LOCATION Christ the King Rectory 84 Somerset St. Wethersfield, CT 06109 p: 860-529-2545 f: 860-529-5861 w: christthekingparishct.org e: [email protected] Corpus Christi Church facebook.com/ChristtheKingCT 601 Silas Deane Highway MASS SCHEDULE Daily Masses Wethersfield, CT 06109 Mon. – Sat. 7:30am Our Parish Mission Statement Weekend Masses Sat. – 4:00pm Vigil Nourished weekly at the Table of the Lord, we go forth as disciples of Jesus to proclaim what we believe through our every word and deed. Sun. – 8:00am 10:15am Daily and Saturday Vigil Masses also live-stream on Facebook Reconciliation Sat. – 2:30pm Holy Hour Sat. – 8:00am-9:00am PARISH STAFF Pastor Rev. Nicholas P. Melo [email protected] Parochial Vicar Rev. George Vellaplackil [email protected] Deacon Michael Cassella [email protected] Administrative Assistant Rose Melvin Business Manager Niki Bordieri Bulletin Editor Mary Scott Music Director Thad Terzo Plant Manager Greg Silva RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Director of Religious Education Sharon Reynolds p: 860-721-9419 e: [email protected] CORPUS CHRISTI SCHOOL p: 860-529-5487 e: schoolmail@ corpuschristischoolct.org BAPTISM w: corpuschristischoolct.org After 10:15am Sunday Mass Principal Registration is required. Ann Sarpu Please call the rectory o'ce. Secretaries Debbi Borea and Ann Marie Spina SACRAMENTS FOR THE SICK MATRIMONY We are happy and honored to visit Please contact rectory o'ce at the sick or homebound. least six months in advance. Please notify the rectory.

AUGUST 1, 2021 | EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME W E LCO M E MASS INTENTIONS

SATURDAY, JULY 31— Vigil—Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:00pm Henry Morissette—Happy Birthday, requested by his wife and children.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 1—EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN Connor Wotus ORDINARY TIME 8:00am Angela and Dominic Ficonceli, requested by & Maria LaRosa and family. Dani Somerville 10:15am Lallier Family, requested by the family.

MONDAY, AUGUST 2— Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop; Saint Peter Julian Eymard, Priest 7:30am Harold MacDonald, requested by his wife and children.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 3—Weekday 7:30am Giuseppe and Sebsatiana Forte, requested by their family.

MASSES/CANDLES AVAILABLE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4—Saint , Priest 7:30am Natalie Linkovich, requested by her daugh- The 2021 Calendar has a number of Masses and ter Lorraine and family. candles available. The 2022 Calendar is also open and available. If you would like one (or THURSDAY, AUGUST 5—The Dedication of the Basilica more) for a loved one, please call or email the of Saint Mary Major Rectory at 860-529-2545 or 7:30am Doug George, requested by his friends. [email protected]. Weekday Masses are $15; Weekend and Holy Day Masses are $20; and FRIDAY, AUGUST 6—The Transfiguration of the Lord Candles are $10. If you are unable to attend in 7:30am John Rust, requested by his wife. person, please note all weekday and Saturday vigil Masses also live-stream on Facebook. SATURDAY, AUGUST 7—Saint Sixtus II, Pope, and Companions, Martyrs; Saint Cajetan, Priest; BVM CANDLES—AUGUST 1—AUGUST 7 7:30am Intentions of the Parishioners of Christ the King Parish.

