Our Fall catalogue will be available in a few weeks but until then here is a sneak peak at some of our upcoming classes.
People pray during Mass April 17, 2016, at Holy Redeemer Church in Detroit. The Mass was the site of a “Mass Mob” event, an evangelization effort aimed at boosting regular Mass attendance. (CNS/Jim West)
The grapevine has it that many Catholics skip Mass frequently because they “don’t get anything out of it.” Others appeal to the clergy sex abuse scandals of recent decades, saying they don’t want to associate with a church that harbored abusers for so many years. Some have even chosen to transfer to Protestant churches or recently established alternative forms of “Catholicism,” complaining that they can no longer tolerate a church that relegates women to a second-class status.
I understand, and I sympathize. Yet I hardly ever miss Mass… click here to read more.
We’re Nick Wagner and Diana Macalintal, founders of TeamRCIA. We’ve created this free training to help you learn the basics of the RCIA. If you are new to RCIA ministry or even if you’ve been doing it for years, these short, effective videos will give you the confidence you need for forming your seekers, catechumens, and candidates.
Join us on July 17 – 23 at TeamRCIA.com
Watch one video a day for seven days!
If someone asks you about becoming Catholic this summer, don’t tell them to come back in September. You can start catechizing them right away, even if you don’t have a year-round process.
Here are 20 ideas from TeamRCIA.com to get you started.
Special Masses will be held through out the Archdiocese of Louisville to observe Out Lady of Fatima’s centenary on July 13, 2017.
St. Augustine Church in Lebanon, Ky., will celebrate Mass at 7 a.m.
Holy Name of Mary Church in Calvary, Ky., will celebrate Mass at 8 a.m.
St. Louis Bertrand Church, 1104 S. Sixth St. will celebrate Mass at 6:30 p.m.
Immaculate Conception Church in LaGrange, Ky., will have Mass at 7 p.m.
The Basilica of St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral in Bardstown, Ky., will have a Mass (time is to be determined).
|
As the second millennium gives way to the third, Pope John Paul II has decided to publish the text of the third part of the “secret of Fatima”. The twentieth century was one of the most crucial in human history, with its tragic and cruel events culminating in the assassination attempt on the “sweet Christ on earth”. Now a veil is drawn back on a series of events which make history and interpret it in depth, in a spiritual perspective alien to present-day attitudes, often tainted with rationalism. Throughout history there have been supernatural apparitions and signs which go to the heart of human events and which, to the surprise of believers and non-believers alike, play their part in the unfolding of history. These manifestations can never contradict the content of faith, and must therefore have their focus in the core of Christ’s proclamation: the Father’s love which leads men and women to conversion and bestows the grace required to abandon oneself to him with filial devotion. This too is the message of Fatima which, with its urgent call to conversion and penance, draws us to the heart of the Gospel. |
To continue reading The Message of Fatima from the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith click here.
This year, the Church will celebrate Catechetical Sunday on September 17, 2017. The 2017 theme will be “Living as Missionary Disciples.” Those who the Community has designated to serve as catechists will be called forth to be commissioned for their ministry. Catechetical Sunday is a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the role that each person plays, by virtue of Baptism, in handing on the faith and being a witness to the Gospel. Catechetical Sunday is an opportunity for all to rededicate themselves to this mission as a community of faith.
Pope Francis has named Bishop Charles C. Thompson of Evansville, Ind., to head the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. Bishop Thompson is pictured in an undated photo. (CNS photo/the Message)
Archbishop-designate Thompson, 56, a native of Louisville, was vicar general of the Louisville Archdiocese from 2008 until he was named bishop of Evansville. He also served as pastor of Holy Trinity Church beginning in 2002 and taught canon law at St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in Southern Indiana.
In Portugal the 13th of June is a great feast, the feast of St. Anthony of Lisbon, known to most Catholics as St. Anthony of Padua. This Franciscan miracle-worker was born in Lisbon and had entered religious life as a Canon Regular of the Holy Cross, residing first in Lisbon and then Coimbra, before leaving the Portuguese order for the new Order of Friars Minor and a hope of martyrdom. It was, and is, THE children’s feast in Portugal, so the parents of Lucia naturally thought that the festivities at the parish church in Fátima would distract her from the appointment at the Cova. However, undismayed by this tactic Lucia and the Marto children proceeded to the apparition site to keep their noon day rendezvous.
Formed In Faith 