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- Jen Arnold, M.A. in Theology and Cateche cs
“For a righteous man falls seven mes, and rises again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.” - Proverbs 24:16
As we all know, we are all sinners. Our human nature causes us to make mistakes every single day as we sin against our neighbors and sin against God. It is just part of who we are. As Proverbs tells us, even the most righteous man will fall seven times. However, we should not become complacent about our sin and use our fallen nature as an excuse to not strive for holiness. Satan is the one who likes to tell us that we should just give up because we messed up one too many mes, but Satan is a liar. Like the righteous man, we should always rise up again and try to do be er because our good and gracious God tells us we can.
One of the greatest gi s of God’s mercy is that, as long as we are s ll breathing, we always have another chance. He is so forgiving and so loving that he’s always ready to look past our mistakes to help us try again. Yes, sin has consequences and most of the me those consequences are messy and unavoidable, but God can turn anything bad into the most beau ful good if we allow Him to work in and through us.
In order to be er understand how this works for us, let’s take a walk through history and see how some of the greatest people in Church history started out as some of the worst sinners before they allowed God to take over.
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Corpus Chris Catholic Church strives to be a welcoming community proclaiming the love of God and fostering a life-long personal rela onship with Jesus Christ and His Church through Scripture, Sacraments, and service.
Parish Office Hours Our phones are open Mon.-Fri. 9-11:30 am and Mon.-Thurs. 1-5 pm. The office is open by appointment only. Most staff are working remotely at this time and can be reached by email and voicemail.
Children’s Faith Formation (Catholic Education) Office Hours: Open by appointment only.
Gift Shop Hours: Open by appointment only.
M T Please check your email for informa on sent via Flocknote regarding Mass mes, procedures, and sign-up links. You must sign-up to attend the Saturday Vigil and Sunday Masses.
Saturday Vigil: 4:00 (In person)
Sunday: 8:00 (In person & Livestreamed)
[Distribu on of Holy Communion: 9:15-10:00am]
10:30 am (In person)
Daily Mass: Monday—Saturday: 8:15 am (In person & Livestreamed)
Tuesday: 6:00 pm (In person)
Friday: 6:30 (In person)
Confessions Confessions are held in the church in the choir area and the baptistry (when a guest priest is available). Please adhere to all posted safety protocols.
Tuesday: 5:00-5:45 Thursday: 7:00 –8:00 Saturday: 2:30 –3:30
Adora on The Adora on Chapel will be opened with limited hours from 9am-8pm, Monday—Thursday.
There are 8 chairs in the chapel, spaced 6-feet apart – please DO NOT move the chairs. There are no kneelers. While we are doing the best we can in providing sanitizer and/or cleaning wipes, if possible, please bring your own to clean your space before you leave.
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We have a list of volunteers willing to pick-up and deliver prescrip ons, groceries, and meals for other parishioners that are high-risk or otherwise unable to leave their homes.
Please email: [email protected] to coordinate services.
Clergy and Staff Members Rev. Reynaldo Clutario, Temporary Parochial Administrator [email protected]
Deacon Chris Kellogg [email protected]
Deacon Dennis Lambert [email protected] Website/Blog: dennislambert-writer.com
Retired Deacon Al Gaudio Retired Deacon Phil Simeone
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Carol Pavlak, Parish Office Manager [email protected]
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Kathy Egle, Director of Evangeliza on kathy.egle@corpuschris phx.org | cff@corpuschris phx.org
John Deg, Director of Married Life Ministries john.deg@corpuschris phx.org
Grace Rivera, Coordinator of Youth Evangeliza on grace.rivera@corpuschris phx.org
Matthew Henry, Director of Music & Liturgy ma hew.henry@corpuschris phx.org
Barbara Manning, Gift Shop Manager [email protected]
Ken Doering, Maintenance Supervisor ken.doering@corpuschris phx.org
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Peter Rady-Pentek, President of the Finance Council
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Parish Contribu ons
July 26, 2020
Tithing* Weekly Total........................................ $21,317.59 Weekly Budget.................................... $25,202.75 Weekly Surplus (Deficit)...................... ($3,885.16)
Fiscal Year-to-date Total .................... $99,806.14 Fiscal Year-to-date Budget................. $104,811.00 Fiscal Year-to-date Surplus (Deficit).... ($5,004.86)
*Includes Sunday collections, Online Giving, and mid-week tithing.
