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August 18, 2013Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH6300 McKenna Drive, Mobile, Alabama 36608
Email: [email protected] ! Website: www.CorpusChristiParish.com
TELEPHONE NUMBERSParish Office: 342-1852 • Fax 342-6313School Office: 342-5474, ext. 1 • Fax 380-0325Rel. Ed. Office: 342-5474, ext. 7 • Fax 380-0325Preschool Office: 342-2424 • Fax 343-3119Youth Ministry: 342-1852 • Fax 342-6313
PASTORAL STAFFVery Rev. James F. Zoghby, V.F., PastorRev. John S. Boudreaux, Associate PastorDeacon Arthur W. Robbins, DeaconSr. Donna Cooper, R.S.M., Visitation ChaplainMrs. Linda M. Hawkins, Pastoral AssistantMrs. Judi B. Ankiewicz, Pastoral AssistantMrs. Joan T. McMullen, School PrincipalMrs. Kathleen Q. Jester, Parish Catechetical LeaderMrs. Colleen DeVoe, Youth Ministry Co-DirectorMrs. Brenda Martens, Youth Ministry Co-DirectorMr. Matthew F. Purvis, Music DirectorMr. Jay H. Henley, Gym Manager
TO REGISTER AS A MEMBER OF THE PARISH
Please fill out a Census Form. Census Forms areavailable in the church vestibule and parish office.
COMMUNITY CENTER RENTALS & SERVICES
For rental information and kitchen services, please callthe parish office at 342-1852 or 342-1420.
SUNDAY MASSES
Vigil: 5:30 p.m. SaturdayMorning: 7:00, 9:00 and 11:00 a.m.
WEEKDAY MASSES
6:30 a.m.: Monday through Friday8:15 a.m.: Monday through Saturday
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Saturday: 5:00 p.m. and by request, particularlyafter the 6:30 & 8:15 a.m. weekday Masses.
BAPTISM, MARRIAGE, ANOINTING OF SICK
Please call the parish office (342-1852) for informationand scheduling baptism, marriage, anointing of sick.
ADULT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (R.C.I.A.)
Please see published schedule for specific dates andtimes, or call the parish office (342-1852).
SUNDAY SCHOOL (C.C.D.) Grades K–12, Sundaysduring school year, 10:05-10:55 a.m. in school bldgs.
SCHOOL, SACS-accredited for Grades 3K through 8.For info & registration, please call the school office.
FULL-DAY PRESCHOOL for 6-week to 2-yr. olds.For info & registration, please call the preschool office
TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Sunday School Registration & Parent MeetingToday, Aug. 18, at 10 a.m. in the Adult Education Room
(located on the 1st Floor in the Community Center)
Important Note: 2nd Graders and 9th Graders will needto bring a copy of their baptismal certificate.
Student Registration Forms can also be printed & dropped at the
parish office: Go to CorpusChristiParish.com, then click “Church”
on the Intro Page, then click the “Sunday School (CCD)” link on
the left side of the page.
Volunteer Teachers Needed for Sunday School (CCD) program
in Grades1, 2, 4, 6. Volunteer forms are in the vestibule, and
also can be downloaded from the parish website: Click “Church”
then the “Sunday School [CCD] link; see “Volunteer Forms” below.
For more info contact Kathleen Jester either by email,
[email protected], or by calling 648-4441.
Children’s Liturgy of the Word — Volunteers needed to take
the 9 a.m. Mass any month from August to May. Sign-up sheet is
in vestibule. Info: [email protected], or 648-4441.
Notices for High School StudentsRegarding the Sacrament of Confirmation
High School Class of 2016: Turn in a copy of your baptismal
certificate by Aug. 25, 2013.
High School Class of 2017: Parent Meeting, Aug. 27, 2013, at
6:30 p.m. in the Adult Ed. Room.
Wednesday Night Dinner5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Banquet Hall
$9.00 for Adults ! $4.00 for Children (Age 12 & under)
Aug. 21 ~ Country Fried Chicken, Hamburger Steak w/Gravy,
Mashed Potatoes, Southern Style Turnip Greens, Corn Bread,
Green Salad, Peach Cobbler. Iced Tea, Lemonade, Coffee.
Kids Meal upon request: Chicken Tenders & French Fries.
Must RSVP no later than TUESDAY EVENINGReturn an RSVP Card, or call 342-1852 or email
Society of St. Vincent de PaulPoor 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.Meetings: 1st & 3rd Wed., 6:30 p.m., Com. Ctr. Conf. Rm. (2nd Flr.)
