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JUNE 6, 2010
THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
+ YEAR OF THE EUCHARIST +
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1. Wetland Mitigation
Our church is almost 30 years old and in need of repair in some places. The
part that is in most need of repair is the church fascia. initial exploratory test
show that the fascia is disintegrating on the inside. We have requested sev-
eral contractors to submit a bid to have the problem fixed. The contractors
are hesitant to commit to a firm bid unless they can see what is happening
inside the fascia and the only way that can be done is to remove a portion of
the fascia. We have asked the diocese if part of this damage can be covered
by the diocese insurance and we are waiting for a decision. The contractors
who have seen the fascia have made several recommendations: 1. To repair
only the damaged portion with an estimated cost of $12,000 to $16,000. 2. A
more permanent solution is to replace the entire fascia to match the new fas-
cia at the PLC with an estimated cost of $60,000.
These are the two major projects we are confronted with during this Jubilee Year. Lets show
honor to those in the past who struggled to build this parish long ago, through much sacrifice and
faithful stewardship. Only with your help by contributing more to the gold envelope can we ac-
complish these goals. If only each of the 1300 households gave a little, imagine where we will
be. This is our church and grounds, we are called as stewards to care for the environment and all
that God has graciously given to us. Lets prepare today for our futurethe next 50 years.
Questions, please put them in writing or email : Admin@ctklombard.org
I have always been mesmerized by the sight My mother and I have been attending Eucharistic Adoration since its
of the Holy Eucharist, when the priest raises inception at Christ the King. Throughout all of the challenges and joys
it at Mass and on Holy Thursday when the of the past years, my visit with God on Thursdays has become an an-
Host is exposed. chor in my life. The quiet in the church soothes me and makes me
more open to His presence. The spiritual oasis which is Eucharistic
Aside from viewing the Host for a full hour, it Adoration is an important part of my spiritual functioning. As I sit in the
affords me the opportunity to bare my soul in quiet, dimly lit Church, I review my behavior, ask for His help and
an intimate way with Jesus. I bring my hopes thank Him for what he has done for me. During this time, I am both
and frustrations to Jesus and leave feeling relieved to receive insights into how to handle lifes challenges and,
refreshed. My life is nourished from this hour yet, comforted to be reminded that God will help me cope with my
with Jesus, and I believe I was a better wife problems. I feel His presence in a very unique way. Eucharistic Ado-
and I am a better parent because of Adora- ration has become a very important part of the week for me. I would
tion. encourage all to acquire this excellent habit.
Eucharistic Procession
The Solemn Feast of Corpus Christi
Sunday, June 6
Join us Sunday, June 6, after our Noon Mass, for our Eucharistic Procession throughout our grounds. Bring
your family and friends. Come out and share the Good News about Christs Real Presence in the Eucharist.
An important ritual of the Feast of Corpus Christi is that of the Procession. For this event, the entire parish is
invited to gather. The Procession is comprised of clergy, special ministries, groups, and families. In the Pro-
cession, the Holy Eucharist is itself transported in a processional Monstrance, carried by the priest. The Mon-
strance is further protected by an embroidered silk canopy held by four posts, borne by parishioners. Publicly
proclaiming and reaffirming their devotion to the Holy Eucharist, the entire congregation walks around the
church and its grounds to the sound of voices singing sacred hymns and praying the Rosary. The Procession
then walks and sings its way to the first of the altars. There, the Blessed Sacrament rests while the assem-
bled faithful pray and sing in adoration of the Holy Eucharist. The procession then continues on in the same
manner to the other altars until the whole procession is complete.
