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Mass Times & Intentions Corpus Christi Parish 70 Pleasant St., Waterville ME 04901

Business Office Hours: Mon-Thurs 8:00AM - 4:00PM Fri 8:00AM - Noon

Phone: 872-2281 Fax: 877-0675 Email: ccmoffice@gwi.net

Website: www.corpuschristimaine.org

Parish Information

MONDAY May 7, 2018

8:00 AM SJ Toni Zemrak by her husband

TUESDAY May 8, 2018 12:15 PM ND Paula Gilbert by Debbie Gilbert and Richard Gilbert

WEDNESDAY May 9, 2018 8:00 AM SJ Gerald Giroux by the family

FRIDAY May 11, 2018 8:00 AM SJ Paul Veilleux by Leo and Olivette Bujold 1:45 PM Lakewood Sr. Ann Xaviar Loubert by Loretta Clair

SATURDAY May 12, 2018 4:00 PM ND Ralph Knight by wife and family 4:00 PM SJ Evelyn Nadeau by John and Helen Nadeau 6:00 PM ND Harold and Muriel Vear by the Mathieu family

SUNDAY May 13, 2018 7:30 AM SJ John McQuillan by wife, Shirley 9:00 AM ND Logan Sweet by Grammy and family 10:00 AM SJ Kevin Scully by a Teacher 10:30 AM ND Lucille and Joseph Bolduc by daughter, Lucille 4:30 PM CC Parishioners of Corpus Christi Parish

The Week Ahead

Sun., May 6 10:00AM ND Coffee Hour 1:00PM ND Secular Franciscans 5:00PM SJ AA Meeting

Mon., May 7 1:30PM ND Prayer Group

Tues., May 8 4:30PM OFF Parish Fun Day Planning Meeting 6:00PM SJ KC #7300 Meeting 6:00PM ND St. Theresa Guild Meeting 7:00PM FFC Al-Anon

Thur., May 10 The Ascension of the Lord - see below for Mass times

Fri., May 11 7:00AM SJ Adoration & Confessions

Sat., May 12 9:00AM ND Enrichment Workshop for Married Couples 2:00PM ND Baptism - Maevia Solis

Sun., May 13 8:00AM ND KC Breakfast 5:00PM SJ AA Meeting

Sanctuary Candle In thanksgiving by a parishioner (SJ)

Prayers and healing for all our families and for everyone (ND)

Parish Staff Rev. Daniel J. Baillargeon, Pastor

Rev. Matthew Gregory, Parochial Vicar Kim Suttie, Pastoral Life Coordinator

Elaine Gordon, Parish Catechetical Leader Deb Hebert, Parish Business Coordinator &

Director of St. Francis Cemetery Theresa Poulin, Business Administrative Assistant Marge Veilleux, Pastoral Administrative Assistant

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

CHALICE PROGRAM FOR VOCATIONS For the week of May 5

Notre Dame Jeannine DeRosby St. John Maureen Rabideau

Keep in Your Prayers

Joseph Jacques, Jeanne Jacques, Marie Lessard Roland and Anne Michaud, Bernadette Bizier

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.

Please remember in your prayers…

Carl P. Cote, died April 25, funeral May 2 Charles Owen, died April 28, funeral May 4 Joyce Harmon, died April 28, funeral May 5

THE ASCENTION OF THE LORD Thursday, May 10, 2018

8:00 AM SJ Juliette Lacroix by Fred and Germaine Daigneault 12:15 PM ND Priscilla Hamlin by Maurice and Barbara Bard 6:00 PM SJ Germaine Mathieu by M/M Dana Hayes

The Ascension of the Lord Thursday, May 10

The Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter has traditionally been celebrated as the Feast of the Ascension. This holy day of obligation reminds us that after the human and divine natures of Christ were united in the Incarnation, they could never be separated. In other words, after the saving death and Resurrection, Jesus ascended, body and soul, into heaven.

Parish Masses for the Ascension of the Lord 8:00AM St. John

12:15PM Notre Dame 6:00PM St. John

Stewardship of Treasure

Liturgical Bits & Bytes - Sacraments and Sacramentals

Saint of the Week

2nd Collection Next Weekend for Central Maine CATV Televised Mass

Please consider a donation to our 2nd Collection next weekend to help support this important ministry. (There is no envelope in your packet for this collection). It is a blessing for many of our parishioners who are unable to attend Mass. The Mass is recorded at Notre Dame and is televised each Sunday at 9AM, 7PM, and 9PM on channel 1301.

Sunday Readings & Reflections Readings for Sunday, May 6 Love of Your Neighbor

Reading I Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 (Peter in Caesarea) Reading II 1 John 4:7-10 (God’s love and ours) Gospel John 15:9-17 (A disciple’s love)

Key Passage: Jesus said, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” (John 15:12)

Adults: How is love of others connected to love for God? Kids: Who needs Jesus’ love this week? How can you show them his love?

