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Slideshow: Students Celebrate Human Life at OneLife LA 2019
Dozens of Thomas Aquinas College students traveled to Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday for OneLife LA — the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ annual event to promote the beauty and dignity of all human life. Pictures from the event are available in the slideshow below:
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‘The great cause of life in our time’
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.
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Archbishop Gomez: From a new year’s retreat
I am writing to you from Chicago, where the bishops of the United States are finishing a weeklong spiritual retreat recommended to us by Pope Francis.
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Sending God’s newest Lay Mission-Helpers from LA to Africa
“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.”
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Archbishop Gomez: God and only God
As we move forward in our spiritual journey, sometimes God takes away things that we rely on.
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Full text: Letter regarding Auxiliary Bishop Salazar’s retirement
On December 19, 2018, the Holy See announced that Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Alexander Salazar. Archbishop José H. Gomez issued the following letter to the faithful of Los Angeles.
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Archbishop Gomez: A Christmas prayer
Every year, Christmas comes to a world that is not ready for the birth of God in our midst.
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TRADICIONES: Celebrarán a la Vírgen de Guadalupe en SoCal a partir de este fin de semana
Como los mexicanos, los devotos latinoamericanos de la Virgen de Guadalupe la llaman “morenita”, pero entre la comunidad de fieles de origen filipino su nombre …
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California’s Native Americans lay their ancestors to rest — one last time
On a bright Saturday morning in late November, about 25 Native Americans from the Gabrielino/Tongva San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians gathered to bless a piece of land where many of their ancestors will finally, after many years, get a proper burial.
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Sunday readings for Dec. 1 & 2
Every Advent, the Liturgy of the Word gives our sense of time a reorientation. There’s a deliberate tension in the next four weeks’ readings—between promise and fulfillment, expectation and deliverance, between looking forward and looking back.
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