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Mass Intentions
Pray for Healing
Saturday, June 5 5:00 Walter Stawiarski
St. Boniface; First Saturday Jean Brzezinski, Peter Christoff, Marion Kellmann, Rylee
2 Tm 4:1-8; Mk 12:38-44 Starke, Sarah Convalle, Edward Danz, Jr., Tina Orlita,
Cindy ONeil, Lucy Lejeaunesse, Julie Herstein, Shelia
Sunday, June 6 8:00 Sr. M. Norene, OP McCarthy, Joan Frichtl, Sandra Caeiro, Michael Severino,
Corpus Christi 10:00 Leon Joseph Wayne Ken Redmond, Joseph and Barbara Was, Sharon Barsa-
Gn 14:18-20; Ps 110; 1 Cor 11:23- 12:00 Carolyn Brown
26; Lk 9:11b-17
loux, Diana Crue, Leeangelo Cruz Lopez, Roberta Dirschl,
Bonnie Cimaglia, Fr. Jim Quinlan, Louise Eckman, Isabel
Monday, June 7 8:30 Rainilda Breta Carey, Maurice Vandenbrouke, Eugene Los, Marlena
McAleer, Anita Aube, Linda Taylan, Mary Beth Sullivan,
Melissa Vallario, Tony Clishem, Sean Langer, Betsy Down-
ing, Joyce DSouza. Please pray for all the sick in our par-
Tuesday, June 8 8:30 Special Intention ish, our families, our friends, our community.
Altar Server
Extraordinary
Minister of Holy
Communion
Lector
Presider
Ministers of Care
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Fathers Day is a special day to remember our fathers. But it is also a time to remember another kind of father, our di-
ocesan priests. You may not realize that priests normally retire at 70 years of age, and even after official retirement,
many continue working by celebrating the liturgy at parishes, ministering to the sick, or providing spiritual counseling.
Besides their social security checks, the priests are eligible for a small diocesan pension which helps pay for their living
costs during retirement. There is a retirement facility for priests in our diocese, but retired priests may choose to live on
their own. Their pensions and social security are barely sufficient to keep up with increases in every day expenses, such
as food, housing and transportation costs.
The Diocese of Joliet has a Priests Pension Fund, but as with many retirement plans, this fund is in need of being forti-
fied. We know that many of you have also experienced the strain of reduced retirement income.
To strengthen the Priests Pension Fund, a second collection will take place across the diocese on Fathers Day week-
end this year and in the future so that parishioners can show their appreciation and love for our prieststhose already
retired and those who will retire in the future. This collection should not be confused with the collection for the Retire-
ment Fund for Religious, which occurs during December and assists religious men and womennuns, brothers and
priests belonging to religious orders. That collection does not benefit retired diocesan priests.
For the past year, we have been observing a special Year for Priests, which Pope Benedict XVI established as a way to
inspire spiritual perfection in priests and to remind the faithful to pray for priests. It seems fitting that as the Year for
Priests ends this June, our dioceses Year of the Eucharist has just begun. Your generous response to this collection
would be a wonderful symbol of the gratitude you feel for priests who have and continue to nourish your life of faith
highlighted by their celebrating the Eucharistwhile also serving the Lord so faithfully.
On behalf of the priests of our diocese, We are grateful for your prayers and your generosity during the second collec-
tion on Fathers Day weekend for our Priests Pension Fund. Please be assured of our prayers for you.
Sincerely in Christ,
Dear Friends of Christ the King Parish and Early Learning Academy,
Over this past year, we have enjoyed much success with the enrollment of 34 students. We are generating a great deal
of excitement for the coming school year and anticipate a much higher enrollment for 2010-2011. Our challenge as an
early learning academy is to continue to provide our young students with the best curriculum and academic programs
available. Our mission as a faith-based community is to continue to provide ongoing instruction in the Catholic faith and
provide our preschoolers and kindergarteners with the tools to grow in their faith. Teaching them at a young age about
service to others through faith-based programs will continue to reinforce their faith in God and provide them with lifelong
values and virtues.
We are committed to providing the best early learning education for our students. We also have the responsibility to pro-
vide an affordable tuition for all our families, as well as tuition assistance to those families with significant financial needs.
Wont you please help us meet our goals? Your donation will make a difference in our childrens lives. Please give
strong consideration to making a gift to Christ the King Early Learning Academy. Each gift, regardless of the amount is
greatly appreciated. We would also like to thank you for your past support and generosity towards your giving to the
white envelopes. Mrs. Placey our director and I will be available to talk, if needed for clarification and or questions. As
we celebrate our 50th Anniversary of the parish, we want to continue the tradition of Catholic education in the community
for years to come. All we ask is that you personally bring this to prayer. The children and I will be praying for you this
summer. God bless you +
Sincerely,
Donated items can be dropped off under the canopy to the left of the school entrance starting May 29 through June 14.
