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  • ‘The great cause of life in our time’
    January 21, 2019  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  

    We are praying tonight for the unborn.

    This word reminds us that life begins long before we ever see it. The Bible tells us that every human life begins with the desire of God. Before he forms us in the womb, he knows who we are. He knows who he wants us to be. Even before we are born, God has plans for us.

  • Remembering our priests and deacons
    January 20, 2019  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    We invite you to please remember our deceased priests and deacons in your prayers. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord. And let perpetual light shine upon them. And may they rest in peace.

  • Thousands gather in downtown LA to celebrate the beauty and dignity of every human life
    January 20, 2019  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    About 15,000 Southern Californians joined Archbishop José H. Gomez at the fifth annual OneLife LA, on Saturday, January 19, at Los Angeles State Historic Park in downtown Los Angeles to celebrate the beauty and dignity of every human life from conception to natural death.

  • ‘ONE LIFE LA’
    January 19, 2019  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    El Arzobispo José H. Gomez, los obispos auxiliares, sacerdotes y cientos de feligreses de las parroquias de la Arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles protagonizan la quinta caminata anual One Life LA (Una Vida LA) que tomará lugar el 19 de enero, a partir del mediodía, en La Plaza Olvera.

  • OneLife LA at 5 years
    January 17, 2019  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    When OneLife LA began five years ago, we were nervous. We were embarking on a project that was brand new, and we didn’t know if we could actually create something that would make sense. That would convey the message that we were hoping to share with the world.

  • How the subject of a viral bullying YouTube clip used her faith to forgive
    January 14, 2019  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Twelve years later, Lizzie Velasquez still remembers that afternoon as if it were yesterday.

  • Sending God’s newest Lay Mission-Helpers from LA to Africa
    December 26, 2018  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  

    “One of the biggest mistakes everybody does in mission work is they go there to try to change the people instead of changing ourselves for the first year, and then see what we can do to help after that. This is a three-year mission, and you can blow it in the first three months.”

  • Act of faith brings a struggling family a Christmas surprise
    December 21, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    When Angelus News heard about a little parochial school in El Sereno that had taken in three students being raised mostly by their grandmother and uncle, it wasn’t long before a staff writer and photographer were dispatched to All Saints School, a cream stucco building a half-dozen blocks off busy Huntington Drive.

  • Christmas reward for generous Catholic school students
    December 20, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    The energetic group of more than 50 children, transitional kindergarteners to second-graders from St. Paul’s Catholic School in Mid City LA, gathered on a crisp Tuesday afternoon outside the Target store at the base of Baldwin Hills.

  • St. Mary’s students celebrate Our Lady
    December 20, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    It was an early morning for students at St. Mary of the Assumption School in Santa Maria on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, but they didn’t mind. Together with the local community, the school began a day of celebration with sunrise prayer, breakfast, and songs, including “Las Mañanitas,” at 6 a.m.