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The Bread of Life

Perhaps some of you, like myself, were fortunate enough to experience the 2nd graders receiving their very First Communion last weekend.  If you weren’t there, you can imagine it. Precious 7-year-olds…girls dressed in their beautiful white dresses and boys in their grown-up looking suits that, I’m sure, have been hanging and waiting in their closets…
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May Overview

The Easter season is represented by the liturgical color white — the color of light, a symbol of joy, purity and innocence (absolute or restored). The season ends on Pentecost, June 8th, so the whole month of May is in the Easter season. The month of May is dedicated to The Blessed Virgin Mary. Focus of the Liturgy…
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Christian Community

Last Saturday, the core of who we are as a universal Catholic Church was on full display during Pope Francis beautiful funeral.  Throngs of people of every generation, from many countries and numerous backgrounds gathered together to honor Francis in one spirit of love and gratitude.   It was an incredible visual witness of wanting to…
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St. Joseph the Worker

The feast of St. Joseph the Worker, celebrated May 1st,  was established by Pope Pius XII in 1955 in order to Christianize the concept of labor and give to all workmen a model and a protector. By the daily labor in his shop, offered to God with patience and joy, St. Joseph provided for the…
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