Religious Education - Children
Catechist BlogFallible Shepherds
In today’s first reading St. Peter exhorts the church leaders to “tend the flock of God.” Peter, through his own experience, knows what it means to both confess Christ and to deny Christ. He recognizes that all religious leaders are fallible and exhorts them to...
Wisdom and Understanding
From our first reading today: “Who among you is wise and understanding?” (James 3:13a) That is not the kind of question for which people are going to raise their hands and cry out “Me!!.” But it is the kind of question that we hope is true of ourselves, our loved...
40 Hour Devotion Spiritual Goals
St. Francis of Assisi parish will hold a 40 Hour Eucharistic Devotion beginning with morning Mass on March 14th and closing with a solemn Benediction on Thursday early evening, March 17th. The daily schedule will be: Morning Mass (8:45 am) Exposition of the Blessed...
History of the 40 Hours Devotion
St. Francis of Assisi parish will hold a 40 Hour Eucharistic Devotion beginning with morning Mass on March 14th and closing with a solemn Benediction on Thursday early evening, March 17th. The daily schedule will be: Morning Mass (8:45 am) Exposition of the Blessed...
Parish 40 Hours Devotion
St. Francis of Assisi parish will hold a 40 Hour Eucharistic Devotion beginning with morning Mass on March 14th and closing with a solemn Benediction on Thursday early evening, March 17th. The Forty Hours Devotion can be celebrated either in 40 continuous hours, or...
The Synod: what we need to ask of ourselves
In the previous article, we discussed the “nones” - those people who believe but have left organized religion. We asked: “Have the “nones” consciously rejected religion, or have religious institutions failed to involve them and respond to their needs? Do they lack...
The Synod: Becoming a Listening Community as we Journey Together
Last week we announced that we are holding listening sessions as part of Pope Francis’ call to be a listening community of faith. It is part of “journeying together” the very meaning of the word “synod.” This Synod is a unique gift for our local Church. It is a gift...
Faith and Works
If you grew up in the South in the 1950s and 1960s and were Catholic, you were someone who needed to be saved, at least in the estimation of your Reformed, Protestant and Evangelical brothers and sisters. Anytime was the right time to ask “Have you accepted Jesus...
Put Things into Perspective
It is said that on a certain occasion a homeless man entered a church with his bottle of wine, his old clothes, and his badly groomed beard. Upon entering, the person who saw him looked at him displeased, and invited him to sit on the last bench and in the corner...
Be Healed
Some interesting aspects of the story of this healing. It shows how considerate Jesus was. He took the man aside from the crowd probably because He knew that He was going to give the man his sight and that the immediate recovery of his sight could be traumatizing...