opportunities offered by local parishes or nearby retreat centers. • Live your faith by getting actively involved in community service and social justice activities. • Become a lay associate of a religious community of men or women. • Learn

, religious and lay          people.          Deacon Evans serves on the parish staff at Blessed Sacrament Parish.          > Learn more about the Liturgy of the Hours here. Monday, March 6. "Praying With the Psalms"          The Psalms originated as hymns

households. An associate pastor assisted the pastor until 1974, when a Franciscan Sister was hired as pastoral minister. A director of religious education joined the staff in 1975.  The parish’s first permanent deacon was ordained in 1979 and was joined over

men and women invite lay people to join them as lay associates.  The Catholic tradition has a wide variety of devotions which can help people develop and practice their faith; you can learn more about these devotions here.    Before deciding what

the possibilities of becoming, lay ecclesial ministers in the Catholic Church and other Catholic adults interested in continuing education in the Catholic faith. Topics: Length: Format: Each course uses a combination of online study and three class meetings

teaching.              (Sharing Catholic Social Teaching--Challenges and Directions. United States              Conference of Catholic Bishops. 1998)              Any well-regulated and productive association of men in society demands

Vatican Council.  The organization spread to the United States in 1931 and by mid-century   was one of the largest lay associations functioning in Catholic parishes throughout the world.   • Miraculous Medal -- In 1830 St. Catherine Laboure, a French

me that I was to start an evangelization ministry in Cedar Rapids and Marion, with lay volunteers, uniting the eleven local parishes by once a month having a lay witness talk at a different Catholic Church. In my life I had run away from Jesus many

the Babylonian Exile and was adopted by the early Christian community. The practice was common among lay and ordained persons in the early Church and formed a model for early monastic communities, where the monks gathered for prayer at established times

at the proper time. (890) 14. To be married in the presence of a priest (or a lay person designated by the        bishop) and two witnesses. (1108, 1112, 1119) 15. To do penance and observe special days of penance established by the        Church