Jesus Christ is Risen Today

Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia! Our triumphant holy day, Alleluia!

Who did once upon the cross, Alleluia! Suffer to redeem our loss. Alleluia!

Hymns of praise then let us sing, Alleluia! Unto Christ, our heavenly King, Alleluia!

Who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia! Sinners to redeem and save, Alleluia!

But the pains which he endured, Alleluia! Our salvation have procured; Alleluia! Now he reigns above as King, Alleluia! Where the angels ever sing. Alleluia!

Sing we to our God above, Alleluia! Praise eternal as his love, Alleluia!

Praise him, all ye heavenly host, Alleluia! Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Alleluia!

Corpus Christi Parish

wishes all our parishioners a very happy Easter!

Corpus Christi Parish 70 Pleasant St. Waterville, ME 04901

(207) 872-2281 Email: ccmoffice@gwi.net

Website: www.corpuschristimaine.org

April 12, 2020 Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

MASS SCHEDULE

Notre Dame du Perpetuel Secours 116 Silver St. Waterville

Saturday 4:00 & 6:00PM Sunday 9:00 & 10:30AM Tuesday/Thursday 12:15PM

St. John the Baptist 26 Monument St. Winslow

Saturday 4:00PM Sunday 7:30 & 10:00AM Monday/Wednesday/Friday 8:00AM

St. Francis Catholic Cemetery

In accordance with the Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and the Diocese of Portland, St. Francis Catholic Cemetery’s office will be closed due to the Coronavirus. We will continue to take calls and respond to them as soon as possible. Should you need to purchase a lot, we will call you to make an appointment to meet at the Cemetery office. We are continuing with our winter schedule to make burials as usual through April 15. After then we will adhere to the Diocesan guidelines that only immediate families will be allowed to come into the Cemetery for the Committal prayers and burial. Thank you for your understanding during this difficult time. May God bless you and your families and keep you safe.

Parish Staff

Parish Information

The Week Ahead

All programs and meetings have been suspended until further notice.

Parish Social Media

Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturdays, 3:00PM at St. John Church, Winslow and

Notre Dame Church, Waterville Please see our website for updated information about

drive-thru Confessions.

Sacrament of Baptism Families who would like to have their child baptized need

to attend our Baptism Preparation Program. Classes are offered on the last Tuesday of most months.

Registration is required, please call the parish office.

Sacrament of Marriage Couples should make arrangements by calling the parish

office at least 6 months prior to the wedding date and before making reception plans.

Anointing of the Sick Anyone wishing to receive the Sacrament of the Sick is asked to call the parish office. If you or a loved one are

admitted to MaineGeneral Medical Center please contact the Hospital Chaplain’s Office. If you are at Inland

Hospital please call the parish office.

Eucharistic Adoration Fridays 7:00-7:45AM St. John Church

Suspended at this time

Please remember in your prayers

All our dearly departed family members of Corpus Christi Parish

The Mission of Corpus Christi Parish is to share our gifts as the body of Christ

through Liturgy, Outreach and Education.

Parish Mission Statement

Keep in Your Prayers

Please remember Michael James McMann

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.

We will do our best in the next several weeks to keep all parishioners updated through our

Social Media pages:

Visit our parish website at: www.corpuschristimaine.org

Our easy to navigate website is your source for Mass times, ministry schedules, Mass readings and daily

prayers, Catholic resources, videos and so much more.

Like us on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/

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View photos, videos and get inspired through fellowship with other parishioners!

Parish Instagram Account Corpus Christi Parish is now on

Instagram. Find us at: @corpuschristimaine

Access us on a computer by visiting: https://www.instagram.com/corpuschristimaine/

Download Our Parish App!

