April 19, 2015 - Christ the King Parish

CHRIST THE KING COMMUNITY
199 Brandon Road, Pleasant Hill, CA
925-682-2486
SCHEDULE OF MASSES
Daily Masses:
Monday-Friday,
6:30 am, 8:00 am
Saturday Masses:
8:00 am & 5:00 pm
Sunday Masses:
7 am, 8 am, 9:15 am,
10:45 am, 12:15 pm,
6:30 pm
CONFESSIONS:
Saturday: 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Parish Office: 682-2486
www.ctkph.org
Religious Ed: 686-1017
www.ctkreligiouseducation.org
Youth Ministry: 676-0979
www.ctkym.org
CTK School: 685-1109
www.ctkschool.org
Facebook: Christ the King
Catholic Community of
Pleasant Hill
WEEK AT A GLANCE
Sunday, 4/19
 Children’s Liturgy of the Word 9:15
 3 yr.olds Rm D 9:15 mass
 PreK; parish hall 9:15 mass
 K; school 9:15 mass
 RE Gr. 3: 1st Euch Mass 10:45
 RE Gr. 4-8: 1st Euch Mass 12:15
 Youth Mass 6:30 pm
 Youth Group 7:30 pm Parish hall
Monday, 4/20
 Bible Study A & B, 8:30-10:30 am
Tuesday, 4/21
 RE Grades 1-3 school
 Grades 4-5, parish hall
 Knights of Columbus Min.Ctr 7:30 pm
 RE Grades 7/8; 7 pm Parish Hall
Tuesday, 4/21 cont.
 Rosary & Perpetual Help,Church 7pm
 Spanish Prayer, Church, 7:30pm
Wednesday 4/22
 RE Grades 1-3 school
 Grades 4-5; parish hall
 RE Grade 6; 7 pm parish hall
 SVdPaul; Min Ctr-Chapel 7pm
Thursday, 4/23
 RE Grades 1-3; School
 Grades 4-5 ; Parish Hall
 Centering Prayer; Min Ctr 10:00 am
 2nd Gr. Euch Practice 3:45 Church
 2nd Gr. Euch Practice 5:00 Church
 RCIA Min Ctr -Chapel, 7pm
Friday, 4/24
 Garden Café 7:30 am
Saturday, 4/25
 Men's Fellowship Chapel 7:30am
 Secular Franciscans 9 am Min. Ctr
 First Eucharist Masses 9:30, 11:00
 ICF Tea, parish hall
 Inform Night after 5:00 mass-Gym
Sunday, 4/26
 Children’s Liturgy of the Word 9:15
 3 yr.olds Rm D 9:15 mass
 PreK; parish hall 9:15 mass
 K; school 9:15 mass
 RE Older Sacs RE office 10:30
 Confirmation 11:00 Parish Hall
 Youth Mass 6:30 pm
 Youth Group 7:30 pm Parish hall
To Hear the Gospel and Make a Difference
Dear friends,
Over the last several weeks, we have been working hard as
the Campaign Leadership Team under the direction of Andrew
Poole, our consultant. I am happy to report that right now we
have over 100 volunteers leading this campaign to make a
difference at Christ the King. We have begun praying together
for God’s blessings and guidance in these important days.
As the beginning of our campaign draws near, I wanted to be
sure that each of you, valued parishioners and friends, have
as much information about the campaign as possible. I also
want you to know that I, along with the Campaign Chairs,
welcome your questions, and will answer all questions with as
much detail as possible. In order to accelerate our communications and make this process as transparent as possible, the
Campaign Leadership team has developed this Information
packet, which will be distributed on this weekend. Please
make sure to take an envelope today.
In this Information Packet you will find:
The Parish Brochure that details for you the urgent
needs of our parish.
Reclaiming Christ’s Mission Together – The diocesan
capital campaign
A Question and Answer sheet that will provide more
detailed answers to your questions.
