Why do we say  ‘Amen’ at the end of prayers? 

Margaret Atwood once wrote that sometimes a thing needs to be said, and said, said again, until it doesn’t need to be said anymore.

We are at the end of the Easter Season.

We just recently celebrated the feast of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (also known as Corpus Christi).  I understand this feast was inspired by a eucharistic miracle.  Can you give me some details on this feast and the miracle?

Revival opportunity for healing, renewal

Farewells can be hard. When we love someone who is going away, there’s always a sadness, and a particularly heart-wrenching one when that loved one is going away in death.

“A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

Recently, while listening to Catholic Community Radio, a prayer was addressed to Our Lady of Prompt Succor to spare us during this hurricane season. Who is Our Lady of Prompt Succor and why do we pray to her?

Where can all of us believers come together beyond the divisions created by history, dogma, denomination and religion? Where is there a place all people of sincere heart can find common ground and worship together?

As I was trying to think of a topic to write about on Saturday, May 21, I saw a column in The Advocate entitled “Number of Buddhist chaplains on the rise in U.S.” 

We lost a good soul on April 10. Mr. Vincent Miranda was a community leader and an active member of the Baton Rouge community.  

I miss being able to receive the Blood of Christ at Mass.  Am I missing out on any graces?

A friend of mine, somewhat cynical about the church, recently remarked: “What the institutional church today is trying to do is to put its best face on the fact that it’s dying. Basically, it’s trying to manage a death.”

We break bread around our church parish altars to unite ourselves to Jesus and each other.  We become his body, his church.  Through our Eucharist we renew our hope and strengthen our faith.  The eucharistic community is our home.  

Many Catholics consider May as “Mary’s Month.”  Why is that?

It’s hard for a child to have to go to bed in the middle of an evening when the rest of the family is still celebrating. Nobody wants to go to bed while everyone else is still up. No one wants to miss out on life.

 With murders increasing in America and military slaughter of civilians in Ukraine, this year’s Good Friday services called us to faith and hope in a world filled with cruelty, killing and destruction.