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Friday, Oct. 01, 2010
Every time we gather to celebrate the Eucharist, we lift our hearts in song and prayer to give praise and thanks to God for his infinite love and mercy. At the core of our celebration is the great prayer of thanksgiving: the Eucharistic Prayer. Many of us can probably recite parts of this prayer from memory. Sometimes we hear this prayer prayed with great solemnity, and sometimes listen to a presider’s hurried tone. What is so important about this prayer? In the next several articles, I am going to break open parts of the Eucharistic Prayer and highlight some of the coming changes to its language
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Friday, Oct. 01, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY - “Faith is important because faith is what gives you hope,” said Judge Andrew Valdez.
Judge Valdez was born and raised in Utah in the Catholic religion. His mother raised him and three siblings after their father left.
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Friday, Oct. 01, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY - ...need to pray always and not to lose heart,” Luke 18:1
Keeping teens centered on Catholic values and faith can be very tough, but an upcoming workshop sponsored by the Diocese of Salt Lake Youth & Young Adult Ministry can help parents guide their teens on this path.
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Friday, Oct. 01, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY — During the last school year, students from several Utah Catholic Schools collected funds for their counterparts in Kenya through the Kenya Keys project during Catholic Schools Week. What follows is a letter from Rinda T. Hayes, the organization’s executive director.
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Friday, Oct. 01, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY — For 101 years, the Cathedral of the Madeleine and the Cathedral Church of Saint Mark have stood a block from each other. The sister cathedrals, one representing the seat of the Catholic diocese, the other the seat of Utah’s Episcopal Church, “stand as icons in this city, representing and proclaiming to all the message of salvation given by our Lord Jesus Christ,” said the Very Rev. Rick Lawson, dean of St. Mark’s.
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Friday, Oct. 01, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY —In 1917, the world was at war, the United States faced a brutal winter with record cold temperatures, fuel was in short supply, food was rationed. Yet in Salt Lake City, the Most Rev. Joseph S. Glass, the diocese’s second bishop, prepared to open the Cathedral of the Madeleine after its interior renovation, unveiling 258 angels painted on the walls and ceilings among other Biblical scenes.
That interior magnificence was restored in 1993; the exterior was renovated in 1980; the interior was restored again in 1993.
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Friday, Oct. 01, 2010
OGDEN — Saint Mary Parish Teen Ministry from West Haven hosted a Polynesian dinner in the Saint Joseph Catholic High School Black Box Theater to raise funds to buy musical instruments and sheet music to start a teen family Mass at the parish.
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Friday, Oct. 01, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY — The yellow balloons and big bow appeared celebratory, and indeed, Kimberly Evans would have turned 27 on Sept. 24 – the day that J.E. Cosgriff Memorial School honored her life by dedicating a bench in the pre-school playground where “Miss Kim” brought her students. However, the celebration was a memorial rather than a party for the well-loved teacher who lost her life on June 26 when she fell while hiking in Bell Canyon.
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Friday, Oct. 01, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY — “What return shall I make to the Lord for all the good he has done for me?”
The answer to this question, asked in Psalm 116:12, is the focus of a new initiative in the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City that is taking place at the direction of Bishop John C. Wester.
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Friday, Oct. 01, 2010
OGDEN — Holy Family Parish youth walked in the shoes of the poor for 24 hours by going without food and sleeping outside on the parish lawn Oct. 1-25 to raise funds for Catholic Community Services Food Bank in Ogden. The 13- to 17- year-olds ingested only water, juice and broth and slept in tents made out of cardboard boxes.
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