OUR GLOBAL FAMILY The crucifixion of Our Lord is almost always depicted in art showing the torture from asphyxiation on the cross, the nails, the wound made by the spear, the crown of thorns or the beating on the way to Calvary. While these are indeed the implements that took the life of Jesus, they […]
Father Sebastian Kumar Soosai, Missionaries of Faith: The secret of our success
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald In Mark’s Gospel, we hear Jesus saying “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.” (Mk 16:15) This call to go out to preach, to proclaim and to evangelize keeps me going in my priestly ministry. Filled with […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Did Jesus feel abandoned?
QUESTION CORNER Q: When Jesus was dying on the cross, according to the Gospel, he cried out, “My God, why have you abandoned me?” Why was he saying this? Did he really feel that his Father had abandoned him? (Coxs Creek, Kentucky) A: Half a century ago, when I first began to think about the […]
Father John Catoir: An Easter blessing
I wish you a Happy Easter, and I send you this blessing with my love and prayers. May the Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the merits of the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the saints — and whatsoever good you do or suffering you endure — cleanse you of all your sins […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Raised to new life
EASTER SUNDAY Acts of the Apostles 10:34a, 37-43; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20:1-9. Today the Church celebrates the greatest day of its year, Easter, the feast of the Lord’s Resurrection. These readings are proclaimed at Masses during the day on Easter itself. (On Holy Saturday, the day preceding Easter, the church will have celebrated the Easter […]
Christina Capecchi: Evangelization by hitchhiking
TWENTY SOMETHING The place infants nod off and teens open up is also where road-weary adults will probe their spirituality: in the car. That’s the secret behind a new religious community, the Little Poor Friars and Poor Nuns of Jesus and Mary, who dress and live like St. Francis of Assisi: in poverty, entirely dependent […]
Talk story: Rice Bowl: hope for the vulnerable
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “At this time it’s more necessary than ever for everyone to not just stop with words, but to take concrete action so that food aid can reach suffering populations.” (Pope Francis Lent 2017) Pope Francis has helped the world focus on the natural and human disasters resulting in refugees and migrants […]
Father Eugene Hemrick: Two sides of devotion
THE HUMAN SIDE “Zion said, ‘The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.’ Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you” (Is 49:14-15). Isaiah’s prophetic message that God is eternally devoted to us is needed now […]
Sister Marie Lemert, Congregation of the Sacred Hearts: Listen to the blessings
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald I feel I have been so blessed in my life. Opportunities which at the time didn’t seem like such, actually turned out to be blessings unimagined. For example, several years ago when my provincial superior asked me to go to Rome, I […]
Mary Adamski: Thanks for the rituals
VIEW FROM THE PEW Here it is, spring, and our thoughts turn lightly to _______. The shopping list? Time to add chocolate bunnies and jelly beans? Or were you thinking spring break? Head for the beach with hibachi? Get some seedlings to put into the ground? Aha, almost time for the first baseball to be […]
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