Our Corpus Christi app is available to download for iPhone and Android smart phones. Stay connected throughout the week with instant notifications. Enjoy a bunch of additional

features like prayers, daily readings, helpful reminders to silence your phone before Mass or Confession, and much

more. To access: text app to 88202

Parish Staff Rev. Daniel J. Baillargeon, Pastor Rev. Patrick Finn, Parochial Vicar

Kim Suttie, Pastoral Life Coordinator Deb Hebert, Parish Business Coordinator &

Director of St. Francis Cemetery Daja Gombojav, Catechetical Leader for grades K-8 Marge Veilleux, Pastoral Administrative Assistant

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

All Masses within the Diocese of Portland have been suspended until further notice. All intentions will be rescheduled as soon as Masses are re-instated.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sacramental Information

Mass Times & Intentions

Stewardship of Treasure Offertory for Mar. 29 - $4,251.20

Average Weekly Offertory to Date - $15,039.35 Our budget is based on a weekly average offertory of -

$15,570.15

Please consider mailing your weekly offering to us or dropping it off at the parish office or signing up for our new

online giving option We Share by going to our website.

Thank you for your continued support of our parish.

Readings for the Week

Gospel Meditation

2019 Contribution Tax Letter

Parishioners needing a letter containing their 2019 contributions must CALL the parish office and make this request. This information is not automatically generated and mailed out. Please have your envelope number available when you call.

Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

When we awoke this morning, we found ourselves blessed with another day. It is Easter Sunday. As that thought crossed our minds, did we find ourselves saying “so what” or “alleluia”? For many, today is truly a day of alleluia. For others, it is just another day of “so what.” Faith makes a huge difference. It not only makes a difference in how we understand today and the significance of what we celebrate, it also makes a huge difference in terms of how we understand ourselves.

Succeed, live well, be productive, find your niche, follow your dreams, make money, protect your social status, be politically correct, and keep your preferences to yourself are pretty good examples of the messages our secular life wants us to hear. In and of themselves, they don’t sound all that harmful. But when really examined, they are. The life of resurrection embodied in the Gospel tells us a much different story.

Life keeps us busy. We are always connected, distracted, occupied, and working. For many of us, an agenda awaits us before we even start our day, and unfinished stuff is brought with us when we retire at night. Make the best of life and “find your own road to happiness are messages we all too easily believe. The “so what” response to the new life of resurrection is often the result of believing that life is only what I make it. What God has to say isn’t important to me securing my next raise.

Sadly, we live as if the grave is the end. While we may give the wonder of heaven a blink now and then, its glory really doesn’t impress us or matter all that much. It’s all about the here and now and what I need to do today to get where I want to be tomorrow. We tend to put off considering the one significant “tomorrow” that will come the millisecond after we take our last breath. When that happens, will we want to be thinking “so what?” or “alleluia”?

There is only one Jesus, one mission, and one resurrection. There is also only one of us. Have you ever pondered what one solitary, humble human life can do? Faith, not our world, tells us how special we are. We are not robots. We are not replaceable. We have one shot. There are no do-overs. Love is at our core and unites us together as one with the God of love who so desperately wants us to be with Him forever. This may not match our secular agenda, but it ought to make our true inner agenda leap for joy. There doesn’t need to be an end. I can live forever. Alleluia! ©LPi

Question for Adults - What is your experience of resurrection your own life or the life of your family? Question for Kids - Jesus is with us today. How can you see him in the people around you in church? © 2019 The Pastoral Center. All rights reserved.

Sunday: Acts 10:34a, 37-43/Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 [24]/Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8/Jn 20:1-9 or Mt 28:1-10 Monday: Acts 2:14, 22-33/Ps 16:1-2a and 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 [1]/Mt 28:8-15

Tuesday: Acts 2:36-41/Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20 and 22 [5b]/Jn 20:11-18 Wednesday: Acts 3:1-10/Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9 [3b]/Lk 24:13-35 Thursday: Acts 3:11-26/Ps 8:2ab and 5, 6-7, 8-9 [2ab]/Lk 24:35-48

