PASTOR Reverend John J. Testa
14th SUNDAY WEEKEND ASSISTANTS Reverend Raymond Lennon, S. V. D. IN ORDINARY TIME Reverend Florencio Lagura, S. V. D.
DEACONS Sunday, July 8, 2018 James E. Ayrer (Retired) Michael J. Hagan
PASTORAL MINISTER Sister Robert Marie Green, O. S. F., Corpus Christi Convent, 609.871.4226
DIRECTOR OF SACRED MUSIC Renee Hatzold, 609.410.6866
COORDINATOR, RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Jacquelyn Young, 609.871.4680
PARISH LIFE MASSES Daily (M - S): 8:00 AM Weekend: Saturday 4:00 PM; Sunday: 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 AM Holy Days: Vigil: 7:00 PM; 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM
RECONCILIATION (CONFESSIONS) Saturday: Immediately after 8:00 AM Mass and 3:00 to 3:45 PM, or by Appointment
NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP Saturday Morning following the 8:00 AM Mass
WEDNESDAY DEVOTIONS TO SAINT JOSEPH Immediately following the 8:00 AM Mass
OFFICE OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Located on the First Floor of School Phone: 609.871.4680 [email protected]
RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS (RCIA) Please call the Rectory Office at 609.877.5322
BAPTISMS Corpus Christi Parish 2nd Sunday of the Month at 1:00 PM. Parents should be registered in the parish. Please call the Rectory two Willingboro, New Jersey months prior to the Baptism to make arrangements.
SICK CALLS Any time of day or night. Please call Rectory.
Established 1959 MARRIAGE We joyfully welcome your Marriage here at Corpus Christi. The Diocese requires that arrangements be RECTORY / PARISH OFFICE made one year in advance. Please call the Rectory.
63 Sylvan Lane, Willingboro, New Jersey 08046 PARISH REGISTRATION We welcome new parishioners and newly married Phone 609.877.5322 Fax 609.877.1695 couples and ask that you kindly register with us. HOURS: M thru F: 9:00 AM to Noon; 1:30 to 5:00 PM THE CHOIRS OF CORPUS CHRISTI E-mail: [email protected] Adult, Resurrection, Youth, and Bell. Please contact the Music Director at 609.410.6866. Website: www.ccnj.church THE SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT de PAUL For Assistance, please contact 609.835.7757
POPE JOHN PAUL II REGIONAL SCHOOL 11 South Sunset Road, Willingboro, NJ, 609.877.2144 Visit us at www.pjpiirs.com
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SANCTUARY CANDLE (Masses Continued) Week of July 8: In Thanksgiving for Our Wedding Anniv. r/b Jim & Elin MacStravic FRIDAY, July 13, Saint Henry 8:00 AM Kay Reising MASSES FOR THE WEEK r/b Joy & Mike McWilliams MONDAY, July 9, Saint AugustineZhao Rong, Priest SATURDAY, July 14, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin 8:00 AM Bernard Nguyen Kim Hong 8:00 AM John Termini r/b Kim sa Hite r/b Wife & Family TUESDAY, July 10 4:00 PM Anna Saltzman 8:00 AM Anna Ngo Thi Thien r/b Alison Schuyler r/b Kim sa Hite SUNDAY, July 15 WEDNESDAY, July 11, Saint Benedict, Abbot 7:30 AM PRO POPULO 8:00 AM Joseph Figueroa r/b For The People r/b Jeanne Smith 9:30 AM Ed Stetz THURSDAY, July 12 r/b Music Ministry 8:00 AM Rita O’Connell 11:30 AM Frank Talbot r/b Joe & Rose Fitzpatrick r/b Mom & Dad
R. C. I. A. From the Pastor: ARE YOU SOMEONE OR DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO
… has expressed an interest in becoming Catholic? My dear friends in Christ, Corpus Christi Parish offers an opportunity to come together in a small group to learn more about our So many of us live with the news of the day. We get up in Catholic faith through the Rite of Christian Initiation of the morning and put the television on to see what the Adults (RCIA), a process which provides for the latest news is. We get into our cars and put the radio on to preparation of the Baptized Catholics who wish to get the latest news. Sometimes it’s just all bad news. We complete their initiation into the Church through the find ourselves dealing with people who are “hard of face reception of the Sacraments of Confirmations and and obstinate of heart,” people who take offense at the Eucharist and the preparation of validly Baptized least suggested change or mild criticism. Sometimes we Christians from other faith traditions, who wish to be struggle with our own problems, thorns in the flesh, Angels brought into Full Communion in the Catholic Church. In of Satan. That’s when we need to keep our eyes and hearts addition, preparation is also offered for adult fixed on the Lord, waiting for the healing word: “My grace Confirmation candidates—those who have been is sufficient for you.” This is the time of year when the kids Baptized and received First Holy Communion, but are are out of school and vacation plans are in full swing and still in need of the Sacrament of Confirmation. we take the time to put the news behind us to focus on rest To learn more about the RCIA, two inquiry weekends and relaxation whether it be at the Jersey Shore or remain: July 14-15 and August 18-19 in the Parish elsewhere. Sometimes the latest news is unavoidable. We Meeting Room. For more information, please call the must always continue to focus on the Lord and make him a Rectory Office at 609.877.5322. part of whatever we are doing this summer. We continue to ask the Lord for the grace to persevere. FROM THE DIOCESE OF TRENTON The Sisters of the Servants of The Plan of God had to cancel A reminder to the faithful that the Diocesan cemetery their visit with us in June and have rescheduled their visit that serves this parish is Jesus, Bread of Life Catholic for the month of August. We will publish more details as Cemetery, 3055 Fostertown Road, Mount Laurel, New they are presented to us. Jersey 08054. Please contact Deacon Ed Heffernan at 856.317.6400 for more information in your time of need. Our search for a new coordinator of religious education is reaching its conclusion and a decision will be forthcoming. Please refer to upcoming bulletins regarding registration for the upcoming religious education program here at Corpus Christi. Sunday, July 1, 2018 $12,634.48 Same Week Last Year $10,760.00
May God bless you all! Please take the time to use your envelopes. By doing so we are better able to keep track of your donations. Father John We sincerely thank you for your continued generosity.
