January 21, 2018 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH 6300 McKenna Drive, Mobile, Alabama 36608 Email: Church@CorpusChristiParish.com! Website: www.corpuschristiparish.com TELEPHONE NUMBERS Parish Office: 342-1852 Fax 342-6313 School Office: 342-5474, ext. 1 Fax 380-0325 Rel. Ed. Office: 342-5474, ext. 7 Fax 380-0325 Full-Day Care: 342-2424 Fax 343-3119 Youth Ministry: 342-1852 Fax 342-6313 PARISH OFFICE HOURS Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PASTORAL STAFF Very Reverend James F. Zoghby, V.F. Reverend John S. Boudreaux Deacon Arthur W. Robbins Mrs. Kristy F. Martin, School Principal Mrs. Diane M. Stoyka, Parish Catechetical Leader Mrs. Judi B. Ankiewicz, R.C.I.A. Coordinator Mr. Peter J. Stoyka, Youth Ministry Director Mr. Thomas C. McKee, 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 342-1852 or 342-1420. 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 (342-1852) 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 (342-1852). 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 PreK3 through 8. To register, or to obtain further information or to arrange for a personal tour of our school, please call the school office, 342-5474, ext. 1, or send an email to kmartin@corpuschristiparish.com.
THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME We extend a special welcome to all who wish to join The Catholic Church We also extend a special Welcome Home to Catholics who have been away from the Church because of sacramental marital status or any other reason. Call, Email or Come Call 342-1852 and leave your name & phone number. Email Church@CorpusChristiParish.com. Come to our Wednesday classes, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Adult Education Room of the Corpus Christi Community Center. Today, Sunday, Jan. 21 3 rd Sunday 5:30 p.m. Mass During the school year (Sept. to May), we have an extra Sunday Mass on the 3 rd Sunday of each month. Year-Round Baby Shower for 2B Choices for Women Crisis Pregnancy Center Diapers of all sizes, especially sizes 3, 4 and 5 are needed. Also baby wipes, shampoo, wash, powder, oil and bottles. Please no food or formula. Please place items in designated box in the vestibule. Society of St. Vincent de Paul Poor Box, Food, Clothing donations and In-Need Drop Box at the SVDP table in the vestibule. Join the Society of St. Vincent de Paul by attending a meeting on the 1 st & 3 rd Mon. of the month, 6:30 p.m.,parish House. To seek help, call 243-4061; leave name & phone no. Women of Mary Wednesdays, 7 to 8 p.m. Room 3 (2 nd Floor, Community Center) All women are welcome to meet for prayer, reading the Gospel, and discussion. Info: Sr. Deborah Kennedy, R.S.M., 753-4872. Men of St. Joseph Tuesdays, 7 to 8 a.m. in the Family Room Also Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m. in the Parish House All men are welcome to meet for prayer, reading the Gospel, and discussion. Info: Damian Bell, 639-2522 or 367-4486 or Damian@rockbwm.com. Wed Evening Info: Walter Bracewell, 599-1650 or walter.bracewell@gmail.com Catholic Charities Appeal We are grateful and honored to welcome Mrs. Marilyn King, Executive Director of Catholic Social Services, who will be speaking to us this year at all of our Masses on the Catholic Charities Appeal.. 1. Letters from Archbishop Rodi have been sent out to all registered parishioners. Enclosed in each letter is a personalized pledge envelope which includes your printed name and address and also the number that identifies your parish (The number for Corpus Christi Parish is 140), and to the right of the parish number is your 5-digit archdiocesan number. 2. If you did not receive the archbishop s letter and the personalized envelope, blank pledge envelopes are available in the pews. 3. Please check the accuracy of the information on the personalized pledge envelope you received. To make a pledge, just mark your intended pledge on the pledge envelope. You can return the pledge envelope by way of the collection at Mass or by dropping it through the front door mail slot of the parish office, or you can mail it to the address already printed on the outside of the pledge envelope. 