Other Contribu ons
Miscellaneous……….....…….......................... $65.00 Building Fund Collec on……...................... $2,375.00 Building Fund Balance……........................... $78,596.77
Monday, August 10, St. Lawrence
8:15 am † Julie Laurenti
Tuesday, August 11, St. Clare
8:15 am † Marie Shomen 6:00 pm † Amy Hopkins Townsend
Wednesday, August 12, St. Jane Frances de Chantal
8:15 am † Thomas Doerr
Thursday, August 13, Pope St. Pontian & St. Hippolytus 8:15 am † Mark Soukop
Friday, August 14, St. Maximilian Kolbe
6:30 am † Gil Hernandez 8:15 am † Elvira Soriano
Saturday, August 15, The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
8:15 am Parishioners 4:00 pm † Mike & † Mary Bursik
Sunday, Date 8:00 am † Rosemary Vlasak 10:30 am Parishioners
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Offering a Mass Inten on The custom of reques ng a priest to offer the Mass for a specific inten on, even when one cannot be physically present at the Mass, is a longstanding tradition in the Church. This is because the Church considers the Mass as the greatest possible prayer of intercession, insofar as it is the perfect offering of Christ to the Father by making present the paschal mystery of his death and resurrec on. To request a Mass offering for the inten ons of a living person or for the repose of the soul of a deceased person, please feel free to contact the Parish Office. For more information and to make the request electronically (with optional payment by credit card) please visit corpuschristiphx.org/mass-inten on.
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King David was a complex character, like most of us.
He wasn’t all bad. More often than not, he was righteous and just. However, he was a sinner. He took his eyes off God and allowed the sin of lust to consume him. He coveted his General Uriah’s wife and had an affair with her. A er she became pregnant, David had Uriah killed. Lust and murder are two pre y big sins and one might be tempted to throw in the towel a er all that, but David lamented his ac ons and cried out to God for forgiveness. You can read David’s song of lament in Psalm 51 and refer to it whenever you feel terrible about your own sins. A er everything, how did God respond to David’s regret? He made him a great king and allowed him to be part of the lineage of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Although Mary Magdalene is some me described as a pros tute, we don’t know too many details about the specific sins she commi ed, but Luke tells us that Jesus cast seven demons out of her (Luke 8:2). If someone is described as needing to have seven demons cast out, we can imagine that whatever was going on with Mary wasn’t good. After He rid her of the demons, Mary became quite a devout disciple of Jesus. Her sins were not held against her and she was rewarded for her conversion. She was with Jesus un l His dying breath and had the privilege and honor of being the first one to see Him a er His resurrec on (Ma hew 28:1-10).
A er promising Jesus he would never deny Him, Peter went on to deny Jesus three mes. Not only did he deny his beloved friend, but he did it at the most excrucia ng me of his friend’s life. Imagine denying your best friend or spouse at the me he or she needed you the most. That’s what Peter did. Jesus is so loving and so forgiving that, despite knowing how Peter would betray Him, He s ll made him the Church’s first pope. “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it,” (Ma hew 16:18). Despite Peter’s sins, God worked through him and enabled him to convert 3,000 people to Chris anity a er one sermon (Acts 2:14-42).
Before St. Paul was St. Paul, he was Saul, a persecutor of Chris ans. In other words, his job was to go out and find Chris ans and murder them. In Paul’s case, he actually thought he was doing the right thing and doing God’s will by killing Chris ans. He wasn’t aware of his sin at all un l God blinded him for his evil deeds. Once his eyes were opened and he converted
to Chris anity himself, St. Paul became one of the greatest disciples of Jesus of all me. He changed his mission from finding and murdering Christians to going to the ends of the earth to convert others to Chris anity. St. Paul also went on to become one of the most prolific authors of the New Testament by allowing God to speak through Him.
