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Like Moses striking the rock and water pouring out, Father John Mbua Mwandi of the Diocese of Kitui, Kenya, said the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, in partnership with his diocese, struck their ground in Africa and water poured out.
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Like Moses striking the rock and water pouring out, Father John Mbua Mwandi of the Diocese of Kitui, Kenya, said the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, in partnership with his diocese, struck their ground in Africa and water poured out.
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Christina Kraus has always been active in her Catholic faith, but during the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic the parishioner of St. Hubert in Chanhassen realized she longed for a closer faith community where she could grow spiritually and develop Christian relationships.
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These family plans don’t have to be spiritually driven, Bishop Izen said, but should be something special for summer. However, he also encouraged Catholics to not take vacation from their prayer.
“We have to be more intentional about making that work and that when we’re in a new setting, maybe it’s vacation, maybe it’s just some downtime, we want to be careful not to take that vacation from prayer,” Bishop Izen said. “It’s the spiritual nourishment that is part of what the rest is. … To rest with the Lord is something we need to do.
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In journeying with young women exploring their vocations, Hastreiter said she’s seen the damage that idolizing vocations can do to Catholic culture.
“I like to remind people our primary vocation is to love,” Hastreiter said. “If we put that first, our relationship with God, our relationship with our neighbor, then everything else falls into place,” Hastreiter said. “Another thing that can be really difficult, especially as Catholics and as Catholics in a kind of dark age in the world in which we’re trying to reclaim some things that were lost, we can kind of go to one extreme or the other.”
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“God knows what’s going to happen in our lives,” Bishop Kenney said. “I think there’s a beginning and an end, and God has a path, but there’s many options in that path on that road that we can take. When we’re in prayer, when we’re discerning, we get back onto that path. It’s just putting that trust in God to be able to think that God knows who we are.”
Bishop Kenney said there is a temptation from the world to seek self-fulfillment.
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This past weekend, we were blessed here in the archdiocese to ordain five men to the priesthood. Besides the beautiful Saturday morning Mass for priestly ordination, it was a weekend full of prayers, Holy Hours, receptions and first Masses of Thanksgiving. We thank God that he has been so generous to give us five new priests, five new shepherds, and five new witnesses to his love.
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El fin de semana pasado tuvimos la bendición, aquí en la arquidiócesis, de ordenar a cinco hombres al sacerdocio. Además de la hermosa misa matutina del sábado para la ordenación sacerdotal, fue un fin de semana lleno de oraciones, Horas Santas, recepciones y las primeras misas de Acción de Gracias. Damos gracias a Dios por su generosidad al darnos cinco nuevos sacerdotes, cinco nuevos pastores y cinco nuevos testigos de su amor.
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The Trump administration announced June 3 that it would revoke Biden-era guidance to the nation's hospitals directing them to perform abortions in emergency circumstances even in states that banned the procedure.
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While the world is still just getting to know him, first impressions appear to hint that Pope Leo XIV doesn't seem like a pontiff to say, "I told you so."
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As I write this, I am keeping company with a mama robin on our backyard balcony, so I’m treading lightly. Tapping, not pounding, the keyboard. Sliding, not slamming, the door. Basking in the breeze.
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