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EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
During July and August 2018 RECTORY SUMMER HOURS We will not be having Eucharistic Adoration of The Most Blessed Sacrament on the First Fridays of July and The Rectory Office will now close at NOON, on August, 2018. We encourage you, instead, to visit our Fridays only, through Friday, August 31, 2018. Cohort, Resurrection Parish, Holy Name Church on Conrow Road in Delran, NJ 08075. Resurrection Parish offers Perpetual Adoration throughout the year and your presence would be most welcomed at any time of the day or night to visit Jesus in The Most Blessed Sacrament. Our Monthly Eucharistic Adoration will SUMMER CHOIR resume here in Corpus Christi Church on Friday, This year our Summer Choir begins July 22, 2018 at the September 7, 2018 at 11:00 AM (this immediately 9:30 AM Mass. If you would like to be a part of this choir follows the school Mass at 10:00 AM). This is one of the just come to the choir loft at 8:45 AM. We’ll warm up collaborative areas where we, as a cohort, can share and and prepare for the Mass. Everyone is invited. If you enrich our faith-life. Thank you and God bless. have never been a part of the music ministry at Corpus Christi, come and see if you like it. If you are already in BANNS OF MARRIAGE one of the choirs, come, sing to the Lord and see old friends, and meet new ones! See you in Church. II - Paul Olayemi & Iroroefe Edojah “Break into Song, Sing Praise!”
BISHOP’S ANNIVERSARY BLESSING 2018 PARISH COUNSELING SERVICES Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 3:00 PM A joint effort of the Diocese of Trenton & Catholic All couples celebrating their 1st, 25th, or 50th, and plus, Charities provides licensed professionals for short term wedding anniversary during the 2018 calendar year are counseling (up to 6 sessions) to parishioners dealing with invited to gather with family and friends to share the difficult issues, for example job-stress, family concerns Eucharist, renew your sacred wedding vows, and receive and bereavement. Contact your Pastor for additional Bishop O’Connell’s Episcopal Blessing. Anniversary information and referral. The fee is $90 per session, Couples from Burlington and Mercer Counties may but, if needed, financial assistance is available through attend the Mass and Episcopal Blessing at St. Mary the Diocese of Trenton Parish Counseling Services. Cathedral in Trenton on Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 3:00 PM. Couples must register at the Rectory Office. Registration is now open with the deadline being Friday, 50th ANNIVERSARY OF HUMANAE VITAE September 14, 2018. Wine & Cheese Discussion, Wednesday, July 25 To commemorate the Anniversary of this most prophetic, controversial and transformational papal ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL … IN ACTION! encyclical of our time, all Catholic adults are invited to a CLERGY AND RELIGIOUS ADMINISTRATION: special wine and cheese discussion of Humanae Vitae Consecrated Life hosted by the Dept. of Evangelization and Family Life at In the Diocese of Trenton, those in consecrated life St. Joan of Arc Parish in Marlton. Leading the discussion represent membership in a variety of male and female are Peg and Kevin Hensler, the dynamic mother-son duo religious institutes. These men and women have with Peg as Associate Director for Diocesan Marriage dedicated their lives to proclaim the Word of God and Ministries, and Kevin as Adjunct Professor of Theology serve His people. Currently we have 51 Brothers, 37 and World Religion at St. Joseph and Temple Priests and 230 women religious ministering in the Universities, Philadelphia. To register for this free event, Diocese of Trenton. While not easily recognizable, go to www.dioceseoftrenton.org/nfp-awareness, or call nevertheless, they witness the face of God as they Jossie Ramos at 609.403.7151. celebrate our Liturgies and carry out the spiritual and corporal Works of Mercy in fields of education, health care and social services throughout the diocese. Your gift promotes those called to serve. FAREWELL
You can make your gift at www.dioceseoftrenton.org/ AND GOD BLESS YOU, catholicappeal or by completing a donor card found in the Sacristy. Be a part of the action! FATHER LENNON!
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