Corpus Christi Parish 70 Pleasant St. Waterville, ME 04901

(207) 872-2281 Email: ccmoffice@gwi.net

Website: www.corpuschristimaine.org

June 28, 2020

MASS SCHEDULE

Notre Dame du Perpetuel Secours 116 Silver St. Waterville

Saturday 4:00 & 6:00PM Sunday 9:00 & 10:30AM Tuesday/Thursday 12:15PM

St. John the Baptist 26 Monument St. Winslow

Saturday 4:00PM Sunday 7:30 & 10:00AM Monday/Wednesday/Friday 8:00AM

Prayer for Independence Day

Dear God, As we celebrate with fireworks and festivals, help us never to

forget the reason for our joy. Help us remember that our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of

happiness were signed into our heritage with the willing blood of

American patriots.

Most of all, help us remember that the rights of all people are

more than words on a document, and that all people have rights because you have given us the dignity of human life. Grant

freedom to all, and give us the strength to protect the rights of

others. Amen.

We will do our best to keep all parishioners updated through our Social Media pages:

Visit our parish website at: www.corpuschristimaine.org

Our easy to navigate website is your source for Mass times, ministry schedules, Mass readings and daily

prayers, Catholic resources, videos and so much more.

Like us on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/

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View photos, videos and get inspired through fellowship with other parishioners!

Parish Instagram Account Corpus Christi Parish is now on

Instagram. Find us at: @corpuschristimaine

Access us on a computer by visiting: https://www.instagram.com/corpuschristimaine/

Download Our Parish App!

Our Corpus Christi app is available to download for iPhone and Android smart phones. Stay connected throughout the week with instant notifications. Enjoy a bunch of additional

features like prayers, daily readings, helpful reminders to silence your phone before Mass or Confession, and much

more. To access: text app to 88202

Parish Faith Formation Blog: Keepin’ it Real . . . Catholic

https://faithformationcorp.wixsite.com/faithformation Follow our Faith Formation blog for great ideas for how to

grow in faith for children and adults.

Parish Staff Rev. Daniel J. Baillargeon, Pastor Rev. Patrick Finn, Parochial Vicar

Kim Suttie, Pastoral Life Coordinator Deb Hebert, Parish Business Coordinator &

Director of St. Francis Cemetery Daja Gombojav, Catechetical Leader for grades K-8 Marge Veilleux, Pastoral Administrative Assistant

Joan Hallee, Pastoral Receptionist Valerie Wheeler, Principal St. John Catholic School

Parish Staff

Parish Information

The Week Ahead All programs and meetings have been suspended until further notice.

Parish Social Media

Please remember in your prayers

Sandra Joler, died April 24, funeral July 25 Betty King, died March 2, funeral July 25

The Mission of Corpus Christi Parish is to share our gifts as the body of Christ through Liturgy, Outreach and Education.

Parish Mission Statement

Sanctuary Candle

In thanksgiving by a parishioner (SJ)

Keep in Your Prayers

Please remember Linda Audet, Angel Audet, Aline Mem Maheu

May God’s healing touch come down upon our brothers and sisters in faith.

Please call the Parish Office to be included in our Prayer Line.

MONDAY June 29, 2020 8:00 AM SJ Debby Gagne by the family

TUESDAY June 30, 2020 12:15 PM ND Ronald and Paula Gilbert by the Gilbert family

WEDNESDAY July 1, 2020 8:00 AM SJ Rose May Giguere by Lillian Martin & family

THURSDAY July 2, 2020 12:15 PM ND Beverly Mayo by husband, David

FRIDAY July 3, 2020 8:00 AM SJ Arthur DeCelle, Jr., by Tom and Millie

SATURDAY July 4, 2020 4:00 PM ND Jacques Poitras by wife and family 4:00 PM SJ M/M Henri Caron by the Caron family 6:00 PM ND Real B. Trepanier by wife, Jeannine and daughters

SUNDAY July 5, 2020 7:30 AM SJ Theresa Michaud by Lorette Clair 9:00 AM ND Roland Bourgoin & Jean Bourgoin (Dierig) By wife/mother and family 10:00 AM SJ Robert Carrier by Tristan Carrier & family 10:30 AM ND Parishioners of Corpus Christi Parish

Mass Times & Intentions Drive-thru Confessions

In the St. John Parking Lot:

Wednesdays 5:00-6:00PM Fridays 8:30-9:30AM

Saturdays 12:00Noon-1:00PM

Stewardship of Treasure Offertory for June 21 - $11,235.72

Average weekly offertory to date - $14,431.19

Our budget is based on a weekly average offertory of - $15,570.15

2nd Collection for the Catholic Communications Campaign - $833.00

Please consider mailing your weekly offering to us or dropping it off at the parish office or signing up for our new

online giving option WeShare by going to our website.

Thank you for your continued support of our parish.

Readings for the Week

Gospel Meditation

Job Opportunity

Question for Adults - When have you felt more fully alive by giving of yourself to another? Question for Kids - When have you been able to put what someone else needs ahead of what you want for yourself? © 2019 The Pastoral Center. All rights reserved.

