Christ the King Parish

Weekday
8:00am
Saturday
8:00am, 5:00pm (vigil)
Sunday
7:00am, 8:00am, 9:15am, 10:45am, 12:15pm, 6:00pm - Youth Mass
Holy Days
8:00am, 7:00pm
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
First Friday - 4:00pm-6:00 p.m. 
First Friday Mass
8:00 am, 6:00pm
Reconciliation:
Saturdays, 3:30-4:30pm

Christ the King Parish is offering to all parishioners an opportunity to donate a personalized engraved brick to help with our capital campaign. Personalized bricks are available for a donation of $250 and will become part of the Brandon Street entrance walkway to the remodeled Ministry Center building.   Forms are available after mass and on-line for you to participate. A personalized brick is a beautiful and long-lasting way to show your support for Christ the King Parish and help finance our Ministry Center Remodeling Project. There are a limited number of bricks and there is a deadline for getting these to the fabricator so act quickly to secure your personalized brick.

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Dear Friends,

The Church treasures the gifts, talents and faith of the laity. It incorporates them in various aspects of the Church’s life and mission, prayer and worship. Lectors or Readers are those commissioned to read the Scripture during the Eucharistic celebration. They are part of a tradition going back to Old Testament times, when religious leaders allowed people to read the Scriptures in public. Moses, towards the end of his life, instructed the leaders to read the law and learn it, and thus to fear the Lord: “Assemble the people, men, women and children as well as aliens—that they may hear the law
and learn it and so fear the Lord, your God, and carefully observe all the words of the law” (Deut. 31:12). In our parish, it is mandatory for Lectors to gather in the church for a Saturday morning of prayer, study, and practice of the reading. The Coordinator of the ministry or someone assigned by him gives a touch of context to the readings, so that the Lectors can communicate to the assembly the way the Word of God was βirst addressed. Different materials entail different treatment. Fr. Schineller explained it well:

Thus, you read the theological part of a letter of Paul as if you were conducting an argument. One reads Sirach or Wisdom or much of the Gospel of Matthew (Sermon on the Mount) to bring out individual wise sayings. One should read the strong words of the prophets with power, as if you are the prophet speaking to his people One reads the love poetry of some of the Psalms with passion. If it is a Psalm of praise or joy, show you are joyful, excited too. In general, note that the Psalms are poetry, and so the style and rhythm of reading the psalm is different from reading a story of freedom or liberation from the book of Exodus. Read the laws as if you are a lawgiver, with a clear, no-nonsense voice.