus, because Jesus is in this friend. If one notices a defect in another, the Christian response is to pray that God will help him or her. I am a sinner. Pope Francis remarked to the cardinals who had just elected him by joking, May God forgive you for what you ve done! I am a sinner, but as this office has been given to me, I accept. I ask you to pray for me. I need it because I am a sinner, too, like everyone, and I want to be faithful to the Lord. Pray for me.

5 The Second Vatican Council was a beautiful work of the Holy Spirit. But fifty years later, have we done everything the Holy Spirit was asking us to do during the Council? The answer is, No. We celebrate this anniversary, we put up a monument, but we don t want it to upset us. We don t want to change, and what s more, there are those who wish to turn the clock back. This is called stubbornness and wanting to tame the Holy Spirit. This is called becoming foolish and slow of heart. To speak plainly, the Holy Spirit annoys us. The Spirit moves us, makes us walk, pushes the Church to move forward. We wish to calm down the Holy Spirit, we want to tame it and this is wrong, because the Holy Spirit is the strength of God. It s what gives us the strength to go forward, but many find this upsetting, and prefer the comfort of the familiar. A Christian isn t a person who simply follows some commandments, but is a person who tries to think like Christ, act like him, love like him. Being a child of God, a believer, isn t something Christians can set in a corner of the room and ignore most of the time. It implies a relationship with God that is deepened daily through prayer, reading the Bible, receiving the sacraments especially Reconciliation and Eucharist and through acts of charity. Being a Christian cannot be reduced to following commands, but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him. It means letting him take possession of our lives and change them, transform them, free them from the darkness of evil and sin. Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us. How beautiful it is, after receiving Holy Communion, to think of our lives as a prolonged Mass in which we bring the fruit of the Lord to the world of families, to the neighborhoods, to our study and work. Thus we will also come to think of our life as a daily preparation for the Eucharist, in which the Lord takes everything that is ours and offers it once again to the Father. We believe in God who is Father, who is Son, who is Holy Spirit. We believe in persons, and when we talk to God, we speak with persons, who are concrete and tangible, not some misty, diffused god like godspray that s a little bit everywhere but who knows what it is.

6 Faith in the real presence of Jesus is a gift from God himself, and when he gives this gift of faith, we must continue on this path. However, if we take this path, it is always with our own baggage because we re all sinners, and we always have some things that aren t right. But the Lord forgives us if we ask for forgiveness. Let us ask the Lord, that we may grow in this faith, this faith that makes us strong, makes us joyful; this faith that always begins with an encounter with Jesus, and always continues throughout life with small daily encounters with Jesus. A good priest anoints his people with oil of gladness by preaching the Gospel with unction, that is, with the soothing, comforting words of God. If people leave Mass looking as if they have heard good news, then the priest has clearly done his job well. Let us never forget that the real power is in the service of others, and that even the pope, in order to exercise his power, needs to enter more and more into that service that finds its bright summit on the cross. Triumphalism is a great temptation for Christians. It is a temptation that even the Apostles had. Triumphalism is not of the Lord... it is not Christian. [ Triumphalism is defined as an attitude or feeling of superiority; boastful pride in the success or dominance of one s religion or ideology over others; the attitude or practices of a church that seeks a position of power and dominance in the world. It is self-puffery: I belong to the One True Church, and you don t. ] As Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio: Only we big sinners have the grace of knowing what salvation really means. Today we have one in the sheepfold and 99 we need to go looking for! Referring to the biblical parable of the shepherd who leaves his 99 sheep to find the one that is lost. The Church does not shine with its own light, but must be like the moon and reflect an external light, that of Jesus. When the Church is self-referential, unwittingly believing to be its own light, it is no longer the mysterium lunae, and leads to the evil that is so serious: spiritual worldliness. The Church, when it is self-referential, without realizing it, believes it has a light of its own. When the Church does not come out of itself to evangelize, it becomes self-referential, and then gets sick. The evils that, over time, occur in ecclesiastical institutions have roots in referentiality, a sort of theological narcissism. In the Book of Revelation, Jesus says that he is at the door knocking. Obviously the text refers to knocking from outside the door to enter. But think of Jesus knocking from within to let himself out! The self-referential Church seeks Jesus Christ within, and does not let him out. From Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio s speech during the pre-conclave General Congregations

7 I can wash the dishes tonight. When the future pope became an auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires and visited the seminary there, the rector asked the bishop afer dinner if he wanted to say a few words to the seminarians. Bishop Bergoglio said, Yes. He then rose and said, I can wash the dishes tonight. After that, it became fashionable for the faculty of the seminary to clear their own plates. Excerpts from the book On Heaven and Earth A dialogue between Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Pope Francis, published while he was still Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires: Archbishop commits the sin of apostasy. Archbishop Bergoglio attended an ecumenical service in Argentina that brought 7,000 Evangelicals and Catholics together, where the Evangelical pastor asked Bergoglio if it would be okay for everyone to pray for him. The Archbishop knelt down to receive the blessing, and the next week a traditionalist magazine carried the picture under the headline: Archbishop commits the sin of apostasy. But the Archbishop was undisturbed, asserting that one can pray even with an agnostic: What s the problem? Archbishop Bergoglio expressed a healthy skepticism about claims of healing, revelations and visions, saying that God is not like Federal Express, sending messages all the time. The real tests of supernatural phenomena, he said, are simplicity, humility, and the absence of a spectacle. Otherwise, we may be dealing with a business rather than the presence of the divine. The problem is not whether you wear a cassock The pope evinces little preoccupation for externals: The problem is not whether you wear a cassock, but rather if you roll up its sleeves when you have to work for the good of others. When I visit nursing homes, I ask the elderly about their children, and they answer that their children cannot come to see them because they have to work they try to cover for their children. There are many who abandon those that fed them, who educated them, who wiped their bottoms. It hurts me, it makes me weep inside. In a chapter on economics, Francis says the Church condemns both Communism and wild Capitalism with equal vigor. He asserts that Capitalism harbors a spiritual perversion that seeks to tame transcendence, seeking to co-opt religion for its own ends. He warned that without a robust defense of the poor at its heart, Christianity risks becoming a lukewarm, weak and mediocre church. On abortion, the future pope insists that abortion is not a religious issue but a scientific one, since the genetic code of the person is present at the moment of conception, hence, killing that individual is not ethical.