4. You also have the options of pledging online or texting your pledge. Instructions are provided on the pledge envelope. Catholic Charities distributes millions of dollars to sustain Catholic ministries across our archdiocese. All the funds collected stay in the Archdiocese of Mobile. Be the Hands of Christ for those in need through the Catholic Charities Appeal. CORPUS CHRISTI SCHOOL Op e n Ho use To d ay! Sunday, Jan. 21 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. For more information contact the school office 251-342-5474, ext. 1 or visit our website www.corpuschristiparish.com/school 6300 McKenna Drive, Mobile, AL 36608 Jazz Brunch in the Banquet Hall With Jazz Musicians Performing Live! 2 nd Sunday of the Month (Every month except June, July, August) Buffet Served from 12 Noon to 1:30 p.m. $10.25 for Adults! $4.25 for Children (Age 12 & under) Wednesday Night Dinner 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Banquet Hall $9.25 for Adults! $4.25 for Children (Age 12 & under) Jan. 24: Roasted Pork Loin w/gravy, Breaded Chicken Breast w/sauce, Buttered Egg Noodles, Creamed Spinach, Peas & Pearl Onions, Garden Salad, Rolls, Ice Cream Station. Iced Tea, Lemonade, Coffee. (Kids Menu Option: Chicken Tenders/Fries) Must RSVP no later than TUESDAY EVENING Return an RSVP Card, or call 342-1852 or email WedNightDinner@CorpusChristiParish.com
CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH, MOBILE, ALABAMA JANUARY 21, 2018 Mardi Gras King Cakes For Sale! KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Next K of C Meeting: Jan. 29, 7 p.m. The Parish House. Info: Chad Pugh, Grand Knight, 232-0648 or chad.pugh34@gmail.com. Who wants to be an Altar Server? If you were not able to make the training this past Saturday, notify the parish office at 342-1852 or email Church@CorpusChristiParish.com. If you have any questions about the training for altar servers, please contact Mike Martin at 251-391-8666. Tuesday Night Bible Study Meetings are at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Parish House. The Bible Timeline, a Catholic study with a series of 24 videos. Info: Dave Burchette, 251-367-6660 or davebur1955@gmail.com. Tuesday Women s Bible Study 10:00-1130 a.m., Room 3 (2 nd Flr, Com. Ctr). The book of Exodus: Moses, Joshua, the Migration to the Promised Land. Please bring your Bible. Info: Judi Ankiewicz, 251-344-0321: Leave name & no. Thursday Women s Bible Study 9:15-10:45 a.m..,com Ctr Conference Rm. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist by Brant Pitre, The Letters of John and the book of Revelation. Ignatius Catholic Bible Study. Info:Joanne Donaghey, 251-554-6753 or joannekd@alo.com. Nursery is available. High School Confirmation Schedules H.S. Senior Class of 2019: Sun., Jan. 21, Confirmation Luncheon, 12:00 to 2 p.m., in the Conference Room on the 2 nd Floor of the Community Center. Sun., Jan 21, 2018, Sponsors must be present with their Confirmation candidates for the Confirmation Practice from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. This Tuesday, Jan. 23, Confirmation, 6:00 p.m. Candidates: Report to Adult Ed. Room by 4:45 p.m. to meet with the Archbishop. H.S. Senior Class of 2020: Next Sat., Jan. 27, 2018, Confirmation Retreat, at Visitation Monastery, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Lessons 2/3/4. H.S. Senior Class of 2021: Sun., Feb. 18, 2018, Spirit Day, at Corpus Christi, 2:00 to 6:30 p.m., Lessons 5 & 7. Children s 1st Reconciliation & 1 st Eucharist Mon., Feb. 19, 2018: First Eucharist Parent Meeting, 6:30 p.m. Sun., Feb. 25, 2018: 1 st Eucharist Enrollment Mass, 9 a.m., followed by 1 st Eucharist Mini Retreat, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Sat., April 14, 2018: First Eucharist Practice, 10:00 a.m. Sun., April 15, 2018: First Eucharist Mass, 1:00 p.m. Info: Diane Stoyka, DianeStoyka@yahoo.com or 342-5474, ext. 7. Widowed Persons Support Group For information call parishioner Glen Porter at 666-8977. 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. Please support the advertisers on the back of the bulletin Their ads enable us to have our bulletins printed at no cost to the parish. Ads are purchased through Diocesan Publications. For info contact them at 1-800-292-9111 or www.diocesan.com. Bulletin Announcements Send bulletin announcements by Friday noon of the prior weekend Please send announcements to Bulletin@CorpusChristiParish.com Help keep YOUR CHURCH neat! When leaving your pew at the end of Mass, please take the song sheets, bulletins, and other materials with you! This will be very helpful to those who tidy up the church after Mass. Thank You! REST IN PEACE Douglas Aundre Peterson Flowers The flowers before the altar this weekend have been placed in memory of Mary Kelly on the 2 nd anniversary of her death. Given by her friend, Ethel Pope. Around the Archdiocese: Pilgrimage to France with Msgr. James S. Kee, including Paris, Nevers, Paray Le Monial, La Salette, Lourdes. June 18-24. $3,479 per person, from Mobile. Info: Laura Keas, 251-767-2441 or lkeas@comcast.net. Pilgrimage to Poland (and option for Prague) with Fr. J. S. Savoie, Oct. 9-16. $3,499 per person. Info: