magazineChrist the King Catholic Church Oklahoma City | www.ckokc.org | LENT 2018 CK BlessedPage 5 Stanley Rother Institute Staff Dear Parishioners... PARISH OFFICE It’s hard to believe that we are racing through Lent on our way to Easter. Lent is that time when we Pastor step back from our regular pattern of life and enter Rev. Richard Stansberry into prayer, fasting, and almsgiving in a deeper way than we normally do. The Church gives us more Associate Pastor opportunities for prayer with Stations of the Cross, Rev. Aaron Foshee penance services, extra Masses and other spiritual Business Manager opportunities. As we have done in the past, this Lent Patrick Cullen we gave out the Lenten wristbands, which always go [email protected] very quickly, and asked our parishioner to focus on one of the four points of our vision statement: Know Communications & Webmaster Christ, Become Disciples, Embrace the Mission, and Kelly Fanning Build the Kingdom. The hardest one in my opinion, [email protected] and the one I did not want to get, is Embrace the Membership & Scheduling Mission, but sure enough that’s the one I drew out of the basket. Embrace the Mission Jayne Clarke means that we have to be open to what God is calling us to do in our lives in ways [email protected] that we are sometimes uncomfortable with and that stretch us. Lent gives us the opportunity to really reflect on our relationship with Jesus and build it up so that we Music Ministry too can experience the joy of His Resurrection at Easter. Edwin Day, Director/Organist Holy Week is the most beautiful and meaningful week of the Liturgical year. It [email protected] begins with Palm Sunday and the blessing of palms, the reading of the Passion of our Bob Shull, Assistant Director Lord, and ends with the great celebration of the Resurrection at Easter. [email protected] The last three days of Holy Week are called the Sacred Triduum, or three days, Nursery and begin with Holy Thursday. During the Holy Thursday Mass, we commemorate the Last Supper when Jesus instituted the Eucharist and the ministerial priesthood and Becky Cornelius, Coordinator when he washed the feet of the disciples, telling them to do as he has done. The call [email protected] to serve is one that applies not only to the ministerial priesthood but to the priesthood Discipleship & Evangelization of all believers. We are all called to serve our brothers and sisters. Jenni Butch, Director Also at the Holy Thursday Mass, the Eucharist is processed through the Church [email protected] and the Blessed Sacrament is exposed for adoration until Midnight. This year, once Margaret Tunell, Assistant again, we will make available the Put on a Disciple adoration program, where we are [email protected] assigned a disciple to reflect on, so that we can enter into what they might have felt Cindy Rice, Assistant that night. [email protected] Good Friday is the day our Lord died on the cross, and we again read the Passion and come forward to venerate the Cross. The Easter Vigil on Saturday is the greatest Parish Life Mass of the year, where we bless the new fire, the paschal candle, and the baptismal Pam Cullen, Director water, and we baptize and confirm new members into the Church. This year 38 people [email protected] will be joining the Catholic Church at Christ the King. What a blessing! Kathy Arambula, Assistant The three days of the Sacred Triduum are one liturgy in three acts. To get the most [email protected] out of Easter we should attend Holy Thursday and Good Friday services, as well as Easter Mass. Only then are we able to fully experience the beauty of the Resurrection. Youth Ministry I hope to see all of you. Antonio Guzman, Director Several people have asked where the crown of thorns by the statue of the Blessed [email protected] Mother came from. A very kind parishioner donated this piece of art, and Lent is a Cindy Rice, Assistant great time to display it so that we can remember what Jesus really went through for us [email protected] in his final days. The donor prefers to remain anonymous, but we are grateful for the SCHOOL OFFICE gift and the spiritual rewards that meditating on the Crown of Thorns can bring to us. Finally, many people ask where the money from the poor box goes. If you have Amy Feighny, Principal never noticed them, the poor boxes are long tubes attached to the floor near the [email protected] church exits. Of course you also may donate to the poor box fund through FaithDirect. Robert Crump, Jr. High Administrator Monies collected go to many ministries, such as Birth Choice, Little Flower Clinic, [email protected] Blessed Stanley Rother’s parish in Guatemala, Jesus House, Britvil