Entries for March 2022

Source In a recent podcast episode on Life Beyond the Chariot, Deanna Johnston and Mikki Sciba discuss the Eucharist as the source and summit of family life. Below are some tips from their discussion. You can view the full episode here. In the Catechism, we’re told that the Euc...

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By: Bishop Joseph E. Strickland Source As we celebrate the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, I turn for inspiration to the Collect or Opening Prayer for the liturgy of the day. The prayer begins, “O God, who willed that your Word should take on the reality of human flesh in th...

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Source St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Lufkin will be hosting a community wide parish mission titled “God’s Healing Love” on May 16, 17 and 18, 2022. The event will begin at 6:30pm each night in the Church. Fr. Greg Bramlage of the Missionaries of the New Evangeli...

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By JD Flynn March 5th 2019 Source Most Catholics, even those who don't often go to Mass, know that Lent is a time for Friday Fish Fries and "giving something up." But many Catholics wonder what exactly the Church requires during Lent, and why. Here are a few points that mig...

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March 19th, 2022 Source St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things.  He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life. – St. Josemaria Escriva Recently, I have been growing in devotion to ...

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Source: Catholic East Texas Online By: Susan Fox These words are a lifeline to a woman who hears them at a Project Rachel retreat after suffering, sometimes as long as decades, from the grief of abortion. Project Rachel offers an encounter with Christ for women grieving an abortion.  Loo...

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Source: The Catholic Diocese of Tyler LENT:  Fast + Pray + Give Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It’s a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection at Easter. During Len...

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Source: Catholic Online St. Joseph Facts: Feastday: March 19 Parton: of the Universe Church, unborn children, fathers, workers, travelers, immigrants, and a happy dealth Dealth: 18 Everything we know about the husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus comes from Scripture and that h...

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Source: National Catholic Register By: Justin McCLain Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, pray for fathers! This past May, in anticipation of Mothers’ Day, I wrote a piece called “The Virgin Mary and the Necessity of Mothers.” Hence, it was only fitting that I write a fo...

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Source: ewtn The field of St. Patrick's labors was the most remote part of the then known world. The seed he planted in faraway Ireland, which before his time was largely pagan, bore a rich harvest: whole colonies of saints and missionaries were to rise up after him to serve the Irish Church ...

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