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  IGNATIAN FAMILY TEACH-IN FOR JUSTICE 2023 October 28-30 | Washington, D.C. About Teach-In:  Learn, pray, and advocate for justice at the largest annual Catholic social justice gathering in the United States. The Teach-In is a place for members of the Ignatian family (Jesuit institutions and larger church) to be empowered, re-energized, inspired, challenged, and supported by a community that sees faith and justice integrally linked. Now in its 26th year, the Teach-In has a rich history rooted in honoring the Jesuits and their companions who were martyred in El Salvador in 1989. Open to everyone! A great opportunity for our teens!!! Reply to this email and we will get registration information to you and more information!   csanjuan@stpeterscatholic.org csanjuan@stpeterscatholic.org We are boundless: unified in difference. We are beloved: working for justice witnesses to that love. Join our boundless and beloved community at the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice (...

By Richard Bauman published in The Catholic Yearbook It's called the Grasshopper Chapel, but that isn't its real name. When first built, it was Maria Hilf, German for "Mary's Help." Now, it is officially titled "Assumption Chapel," but still it retains the original nickname, in Cold Spring, Minnesota.  Assumption Chapel was dedicated on August 15, 1877 It was first built in 1877, in honor of the Blessed Mother and in petition to her for relief from hordes of crop-devouring grasshoppers that, for five consecutive summers, had devastated the farmlands around Cold Spring, Minnesota. The plague of insects started in the middle of June 1873. Farmers in southwestern Minnesota watched what looked like a dark storm cloud moving toward them from the west. But it wasn't a rain-bearing cloud. It was a cloud of millions of hunger-frenzied Rocky Mountain locusts. It took just a few hours for the grasshoppers to turn fields of waist-high grass, wheat, and other cr...

Salvatore Joseph Cordileone (born June 5, 1956) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church and the archbishop of Archdiocese of San Francisco in California since 2012. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Oakland in California from 2009 to 2012 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Diego in California from 2002 to 2009.  A traditional theologian, he is known for his willingness to celebrate Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (also known as Tridentine Mass ). IOW the "Traditional Latin Mass" T.L.M. - the celebration of the Mass by pre-Vatican II Catholics.  What’s Behind the Fight Between Pope Francis and the Latin Mass Movement? The discord has become a stand-in for conflicts over the decline in Catholics’ participation in Mass, over the progressive orientation of Francis’s pontificate, and over Vatican II itself.  An echo report published in The New Yorker by Paul Elie. In January 15, 2022, the Catholic archbishop...

An echo memorial published in BioLogos by the President Deb Haarsma.  Our Mission is Faith and Science. Working Hand in Hand. BioLogos explores God’s Word and God’s World to inspire authentic faith for today. The Rev. Dr. Timothy J. Keller, (1950-2023) pioneering Manhattan Evangelist, dies at 72.  Shunning fire and brimstone, he became a best-selling author and founded Redeemer Presbyterian Church, which drew in young New Yorkers.   Christianity Today wrote in 2006, “...Tim Keller will be remembered as a pioneer of the new urban Christians.” BioLogos President Deb Haarsma wrote: I’m grieving the death of Tim Keller last week. His wisdom and leadership had a profound impact on the church. Every time I read him, I was moved by how he articulated the core of the historic Christian faith while also showing its relevance for the needs of cities and the world today. He was driven by his heart for lost people. To reach them, he took the gospel out of Christian subcult...

Echo report published in Aleteia:  This ancient form of devotion is truly one of the gifts given to us as Catholics! May 17, in the month dedicated to Mary, Pope Francis noted three aspects of the Rosary that should motivate us to pray it regularly. How To Pray the Rosary at this site here . The Holy Father made this observation at the end of the general audience, in greetings to Arabic-speaking pilgrims. First, he said that the Rosary is a “compendium of the entire history of our salvation.” For many centuries the Christian faith was spread to many parts of the world through the Rosary, a completely biblical prayer . Without access to the printing press or readily available Bibles, the Rosary became the primary means of communicating the essence of Christianity. Learn more here . Then, the Pope noted, the “Holy Rosary is a powerful weapon against evil.” The Rosary’s power against Satan is something that many saints have noted, including Padre Pio and St. John Bosco . Finally, the...

Green Bay Wisconsin-   Bishop David L. Ricken announced that the national shrine will begin celebrating an annual Mass with the liturgical rank of solemnity every October 9. National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion, Wisconsin ,  A Marian shrine in rural northeast Wisconsin, the only shrine in the United States to be designated by the Catholic Church as an approved Marian apparition site, is changing its name. During a press conference April 20, Green Bay Bishop David L. Ricken announced the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help will now be known as the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion . Read more about the history of this shrine in an article at this site here. Bishop David Ricken:  "After I was appointed here- Green Bay Wisconsin, before my installation, I took a little trip with some of the staff members, just to see the major highlights of the diocese, and they were telling me about the story behind the S hrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion . I was de...

Two Easter spiritual gifts received from our good friend Father John Michalowski, s.j., who was a priest in Maine for many years, then a pastor in New Hampshire, an Ignatius retreat director in Weston, Massachusetts and now serves in a Jesuit parish, Saint Peter's Catholic Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. Our Easter gifts from John included a stunning icon card depicting images from the Passion. I found the perfect frame for his card and now is included among my icon collections.   An stunning Easter card with iconic meditation on the Passion.   A copy of his homily to parishioners on the Second Sunday of Easter- also Eastern Rite Easter- April 15-16th: Second Sunday of Easter.A.2023 April 15, 2023 Today we encounter the one called “doubting Thomas.”  Although Jesus has appeared to the other disciples, Thomas will not believe – “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nail marks and put my han...