Sunday, 1/28 • No RE/ No CLOW • Catholic Schools Week Monday, 1/29 • No RE/ Catechist In-service • RCIA, Parish Hall 7 pm Tuesday, 1/30 • No RE 1-5/ Catechist In-service RE Grades 7-8 Wednesday, 1/31 • No RE Grades 1-5 • RE Grade 6 • Young Adults, Room D 7 pm 1/29 8 am - Natalia Louro+ 1/30 8 am - James Keane+ 1/31 8 am - Hilrey Watson+ 2/1 8 am - Bob Dunham+ 2/2 8 am - Harry McElroy+ 6 pm - John & David Macaluso+ Saturday, 2/3 8 am - Salome Romana+ 5 pm - Lorenzo Verceles+, Greg Limpin+ Sunday, 2/4 7 am - Miguel Viacrucis+ 8 am - Marion Enis Paoli+ 9:15 am - Paul Sbragia & J.P. Sbragia-Zoricic+ 10:45 am - CTK Parishioners 12:15 pm - Manuel Chua+ 6:00 pm - Paulo Javier Gener+ 199 Brandon Road Pleasant Hill, CA 925-682-2486 SCHEDULE OF MASSES Daily Masses: Monday-Friday, 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, 6:00 pm CONFESSIONS: Saturday: 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm Parish Office: 682-2486 www.ctkph.org Religious Ed: 686-1017 www.ctkreligious education.org Youth Ministry: 676-0979 www.ctkym.org Facebook: Christ the King Catholic Community of Pleasant Hill Thursday, 2/1 • Family Faith Grp, Parish Hall 6 pm • Youth Group, 7:30 pm Friday, 2/2 Saturday, 2/3 • Men’s Fellowship, Rm D 7:30 am Sunday, 2/4 • Scout Sunday, 9:15 mass • Clow, 9:15 mass • 3 yr. old, pre-K, K sessions 9:15 am • Confirmation 11 am - 1 pm, Hall Week At A Glance Upcoming Mass Intentions Christ the King Church
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Sunday, 1/28 • No RE/ No CLOW • Catholic Schools Week Monday, 1/29 • No RE/ Catechist In-service • RCIA, Parish Hall 7 pm Tuesday, 1/30 • No RE 1-5/ Catechist In-service RE Grades 7-8 Wednesday, 1/31 • No RE Grades 1-5 • RE Grade 6 • Young Adults, Room D 7 pm
1/29 8 am - Natalia Louro+ 1/30 8 am - James Keane+ 1/31 8 am - Hilrey Watson+ 2/1 8 am - Bob Dunham+
2/2 8 am - Harry McElroy+ 6 pm - John & David Macaluso+ Saturday, 2/3 8 am - Salome Romana+ 5 pm - Lorenzo Verceles+, Greg Limpin+ Sunday, 2/4 7 am - Miguel Viacrucis+ 8 am - Marion Enis Paoli+ 9:15 am - Paul Sbragia & J.P. Sbragia-Zoricic+
10:45 am - CTK Parishioners 12:15 pm - Manuel Chua+ 6:00 pm - Paulo Javier Gener+
Thursday, 2/1 • Family Faith Grp, Parish Hall 6 pm • Youth Group, 7:30 pm Friday, 2/2 Saturday, 2/3 • Men’s Fellowship, Rm D 7:30 am Sunday, 2/4 • Scout Sunday, 9:15 mass • Clow, 9:15 mass • 3 yr. old, pre-K, K sessions 9:15 am • Confirmation 11 am - 1 pm, Hall
Week At A Glance
Upcoming Mass Intentions
Christ the King Church
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
January 28, 2018
First Reading: Deuteronomy 18:15-20
The events in today’s reading take place as the Israelites are camped on the shore of the Jordan River ready to enter the Promised Land. Moses is near death and is giving final instructions. He promis-es that after his death, God will still be with them through another proph-et. Both Jewish and Christian read-ers have seen this as referring to the future Messiah.
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 7:32-35
In this section of the first letter to the Corinthians, Paul is responding to their question about whether it is better to remain single or become married. Paul’s belief was that when you became Christian, you shouldn’t take on a new state in life since he expected Jesus would return in glory soon.
