"The Joy of the Gospel" Fr. Gio Nunez, CRM December 12, 2015 — Somehow we found joy in driving for more than five hundred miles to Maryland on August 3, 2015. We woke up early in the morning, hit the road and listened to good old Filipino Music Fr. Ed [...]
We are all called to serve God and His Church. Each of us has to share his/her talents by serving other people. An altar server is a “person who serves the parish community ... and assists the community to celebrate the sacred liturgy that is to worship God. Through the [...]
Like me, my past brought me to where I am now. I remember when I was in the third Grade I became an altar server. It was because of my mother who asked me to respond to the invitation when she heard the announcement that our parish was in need [...]
A simple and humble word of Mary when she received the message of the Lord through the Angel Gabriel. She is frightened but courageously answered the Lord to be His instrument for the coming of Christ, the Savior. Let it be the word of every individual who wants to become [...]
The Reverend Frank Palmieri, CRM, is a multifaceted Roman Catholic priest who hails from a medieval European town with a ninth-century church and who now serves at an American parish that has yet to build a church. He was born and bred in Italy, and now thinks in English; he [...]
The students are to be made clearly aware of the burdens they will be undertaking, and no problem of the priestly life is to be concealed from them. This is to be done, however, not that they should be almost solely concerned with the notion of danger in their future [...]
“[I] Give thanks to the LORD, who is good, whose mercy endures forever” (Psalm 106:1) My parish experience as an ordained minister began after my ordination to the diaconate on December 12, 2010. My life was partly transformed knowing that I was a transitional deacon and Ordination to the Priesthood was [...]
Br. Ryan with the Holy Father. At the time of this writing I have been in Rome for almost two months. The novelty and excitement of this city has gone as I have seen all the sites and the demands of my studies are underway. The honeymoon period [...]
We are happy to announce that the Adorno Fathers will be celebrating 75 years of their presence at Saint Joseph Parish in Lodi. The Most Reverend Thomas Donato will officiate at a solemn Mass on December 30, 2011 at 7:00 pm in order to give thanks to God for His [...]
Any vocation, whether it be marriage, single blessedness or the priesthood and religious life is a gift from God. One’s vocation is ultimately rooted in the universal baptismal call to holiness. Holiness is linked to the imitation of Christ in our lives. We try to follow Christ in thought, in [...]