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Once again, our nation pauses to celebrate Thanksgiving. Our tables will be spilling over with food and our homes will resonate with laughter and conversation as we gather to celebrate this special day. While this holiday is a great blessing for us, it is the "once again" part that can anesthetize us to its beauty. With this in mind, allow me to share some personal reflections with you in the hope that we will all savor more than just the turkey this year and remember to take in all the blessings God bestows upon us.
>>>TOOELE – On the Solemnity of Christ the King – the end of the Catholic Church’s liturgical year – parishioners in Tooele gathered to give thanks with Bishop John C. Wester, who celebrated not only the Mass on Nov. 20 but also the parish’s centennial.
>>>The Catholic holy seasons of Advent, Christmas and Easter have their own ways of calling us to prayer, and every one of these annual holy days sprouts its own collection of books of prayer, meditation and contemplation, so that if we were to collect them all, all of our spare rooms would look like mine – with stacks of boxes of books, many of which should be carefully divided into years A, B and C.
>>>I was recently given the honor of reviewing a new Bible, "LIVE," that was published specifically for teens. After going through and getting an understanding of what this particular Bible was trying to accomplish, I did not really know what I was going to say about "LIVE." I wanted to give my opinion without offending anyone, so I wrote a draft that seemed to tip-toe around eggshells. I hated that draft. I realized withholding anything that I thought about "LIVE" was counterproductive to my goal of reviewing this Bible. So here goes; eggshells not included.
>>>SALT LAKE CITY - Adviento marca el inicio del año eclesiastico, comienza el cuarto domingo antes de la Navidad y termina en la víspera de la misma.
>>>Una Carta Pastoral a la Iglesia de Salt Lake City sobre el tiempo de Adviento
Mis queridos hermanos sacerdotes y diáconos, mis queridos religiosos, mis queridos hermanas y hermanos en Cristo, que la gracia y la paz de Dios Nuestro Padre y Nuestro Señor Jesucristo esté con ustedes.
>>>SALT LAKE CITY — It was a familiar scene on the 3A state football championship turf Friday, Nov. 19, at Rice-Eccles Stadium. As the fourth quarter came to an end, with three seconds left on the clock, the Juan Diego Catholic High School team had every fan frozen in anticipation, yet again.
>>>SALT LAKE CITY – Every fourth Sunday of the month the African Catholic community gathers to celebrate a Mass with their cultural traditions at Saint Patrick Catholic Church in Salt Lake City.
>>>SALT LAKE CITY — Latin American and Hispanic Catholic communities are very joyful and creative in the way they celebrate holiday seasons.
>>>SALT LAKE CITY – Advent, the beginning of the Church year, begins four Sundays before Christmas and ends on Christmas Eve.
When the Church celebrates the liturgy of Advent each year, she makes present this ancient expectancy of the Messiah, for by sharing in the long preparation for the Savior’s first coming, the faithful renew their ardent desire for his second coming. By celebrating John the Baptist’s birth and martyrdom, the Church unites herself to his desire: "He must increase, but I must decrease" (Catechism, No. 524;).
Different communities around the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City celebrate Advent in their own traditional ways.
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