To obtain assistance, call 432-5173 and leave name & phone no.
Opening Day of SchoolTomorrow, Monday, Aug. 19. Noon dismissal.
Coming Soon!Guide Book & Directory
Advertising Opportunity
Guide Book Publishing has been contracted to publish a Guide Book
& Directory for Corpus Christi Parish which will be updated annually
and mailed to all parishioners. This book will be the Who, What,
Where, When, Why and How of our parish. The book is being
provided at no cost to the parish. Local businesses are being
solicited by Guide Book Publishing to advertise in the books.
If you would like to find out about advertising in this book, please
call the parish office: Leave your name, phone number and/or email.
A Guide Book Publishing representative willarrive in late September with advertisingdetails for all interested advertisers.
Men of St. JosephTuesdays, 7 to 8 a.m. in the Family Room
Also Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m. in Room 6 (2nd Floor)
All men are welcome to meet for prayer, reading the Gospel, and discussion.Info: Jim Donaghey, [email protected] or www.MenOfStJoseph.com.Wed Evening Info: Walter Bracewell, 599-1650 or [email protected]
Women of MaryWednesdays, 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., 316-3960.
Knights of ColumbusMeeting: 2nd Tues., Sept. 10, 7 p.m., at “The Parish House”.
Contact: Grand Knight, Bob Wheat, 490-9350.
Widowed Persons’ Support GroupFor information call parishioner Glen Porter at 666-8977.
Cub Scouts / Pack 29: Aug 18: After Mass Round-Up.
To Join Cub Scouts or for info contact Walter Bracewell 599-
1650 or Mike Martin 633-5218 or visit ccspack29.scoutlander.com.
AA — Alanon — OA — CODAAA: Sun., 7 p.m., Wed., 7 p.m., and Fri., 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.
CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH, MOBILE, ALABAMA AUGUST 18, 2013
Choir Rehearsals ResumeThis Wednesday, Aug. 21 , at 7 p.m.
in Room 4, 2nd floor of the community center
This first rehearsal will be for the 11 a.m. Mass on August 25.
Did you know that singing in harmonyactually makes you happier?
It releases chemicals in the brain that reduce anxiety and increase
contentment, alertness and connection with those around you.
Singing with a group does it more than just listening to music or
singing by yourself. All singers feel these benefits: beginners get just
as much out of it as those with years of experience.
The Corpus Christi Choir sings in harmony every week.So, come sing, serve your parish community, and get happy!
Join the Choir:It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3!
1. You don’t’ have to come every week: Everyone is
welcome to participate just on the weeks they have time. On
weeks when you can sing, just come to rehearsal Wednesday
night at 7 pm and come to warm up at 10:15 on Sunday morning.
If it’s several weeks before you can come again, no problem!
2. You don’t have to be able to read music: Many of
us don’t read music, or only read a little. You can learn your part
just by listening in rehearsal. And if you join the choir, you will be
surprised how quickly you can learn to follow the music!
3. We welcome beginners: For many of us, this is the first
choir we have ever been in. Most of us have never taken voice
lessons. We have members with all different levels of experience.
If you like to sing, then you belong in the Corpus Christi Choir! Just come to any rehearsal to try it out, or contact Matthew Purvis:
Contact Music Director Matthew Purvis for more information:Text: (251) 366-9187. Email: [email protected]
OR Pick up the Choir Sign-Up Form in vestibule.
Lighthouse Catholic 80 CD KioskProvided by the Men of St. Joseph
The Lighthouse Catholic 80 CD Kiosk is in the church vestibule, with CD topicsranging from Bible studies to Catholic apologetics to presentations on the Mass,Sacraments, and Lives of the Saints. Costs for the CD’s are $3.00 each, or twofor $5. A money drop is in the kiosk. Checks should be made payable to“Lighthouse”. Info: contact Jerry Scott [email protected] or 251-533-2593.
Respect Life Announcements
K of C Rosary for Life & Religious Liberty at Planned Parenthood abortion facilitySaturdays, at 9 a.m.. Info: Mae or Chris Rehm, 251-554-2032.Volunteer to help women & babies, Crisis Pregnancy Ctr. Call 343-4636 Gabriel's Project Assist with prayer, donation, a woman requesting help withpregnancy. Info: [email protected]. or 251-753-2416.Pray for Life, Marriage, Religious Liberty. www.usccb.org/life-marriage-liberty.
