March 28, 2014 we continue our diaconate journey… This week even though we had a class, we are going to discuss our after class activity. One of the requirements for this year is to have a group activity. Our class elected to go to the Mother Gertrude Balthazar Home, which is a retirement community run by the Franciscan Sisters, and conduct the Stations of the Cross for the residents. The chapel at this home was very nice and we had about …
The arrival of spring begs the question: Did we even have a winter? It was the warmest—and third driest—season on record for the state of California. Moderate to severe drought conditions currently exist for 99.8 percent of California, according to the U.S. National Drought Monitor, a reality not likely to change anytime soon. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently predicted that this historic drought will persist through spring and into summer, with the threat of an active wildfire season …
March 17, 2014 we continue our diaconate journey… The focus of this week is not on our class, but the Religious Education Congress held in Anaheim. The theme this year was, “Hope: A World Afire!” Congress is held each year in Anaheim and consists of Youth Day on Thursday and then Congress from Friday through Sunday which ends in a closing Mass with Archbishop Gomez. Counting all four days there were over 45,000 attendees from over 17 different countries. Adult Congress …
March 1, 2014 we continue our diaconate journey… The focus of this week’s class was bereavement training, the second half of Paul’s letter to the Roman’s and a presentation on the encyclical Populorum Progressio, which is on the development of peoples. This was our last class on bereavement and we discussed what it takes to be a member of a bereavement team and what the team does. All parishes have an individual or team that helps families prepare for the last …
The Women’s Connection invites you to a morning lecture and discussion about Saint Hildegard of Bingen and Medicine on Thursday, March 27 from 9:30 a.m. to 11;00 a.m. The presenter is Dana Bell, pharmacist, educator and parishioner. Come and learn about St. Hildegard, an extraordinary woman who influenced her time and speaks to a healthy life for us today.
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March 15, 2014 – Through prayer, thought, and blessing, let us join together in concern for the world’s children and youth. All have seen the faces of our children on cartons, flyers, TV. billboards …… The number of missing children is growing and are trafficked into slavery, prostitution, sexual exploitation, forced labor, harvesting of bodily organs, and more. Whole families are forced into bonded labor – generation after generation. The UN places trafficking as the 3rd largest criminal activity in …