Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
First reading: Jos 24:1-2, 15-18
Second reading: Eph 5:21-32 or 5:2, 25-32
Gospel: Jn 6:60-69
Sunday Scripture readings: Aug. 26, 2018
Thank you for your ministry, continue to be people of prayer
I am so grateful that the love you share as a religious education teacher for Jesus Christ helps our children to share that love through your teaching, liturgies and prayer services.
Father Kenneth Doyle: Why is Michael a saint?/The ‘poor in spirit’
Why Saint Michael the Archangel is a saint and in the beatitudes who are “the poor in spirit?”
Slovak teen to be beatified as martyr to purity
A 16-year-old peasant girl will be beatified as a martyr in Slovakia, seven decades after she was shot in front of her family for resisting rape by a drunken Soviet soldier.
Eucharist is a taste of heaven on earth, pope says
By receiving the Eucharist at Mass, Christians are given Christ’s same spirit and a taste of eternal life, Pope Francis said.
New assignments, but same joyful service for identical twin Dominicans
As identical twin sisters, Sister Judith and Sister Maristella Maldonado not only look exactly alike, but as members of the Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima, they dress alike, wearing that order’s white habit and black veil with white trim.
Sunday Scripture readings: Aug. 19, 2018
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
First reading: Prv 9:1-6
Second reading: Eph 5:15-20
Gospel: Jn 6:51-58
‘Mountaintop Mass’ celebrated to honor Father McGivney draws 1,000
More than 1,000 people gathered in the rain on top of Holy Land USA as Archbishop Leonard P. Blair of Hartford celebrated Mass to honor Father Michael McGivney, a candidate for sainthood, founder of the Knights of Columbus and a native of Waterbury, Conn.