Welcome to our Amazing Parish!

We are an amazing parish because we create and nurture joyful disciples of Christ. A Catholic becomes an Intentional Disciple after recognizing they have been personally chosen by the Lord to enter an intimate relationship with Him. This relationship relies on the Holy Spirit and embraces a lifelong sacramental journey of prayer, service, evangelization and communally receiving Jesus Christ through Scripture and Eucharist. Thus, Intentional Disciples imitate Christ in everything they do on a daily basis.

1708 Horseshoe Drive • Pueblo, Colorado • (719) 542-9248

http://www.ctkpueblo.org • facebook.com/christthekingcatholicparish

FROM THE PASTOR

Well if anything is clear, it’s how much we are going to enjoy each other’s company whenever we can assemble together and be family again. All of us on staff are people-persons; that’s what ministry is about. And we’re getting cabin fever (maybe you are, too) with our inability to see people face-to-face. I appreci-ate that technology gave us the Zoom App so we can video-conference, but it never will replace live pres-ence. We’ll continue to evangelize you in the means available to us.

Our staff is praying for you every Monday thru Thurs-day at noon on Zoom. In addition, the volunteers on our Prayer Line pray for specific intentions that are brought to our attention. If any cross has arrived at your door, let us know of your struggle and we will invoke the power of our prayer for you.

The Amazing Parish Team is videoconferencing weekly. Under present circumstances, it’s probably ideal that we’re looking at our parish’s overall prima-ry communications – website, Bulletin, and Facebook page – to assess where we can make improvements.

The Diocese of Pueblo received its PPP award (the federal Payroll Protection Plan). I expect to receive a check this week that will help us keep regular employ-ment available to our staff for 8 weeks. We are deal-ing with decreased contributions – understandable be-cause so many people are out of work. Many thanks to our “seniors” who keep providing. All of us here ap-preciate whatever sacrifices you make on our behalf so we can keep the parish going. And we pray that our parishioners enjoy the security of work and successful businesses.

Latest news I have on the chiller for the hall is that it is complete and the installer is making arrangements to rent a crane for installation.

Isn’t it difficult dealing with the uncertainty this coro-navirus has brought us? It is certainly humbling. Eve-ry day brings more information. We are definitely not in control of this one. We all pray for a vaccine so this will come largely to an end.

I encourage all of you to watch some of the nature programming (not the other stuff) on the National Ge-ographic and BBC channels. It lifts my spirits to see the spectacular beauty of God’s Creation. It reaffirms my faith in a loving and generous God.

Calling all Seniors! Graduation from high school or college is such an im-portant milestone in the life of our young people, and we would like to honor them and pray for them personal-ly. We are asking for the

names of the graduating high school and college sen-iors who are members of Christ the King and the school they are graduating from. Please send an email to Mary at mmeissner@ctkpueblo or Sarah at snelson@ctkpueblo.org. Please include:

· Graduating senior’s name · Graduating senior’s high school or college

The Bishop has also requested this information so that he can pray for each one of them. If you know of a senior whose parents may not see this post, please send us his or her name - we don’t want to miss anyone! Please respond by Wednesday, May 13. God’s blessings on all the seniors out there!

Our First Reading this Sunday reminds us of the creation of the Diaconate in the early Church. God bless the Deacons past and present of our parish: Michael LaConte, Steve Escalera and Corey Comp-ton. They have made a difference in so many lives here!

Minister to each other in your safe circle of people. Be Christ for each other! St. Paul reminds us in this Sunday’s reading about how every Christian has a priestly role to play—ordained or not! Con amore! – Fr. John O.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Being Catholic But Were Afraid to Ask:

Fr. John wants to answer your ques-tions! Submit your questions via

email to Fr. John at jozella@ctkpueblo.org He will then answer the questions on YouTube in a series of presentations that will be announced on our online Sunday Mass. Watch for the link on Facebook and our website. We thought this would be a fun way to stay connected while we are apart.

Staff Directory

719-542-9248

If you forget the extension, you will be able to go to the staff directory by hitting 5. If further assistance is needed hit 7 for Mary Meissner.

Bob Mysliwiec, Accountant, Ext. 115

Corey Compton, Deacon Ext. 251 ccompton@ctkpueblo.org

Courtney Lewis, Youth Minister Coordinator Ext. 252 clewis@ctkpueblo.org

John Ozella, Fr. - Pastor Ext. 116 jozella@ctkpueblo.org

Katharine Redmond Ext. 114 Pastoral Associate for Worship gkredmond@comcast.net

Laura Fisher Escalera Ext. 113 Pastoral Associate for Religious Formation lescalera@ctkpueblo.org

Lori Judkins Ext. 118 Pastoral Associate for Liturgical Music judkins.lori@yahoo.com

Mary Meissner Ext. 111 Administrative Assistant - General Mailbox: Option 7 mmeissner@ctkpueblo.org

Sarah Nelson Ext. 121 Pastoral Associate for Youth and Adult Pastoral Care snelson@ctkpueblo.org

Prayer Line: If you have a prayer request for yourself or for someone you know, please call Sarah at 542-9248, Ext. 121 or email her at snelson@ctkpueblo.org.

Mass Intentions: Fr. John is having a private Mass daily. The inten-tion each day is for All Souls in Purgatory.

The Parish Office remains closed due to the statewide safer at home order and our worship and parish activities are suspend-ed. The Parish Staff is available by email, or you can leave a message on our phone.

Messages are then sent to our emails. We love to hear from you and are praying for you at Noon, Monday—Thursday as we meet over Zoom. Watch for updates on our webpage at ctkpueblo.org, or Facebook, or Flocknote! Thank you for staying in touch with us dur-ing this time. We miss you!

Readings for the Week Monday: Acts 14:5-18; Ps 115:1-4, 15-16; Jn 14:21-26 Tuesday: Acts 14:19-28; Ps 145:10-13ab, 21; Jn 14:27-31a Wednesday: Acts 15:1-6; Ps 122:1-5; Jn 15:1-8 Thursday: Acts 1:15-17, 20-26; Ps 113:1-8; Jn 15:9-17 Friday: Acts 15:22-31; Ps 57:8-10, 12; Jn 15:12-17 Saturday: Acts 16:1-10; Ps 100:1b-3, 5; Jn 15:18-21 Sunday: Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; Ps 66:1-7, 16, 20; 1 Pt 3:15-18 or 1 Pt 4:13-16; Jn 14:15-21 or Jn 17:1-11a

Contributions to the parish are ap-preciated and can be made by mail or online at ctkpueblo.org. Please do not drop off envelopes at the Parish Office Mailbox because they can be stolen. Instead, mail them to the parish at 1708 Horseshoe Drive,

Pueblo, CO 81001. We will pick them up at the Post Office. Thank you to everyone for supporting the par-ish.

Month of Mary Art Challenge Calling all parishioners! We would love to fill our bulletin, website and Facebook page with some happy faces and won-derful art. We could all use a little good news these days! So join us for the art challenge for the Month of Mary. All you need to do is send us pictures of Mary pro-jects for us to post in our bulletin, on the website or Face-book. It can be just the project, or the project with the artists included. Children and adults are welcome to partici-pate. Check Christ the King's website for links to coloring pictures, Mary gardens or altars, paper dolls and other ide-as at www.ctkpueblo.org on the Month of Mary Art Chal-lenge Tab. Email your pictures (pdf or jpeg) to Mary Meissner at mmeissner@ctkpueblo.org or to me at lescalera@ctkpueblo.org. We will be accepting pictures throughout the month of May.

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