In this issue: Prayer: Timely meditations: A brief visit with the joyful mysteries: Crunched for time already, with the school year just barely underway? For some, a peaceful half-hour visit with Our Lady may be just a dim memory of summer gone by. Putting our relationship with Mary on hold until we have more time is not the only option, though.
Black Catholic: Black Apostolate: Working for justice, messengers of joy: At a recent holy hour for priests serving the Archdiocese’s Black Apostolate, Cardinal Justin Rigali buoyed them and their work.
Education: Cardinal praises future Catholic educators: Today, we gather at a moment when the Church sends you out to share in a teaching mission that is her own but that comes from the Lord. How grateful we are that this Alliance exists and benefits so many in Catholic education, both the leaders and the students themselves.
In the Parishes: This week, focus on Montgomery County's St. Philip Neri Church, and hear about what special devotions are observed, new ministries and parish history.
Vocation Series: Ignatian tutor Anne Marie Campbell tells it like it is: Besides their teachers, students at Our Mother of Sorrows School can thank Anne Marie Campbell for helping them develop their math skills. | The Word Became Flesh
Cardinal Justin Rigali's weekly column. Read it here!
Everyone elated by ad limina visit
During the week of Sept. 5, 2004, Cardinal Justin Rigali and his four Auxiliary Bishops officially carried to Rome the hopes and joys, anxieties and longings of all the people of the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
Access to all: Art goes to school: Albert Sepulveda, now an eighth-grader at St. Casimir School, saw his first play at the Arden Theatre Company last year, courtesy of the Connelly Access Program (CAP). “I thought it was going to be boring, just sitting there watching actors and all,” he said of the play about Benjamin Franklin. “It surprised me how good it was. It really turned out to be fun.”
Our Suffering Church: Breaking the silence
Jesus is still worth dying for. People all over the globe are willing to walk through fire for Him. They’ll let themselves be mocked, abused, alienated and imprisoned for Him. They’ll endure unspeakable torture — having their bones broken and their eyes blinded, their limbs crushed and their skin scalded. They’ll give up their families, their homes, their possessions, everything they hold dear. They’ll do anything — except one thing.
Painless evangelization for Catholics
Not everyone feels confident enough to respond to their baptismal call to “go out and make disciples of all nations.” Many Catholics love God, their faith, the Church, but speaking up just feels so …well … awkward.
Storms damage Carmelite cross
The cloistered sisters of Phila-delphia’s Carmelite Monastery on Old York Road are accepting donations for the restoration of the storm-damaged iron cross that has stood atop their chapel roof for almost a century.
Number one target in North Korea: Christians
Kim Yong, a North Korean refugee, was in elementary school when he saw people gathering at an execution site in Hwanghae Province in North Korea. | The Catholic Standard & Times
Issue of September 23, 2004 Young people: Seek Christ in the Eucharist: From his recent trip to Loretto, Italy, to his pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, to the powerful and popular World Youth Days he began in 1984, Pope John Paul II takes every opportunity to express his love for the young people of the Church and to encourage them never to stop seeking Christ. Story
Back2School Bash benefits special students in Archdiocese: The Archdiocese’s fifth annual Stewards’ Alliance Back2School Bash raised approximately $37,000 to benefit students at five archdiocesan schools of special education. Story
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