National Eucharistic Revival Launch A special Mass, Eucharistic procession, and Adoration hour was held on Saturday, June 18, at Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River to launch the National Eucharistic Revival here in the Diocese of Fall River. This was an important opportunity for us to
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2022 Catholic Appeal This year’s Catholic Appeal theme is “Journeying Together in Faith and Love.” Since 1942, the Appeal has helped people in all phases of life – from children, to youth, to parents, to the elderly. Your support sustains the numerous agencies, programs, and ministries providing
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Annual Pro-Life Mass On Friday, March 25th, I celebrated the Annual Pro-Life Mass at St. Julie’s in Dartmouth. The Annunciation of the Lord is known as a Solemnity—the highest level of a liturgical feast. This day is important for many reasons, including that we would have no
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Catholic Appeal The 80th Catholic Appeal, “Time to Gather, Time to Heal, Time to Love,” has closed with tremendous results. After an extraordinarily challenging time, more than 18,000 individual donors – a 12.5% increase over last year – contributed $4.6 million in gifts and pledges to sustain
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Clarification Regarding USCCB General Assembly Since the close of the USCCB’s June General Assembly last week, there has been much discussion—and confusion—about the vote the bishops participated in regarding the Eucharist. It is important to understand that the actual vote tasked the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’
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Important Livestreamed Liturgies Gathering peacefully to pray together regardless of our differences can provide a wonderful example of the harmony to which we are called as members of one human family and children of the same God. With this important goal in mind, I have extended an
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