August 21, 2016 Welcome Fr. Gberikon! Fr. Gabriel Gberikon is stationed at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Gboko, the second-largest city in Benue State. Benue State lies within the lower Benue valley in the middle belt region of North-central Nigeria. The Benue River is the main tribu- tary of the Niger River, the third- longest river in Africa, exceeded only by the Nile and the Congo. The Niger begins in Guinea, and runs through Mali, Niger, and then through Nige- ria, connecting with the Benue, and discharging through the massive Ni- ger Delta into the Atlantic Ocean. For centuries, various peoples in what is now Nigeria have traded with one another, and many cities became prosperous centers in a broad network of trade routes that spanned western, central and northern Africa. In the 16th century, Spanish and Portuguese explorers were the first Europeans to begin trading goods with coastal peoples of modern-day Nigeria, at the port they named La- gos and in Calabar. Coastal trade with Europeans also marked the beginnings of the Atlan- tic slave trade. In 1526, the Portu- guese completed the first transatlan- tic slave voyage from Africa to the Americas, and other countries soon followed. People living around the Niger River were captured and sold at trading ports in exchange for European-made muskets and goods such as cloth or alcohol. A number of slave routes were established throughout Nigeria linking the hin- terland areas with the major coastal ports. During this era the population of the Benue valley was nearly deci- mated by slave hunters. The port of Calabar became one of the largest slave trading posts in West Africa. The location of this year’s Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, was founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, and Rio de Janeiro became one of the largest slave markets in the New World. On January 1, 1901, Nigeria be- came a British protectorate, and part of the British Empire. The British set up administrative and legal structures, practicing indirect rule through traditional chiefdoms. Nigeria became a formally inde- pendent federation in 1960. With approximately 184 million inhabi- tants, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the seventh most populous country in the world. Nigeria has one of the largest popu- lations of youth in the world. The country is viewed as a multina- tional state, with more than 500 ethnic groups and cultures. The official language is English. Benue State was initially known as Munshi Province. In 1918 the name of its dominant feature, the 'Benue River' was adopted. Benue occupies a landmass of more than 13,000 square miles. The State has a total population of more than 4,500,000. This makes Benue the 9th most populous state in Nigeria. The larg- est city of Benue (and the state capital) is Makurdi. The next two largest cities are Gboko and Otukpo. Gboko is the traditional capital of the Tiv tribe, and Otukpo is the ancestral home to the Idoma people. Benue State is characterized by forests, which yield trees for timber and provide a habitat for several rare animal species. Agriculture is the mainstay of the econ- omy, engaging over 75% of the popula- tion. Benue is the nation’s food basket, growing yam, rice, beans, sweet-potato, maize, soybean, etc. However, Gboko lacks modern infrastructure, has poor road networks and youth unemployment is very high. The northern part of Nigeria has been Muslim for centuries, and the southern part (connecting to the Niger Delta) has been evangelized by Christian mission- aries since the days of the Spanish and Portuguese traders. Christian missions established Western schools in the Brit- ish Protectorates. Some children pur- sued higher education in Great Britain. Medical standards are fairly high; Nige- ria was the first African nation to effec- tively eliminate the Ebola virus. The Roman Catholic Church is the pio- neer church in the Benue Valley. In 1884 the Pope established the Apostolic Prefecture of Upper Niger, which was renamed the Apostolic Prefecture of Western Nigeria in 1918. In 1934 the Apostolic Prefecture of Benue was cre- ated from the Western Nigeria Vicariate, and was then made the independent Diocese of Oturkpo. In 1960 Oturkpo was renamed Makurdi, the name of the largest city. On December 29, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI created the Diocese of Gboko from a section of the Makurdi Diocese. The Diocese of Gboko has a teeming population of 1.4 million Catholics. The diocese is predominantly rural, and cov- ers a generally underdeveloped part of Nigeria. As a young diocese, it has many major challenges that require attention, particularly forming priests and lay lead- ers, and organizing social services, espe- cially for the youth. On behalf of Bishop William Avenya, the clergy, religious and lay leaders, Rev. Fr. 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August 21, 2016
Welcome Fr. Gberikon!
Fr. Gabriel Gberikon is stationed at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Gboko, the second-largest city in Benue State. Benue State lies within the lower Benue valley in the middle belt region of North-central Nigeria. The Benue River is the main tribu-tary of the Niger River, the third-longest river in Africa, exceeded only by the Nile and the Congo. The Niger begins in Guinea, and runs through Mali, Niger, and then through Nige-ria, connecting with the Benue, and discharging through the massive Ni-ger Delta into the Atlantic Ocean.