Items must be clean and in working condition. Items we cannot accept include infant/toddler car seats, baby walkers,
mesh-type playpens, cribs with slats more than 2 inches apart, mattress/box springs, computer monitors, paint,
chemicals, and skis. All proceeds will benefit Christ the Kings Early Learning Academy. We also have a need for plas-
tic and paper bags. Volunteers and donations are greatly appreciated. For additional information please call Jill Placey
630-627-0640.
SET UP DAYS: SALE DATES
June 1-4 (8:00 a.m. 12:00 noon) June 17-19 (9:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m.)
June 7-11 (8:00 a.m. 12:00 noon)
June 14-16 (8:00 a.m. 12:00 noon) CLEAN UP:
(Evening hours are available upon request) June 21 (8:00 a.m. till finish)
YES! I can help with the setup, sale dates, and/or cleanup on the following day(s):
Name: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Please return to the Academy Office, or drop in the collection basket. Thank you!
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During this year I have taken time to reflect on many priests who have entered and influ-
enced my life over the years. I was raised from the age of three until almost 23 in a parish
where we always seemed to have 5-6 priests and another priest in residence who worked in
a diocesan office. We often had 1 or 2 newly ordained priests also since the pastor was a
good mentor/trainer. There was only one pastor during all these years. He was a very Fatherly figure to me spiritual,
holy, friendly. For the nine years of elementary school he reviewed and handed me every report card, usually with a little,
generally positive, comment. Since I went to the High School seminary, I also had to make an appointment with him
every quarter for the next five years so that he could review, comment, and sign my report card.
In that parish we had several associates who stayed for 6-12 years. One was active with the school children in sports.
One headed a Catholic Action Club for the school children. Each associate and the pastor were frequent figures in the
school and at our various liturgical and other prayer services. Since we attended daily Mass during the Marian months of
October and May as well as during Lent and Advent, I saw them often. Of course I served Mass Sunday, weekdays,
weddings, funerals as well.
During Junior High years, the priests would identify boys who might be interested in the priesthood and take us for visits
to the seminary in Mundelein. Sometimes young men from the parish who were in school there would take us for visits or
to socialize in the parish neighborhood during their time off.
During high school days, I had many priests as classroom teachers. They provided many role models and insights into
various activities of priests, since some were active in special ministries or in parishes where they lived as well as being
full time teachers. One priest tried to work full time in a parish as well as teach full time. He stated once that any priest
worth his salt, doing everything he should and could, as he tried to, should not live past 35. He passed away at 43, so he
probably felt guilty in those last few years about not doing all he should.
During college years I had several Jesuit priests as teachers and administrators. There was one priest who taught a
Christian Marriage course. He claimed that anything less than an A in his class should be considered an impediment to
Marriage.
College years also provided an opportunity to be involved with and learn form a rather different priest. Several of us at
Loyola got involved with a 70 year old man who was ordained at the age of 56, although he had a wife and four adult
children. He had escaped from Russia in 1919 and was a member of an Eastern Rite church. After teaching at a Catholic
University in Belgium for many years, his Bishop asked him if he would consider ordination. Our project with him was to
help reopen a Melkite Rite parish in the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago. We helped as we could, some eve-
nings, Saturdays, and some on Sundays. He taught a morning course at Notre Dame Saturday mornings, but provided
us with keys and cleaning materials. We did a lot of cleaning, painting, and activities with families and children in the
neighborhood, mostly non-Catholic. We recruited the kids to be altar servers and choir members. One reward came on
Sunday afternoons, when monsignor taught us Eastern philosophy as well as about the Eastern Rites.
Camille and I have lived in four parishes since our Marriage. In each one we found priests with whom we have shared
our talents in various ways. The blending of the role of the ministerial priesthood and the priesthood of all the Baptized
has always been beneficial to all concerned.
Beyond the official closing of the Year for Priests remains a great need for continual prayer for priests and priestly voca-
tions. The need for support of our priests, cooperation with them, shared ministry with them, love for them, continues
until Christ comes again.
+ Deacon Frank
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Typically we work with teens from across the country at a To call young people into awareness of needs in
worksite so that we can get to know the people we are our own community.
working for. All of this is part of Building the Kingdom.
