The King's Corner

Go to  http://christthekingparish.com/living-stations-2018/ to watch the video or view photos from our Youth Ministries moving presentation of "The Way of the Cross"

One Liturgy which unfolds in Stages:   Our Annual observance of the Sacred or Paschal Triduum takes place over three liturgical days reckoned from sunset to sunset beginning on Holy Thursday evening and ending on the evening of Easter Sunday.  This is the shortest but holiest season of the entire Church year as we move from supper table to trial and crucifixion, to tomb, and to empty tomb in what is one liturgy of prayerful remembering and thanksgiving which the faithful are invited to engage in whether gathered at church with the whole community of faith or while in their homes. The church envisions this as an annual retreat of sorts as we refrain from all unnecessary activities in order to focus primarily on the passion, death and resurrection of Christ by which we have been saved from final death.  So in between gathering at Church for the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper, or the Service of the Passion, or the Vigil of Easter or the celebrations of Morning Prayer

March 25, 2018 Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion Readings for today's Homily  To watch Mass in its entirety click The Mass

We hope you take some time, this last week of Lent to follow along.

So often, I have heard many parishioners, friends, and family members talk about feeling that they themselves or someone they know or are related to feel  like there is something off about their life but just can’t pin point what it is.  The world is filled with all types of unrest.  The other day, this paper was emailed to me with an apology that the name of the author and where it appeared was lost over the years. I felt it was worth sharing with all of you. I am sorry that I am unable to provide the author and the source of this essay. I feel that it is definitely worth sharing with all of you. It is about changing your way of life and what needs to be done to “be the change.” “First and foremost, you MUST want to make changes and be willing to do the work. You do not need to justify your behavior to anyone, past, present or future to any person not even yourself. You need to develop a new respect for your fragility. A ROUGH START is better than NO START. You need balance. You

A year 2000 Oscar-winner was Gladiator.  Early in the movie Maximus, a Roman General and later the Gladiator,  rushed from the battlefield to defend his wife and young son from Roman soldiers who turned against him at the command of the new emperor.  He arrived too late and found them burned and crucified at the entrance of their home.  Kneeling beneath them and reaching up to touch their feet, he wept uncontrollably. A courageous man wept for the ones he loved.  So does Jesus in this Gospel passage – one of the few times we hear that Jesus cried.   But in this case it’s the one who will be crucified, Jesus, weeping for the one he loved – Lazarus, a name that means: “one who has been raised from the dead.”  The author of the Gospel of John and this story written decades after Jesus’ death appears to have picked the name “Lazarus” because of what it meant. What’s happening in the Gospel, and why is it relevant to our catechumen-elect, Evan, who will come into full communion with t

March 11, 2018 - Fourth Sunday of Lent. Readings for today's Homily  To watch Mass in its entirety click The Mass

On February 16, 2014, there was an article that appeared in the Boston Globe that was entitled “Catholic Confession’s Steep Price.” The article was quick to point out and I quote “Fifty years ago, the great majority of Catholics in this country confessed their sins regularly to a priest. Confession, after all, is one of the seven Catholic sacraments. But now only 2 percent of Catholics go regularly to confession, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, a nonprofit organization affiliated with Georgetown University—and three-quarters of them never go, or go less than once a year. In many parishes, the sacrament is currently available only by appointment.” Perhaps, the reason for the decline is that we either have forgotten the purpose of the Sacrament of Confession or never truly understood it.  In Matthew, Chapter 4, we read that from the time Jesus heard that John the Baptist had been imprisoned, He began to preach. Christ’s first word, like that of John

Do you ever wonder why we do what we do? This Mass is worth watching! March 4, 2018 - Third Sunday of Lent. Readings for today's Homily  To watch Mass in its entirety click The Mass

When next  we begin a new month we will be celebrating Easter so the time that remains to us in this season of Lent will certainly pass quickly.  Thus now is a good time to reassess our faithfulness to  the disciplines of prayer,  fasting, and almsgiving that are prescribed to us as penance and meant to  foster our ongoing conversion during the 40 days  of  Lent.     Have we increased the time we spend in personal and communal prayer?   Have we succeeded in saying no to our appetites  more frequently by fasting and self denial ?   Has our self denial allowed us to  save money  that can be given to the agencies  designated to benefit from our almsgiving  this Lent; St. Vincent de Paul, Catholic Relief Services, and Food for the Poor - El Tablon Project.   Let the fruitfulness of  this  Lent be assured as we redouble our efforts now before its days run out!  STATIONS AND A SIMPLE SUPPER on  Friday, March 23rd beginning at 5PM  is a perfect way for us to celebrate our solida

In 1969, a singer by the name of Peggy Lee had a hit song entitled “Is that all there is?”  It was inspired by the 1896 story, Disillusionment by Thomas Mann.  It is a song and a story that seems to be very reflective of the attitude of the world today.  It is about a person who is disillusioned with events in his life that are supposedly, at least in his mind, unique experiences which bring nothing but disappointment. So, his solution is to “instead of worrying about life, just break out the booze and have a ball if that is all there is to life.” That is his escape plan.  Suicide is not an option because he is sure that death will be a disappointment as well.” This seems to be the growing and worsening mentality of the world today.  Booze is being replaced or supplemented with drugs, burglary, road rage, mass shootings by young and old, rich and poor shooters. Every kind of assault is being perpetrated to what end?  None of these bring end to misery. And, it seems that t