CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH

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1 March 31, 2013 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. 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 EAS TER S UNDAY: THE RES URRECTION OF THE LORD High School Youth Requirements for High School Students to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation in their junior year of high school To be confirmed in the Spring of 2015, when they are in the 11th Grade, the following two requirements must be met during the three-year preparation program: Rejoice! With joy we welcome our brothers and sisters joining the Catholic Christian Community, and Catholics receiving Confirmation. C ATECHUMENS Those not yet baptized being received into the Catholic Christian Community with the 3 sacraments of Christian initiation: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist Wilson Bryant Allison Bryant Emma Bryant Laura Driskell Joshua Manning Sherri Marcet Roy Mosley Anthony Nguyen C ANDIDATES FOR F ULL C OMMUNION Christians of other denominations being received into full communion with the Catholic Christian Community with sacraments of Confirmation & 1st Eucharist Allison Allen Tricia Allen Ashley Atkison Karin Bailey Marie Breland Tasha Bryant Lindsay Coulter Jenny Dakin Ann Faris Stanley Faris Katlin Furby Ryan Furby Beth Johnson Freddie McCreary Matt McGuire Leah Nelson Chad Pugh Jordan Reed Wayne Selph, Jr. Tina Shephard J. C. Smith Lionell Smith Nicol Woodbury C ATHOLIC C ANDIDATES FOR C ONFIRMATION James Boksa Catholics Receiving Confirmation Jill Davis Jennifer Harrison Allison Huffman Easter Egg Hunt! 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. In addition, the NET Retreat to be held at Our Savior Church on Sunday, April 13, is STRONGLY encouraged for our Confirmation candidates. Parents: If you have a current freshman who has not been registered for Confirmation, please contact Kathleen Jester as soon as possible: Kjester@CorpusChristiParish.com. 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. Meetings: 1st & 3rd Wed., 7 p.m., Com. Ctr. Conf. Rm. (2nd Flr.) Widowed Persons Support Group For information call parishioner Glen Porter at Catholic Men s Conference Saturday, April 6, here at Corpus Christi Church Featured speakers will be Catholic Answers Apologist and Evangelist, Hector Molina and Theology of the Body Executive Director, Damon Owens. Also, Confessions, & Mass celebrated by Archbishop Rodi. Breakfast & lunch are included with ticket price. Info, or to register: or Meet at school courtyard right after today s 11 a.m. Mass. Respect Life Corpus Christi Sunday School No Classes Today on Easter Sunday. Info: Kathleen Jester, SundaySchool@CorpusChristiParish.com. CORPUS CHRISTI S CHOOL Registration for the school year continues for K4 through 8th Grades. We have a waiting list for K3. Classes resume Monday, April 8. Help with VBS! June To volunteer, please kjester@corpuschristiparish.com. To Be's "Labor of Love" Banquet, Sat., Apr. 20, 6 pm,daphne Civic Ctr. Guest Speaker, Dr. Scott Hahn. $40 per person, no tickets at door; April 9 is the deadline for reservations: Marguerite Murphy or margamurphy@bellsouth.net. Volunteer your time to help women and babies at 2B:Choices for Women, crisis pregnancy center: contact Jerry Ann Bodden, Director of 2B, at 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 designated box in the vestibule. They will go to 2B Choices for Women. Please, no food or formula. First Friday Adoration 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the chapel.

