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of the Annunciation Catholic Church June 2, 2018 Mass The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Saturday 5:00 PM Corpus Christi Sunday 8:30 AM and 11:00 AM (+PFC Pamela Gay, req: Ron Wisniewski) Music & Responses Pray for the Sick of our Parish Entrance Antiphon & Scripture Readings: Page 174 Estelle Bareford, Ann Bateman, Jackie Boak, Maria Bridge, Entrance Chant: #310 Table Of Plenty Lee Brooks, Adam Bullock, Sue Collins, Cindy Cook, Lev- ie Edmond, Lois Fazenbaker, Cathy Fullem, Donna Godsey, Gloria: #884 Wanda Harrie, Oliva Haynes, Scott Kittle, James Landry, Responsorial Psalm: I will take the cup of salvation, Marie Lay, Richard Lay, Cindy Lent, Caitlin Lepp, Dawn and call on the name of the Lord. Long, Jennifer Leaming-Lyons, Esther Luiggi, Chris Hymn of Preparation: #368 See Us, Lord About Your Nowark, Donald Paradis, Anna Porter-Toure, Barbara Purks, Duane Riden, Sophis Rodriguez, Clare Roussel, Altar Richard Russell, Lisette Russell, Julie Sadowski, Marilyn Holy, Holy, Holy #885 Sherman, William Simulcik, Claudia Sims, Brandi Smith, Mary Smith, Catherine Squires, Linda Stanton, Joyce Mystery of Faith: #887 Thomas, Megan Toigo, Anne Tracy, George Tracey, Joan Amen: #889 Williams. Lamb of God: #890 If you would like to add/remove someone to the Sick of our Communion Chant: #340One Bread, One Body Parish list, please call Sue Brim at 804-448-9064 or email her Sending Forth: #535 O God Beyond All Praising at [email protected]. Thank you. Stewardship Reflection Vocations “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out ““Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them for many.” Are you being chosen by Christ to poured and they all drank from it.” - Mark 14:23 out your life’s work for souls with Him as a priest? Jesus, the perfect steward, gave thanks, just before He Call Father Michael Boehling at (804) 359-5661, or gave Himself to us completely for our salvation. He write: [email protected]. offers us the chance to drink from His cup. In the Eu- charist, we meet Christ personally and, if we listen to PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL Him, we know what drinking from His cup means our That we remember the generosity of past generations who built own sacrifice– giving up some of our time, talent and our Church and continue to be generous for future generations. treasure to do His work on earth. Corpus Christi - Mass Readings For Next Week. the Real Presence of Jesus and Eucharistic Miracles 2018 Jun 4 Mon: Ordinary Weekday Solemnity of Corpus Christi - the Body and Blood of Jesus 2 Pt 1: 2-7/ Ps 91: 1-2. 14-15b. 15c-16/ Mk In the year 1263 a priest from Prague was on route to Rome making a 12: 1-12 pilgrimage asking God for help to strengthen his faith since he was 2018 Jun 5 Tue: Memorial of Saint Boni- having doubts about his vocation. Along the way he stopped in Bolse- face, Bishop and Martyr na 70 miles north of Rome. While celebrating Mass there, as he 2 Pt 3: 12-15a. 17-18/ Ps 90: 2. 3-4. 10. 14 raised the host during the consecration, the bread turned into flesh and 16/ Mk 12: 13-17 and began to bleed. The drops of blood fell onto the small white cloth 2018 Jun 6 Wed: Ordinary Weekday 2 Tm 1: 1-3. 6-12/ Ps 123: 1b-2ab. 2cdef/ Mk on the altar, called the corporal. The following year, 1264, Pope Ur- 12: 18-27 ban IV instituted the feast of the Body and Blood of Jesus, today’s 2018 Jun 7 Thu: Ordinary Weekday feast, Corpus Christi. The Pope asked St Thomas Aquinas, living at 2 Tm 2: 8-15/ Ps 25: 4-5ab. 8-9. 10 and 14/ that time, to write hymns for the feast and he wrote two, better known Mk 12: 28-34 to the older members of our congregation, the Tantum Ergo and O 2018 Jun 8 Fri: Solemnity of Most Sacred Salutaris. That blood-stained corporal may still be seen in the Basilica Heart of Jesus of Orvieto. Although that is the eucharistic miracle that led to the in- Hos 11: 1. 3-4. 8c-9/ Is 12: 2-3. 4. 5-6 (3)/ Eph stitution of this feast, a more famous eucharistic miracle is the eucha- 3: 8-12. 