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August 16, 2020Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Corpus Christi Catholic Church6300 McKenna Drive, Mobile, Alabama 36608
Email: [email protected] ! Website: www.CorpusChristiParish.com
PARISH OFFICE HOURSMonday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
TELEPHONE NUMBERS
Parish Office: 342-1852 • Fax 342-6313School Office: 342-5474, ext. 1 • Fax 380-0325
PASTORAL STAFF
Fr. James F. ZoghbyFr. John S. BoudreauxDn. Arthur W. RobbinsMrs. Kristy F. Martin, School PrincipalMrs. Jennifer S. Pritchett, Parish Catechetical LeaderMr. Peter J. Stoyka, Youth Ministry DirectorMrs. Beth Yell, Maintenance Director/Facilities Mgr.Mrs. Theresa Jernigan, Secretary/BookkeeperMrs. Wendy Tulo, Secretary/Bookkeeper.
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 catering services, pleasecall the 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. Mass: Monday through Friday8:15 a.m. Mass: Monday through Saturday
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Saturday: 5:00 - 5:30 p.m. in the Banquet Halland by request after Mass and by appointment.
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: Grades K–12, Sundays duringschool year, 10:05-10:55 a.m. in school bldgs.
SCHOOL Grades PreK2 through 8. Info: 342-5474,ext. 1, or email [email protected].
TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Online Mass: Go to CorpusChristiParish.com/ChurchOR YouTube.com & Corpus Christi Church, Mobile, AL
No one is obligated to attend Mass on Sundays.Archbishop Rodi asks those who choose to attend public Masses tocooperate with Governor Ivey’s request to wear masks in church.
Thursday Morning Women’s Bible StudyResumes Sept. 3, from 9:15 to 10:45 a.m. in the Conference Room,on 2nd Floor of the Community Center. All will participants will safelydistance and wear masks. Nursery will NOT be provided. All womenare invited to share this journey of faith and fellowship.Info: Patti Hughes, 401-9623 or [email protected].
Society of St. Vincent de PaulMeetings: 1st & 3rd Mon. of month, at 6:30 p.m., via Zoom.Poor Box, Food, Clothing donations and “In-Need” Drop Box at theSVDP table in the vestibule. To seek help, call 251-366-6443.For further info, visit our website: SVDPCCC.org or our Facebookpage at Saint Vincent de Paul Corpus Christi Conference-Mobile AL
MEN OF ST. JOSEPHJoin the meeting in person or by phone.
Dial in: 251-665-2515. Conference ID: 102102#contact Jay Cox at 401-6070 or [email protected].
High School Confirmation Schedule for Senior Class of 2024
Mon., Aug. 24, 7 p.m.: Parent/Candidate Meeting in Banquet Hall.Sun., Sept. 27, 3-4:30 p.m.: Candidates Meeting in Banquet Hall.Sun., Nov. 15, 3-4:30 p.m.: Candidates Meeting in Banquet Hall.Sun., Feb. 7, 3-4:30 p.m.: Candidates Meeting in Banquet Hall.Sun., Apr. 18, 3-4:30 p.m.: Candidates Meeting in Banquet Hall.
Anna Wentworth, Coordinator: [email protected]
Welcome New ParishionersT.D. & Lauren Huckabee and their children, James and Rose
BAPTIZED IN CHRISTJames Edwin Huckabee
andRose Elizabeth Huckabee
(children of Thayer Durrell Huckabee & Lauren Elizabeth Rose Huckabee)
SPECIAL COLLECTION THIS WEEKEND: Home Missions.
CHURCH IN LATIN AMERICA ONLINE & COLLECTION: $586.00AUG 2ND BUILDING FUND ONLINE & COLLECTION: $1,446.00AUG 2ND TITHING ONLINE & COLLECTION: $28,596.50
Thank You and God Bless Youfor your continued, faithful generosity supporting
Corpus Christi during this difficult time.
To receive Offering Envelopes please notify the parish officeat 342-1852 or at [email protected].
To set up Online Giving, please go to the church website,CorpusChristiParish.com/Church, click the green Online Giving iconon left side of the page, and follow the instructions.For help, call 1-800-348-2886, ext 1, or parish office, 342-1852.
