Corpus Christi Catholic Community Building the Body of Christ th July 26, 2020 17 Sunday in Ordinary Time A Word From The Heart from God Delights In You Fr Patrick Gonyeau “Out of Joy” Sunday Reflection Grace and peace to you from our Lord Jesus A single mother who has a child with special needs Christ! I pray this bulletin article finds you well works two jobs and sacrifices much of her own and keeping your heart’s affection on the Father, pleasures in order to be available for her son. Being the best mother possible is important to her and brings her Son, and Holy Spirit so we can continue to be joy. We are willing to make great and often heroic filled with God’s love and radiate it to others. sacrifices for those people and things that matter most to us. Unless there is something of obvious importance Perhaps the title of this bulletin is alarming — to us in our immediate path, we can easily approach life “out of joy … what is that about?” Really, it’s in a more haphazard and chaotic way. We jump from about the Kingdom of Heaven and how we live one thing to another, responding to whatever it is that is our lives! Here’s the beautiful words of Jesus I competing for our attention at that moment. When everything is important, nothing is important. teased by pulling those three words out of the full verse, which is: “The Kingdom of Heaven is If we do not wear the right pair of glasses, we can get all like a treasure buried in a field, which a person too easily caught up in the superficial (continued on page 3) finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” (Matt Inside This Issue ... 13:44) < A Graduation Reflection Page 3 For All Of Us Jesus is teaching us that the Kingdom of < Summer Journey With Jesus Page 4 Heaven, which starts here and now for us in this This family summer adventure in faith life by choosing to live in a heart to heart daily will carry you through the Sunday readings from July 26 to August 30 relationship of love, trust and dependence with < What Is God Asking Of You? Page 5 God, is worth giving everything for! And This is an important question - for us and what’s the key experience in motivating the our relationship with God and the Body of Christ person in the parable who has found the < Your Vote Matters! On Tue, Aug 5, Michigan will Kingdom of Heaven here (life with God!) to give conduct primary elections to determine the major candidates that will square off in Nov - see inside everything to live that life? IT IS JOY!!! (cont. inside) Page 2 www.corpuschristi-detroit.org July 26, 2020 Corpus Christi Directory Rev. Patrick Gonyeau, Administrator 313-537-5770 Parish Office Hours: All parish buildings remain closed through Mon Sep 7. Weekend Masses: Sat 4 pm, Sun 9 am & 12 noon Daily/ Holy Day Masses: See page 6 Parish Address: 19800 Pembroke Ave, Detroit MI 48219-2145 Phone: (313) 537-5770 Fax: (313) 537-5773 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.corpuschristi-detroit.org Monday, July 27 Activities Center 19910 Evergreen Rd 8:30 am MASS Outreach Center 16000 Pembroke Ave (313) 272-0990 9:00 am NWDYC Virtual Summer Camp School Building 19900 Evergreen Rd 12:15 pm MASS Bookkeeper........................................................(313) 537-5770 Mrs. Shanita Brown [email protected] Tuesday, July 28 Business Management Consultant ....................(313) 537-5770 8:30 am MASS Mrs. Catherine Long [email protected] 10:00 am Pastoral Staff Meeting Christian Service Director..................................(313) 272-0990 6:00 pm MASS Mr. Curtis Simpson Jr [email protected] Digital Media Evangelization Coordinator.........(313) 537-5770 Wednesday, July 29 Mr. John Stockwell [email protected] Director of Operations........................................(313) 537-5770 Ms. Carolyn Wilson [email protected] Thursday, July 30 Faith Formation Director ....................................(313) 537-5770 8:30 am MASS Sr. Therese Mac Kinnon [email protected] 3:30 pm Leadership Team Meeting Maintenance Assistant....................................... (313) 537-5770 6:00 pm MASS Mr. Brandon Patton Maintenance Coordinator...................................(313) 537-5770 Friday, July 31 Mr. Greg Spight [email protected] 8:30 am MASS Ministers of Music ...............................................(313) 537-5770 12:15 pm MASS Ms. Michelle Baines [email protected] 12 - 2 pm NWDYC Virtual Summer Camp Ms. Fannie Larkins [email protected] Pastoral Assistant................................................(313) 537-5770 Food Distribution (pkg lot) Mrs. Miriam Hudson [email protected] Pastoral Associate ..............................................(313) 537-5770 Saturday, August 1 Rev. Mr. Paul Mueller [email protected] 1:00 pm CONFESSIONS Pastoral Minister .................................................(313) 272-0990 4:00 pm MASS Ms. Mary Davis [email protected] 6:30 pm MASS/1st Eucharist Celebrations Youth Minister.....................................................