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time

When we were baptized, we were baptized into Christ’s death. Take a moment to ponder these profound words. We were baptized into death. In every sense of the word, we are asked to die. This is not just about our final death but about daily deaths due to inconvenience, discomfort, pain, loss, or others’ needs. This is an incredible epiphany given the way we very often approach our lives. We do everything to avoid death, let alone encounter it! Many avoid pain, discomfort, inconvenience, uneasiness, change, interference, and suffering of any kind. We put a lot of energy into finding the easiest and least inconvenient way through many things. Even holding the door open for a stranger or saying hello to someone in the store can be major undertakings.

We are called to die. One of the biggest wake-up calls we can have is realizing that life is not about us! There are millions of other people sharing life on this planet with whom I have a relationship. Does my life celebrate those relationships? The most distracting question we can ask is, “What do I want to do?” The more focused, faith-filled question is, “What do I need to do?” What I need to do may not be what I want to do. However, asking this question more frequently will teach us how to more purposefully and intentionally live so we can be a life giving vessel for others. When we learn to live more sacrificially, to put the needs of others before our own, and to not always seek our own self-interest, we become aware of what baptism into Christ’s death is really all about. These are the roots of virtue and the seedbed for justice, tolerance, solidarity, love, and peace.

Learning how to accept all the “small deaths” and sacrifices life calls us to teaches us how to approach our final death. All deaths ask us to empty ourselves into something or someone else. Whether we empty ourselves into the heart and soul of another human being or empty ourselves into God at the moment of our final death, new life is always received and nurtured. A heart that exclusively seeks its own interest is a heart that is closed to love. A heart that pours itself out to others and is content with being emptied is a heart that has been touched by and open to mercy. It is a heart that overflows with joy. ©LPi

Sunday: 2 Kgs 4:8-11, 14-16a/Ps 89:2-3, 16-17, 18-19 [2a]/Rom 6:3-4, 8-11/Mt 10:37-42 Monday: Acts 12:1-11/Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [5b]/2 Tm 4:6-8, 17-18/Mt 16:13-19

Tuesday: Am 3:1-8; 4:11-12/Ps 5:4b-6a, 6b-7, 8 [9a]/Mt 8:23-27 Wednesday: Am 5:14-15, 21-24/Ps 50:7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 16bc-17 [23b]/Mt 8:28-34

Thursday: Am 7:10-17/Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11 [10cd]/Mt 9:1-8 Friday: Eph 2:19-22/Ps 117:1bc, 2 [Mk 16:15]/Jn 20:24-29

Saturday: Am 9:11-15/Ps 85:9ab and 10, 11-12, 13-14 [cf. 9b]/Mt 9:14-17 Next Sunday: Zec 9:9-10/Ps 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14 [cf. 1]/Rom 8:9, 11-13/Mt 11:25-30

©LPi

Lay Chaplain Maine General Hospital, Augusta

There is an immediate opening for a part time (20 hours per week) lay chaplain to serve at Maine General in Augusta. The Lay Hospital Chaplain provides pastoral care to Catholic patients and their families as supervised by the Director of Ministerial Services (Chancery) in cooperation with the Spiritual/Pastoral Care Department. This position will collaborate and communicate with the pastors of the parishes located in the greater Augusta-Waterville area. Successful candidates must be practicing Catholics in good standing with the Church, have completed at least 1 unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) or equivalent experience working in an institutional setting and possess the ability to work collaboratively. Prior experience in a hospital and/or pastoral setting is preferred.

Interested applicants may send cover letter and resume to: hr@portlanddiocese.org

Catholic Appeal Walk Daily with Jesus

The 2020 Diocesan Catholic Appeal is underway. Thank you to everyone who has already made a gift. To date 342 of our parishioners have pledged $82,740 toward our goal of $155,925. Please prayerfully consider donating at https://portlanddiocese.org/give.

Q & A - Calling Priests Father

My Jesus, I believe that You are

present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You

into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment

receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart.

I embrace you as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to

You. Never permit me to be separated from You.

Amen.

Prayer for Spiritual Communion

Question: Why do Catholics call priests Father?

Answer: One of the common objections people have to Catholics is our practice of calling priests by the title Father. They will often cite a passage in Matthew’s Gospel in which Jesus tells his followers: “Call no one on earth your father; you have but one Father in heaven” (23:19). It seems pretty straightforward, but when we put this verse in context, we see that Jesus is speaking out against religious leaders who had forgotten what their proper role was and who were bad examples through their own hypocrisy and elitist attitudes.

In other Gospels, we find Jesus himself using the title father for different characters, such as in the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man (Lk 16:19-31]) and the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Lk 15:11-32). If we put the verse from Matthew into the full scope of Jesus’ teachings, he isn’t saying that we can’t use words like “father,” “rabbi,” or “master.” Rather, he is telling us that we should be mindful of the full meaning of those titles and not to misuse them.