For centuries, various peoples in what is now Nigeria have traded with one another, and many cities became prosperous centers in a broad network of trade routes that spanned western, central and northern Africa. In the 16th century, Spanish and Portuguese explorers were the first Europeans to begin trading goods with coastal peoples of modern-day Nigeria, at the port they named La-gos and in Calabar.
Coastal trade with Europeans also marked the beginnings of the Atlan-tic slave trade. In 1526, the Portu-guese completed the first transatlan-tic slave voyage from Africa to the Americas, and other countries soon followed. People living around the Niger River were captured and sold at trading ports in exchange for European-made muskets and goods such as cloth or alcohol. A number of slave routes were established throughout Nigeria linking the hin-terland areas with the major coastal ports. During this era the population of the Benue valley was nearly deci-mated by slave hunters. The port of Calabar became one of the largest slave trading posts in West Africa.
The location of this year’s Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, was founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, and Rio de Janeiro became one of the largest slave markets in the New World.
On January 1, 1901, Nigeria be-came a British protectorate, and part of the British Empire. The British set up administrative and legal structures, practicing indirect rule through traditional chiefdoms. Nigeria became a formally inde-pendent federation in 1960. With approximately 184 million inhabi-tants, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the seventh most populous country in the world. Nigeria has one of the largest popu-lations of youth in the world. The country is viewed as a multina-tional state, with more than 500 ethnic groups and cultures. The official language is English.
Benue State was initially known as Munshi Province. In 1918 the name of its dominant feature, the 'Benue River' was adopted. Benue occupies a landmass of more than 13,000 square miles. The State has a total population of more than 4,500,000. This makes Benue the 9th most populous state in Nigeria. The larg-est city of Benue (and the state capital) is Makurdi. The next two largest cities are Gboko and Otukpo. Gboko is the traditional capital of the Tiv tribe, and Otukpo is the ancestral home to the Idoma people.
Benue State is characterized by forests, which yield trees for timber and provide a habitat for several rare animal species. Agriculture is the mainstay of the econ-omy, engaging over 75% of the popula-tion. Benue is the nation’s food basket, growing yam, rice, beans, sweet-potato,
maize, soybean, etc. However, Gboko lacks modern infrastructure, has poor road networks and youth unemployment is very high.
The northern part of Nigeria has been Muslim for centuries, and the southern part (connecting to the Niger Delta) has been evangelized by Christian mission-aries since the days of the Spanish and Portuguese traders. Christian missions established Western schools in the Brit-ish Protectorates. Some children pur-sued higher education in Great Britain. Medical standards are fairly high; Nige-ria was the first African nation to effec-tively eliminate the Ebola virus.
The Roman Catholic Church is the pio-neer church in the Benue Valley. In 1884 the Pope established the Apostolic Prefecture of Upper Niger, which was renamed the Apostolic Prefecture of Western Nigeria in 1918. In 1934 the Apostolic Prefecture of Benue was cre-ated from the Western Nigeria Vicariate, and was then made the independent Diocese of Oturkpo. In 1960 Oturkpo was renamed Makurdi, the name of the largest city. On December 29, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI created the Diocese of Gboko from a section of the Makurdi Diocese.
The Diocese of Gboko has a teeming population of 1.4 million Catholics. The diocese is predominantly rural, and cov-ers a generally underdeveloped part of Nigeria. As a young diocese, it has many major challenges that require attention, particularly forming priests and lay lead-ers, and organizing social services, espe-cially for the youth. On behalf of Bishop William Avenya, the clergy, religious and lay leaders, Rev. Fr. Gabriel Gberikon, Cathedral Administrator of St. John the Baptist in Gboko, will con-duct the mission appeal today. Fr. Clore
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Christ the King Parish
OUR PARISH MISSION We are Christ the King Parish, a richly diverse Christian Community in Northwest Detroit. We are on a journey of Discipleship with Jesus, seeking conversion, reconcilia-tion and renewal. We reach out in welcome to all the people within our neighborhood, proclaiming the good News of Christ the King, building community, celebrating together, serving one another’s needs and the needs of all our neighbors.