Welcome, New ParishionersFernando & Ana Cortez and their son, Diego
Harry HurstJesse Willingham
BAPTIZED IN CHRISTAshlyn Ivey Burke
(daughter of Connor William Burke, II & Julie Ann Peters Burke)
Jacob Grayson Chester(son of Matthew Dyer Chester & Sarah Wing Sze Cheng Chester)
Conner Michael Wells(son of Michael Jason Wells & Karen Elizabeth Bray Wells)
MARRIED IN CHRISTKelsey Elizabeth Johnson & Craig Stephen Wade
(Kelsey is the daughter of Don & Beth Johnson.)
Around the Archdiocese: For Catholic Business Owners: Free
Service offered by Archangel Radio: If you own or operate a business, please considerlisting your business on the Catholic Business Alliance webpage sponsored by ArchangelRadio. This is a FREE service to Catholic business owners! The Catholic BusinessAlliance (CBA) is a way to connect Archangel radio listeners to Catholic-owned oroperated businesses in Mobile and Baldwin counties. All businesses, large and small, willpartner with Archangel Radio to create a tangible Catholic marketplace in the listeningarea. Public service announcements run, asking listeners to patronize the businesseslisted. To be listed or for more information, please call Missy Schmidt 621-2015.
FIRST COLLECTION TODAY for tithing offerings.SECOND COLLECTION TODAY for Home Missions.
THE CHURCH IN LATIN AMERICA COLLECTION: $1,885.00AUG. 11TH BUILDING FUND DONATIONS & ONLINE: $1,105.88AUG. 11TH TITHING COLLECTION & ONLINE: $19,937.75
Thank You and God Bless you.God bless all who faithfully tithe and contribute to the support of
God's work here at Corpus Christi, and those who make a special
bequest in their will for Corpus Christi Church. To make a direct
donation of stock, contact your stockbroker, or call Steve Setterstrom
at Citigroup Global Mkts. at 470-1060.
Offering EnvelopesIf you wish to use Offering Envelopes, just notify the
parish office (342-1852). An initial set will be sent to
you right away, and then, every two months, you will
receive a two-month’s supply of envelopes with your
name and address printed on them.
Online GivingWith Online Giving you can either make a one-time
contribution or set up a recurring automatic withdrawal
from a checking or saving or credit card account:
Go to www.CorpusChristiParish.com; click “Church”;
then click the green Online Giving icon on the side left of the church’s
homepage. Follow the instructions to contribute to the tithing or
building fund or special collections. For assistance, call 1-800-348-
2886, ext 4, or the parish office, 342-1852.
Please check this out!When you are spending money on groceries, clothing, gasoline, entertainment, restaurants, airlinetickets, cruises, hotels, drug stores, gift shops, etc. . . . .
You can earn money for Corpus Christi by using our SCRIP coupons or debit cards.
You can earn money for our schoolwithout making a donation and without losing money.
Here’s an example:
If you were planning to spend up to $100 at Winn Dixie,you could first exchange your $100for $100 in the form of a SCRIP debit card or coupons.
We purchase the $100 SCRIP debit card or coupons for only $96.
So you still have your $100 for groceries,and Corpus Christi has earned $4 in the exchange.
Many popular retailers participate in the SCRIP program.Not all of them are listed on our current SCRIP Order Form.So, if you don’t see what you want,notify either the parish office (342-1852) or the SCRIP Office (342-5474, ext. 6).
You can start using SCRIP now!
Go to the SCRIP table in the atrium. Select what you want on the SCRIP Order Form, enclose yourpayment [Make checks payable to Corpus Christi SCRIP.], and drop the envelope in the front door mail slot ofthe parish office across the street, or in the tall wooden collection box behind the last pew, off thecenter aisle. Your order will be processed Monday morning, and ready for pick up on Wednesday.
Profits from parishioners and friends using our SCRIP debit cards or coupons have been used forseveral improvements at Corpus Christi, including a new science lab, security fencing, libraryrenovations, new playground equipment.
Much more can be done, thanks to all who use our SCRIP debit cards and coupons.
Special Note to School Families: If you use SCRIP and earn $100 profit for the CorpusChristi, you can receive a tuition voucher for 50% of any additional profit earned for the school afterthat first $100 has been earned. That tuition voucher will then be applied to your next month’stuition. You can also choose to reach the initial $100 requirement by making a tax-deductible $100donation to the SCRIP Program; this option is listed on the SCRIP Order Form as “Jump Start.”
Pope Francis to parents:
Teach your childrento respect, defend life
Respect for human life from conception to natural
death is something children must be taught, notmainly with words, but by the example of theirparents, Pope Francis said.
