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The antidote to a self-centered life

In today’s world, it’s relatively easy to be self-centered. The culture is constantly urging us to “treat yourself,” indulging in whatever desire we have at the moment. The antidote to a self-centered life is to incorporate prayer into our daily schedule. Pope Benedict XVI explained this idea in his homily for Ash Wednesday in 2008. […]

The antidote to a self-centered life

St. Piran of Cornwall

Source: https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=773 We are back to discussing the Saints. It is March 5 and one of the patron saints of the day is St. Piran. Let us dive into his life and see what we can learn from it. We do not know when Piran was born, but he lived in the fifth century. He […]

St. Piran of Cornwall

Sunday Mass Readings

Titian, “Transfiguration,” 1560 Sunday, March 5 Second Sunday of Lent Roman Ordinary calendar Sts. Adrian and Eubulus Book of Genesis 12,1-4a. The LORD said to Abram: “Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; […]

Sunday Mass Readings

Thousands attend funeral Mass for LA’s Bishop O’Connell

From RNS:  Catholics, multi-faith clergy and elected leaders from across Southern California filled the pews of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles on Friday for the funeral Mass of Auxiliary Bishop David Gerard O’Connell, a beloved priest regarded as a “peacekeeper,” a “man of the people” and a “good […]

Thousands attend funeral Mass for LA’s Bishop O’Connell

Pope asks Church to pray for abuse victims

The Pope’s prayer intention for March, illustrated by the monthly Pope Video with the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, is for all those who have been victims of abuse. This month’s message is dedicated to all the people who have been victims of abuse, “especially to those committed by members of the Church,” that they may […]

Pope asks Church to pray for abuse victims

A Lenten Saint: St John of the Cross

Tom Thomas – The Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC 957 Communion with the saints says. “It is not merely by the title of example that we cherish the memory of those in heaven; we seek, rather, that by this devotion to the exercise of fraternal charity the union of the whole Church in the […]

A Lenten Saint: St John of the Cross

GIVE ME COURAGE…

Esther 14:1,3-5,12-141 And Esther the queen, seized with deathly anxiety, fled to the Lord;3 And she prayed to the Lord God of Israel, and said: “O my Lord, thou only art our King; help me, who am alone and have no helper but thee,4 for my danger is in my hand.5 Ever since I was […]

GIVE ME COURAGE…

Despite ‘no’ from Vatican, German bishops moves forward with plans for synodal council

Pope Francis and other Church leaders have expressed serious concerns about plans to create a permanent synodal council for the German Church.  Such a body would function “as a consultative and decision-making body on essential developments in the Church and society,” according to a Synodal Way proposal. More importantly, it would “make fundamental decisions of […]

Despite ‘no’ from Vatican, German bishops moves forward with plans for synodal council

Bishop Paprocki pens essay imagining ‘heretical’ cardinals, quoting San Diego’s McElroy

In that essay, McElroy called for “a eucharistic theology that effectively invites all of the baptized to the table of the Lord, rather than a theology of eucharistic coherence that multiplies barriers to the grace and gift of the Eucharist.” McElroy later, in a podcast interview, clarified that by “the baptized” he was referring to…

Bishop Paprocki pens essay imagining ‘heretical’ cardinals, quoting San Diego’s McElroy

Over 70 people take steps on journey to Catholic faith

An impressive number of people have taken a big step in their journey to become Catholic. Over 70 catechumens and candidates entered St. Joseph Cathedral on Feb. 26, the first Sunday of Lent, to be welcomed into the Catholic faith. Bishop Michael W. Fisher greets one of the candidates wishing to be in full communion […]

Over 70 people take steps on journey to Catholic faith