(313) 306-0004 Mrs. Marilyn Webb [email protected] Sunday, August 2 Deacons 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Rev. Mr. Aaron Poyer (734) 718-0150 9:00 am MASS [email protected] 12:00 pm MASS/1st Eucharist Celebrations Rev. Mr. Mark Springer (248) 921-1567 [email protected] Parish Council President Please Pray for Those with Covid-19: Ms. Christeena Livingston-Long (734) 512-9570 [email protected] Darlene Conway sister in law of Shelly Bradford Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession): Saturdays 1 - 3 pm; by Claudette Twyman, sister in law of Shelly Bradford appointment (call 313-537-5770); and during penance services. Sick Calls: Please call 313-537-5770 to place someone on our sick Elizabeth Moore, in-law of Elaina Moore list and/or to request the Sacrament of Anointing. Rev. Dana Porter Ashton, niece of Joan Burch Baptisms: Please call the Parish Office for more information. Weddings: Please call the Parish Office 6 months before wedding. Michelle Talley, cousin of Karen Cook Bulletin Copy: Please contact Miriam Hudson by phone or email. Dee Hunt, friend of MiShawn Earl Page 3 www.corpuschristi-detroit.org July 26, 2020 The Complete Education: A Sunday Reflection (continued from page 1) Graduation Reflection For All Of Us stuff and neglect paying attention to the things that really matter. We allow our agendas to set the clock of From The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. Selected by our lives. We forget that joy and a true sense of purpose Coretta Scott King. New York: Newmarket Press 1983: are not going to be found in following that timepiece. Joy is the expression of the happiness that is “I often wonder whether or not education is fulfilling its discovered when living in the kingdom of God. When purpose. A great majority of the so-called education our agenda matches God, not only do we leap for joy people do not think logically and scientifically. Even the but God leaps with delight as well. Our well-being is press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in what matters most to God. many instances do not give us objective and unbiased Can you imagine God delighting in you? It is easy to truths. To save man from the morass of propaganda, in deaden our senses to the whole reality of God and the my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. joy that living the Gospel can bring. The demands of Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, secular life and the agendas competing for our attention to discern the true from the false, the real from the can quickly do that. When we begin to see as God unreal, and the facts from fiction… sees, we can rise each day and notice what really The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to needs our attention and embrace it with exuberance. Be think intensively and to think critically. But education careful, though. It may not be what we originally had on which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest our list. Responding to it, however, will be worth putting menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may everything else aside. be the man gifted with reason but with no morals… ©LPi We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true Young Adult News education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration but worthy objectives upon Resources for Today’s Anti-Racist Catholic which to concentrate. The broad education will, Visit bustedhalo.com for resources to help American therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated Catholics be actively anti-racist, cope with the knowledge of [mankind] but also the accumulated complex emotions of tense times, and work and pray experience of social living.” for peace and unity. Dear Creator, Young Catholic Professionals Speaker We know that being well-educated is a Wed, Jul 29 | 7:00 pm | Online or Location TBD life-long process of learning and reflecting. —YCP Detroit Executive Speaker Series is a free Keep us mindful that we are always both event every month in which executives share their teachers and learners. Shepherd us along the professional and faith journeys with young path toward wisdom. Help us to appreciate professionals in their 20’s and 30’s, challenging them and celebrate the great teachers we encounter to ‘Work in Witness for Christ!’ Upcoming details at: along the way. We thank you for their lives and their gifts. Enable us to be steadfast as we https://www.aod.org/events/460 pursue and more closely approach the dual or https://www.facebook.com/ycpdetroit goals of intelligence and character. Amen. Praying With The Word: Lectio Divina (Prayer written by Mary Z, a founding member of Peace Thu, Jul 30 | 7 am, 12 pm, 7 pm | Livestream Church UCC, Kansas City, MO, who has studied and taught — Sessions will feature the Gospel reading for the about health care and social inequality for many years.) upcoming Sunday.