Corpus Christi ParishQuarterly Year-To-Date Financial Report
Church2020 Calendar Year
2nd Quarter Year-To-Date Financial ReportJanuary 2020 – June 2020
IncomeRegular Collections $ 632,402.74Building Fund Collections 57,228.96
SBA COVID Receipts 26,187.97TOTAL INCOME $ 715,819.67
ExpensesBuildings & Grounds $ 103,570.48Priests Residence 11,915.06Personnel Expenses 98,068.08Parish Administration 12,275.17Education Ministry 91,740.69Charitable Ministry 2,721.00Archdiocesan Expenses 142,879.16Debt Service 188,636.04TOTAL EXPENSES $ 651,805.68
Receipts over Expenses $ 64,013.99
SchoolJuly 2019-June 2020 Fiscal Year
July 2019 – June 2020 Financial Report
IncomeTuition $1,830,362.97Fees 185,422.11After School Program 107,965.74Fundraisers, Donations, Misc. 46,141.93Subsidy from Church 255,795.05SBA COVID Receipts 372,354.74TOTAL INCOME $2,798.042.54
ExpensesSalaries $1,809,117.04Instructional Expenses 38,552.29Archdiocesan School Tax 18,280.00Administrative Expense 43,291.68Operation Maintenance 177,948.55Property/Liability Insurance 74,965.63 P/R Tax,Health,Ret,Wkr Comp 394,612.91Library 19,985.32TOTAL EXPENSES $2,576,753.42
Receipts over Expenses $ 221,289.12
St. Cajetan1480~1557
Catholic Reformer
Cajetan was born into an aristocratic family of Vicenza,
Italy in 1480. He became a lawyer, was ordained at age36, and then as a priest, engaged in the work of theRoman Curia.
Before the Protestant Reformation, some in the churchknew that the Church was in great need of reform. People were not getting the spiritual nourishment theyneeded from the large numbers of uneducated and evenimmoral priests who took their money but returnednothing. When good priests and lay people turned to thehierarchy for help, they found leaders at best apatheticand indifferent to their concerns.
Acutely conscious of the widespread disorder andcorruption in the Church, Cajetan was prominent amongthe Catholic reformers before the ProtestantReformation, (during which many left the CatholicChurch) and during the Council of Trent, which wasconvened in response to the Protestant Reformation.
Cajetan and three friends decided the important thing todo was to revive the spirit and zeal of the clergy.
In 1524, with the purpose of providing better clergy hejoined with Bishop John Peter Caraffa (who would laterbecome Pope Paul IV) and founded the congregation ofclergy called The Oratory of Divine Love. Its membersprayed together, lived a life of poverty, and went out intothe city to work with the poor. Cajetan founded hospitalsfor incurables. The priests of the Oratory were givenspecial training, and emphasized the study of the Bible.
St. Cajetan told his brothers, “Inour oratory (chapel) we try to serve
God by worship; but it is in ourhospital that we actually find him.”
“What you did for the least brothers/sisters,you did for me.” (MT 25:40)
With his own money and help from others, Cajetanformed a consortium, a bank of sorts, and extended loansto his parishioners and the poor, offering an alternativeto the high interest loans of cutthroat bankers.
Sadly, other clergy openly opposed Cajetan’s Oratoryand it was condemned as “disreputable.” But Cajetanand the others members of his Oratory persevered andmany were converted by their preaching and example.
Later, Cajetan founded another order or congregationknown as the Theatines. The Theatines were outstandingamong the Catholic reform movements that took shapebefore the Protestant Reformation.
Worn out by the troubles he saw in his Church, Cajetanfell ill. When doctors tried to get him to rest on a softerbed than the boards he slept on, Cajetan answered, “Mysavior died on a cross. Let me at least die on wood.” Hedied on August 7, 1547.
“Before the tribunal of God’s mercy, we, theshepherds, must make ourselves responsiblefor all the evils now burdening the flock ofChrist. We should take upon ourselves thesins of all, not in generosity but in justice;because the truth is that we are in great partthe cause of these evils, and therefore weshould implore the divine mercy throughJesus Christ.” Cardinal Pole The pope’s representative at the Council of Trent
St. Peter Canisius1521-1597
Catholic Reformer“St. Peter Canisius knew how to defend Catholicdoctrine without launching personal attacks onthose who disagreed.” Pope Benedict XVI
St. Peter Canisius was the eighth Jesuit to make his solemn profession ofvows. He played a vital role in the renewal and reformation of the CatholicChurch in Central Europe. He believed that the Church’s best response tothe Protestant Reformation was to cleanse its own house and present thefaith 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 effectivethan 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, afantastically successful work that went through two hundred editions and was translated into fifteenlanguages during his lifetime. The catechism explained the Catholic faith in a way which ordinary peoplecould understand, a great need of that age. Another great contribution of Canisius was in his role as the first patron of Catholic publishing. Whilethe excommunicated priest, Martin Luther, in his efforts to reform the Church, understood the potentialpower and significance of the printed media, the reformers within the Church were slower to seize on thistechnological revolution. (The printing press was invented around 1440.) Peter Canisius himself wrotemany books, both for scholars and for a general audience, and in every city where he worked he was activein obtaining Church support for Catholic printers and publishers. This contribution was especiallyemphasized 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 defendCatholic doctrine without launching personal attacks on those whodisagreed.
