PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF Stewardship Report – Treasure CHRIST (CORPUS CHRISTI) WEEKLY COLLECTION JUNE 3, 2018

Budgeted Amount: $5,000.00

Sunday Collection – 5/27/18 $2,641.00 On-Line Giving for 5/20/18 $ 606.00 Maintenance Collection – On-Line Giving $ 25.00

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The Sanctuary Lamp is given this week: “This is my body,” we hear in today’s . “This In Memory of: Giorgio Gallara is my blood.” When we gather to celebrate the Given by: Angel Gallara and Family , the sacrifice made of his own body and blood, the sacrifice we are all invited to share, we INTENTIONS THIS WEEK receive the Body and Blood that are truly Christ’s 6/4 MON: 9:00a Souls in Purgatory own. Then, nourished by his Body and Blood, we are 6/5 TUES: 9:00a Souls in Purgatory called to go forth as the , carrying 6/6 WED: 9:00a No Mass Today 6/7 THU: 9:00a Diana Piascik (LIV) forward his mission in the world today. 6/8 FRI: 9:00a Diana Piascik (LIV) 6/9 SAT: 5:00p Robert Perry WEEKLY/MONTHLY PARISH EVENTS Diana Piascik (LIV) COFFEE & DONUTS – are served after 8:00 a.m. Mass on the 6/10 SUN: 8:00a Robert Schneider first Sunday of the month in the Church Hall. All are invited Anna Sydow to join us. 10:00a John & Eleanor Murray ******************************************************* Gary Straub SCRIPTURE REFLECTION – Wednesdays at 6:30pm in Michael Rizzo the Rectory Meeting Room. Weekly reading/ reflection of the 11:45a James Murray Sunday Scriptures – fellowship time & refreshments follow. ************************************************* ST. MONICA’S LEISURE GROUP – The next meeting will ST. MONICA’S CHURCH – Contact information be on Wednesday, June 6 at 12:00 noon in the Church Hall. Phone: 973-875-4521 Fax: 973-875-7538 Annual dues are $10.00. For more information, please call Parish Office Hours: 9:30am – 1:30pm Mon-Fri Grace or Mike Casalino at 973-702-8569. Website: www.stmonicasusssex.org ************************************************** Email: [email protected] BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP will not be meeting during Deadline for bulletin submissions: Tuesday of each week the summer months. The next meeting will take place on for information to be printed on the following Sunday. Monday, September 17th at 7:30 p.m. in the rectory meeting Email to [email protected] room. Mark your calendar – all are invited. ************************************************** Helping Hands meets the second Tuesday of each month in the Rectory Meeting Room at 7:30 p.m. New members are always welcome! The next meeting is Tuesday, June 12. READINGS FOR THIS WEEK Sunday - Ex 24:3-8; Heb 9:11-15; Mk 14:12-16, 22-26 ************************************************** Monday - 2 Pt 1:2-7; Mk 12:1-12 SPECIAL DEVOTIONS AT ST. MONICA’S Tuesday - 2 Pt 3:12-15a, 17-18; Mk 12:13-17 Novena to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal – every Wednesday - 2 Tm 1:1-3, 6-12; Mk 12:18-27 Tuesday after the 9:00 A.M. Mass. Thursday - 2 Tm 2:8-15; Mk 12:28-34 Chaplet of the Divine Mercy - Every Friday after the 9:00 Friday - Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9; Eph 3:8-12, 14-19; Jn 19:31-37 A.M. Mass. Saturday - 2 Tm 4:1-8; Lk 2:41-51 Adoration of the – First Friday of the month after the 9:00 A.M. Mass until 10:00 A.M.

SAFE ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM If any person may have been abused by any , they should immediately contact their local County Prosecutor’s Office and the Diocese’s Victims Assistance Coordinator: Peggy Zanello at 973-879-1489. You may also be in touch with either of the Diocesan Response Officers: Rev. Msgr. James T. Mahoney, Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia, 973-777-8818, Ext. 205 or Sister Joan Daniel Healy, S.C.C., Chancellor/Delegate for Religious, 973-777-8818, Ext. 248. The entire text of the Policy of the Diocese of Paterson in Response to Complaints of Sexual Abuse is available on the diocesan Website: www.patersondiocese.org. Please see the flyer in today’s bulletin.

ST. MONICA’S ROSARY SOCIETY HELPING HANDS is sponsoring “A Night of

Baseball” at Skylands Ball Park on th Saturday, July 7 at 6pm. Come out to If you would like to become a member of St. watch the Sussex County Miners play, and Monica’s Rosary Society, there is a sign-up sheet stay for the fireworks after the game! on the table in the Church Hall. We already have Tickets be purchased in advance, several names on the list! Meetings will begin in and will be sold after all masses the rd th September. Details will follow. weekends of June 3 and June 10 . Ticket price is $12. For more information, please see the flyers at the Church and Hall exits. EVENTS AT THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF

OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL PARISH REGISTRATION INFORMATION 70 Carmelite Drive, Middletown, NY Are you new to our parish? If so, welcome! Do you wish to register? If you are attending Mass and Monthly Healing Mass using our blue “blank” visitor envelopes and wish to A Healing Mass is held on the last Thursday receive our weekly envelopes in the mail, please of every month at 7:00pm. The next register with us. If you wish to become a registered Healing Mass is scheduled for Thursday, member and placed on our parish mailing list, there st are blank registration forms on the table near the May 31 . Church Hall exit. Please fill it out and give it to Fr. Jan after Mass, or either drop it in the collection basket or visit the rectory during the week between Spiritual Direction the hours of 9:30am and 1:30pm. Are you seeking the presence of God on a deeper level? Have you been considering

Spiritual Direction for your life? PILGRIMAGE TO THE ALPINE COUNTRIES Spiritual Direction sessions are offered on Serratelli will be the spiritual director for a the third Wednesday and last Thursday of tour of the Alpine countries of Switzerland, Austria each month at the Shrine. and Germany from July 8 to 17, 2018. Reservations are limited. For a brochure and Please call Carol Bezak, Shrine Director, at information, contact Great Experiences at 201-825- 845-343-1879 for further information on the 3725 or by email at [email protected] above events.

THE MOST HOLY BODY & (Corpus Christi)

First Reading: Exodus 24:3-8 Moses explained to the people the commandments he had received from God. Upon hearing them, the entire community immediately agreed they would do as God had told them. Moses then sacrificed young bulls and sprinkled the people with their blood, calling it the blood of the covenant they had made.

Second Reading: Hebrews 9:11-15 Jesus did not offer God the blood of sacrifices, but instead he offered up his own blood to cleanse all people of the transgressions they had committed under the first covenant with God. Christ instead brought a new covenant, which, if kept, would lead to eternal life.

Gospel: Mark 14:12-16, 22-26 Jesus sent two of his disciples to prepare the Passover supper. During the meal he blessed bread and offered it to them saying, “This is my body.” He then offered them wine and called it his blood, “the blood of the covenant, to be poured out on behalf of many.”

HIS WORD TODAY by Rev. William J. Reilly The Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ June 03, 2018

“While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, gave it to them, and said, ‘Take it; this is My body.’ Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, ‘This is My blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many. Amen, I say to you, I shall not drink again the fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.’ Then, after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.”

Although we may remember many moments in the life of Jesus, His words, His teaching, His miracles, His compassion for the needy and the poor, they have greater meaning when we consider what occurred in the upper room. We know the details of the supper recalling the Passover of the people of Israel. But all this changed as the meal drew to a close. Did those gathered understand the significance of taking, blessing, thanking and giving, not just the contents on the plate or in the cup, but the one who was giving Himself?

We, who share in the gift of the Eucharist, reflect on His desire to stay with us in such a special way. We are privileged to take the gift as we say ‘Amen’. We approach the gift with reverence, we receive with deep faith, offer our own Eucharist, our thanks, and then bring Him with us. When I pass the where the sacrament is reserved, I pause and thank Jesus that what He did was for me and all today.

"What is the Holy Eucharist?"

The Holy Eucharist / Catholic Mass has always been one of the most important aspects of our faith and is considered the highest form of prayer. The Church teaches us that Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life” (Lumen Gentium, #11). The term Eucharist comes from the Greek word eucharistia which means "a giving of thanks ", and is taken from the Bible's accounts of the institution of the Holy Eucharist. The Scripture says that at the , Jesus "gave thanks" as He took the bread and wine into His hands (1 Cor. 11:23-23; Lk 22:18-20 and Mt 26:26-28). He made the consecration and established the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

The Catholic Mass is divided into two sections, the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist. The Liturgy of the Word consists of the readings from the Bible, the Responsorial Psalm, the Gospel reading, the (or ), and (also called petitions).

The center of the Mass is its second part, the Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist. During this time, the faithful share in the Last Supper, in Jesus’ body and blood (communion with Him), but also they participate in His sacrifice and His death on the cross: "The Eucharist is thus a sacrifice because it re-presents (makes present) the sacrifice of the cross, because it is its memorial and because it applies its fruit." (Catechism of the , paragraph 1366).

The Catholic Church believes that the bread and wine of the Holy Eucharist become the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ (J 6;32- 58; Mt 26:26; Lk 22:17-23). It happens through the words of consecration which the priest says over the gifts and the power of the Holy Spirit. Although the bread still has consistency of bread and the wine still tastes as wine, they are spiritually transformed into the precious body and blood of Christ. This change is called . In 1551, the Counsel of Trent officially stated: "By the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation" (Session XIII, chapter IV; cf. canon II).

Although the Eucharist is one sacrament, there are three essential aspects to which the Church points: (1) sacrifice; (2) communion; (3) Real Presence of Christ. The Church calls the faithful to respond in faith to these three aspects of the Eucharist: “The faithful are to hold the Eucharist in highest honor, taking part in the celebration of the Most August Sacrifice, receiving the sacrament devoutly and frequently, and worshiping it with supreme adoration….” Canon Law 898.

The Church invites us to reverently participate in the Holy Eucharist especially by sharing in the Eucharistic meal (communion). The Church teaches us that coming to the Eucharist we fulfill Jesus’ will, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you."(J 6:53). In another place Jesus said: "He who comes to Me will never be hungry, he who believes in Me will never be thirsty" (J 6:35). So let us come to Jesus truly present in the Holy Eucharist as often as possible so we can have spiritual life and have it in abundance. Fr. Jan