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JUNE 23, 2019 CORPUS CHRISTI

Father Edmundo Valera, Pastor INTENTIONS [email protected] Rev. Philip “Blue” Medina, SATURDAY, JUNE 22 Deacon 2:00 PM- CONFESSIONS †Dr. John Hinni (MaryAnn & Leonard (719) 562-0222 4:00 PM MASS (ANTICIPATORY) Miles) [email protected] SUNDAY, JUNE 23 Rev. Patrick Byrne, 7:30 AM MASS † James Farace (Bert & MaryAnn Gel- Deacon 10:30 AM MASS mini) (760)484-7759 [email protected] MONDAY, JUNE 24 Ernie Benson,

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Readings for the week of June 23, 2019 Sunday: Gn 14:18-20/Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4 [4b]/1 Cor 11:23-26/Lk 9:11b-17 Monday: Vigil: Jer 1:4-10/Ps 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5-6ab, 15ab and 17 [6]/1 Pt 1:8-12/Lk 1:5-17. Day: Is 49:1-6/Ps 139:1b-3, 13- 14ab, 14-15 [14]/Acts 13:22-26/Lk 1:57-66, 80 Tuesday: Gn 13:2, 5-18/Ps 15:2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5 [1b]/Mt 7:6, 12-14 Wednesday: Gn 15:1-12, 17-18/Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9 [8a]/Mt 7:15-20 Thursday: Gn 16:1-12, 15-16 or 16:6b-12, 15-16/Ps 106:1b-2, 3-4a, 4b-5 [1b]/Mt 7:21-29 Friday: Ez 34:11-16/Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 [1]/Rom 5:5b-11/Lk 15:3-7 Saturday: Vigil: Acts 3:1-10/Ps 19:2-3, 4-5 [5a]/Gal 1:11-20/Jn 21:15-19. Day: Acts 12:1-11/Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [5]/2 Tm 4:6-8, 17-18/Mt 16:13-19 Next Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:16b, 19-21/Ps 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 [cf. 5a]/Gal 5:1, 13-18/Lk 9:51-62

Important Announcement Parish Festival June 22nd&23rd Second Collection next If you have not received your Sacred Heart Avondale Weekend for Peter’s Pence. pictures please stop by the office as St Michaels Canon City Please Be Generous several persons were sent mistakenly to the Church. THE MOST HOLY BODY & OF CHRIST ATTENTION ALL MINISTERS Please email Ernie at: My dear friends in Christ our Lord! [email protected] at your earliest convenience or call the This Sunday, the universal Catholic Church celebrates the in which we focus on office and leave your information regarding the body and blood of our Lord Christ. This feast, which occurs 10 days after Pentecost, comes your availability for the month of July. with its special liturgies, hymns, and . This special feast day reminds us that, once consecrated by a priest, the host (wafer/unleavened bread) and the wine that we receive in Please remember our Sick and Homebound. at Mass become “really and truly the body, blood, soul, and divinity” of our Lord Jesus Christ - under the appearance of bread and wine. Conni Billinger Kevin McCloskey Patrisia Cordova Fr. Mike (friend of The fancy theological word that we use to express our belief in Christ’s “Real Presence” in the Cortese Family the McCloskey’s) is “Transubstantiation.” For sure, many theological explanations had been offered by Janet Cruz Jane Olson theologians over the ages on what those terminologies mean. However, all we need to do is pay attention during mass when the celebrating priest would repeat Christ’s own words and mandate at Diana Denny & Dorothy Orr the : “Take this all of you, and eat of it, for this is my body, which will be given up for Family Kirsten Pachek you.” In a similar way, when supper was ended, he took the and, once more giving thanks, Olga Dick Kai Pedersen he gave it to his disciples, saying: “Take this, all of you, and drink from it, for this is the chalice of Keith Emert Shirley Palacio my blood, the blood of the new and eternal covenant, which will be poured out for you and for Char Finch Marietta Kahl many for the of sins.” No amount of “theologizing” could fully express the simplicity and Butch Goddard Holly McPhearson profundity of Jesus’ own words. Robert Hayman Christine Dickson Doris Helfter Chris Pettigrew Perhaps some of you struggle intellectually or entertain some doubts regarding this fundamental Catholic . Please know that that has been the reaction of so many - including our Lord’s Lloyd Jacquez Mollie Solorza chosen disciples. In chapter 6 of St. John’s (verses 48 -59), Jesus startled many of his Jeremy Laintz Peter Sorensen followers, and many of them left Him (John 6:66) after he said four times (John 6:53-56) that one Mary Lontine Tony Torres Jr. needed to eat His flesh and drink His blood to have life within them, that his flesh was real food Isaiah Maez Olga Dick and his blood real drink (John 6:55). It did not help that the word used by the evangelists in the Cameron Martin Judy Howard original Greek was “gnaw on my flesh” and not the “cleaned up” translation that we now used: “eat MaryAnn Sandy Baker of it”! John tells us the reaction from many of Jesus’ followers: “This is a hard saying (teaching). Who McCloskey Martha Archuleta can accept it?” (John 6:60) And many of them did walk away.

