Religious Education and High School Youth Group Calendar for Fall 2019

Religious Education begins Sunday, September 22nd for grades K-8. There is no cost to register, but all participants must attend Mass regularly at Corpus Christi.
Classes are between the Sunday Masses, 10:20 to 11:20am -- final Sunday of the month, Eucharistic Devotions are mandatory for the children and it is expected that at least one parent would also be present (parents of children preparing for first sacraments are required to attend).

High School Youth Group begins Wednesday, September 25th for grades 9-12. There is no cost to register, and all youth are welcome.
Classes are Wednesday evenings from 7 to 8:30pm -- dinner is 7 to 7:30pm (provided by the parish), with class 7:30-8:30pm concluding with fifteen minutes of adoration.



Religious Education Calendar, Fall 2019
Sept 22 -- First Class for children, and mandatory meeting for parents
Sept 29 -- Eucharistic Procession with class
Oct 6 -- Parish Rosary with children and parents
Oct 13 -- Class
Oct 20 -- Safe and Sacred Safe Environment Training
Oct 27 -- Eucharist Procession
Thursday, October 31st -- All Saints Party after 5:30pm Vigil Mass
Nov 3 -- Class
Nov 10 -- Class
Nov 17 -- Class
Nov 24 -- Eucharist Devotions
Dec 1 -- Thanksgiving Break
Dec 8 -- Class
Dec 15 -- Class with Las Posadas
Dec 22 -- Christmas Break
Dec 29 -- Christmas Break, Eucharistic Devotions
Jan 5 -- Religious Ed Classes Resume  (concluding May 3rd)



Youth Group Calendar, Fall 2019  (Theme: The Scriptures)
Sept 25 -- First High School Youth Group
Oct 2 -- Class
Oct 9 -- Class
Oct 16 -- Class
Oct 23 -- Safe and Sacred Safe Environment Training
Oct 30 -- Class
Nov 6 -- Class
Nov 13 -- Class
Nov 20 -- Class
Nov 27 -- Class
Dec 4 -- Class
Dec 11 -- Class
Dec 18 -- Christmas Break
Classes resume January 15th (concluding February 19th)

Parish Schedule Changes September 2019

Saturday, September 7th --
No 9 AM Mass, Mass at Ursuline Center at 10:30am


Friday, September 13th--
No 4:30 PM confessions


Saturday, September 14th --
No 9 AM Mass, Mass at Ursuline Center at 11am


Tuesday, September 17th --
No 5:30 PM Mass


Wednesday, September 18th --
No 7 AM Mass
No 4:30-7 PM Confessions


Thursday, September 19th --
No 7 AM Mass


Saturday, September 21st --
Ember Saturday Devotions for Vocations!
9 AM Mass
10-11 AM Holy Hour For Vocations
11 AM - 1 PM Altar Boy Training, Fun Day, Lunch

August 27th, Adult Ed Series on the City of God, Session 5 of 16, Introduction to Books XI-XXII, Creation

In this series, which will continue for about six months, we are discussing the City of God by St Augustine - one of the most influential books in human history, a book that formed Western Civilization.

In session 5, we begin the study of the second half of the work (Books XI-XXII), and discuss St Augustine's theory of creation and why he does not believe that the "six days" refer to 24 hour periods or any passage of time at all, but to the angelic knowledge of creation.

Sunday Sermon, August 25 -- The Heresy of Modernism

Pope St Pius X (who established our Diocese of Great Falls - Billings, MT) condemned modernism as the "synthesis of all heresies". But what is modernism, and how does it relate to the Church today?

Modernism claims that all truth and even the revealed dogmas of the Church are to be adapted, changed, and subordinated to the spirit of the modern age. Modernism teaches not simply the development of dogma (where what was believed from the very beginning is made more explicit and taught more clearly as the ages progress), but the evolution of dogma according to which the truth essentially changes for the modern era. Modernism, then, places man at the center of all things and defines truth and reality as subject to man's experience.

Though modernism was condemned over 100 years ago, we see it is still causing confusion in the Church today -- it is modernism which is at the root of Fr Sosa SJ (the superior of the Jesuits throughout the world) heretically stating that the devil doesn't exist as a real person, and it is modernism that leads people to reject our Lord's words in the Gospel that very few are saved.


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Sunday Sermon, August 18th -- The Prophet Jeremiah, Recognizing the Catastrophe and the Call to Repentance

The prophet Jeremiah is himself a prefigurement of our Lord in his passion. Having written the book of Jeremiah as well as Lamentations, and influencing Baruch as well, Jeremiah is the "weeping prophet" who calls Judah to repentance but is rejected by the people as they face destruction at the hands of the Babylonians.

We consider the history of the times of Jeremiah and the ways in which this prophet foreshadows our Lord.  Further, we recognize that the false prophets of Jeremiah's day said that all was well and that the nation was strong, and Jeremiah was seen as an enemy of the people for preaching the need to change course and repent. So also today, there are many who claim the Church is flourishing and parishes are vibrant and all is well, but we recognize a massive loss of the faith (only about 1/4 of Catholics under 40 believe in the Real Presence, and so few attend Mass on Holy Days of Obligation, etc). Today also, those who speak prophetically of the need for conversion and a change of course from what we have been doing in the past 40 years since Vatican II are seen almost as enemies of the Church -- but we must heed the voice of Jeremiah, and embrace the opportunity to return to the solid traditions of the Catholic Faith before all is lost.


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