This week in The Criterion
March 7, 2008 issue
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The contents of this newsletter are:
- A listing of the full contents of the print edition
- Items of Interest
- Web-only Features
- National and World News you may have missed
- Links to the daily readings
Full Contents
Local stories:
- A father’s love, a son’s passion: Hughes family
shares inspiring
story at father
and son breakfast
- Conference connects the Holy Spirit and evangelization
- Lenten speaker says faith can help further the common good
- Cathedral Kitchen receives
gift to establish endowment
- Saint Meinrad lecturer to speak
on embryonic stem-cell research
- Property tax debate continues at state Capitol
- Archdiocesan parishes schedule annual Lenten penance services
- Lenten activities
are available online
- ‘Walking to Jerusalem’:
Lenten journey takes Holy Spirit students thousands of miles
- Breaking down barriers:
Teens celebrate God’s infinite love and mercy
at Archdiocesan Youth Rally
- Sisters of St. Benedict to host four-day ‘Triduum Retreat’
- Priest: Stand with Blessed Virgin Mary at foot of Christ’s cross
- Catholic News Around Indiana
- Local Church teen
leads other youth
volunteers in
operating ‘kiddie
pack’ program
- Proposed Jasper
Catholic high school
plans move ahead
Regular local features:
- Seeking the Face of the Lord: Passiontide reminds us to join our sorrow and pain to that of Christ
- Buscando la Cara del Señor: La Pasión nos recuerda que debemos unir nuestras penas y dolores a los de Cristo
- Editorial: Success in marriage requires
cooperation with God’s grace
- From the Editor Emeritus: Biblical women - Mary, mother of Jesus
- Cornucopia: When the Eureka! moment goes on forever
- Faithful Lines: How to get your husband to listen to you
- Faith, Hope and Charity: Law of love
is greatest
- Be Our Guest: Christ’s wedding day message
offers gentle reminder to
bride about sacrificial love
- Letters to the Editor
- Properly defining words would help in
public discourse about immigration
- Events Calendar
- Parishes offer
Easter bread
- Obituaries
- General listing
- Providence Sister Merry Marcotte
ministered to people in need
- Providence Sister Raymond Hunter
taught school for 53 years
- My Journey to God: God’s Winter Treasury
Catholic News Service:
- Israeli Catholic
analyst says
U.S. is part of
Middle East
problem
- Poverty persistent but can be overcome, speakers say
- Shared values of Christianity, Islam guide believers, say officials
- Mercy sister named Canon Law Society
of America’s executive coordinator
- Catholic University students pray the rosary with pope via satellite
- The Sunday Readings: Fifth Sunday of Lent
- Question Corner: The Eucharist is the center
of liturgical life and worship
FaithAlive!
- Witness of early Christians converted the Roman Empire
- Year of St. Paul challenges us to conversion in our own lives
- Discussion Point: Trust God, who is always faithful
Items of Interest
Here are a couple of items that may be of particular interest to Catholics in your parish:
A father’s love, a son’s passion: Hughes family shares inspiring story at father and son breakfast
This is a love story about faith, family, perseverance and passion. It’s a story about the power of a father’s unconditional love for his son and the dreams that love has unleashed. It’s a story about the sacrifices a father is willing to make so his son’s dreams can become reality. The story of Patrick Henry Hughes, and his father, Patrick John Hughes, inspired and captured the hearts of more than 500 people who attended the annual Holy Name of Jesus Parish Father and Son Breakfast on March 2. (Page 1 – front page)
Read the story
Breaking down barriers: Teens celebrate God’s infinite love and mercy at Archdiocesan Youth Rally
The music to the song “Sanctuary” faded out, but the voices of the youths only grew louder. With eyes closed and hearts open, these 550 teenagers prepared themselves for the message of Jesus Christ during the annual Archdiocesan Youth Rally held on March 1-2 at Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis. (Page 11)
Read the story
Conference connects the Holy Spirit and evangelization
Some 500 people from across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio attended a conference sponsored by St. Nicholas Parish in Ripley County on March 1 that features songs and presentations that focused on how the gifts, also known as charisms, of the Holy Spirit are to be used in everyday life to share the Gospel with others. (Page 1 - front page)
Read the story | See a photo gallery from this event
Web-only features
Listen to Lenten speaker who says faith can help further the common good
How are individual Catholics to apply their faith to everyday circumstances as well as to political discussions on the local, state and national levels in a society filled with people who profess a multitude of religions or none at all? This was the question that Robert Royal sought to answer in a presentation on Feb. 27 at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Parish in Indianapolis as part of its Lenten “Spaghetti and Spirituality” adult faith formation speaker series.
Listen to this presentation (26MB | mp3 format) | Read the story
Lenten resources
Each year, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis provides special Lenten resources – the daily readings, archbishop’s columns, Stations of the Cross and links of interest – on a site located on our server (www.archindy.org/lent). We encourage you to share this link with your parish, most particularly because it also includes the full listing of penance schedules from around the archdiocese.
Go to the site | See The Criterion's listing of parish penance services
National and world news you may have missed...
Here's a sampling of some news stories that ran on our website this past week or so that you may have missed. Click the headline to see the story:
Daily Readings
Thursday, March 6
Exodus 32:7-14
Psalm 106:19-23
John 5:31-47
Friday, March 7
Perpetua, martyr
Felicity, martyr
Wisdom 2:1a, 12-22
Psalm 34:17-21, 23
John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
Saturday, March 8
John of God, religious
Jeremiah 11:18-20
Psalm 7:2-3, 9b-12
John 7:40-53
Monday, March 10
Daniel 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62
or Daniel 13:41c-62
Psalm 23:1-6
John 8:1-11
Tuesday, March 11
Numbers 21:4-9
Psalm 102:2-3, 16-21
John 8:21-30
Wednesday, March 12
Daniel 3:14-20, 91-92, 95
(Response) Daniel 3:52-56
John 8:31-42
Thursday, March 13
Genesis 17:3-9
Psalm 105:4-9
John 8:51-59
Friday, March 14
Jeremiah 20:10-13
Psalm 18:2-7
John 10:31-42
Saturday, March 15
Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary
2 Samuel 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16
Psalm 89:2-5, 27, 29
Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22
Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24a
or Luke 2:41-51a
Readings homepage | Podcast (audio files)
