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CORPUS CHRISTI
June 6, 2021 The Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ
Corpus Christi Sunday
“I Would Like to Say Mass.”
Dominic Tang, the courageous Chinese archbishop, was imprisoned for twenty-one years for nothing more than his loyalty to Christ and Christ’s one, true Church. After he had spent five years of solitary confinement in a windowless, damp cell, he was told by his jailers that he could leave it for a few hours to do whatever he wanted. Five years of solitary confinement and he had a couple of hours to do what he wanted! What would it be? A hot shower? A change of clothes? Certainly, a long walk outside? A chance to call or write to family? What would it be? the jailer asked him. “I would like to say Mass,” replied Archbishop Tang. [Msgr. Timothy M. Dolan, Priests of the Third
Millennium (2000), p. 216]. The Vietnamese Jesuit, Joseph Nguyen-Cong Doan, who spent nine years in labor camps in Vietnam, relates how he was finally able to say Mass when a fellow priest- prisoner shared some of his own smuggled supplies. “That night, when the other prisoners were asleep, lying on the floor of my cell, I celebrated Mass with tears of joy. My altar was my blanket, my prison clothes my vestments. But I felt myself at the heart of humanity and of the whole of creation.”
(Ibid., p. 224). Today’s feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus constantly calls us beyond ourselves to sacrificial love for others. (http://frtonyshomilies.com/) vaticannews.va Living Our Faith Page 3
Prayers for the Sick
MASS READINGS & INTENTIONS
MONDAY, June 7
2 Cor 1:1-7/Mt 5:1-12 7:00 AM St. Mary Parishioners (private)* Go to www.smcr.org to make a prayer request 12:30 PM Edward Smith - One Year Anniversary and to see those on the prayer list. TUESDAY, June 8 2 Cor 1:18-22/Mt 5:13-16 7:00 AM St. Mary Deceased Parishioners (private)* BAPTISMS 5:00 PM Meg Sullivan We welcome to the Family of God and WEDNESDAY, June 9 our Parish Family Eleanor Marie 2 Cor 3:4-11/Mt 5:17-19 Pidel who was baptized last weekend. 7:00 AM St. Mary Parishioners (private)*
12:30 PM Anne Morrisroe THURSDAY, June 10 2 Cor 3:15—4:1, 3-6/Mt 5:20-26 ANNUAL CATHOLIC 7:00 AM St. Mary Homebound (private)* APPEAL 5:00 PM Thomas T. Peckham Sr. Please make your pledge online FRIDAY, June 11 Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9/Eph 3:8-12, 14-19/Jn 19:31-37 at www.2021ACABridgeport. 7:00 AM St. Mary Youth (private)* com or call 203.416.1470. 12:30 PM Special Intention You may also donate by texting the word APPEAL to SATURDAY, June 12 2 Cor 5:14-21 (364)/Lk 2:41-51 475.241.7849. 8:00 AM Maria Heer (private)* 4:30 PM Thomas J. Hoban SUNDAY, June 13 Ez 17:22-24/2 Cor 5:6-10/Mk 4:26-34 GYM CALLING ALL COOKS! 10:30 AM Edmund Chrostowski Join our Dorothy Day House of Hospitality HALL volunteers to occasionally prepare salads 8:00 AM Conrad and Mary Sponberg and/or a tray of food for the main course that we serve 11:00 AM St. Mary Parishioners the third Sunday of each month. Please contact 5:00 PM Margaret Robert [email protected] if interested. Thank you! 9:15 AM St. Mary Clergy (private)*
12:00 PM St. Mary Ministries (private)* Father’s Day Mass Cards
*PLEASE NOTE: The above Mass intentions follow Available for purchase for the old Mass schedule (pre-Covid). Every Mass $10 thru TUESDAY, JUNE intention will be honored; the priests of the Parish 15. Please call Kim Macko will say the scheduled Mass privately on the day it at the Parish office to
was requested if it is not part of the regular arrange for payment and schedule. Please see the current Mass schedule on pick up, 203-438-6538 page 5.