“Parents are called to pass on to their children theawareness that life must always be defended,” PopeFrancis wrote in a message to people joining in theBrazilian Catholic Church’s celebration of FamilyWeek, which began August 11.
The pope returned to his condemnation of the“throwaway culture.” He said that modern culturestend to treat even human lives as disposable, pointingto the way people, societies and even governmentstend to treat both the young and the old.
Pope Francis said that parents have a responsibility tofight that disposable culture by teaching their childrenthat human life “from the womb,” is a gift from God. New life ensure the future of humanity, he said, whileolder people - especially grandparents - “are the livingmemory of a people and transmit the wisdom of life.”
The pope also charged married Catholic couples andtheir children with the task of recognizing they mustbe “the most convincing heralds” of the beauty andgrace of Christian marriage. Ca tholic News Service
Co-habitationErma Bombeck once said: “Living together is to
marriage as babysitting is to being a parent.” If livingtogether before marriage was such a sure fire way toensure a marriage’s success, divorce rates for thosewho cohabitate would be lower than those who don’t. Actually the opposite is the case.
The USCCB website that helps young couplespreparing for marriage < www.foryourmarriage.org >reports that marriages that come after cohabitation are46% more likely to end in divorce.
Most likely, much of this is because couples whocohabitate before marriage have at least one memberwho, at some level, really doesn’t want to get married.
Living together before marriage can often be evidenceof an unwillingness to live up to the demands of thesacrament.
We are blessed by good strong, devoted marriedcouples who show us that love is possible in this oftendifficult world in which we live. Many cohabitatingcouples are only in it for the short haul. Marriedcouples are in it for life. We, their children, society,and they themselves, benefit from such generous longterm, life-long commitment. Fr. Rick Malloy, S.J.
Communion Line ReverenceQ. I recently saw a young boy almost topple over
in the Communion line as he tried to genuflect,bow and make the sign of the cross all at the sametime! Exactly what act of reverence is required inthe Communion line before receivingCommunion?
A. According to the bishops of the United States,
all that is called for is a simple bow of the head.“When receiving Holy Communion, thecommunicant bows his or her head before thesacrament as a gesture of reverence and receivesthe Body of the Lord from the minister.”
St. Dominic1170-1221
Founder of the Dominican Order
The founder of the Dominican Order, St. Dominic(1170-1221) was born in Spain, where he was welleducated in preparation for the priesthood.
Dominic was ordained in 1206, and when his bishop,Diego, was appointed a papal emissary to theAlbigensians, Dominic was chosen to accompany him.
The Albigensians (also called the Cathari - Cartharism)were an heretical group in Southern France who heldthat all matter (including the human body) is evil, andonly spirit is good. And so they denied the Incarnation(it was repulsive to them that God would take onhuman flesh!) and the sacraments (because all thesacraments make use of material things).
On the same principal they abstained from procreation,and took a minimum of food and drink. Their simple,penitential lifestyle won them the sympathy of thecommon people, and the Church’s efforts to counteracttheir influence had been unsuccessful. Part of theChurch’s previous efforts included military force towipe out the Albigensians.
Dominic saw immediately why the preaching was notsucceeding: the ordinary people admired and followedthe ascetical heroes of the Albigensians, andunderstandably, they were not impressed by theCatholic preachers who traveled like princes withhorses and entourage, had servants and stayed at thebest inns. Their preaching was uninspired, and theyutterly failed to present a challenging alternative to thepurity and zeal of the Albigensians.
Dominic, therefore, with a couple of Cistercian monks,began itinerant preaching according to the Gospel idealof simplicity and poverty. They traveled on footwithout money. They preached wherever there was anaudience, and exemplified the Gospel ideals of faithand charity. They were well-trained in theology anddoctrine, and specially skilled in the art ofcommunication. Dominic continued this work for 10years, and his preaching was successful.
In 1215 Dominic organized the Order of Preachers: areligious body of men living a simple lifestyle anddedicated to combating heresy by preaching a messageof love and forgiveness. The Order was approved byRome in 1216, several years after the establishment ofthe Franciscans.
The Dominicans joined the new era in religious lifebegun by Francis – the age of the mendicants(beggars). Like the Franciscans, the Dominicans didnot live within an enclosed monastery, but proclaimedthe Gospel on the road. The two founders, Dominicand Francis, had occasion to meet in Rome. Theygreeted one another with fraternal affection. St.Dominic continued traveling, preaching, and workingto strengthen his Order until his death in 1221.