14-19/ Jn 19: 31-37 ristic miracle of Lanciano, also in Italy, which took place many centu- ries earlier, in the year 700. A monk who feared he was losing his vo- cation was celebrating Mass, and during the consecration the host turned into flesh and the wine turned into blood. Despite the fact that WE INVITE YOU TO WATCH ON EWTN: the miracle took place almost 1300 years ago, you may still see the THE STORY OF THE UGANDA MAR- flesh in a monstrance which is exposed every day and the blood in a TYRS (DURATION 30 MINUTES) glass chalice. (The glass chalice is beneath the monstrance on the A documentary recounting the condemna- right.) The blood has congealed and is now in five clots in the glass tion and martyrdom of 22 Catholic boys chalice. In 1971 and 1981 a hospital laboratory tested the flesh and and men at the hand of the king of Bugan- blood and discovered that the flesh is myocardium, which is heart da, Kabaka Mwanga II. muscular tissue, so we could say it is the heart of Jesus, the Sacred Sunday June 3 at 4:00 PM Heart, and the blood is of the blood group AB. In 1978 NASA scien- tists tested the blood on the Turin Shroud and interestingly also dis- OFFERTORY GIFTS covered that it is of the blood group AB. (The Sudarium, Face Cloth of Christ, in John 20:6 is also of the blood group AB.) Even though 2018 May 20-May27 YTD human flesh and blood should not have remained preserved for 1300 Sat/Sun/Holy $3,237 years the hospital lab tests found no trace of any preservatives. One Days final interesting point about the five blood clots in the chalice is that On Line Giving $952 when you weigh one of them, it is the same weight as all five togeth- er, two of them together weigh the same as all five. In fact, no matter total $4,189 $214,363 what way you combine the blood clots individually or in a group to Budget $4,250 $204,000 weigh them, they always weigh the same. (This shows that the full Jesus is present in a particle of the Eucharist no matter how small.) Over/Under ($62) $10,363 Extracted from a homily by: Fr. Tommy Lane 2013 Our Debt is currently at $189,910 WEEKLY SCHEDULE (office hours 9 AM—1 PM Tuesday—Thursday) 9:30 AM Rosary; 10:00 AM Mass, 11:00 AM Prayer Shawl Ministry; 6:00-7:30 PM Food Tuesday, June 5, 2018 Pantry Wednesday, June 6, 2018 8:30-9:15 AM Adoration, 9:30 AM Mass, Thursday, June 7, 2018 8:30-9:15 AM Adoration, 9:30 AM Mass, 6:00 PM –7:30 PM Food Pantry, Friday, June 8, 2018 Church closed for cleaning. Saturday, June 9, 2018 4:10 PM Confessions; 5:00 PM Mass Sunday, June 10, 2018 8:30 AM Mass, 11:00 AM ST. CHARLES LWANGA AND COMPANIONS, Pastoral Council Vacancies MARTYRS OF UGANDA The Parish Pastoral Council is looking for a few good FEAST DAY JUNE 3RD. people. If you know of anyone interested in serving St. Charles and many other martyrs for the faith died be- on the pastoral council, please notify Fr. Alex tween November 15, 1885 – January 27, 1887 in Namu- [email protected] or Debbie Tate at 804-514- gongo, Uganda. St. Charles and his companions 7697 email: [email protected] by next Sunday, were beatified in 1920 and canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1964. In 1879 Catholicism began spreading in Uganda June 10. Fr. Alex would like to speak briefly to each when the White Fathers, a congregation of priests founded interested person before the next pastoral council by Cardinal Lavigerie were peacefully received by King meeting, June 14 at 7 pm. Thank you! Mutesa of Uganda. The priests soon began preparing cate- chumens for baptism and before long a number of the young pages in the king’s court had become Catholics. However, on the death of Mutesa, his son Mwanga, a cor- rupt man who ritually engaged in pedophilic practices with the younger pages, took the throne. When King Mwanga had a visiting Anglican Bishop murdered, his chief page, GREAT NEWS!!! Joseph Mukasa, a Catholic who went to great length to pro- Thanks to a very generous parishioner, tect the younger boys from the king’s lust, denounced the There will be no fees for king’s actions and was beheaded on November 15, 1885.The 25-year-old Charles Lwanga, a man wholly dedi- Vacation Bible School cated to the Christian instruction of the younger boys, be- We would like to express our appreciation for the recog- came the chief page, and just as forcibly protected them nition of the importance of VBS to the Children and, as from the king’s advances. On the night of the martyrdom of always, Thank God for His many blessings Joseph Mukasa, realizing that their own lives were in dan- th th ger, Lwanga and some of the other pages went to the White VBS July 16 - 20 2018 Fathers to receive baptism.