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Bulletin 12-13-15
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The Year of Mercy
Pope Francis' Prayer for the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy Lord Jesus Christ, you have taught us to be merciful like the heavenly Father, and have told us that whoever sees you sees Him. Show us your face and we will be saved. Your loving gaze freed Zacchaeus...
Feast Of The Immaculate Conception 2015
Gospel text (Lc 1,26-38): In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth. He was sent to a young virgin who was betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the family of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. The angel came to her...
Vatican Corner 12-6-15
VATICAN CORNER Pope Francis made his first trip to the African continent, visiting Kenya, Uganda, and the Central African Republic from Nov. 25th thru 30th, 2015. It was another of his apostolic visits to reach out to the developing world and confirm the faith of the...
Pastors Desk 12-6-15
Every year people in the US remember December 7th as “Pearl Harbor Day.” December 7, 1941 began like any other day for the Americans living in Pearl Harbor. The Americans hardly expected any a&ack on their harbor. Based on the available intelligence, the senior...
Bulletin 12-6-15
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Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe 2015
Vatican Corner 11-29-15
VATICAN CORNER On November 2, 2015, a$er several months of inves!ga!on, Va!can City police arrested two people on suspicion of removing and sharing confiden!al Va!can documents. Monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda, and Dr. Francesca Chaouqui were arrested for...
Pastors Desk 11-29-15
On the night of April 15, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlan!c and sank. Over 1,500 people lost their lives in one of the worst sea disasters in history. A few years ago a magazine recalled the great disaster and asked its readers this shocking –...
Bulletin 11-29-15
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Vatican Corner 11-22-15
VATICAN CORNER For centuries, many cultures have celebrated their agricultural harvests. The Romans had a harvest fes!val called Cerelia, which honored Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, grain and fer!lity. Our word cereal comes from her name. The fes!val was held...
Pastors Desk 11-22-15
In the 1920s, a totalitarian regime gained control of Mexico and tried to suppress the Church. To resist the regime, many Chris!ans took up the cry, "Viva Cristo Rey!” (“Long live Christ the King!”) They called themselves "Cristeros." The most famous Cristero was a...
Bulletin 11-22-15
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Vatican Corner 11-15-15
VATICAN CORNER CONTINUED … So now that the Synod on the Family is over for 2015, what will Pope Francis do? It was the second mee#ng in a year that he had called to address how and whether Catholicism could adapt its teachings to the changing reali#es of modern family...
Pastors Desk 11-15-15
People have been predic#ng the end of the world since the first century. St. Paul thought Christ would return in his life#me. Hippolytus, one of the early philosophers, predicted Christ would return in 500 A.D. In 960, German theologian, Bernard of Thuringia,...
Bulletin 11-15-15
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Vatican Corner 11-8-15
VATICAN CORNER At the Va"can on October 24, 2015, at the end of the three week gathering of the 270 Cardinals and Bishops from around the world, the Synod on the Family came to a close. Pope Francis closed the mee"ng that had been full of arguments, calling for a more...
Pastors Desk 11-8-15
At the turn of the century, a man wrote in his diary the story of a young newsboy he met on a street near his home in London. It was well known in the neighborhood that the boy was an orphan. All a!empts to place the boy in either an ins"tu"on or a foster home were...
Bulletin 11-8-15
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Vatican Corner 11-1-15
VATICAN CORNER There were some side stories which came out of the Pope’s visit to the U.S. When riding in the Popemobile surrounded by cheering crowds on the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pope Francis chuckled when he saw 4-month old Quinn Madden dressed like...
Pastors Desk 11-1-15
A pastor was explaining the pictures of his Church’s stained glass windows to the third graders. The first stained window is really red, the next window is really blue, the next window is really green, and the next window is really yellow. The sun has come up in the...
Family Fun Night 2015
Bulletin 11-1-15
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Vatican Corner 10-25-15
VATICAN CORNER Continued… On Sunday, September 27, 2015, Pope Francis began his second day in Philadelphia and his last day in the U.S. He began by meeting privately with a small group of victims of clergy sex abuse, listening, and expressing solidarity in sharing in...