Friday: Acts 4:1-12/Ps 118: 1-2 and 4, 22-24, 25-27a [22]/Jn 21:1-14 Saturday: Acts 4:13-21/Ps 118:1 and 14-15ab, 16-18, 19-21 [21a]/Mk 16:9-15

Next Sunday: Acts 2:42-47/Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24 [1]/1 Pt 1:3-9/Jn 20:19-31 ©LPi

Dear Parishioners,

A month ago our world as we know it changed. On Easter Sunday let us reflect on the important things in our lives: love of God, family, friends and community. People have lost jobs, experienced anxiety, perhaps saddened by the death of a loved one, and we practice social distancing. However, we need to keep in touch spiritually and emotionally. If you or someone you know are alone during this pandemic and might need a happy “How are you doing?” phone call, please contact the Parish Office at ccmoffice@gwi.net or 872-2281.

If you do know of someone to whom we can “reach out” please ask their permission to share their contact information with parish volunteers. We want to respect their personal information. They do not have to be a member of the parish. We are community – all of us!

Help Us Reach Out

ELEMENTARY FAITH FORMATION & JUNIOR HIGH YOUTH MINISTRY

Classes are held at the Faith Formation Center attached to St. John Catholic School, September-May.

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)

St. Theresa’s Guild Scholarship

St. Theresa’s Guild is pleased to offer two $500 scholarships to High School Seniors who are members of Corpus Christi Parish. The deadline is April 30. Please write a letter telling a little about yourself and describe your church and community volunteer service. Please mail to: Paula Giguere 76 Crystal Spring Lane Rome, ME 04963

All gathered Faith Formation programs have been suspended until further notice.

With guidance from the Center for Disease Control, Bishop Deeley is temporarily suspending all daily and Sun-day Masses and religious services throughout the diocese, effective immediately. Funerals and weddings may continue but only with immediate family present.

MASS FROM CORPUS CHRISTI PARISH WILL BE LIVE STREAMED ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE EVERY SUNDAY AT 9:00AM

Although we are unable to attend Mass in person, it is important that we continue to support our parish as best we can to continue to carry on the mission of the Church. Please consider mailing or dropping off your weekly offering to the Parish Office or signing up for We Share, our new online giving option. Thank you!

A public announcement will be made when the temporary suspension of Masses concludes.

Masses Online In addition to our online Mass at 9AM on Sunday

(streamed on our Facebook page), below are ways you can participate in the holy Mass from home:

Diocesan Mass with Bishop Deeley Bishop Deeley will celebrate a Mass from the Cathedral of

the Immaculate Conception in Portland each Sunday at 10AM Although not open to the public, the Mass will be

live-streamed at both www.portlanddiocese.org and www.facebook.com/PortlandDiocese.

Our Lady of Hope Parish, Portland Viewers can visit www.ladyofhopemaine.org and par-

ticipate in Masses from St. Pius X Church in Portland Mon. - Fri. at 9AM, Sat. at 4:30PM, and Sun. at 7AM and

9AM. The parish has added an additional livestreamed Mass at 7PM, Mon. - Fri.

Parish of the Holy Eucharist, Falmouth Viewers can visit www.facebook.com/

ParishOfTheHolyEucharist and participate in Masses from Holy Martyrs Church in Falmouth on Mon., Tues., Thurs.,

and Fri. at 5:30PM; Wed. at 7:30AM; Sat. at 4PM, and Sun. at 8:30AM, 10:30AM, and 5:30PM.

St. Paul the Apostle Parish, Bangor Viewers can visit https://stpaulbangor.me/watch-mass-live

or www.facebook.com/StPaulBangor and participate in Masses from St. Mary Church in

Bangor Mon. - Fri. at 8:30AM. and Sun. at 7AM and 8:30AM. They can also participate in Masses from St.

John Church in Bangor on Sat. at 4PM. and Sun. at 10:30AM.

Word on Fire Daily Mass will be offered from Bishop Barron’s chapel at

8:15AM each day. www.wordonfire.org/daily-mass.