www.pilgrimages.com/frsavoie or 471.2449. Pilgrimage to Ireland with Fr. Louis Lohan, including the Marian Shrine at Knock. April 20-29. $3,855 per person based on two in a room. Ro u n d - t r i p f r o m G u lfport, MS. Info: P a u l a a t Irelandwelcomesyou@gmail.com or 228-697-7814. Pilgrimage to Italy with Fr. Mike Austin including Venice, Florence, Siena, Assisi, Rome, Vatican City and an audience with Pope Francis. May 28-June 8. $4,499 per person based on two in a room. Round-trip from New Orleans, LA. Info: Paula at tourofitaly2018@gmail.com or 228-697-7814. Pilgrimage to Norway and Sweden with Fr. Louis Lohan. Sept. 14-23. $4,963 per person based on two in a room. Round-trip from Gulfport MS. Info: Paula at experiencescandinavia@gmail.com or 228-697-7814. CHRISTUS Lectures: Cardinal Newman: The Most Dangerous Man in England, presented by Fr. David Tokarz, Thursday, Jan. 25, at 7 p.m. in the Gautrelet Room at Spring Hill College. Members & Students Free; Guests $3.00. Also, free Suarez Lecture: Reading the Scriptures with the Mind, Eyes & Heart of a Woman, presented by Sr. Barbara Reid, O.P., President of the Catholic Biblical Association. Monday, Jan. 29. Info: 380-4660 or christus@shc.edu. On Facebook at Christus Lectures.
CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH, MOBILE, ALABAMA JANUARY 21, 2018 FIRST COLLECTION TODAY: Tithing/Christmas Offerings. SECOND COLLECTION TODAY: Corpus Christi Building Fund. CHRISTMAS ONLINE & COLLECTION: $28,685.00 DEC. 31 ST BUILDING FUND ONLINE & COLLECTION: $52,264.49 DEC. 31 ST TITHING ONLINE & COLLECTION: $52,227.15 Thank You and God Bless You God bless all for tithing, contributions, bequests, remembrances in wills in support of God s work here at Corpus Christi Parish. To make a donation of stock, ask your financial manager, or call Selena Hemphill at Morgan Stanley at 470-1084 or 800-624-7814. Receive a detail listing of your contributions by mail, email or fax at any time: Call 342-1852 or email Church@CorpusChristiParish.com Reports of Contributions Annual reports of contributions for 2017 have been mailed. If you have not received your report, please notify the parish office. Detailed/itemized reports to check each of your contributions can always be obtained by contacting the parish office at 342-1852 or Church@CorpusChristiParish.com. To receive Offering Envelopes: Please contact the parish office at 342-1852 or at Church@CorpusChristiParish.com. To set up Online Giving: Please go to www.corpuschristiparish.com; click Church ; then click the green Online Giving icon on the left side of the church s homepage. Follow the instructions to contribute to tithing or building fund or school annual fund or other special collections. For assistance, call 1-800- 348-2886, ext 1, or the parish office, 342-1852. Catholics must ask themselves what they have done lately to ensure that people feel welcomed and loved in the Church. The Church is the great family of children of God. Certainly the members who comprise it, pastors and faithful, have their defects, imperfections, sins. The pope also has them and he has many but what a beautiful thing it is when we become aware that we are sinners. We find the mercy of God. God always forgives. Don t forget this. God always forgives. God s plan is to unite all humanity into one family where everyone recognizes he or she is a child of God, and loved by him. The Church is born from God s desire to call all people into communion with him, to share in his divine life. Catholics should pray that their parishes and the entire Church will increasingly be a family that lives and shares God s love and mercy. Pope Francis The Church can never remain silent in the face of injustice, wherever it is clearly present. In the most difficult hours of your struggle for civil rights amidst discrimination and oppression, God himself guided your steps along the way of peace. Before the witness of history, the response of non-violence stands, in the memory of this nation, as a monument of honor to the African- American community of the United States. Today as we recall those who opted for non-violence as the only true effective approach for ensuring and safeguarding human dignity, we cannot but think of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and of the providential role he played in the rightful betterment of African- Americans and to the improvement of all of American society. St. Pope John Paul, II New Orleans, Sept. 12, 1987