An I Have a Question form for submitting questions at
Mass or to the parish office. These questions will
be answered in bulletins or in homilies.
Our campaign prayer that we will be praying daily in
order to know God’s will for us.
After a time of information gathering, reflection, and prayer
for God’s guidance, our parish family will come together on
Commitment Weekend on May 9 – 10 to respond to God’s
blessings through a gift to the campaign. Please begin to pray
and reflect on God’s call to you. Please put this date on your
calendar and plan to join the entire parish family for this day
of commitment and celebration. After much prayer and discernment, I have made my own personal pledge of $
$10,000.00 to the parish campaign. I am deeply grateful to
God for my new family of Christ the King parish and school.
God has great things planned for Christ the King. These
things will only come to pass through prayer, active participation and generous giving.
Yours in Christ,
Fr. Paulson Mundanmani
Reflections on Sunday
Readings:
First Reading: Acts 3:1315, 17-19
Chapter three of the Acts of the
Apostles describes how Peter and
John healed a lame man who sat
begging each day at the gate of the
temple. The people were astonished at this miracle. Peter used the
opportunity to give a sermon encouraging the people to believe in
Jesus. We hear a portion of that
sermon in today’s passages.
Second Reading: 1 John 2:1-5
During this Easter season, we
are reading from the first letter of
John. It was written for the community from which the fourth Gospel emerged. At the time, this community was seriously divided.
Some members believed that as
long as you had faith in Jesus, it
didn’t matter what you did in daily
life. Today’s passage refutes that
opinion.
PARISH STAFF CONTACTS
Fr. Paulson Mundanmani
682-2486
[email protected]
Fr. Vince Cotter
682-2486
[email protected]
Fr. Brian Timoney,
Deacon John Ashmore, Fr. Michael Dibble,
and Fr. Tom Burns
682-2486
Sr. Joanne Gallagher, CSJ
682-2486
[email protected]
Sr. Dominic Bonnici OP
682-2486
[email protected]
Kate Doherty
682-2486
[email protected]
Religious Education Director
Sr. Maureen Viani , SNJM
686-1017
[email protected]
Assoc. Director: Joan Smits
686-1017
[email protected]
Youth Minister, Rick Lejano
676-0979
[email protected]
Chris Caban, Principal
685-1109
[email protected]
Al Garrotto: RCIA/faith share 849-6319
[email protected]
Save the Date! St.
Vincent de Paul will
hold its annual collection for used clothing
on May 2nd/3rd. This
collection will be for
CLOTHING ONLY. Donations
should be cleaned and gently used.
Donation bags will be available at
CTK next weekend, April 26th, as
well as on the weekend of the 3rd;
or clothes may be brought to the
church in ordinary plastic bags.
Capital Campaign
Information Night.
Join us after the 5:00
pm mass, this Saturday April 25th for a
Capital Campaign Information
Night. Join us in the gym for
wine, cheese and campaign information.
Earth Day Interfaith GatheringWednesday, April 22, 10am - 1pm at
Our Savior Lutheran Church 1035
Carol Lane, Lafayette. Faith Leaders, laity, and all concerned about the
climate crisis are invited to attend
and join in small group discussions.
Fr. Paulson will give a brief summary of Catholic social teaching on
earth stewardship. Meditation by
Rev. Sally Bingham of Interfaith
Power and Light. Suggested donation of $10.00 includes a buffet
lunch featuring local, season, organic
food.
Contact Gwen at [email protected] with any questions.
Taize Prayer Around the Cross
will be at Resurrection Episcopal
Church, 399 Gregory Lane, Pleasant
Hill, April 19th at 7:30 pm. Join us
for an hour of devotional prayer in
the spirit of Taize (the ecumenical
community in southern France).
Plan on joining us for a prayerful,
refreshing service.
Hoping you will help!
Religious Education is
sponsoring the wine
booth for the Festival.
Once again we call upon your generosity.