In our own time, eating flesh and drinking blood calls to mind cannibalism and vampirism. But in the minds of Jesus’ Jewish followers, their reaction simply reflected what their faith taught them: "But Back by Popular Demand flesh with its life, which is its blood, you shall not eat" (Gen. 9:4); "For the life of all flesh is its blood on which its life depends .. and I have said to the children of Israel you shall not eat the blood of any flesh" (Lev. 17:24). We can be sure that Jesus, who was born and raised in the Jewish faith, Knights of Columbus was aware of this prohibition. Why, then, did he teach his disciples to do so? Because he wanted Breakfast Burritos them, and us, to receive his very own life. The Book of Deuteronomy (12:23-24) teaches that “blood is the life” - precisely what Jesus wants to offer us. The “Institution Narrative” that we use at Mass is Sunday June 23rd after the repeated so many times in the gospels and other books such as Paul’s Letters and 7:30 and 10:30 Masses. the Acts of the Apostles. In all those instances and passages it is very clear that Jesus didn’t say to his apostles, or later to St. Paul (1 Cor 11:23-26), that the Eucharist merely symbolizes his body and Mild and Spicy $3 each or blood. At the , the Eucharist (bread and wine), truly becomes the body and blood of our 2 for $5 Lord. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS You’ve heard me say several times that doubt is part and parcel of our faith lives. This is especially true of Catholic that are not easy to comprehend or swallow (pun intended!). However, we cannot go through life forever doubting and suspending our belief in what truly matters such as the 1. It is with great regret that I step down “Transubstantiation” and the “Real Presence” of our Lord in the Holy Eucharist. At some point in our as the Grand Knight for Council 12020. I lives, we do have to come to a resolution. Perhaps some of us continue to receive communion out of am having difficulty with my health and “habit,” and perhaps some of us continue to receive communion while feeling “indifferent” about it. do not feel that I can do the job that the The Polish visionary and , Faustina Kowalska, had a divine vision in 1937 in which Jesus Parish and Council deserve. Thank you for addressed those who are doubtful and indifferent of his abiding presence in the Holy Eucharist: “My your support and help during this past daughter, write that it pains Me very much when religious souls receive the of Love year. Take care of yourselves and God merely out of habit, as if they did not distinguish this food. I find neither faith nor love in their hearts. bless each and every one of you. I go to such souls with great reluctance. It would be better if they did not receive me” (from St. Joseph A. Santoro Faustina’s Diary, Entry 1288).

My dear friends, please understand that on this supremely important feast of the Most Holy Body & 2. Council 12020 held their year end , I am most humbled of the role that I play in this sacrament. By inspiring Sr. election of officers this past Thurs- Menendez, a Spanish visionary, our Lord spoke to us His priests: “who can express all I expect from day. Please welcome into office on 1 July each of My priests…They are invested with My own power … I Myself am obedient to their word 2019 the following officers: Chaplain; Fr when they summon Me from to earth…I am totally surrendered into their hands; they may Edmundo Valera, Ph.D., Grand Knight; confine Me to the tabernacle or give Me to the faithful in Holy Communion.” I tremble at the reality Bob Begel, Deputy Grand Knight; Jim of this level of intimacy with Jesus that my priesthood confers upon me. And so, please, be mindful Kelly, Treasurer; George Flores, Recorder; of the kind of intimacy that our Lord would like to have with all of you as well. It is an intimacy that cannot be expressed by mere symbols but one that can only be expressed sacramentally. Christ’s Chris Pulskamp, Chancellor; Frank “Real Presence” in the Holy Eucharist is a full expression of his desire to be fully intimate with us - by Pecheco, Advocate: George Swindells, giving us His own life! Warden; Jerry Osterman, Inside Guard; Kenan Grant, Outside Guard; Ralph D Need I say more? Aloisio. Look forward to see ing you all Fr. Edmundo there.

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