QUESTION CORNER Q: My friend told me that in her parish, which is a large one, only one section of the church is offered the blood of Christ. Her pastor believes that adding more eucharistic ministers would create a traffic jam. If they are going to distribute holy Communion from the chalice, shouldn’t all be […]
Father Eugene Hemrick: Words for the grief-stricken?
THE HUMAN SIDE Grief comes in many forms: losing a valued heirloom, a job or a home filled with beautiful memories. The list of heartbreaks is unending. However, losing a loved one with a whole life ahead of him or her pierces the very depths of our heart. How do we support a grief-stricken person? […]
Talk story: Connecting with the Good Samaritan
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “The story of the Good Samaritan is the story of today’s humanity. People’s paths are riddled with suffering, as everything is centered around money and things, instead of people.” (Pope Francis, from his TED2017 (Technology, Entertainment and Design) talk, delivered April 25 at the Vatican.) The Story of the Good Samaritan, […]
Bishop Larry Silva: The world is the banquet hall
WITNESS TO JESUS | STEWARDSHIP DAY This is the text for Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the Mass for diocesan Stewardship Day, Feb. 17, delivered at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa. Once upon a time a king ordered that a great feast be held. He had his chancellor write up a note to the chief […]
Father Paul Smith, diocesan priest: Snorkeling with God
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald The epitome of prayer is thankfulness. If all you ever do in prayer is to thank God for all that he has given, I think that would be enough. I spend a lot of time now thanking God. I do not ask […]
Elise Italiano: Investing in young women in the church
IN LIGHT OF FAITH In a 1965 speech to the National Union of Townswomen’s Guild Conference, Margaret Thatcher quipped, “If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.” Though she was speaking about politics, it’s safe to say that many pastors across the country can sympathize, since women […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Distributing ashes on the sidewalk?
QUESTION CORNER Q: After receiving ashes at an Ash Wednesday morning Mass, I returned home and turned on the television news. It showed some priests in a neighboring town who were out on the sidewalk in front of their church marking with ashes the foreheads of any interested lunchtime passer-by. They were in priestly vestments […]
Father John Catoir: Letting love in during Lent
My love goes out to all of you this holy season of Lent. Now that I am an old man, I see more clearly that love is the only thing that really matters in life. Things you have acquired, like wealth or power or fame, are not really important. All that matters is how much […]
Christina Capecchi: Learning from the Angel of The Gap
TWENTY SOMETHING Little did he know what a noble purpose awaited him when Don Ritchie settled into a house on Old South Head Road back in 1964. The former Navy seaman and retired salesman was eager to soak in the stunning view with his wife: an ocean cliff at Watsons Bay in Eastern Sydney known […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: The victory of Christ is near
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT 2 Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23; Ephesians 2:4-10; John 3:14-21 The Second Book of Chronicles provides this Lenten weekend with its first reading. Chronicles was written about 1,000 years before Jesus. The identity of its author is unknown. As the title of this book implies, its purpose is to record the history of […]
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