All Saints Parish Homilies and News

 Echo report published on the Diocese of Portland Maine website. Bishop James Ruggieri  One hundred fifty-one years after his death, the faithful gathered on November 3, 2025, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland for a memorial Mass for Portland’s first bishop and for the blessing of the bishop’s new tomb. Bishop David William Bacon (b. 1813-d.1874), who served as Bishop of Portland from 1855 to his death in 1874, was previously buried in a crypt beneath the cathedral. However, with that area no longer accessible to the public, the decision was made to transfer his remains to a new sarcophagus located within the main cathedral, providing him a place of honor and respect where people are now able to stop and pray. “As we gather to entomb him anew, we are not simply reinterring the past; we are reawakening gratitude and renewing purpose,” said Bishop James Ruggieri, who celebrated the Mass. “Today, as we bless his new sarcophagus and commend his remains to ...

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. ✝️ Peace be with you 🙏 😇 Good morning to you all, and welcome🙏 I extend my greetings to the Board of Directors, the Director and the editorial team of TG2, and offer my congratulations on this news program reaching its fiftieth anniversary. Pope Leo XIV in Clementine Hall * in the Vatican on March 16, 2026. This “birthday” invites us to reflect on the journey you have made, as a paradigm of the challenges that television journalism has faced and those that still lie ahead. I am thinking of the transition from analogue to digital, in which you played a leading role in seizing the opportunities and understanding that no technological innovation can replace creativity, critical discernment and freedom of thought. And if the challenge of our time is that of artificial intelligence, I think of the need to regulate communication according to the human paradigm and not the technological one. Which means, ultimately, kn...

Our Lady of Arabia is a Roman Catholic title for the Blessed Virgin Mary, venerated as the patroness of the Apostolic Vicariates of Northern and Southern Arabia. Represented holding a Rosary and the Child Jesus, she is a central figure for the diverse, mostly expatriate (IOW for faithful who are living in the area but not natives) Catholic population in the Gulf, particularly in Kuwait and Bahrain.  Reported in Aleteia by Ryle Silva “May Our Lady of Arabia watch over us all” At the start of the conflict in Iran, the bishops of the two vicariates that oversee the gulf countries of Arabia and more than 2 million Catholic faithful there issued statements. Both prayed, "May Our Lady of Arabia, our mother, watch over us all." The two statements are brief, and encouraged the faithful to be attentive to instructions given by local authorities. The bishops also urged prayer and charity. "Let us remain united in faith and charity, caring especially for the elderly, the sick, and...