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RCIA Inquirer Form (2021)

 

FAITH AND POVERTY:  A BIBLICAL RESPONSE

8 Consecutive Weeks Starting January 14 at 1pm

How do I respond to poverty and injustice? What tools does my Catholic faith have to offer? 

Faith and Poverty: A Biblical Response is an 8 week program that explores God’s call to respond to poverty in our local communities, equipping participants to take action in effective and sustainable ways. Meaningful prayer experiences in the context of a small faith community are an essential part of each session. 

The program will be offered virtually on Zoom for any interested adults in our diocese.

For a short introductory video go to Introductory Video

For more information go to:   More Information

The program is sponsored  through a local grant from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. To register contact Cheryl Sommer, Diocesan Director for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development at cchddiobelle@gmail.com or 618-624-2838.

Do you or someone you know wish to learn more about the Catholic Faith?

Thursdays, 
5:30 p.m.
Fellowship Room

Need more information?
Please contact Deacon Steve Eischens
at 618.244.1559, x210.
 

Have you ever thought about going on a Cursillo (pronounced Kur-see-yo)?  What is a Cursillo?  According to the Belleville and Champaign Cursillo websites, Cursillo is a movement within the Catholic Church that with God's grace, enables the Christian person to become aware of their potential and while accepting their limitations study their faith, live their faith more fully and share their faith.  A cursillo weekend begins on a Thursday evening and ends Sunday afternoon.  During the three days, the participants listen to the Gospel message given in fifteen short talks.  Talks are given by clergy an dlay persons dealing with Grace, Christian study, action, leadership, living a life in relationship with God, the role of the layperson in the church and similar reflections on situiations encountered in daily living.

Please contact the parish office if you have already attended a Cursillo and would like to join a prayer group.

 

The Vatican announced Pope Francis’ decision that the Church celebrate the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as “Mother of the Church” every year on the Monday after Pentecost, as a way to foster Marian piety and the maternal sense of the Church.

The decree establishing the memorial was published March 3 in a letter from Cardinal Robert Sarah, head of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

“This celebration will help us to remember that growth in the Christian life must be anchored to the Mystery of the Cross, to the oblation of Christ in the Eucharistic Banquet and to the Mother of the Redeemer and Mother of the Redeemed,” Sarah wrote.

The cardinal noted that the “joyous veneration given to the Mother of God by the contemporary Church, in light of reflection on the mystery of Christ and on his nature, cannot ignore the figure of a woman, the Virgin Mary, who is both the Mother of Christ and Mother of the Church.”

The Marian title of “Mother of the Church,” was given to the Blessed Mother by Bl. Pope Paul VI at the Second Vatican Council. It was also added to the Roman Missal after the Holy Year of Reconciliation in 1975.
 

Article on the Memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church


 

Bishop Emeritus Braxton has publshed a reflection on the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Click HERE to read the pastoral document.