Diaconate Journey Continues… God’s Unconditional Love

November 19, 2016 we met for our Diaconate formation class at Alemany High School in Mission Hills.  On December 3rd we will be supporting our class project at St. Margaret Mary in Lomita.  Our project will be to help serve a Christmas lunch to families with Special Needs members. We have also received the date for our final exam.  It will be January 17 at 10a at the Archdiocesan offices downtown.  Please remember all of those in the St. Elizabeth …

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Archbishop Gomez New Vice-President of USCCB

Archbishop Gomez was elected vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) during the bishops’ annual fall General Assembly today in Baltimore. He was elected to a three-year term and succeed Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, who was elected USCCB president today. The new president and vice president’s terms begin at the conclusion of the General Assembly, November 16. Several committee leaders were also elected during the annual assembly, including Bishop Robert Barron, Auxiliary Bishop for the …

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Archbishop Gomez elected vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)

Archbishop Gomez was elected vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) during the bishops’ annual fall General Assembly today in Baltimore. He was elected to a three-year term and succeed Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, who was elected USCCB president today. The new president and vice president’s terms begin at the conclusion of the General Assembly, November 16. Several committee leaders were also elected during the annual assembly, including Bishop Robert Barron, Auxiliary Bishop for the …

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Diaconate Journey Continues… Sacrament of Matrimony

November 5, 2016 we continue our diaconate journey…and  met for our Diaconate formation class at Alemany High School in Mission Hills. Our next class will be on November 17th and will be here as well. (Please click here to read all of our experiences of the bi-monthly  Deacon formation classes) This week we were honored to have Fr. Joel Hensen speak to us on the sacrament of Matrimony. The main document that we used was the new “Order of Celebrating Matrimony”. This Rite, …

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Diaconate Journey Continues…Language of Love

October 22, 2016 we met for our Diaconate formation class at Alemany High School in Mission Hills. Our next class will be on November 5th and will be here as well.  (Please click here to read all of our experiences of the bi-monthly  Deacon formation classes) This week we were honored again to be joined by Deacon Rick & Maureen Soria who spoke on the Family of Origin and Languages of Love. Deacon Rick and Maureen discussed with us how they conduct …

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Diaconate Journey… October 8

October 8, 2016 we met for our Diaconate formation class at Alemany High School in Mission Hills. Our next class will be on October 22nd and will be here as well. (Please click here to read all of our experiences of the bi-monthly  Deacon formation classes) This class Candy and Jay had a SCAP practicum. SCAP is short for Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest. The premise is that Jay is an ordained Deacon preparing to assist the presider at …

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Diaconate Journey… Garden of Eden

On September 24, 2016 we met for our Diaconate formation class at Alemany High School in Mission Hills. Our next class will be on October 8th and will be there as well.  We also have our practicum on a Communion Service. (Please click here to read all of our experiences of the bi-monthly  Deacon formation classes) Today, our morning was spent with Father Dave Heney (pictured right), author of “Don’t Tell Me What To Do!” A Catholic Understand of Modern Moral Issues.  …

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Diaconate Journey Continues… Jay and Candy Living their Strengths

On September 17, 2016 we met for our first class of fifth and final year of Diaconate formation at St. Paschal Baylon Church in Thousand Oaks. Next week we will return to Alemany High School in Mission Hills Today was our first class day with Deacon Memo and his wife Liliana. One of our summer homework assignments was to complete the Strength Finder or Living your Strengths to find out what your top five strengths are. Candy had completed the …

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September 10, 2016 we continue our diaconate journey…

On September 10, 2016 we met for the opening Meet & Greet of our fifth and final year of Diaconate formation at St. Louis of France, in La Puente. Next week we will be meeting at St. Paschal Baylon Church in Thousand Oaks.  (Please click here to read all of our experiences of the bi-monthly  Deacon formation classes) Today is very surreal.  We remember being here four years ago.  We had just completed our silent retreat and started in 19th annotation of …

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