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“Se nos enseña que los milagros ocurren todos los días, y los resultados que dan estos ministerios sin duda son milagros.” Morline Guillory, directora asociada de servicios filantrópicos espera que los fieles de la diócesis sigan participando para que esos resultados sorprendentes sigan realizandose.

“We’re taught that miracles happen every day, and the results these ministries see are definitely miracles.” Morline Guillory, associate director of philanthropic services is hoping that the faithful of the diocese will want to help make those amazing results continue to happen.

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Lent is a time of conversion and a time to deepen one’s faith, demonstrating and sharing it through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, Pope Francis said.

By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis said there can be no confusion between God’s plan for marriage as an indissoluble bond between one man and woman who are open to life, and other sorts of unions.

By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Following a request by Pope Francis, the Vatican issued a decree specifying that the Holy Thursday foot-washing ritual can include “all members of the people of God,” including women — a practice already observed by the pope and many priests around the world.

By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — There is no saint without a past and no sinner without a future, Pope Francis said in his morning Mass. In his homily during Mass Jan. 19, the pope reflected on the day’s first reading (1 Sm 16: 1-13), which recounts Samuel’s anointing of David as king of Israel.

By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — No one deserves faith and no one can buy it; faith is a gift that changes one’s life and allows people to recognize Jesus as the son of God with the power to forgive sins, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass.

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Italian comedian talking about a new Pope Francis book was not joking when he said being a minister of God’s mercy can have social and political implications.

By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Two U.S. bishops have written to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson seeking an end to deportation raids that rounded up more than 120 Central American immigrants early in the new year.

Pamela Avellanosa wasn’t supposed to survive to tell her story, but survive she did – and that survival was a miracle. She related her story at two presentations at St. Pius X, Beaumont, Jan. 6 & 7. More than 20 years ago, on Jan. 2, 1995, 14-year-old Avellanosa was in serious bicycle accident and the doctors declared her brain dead.

By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Go out and seek the signs God is offering everyone today that will lead to Christ, Pope Francis said. The thirst for God is present in everyone, and it’s the church’s task to help those with “a restless heart” by pointing them to the true light of Christ, the pope said Jan. 6, the feast of the Epiphany, which marks the manifestation of Jesus as savior to the world.