Focus on Faith

This life-size and realistic image of Jesus Christ crucified during his last hours of the Passion was carved in cedar by renowned Spanish sculptor Juan Manuel Miñarro, a scholar of the Shroud of Turin and the Sudarium of Oviedo.

The service marked the start of the worldwide celebration of “24 Hours for the Lord,” a period when at least one church in every diocese was invited to be open all night — or at least for extended hours — for confession and eucharistic adoration.

The Diocese of Alleppey has more than two dozen small Christian communities, and leaders of those communities trained about 70 members of the diocesan synod team.

The visit to death row “was especially heart-wrenching, but even there, I saw a desire for a deeper spiritual life,” he said in a reflection on the March 7 visit shared by the California Catholic Conference in a March 14 email newsletter.

Parishes supply Chaplaincy rogra with items for the spiritual and temporal needs of those in the stable area at Oaklawn Park horse track.

Fourth Sunday of Lent

First reading: 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a
Second reading: Eph 5:8-14
Gospel: Jn 9:1-41

According to the Centers for Disease Control, some 26% (or 1 in 4) of adults in the U.S. have some type of disability.

Rev. Danet spoke to Catholic News Service and Vatican News March 15 after she and some 60 Catholic and Protestant representatives met Pope Francis to plan the ecumenical prayer vigil that will be held Sept. 30 in St. Peter’s Square.