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Embrace trust in a thirsting, divided world, says Congress keynote speaker Msgr. Raymond East
Day two of the 2017 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress kicked off with prayer and praise, as musicians from Catholic Relief Services and Oregon Catholic Press led the crowd in a lively morning prayer service in Anaheim, California.
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Youth Day at 2017 Religious Education Congress
Cathy Alba, a senior at St. Lucy’s Priory High School in Glendora, attended her first Los Angeles Youth Day with her youth group from St. Paul the Apostle Church in Chino Hills.
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Encountering Christ at the U.S.-Mexico border
I was a 20-year-old college seminarian when my formation director invited me to participate in my first public demonstration. The date was May 1, 2006. Facebook and Twitter were only infants at the time. If there had been such a thing as hashtags, #DayWithoutImmigrants would have been trending nationwide.
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Pope encourages popular movements to help stop dehumanization
Pope Francis gave strong words of encouragement to the more than 600 members of grassroots organizations gathered for the U.S. Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements conference Feb. 16-19.
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World Day of the Sick: A mother remembers the gift of her son
Evan Harrington had a contagious joy. He would grab onto your arm and laugh, and you’d find yourself laughing too, as though you were both sharing a joke, even though Evan hadn’t said anything.
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‘Rapping’ priests and religious educate students at Focus 11 Vocation Day
Members from 15 different religious orders “rapped” about how much they loved Jesus in front of nearly 500 sixth-grade Catholic school students from the San Gabriel Region during a rally at the inaugural Focus 11 Vocation Day. The event was held Feb. 7 at St. Therese Church in conjunction with the Carmelite Sisters’ St. Joseph Center in Alhambra.
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Catholic high school educators learn, collaborate at historic in-service day
Bishop Alemany High School in Mission Hills welcomed an estimated 1,700 educators representing 44 Catholic high schools from across three counties for the largest single gathering of Catholic high school educators in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in more than 35 years.
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‘Sunday Funnies’ brings clean stand-up comedy to parish halls, colleges
Once a month, parishioners at Christ the King Church in Hollywood who make their way to the parish hall after 10:30 a.m. Mass aren’t just treated to coffee, donuts and bagels; they’re also treated to a full hour of laughs courtesy of an impressive lineup of touring comics.
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Farewell to Bishop Solis
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Downtown Los Angeles was a place of celebration, farewells and well wishes, as religious, deacons and lay faithful from across the Archdiocese of Los Angeles gathered for an evening send-off Mass for Auxiliary Bishop Oscar A. Solis on Feb. 1.
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Cathedral to host Mass for World Marriage Day on Feb.12
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Downtown Los Angeles will be celebrate World Marriage Day on Sunday, Feb. 12 during the 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Masses.