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Mass Intentions
Sunday August 21, 2016 10:45am Dinh Tran By Phuong & Family Joe Acosta By Dave & andi Kovach
Monday ~ Saturday No Mass ~ Fr. Clore is on Vacation
Sunday August 28, 2016 10:45am Dinh Tran By Nhung & Family Coffee Hour is sponsored this week by:
Sophia Kaza & Louise Ramsay
FOOD FOR THE JOURNEY 8/21 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 66:18-21, Ps 117:1-2, Lk 13:22-30 Mon 8/22 Thes 1:1-5, 11-12, Mt 23:13-22 Tue 8/23 Thes 2:1-3a, 14-17 Mt 23:23-26 Wed 8/24 Rv 21:9b-14, Jn 1:45-51 Thu 8/25 Cor 1:1-9, Mt 24:42-51 Fri 8/26 Cor 1:17-25, Mt 25: 1-13 Sat 8/27 Cor 1:26-31, Nt 25:14-30 8/28 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Sir 3:17-18, 20,28-29, Heb 12:18-19, 22-24a, Lk 14:1, 7-14
Liturgical Ministries For NEXT Sunday August 28, 2016
Lectors: Avia Pichon & Luther McCaskill
Servers: Kendall, Brandon & Benjamin McCaskill
Liturgy of the Word for Children None– Summer Break
Serving at the Table of the Lord Genny Singleton
Ministers of Service Nicole McDonald & Johnny Swift
This Week: Sun 8/21 10:45am Mass & Coffee Hr. Welcome Fr. Gabriel Gberikon
Mon 8/22 — Sat 8/23 No Mass Fr. Clore is on vacation
Sun 8/28 10:45am Mass & Coffee Hr.
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Pastoral Staff Rev. Victor Clore, Pastor…...…[email protected] Deacon Joe Urbiel………[email protected] 248-910-0490 Mrs. Maureen Northrup...…Christian Service Outreach [email protected] Ms Nicole Evans………………….…..Office Manager [email protected] or [email protected] Mrs. Andi Kovach ………………………Bookkeeping [email protected] Mrs. Amanda Lund………………………...Principal [email protected] Parish Council Elected Members: Judy Bruttell……...……………..…Council Chair Nicole Evans, Martha Cooney, Mark Barkey, Sr. Mau-reen Mulcrone, Bill Waterhouse, Pam Swift, Johnny Swift, Genny Singleton Commissions Debbie MacDonald………………..Christian Service Carole Ann Beaman…………………...……Worship Ron Hildebrandt……………………...…Stewardship Michelle Lewis……………………...Faith Formation Michele Rochester……………….....Finance Council Lois Phillips……………………….….Evangelization Bob Bruttell & Ron Eady…………………..Inclusion St. Vincent dePaul………...…………313-535-7272 Liturgy Schedule Sunday…………………………….………10:45am Wednesday and Friday……………………..8:30am Religious Education First & Third Sunday ……………….9:30-10:30am Becoming Catholic Adults, Children, Youth: If you are interested in becoming a member of the Catholic faith or learning more about the Catholic Church, the Adult Catechu-menate will prepare you for this decision. Please call the Parish Office if you would like more information. Infants: Baptism is the public celebration of the begin-ning of life in the Church. At the celebration of Bap-tism, parents publicly affirm their decision to raised their child in the faith of the church. To make arrange-ments for your infant to be baptized, please contact the Parish Office. Pre-Baptismal classes for parents and godparents are necessary, held as arranged with fami-lies.
Holy Eucharist and Confirmation Preparation Call the Parish Office…………………..313-532-1211 Other Sacraments Reconciliation………………….……By Appointment Anointing of the sick…………………..313-532-1211 Marriage Call the parish office; 6 months preparation
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The Wisdom of Pope Francis
If we want it to have real meaning and fulfillment, as you want and as you deserve, I say to each one of you, 'Put on faith', and your life will take on a new flavor, it will have a
compass to show you the way; 'put on hope' and every one of your days will be enlightened and your hori-zon will no longer be dark, but lu-minous; 'put on love', and your life will be like a house built on rock, your journey will be joyful, because you will find many friends to jour-ney with you. Jesus is the one who brings God to us and us to God. 'Put on Christ!' in your life, and you will find a friend in whom you can always trust; 'put on Christ' and you will see the wings of hope spreading and letting you journey with joy towards the future; 'put on Christ' and your life will be full of his love; it will be a fruit-ful life.
