Speeches Delivered at the 2025 Graduation for the Institute for Leadership in Ministry

Discursos pronunciados en la Graduación de 2025 del Instituto de Liderazgo en el Ministerio

Bài phát biểu tại Lễ tốt nghiệp năm 2025 của Viện Lãnh đạo trong Bộ.

Marcia Green and the Father Jorge da Silva Scholarship

This column presents an accessible catechesis on the Eucharist to help readers encounter Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

The goal of these important seasons in our liturgical calendar is to help us prepare our souls for Christ.

This month, we’ll examine the virtue of generosity and how it helps us conquer another “deadly” (so-called because it gives rise to other vices) sin: avarice.

“Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.” (Lk 1:30)

In a sense angels do “attend” every Mass as well as other liturgical events, such as the Divine Office.

Patience, or forbearance, is the virtue we need if we are going to overcome the deadly sin of wrath.

Encounter Jesus in the Songs of the Suffering Servant

Each year the diocese presents the Kecharitomene Award to a teenage disciple who possesses a zeal for evangelization.

Confident his son would follow in his footsteps as a lawyer, François de Sales de Boisy never anticipated the greatness the young Francis was to achieve.

Hàng năm, giáo phận trao Giải Thưởng Kecharitomene cho một môn đệ là thanh thiếu niên có lòng nhiệt thành truyền giáo.

We are not called to periodic obedience, but to a daily and often hidden consent to whatever God asks of us.

No detail in God’s plan of salvation is coincidental. In the accounts of Jesus’ birth and infancy, a variety of people (and angels, too!) show up on the scene.

Travelers dressed as Mary and Joseph are accompanied to different houses each night by a procession. It concludes with a celebration, food and a piñata.

National Vocations Awareness Week is Sun, Nov 3-9. Follow our social media campaign with daily themes using #dsjvocations.

National Vocations Awareness Week is November 3-9, 2024. Each day this week will have a vocational theme.

Dear Father Joe: Sometimes, there are so many distractions at Mass that I can’t concentrate. It’s really frustrating – what can I do?

What would it look like if we expected Jesus to speak to us through each day, even in the most mundane and ordinary moments?

In 2023, the bishops released the USCCB document Missionary Disciples Going Forth with Joy: National Pastoral Plan for Hispanic/Latino Ministry.

I’ve been praying, but sometimes I don’t know if what I’m thinking is actually God’s voice or if it is my own thoughts. Is there any way I can tell?

During the season of Advent, we seek to welcome Jesus into our hearts as Mary and Joseph welcomed him into their home.

Finding the source and summit of the Christian life