Prayer of the Week

Offertory for Apr. 28 - $16,075.34 Average Offertory to Date - $16,310.11

The budget is based on a weekly average offertory of $15,942.00 per week.

2nd Collection for Catholic Home Missions Appeal - $3,690.75

Thank you for your continued support of our parish.

Saint Dominic Savio

May 6th is the Memorial of Saint Dominic Savio, but this year due to it falling on a Sunday it will not be celebrated. Dominic was born in 1842 at Riva di Chieri in northern Italy. He was a student of St. Don Bosco. At the time of his first Holy Communion he decided to always lead a life of sanctity by praying and performing works of charity. At the age of 12 he organized a group of boys into the Company of the Immaculate Conception. Besides its religious purpose, the boys swept and took care of the school and looked after the boys that no one seemed to pay any attention to. He died on March 9, 1857 at the age of 14 during a cholera epidemic, after giving assistance to the sick. He was canonized on June 12, 1954 by Pope Pius XII. St. Dominic Savio is patron of children’s choirs, altar servers, and pregnant women.

Anointing of the Sick

In the Church's Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick, through the ministry of the priest, it is Jesus who touches the sick to heal them from sin – and sometimes even from physical ailment. His cures were signs of the arrival of the Kingdom of God. The core message of his healing tells us of his plan to conquer sin and death by his dying and rising.

The Rite of Anointing tells us there is no need to wait until a person is at the point of death to receive the Sacrament. A careful judgment about the serious nature of the illness is sufficient.

When the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick is given, the hoped-for effect is that, if it be God's will, the person be physically healed of illness. But even if there is no physical healing, the primary effect of the Sacrament is a spiritual healing by which the sick person receives the Holy Spirit's gift of peace and courage to deal with the difficulties that accompany serious illness or the frailty of old age. Source: www.usccb.org

If you or a loved one is at MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta and would like to receive the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick please contact the Chaplain’s Office. If you are a patient at Inland Hospital in Waterville or one of our area residential facilities please contact the Parish Office. In all other cases please contact the Parish Office.

Hail, Holy Queen

Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy; Hail, our life, our sweetness and our hope.

To you do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.

To you do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.

Turn then, most gracious advocate, your eyes of mercy toward us;

and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. Amen.

The Celebration of Our Parish Feast Day The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

40-Hour Eucharistic Adoration at Blessed Sacrament Chapel

8:00AM Thurs., May 31 - 12:00Mid. Fri., June 1 Sign up sheets for 1-hour time slots are in the back of both

Notre Dame and St. John Churches and at the Blessed Sacrament Chapel.

Parish Mass followed by a Eucharistic Procession to the Blessed Sacrament Chapel

Sunday, June 3 9:00AM Notre Dame A reception will follow in the hall at Notre Dame

There will be no Masses at 10AM or 10:30AM so we can come together as one parish to celebrate our feast day.

ELEMENTARY FAITH FORMATION Classes are held at the Faith Formation Center attached to

St. John Catholic School, September-May.

Lifelong Faith Formation

K-8 Faith Formation Calendar

K-5 Sun. Session K-5 Mon. Session Faith Form. Ctr Alfond Youth Center 8:30-9:45AM 3:30-4:30PM May 6 May 7

Family Life JHYM Faith Form. Ctr. Faith Form. Ctr. 3:00-5:00PM 6:00-8:00PM May 6 May 6

HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH MINISTRY Sunday Evenings 6:00 - 8:00PM

Youth Ministry Room on the 2nd Floor at St. John School (enter by the Grotto)

All High School Students: join us for food, fun and faith. Come as often as you can, or only come once in a while.

In Our Parish and Diocese Corpus Christi

PARISH MISSION The Fullness of Purpose

May 14th & 15th 7:00PM at Notre Dame

Could there be more to our faith experience, than what we have come to know? Dynamic speaker and author Ken Yasinski will be leading a 2 day parish mission, designed to help answer life’s most meaningful questions:

1) Why have I been created? 2) Where is Joy found? 3) Does my Catholic faith matter?

This mission is Catholicism in everyday simple language that will make relevant the timeless truths of our faith. Come and be inspired and empowered to experience and live the life God created you for.

May 6 - Skowhegan's YM is invading our session! (In a fun way!) Come see what they have planned. May 13 - Mother's Day, no session May 20 - Mini Golf at Gifford's - Senior send-off, incoming freshman welcome May 27 - no session - Memorial Day June 6 - Video Scavenger hunt - permission slips available soon July 21 and 22 - Rafting! Let Gayle know if your coming!

Called To Love An Enrichment for Married Couples

Sat., May 12 9AM-12Noon Notre Dame Church Hall

Love is patient, Love is kind…. Beautiful words, but how do we, as married couples,

live them out in our daily lives?

This enrichment will include presentations based on wisdom found in Pope Francis’ exhortation: Amoris Laetitia: The Joy of Love and Cardinal Donald Wuerl’s book: The Marriage God Wants for You: Why the Sacrament Matters.

