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How to Make a Spiritual Communion
What Should I do if I Can’t go to Mass? Catholics are encouraged to make a ‘spiritual communion’. St. John Paul II writes that “it is good to cultivate in our hearts a constant desire for the sacrament of the Eucharist. This was the origin of the practice of ‘spiritual communion’, which has happily been…
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Masses canceled through April 30, 2020
Bishops Memo to Diocese – Covid-19 Directives 3-27-20 (1)
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Full text of Pope Francis’ Urbi et Orbi message March 27
This is the full text of Pope Francis’ address during the extraordinary Urbi et Orbi blessing he delivered today while praying for an end of the coronavirus. “When evening had come” (Mk 4:35). The Gospel passage we have just heard begins like this. For weeks now it has been evening. Thick darkness has gathered…
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Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe
Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, offers this prayer for our COVID-19 crisis: Holy Virgin of Guadalupe, Queen of the Angels and Mother of the Americas. We fly to you today as your beloved children. We ask you to intercede for us with your Son,…
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Lent 2020 Deacon John Selig, KHS, Diocese of Orange, provides our reflection for March 24. A reflection on today’s reading from the Gospel of John 5:1-16. I imagine many of us can relate to the ill person at the pools in Bethesda with its five porticoes longing for healing. We’ve all experienced spiritual sickness, blindness,…
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