SANCTUARY CANDLE #1 Vigil—Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Burns this week in memory of Nicola 4:00pm Anna Cersosimo, 21st Anniversary, request- Faraone, requested by his granddaughters. ed by the family. SANCTUARY CANDLE #2 Intention available. SUNDAY, AUGUST 8—NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME BLESSED VIRGIN 7-DAY CANDLE #1 8:00am Mass Intention Available. Burns this week in memory of Bob Martelle, 10:15am Robert—3rd Anniversary—and Denise—1st requested by his sister Anne. Anniversary—Scott, requested by the family. BLESSED VIRGIN 7-DAY CANDLE #2 Intention available. Prayer...the world’s greatest wireless connection. 2 | EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME WORD TO THE FAITHFUL Pope Francis important of them: the reform of liturgical movement sought recently issued the Roman Rite." above all: active participation of a letter Di Noia urges Catholics—both the faithful in the liturgical restricting the those upset by Pope Francis' celebration of the mysteries of use of the pre- decision and those gleefully Christ," he said. "In TLM, there is Vatican II Latin applauding it—to reread Pope little concern for active Mass. This has received much Benedict's 2007 document, participation. The traditional publicity, both positive and Summorum Pontificum, which Latin Mass, as in the past, negative. A little explanation gave broad permission to use becomes the occasion for might help understand what he the pre-Vatican II Roman liturgy. engaging in various types of is saying and why. Pope Francis withdrew most of private prayer if the participants When St. John Paul and Pope those permissions July 16 with don't follow the Mass with a Benedict expanded the his document, Traditionis missal." possibility of using the pre- Custodes, and likely either It is no coincidence, he said, Vatican II Mass, they were consulted with or at least gave that Benedictines and hoping to promote unity in the advance copies of the document Dominicans were the early church and to counter abuses to retired Pope Benedict. leaders in the liturgical reform that were widespread in the Archbishop Di Noia said, "the movement before the Second celebration of the post-Vatican thing has gotten totally out of Vatican Council; the communal II Mass. They were hoping to control and become a experience of liturgy was heal a rift between members of movement, especially in the fundamental to their spirituality the Society of St. Pius X, U.S., and England—a and was the "bedrock" of the established by the late movement that aggressively Christian life for them. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, promotes the Traditional Latin Previously, and still today with who were threatening to leave Mass (TLM) among young the old Latin Mass, "individual the church. people and others as if this mystical experience" was the However, not only has that not 'extraordinary form' were the foundation of spirituality. happened, but we now have true liturgy for the true church." The liturgical reform what Archbishop DiNoia What the Holy Father is saying movement "was recognized at describes as "a movement is that the TLM movement is Vatican II as the work of the within the church herself, working for objectives that are Holy Spirit and became the seemingly endorsed by her precisely contrary to what St. basis for a massive overhaul of leaders, that sows division by John Paul and Benedict XVI the liturgical life of the church," undermining the reforms of the hoped for." he said. Second Vatican Council through "The TLM movement promotes the rejection of the most the rejection of that which the Father Nick

Dear friends, Matthieu and Marie Vianney. received his First Communion John was raised in a Catholic catechism instructions in private The Church home and the family often by two nuns who lost their celebrates the helped the poor and housed St. convents to the Revolution. At feast of St. John Benedict Joseph Labre when he 13-years-old, John made his first Vianney, patron made his pilgrimage to . communion and prepared for saint of parish In 1790, when the anticlerical his confirmation in secrecy. priests, on Wednesday August Terror phase of the French When he was 20-years-old, 4th. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Revolution forced priests to John was allowed to leave the Vianney, known as John in work in secrecy or face family farm to learn at a English, was born May 8, 1786 in execution, young Vianney "prsbytery-school" in Écully. Dardilly, France and was believed the priests were There he learned math, history, baptized the same day. He was heroes. He continued to believe geography and Latin. the fourth of six children born to in the bravery of priests and Continued on next page

EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME| 3 OUR FAITH COMMUNITY FROM FATHER’S DESK—Continued As his education had been When he began his priestly duties, He asked the pastor what it meant? disrupted by the French Revolution, Fr. Vianney realized many were The pastor explained, “It is a direct he struggled in his studies, either ignorant or indiRerent to line to heaven. If you are really particularly with Latin, but worked religion as a result of the French willing to pay the price, you can talk hard to learn. Revolution. Many danced and drank directly to God.” He continued In 1802, the was on Sundays or worked in their visiting diRerent churches, seeing reestablished in France and fields. Fr. Vianney spent much time the same gold phone on the walls religious freedom and peace spread in confession and often delivered with the same signs. When he finally throughout the country. homilies against blasphemy and made it to Wethersfield, he saw the Unfortunately, in 1809, John was dancing. Finally, if parishioners did same gold phone, but the sign says drafted into Napoleon Bonaparte's not give up dancing, he refused it “cost 25 cents per minute.” In armies. He had been studying as an them absolution. He spent 11 to excitement, he asked one of the ecclesiastical student, which was a twelve hours each day working to priests in the church, “Why is it so protected title and would normally reconcile people with God. In the much cheaper?” The priest said, have excepted him from military summer months, he often worked “You are in Wethersfield now; it is a services, but Napoleon had 16-hour days and refused to retire. local call.” withdrawn the exemption in some His fame spread until people began dioceses as he required more to travel to him in 1827. Within Father George soldiers. Two days into his service, thirty years, it is said he received up John fell ill and required to 20,000 pilgrims each year. hospitalization. As his troop He was deeply devoted to St. With joyful hearts, continued, he stopped in at a Philomena and erected a chapel we welcome our parish’s church where he prayed. There he and in her honor. When he met a young man who volunteered later became deathly ill but to return him to his group, but miraculously recovered, he instead led him deep into the attributed his health to St. mountains where military deserters Philomena's intercession. By 1853, met. John lived with them for one Fr. Vianney had attempted to run year and two months. He used the away from Ars four times, each Leo Dominick Frechette, name Jerome Vincent and opened a attempt with the intention of son of school for the nearby village of Les becoming a monk but decided after Shane and Nicole Noes' children. John remained in the final time that it was not to be. Les Noes and hid when gendarmes Six years later, he passed away and came in search of deserters until left behind a legacy of faith and was Liora Marie Gonzalez, 1810, when deserters were granted viewed as the champion of the daughter of amnesty. poor. Derrek and Kelsey Now free, John returned to Écully On October 3, 1873, Pope Pius IX and resumed his ecclesiastic proclaimed Fr. Vianney as studies. He attended a minor "venerable" and on January 8, 1905, Vivienne Elora Malinowski, seminary, Abbe Balley, in 1812 and Pope Pius X beatified him. St. John was eventually ordained a deacon in Vianney was canonized on May 31, daughter of June 1815. He joined his heroes as a 1925. His feast day was declared Adam and Jennifer priest August 12, 1815 in the Couvent August 9 but it was changed twice des Minimes de Grenoble. His first before it fell to August 4. Mass was celebrated the next day and he was appointed assistant to Have a great week and here is a Balley in Écully. Three years later, thought; when Balley passed away, Fr. John Vianney was appointed parish priest I have heard about this reporter Thomas Joseph DiFiore of the Ars parish. With help from who was visiting churches across & Catherine Lassagne and Benedicta the nation. When he went into the Lerdet, La Providence, a home for southwest, he saw gold phones on Nicole Morrissette girls, was established in Ars. the wall with the signs, “calls cost ten thousand dollars per minute.” wed on Saturday, 4 | EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME July 17, 2021 J O I N U S UPCOMING EVENTS WHAT IS A PARISH? SCHOOL SUPPLIES