Food Pantry, City Helen McBennett, Secretary Rescue Mission, and our own St. Lawrence Ministry. Christ the King tries to support [email protected] other charities, and the poor box enables us to help those most in need. Thanks to Vanessa Pierce, Financial Secretary all who have been so generous, but we need more help, as over the years we have [email protected] lost many of our largest benefactors to the poor box. May God bless us all in this holy Mary Schrantz, Advancement Director season. [email protected] CK Magazine is a publication of Christ the King Catholic Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is edited by Kelly Fanning, printed locally and provided free of charge to all parishioners. No commercial advertising is accepted. Christ the King Catholic Church is part of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and is located at 8005 Dorset Dr. in Nichols Hills. 2 RSVP to ckokc.org/fish-fry Inside This Issue 2 Dear Parishioners... 3 Lenten Fish Fry 4 Was the last “witch” of Boston actually a Catholic martyr? 5 Intimidated by Confession? Rother Institute Established 6 Mitch Pacwa to host weekly Bible study show on EWTN Flying on Sunday? Many airport chapels offer Mass 7 Intentional silence during Mass 8 Overcoming prison, addiction through the Rosary 9 The importance of our ‘Yes’ 10 What matters is our love 11 Sign of peace at Mass 12 Counter violence with religious freedom 13 Religious freedom key to Europe’s future 14 Sunday Book Study 15 CK Women speaker Toni Brattin Domestic Church 16 A Catholic moment in US politics 17 Planned Parenthood funding 18 Documentary on dating @ pm 20 ACTS retreats for men, women MARCH 9 6:45 21 What have you given up for Everyone is invited to a special Lenten Fish Fry on Friday, Mar. 9, 2018. Stations Lent? of the Cross that evening will take place at 6pm, and the Fish Fry will begin 22 CK School Annual Fund immediately after, around 6:45pm. The cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children. 22 Bishop Buswell Society We ask that you pay at the door, but please RSVP at ckokc.org/fish-fry or (405) 242- 24 The royal engagement 4595. Proceeds will benefit the Knights of Columbus Council 12669 Scholarship 25 NFP is good for marriage! Fund and the 2018 CK Youth Mission Trip to the Carmelite orphanage in Colonia 26 Devotion to Mary is a must Remance near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Questions? Want to volunteer? Contact 27 Missing nuns in Nigeria Antonio Guzman at [email protected]. 28 Facebook bias crippling Catholic ads 29 Prayer warriors needed ■ Fried Cat Fish 30 Youth to be Vatican’s focus 31 Vatican Bank oversight board ■ Potato Wedges resignation 32 Christians and New Years resolutions Coleslaw ■ 34 Small religious colleges struggle ■ Dinner Rolls for survival ■ Mac & Cheese 97.3 ■ Iced Tea FM ■ Lemonade Visit www.soonercatholic.org ■ Beer (must be 21 and older) 3 Calef, who knew Ann when she was alive, said she “was a despised, crazy, poor old woman, an Irish Catholic who was tried for afflicting the Goodwin children. Her behavior at her trial was like that of one distracted. They did her cruel. The proof against her was wholly deficient. The jury brought her guilty. She was hung. She died a Catholic.” Mather convicted Ann of being an “idolatrous Roman Catholick” and a witch, and she hung on Boston Common on November 16, 1688. Today, just a 15 minute walk away, the parish of Our Lady of Victories holds a plaque commemorating her martyrdom, which reads: “Not far from here on 16 November 1688, Goodwife Ann Glover an elderly Irish widow, was hanged as a witch because she had refused to Was the last ‘witch’ of Boston actually a renounce her Catholic faith. Having By Mary Rezac been deported from her native Ireland Catholic martyr? to the Barbados with her husband, Boston, Mass. (CNA/EWTN News) - point and the kids for whom she was who died there because of his own The last person hanged for witchcraft in primarily responsible caught whatever loyalty to the Catholic faith, she came Boston could be considered a Catholic it was,” Fr. O’Grady told CNA. to Boston where she was living for at martyr. A doctor allegedly concluded least six years before she was unjustly In the 1650s, Ann Glover and her that “nothing but a hellish Witchcraft condemned to death. This memorial family, along with some 50,000 other could be the origin of these maladies,” is erected to commemorate “Goody” native Irish people, were enslaved by and one of the daughters confirmed Glover as the first Catholic martyr in Englishman Oliver Cromwell during the claim, saying she fell ill after an Massachusetts.” the occupation of Ireland and shipped argument with Ann.