Plsse help by donating bottles of
wine. You may drop the wine off at
the RE office (facing Gregory Lane)
Mon-Thurs., 9:30 am- 5:30 pm or
you may leave the wine at the Parish
House. On the weekends of April
25/26 and May 2/3 we will collect
wine after all the masses outside the
church Thanks for your support Sr. Maureen
PRAYER MARATION - 24 hour s
of Continuous Prayer! Please contribute 15 minutes to one half hour of
prayer during the weekend of May
2nd/3rd for the needs of our parish.
Sign up today at the table outside
after all Masses.
Youth Mass has started! J oin us
on Sundays at 6:30 pm for mass featuring Christ the King’s dynamic
youth band and teen choir. Experience a liturgy planned, lead, and inspired by the young people of our
community. All are welcome to attend.
Winter Nights Clean Up and
Thanks! Thank you to the many
volunteers and donors for this years
Winter Nights visit. It was an extremely successful visit, and everyone who stayed felt welcomed, well
fed and truly as if this were their
home for two weeks. That is all
thanks to you. There is one last
item where we will need your help.
On Monday, April 20th at 10 am,
we will clean the gym and pack
away all the supplies used. Volunteers who can help move tables, and
clear out the kitchen will be very
much appreciated. Contact Kate at
[email protected] if you
can help.
In case you missed it
last week, Fr. Joyce
has available a DVD
of his retirement and
farewell mass. It begins with a five
minute summary of the mass edited
by Tim Manning, followed by his
sister’s comments, and then brief
homilies given by Bishop Barber and
Bishop Cummins and a brief introduction by Fr. Joyce of the pictures
through the years and the closing
song sung by the whole congregation. Thanks to our Youth Minister,
Rick Lejano for compiling all the
information into one DVD. All this
for a very inexpensive $10 with all
proceeds going to our youth group
and its planned trip this year to New
Orleans.
May Crowning of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Please join us in celebrating the Crowning of our Blessed
Mother on Saturday, May 2nd at
Queen of Heaven Cemetery. We will
begin at 11:00 am, with a procession
followed by the crowning We invite
you and your families, all the little
ones as well. Located at 1964 Reliez
Valley Rd., Lafayette. Light refreshments will be served afterwards.
Questions: 925-932-0900.
The Office of Vocations with the
help of the Department of Faith Formation and Evangelization, will be
hosting a Quo Vadis Days, July1215th at the Oakland Diocesan Youth
Retreat House, Casa San Felipe in
Lafayette. Quo Vadis (Latin for
Where are you going?) aims to assist young men to recognize and
respond to their own vocation invitation from our Lord and grow in
their relationship with Christ.
Young men, ages 13-18 years old
are invited to join this event. Activities will include a great deal of fun,
prayer, games, music, discussions
and talks. The fee is $50.00 and
financial assistance will be available. Call 510-893-4711 for more
information.
Church Support 4/12/15 $20,154 Bldg. fund $1,877.00 Online Giving $8,073.85
CTK Combined Capital
Campaign
S che dule of Eve nt s
Saturday, April 18th
Inspiration Weekend begins
Coffee House – Youth Group Talent Open Mic &
Performances
Information Packet Distribution after all Masses
Sign-ups for Prayer Marathon after Mass
Sunday, April 19th
Inspiration Weekend continues
Information Packet Distribution after all Masses
Coffee & Donuts after morning Masses
Sign-ups for Prayer Marathon after all Masses
Saturday, April 25th/Sunday April 26th
Inspiration Weekend resumes
Sign-ups for Prayer Marathon after Mass
Reception in Gym - Booths & Light Refreshments
Saturday May 2nd/Sunday May 3rd
Inspiration Weekend resumes
Information Reception in Gym. Children’s Poster
Art Show, Booths & Light Refreshments
Prayer Marathon – 12PM – 12PM May 3rd
Saturday May 8th/Sunday May 9th
Inspiration Weekend resumes
Commitment Weekend begins
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