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ~ January 18-25 Three Catholic reformers who sought to heal the divisions in the Church. St. Cajetan 1480~1557 Catholic Reformer Cajetan was born into an aristocratic family of Vicenza, Italy in 1480. He became a lawyer, was ordained at age 36, and engaged in the work of the Roman Curia. Before the Protestant Reformation, some in the church knew that the Church was in great need of reform. People were not getting the spiritual nourishment they needed from the large numbers of uneducated and even immoral priests who took their money but returned nothing. When good priests and lay people turned to the hierarchy for help, they found leaders at best apathetic and indifferent to their concerns. Acutely conscious of the widespread disorder and corruption in the Church, Cajetan was prominent among the Catholic reformers before the Protestant Reformation and during the Council of Trent, which was convened in response to the Protestant Reformation. Cajetan and three friends decided the important thing to do was to revive the spirit and zeal of the clergy. In 1524, with the purpose of providing better clergy he joined with Bishop John Peter Caraffa (who would later become Pope Paul IV) and founded the congregation of clergy called The Oratory of Divine Love. Its members prayed together, lived a life of poverty, and went out into the city to work with the poor. Cajetan founded hospitals for incurables, including one at Venice. The priests of the Oratory were given special training, and emphasized the study of the Bible. St. Cajetan told his brothers, In this oratory we try to serve God by worship; in our hospital we may say that we actually find him. With his own money and help from others, Cajetan formed a consortium, a bank of sorts, and extended loans to his parishioners and the poor, offering an alternative to the high interest loans of cutthroat bankers. Not surprisingly, the members of The Oratory didn t find thousands of formerly greedy and licentious priests flocking to their door. The Oratory was considered disreputable, and was roundly condemned and openly opposed by other clergy. But Cajetan and the others persevered and many were converted by their preaching and example. Later, Cajetan founded a congregation known as the Theatines. The Theatines were outstanding among the Catholic reform movements that took shape before the Protestant Reformation. Worn out by the troubles he saw in his Church, Cajetan fell ill. When doctors tried to get him to rest on a softer bed than the boards he slept on, Cajetan answered, My savior died on a cross. Let me at least die on wood. He died on August 7, 1547. Before the tribunal of God s mercy, we, the shepherds, must make ourselves responsible for all the evils now burdening the flock of Christ. We should take upon ourselves the sins of all, not in generosity but in justice; because the truth is that we are in great part the cause of these evils, and therefore we should implore the divine mercy through Jesus Christ. Cardinal Pole The pope s representative at the Council of Trent
St. Peter Canisius 1521-1597 Catholic Reformer St. Peter Canisius knew how to defend Catholic doctrine without launching personal attacks on those who disagreed. Pope Benedict XVI St. Peter Canisius was the eighth Jesuit to make his solemn profession of vows. He played a vital role in the renewal and reformation of the Catholic Church in Central Europe. He believed that the Church s best response to the Protestant Reformation was to cleanse its own house and present the faith in a clear and attractive form. He wrote unprecedented letters of criticism to leaders of the Church (always in the context of a loving, sympathetic concern), complaining that an honest explanation of the faith would be much more effective than personal attacks against Catholics who became protestant reformers. He rejected attacks against these protestants with the words: With words like these, we don t cure patients, we make them incurable. He taught in several universities, established colleges and seminaries, and wrote a catechism, a fantastically successful work that went through two hundred editions and was translated into fifteen languages during his lifetime. The catechism explained the Catholic faith in a way which ordinary people could understand, a great need of that age. Another great contribution of Canisius was in his role as the first patron of Catholic publishing. While the excommunicated priest, Martin Luther, in his efforts to reform the Church, understood the potential power and significance of the printed media, the reformers within the Church were slower to seize on this technological revolution. (The printing press was invented around 1440.) Peter Canisius himself wrote many books, both for scholars and for a general audience, and in