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CORPUS, celebrating forty-two years of service to the people of God, is one of the oldest reform groups in the Catholic Church, and is active in reform movements both in the U.S. and abroad. We are committed to working for a renewed priesthood of married and single men and women dedicated to serving God through the Community of Believer.
4th Sunday of Easter
When sheep lose trust and confidence in their shepherds, when they sense a lack of attention and care when they have no example to follow, they tend to scatter. And without a flock to tend, shepherds are no longer shepherds.
And the Gospel is blunt and absolutely clear in reminding us that our shepherding should be marked by compassion and justice, gentleness and reconciliation - by our own willingness to lay down our lives. Maybe it is time for all of us to re-examine just how willing we are to do just tha
Spiritus Christi Church Job Posting
Pastor/Executive Director - We offer a vibrant spiritual community with dedicated parishioners.
The Position: At Spiritus Christi Church, we recognize Jesus as our Senior Pastor. With Jesus as our mentor, we are looking for a full-time, energetic church pastor with a strong faith and a compassionate heart. She/he needs to have a vision for serving the poor and feel prayerfully called to lead the spiritual life of the parish.
At Spiritus, we need a pastor with leadership and management experience to oversee our many ministries and outreaches. The position requires not only typical pastoral duties, such as preaching to the congregation, visiting the sick, marrying and burying parishioners, but also executive duties, such as working with the Visioning Board, Stewardship, Personnel and Parish Community Forum committees, advising the outreaches and in-reaches, and leading and training the staff. Our pastor works collaboratively with both staff and parishioners to develop ministries, set goals, implement policies, and supervise and support staff and volunteers. He/She represents our church in the wider Rochester community.
INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC FAITH COMMUNITY IN COLORADO SEEKS NEW PASTOR
INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC FAITH COMMUNITY IN COLORADO SEEKS NEW PASTOR
Church of the Holy Family (CHF) in Aurora, Colorado (www.churchofholyfamily.org) is seeking a new permanent Pastor. This church is a small post-Vatican II, ecumenical, progressive Catholic faith community (with a 15 year history) and is a member of the Ecumenical Catholic Communion (http://ecumenical-catholic-communion.org/) CHF is a community of dynamic, active lay leaders and deacons. Members of CORPUS who wish to be active in ministry are encouraged to consider this open position, or apply.
Any potential candidate could either be part of or outside of the ECC, but, if outside, would need to meet the ECC criteria for ordination or incardination into this ECC community. Further information is available upon request. Please contact: Church of Holy Family Call Committee Reply to: Bonnie Pino Fraser, 436 N. Coolidge Way Aurora, CO 80018 Call: 720 281-6437 or mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Making Sense of Man's Inhumanity to Man
Making Sense of Man’s Inhumanity to Man
by Hank Mattimore
If one of the major tasks of old age is to make sense of life, I flunk.
For starters I can’t begin to comprehend the isolation, the loneliness the rejection that drove a young man to plan and execute the brutal murder of 17 human beings, most of them his own peers. My eight decades of life experience can’t tell me why.
Like so many of us, the word “disheartened” comes to mind. Our humanity is sickened, “dis-heartened” as though our hearts have been murdered along with the victims.
We cope in different ways when we hear of yet another school massacre. We rage at the greed of our elected representatives who are selling their very souls for the filthy lucre of campaign money.
We shed tears for the victims and their families and yes, for ourselves because allowing the killing of our children to happen poisons the air we breathe, casts a dark cloud of sadness and despair over our lives.
Frank Bonnike
REST IN PEACE
January 6, 1923 ~ April 5, 2018 (age 95)
“No priest or bishop has done more for American diocesan priests than Frank” are the words used by Eugene Kennedy, a writer and long-time observer of the Catholic Church, to describe the life of Frank Bonnike, age 95 who died on April 5th at his home in Elburn IL.
In 1970 Bonnike was drafted at the national convention of the National Federation of Priests’ Councils to be its second president. He was a Northwestern University industrial management graduate who had attended Harvard, became a naval aviation supply corps officer and was engaged to be married for three years. After his marriage plans broke up he served on the post-war naval aviation board for the re-deployment of aeronautical materials in Washington, DC and attended The Catholic University of America where he studied philosophy and was tutored in Latin. He entered Theological College at Catholic University and was ordained for the Rockford diocese in 1952, a classmate of Joseph Bernardin.
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