To call a priest “Father” is more than a sign of respect for the office of the priesthood. It goes back to the way St. Paul understood his work as an evangelizer. Paul wrote, “I am writing you in this way not to shame you but to admonish you as my beloved children…It was I who begot you in Christ Jesus through my preaching of the Gospel. I beg you, then, be imitators of me. This is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful son in the Lord” (1 Cor 4:14-17).

Yes, we have God alone as our heavenly Father, but there are also those here with us who nurture and nourish our faith through their teaching and care. This is why the title of Father has been applied to the church’s pastors in different ways since the earliest days of the Church, including monks and nuns using the title “abbot” and “abbess” (from abba) for their spiritual leaders and Christians around the world recognizing the “Holy Father” or “pope” (from papa) as the head of the family that is the Church. The title Father is a reminder that priests have a special responsibility to care for, protect, feed, listen to, and nourish those who have been entrusted to them, all after the example of our Father in heaven who never ceases to give us what we truly need. ©LPi

Each week, in order to reserve space for you at either a weekday or a weekend Mass, you must call the parish office at 872-2281 during normal office hours: Mon. - Thurs. (8-4) and Fri. (8-12). “

Please arrive only 15 minutes before Mass and enter via: the Silver Street door at Notre Dame or the Monument Street ramp door at St. John.

We have set forth the following guidelines as implemented by the Bishop in collaboration with the CDC:

1. Wear face coverings during Mass 2. Sanitize hands before entering church 3. Maintain social distancing at all times 4. Receive Holy Communion in the hand 5. Gatherings in the church or hall before/after Mass not permitted

We acknowledge that many of our parishioners will still feel uncomfortable coming to church. Bishop Deeley is continuing the dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass. Please join us virtually:

Corpus Christi Parish live-streamed Mass on our parish Facebook page Sundays at 9:00AM

Your continued understanding, flexibility, and patience are truly appreciated!

St. John school is looking for alumni pictures to put in this year’s yearbook. We would like to have a commemorative section of the yearbook with alumni pictures. Please send us a copy of the pictures and include a date or caption under

the picture so we have additional information and a time frame.

Pictures can be sent to Michelle Giroux-Pare by the end of June using the following directions.

Please follow these steps: 1. Go to the website "Filemail.com" Fill in the "TO" e-mail as "michelle.giroux-pare@portlanddiocese.org" 2. Fill in the "FROM" e-mail as your own.

3. Then, you can either drop the pictures in that big box, or attach files if you'd rather. If you have quite a few pictures to send, you can save them all in a folder, and then attach a folder and send it all over at once. You can do this directly from your phone if you wish. You just have to download the 'filemail' app, for free, before doing this.

Or if you would like to drop off copies of pictures at the school office, you may do that. Please call first to make sure we are there to receive them.

Empower Seniors to Thrive Through COVID-19!

You can do this by investing time to an isolated senior through a friendly phone call, grocery shopping for them. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer or FMI please contact the SEARCH program- Lynn Kidd 530-0137 or lkidd@ccmaine.org.

In Our Parish and Diocese

Everyday Stewardship - Recognize God in Your Ordinary Moments God Is Love

I was recently at a Catholic conference and had a conversation with someone living in the thick of Hollywood culture. He was Catholic and spoke of how hard it was to live out his faith amid tremendous temptation and negativity toward religion. He spoke about how going to daily Mass helped to keep him centered and stay strong in his faith. He was a great witness to living out one’s faith in the face of disbelief.

One thing that he told me stood out above all the rest. He spoke of his engagement to his fiancé and how important it was to him that God was a major part of their relationship and their lives as individuals as well. He told me he said something to her like, “If you don’t love Jesus more than you love me, this is never going to work.” What an amazing and truly moving witness!

Songs and books are written about the intense longing one human being can have for another. We can describe another as meaning everything to us. We speak of wanting to offer our complete selves to our beloved. However, true love is about more than wanting to be with that person. It is about wanting that person to know a love even greater than theirs: the love of God. No love can last without God. My Hollywood friend knew this to be the case. He showed his true love for his wife-to-be by sharing more than himself — he shared the very One who created love. — Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS ©LPi

Vocations

“Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” Could God be calling you to follow after Him in this life and into the next? Contact: Fr. Seamus Griesbach 773-6471 Email: seamus.griesbach@portlanddiocese.org Website: www.portlanddiocese/vocations

• The recipe can be for any main dish or side dish, but ALL the ingredients must be items that you can find on a regular basis at a local community food pantry.

• Recipes must contain potato as one of the ingredients. • Recipes will be judged on nutritional value and ease of

cooking. • Enter as many recipes as you like. The winning recipes

will receive a cash donation to your parish to support the food pantry, soup kitchen or other food-based ministry connected to the parish.

• Deadline for submitting a recipe is Aug. 15, 2020. The winning recipes will be announced on Sept. 17, 2020 (The Feast Day of St. Hildegard).

• E-mail your recipes to: psm@ccmaine.org, please put “Recipe Contest” in the subject line. Or, mail your recipes to: Recipe Contest, Catholic Charities Maine, PO box 10660 Portland, ME 04104.

By submitting your recipe for consideration, you give Catholic Charities Maine and the Diocese of Portland permission to publish your recipe on their public and social media sites.