Category Archives: Lent 2018

Apr 08 2018

NOVO DAY 1

Prayers Direct, O Lord, all our actions by your holy inspirations, and carry them on by your gracious assistance, so that every prayer and work of ours may always begin from you and by you be happily ended through Christ, ou...

Apr 07 2018

Happy Divine Mercy Sunday

Today is a special day in the Easter Season. The Church has granted a plenary indulgence today to the faithful who meet the conditions. Information to obtain the plenary indulgence is below. Happy Divine Mercy Sunday! The following is from EWTN. Click the link to learn more about plenary indulgences...

Apr 06 2018

Divine Mercy Novena (Day 9)

Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet along with this prayer for the souls who have become lukewarm. “Today bring to Me the Souls who have become Lukewarm, and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. These souls wound My Heart most painfully. My soul suffered the most dreadful loathing in the...

Apr 05 2018

Divine Mercy Novena (Day 8)

Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet along with this prayer for the souls who are in the prison of purgatory. “Today bring to Me the Souls who are in the prison of Purgatory, and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. Let the torrents of My Blood cool down their scorching flames. All these ...

Apr 04 2018

Divine Mercy Novena (Day 7)

DAY 7 Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet along with this prayer for the souls who especially venerate and glorify God’s mercy. Today bring to Me the Souls who especially venerate and glorify My Mercy*, and immerse them in My mercy. These souls sorrowed most over my Passion and entered mos...

Apr 03 2018

Divine Mercy Novena (Day 6)

DAY 6 Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet along with this prayer for the meek and humble souls and souls of children. Today bring to Me the Meek and Humble Souls and the Souls of Little Children, and immerse them in My mercy. These souls most closely resemble My Heart. They strengthened Me...

Apr 01 2018

Divine Mercy Novena (Day 4)

DAY 4 Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet along with this prayer for all who do not believe in God or do not know him. “Today bring to Me those who do not believe in God and those who do not know Me, I was thinking also of them during My bitter Passion, and their future zeal comforte...

Mar 31 2018

Happy Easter

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling over death by death! Come awake! Come awake! Come and rise up from the grave. Happy Easter from all of us here at Diocesan! For we are an Easter people, and hallelujah is our song! ...

Mar 30 2018

Waiting in Hopeful Anticipation

Click here for the daily readings It’s been almost a year since I asked the love of my life to marry me. Not to spoil it, but she said yes. Neither of us wanted a long engagement, but due to a few factors that were out of ...

Mar 29 2018

Entering into the Passion

Pain! As the wood digs into my shoulder, I fall on the cold concrete with the weight of the cross crashing down on my back. Sorrow! Sorrow, for the things I have done and the things I know we all do. Sorrow knowing how many ...

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Mar 29 2018

Divine Mercy Novena

The Divine Novena starts tomorrow on Good Friday. I will be including every day of the Novena along with the daily reflections so we can all pray it together. Here is some basic information on the Novena from EWTN. DIVINE MERCY NOVENA Jesus asked that the Feast of the Divine Mercy be preceded by a

Mar 28 2018

The Paschal Lamb

“That same night they shall eat its roasted flesh with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.” Exodus 12:8 Have you ever been so hungry that you just couldn’t stand it? I remember a backpacking trip I took in my Boy Scout days. W...

Mar 27 2018

Misplaced Passions

Click here for Spanish version “Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those re...

Mar 26 2018

Resist the Fear

Click here for Spanish version Today’s Gospel reading begins by telling us that Jesus was deeply troubled. And so, too, is anyone reading or hearing this passage: it is, in fact, one of the most difficult parts of the jour...

Mar 26 2018

Come to Jesus and Live!

Click here for Spanish version Holy Week has begun. The Holy Triduum is just days away. Our hearts and minds attempt to wrap around emotions of both sorrow and joy. Why does He have to die? In order to rise again, we answer ours...

Mar 25 2018

Hosanna! Hosanna!

Click here for Spanish version Jesus, we sing Hosanna and also cry out ‘Crucify’. Take our hearts and bring them close to You in our protest so that we may sing Your praise at all times. I take a palm frond in my han...

Mar 24 2018

He Showed Up

Click here for Spanish version They looked for Jesus and said to one another as they were in the temple area, “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?” John 11:56 In today’s Gospel, the p...

Mar 22 2018

How Did I Do?

Click here for Spanish version As we draw nearer to the end of this grace-ladened season of Lent, you and I may be tempted to wonder how we have done. Did I forget my Lenten resolutions one too many times? Did I somehow fail at ...

Mar 21 2018

The Truth Will Set You Free

Click here for Spanish version We all want to be free, don’t we? Today’s Gospel is all about freedom. As a child, I wanted to be free of rules and regulations. As a young adult, I want to be free of college debt. I a...

Mar 21 2018

Excessive, Extravagant, Reckless

Click here for Spanish version Prodigal: Adjective Excessive, Extravagant, Reckless. “He ran”. (Luke 15:20) Recently in my 6th grade class, we studied the parable of the Lost Son. Before reading the story, I asked th...