“In a historical period marked by strong tensions, he avoided – and thisis something extraordinary – he avoided giving into disrespectful andangry rhetoric. This was rare at that time of disputes betweenChristians.”
Pope Benedict XVI said that St. Peter Canisius insisted that there wasa difference between willfully turning away from the faith and the lossof faith that was not a person’s fault under the circumstances, and thatCanisius declared to Rome that the majority of German Catholics whopassed to the breakaway movement of Protestantism were without fault.
St. Anthony Claret“Spiritual Father of Cuba”
1807-1870
Anthony Claret was a Spanish missionary priestand bishop who became known as the “SpiritualFather of Cuba.” His father was a weaver, andAnthony initially followed in his father’s footsteps. However, while working in the textile mills ofBarcelona, he studied in preparation for thepriesthood. Anthony was ordained at the age oftwenty-eight. Poor heath prevented Anthony from undergoingthe formation needed to become a Jesuit or aCarthusian, so he devoted himself to giving missionsand retreats throughout Spain. During his missions,he emphasized the importance of Jesus’ presence inthe Eucharist and the beauty of devotion to theImmaculate Heart of Mary. Anthony and five otherpriests founded a religious order, the Claretians, inorder to continue their ministry in Spain. In 1849, Anthony, through the influence of QueenIsabella II, was appointed archbishop of thearchdiocese of Santiago in Cuba. He respondedvigorously to the spiritual and material needs of hisflock. Anthony undertook an ambitious program tobuild tuition-free schools, hospitals, orphanages,homes for the elderly, and other similar institutions. He gave attention to special causes, such as religiousinstruction for Africans in slavery and stamping outforcing them into concubinage. He insisted thatinterracial marriages were valid marriages.
He promoted efforts to diversify the island’sagriculture. To stimulate the poor economy andimprove living standards, he founded a system ofparish savings banks, offering loans at interest rates solow that they would barely support the operation. Anthony also believed that the country should bemade up of small family farms so that people couldproduce their own food. Wealthy slave holders and plantation ownersreacted violently to Anthony’s social justiceendeavors, and there were fifteen attempts on thebishop’s life. One attempt on his life – by a man whoslashed Anthony’s face and wrist – resulted in thedeath sentence for the perpetrator, but Anthonyarranged for the man’s sentence to be commuted to aprison term. Anthony was called back to Spain for a job he didnot relish — being chaplain for the queen. He wenton three conditions: That he would be allowed toreside away from the palace, and that he would cometo the palace only to hear the queen’s confession andinstruct the children, and that he would be exemptfrom court functions.
Queen Isabella II once said to Anthony, “No one tells me things as clearly and frankly as you do.”
Later she told him, “Everybody is always asking me for favors, but you never do. Isn’t there something you would like for yourself?”
Anthony replied, “Yes, that you let me resign.”
The queen made no more offers.
In the revolution of 1868, he went with the queen’sparty to Paris, and preached to the Spanish colony. All his life Anthony was interested in the Catholicpress. He founded the Religious Publishing House, amajor Catholic publishing venture in Spain, and wroteor published 200 books and pamphlets. At Vatican I, he won the admiration of his fellowbishops. Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore remarked ofhim, “There goes a true saint.” He died in exile nearthe border of Spain at the age of 63.
St. John Vianney1786-1859
Patron of Parish PriestsFeast Day August 4
Born in 1786 to a peasant family inLyons, St. John Vianney, the CuréD’Ars [“Curé” means “parish priest”], desired nothing else than to be apriest. But his humble backgroundand lack of education made it unlikelyhe would ever realize such a vocation. With the help of a private tutor hesecured a place in the seminary butproved to be a miserable student.
He made it to his ordination onlybecause he was so devout. The vicar-general said: “The Church needs not just learned priestsbut holy ones too.” After serving as a curate for twoyears in Ecully, he was sent to the woebegone village ofArs-en-Dombes, as remote and insignificant a place asthe bishop could find. This was to be his home for therest of his life.
