Last week we had the opportunity to familiarize ourselves on what the word LITURGY means. This week, our focus will be on the Liturgy of the Word. The Mass consists of two main parts, the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist (along with opening and closing rites). We often think of
When we apply the concept of evil to social policy things can become a bit murky. It is not easy to categorize all social policy into good and evil. Most social policy is neutral, simply a way of dealing with certain problems. Even social policy that is primarily good can have negative elements. Social policy
We usually ask, who is my neighbor? Did you ever ask, for whom am I a neighbor? The word neighbor in Polish language is akin to the word twin, according to Fr. Krzysztof Wons, SDS, who gave us a retreat in Cracow, Poland on October 1-5, 2019. There’s close similarity in twins. I’ll love my
FINE’NA NA TINAITAI 2 Mc 7, 1-2. 9-14 Un tinaitai ginin i sigundu na Lepblun Maccabees Masusedi na manma’aresta sietti na mañe’lu yan si nanan-ñiha ya mansinaolak siha ni rai ni kuåtta, para u faninafuetsa mañotchu kåtnin babui put i para u mayulang i lai Yu’us. Unu gi mañe’lu kumuentus para i pumalu
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The saints were flesh-and-blood people whose lives included real struggles and joys, and whose holiness reminds all the baptized that they, too, are called to be saints, Pope Francis said. Thousands of people joined the pope Nov. 1 for the midday recitation of the Angelus prayer on the feast of All
PRAIRIE DU SAC, Wis. (CNS) — Less than 10 miles north of Prairie du Sac, 22 contemplative Catholic nuns of the Cistercian Order live quietly on 112 acres of farmland. A set of renovated buildings and additions off an 1859 stone cottage make up Valley of Our Lady Monastery, where prayer, study and manual labor
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In life, Christians face the choice of either being open to encountering God’s generosity or closed in on their own interests, Pope Francis said. The banquet that Jesus often refers to in his parables “is an image of heaven, of eternity with the Lord,” the pope said Nov. 5 in his
ROME (CNS) — In what he said was his first visit to the catacombs, Pope Francis celebrated Mass for the feast of All Souls with special words of remembrance for Catholics who still today must worship in secret. The website of the Catacombs of Priscilla, used from the second to the fifth centuries, says, “because
ST. BENEDICT, Ore. (CNS) — Although Tony Del Castillo cannot see, a friend’s question years ago helped him perceive people with clarity and to look beyond an individual’s quirks, foibles and facades. “God used her to open up my eyes in a sense,” said Del Castillo, the first blind seminarian at Mount Angel Seminary, a
MCALLEN, Texas (CNS) — It started with a child’s concern for a homeless man she saw outside a grocery store. A stream of questions to her parents followed, and then her insistence on helping in some way. Now Emily’s Meals and teams of volunteers in McAllen every day feed dozens of the homeless they call
