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 …
My dear friends: Like me, you may have been deeply saddened, upset, and even angered by the further revelations published in the LA Times earlier this week concerning the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the priest sex abuse scandal. More painful and difficult revelations are likely to follow with the release of the 20,000 pages of documents by the Archdiocese sometime in the next few weeks. Statements from the Archdiocese concerning the released documents can be accessed at http://www.la-archdiocese.org/Pages/default.aspx. The …
I attended the January 19 diaconate formation class by myself this month as Candy was needed at the Get on the Bus (GOTB) information meeting held on the same day. The meeting was at Alamany High School in Mission Hills and we followed the usual format of Spiritual Direction, Morning Prayer from the Divine Office, book reports (on a spiritual book of our choice) before lunch. Afternoon session was a prayer service, class instruction, and additional book reports. I’d like …
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The January 5th Diaconate Formation Class was again held at the Alemany High School, Mission Hills. This class followed the usual format of Spiritual Direction, Morning Prayer from the Divine Office, a quiz, and lunch. After lunch there was a prayer service, class instruction, concluding with Psalms written by our fellow class participants. We thought we might explain how the quizzes are used as part of the diaconate process. There are a number of quizzes given each of the five …
When people of faith are faced with such tragedy, we look to God to answer the unanswerable. How can people take the lives of the innocent? Holy Family community is in prayerful communion with the community of Newtown. May God comfort those who have lost loved ones. May God heal the wounds, both physical and emotional. May God help us to make a world where violence is obsolete. Resources for you and your children
More from Jay and Candy on their Diaconate journey December 1, 2012. It was our week to prepare and conduct the prayer service. It is amazing how much work you can put into an activity that is going to last a short 15 minutes! As we said in a previous Blog, our service was titled “The Gift of Prayer”. Prior to the service, we e-mailed all of our classmates and instructors and asked them to consider something that they would …