Perhaps most of you know the story of St. Augustine (354-430 AD), but it is worth repea ng in the context of sinners becoming saints. Although he was raised by a devoutly Chris an mother, St. Monica, Augus ne fell under the influence of paganism and Manichaeism, which deals with good and evil in a dualistic way, believing that God is not omnipotent. He fell in with a sexually promiscuous crowd, kept a lover out of wedlock for 15 years, and had a child with her. When he went to Milan to teach, he met St. Ambrose, who was known as a great Chris an orator. Ambrose had a huge influence over Augus ne and eventually converted him to Christianity. Still, Augustine famously prayed during his conversion, “Grant me chas ty and con nence, but not yet.” That’s a man who wants to hang on to his sin despite knowing God’s will for him. Eventually, St. Augus ne became a priest and was then appointed the Bishop of Hippo. He authored many great works, which we s ll read and use today, and he is now one of the greatest saints honored by the Church.
St. Mary of Egypt (died some me in the 5th or 6th century) is a woman you may not have heard of before. Mary ran away from home at the age of 12 to the big city of Egypt. Her appe te for lust and sex was so insa able that she made it a point to collect as many sexual partners as she could. Even when offered money by her conquests, she would refuse it because she did it out of pure enjoyment. To further her quest in seduc on, she joined a group of pilgrims going to the Holy Land and paid for her place on the boat by providing sexual favors to the pilgrims. When she arrived in Jerusalem, she had a profound conversion experience and immediately went to the monastery of St. John the Bap st to confess her sins and receive the Holy Eucharist. She then went on to live the rest of her life as a penitent. Again, her reward was eternal life in heaven with God and canoniza on into sainthood.
Our final example for today is Blessed Bartolo Longo (1841-1926). Bartolo went away to school in Naples where he not only became an -Catholic, but began to prac ce Spiritualism and Occul sm. Going further, he eventually joined a satanic cult and
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became a satanic priest. He described his life at this time as being filled with anxiety, paranoia, depression, and many other mental and physical health ailments. A friend convinced him to abandon Satanism and took him to see a Dominican priest. This priest worked with Bartolo on a devo on to the rosary, through which Bartolo was ul mately converted to Catholicism. He then moved to Pompeii, which was rapidly declining in the Faith, and he worked to catechize the people there. As a gift, he received a badly damaged painting of Our Lady of the Rosary and he used that pain ng to create a shrine, which today is called The Basilica of our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary of Pompeii. He also went on to write a 15-Saturday devo on to Our Lady of the Rosary, which I
can personally attest to as an absolutely stunning devotion. He now enjoys the title of Blessed for the work he has done in the conversion of other souls and in his work in glorifying God.
I hope that reflec ng on these few short stories of men and women who turned from evil and sin to truth, beauty, and goodness has inspired you. No ma er where you find yourself in your struggles with sin, you are not beyond hope for transforma on and conversion. These stories show us how God can do wondrous things in the darkest of hearts and he can bring about good in any situa on. Pray to ask God to reveal His will for your life and then be open to receiving His transformative grace.
Elijah Matthew Durban Anthony Ryan Milot
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Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord and perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of
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Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Times of Trial
Holy Virgin of Guadalupe, Queen of the Angels and Mother of the Americas.
We fly to you today as your beloved children. We ask you to intercede for us with your Son, as you did at the wedding in Cana.
Pray for us, loving Mother, and gain for our na on and world, and for all our families and loved ones, the protec on of your holy angels, that we may be spared the worst of this illness.
For those already afflicted, we ask you to obtain the grace of healing and deliverance.
Hear the cries of those who are vulnerable and fearful, wipe away their tears and help them to trust.
In this me of trial and tes ng, teach all of us in the Church to love one another and to be pa ent and kind.
Help us to bring the peace of Jesus to our land and to our hearts.
We come to you with confidence, knowing that you truly are our compassionate mother, health of the sick and cause of our joy.
Shelter us under the mantle of your protection, keep us in the embrace of your arms, help us always to know the love of your Son, Jesus.
Amen.
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First, THANK YOU so much to all the current and previous Pastoral Council and Finance Council members. These two groups have played vital roles in making our parish what it is today! Your me, given in service to our parish, is so greatly appreciated!
We love all our council members and it is always sad when one of his or her terms comes due! Alas, things must change, and new perspec ves are needed to keep our parish growing! We have several member terms coming due, so we are looking for parishioners who are interested in serving on one of these councils!
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