National Vocation Awareness Week is an annual celebration to promote vocations to ordained ministry and consecrated life. The focus of this initiative is the fostering of vocations through prayer, invitation, and education. While vocations to religious life are extremely valuable to the life of the Church,
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Mental Health Awareness The month of October, which just ended yesterday with the celebration of Halloween, reminds us also of a serious crisis affecting millions of people in our country and in the whole world: Mental Health. Sadly, there is still a stigma that remains
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On October 21, 2019, I published my first Building Faith blog entry. The blog began as a recommendation from the Rebuilding in Faith and Hope initiative and continues to provide opportunities to share Diocesan activity, spiritual encouragement, and important updates. While I focused on sharing events
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Annual Red Mass Celebration The Church has a long history of offering a Mass to invoke divine guidance and strength on those who work in the areas of law and justice, and last Saturday, I celebrated this annual Red Mass in our Diocese. I was pleased by
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Daily Prayer Practice During our recent Parish Leader Convocation, speaker Katie Prejean McGrady gave participants a few moments to reflect on their personal prayer lives. She reminded participants of the importance of not only knowing the faith but, more importantly, practicing the faith—quoting the adage, “You cannot
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I recently made an interesting discovery while contemplating some important milestones happening in my life this year. This year, I celebrate 41 years as a priest, 20 years as a bishop, and 9 years as the Bishop of Fall River, which together equal 70, the number of
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