3 CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH, MOBILE, ALABAMA MARCH 3 1, Wednesday Night Dinner April 3 ~ [No Wednesday Night Dinner] Easter Week/Spring Break Cub Scouts 4/9 & 4/16 Den Mtgs 6 pm. 4/20 Earth Day Cleanup Project 4/28 Space Derby 12:30 Com. Center. To Join Cub Scouts or for info contact Walter Bracewell or Mike Martin or visit us on the web at ccspack29.scoutlander.com REST IN PEACE Anna Mae Plessala Around the Archdiocese: McGill-Toolen nominations for distinguished alumni for its Hall of Fame being sought. Nomination forms at McGill- Toolen Alumni Office or online at Deadline is Thurs., May 23, at noon. The Mc-T Hall of Fame recognizes individuals from past & present Mobile Catholic high schools who have demonstrated leadership in their high school careers and have continued their achievements in the business & professional world. New members will be inducted next fall at a luncheon during Homecoming festivities. Info: Calling all busy Mothers! If you'd love to be like Mary but have the job of Martha, join us for a Catholic Mother s Day of Renewal April 20 at St. Ignatius Marian Ctr., 8 am (Mass) to 3 pm with author of "Smart Martha" ( $40 fee covers breakfast, lunch, & Smart Martha workbook. Registration required by Tues., April 16; download form at at "Ministries", then Family Life. Info: mcdonaldc@stignatius.org. Women: The Service Center of Catholic Social Services invites you a monthly seminar on women s issues, starting April 17, 1-2 pm at The Service Center, 555 Dauphin St. April s speaker: Derrick Turner of Ala. Career Ctr., on finding & keeping a job. Refreshments & door prizes. Future topics: Housing, counseling, domestic violence, relationships, dressing for job interviews. Info or Volunteercoord@mobilecss.org. Furniture & Household Items are accepted at The Service Ctr. Volunteercoord@mobilecss.org or call for furniture pickup. Sunday of Divine Mercy, Visitation Monastery, April 7, with Fr. Dan Good. Confessions begin at 1 pm., then Adoration, Benediction, Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet & Mass. Running for St. Jude 5K Run/Walk & 1 Mile Run/Walk Sunday, April 14, 8:30 a.m. at Bellingrath Gardens. Registration forms and info can be obtained on the Little Red Hen Productions website. ONLY ONE COLLECTION TODAY for tithing & Easter offerings. EASTER FLOWERS COLLECTION: $1, CHURCH IN EASTERN/CENTRAL EUROPE & AFRICA: $1, TH MAR 24 BUILDING FUND ONLINE & COLLECTION: $ TH MAR 24 TITHING ONLINE & COLLECTION: $24, 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, contact 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 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 Easter Reflections The Certitude of Salvation! Christ obtained, once and for all, the salvation of man of each and of all men, of those whom no one shall snatch from His hand... Who can change the fact that we are redeemed a fact that is as powerful and fundamental as creation itself. We became again the property of the Father thanks to that love which does not recoil from the shame of the Cross to be able to guarantee salvation to all men. No one shall snatch you out of my hand. (John 10:29) The Church announces today the paschal certitude of the resurrection, the certitude of salvation. Pope John Paul II Love, Not Hatred, Wins! Believing in Christ s resurrection means that no matter how difficult life gets, one believes that love and goodness are far more powerful than hatred and evil. Yes, in the world there is much evil, there is a permanent battle between good and evil, and sometimes it may seem that evil is stronger. But, no, the Lord is stronger. Despite all the things that make us doubt the positive outcome of history, Christ wins, and goodness wins. Love, and not hatred, wins. Pope Benedict XVI God Is Stronger Than Hell Itself! You must have boundless faith in the divine goodness, for the victory is absolutely certain. How could you think otherwise? Isn t our God more concerned about our salvation than we are ourselves? Isn t he stronger than hell itself? Who can ever resist and overcome the King of the heavens? What are the world, the devil, the flesh and all our enemies before the Lord? St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcine (19th-20th centuries) Let No One Despair of Pardon! Christ is risen! He has burst open the gates of hell and let the dead go free. His Holy Spirit has unlocked the doors of heaven, which stand wide open to receive those who rise up from the earth. Christ is risen! His rising brings life to the dead, forgiveness to sinners, and glory to the saints... And so all of us ought to rejoice on this holy day. Let no one, conscious of their sinfulness, withdraw from the church s common celebration, nor let anyone be kept away from our public prayer by the burden of their guilt. Sinners they may indeed be, but they must not despair of pardon on this day. St. Maximus of Turin ( ) I Have Destroyed Death! The Lord, though he was God, became man. He suffered for the sake of those who suffer. He was bound for those in bonds, condemned for the guilty, buried for those who lie in the grave. But he rose from the dead and said, I am the Christ. I have destroyed death, triumphed over the enemy, trampled hell underfoot, bound the strong one, and taken people to the heights of heaven: I am the Christ. Come, then, all you nations of men, receive forgiveness for the sins that defile you. I am your forgiveness. I am the Passover that brings salvation. I am the lamb who was immolated for you. I am your ransom, your life, your resurrection, your light. I am your salvation and your king. I will bring you to the heights of heaven. With my own right hand I will raise you up, and I will show you the eternal Father. St. Melito of Sardis I am certain that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God that comes to us in Christ Jesus our Lord. St. Paul, Romans 8:38-39 Christ, though innocent, suffered willingly for sinners and accepted unjust condemnation to save the guilty. His Death has washed away our sins, and his Resurrection has purchased our justification. From the Preface for Palm Sunday

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 day of the week, at the first sign of dawn, when the women came to the tomb, they saw that the body of Jesus was not there. Suddenly, two men in brilliant clothes appeared at their side, and said to them, Why look among the dead for one who is alive? He is not here. He 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 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. All of you, come! 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 ( )

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