Check Out Our Parish Faith Formation Blog: Keepin’ it Real . . . Catholic

https://faithformationcorp.wixsite.com/faithformation Follow our Faith Formation blog for great ideas for how to

grow in faith for children and adults.

Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord Alleluia!

Fr. Dan’s Homily for Easter Sunday

Do not be afraid!

These words were spoken to the shepherds at the beginning of Jesus’ life, and they are spoken to the women at the tomb, first by the angel and then by Jesus himself. Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid of life in all its confusion and messiness; do not be afraid of death in all its many disguises; perhaps the death of a beloved family member or friend, the death of a dream; the death of a relationship; the overwhelming deaths that come as a result of accident or disaster or violence or war or addiction or suicide. We live in a Good Friday world, and yet we proclaim that God’s love is bigger than any grim, bleak, terrible thing the Good Friday world can throw at us. The diagnosis, the heartbreak, the bully, even the funeral, is not the last word. We are the last word. The Word of Easter, the Risen Lord, is born in us when we look and feel and act and speak like Jesus…

An Easter Symphony Every time… We offer words of care and compassion, we echo the melodious strum of the harp. We describe a dream of hope, we echo the blare of Easter trumpets. We reach out with a healing gesture, we echo the resounding roll of the tympani We share our time and talents, we echo the clashing of Easter cymbals We love even the unlovable, we echo the organ chord of harmony We’re just present to the lonely, we echo the triumphant chorus of alleluias. Jesus, now so free of all human restrictions, is still alive and still dwelling among us, in us, and through us. Whenever we repeat, even in small ways, the mighty deeds he performed, he is risen. It is here - fully involved in doing what he did - that we see him. It is here - fully caught up in living as he lived - that we find him. It is here - fully immersed in trusting in the Father - that we rise to new life with him.

The Glory to Be Revealed

We shall not spend eternity kicking ourselves for opportunities lost, grace wasted, and love refused. How God can make these things good is beyond our understanding, but in some way the whole of it will be taken up into the Risen Lord. All the positive things too will be taken up into Jesus: the love that we have given and received, the moments of beauty, the laughter and surprise, the plain plodding on. And the redemption of our personal history will only be one facet of the love that redeems all history, purging its sin and saving all the precious memories of the human family. Nothing is lost in him. All the great loves, all the heroism, all the struggle to make life more human, all the wrong turnings people have taken in their search, the times when a light more human seemed for a while to play over human lives and those lives became legend, the poetry of the particular, the unrepeatable beauty, the fidelity to a vision that demanded all. In Christ all these things will be affirmed and redeemed, to become part of our shared joy and his. What a beautiful Easter gift! Sr. Maria Boulding

Sr. Maria Boulding (1929-2009) was a Benedictine nun of Stanbrook Abbey in England. She was a theologian, spiritual writer, and translator of the works of St. Augustine.

Everyday Stewardship - Recognize God in Your Ordinary Moments

Come to Christ

Life is perhaps God’s greatest gift to each of us. Without life, we would be unable to experience all the wonder of this world, the love of family and friends, and the joy that comes from using our talents and skills. Life itself is more profound a gift than we can even truly contemplate.

On Easter, we celebrate life. For on this day, Jesus Christ conquered death and gave to us the chance for a life eternal. The wonder, love, and joy of this world does not have to end. Through a life in Jesus Christ, these emotions are heightened, and we find even greater fulfillment in this world.

Maybe this Easter you are finding yourself open to taking a next step in your relationship with Jesus. This could be the moment you decide to follow Him more closely and take seriously all that he has given you. If so, welcome to the journey, where there are many other disciples on that same path who can help show you the way and share their stories. If not, hopefully it doesn’t take a whole year for this possibility to be considered again. Jesus is alive and waiting to get closer to you. May this Easter season find you and Our Lord getting to know one another in a whole new way. Happy Easter! —Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS ©LPi