His homilies were simple and unsophisticated. Everyday he preached at 11 a.m. His homilies were sosuccessful that many village inns were closed during hishomilies for lack of business. After preaching, he thenheard confessions for as long as 12 hours a day to beginwith and then 16 in his last years. St. John also showeda rare gift for listening and counseling, both in and out ofthe confessional. Soon thousands of people from all overFrance flocked to his church, arousing the envy andopposition of some of the neighboring priests.
As a young priest, St. John was quite strict, but as he gotolder, he became more compassionate and understandingof people’s weaknesses and he became less severe andmore sympathetic toward human frailty. The storiessome people told would reduce him to tears.
Three times St. John Vianney left Ars to become a monk. Three times he came back. He refused state honors andpromotion, except reluctantly becoming a canon (a priestwho worked with and advised the bishop), but he soldthe special robes he was supposed to wear as a canon andgave the money to the poor.
Worn out by an endless stream of visitors asking for hisadvice, he died at the age of 73 in 1859. He wascanonized in 1925.
Pope Benedict XVI said ofhimself that when he was a youngpriest, he, too, [like JohnVianney] was “rather severe,”but Pope Benedict said, “In thecourse of time I came to realizethat we have to follow instead theexample of the Lord. He was aLord of mercy with sinners – and,according to the officialauthorities of his day, Jesus wastoo open – welcoming sinners todinner, or allowing himself to bewelcomed at their dinners,drawing them to himself in hiscommunion.”
Pope Benedict, celebrating the 150th anniversary ofthe death of John Vianney shared a few quotations
from St. John Vianney, the Curé of Ars:
“It is not the sinner who returns to God to beg for forgiveness, but God himself who runs after thesinner and makes him return to him! Our God is sofilled with love that he seeks us everywhere.”
“Even before you confess your sins, God alreadyknows that you will sin again, yet he still forgivesyou. How great is the love of our God that heeven forces himself to forget the future, so that hecan grant us his forgiveness!”
“All of our religion is but a false religion, and allour virtues are mere illusions, and we ourselvesare only hypocrites in the sight of God if we havenot that universal charity for everyone, for thegood and for the bad, for the poor people as wellas for the rich, for all those who do us harm asmuch as for those who do us good.”
“There is no virtue that will let us know better that weare the children of God than charity.”
“Jesus tells us that all the law and the prophets areincluded in this one commandment to love ourneighbor.”
“We must regard this obligation as the mostuniversal, the most necessary and the mostessential to religion and to our salvation.”
St. Louis of France (1226-1270)Louis was crowned King Louis IX at 12 when his father, King Louis VIII, died. His mother ruled during his childhood. He was married at 19, and he andhis wife, Margaret, had 10 children.
Devoted to his people, Louis founded churches, orphanages, hospitals, libraries, and like his patron, Francis of Assisi, cared for those with leprosy.
He insisted on the equal rights of everyone, from king to peasant, and, by theforce of his personality, he united France — lords and townsfolk, peasants andpriests and knights. Louis banned the practice whereby disputes betweenindividuals were settled by their physical combat against each other. Instead,King Louis established a trial by investigation and the hearing of witnesses,and keeping court records of testimonies. He also would hold trial hearingsunder a grove of oak trees so that people who were poor and simple would feelmore at ease, and not intimidated by having to participate in their trial in the formality of a court in the palace. For many years the nation was at peace.
Every day, Louis had 13 special guests from among the poor to eat with him, and a large number of poor wereserved meals near his palace. During Advent & Lent, all who presented themselves were given a meal, andLouis often served them in person. He kept lists of needy people, whom he regularly helped, in everyprovince of his dominion. St. Louis IX, King of France, is the only canonized king of France, and there aremany places named after him, including the city of St. Louis, Missouri.
St. Joseph Calasanz (1550-1648)After becoming a priest, Joseph felt God calling him to a deeper kind ofwork, and moved to Rome where he began serving the poor. He noticed inthe slums, that with no training or challenge, children’s minds were wasted. He began spending his own wealth to set up a free school. He formed areligious order whose members served as teachers.
His generosity, however, met with resistance from wealthy people whobelieved that it was dangerous to educate the poor. If the poor were able toread and to speak for themselves, they might begin to struggle for their rights.
He founded of the first free public school in Europe. It was revolutionary, aradical break with the class privileges that kept the masses marginalized in
poverty. In the history of education, he is the great educator of the poor, offering education free of charge toall classes of society, without discrimination. Pope Pius XII declared him to be the Universal Patron of allChristian schools in the world.
St. Louis of France and St. Joseph Calasanz share August 25 as their feast day. Both of these men, one a secular ruler and one a priest, served God’s poor and needy, each in his own way.
They knew that we love and serve God by loving our neighbor.