Father’s Day Mass Intentions
Go to www.smcr.org to add
your father’s name to the Please continue to support our Parish with Online Father’s Day Mass Intentions Giving. Go to our website to sign up. Call the (no card) Parish office if you would like assistance. Offertory can be mailed to St. Mary Parish, 55 Catoonah St, Ridgefield, CT 06877 or dropped off at Mass. Thank you! Learning Our Faith Page 4
FAITH FORMATION CORNER Historial Perspective – Corpus Christi Corpus Christi - 3 feasts in 1 Today's celebration of the Body and Blood of Today, we celebrate the solemn feast of Corpus the Lord originated in the Diocese of Liege in Christi. It is three feasts in one: the feast of the 1246 as the feast of Corpus Christi. In the Eucharistic sacrifice, the feast of the Sacrament reforms of Vatican II, Corpus Christi was of the Eucharist and the feast of the Real Presence of Jesus in this Sacrament. Corpus joined with the feast of the Precious Blood Christi is a doctrinal feast established for three (July 1) to become the Solemnity of the Body purposes: 1) to give God collective thanks for and Blood of the Lord. We celebrate today Christ’s abiding presence with us in the Christ's gift to us of the Eucharist, the source Eucharist and to honor Him there; 2) to instruct and summit of our life together as the the people in the Mystery, Faith and devotion surrounding the Eucharist, and 3) to teach us to Church. The Council of Trent (1545 to 1563), appreciate and make use of the great gift of the declared that we must honor Our Lord Jesus Holy Eucharist, both as a Sacrament and as a Christ in the Holy Eucharist publicly so that sacrifice. In the three-year cycle of the Sunday those who observed the faith of Catholics in liturgy, there is a different theme each year for the Most Holy Eucharist might be attracted to this Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. In Cycle A the theme is the Eucharist as our food the Eucharistic Lord and believe in the and drink; in Cycle B the emphasis is on the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, present in Eucharist as the sign of the covenant; and in this great Sacrament. "The Catholic Church Cycle C the theme focuses on the priesthood of teaches that in the Eucharist, the Body and Jesus. Although we celebrate the institution of Blood of the God-man are really, truly, the Holy Eucharist on Holy Thursday, the Church wants to emphasize its importance by a substantially, and abidingly present together special feast, formerly called “Corpus Christi.” It with his soul and divinity by reason of the was Pope Urban IV who first extended the feast Transubstantiation of the bread and wine into to the universal Church. This is one of the few the Body and Blood of Christ. This takes feasts left in which we observe a procession place in the unbloody sacrifice of the Mass." and a sung “Sequence.” vaticannews.va
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YOUTH & FAMILY
As we re-build towards next year—when we will have the option to be back in person full-time—we need lots of willing hands and joyful hearts on deck! If you might be willing to help in any way, please reach out! I’d love to have a chat and figure out where your gifts meet the community’s needs; and how our parish can continue to serve your family well in the coming year. Laura Danner PRAYER SERVICE
Office of Youth & Family @ St Mary Parish Youth & Family Ministries / Religious Education / for the family and friends of those who Sacramental Prep www.smcr.org/youth-family Laura Danner / Administrator [email protected] died during this time of Covid.
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Saturday ST. MARY PARISH MEN’S MINISTRY Confessions 4:30 PM Vigil Mass (Gym) Tuesdays 4:15 PM
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6:30-8:00 AM inspires us for the whole week! Celebrated each Sunday (except holiday weekends) The Men’s Ministry is a regular group of guys that help WEEKDAY MASSES each other to grow as men of prayer and together learn (Gym) New parents must attend a more about our Catholic faith. To help us all on our Monday, 12:30 PM pre-baptism class. Call individual journeys, our group (and website Tuesday, 5:00 PM Parish office to schedule both Wednesday, 12:30 PM Stmmm.org) offers resources to assist us in coping Thursday, 5:00 PM Marriage with what life throws at us thru a deeper faith, a more Friday, 12:30 PM Call Parish Office at least robust spiritual life, and friendly support network. 9 months prior to wedding
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[email protected] Our Lady’s message to the world: Do penance, amend your life, Parochial Vicar: Rev. Damian K. Pielesz, [email protected] offend God no more and pray the Resident Priest: Rev. Michael Novaosky, 203-438-6538 Rosary daily for world peace and Deacon: Rick Lawlor, [email protected], 203-470-8084 the conversion of sinners. Deacon: Robert Salvestrini, [email protected]
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Parish Office Hours Monday–Friday 10AM–4PM 10AM – 1PM Summer Fridays Adoration Chapel 203-438-6538 Parish Office Building Open OPEN DAILY Tuesdays & Thursdays 10 AM – 2 PM 10:00 AM- 4:00 PM No masks required for the fully Parish Receptionist: Kim Macko, [email protected] Administrative Assistant: Joanne Brown, [email protected] vaccinated. No limits on Adorers. Accountant: Deborah Korniewicz, [email protected] Facilities Scheduling: [email protected] & [email protected]
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“Please don’t be afraid of May 13 is the me, I’m not going to anniversary of the harm you.” “I come from apparition of Our Lady to Heaven.” The woman three shepherd children wore a white mantle in the small village of edged with gold and held Fatima in Portugal in a rosary in her hand. 1917. She appeared six The woman asked them times to Lucia, 9, and to pray and devote her cousins Francisco, 8, themselves to the Holy and his sister Jacinta, 6, Trinity and to “say the between May 13, 1917 Rosary every day, to and October 13, 1917. bring peace to the world and an end to the war.” Our Lady of the Rosary
Monday, June 7, 7:00 - 8:30 PM Facilitator: Sherry Anandappa
Witnesses: Parishioners Marilyn & George Kain went to Fatima in December 2019 ZOOM link & password will be sent with registration confirmation
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