ROSARY ON THE GREEN “A parish…It is The Social Action Committee would like to express its the place appreciation for the generous  where all the FRIDAY, 12:00pm faithful can be response to the request for Wethersfield Broad Street gathered school supplies for the St. Martin Green, across from together for the celebration of de Porres House, Hawkwing, and Anderson Farm. In case of the Eucharist. The parish Town of Wethersfield. All inclement weather, the initiates the Christian people donated items were distributed Rosary will be prayed in into the ordinary expression of to the three programs, and were received with much appreciation! Corpus Christi Church. the liturgical life: It gathers Thank you! them together in this Please PRAY daily for an celebration; it teaches Christ’s HAWKWING DONATIONS end to TraFcking in saving doctrine; it practices the On behalf of The Social Action Humans. charity of the Lord in the good Committee, I would like to extend my deepest gratitude. Your works and brotherly (sisterly) love.” Catechism of the generosity to the Hawkwing SEE FLYER Catholic Church Organization will ignite hope to the INSERTED IN reservation. In these trying times, however di'cult and hard it has BULLETIN FOR It is important for all of us to PRAYER SUGGESTIONS. been, I cannot be more thankful for understand and live our your unselfish support.—Ellie Catholic Social Teaching because we are the Lord’s THE YEAR OF JOSEPH presence in the world today. In December 2020, Pope Francis We are his loving hands, declared 2020-2021 the Year of July 25…...... $4,997.00 compassionate eyes, and voice, Joseph, thus celebrating the 150th and we need to act and speak On-Line Giving………$2,061.51 anniversary of the proclamation of out for the weak, the poor, and St. Joseph as Protector of the TOTAL……………….....$7,058.51 the needy in our world. The Universal Church. Marking the following is a short prayer to occasion, the Pope issued the Next weekend’s second collection apostolic letter “Patris Corde is the monthly collection. help us practice our Catholic social teaching: “May the Lord (With a Father’s Heart”) in which he lovingly reflects on St. Joseph Consider online giving! Jesus and his Holy Spirit burn as a beloved, tender and caring, Sign up on our Parish website within my heart. May I have the obedient, accepting, creatively eyes to notice those in need. courageous, working father, and a We are so grateful to all who continue May I develop a keen mind to father in the shadows. to support Christ the King Parish with help understand how to your prayers and financial contributions! respond to them. And may I An opportunity to delve into the have a courageous and richness of the Pope’s letter will be compassionate heart to act on oRered at Christ the King Parish their behalf. Amen.” (Taken on 8 Wednesdays from September from Catholic Social Teaching 8th to October 27th. Sessions will Registration for the 2021- by Michael Pennock.) be held at 1:30 p.m. (Group 1) and 2022 school year is now open! at 7:00 p.m. (Group 2). Please register your interest by Please click on Our next meeting is Tuesday, contacting Sister Mary Bernard the link on the September 21st at 7 p.m. in the (Shanley) at parish website church basement. We can really [email protected].

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Question: While the students are now out for the summer, If it isn’t only for people who are dying, the school o'ce is open from 8:00am—12:00pm when should someone receive the every day. We are still accepting applications for Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick? next year and have limited availability in our preschool as well as certain grades. If you are Answer: interested in learning more about our superior academics and nurturing environment, please One of the unfortunate realities in the contact Coleen Antico at Church today is that so few people understand the [email protected] or meaning and value of the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, largely because so many 860-529-5487. We wish everyone a relaxing and people still mistakenly think of this sacrament as restful summer! “Last Rites” or “Extreme Unction.” In His life and ministry, Jesus healed the sick. In this EAST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL sacrament, the Church continues the healing mission of Jesus and, in hope, prays that God will grant healing to the person who is suRering. But even if there is no physical healing, the sacrament oRers spiritual healing through the Holy Spirit’s Hope everyone is enjoying the summer vacation. gifts of peace and courage. And so, anyone who is Although the start of the school year is still a few living with serious illness (including emotional or weeks away, its time to spring into action if you psychological illness) and the elderly are are thinking about attending East Catholic High encouraged to celebrate this sacrament when it is School. We are open throughout the summer needed. Mon.—Thurs. 8 am - 2:30 pm and continuing The ritual for Anointing of the Sick does also with accepting applications for incoming include special prayers and blessings for those who freshmen, as well as transfer students. Please are facing death, including viaticum (communion check us out on www.echs.com and do not given to the dying, trusting that the Lord Jesus will hesitate to contact Admissions at 860-649-5336, be their companion along the way, as they make their final journey). ext. 6238 or 6456. Thank you to our Sponsor Advertisers. 8TH ANNUAL K OF C GOLF FUNDRAISER Can you join them? Attention Business Owners, Professionals, The Honorable W. Patrick Donlin Knights of Self-Employed and Families! Columbus Assembly 2459 will hold our annual Bulletin advertising reads both in print and golf tournament on Tuesday September 7, 2021 digitally online! at Race Brook Country Club in Orange. Mary HoRman from Liturgical Publications is working on securing new advertising sponsors This event is our for our bulletin over the next few weeks. We fundraiser which allows need and appreciate your help! us to support our The bulletin is published weekly and made Veterans causes & available both in print and online. Military programs. Please consider purchasing an ad. Your ad and participation make our bulletin successful and

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