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, reconciliation 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.
It is your vocation, your privilege, your duty, to be wholly given over to Jesus. Then you will emerge in the greatness of the holiness that he has destined for you.…Then you will be unable to forget him, and you will be able to be the only person he has destined you to be.
God’s Mercy Revealed: Healing for a Broken World
A man's daughter had asked the local minister to come and pray with her father.
When the minister arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two pillows. An empty chair sat beside his bed. The minister assumed that the old fellow had been informed of his visit.
"I guess you were expecting me, he said.
“No, who are you?" said the father.
The minister told him his name and then remarked,"I saw the empty chair and I figured you knew I was going to show up,"
"Oh yeah, the chair," said the bedridden man.
"Would you mind closing the door?"
Puzzled, the minister shut the door.
"I have never told anyone this, not even my daughter,"
said the man. "But all of my life I have never known
how to pray. At church I used to hear the pastor talk
about prayer, but it went right over my head." I
abandoned any attempt at prayer," the old man continued,"until one day four years ago, my best friend said to me,"Johnny, prayer is just a simple matter of having a
conversation with Jesus. Here is what I suggest.
"Sit down in a chair; place an empty chair in front of you, and in faith see Jesus on the chair. It's not spooky because he promised, 'I will be with you always'. "Then just speak to him in the same way you're doing with me right now."
"So, I tried it and I've liked it so much that I do it a couple of hours every day. I'm careful though. If my daughter saw me talking to an empty chair, she'd either have a nervous breakdown or send me off to the funny farm."
The minister was deeply moved by the story and encouraged the old man to continue on the journey. Then he prayed with him, anointed him with oil, and returned to the church.
Two nights later the daughter called to tell the minister that her Daddy had died that afternoon.
“Did he die in peace?" he asked.
Yes, when I left the house about two o'clock, he called me over to his bedside, told me he loved me and kissed me on the cheek. When I got back from the store an hour later, I found him dead.
But there was something strange about his death. Apparently, just before Daddy died, he leaned over and rested his head on the chair beside the bed. What do you make of that?"
The minister wiped a tear from his eye and said, "I wish we could all go like that."
Prayer is one of the best free gifts we receive.
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| 6.7.2009 Su | 10:00 am Mass; 3pm Graduation |
| 6.8.2009 Mo | 7p MOSES |
| 6.9.2009 Tu | 8:30a Mass; 7p Adult Faith |
| 6.10.2009 We | 8:30a Mass |
| 6.11.2009 Th | 6:30p Mass; Christian Service |
| 6.12.2009 Fr | 8:30a Mass; 9:30a Honor Assembly; 11a Prayer Service |
| 6.13.2009 Sa | 8:00a-6:00p Garage Sale; 10a Outreach to our neighborhood; 4p Fr. Clore at St. Catherine |
| 6.14.2009 Su | 10:00 am Mass; Graduate Recognition Day; Corpus Christi |
