This week in The Criterion
July 11, 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:
- St. Ann parishioners break ground for new church
- Best friends:
Cathedral High School co-valedictorians share special bond
- Youths lend a hand for parish’s new Stations of the Cross path
- Out of their comfort zone:
Homeland Mission week helps youths experience the ‘real world’
- Brebeuf graduate carries Olympic torch in China
- Catholic News Around Indiana
- Teenagers invited to take
faith deeper in ‘The Crypt’
- Jasper native is named
Indiana’s poet laureate
- Follow World
Youth Day
pilgrims on
Criterion Web site
- Official
Appointments
Regular local features:
- Seeking the Face of the Lord: Charity requires us to care for those we don’t know
- Buscando la Cara del Señor: La caridad nos exige ocuparnos de aquellos que no conocemos
- Editorial: Let’s applaud our young people
making a difference in society
- From the Editor Emeritus: Possible saints - Felix De Andreis
- Cornucopia: Sweating it out in July at the county fair
- Twenty Something: Discerning your
path with God’s
positioning system
- Be Our Guest: Young people are today’s
Church, not tomorrow’s
- Letters to the Editor
- No letters were published this week
- Events Calendar
- Obituaries
- General listing
- Benedictine Father Benet Amato
served as a pastor and teacher
- My Journey to God: Sometimes I Wonder
Catholic News Service:
- Building community: Addressing racism requires a
new language, ministry leaders say
- Pope asks Catholics
to pray for pilgrims
at World Youth Day;
Vatican announces
indulgences
- Pope recognizes miracle of missionary in Hawaii, other miracles
- Pope urges Group of Eight to put needs of poor at forefront of summit
- Louisville archbishop says bicentennial Mass a celebration of family
- Pope Benedict
to be first reader
in Bible-reading
marathon for TV
- Defend disabled and unborn
with equal vigor, Catholic
brother urges pro-life activists
- Bishops to reconsider liturgy translation rejected in mail balloting
- Column: ‘And God smiled again, and the rainbow appeared …’
- The Sunday Readings: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Question Corner: Ember Days are no longer
observed as penitential times
FaithAlive!
- Youths are a vital part of parish community
- Discussion Point: Teenagers energize parish life
Items of Interest
Here are a couple of items that may be of particular interest to you -- and you can get them online right now!
Out of their comfort zone:
Homeland Mission week helps youths experience the ‘real world’
The Homeland Mission Project is an archdiocesan youth ministry program that began in 2005. From June 22-27, this year’s Homeland Mission was all about youth going out of their comfort zone to experience the “real world.” Experiencing the real world involved a week of tasks that ranged from helping flood victims in central Indiana to distributing lunches to homeless people in Indianapolis. (Page 9)
Read the story
St. Ann parishioners break ground for new church
Next Easter, St. Ann parishioners in Indianapolis will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ as well as a symbolic resurrection of their small parish with a new church and address. There was a blessing and groundbreaking for the new St. Ann Church on June 29 at the northwest corner of Mills and Mooresville roads in Decatur Township. (Pages 2 and 16)
Read the story
Web-only features
World Youth Day blog
Ninety youths and chaperones will be traveling around the world to Sydney, Australia, from July 9-24 to participate in World Youth Day 2008. Readers can follow their trip on our Web site. We have set up a special address and blog for the pilgrimage at www.archindy.org/wyd. Veteran freelance writer Katie Berger, a former youth minister and campus minister, will send updates, photos and thoughts from youths throughout their pilgrimage.
Learn more | Go to the blog
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
Wednesday, July 9
Augustine Zhao Rong, priest
and martyr
and his companions, martyrs
Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8, 12
Psalm 105:2-7
Matthew 10:1-7
Thursday, July 10
Hosea 11:1-4, 8c-9
Psalm 80:2ac-3b, 15-16
Matthew 10:7-15
Friday, July 11
Benedict, abbot
Hosea 14:2-10
Psalm 51:3-4, 8-9, 12-14, 17
Matthew 10:16-23
Saturday, July 12
Isaiah 6:1-8
Psalm 93:1-2, 5
Matthew 10:24-33
Monday, July 14
Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha,
virgin
Isaiah 1:10-17
Psalm 50:8-9, 16b-17, 21, 23
Matthew 10:34-11:1
Tuesday, July 15
Bonaventure, bishop and
doctor of the Church
Isaiah 7:1-9
Psalm 48:2-8
Matthew 11:20-24
Wednesday, July 16
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Isaiah 10:5-7, 13b-16
Psalm 94:5-10, 14-15
Matthew 11:25-27
Thursday, July 17
Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19
Psalm 102:13-14b, 15-21
Matthew 11:28-30
Friday, July 18
Camillus de Lellis, priest
Isaiah 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8
(Response) Isaiah 38:10-12, 16
Matthew 12:1-8
Saturday, July 19
Micah 2:1-5
Psalm 10:1-4, 7-8, 14
Matthew 12:14-21
Sunday, July 20
Sixteenth Sunday in
Ordinary Time
Wisdom 12:13, 16-19
Psalm 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16
Romans 8:26-27
Matthew 13:24-43
or Matthew 13:24-30
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