To help young people identify with the bigger
Church outside the walls of Christ the King.
Are you ready for that challenge?
Then get your packet now!!
To recognize and name the gifts of our young peo-
ple in the Body of Christ and teach them how to use
them for the good of the local church and beyond.
If you are interested please call Sherry Rochford at 630-
396-6078 or e-mail her at sherry@ctklombard.org. The To disciple the young as Jesus discipled his fol-
cost is $200. Paperwork is available upon request. Please lowers, by offering them the opportunity for Chris-
keep the people of Birmingham, Alabama in your prayers! tian Service and reflection closer to home.
To build bridges of understanding, faith, and mate-
rial support by immersing people of all backgrounds
in the shared Gospel message.
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Catholic Ministries
Stewardship of Treasure
Annual Appeal May 22/23, 2010
Diocese of Joliet # Registered Families 1380
Celebrating those 250 households who have given and celebrating all who give back to God in different ways at home,
work, diocese. Still, please consider giving back, in some way. We appreciate the many ways others give of their time
and service to Christ the King Parish. Lets celebrate this Jubilee year with great joy and give thanks to God!
Finance Council
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Gold Envelopes Articles in Bulletin: Father Peter has requested that articles be prepared to place in the bulletin to
encourage more Gold Envelope support. Matt Novak distributed two write-ups for the next two Sundays. One cov-
ered the Year in Review listing the various projects and accomplishments, and the second covering The Year to
Come describing our two big ensuing projects. Jun distributed photographs of the project needs, the Wetland Mitiga-
tion and Church Fascia, with an accompanying description. All of these will be sent to Bill for placement in the next
few bulletins, hopefully starting this weekend. It is hoped the above will encourage more Gold Envelope contributions.
In discussion of fundraising efforts, Jun suggested we have another Brick Sale now that parishioners have had a
chance to view how nice the project turned out. It was decided to proceed with the sale in late summer/early fall.
Wetland Mitigation: The five Proposals for the wetland were reviewed. Fr. Peter has given these to the Diocese for
their review and input. Chris from 5K All Season attended the meeting to discuss his bid and he will re-submit it.
Questions concerning ongoing watering of this area were raised and this should be included in the bids. Our recom-
mendations on the Proposals will given to the Diocese soon so we can get the project started.
Church Fascia: It was recommended that a 20 ft. section of the fascia be removed for evaluation. After analysis,
scope of the project will be further known, and proposals can be secured. Chris from 5K observed the area in ques-
tion, and may also submit a bid. It is hoped that Gold Envelope contributions improve to help with this work.
Miscellaneous: Tony relayed a note from Elaine/Fr. Peter concerning Finances. The mortgage payments are up to
date and all outstanding bills need to be paid by fiscal year-end, June 30. Father Peter has requested that we utilize
Neptune Lighting to replace our lighting lamps to CFL. It has been recommended that the entire Diocese make this
change.
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SUNDAY THURSDAY
FRIDAY
MONDAY
Prayer Group 7:00pm ER
Leadership Meeting 7:00pm Academy
SATURDAY
TUESDAY
St Peregrine Service 11:00am Church
Rosary and Chaplet 5:30pm Church Mass 5:00pm Church
Financial Freedom 6:30pm PLC
NEXT SUNDAY
WEDNESDAY
Mass 8:00am Church
Mass 10:00am Church
Womens Bible Study 7:00pm PLC
Mass 12:00pm Church
PARISH CLERGY
Rev. Robert Schoenstene Deacon Fred Francl Deacon Wayne Storrs
630.629.1717 630.629.1717 630.629.1717
PARISH STAFF
Eileen Maggiore Sherry Rochford Bill Runge
Pastoral Assoc./Adult Faith Formation Childrens Faith Formation Director of Music and Liturgy
630.396.6076; eileen@ctklombard.org 630.396.6078; sherry@ctklombard.org 630.396.6075; bill@ctklombard.org
Karen Hanish, Pre-School Jan Waas, Pre-School Aide Michelle Iwinski, Kindergarten Aide
ADDRESS
1501 South Main Street
Lombard, IL 60148
PHONE
630-630.629.1717
CONTACT PERSON
Bill Runge
630.396.6075
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