1585 E. Cartwright Rd.
Mesquite, TX 75149
Contact us:
Phone 972-591-5294
email
carmen@divinemercytx.org

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The Christian liturgy of Lent is intended to facilitate a journey of spiritual renewal in the light of this long biblical experience and especially to learn how to imitate Jesus, who in the forty days spent in the desert taught how to overcome temptation with the Word of God. (Pope Benedict XVI) |
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"If the government can, for example, tell Catholics that they cannot be in the insurance business today without violating their religious convictions, where does it end? This violates the constitutional limits on our government, and the basic rights upon which our country was founded.Much remains to be done. We cannot rest when faced with so grave a threat to the religious liberty for which our parents and grandparents fought. In this moment in history we must work diligently to preserve religious liberty and to remove all threats to the practice of our faith in the public square." (Timothy Cardinal Dolan) |
Evangelize with courage, conviction, joy, pope says
By Sarah Delaney
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI said that a proper transmission of the faith to the young or the uninitiated depends on a solid grounding of the basics of Catholic formation -- baptism, first Communion and catechism.
Easter
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost are celebrated in joyful exultation as one feast day, or better, as one "great Sunday". These above all others are the days for the singing of the Alleluia. The days of the Easter octave form the "early hours" of this "great Sunday," with accounts of the Lord who rose early in the morning, and the early preaching of the disciples who were witnesses to his resurrection.