This Sunday, Christ the King begins our annual celebration of Catholic Schools Week with Family Mass at 9:15 followed by our Open House until 11:30 and continues Thursday, February 1, with New Family tours at 8 a.m. Catholic Schools Week is a movement that students in Catholic Schools across the country participate in. Students nationwide will enjoy some fun and well-earned distractions during the deepest part of winter. Normal schedules are interwoven with National Geo Bee, rallies, field trips, games, Science Fairs, open houses, and the student’s favorite Crazy Dress Up Days. I invite everyone in our Christ the King community to please join us for Sun-day’s Open House or Tuesday Night’s Science Fair at 7:00 p.m. I especially encourage everyone with school aged children or even grandchildren to join us Thursday to tour the school while classes are in session. If you’ve never visited CTK school before or maybe it’s been years since you’ve visited the last time you will notice some changes. Christ the King Catholic School has been a vital part of this Parish community since it first opened its doors in 1961. Some things have changed in these past 50+ years, some good, some less good, some just different. No one walks home for lunch any more. We no longer squeeze, an impossible to imagine, 50 students into classrooms full of arrow-straight rows of desks. Class sizes are more manageable and are broken into even smaller strategically leveled groups for things like centers and daily reading blocks. You’ll now see kids working at standing desks, sitting on comfy seats in the library or sitting on pads that help to work out their wiggle. You will also observe students work-ing cooperatively in groups to complete projects and tasks while teachers move around the room guiding students towards the day’s learning objectives. You would be hard pressed to find a piece of chalk on campus, but every classroom has an interactive white board and speakers so that students can see and hear better from all over the room. Even today CTK still has a “Hot Dog Room,” though now teachers use it for prepping lessons instead of prepping hot dogs. However, parents still give generously of their time, talent, and treasure to keep up the tradition of Hot Lunch every Thursday. We have chickens now and a garden for food as well as a garden for prayer. Teachers, our Parish Priests, and the Religious Education team still instruct students in the Sacraments during their 2nd grade year, we still celebrate the feasts of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Blaze and we gather for Mass in our student Faith Families every Friday morning at 8. Like before, CTK School has amazing, dedicated, and tragically underpaid Faculty and Staff but now they are no longer Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. The most important constant from 1961 is the wonderful students at this school. These kids are smart, kind, and funny. Students leave CTK prepared with the academic foundations necessary to excel well beyond the challenges of High School. Perhaps even more im-portantly, our students graduate with a centered sense of self that steadies and guides them in their lives outside of the school doors. Finally, now, as it was in 1961, it is the participation of this entire Parish community that makes this school so successful. This is your Parish School, and we hope you are as proud of it as we are. Without your generosity and prayers none of this would be possible. Thank you. Chris Caban, Principal
On behalf of the parish community, I would like to thank the CTK School Leadership Team, staff and faculty for their dedication to our children. May our Good Lord bless all our school families and their children. Welcome to new families! Fr. Paulson
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Pray for Our Sick May you be wrapped up in God’s love, Found deep in His everlasting
wings, Carried and kept, safe and cherished. May the healing power of Christ breathe across your being now.
Diana Daly, Charlie Scudiere, Ryan Joseph, Oscar Rodrigues,
Elizabeth Sturdevant
Have you lost someone you love? Are you looking for support? Christ the King’s Grief Support Work-shop is a 7 week program that creates a safe and welcoming space for those experiencing the pain that comes with the death of a loved one. Sessions are Tuesday nights from 7-9 pm, at Queen of Heaven’s beautiful new chapel. Carpools from CTK availa-ble. Workshop is Tuesday, Feb. 13 through March 27th. Register by Tuesday, February 6. To register or for more information, please contact Kate Neal at 510-267-8339/[email protected].
Christ the King CYO track season begins February 1st. We are a CYO track program for 2nd through 8th grade boys and girls in the Pleasant Hill/Martinez/Walnut Creek area. Practices will be on Mondays and Thursdays at the College Park track. Visit ctktrack.org for information.
Church Support 1/21/18 $27,631.00 (plate collections $21,799 + online giving $5,832)
Capital Campaign - Gym, Kitchen Update: We currently have 95 fami-lies pledging $160,255.16. Thanks to those 95 families! Won’t you con-sider joining them? Please pick up a pledge sheet and consider helping renovate these much used facilities.
Carondelet High School’s annual Mother-Daughter Retreat is a spe-cial time for women to explore, af-firm and celebrate their unique bonds. It is open to all mothers, grandmoth-ers, aunts, alumnae and their daugh-ters who are in 8th grade, high school, college or beyond. Sunday, February 25 at Carondelet’s Garaven-ta Center. Tickets on sale now at Ca-rondeletHS.org/MotherDaughter.
