Our Lady of Hope Blog

My Dear Friends,

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops explains the role of a deacon in the Catholic Church. He is an ordained minister, hence a man who receives the Sacrament of Holy Orders.

My Dear Friends,

This Tuesday is the feast day of Pope St. John Paul II. We know that St. John Paul worked and preached tirelessly on the issue of life, which is why I am asking our parish to pray for 24 hours in our participation in the Forty Days for Life that Catholic parishes and dioceses promote every October.

My Dear Friends,

I will wrap up the first Eucharistic Prayer (the Roman Canon) with a few more examples of why this canon is venerable and worthy to be prayed at every Mass. Besides being the one Eucharistic prayer in our Roman Missal that is unabashedly sacrificial, it is also the most Catholic of all Eucharistic prayers for the reasons I have been writing these last few weeks.

My Dear Friends,

Last week we mentioned the list of 26 saints (Mary and Joseph, 12 apostles, and 12 martyrs) in the first section of the Roman Canon. Today we talk about the second list of fifteen names, beginning with St. John the Baptist. In the traditional Mass, John the Baptist is mentioned nine times (the same is for Saints Peter and Paul, who are also mentioned nine times).