To the youth at World Youth Day 2016
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Molly Sanford hales from Hickory, North Carolina but has lived in numerous cities and towns including Ashe-ville, NC, Chicago and Boone, NC since then. Molly pursued a degree in Psychology and minored in sociology at the University of North Carolina Asheville and graduated in 2012. Since then, Molly completed a year of volunteer service at Franciscan Outreach in Chicago working at a soup kitchen full-time and living in community with 12 other young adults. Molly had the opportunity to cultivate her passion for food justice from urban farming, teaching a cooking and gardening class for second and third graders at a social justice school in Chicago, working at Whole Foods, to the experience derived from the soup kitchen. This led Molly to seek a master's program at Wayne State in business and industry anthropology to hopefully help alleviate food issues through the means of corporate social
responsibility, where she will begin part-time in the Fall. Simultaneously, Molly's heart, after being separated from intentional community life/social justice life since leaving Chicago, is excited to harvest strong bonds with the other house members and the guests of St. Christine Christian Services and overall Christ the King Parish community. On a less serious note, Molly loves sing-ing/playing ukulele, laughing, cooking/baking, reading, playing board games and riding her road bike in her free time!
Kyle VanOverbeke is from a small town in central Minnesota. He graduated from St. Cloud State University in 2016 with a degree in Elementary Education, completing part of his student teaching experience at an inner-city school in Houston, Texas. He truly enjoys building relationships with the students he works with, striving to em-power them to succeed both in and beyond the classroom. At CKSC, he will teach 4th grade at Christ the King School, where his goal for the year is to, through service and community, grow closer to Jesus, our Lord and Savior.
Askhari Corr was born in Seattle, Washington. He is half African American, half Sri Lankan and was raised by a single mother with his two younger brothers. In May, Askhari graduated from American University with a bachelor's degree in Justice, Law and Society. Askhari has dreams of becoming a spiritual leader and eventually a representative of the United Nation's Spiritual Caucus. He plans to impact policy and create progressive change through spiritual awakening and global consciousness. He is excited to be working at MOSES this year because he believes community organizing and economic development is what he wants to get into after CKSC. Commu-nity organizing and economic development is something that could be done anywhere, but Askhari believes he will be the most impactful in Detroit. In his spare time, Askhari enjoys reading, music, art, meditation, introspec-tive conversation and enjoying the great outdoors.
Molly Fox was born and raised in Redford, Michigan but spent the last six years studying, writing, and teaching at Northern Michigan university in Marquette, where she received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English and Creative Writing. She is excited to be back downstate, though she does miss living within walking distance of Lake Superior. Molly’s interests include writing, reading, riding her decrepit Schwinn, CrossFit, running and watching dumb TV shows. Molly is excited to work with the Head Start program at Wayne Metro Community Ac-tion Agency.
Edgar Vidales emigrated from Guadalajara Mexico at four years old with his parents and younger brother, baby brother to be born later. He has resided in the sunny state of Florida in the greater Tampa Bay area going on 26 years. Edgar will have a bachelor in Criminology and a minor in Spanish and Latino Studies from the University of South Florida come this August 6th. Edgar has been involved in youth ministry for over 6 years now and is currently teaching beginners Spanish to elementary and middle school children in foster care. Edgar has been a Eucharistic minister to the ill and infirmed at Clearwater Mease Hospital and has served as an Eng-lish/Spanish translator at the Clínica Guadalupana free clinic. Edgar has a great desire to serve and a yearning for justice, upon completion of his service year Edgar intends to attend law school and focus on social justice ad-vocacy. Edgar loves to learn as he has general knowledge about most subjects; he does relax by reading nonaca-demic literature, gardening, exercising (mostly running and jogging), traditional art media and is dabbling with
digital art (has recently acquired a drawing tablet), poetry and short story writing also help him unwind. Edgar will be at Commu-nity & Home Supports Inc. doing a mix of some social work and homeless ministry.
Jo Herlihy was born in Spring Hill, Florida, but has lived in Mahopac, New York and Shelton Connecticut. Jo went to high school at Fairfield Prep which is an all boys Jesuit high school. The Catholic education did not stop there and continued when Jo enrolled at The Catholic University of America in DC. He played football at Catholic all four years, participated in Campus ministry mission trips and social work programs. He graduated with degree in social work just a few months ago and is ready to become a real live adult. Jo’s social work back-ground includes being an intern at the Fishing School, which is an after school program and working at the Homeless Children’s Playtime Project on the development side of the non profit. Playtime caters to children and teens located at homeless shelters throughout DC, Jo’s social work background has prepared him to do great work at Covenant House where he will be this fall. Jo has also been on and led to mission trips to Jamaica
which has also gave him a little more experience in the social work field. For fun, Jo likes to watch horrible Tampa sports teams like the Bucs and the Rays. On top of this, Jo likes to play video games and use his years of working in restaurants to act like he knows about food and beer.
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