Christ the King Men’s Retreat! March 23-25, 2018 at San Damiano Retreat House. The retreat master will be our very own Pastor, Fr. Paul-son. For information contact Pete O’Brien at [email protected] or 899-6662 or Eddy Williams at [email protected]. or 787-7631.
ctkAlive! Lenten sign-ups are here! This 6-week series invites us to en-gage more fully with our Catholic FAITH, explore new approaches to PRAYER, and consider ways to AC-TION. Morning and evening ses-sions: Fridays 10am - noon, 2/16-3/23; Wednesdays, 7-9pm, 2/21-3/28. sign up after Masses on Jan. 27/28 or email [email protected]. ctkAlive! Be alive and active in your parish community.
CTK School Open House 1/28! Join us after the 9:15 mass Open House 10:15 - 11:30 am. 2018 Tours & Principal Q & A: Thurs-day, February 1 at 8:00 am. Ques-tions? CTK school 925-685-1109.
Orientation Meetings for Hospital Ministry: Fr. Padraig Greene has planned two Orientation Meetings for all parishioners who have signed up to be Eucharistic Ministers at John Muir, Concord and Regional Medical Center, Martinez. Meetings will be held at CTK on Thurs. Feb. 1 at 1:30 pm in Rooms A/B and at 6:30 pm in the church. At this meeting proce-dures and hospital policies will be discussed. Contact Fr. Padraig at [email protected] if you have any questions.
Seekers and Saints, Women of Transformation - March 11, at 1:00 pm in the parish hall. CTK Branch of the Italian Catholic Federation pre-sents Tiffany Hoover’s one woman show with monologues depicting the lives and epiphanies of three stunning, strong, and spiritual women of faith and action: Dorothy Day, Ruth and St. Teresa of Avila. After the 80 mi-nute performance, light refreshments and discussion will follow. Free will offering. For more information, con-tact Paul at [email protected].
Scout Sunday, February 4! All Scouts and Scouters are welcome to help us celebrate Scout Sunday, Feb-ruary 4th during the 9:15 Mass by attending in full dress uniform. If your Scout has earned their Religious Emblem and would like to receive their Emblem at the Mass, please contact Bill Johansen at [email protected]
This weekend we have a special 2nd collection to support our peer leaders who will be attending our Confirma-tion Retreat. Thank you for your sup-port.
Healing Mass ~ Anointing of the Sick Saturday, February 17 at 10:30 am
“Is anyone among you sick? He should summon the presbyters of the Church and they should pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord (James 5:14). All are welcome to join us for a parish Mass and celebra-tion of the Sacrament of the Anointing of the sick. Bring relatives and friends from local care facilities - those who are able to come. Questions? Sr. Dom-inic Marie 925-246-1122.
Homework Club Support: Contra Costa Interfaith Housing is looking for compassionate individuals to help in their afterschool Homework Club. The sites are in Pleasant Hill, Con-cord and Pittsburg. Tutors provide academic and mentoring support to children from low-income homes in grades K-12. Commitment is one afternoon per week (Mon-Thurs). If you are interested, please visit www.ccinterfaithhousing.org to vol-unteer.
Alive and active in our faith as a parish community
ctkAlive! Officially Launches 2018 marks the official launch of ctkAlive!
This 6-week series, 2 hours per week invites us each to
• Engage more fully with our Catholic FAITH • Explore new approaches to PRAYER
• Consider how we can translate our FAITH and PRAYER into ACTION to make a difference in
our communities
Fr. Paulson has asked each adult member of CTK to participate in one of the ctkAlive!
Series offered this year or in the next few years.
How about now?
LAST CALL!!
Join us at our annual Women’s Retreat at beautiful
Vallombrosa Retreat Center in Menlo Park! The theme will be: The Generations: Finding Grace
in the Gaps! Join us for a retreat that explores the concepts of generational differences today ~
while delving into the lives of some biblical folks who experienced similar challenges.
Retreat leader: Kathy Roberts Dates are February 23-25, 2018.
To reserve a room, contact Sr. Dominic Marie at 925-246-1122 or
Christ the King Church #519944 199 Brandon Road Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 TELEPHONE 925 682-2486 CONTACT PERSON Robin Morley EMAIL: [email protected] SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2010 Adobe Acrobat 9 Windows 7 TRANSMISSION TIME Tuesday, 12:00 pm SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION January 28, 2018 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 6 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