every city where he worked he was active in obtaining Church support for Catholic printers and publishers. This contribution was especially emphasized by Pope Pius XI when in 1925 Canisius was canonized and named a Doctor of the Church. Pope Benedict XVI said St. Peter Canisius knew how to defend Catholic doctrine without launching personal attacks on those who disagreed. In a historical period marked by strong tensions, he avoided and this is something extraordinary he avoided giving into disrespectful and angry rhetoric. This was rare at that time of disputes between Christians. Pope Benedict XVI said that St. Peter Canisius insisted that there was a difference between willfully turning away from the faith and the loss of faith that was not a person s fault under the circumstances, and that Canisius declared to Rome that the majority of German Catholics who passed to the breakaway movement of Protestantism were without fault.
If one must err, let it be on the side of gentleness. Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing is so gentle as real strength. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. Practice patience toward everyone, and especially toward yourself. Never be disturbed because of your imperfections, but always get up bravely after a fall. We are sometimes so occupied with being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women. To be merry without offending God is better any day than grumbling and quarreling. St. Francis De Sales 1567-1622 Feast Day: January 24 Whoever preaches with love preaches effectively. This 17 th century holy man had a particular talent for making people interested in the spiritual life and directing their journey to God. He was educated in Paris, France and later received a doctorate in law at Padua, Italy. He then studied for the priesthood and was ordained in 1593. Nine years later, Francis was named bishop of Geneva, Switzerland, where he brought back to the Church more than 70,000 who had converted to Protestant Calvinism. At Francis death, a Calvinist minister said of him: If we honored any man as a saint, I know no one since the days of the apostles more worthy than this man. It was his spiritual direction which guided another very holy person, St. Jane de Chantel. Together, they founded the Visitation Order of Sisters. Francis spent a considerable amount of his time writing pamphlets and books for those who wished to be instructed in the faith. His Treatise on the Love of God was written for the Sisters in his Visitation order. His second classic, Introduction to a Devout Life, written for lay people, became, for many years, required reading for every aspirant to the priesthood. In his preaching and writing, St. Francis expounded a message of love and moderation which showed that holiness was possible for all people, not just priests or religious. In fact, some rigorist critics complained that he made it appear all too easy to become a saint. This sensitive 17 th century saint has left us with many often-repeated sayings: More flies are caught with a spoonful of honey than with a hundred barrels of vinegar. How displeasing to God are rash judgments! The judgments of the children of men are rash because they seize the office of Our Lord, the just Judge. They are rash because the principal malice of sin depends on the intention and counsel of the heart, and these are hidden things not known to human judges. They are rash because every person has things that could be judged, and, indeed, on which one should judge oneself. On the cross our Savior could not entirely excuse the sin of those who crucified him, but he lessened the malice by pleading their ignorance. When we cannot excuse a sin, let us at least make it worthy of compassion by attributing the most favorable cause we can to it, such as ignorance or weakness. We can never pass judgment on our neighbor. Everyone paints devotion according to his own passions and fancies. A man given to fasting thinks himself very devout if he fasts, although his heart may be filled with hatred. A man doesn t dare wet his tongue with wine or even water but won t hesitate to drink deep of his neighbor s blood by slander, vilification, and gossip. Another man thinks himself devout because he daily recites a vast number of prayers, but after saying them he utters the most disagreeable, arrogant and harmful words at home and among his neighbors. Do not fear what may happen tomorrow. The same loving Father who cares for you today will care for you tomorrow and everyday. Either he will shield you from suffering or will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginings. St. Francis de Sales