Holy Family Parish Retreat for men will be held at the Mater Dolorosa Retreat Center in the city of Sierra Madre on the weekend on March 15-17. Join the Men of Holy Family in prayer with the Passionist retreat team on the lovely grounds with the peaceful atmosphere of Mater Dolorosa. Check-in starts at 3:00 p.m. on Friday and concludes early Sunday afternoon after Mass. The theme is Memory of the Passion (a perfect lenten reflection). Requested donation is $180.00 …
On February 2, 2013 we attended our most recent class at the Incarnation Community Center in Glendale. The week prior we attended a powerful Marriage Encounter Weekend held in Encino at the Holy Spirit Retreat Center. We want to blog on the call of couples who enter the diaconate formation and why some couples may leave before completing the program. In January our class discussed the departure a couple who had been on the diaconate journey with us. It is …
The fruits of our Parish Mission Being a Catholic in the 21st Century A Parish Mission for all Young Adults, Adults and Seniors with Father Richard Leonard, SJ. Parish Missions are a time for us to reflect on where we have been, where we are and where we are going. This mission will focus on the issues that confront us as Christians in the contemporary world and offer practical direction about how we can live a deeper life of faith. …
January 31, 2013 Dear Friends: In my email to you last Friday, I mentioned that a further 20,000 pages of documents from clergy files would be released by the Archdiocese sometime in the next few weeks. In fact the documents have just been released today. Archbishop Gomez has written a letter to the people of the Archdiocese, which you can access at , along with the other statements on the clergy abuse files. The Archdiocese will shortly be posting the …