{"id":21308,"date":"2023-02-15T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fallriverdiocese.org\/?p=21308"},"modified":"2023-11-06T17:44:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T17:44:24","slug":"bishops-blog-coming-together-around-the-eucharist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fallriverdiocese.org\/pt-pt\/bishops-blog\/bishops-blog-coming-together-around-the-eucharist\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Together Around the Eucharist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Celebration for Couples Celebrating Anniversaries<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We have to make many choices every day in our lives. Our choices lead to good or not-so-good consequences. If we choose a path of pride, self-righteousness, and selfishness, we prepare ourselves, our families, and even our communities for a future of trouble and pain. Suppose we choose to focus only on our desires and intentions and turn away from prayer, attending Mass, receiving the sacraments, listening and hearing the word of God, and ignoring the teachings of Christ. In that case, we must be ready to face the consequences\u2014to pay the price.<\/span>
\nConsequently, when we choose to follow and heed the word of God\u2014 when we choose humility, sensitivity, faithfulness, and honesty; when we pray every day, are hard-working, participate in the Sacraments, follow the commandments; and strive to live with a clear conscience, we will experience the peacefulness that awaits us. The central point of God\u2019s Commandments shows us a path to life, peace, holiness, and goodness.<\/span>
\nThe Diocese celebrated World Marriage Day at St. Mary’s Cathedra<\/a>l, with many couples married between five and 65 years. World Marriage Day brings to a close National Marriage Week and is a day for couples to give thanks for their married lives, families, and commitment to each other. This year’s theme for World Marriage Day was very simple and profound: “Marriage…one flesh, given and received.” That\u2019s what marriage is about, giving, receiving, and sharing life. World Marriage Day aims to highlight the importance of marriage and family in our world.<\/span>
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Coming together to celebrate these couples offers us a time to teach the importance of marriage and church and society; the basic foundation of our society can be found in marriage. I can’t imagine a world where the family does not exist. World Marriage Day urges all of us to carry out our commitments and support husbands and wives who have embraced this commitment. To encourage those who live a life of sacrifice, love, pain, tears, and sorrow, amongst all the joys in all those things that come from living together in great faithfulness and devotion. That is what we celebrate today.<\/span>
All people have crosses to bear; however, it is vital to realize we are never alone. We always have God’s grace, which we can rely on and lean upon. God instituted the sacrament of marriage and sustains it by His grace. We are not made to be alone, and even though our lives are not always a honeymoon nor made up solely of roses – there are always thorns among the roses. We know that with the grace of God, we can face everything that life unfolds before us.<\/span>
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2023 Women and Men\u2019s Conference<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The registration deadline is fast approaching for this year\u2019s March 11th Fall River Diocesan Women and Men\u2019s Conference with this year\u2019s theme of Receive Jesus. Worship Jesus. I am looking forward to gathering once again with members of our Diocese for a day filled with opportunities for spiritual growth\u2014through talks, the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and the celebration of the Mass. How wonderful it will be to come together once again as a Diocesan community. I invite you to join me on March 11th; please watch this special video:
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