by moodyp | Feb 15, 2023 | St. Theresa Church News
February 5 marked the beginning of our annual diocesan-wide CSA appeal to support programs which, among others, ensure the education of future priests, train catechists for children and adults, programs to support healthy marriages and families, our Catholic schools,...
by moodyp | Feb 15, 2023 | St. Theresa Church News
In the early Church, people who had little, fasted and gave the food or money they would have spent to buy it to those with even less than themselves. Along with our daily prayers for the suffering people of the world, Operation Rice Bowl provides us with an...
by moodyp | Feb 15, 2023 | St. Theresa Church News
Ash Wednesday and the Fridays during Lent are obligatory days of abstinence. For members of the Latin Catholic Church, the norms on fasting are obligatory from age 18 until age 59. When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals...
by moodyp | Feb 15, 2023 | Bulletins
“The patient man goes through a great and good purification when he grieves more over the malice of one who harms him than for his own injury; when he prays readily for his enemies and forgives offenses from his heart…” Thomas à Kempis...
by moodyp | Feb 10, 2023 | Bulletins
“One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all...
