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, 
 
Over the last month, the Ministry Center project has made significant progress. The building framing, mechanical, plumbing and electrical systems all are complete and approved by the City. The Accessible Path of Travel is also greatly in place just awaiting handrails and some finishing touches. The fire sprinkler contractor was delayed and should be completed this next week. Once completed, insulation, drywall and stucco will be installed followed by the buildings finishes. We expect to have the building completed by the end of the year. Meanwhile, we are making progress on the design of other capital projects such as the gym, restrooms and the kitchen. We have been approved for a token financial gift towards the gym ($145K). We are grateful to the Valley Foundation for the gift. The solar project is slated to begin in the month January 2019.  

I would like to give you an update on St. Stephen. I am so grateful to the people of our sister-parish for their trust and support in all of the changes we have effected beginning October. Christ the King Office is partnering with St. Stephen in bringing out their bulletin every week. The offices have been downsized and moved to the back of the Church staffed by volunteers only. Last week I met with Mr. Paul Bongiovanni, the Diocesan CFO to impress upon him about the various capital needs that need urgent attention such as parking lot, sound system upgrade, water leaks and a few other items. I have initiated a conversation with our school Principal about the possibility of starting a preschool managed by our CTK school on the St. Stephen campus. Once the feasibility study is done, we will take it to Bishop Barber.
 
The month of October is  Pro-Life month.  A question has been asked as to what did Pope Francis mean when he said the unborn and the poor are equally sacred. According to Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, when Pope Francis insisted that the lives of the unborn and of the poor are "equally sacred," he was not trying to shift the focus of Catholics from fighting abortion to fighting poverty, he was trying to show they are part of the same battle. The life of the unborn must be "promoted and defended with great determination and given an effective priority. At the same time we must keep in mind that the dignity of every human being is equal and inviolable at every stage throughout his or her life.”

In "Rejoice and Be Glad," his apostolic exhortation on holiness, Pope Francis wrote that living a Christian life involves the defense of both the unborn and the poor, and he criticized what he termed the "harmful ideological error" of thinking one's own cause is the only important one. “Every life is sacred,” he said in calling for the abolition of the death penalty. “Every human person is endowed with an inalienable dignity, and society can only benefit from the rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes.”

The Pope spoke to hundreds of US Catholic bishops and specifically linked “the innocent victim of abortion” to other grave threats to life - including “children who die of hunger or from bombings,” “immigrants who drown in the search for a better tomorrow,” and “the environment devastated by man’s predatory relationship with nature.” In ways that give pundits and politicians on the right heartburn, the pope also frames economic inequality as a life issue. Pope Francis is reviving Catholic teaching on the need for a consistent ethic of life. Pope Francis clearly wants to recalibrate the Church’s voice in the public square. “We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage, and the use of contraceptive methods,” the Pope said in a blockbuster 2013 interview. “We have to find a new balance.”                               

Fr. Paulson