Sponsored by Worldwide Marriage Encounter Maine

FMI: Darin & Sarah White darin.sarah.white@wwme.org

692-3082 (Darin) 692-3083 (Sarah)

To register contact the Parish Office 872-2281

Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly

Nothing on earth can satisfy our desire for happiness. We must place God at the center of everything so that we can make sense of life.

The next time you have a decision to make, put aside what you want, and choose what you think God wants. This is not easy, but the more you do it, the easier it becomes.

Ministers of Communion for the Homebound Needed

Because the sick are prevented from celebrating the Eucharist with the rest of the community, the most important visits are those during which they receive Holy Communion. In receiving the Holy Eucharist they may realize that they are united not only with the Lord’s sacrifice but also with the community itself and are supported by the love of their brothers and sisters.

Here in Corpus Christi Parish we are called to respond to the needs of two hospitals, several skilled nursing facilities and many homebound parishioners. Through this ministry of care, the sick and aged are reminded that they too are part of the Body of Christ.

Do you feel called to this important ministry? If so contact Fr. Matt, 872-2281.

Senior Supper

Sat, May 19 5:00-6:00PM Notre Dame Hall

Baked Beans, American Chop Suey, Coleslaw & Desserts

Free to all parish seniors. Join us for good food and great company!

Knights of Council #7300 Monthly Meeting

Tuesday, May 8 6:00 - 7:30PM St. John the Baptist Church in Winslow

In Our Parish and Diocese

Vocations

“God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.” Are you open to the call to be sent into the world as a priest or consecrated religious, that others might live in Christ? If you think God may be offering you this grace, contact:

Fr. Seamus Griesbach: 207-773-6471 Email: seamus.griesbach@portlanddiocese.org Website: www.portlanddiocese/vocations

Lend a Helping Hand and a Smile!

Many seniors find themselves homebound and alone. Warm a senior’s life by investing a few hours a week to an isolated senior through a friendly visit, a ride to the grocery store, or a phone call. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer in the Kennebec Valley or are a senior in need please contact the SEARCH program - Lynn Kidd 530-0137 or lkidd@ccmaine.org.

SEARCH: Seek Elderly Alone, Renew Courage & Hope

Eucharistic Adoration

Did you know that the Lord is waiting to speak heart-to heart with you? Don’t keep Him waiting. Blessed Sacrament chapel is open all day, every day.

Easter 2018

A time of transformation A time to move away from what keeps us unfree

to be our best true selves A time to recall that “Love is patient”

“Love is kind” (1 Cor 13)

Please joins us for a time of shared reflection EVERY Monday morning through Pentecost 10-11AM

Sisters of St. Joseph Center 80 Garland Rd., Winslow FMI: 509-6681

St. Theresa’s Guild of Corpus Christi Parish Scholarships

Attention: Corpus Christi Seniors:

The St. Theresa’s Guild is offering 2 scholarships of $500.00 each. If interested, please submit a letter with the following information:

Name, Address, School’s Name and Address, Academics, Involvement in Community (including church), extra-curricular activities and any other information you would like us to know about you.

Deadline is May 25, 2018.

Please forward information to: Eileen Bolstad 78 Oak Street Oakland, ME 04963

Strengthening

Our Family of Faith

2018 Catholic Appeal

“The strength of the

family lies in its capacity

to love and to teach how

to love.” - Pope Francis

Your generous gift to the 2018 Catholic Appeal

will be felt by people all across our state as

ministries like these continue to serve those who

need it most:

• Catholic schools and college campus outreach

• Hospital chaplaincy and services for the elderly

and infirmed

• Catholic Charities and its work in our statewide

community

• Hispanic and Native American Ministries

• and so many more.

www.portlanddiocese.org/appeal

Therefore Go Make Disciples of All Nations…. Matthew 28:19

Join us for a presentation on the power of Catholic Radio and the New Evangelization

May 20th, 3PM – 5PM Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul Lewiston, ME

Join Fr. Francis Hoffman, aka, Fr. Rocky, Executive Director of Relevant Radio, as he shares the power of Catholic radio in changing lives throughout our country.

We will begin by praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, followed by a presentation by Fr. Rocky, an inspiring and dynamic leader in Catholic radio. Fellowship and refreshments will follow. Don’t miss this opportunity to gather with the Presence family. We have a wonderful surprise in store for you too!!

We hope to see you all there!! RSVP at info@presenceradio.org or call 207-659-9939 ext. 5

The Presence Radio is your listener-supported Catholic radio. 106.7 FM in Greater Portland,

90.3 FM in Greater Bangor, 89.7 FM Mid-Coast, 89.5 FM Augusta, 97.5 Fort Kent, 1390AM Northern

Maine, 105.7 FM in Springvale & Sanford

Listen online www.thepresenceradio.org, Download the free Presence Radio smartphone app or dial 605-475-8037 and listen on your cell phone

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