Pope Francis spoke of how St. Dominic wassuccessful in his preaching because of his simplelifestyle and his simple message of love andforgiveness.
Of course, Pope Francis also admires St. Francis ofAssisi, whose name he took upon his election to thepapacy. St. Francis, too, was successful in drawingpeople to Jesus and to the Church because of hisembrace of poverty and simplicity.
And Pope Francis himself has made an effort to tonedown some of the pomp surrounding the papacy — hecarried his own bags in Brazil, rode in the same bus asthe cardinals after his election instead of riding in thepapal limousine, lives in simpler quarters, wearssimpler vestments, etc.
While we might be impressed with extravagantdisplays of authority and power, what really drawspeople to Jesus is when those who proclaim the Gospeldisplay humility and poverty of spirit — the kind ofhumility and poverty shown by Peter and Paul, andDominic and Francis, and Jesus himself.
St. Jane de
Chantal1572-1641
Co-Founder of theOrder of theVisitation
Jane de Chantal was born into a wealthy family in Dijon,France. She married Baron de Chantal at the age oftwenty, and bore seven children (three of whom died ininfancy). In 1600 her life took a tragic turn when herhusband was killed in an accident. In the followingyears, as she struggled with her children’s upbringing,her heart increasingly turned to religious life. She vowedthat she would never remarry.
In 1604, a sermon by the bishop of Geneva, Francis deSales, was a turning point in Jane’s life. It was also thebeginning of a deep spiritual partnership that wouldadvance them both along their paths to sanctity. Francispresented the spiritual life not as something only fit formonks and nuns, but something for everyone — capableof being lived out in the world. Jane immediatelyresponded to his message, and asked him to become herspiritual director.
Eventually, in 1610, Francis and Jane founded the Orderof the Visitation of Mary, a congregation dedicated toprayer and works of charity. Their original intention wasthat the order would be adapted for widows and otherwomen who, for reasons of health or age, could notendure the rigors of the cloistered life. There was to beno cloister, and they would be free to undertake spiritualand corporal works of mercy.
But the plan met with such relentless disapproval fromecclesiastical authorities (because of the usual oppositionto women in active ministry) that, in the end, Jeanneconsented to accept enclosure.
She encountered persistent criticism from churchauthorities, yet her order grew to include 86 communitiesin several countries, all devoted to the care of the sickand the bereaved. Through all of her trials, shemaintained heroic faith and charity. St. Jane died at theage of 69 in 1641, and was canonized in 1767.
Early efforts by women like Angela Merici, founder of
the Ursulines (1535), and Jane Frances de Chantal,founder with Francis de Sales of the Visitation Sisters(1610), were halted as the cloister was imposed bychurch authorities. Like St. Jane, CatherineMcAuley, foundress of the Sisters of Mercy, neverintended to found a religious order of women wearinga religious habit, but, at the insistence of herarchbishop, she did so. Vincent de Paul insisted thatthe Daughters of Charity, which he founded withLouise de Marillac, would have no convent but thehospital, no cloister but the streets.
It was not until 1900 that the Church, in Pope LeoXIII’s Conditae a Christo, recognized congregationscommitted to the active apostolate as true religious.
In 1952, Pope Pius XII convoked the First WorldCongress of Mothers General and suggested updatingcertain aspects of the sisters’ lives so they would beable to respond to the needs of the times.
Pope Pius XII issued two documents on women inreligious congregations: Sponsa Christi (1950) andSacra Virginitatis (1954). Among the issuesconsidered were the modification of the habit, theabolition of class distinctions that existed amongsome sisters, and the use of the vernacular in prayingthe Divine Office. — Fr. Richard McBrien, C.S.C.
“Love! love! love! my daughters! I know of nothing
else.... If I followed my inclination, and if I were notafraid of wearying the sisters, I should never speak ofanything but charity; and I assure you, I scarcely everopen my mouth to speak of holy things, without havinga mind to say: You shall love the Lord with your whole
heart, and your neighbor as yourself.”
“Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter
which way God leads you, you change everything intobitterness by constantly brooding over everything! Forthe love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure
and simple glance at God’s goodness!”
“Should you fall even fifty times a day, never on any
account should that surprise or worry you. Instead,ever so gently set your heart back in the right direction,and practice the opposite virtue, all the time speakingwords of love and trust to our Lord after you havecommitted a thousand faults, as much as if you hadcommitted only one. Once we have humbled ourselvesfor the faults that God allows us to become aware of in
ourselves, we must forget them and go forward.”
“No matter what happens, be gentle with yourself.”
