What do people want?
What do people want? Do you want the surgery? No, I want the pain to go away. I want to be able to go on vacation. I want to spend more time with my family. [...]
Charity in Action Awards to Honor Compassionate Commitment
As part of its annual Impressions of Hope Gala, Catholic Charities West Virginia (CCWVa) will recognize two groups and an individual who have performed meaningful service and demonstrated deep compassion for others. “At Catholic Charities, [...]
Reflection by Jeanne de Chantal
In this New Year, our resolutions may already need a bit of refreshing. This brief reflection from St. Jane de Chantal reminded me how important it is to make sure prayer gets its proper place [...]
Discernment Weekend Retreat: “Is God calling you to a life of heroic sacrifice?”
Discernment Weekend Retreat – March 1-3 – Priest Field Pastoral Center (Kearneysville, W.Va.) – Theme: “Is God calling you to a life of heroic sacrifice?” This weekend retreat is open for men young and older [...]
Membership Benefits
Membership Benefits Why do intelligent, successful people join groups like Jehovah’s Witnesses, Hare Krishna’s, Scientologists and others (including yours)? People join groups for the benefit of self. It’s safer to be yourself in a like-minded [...]
Sunday, January 13
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord Baptized and Sent Forth Today’s Readings: Isaiah 42:1–4, 6–7; Psalm 29:1–2, 3–4, 3, 9–10; Acts 10:34–38; Luke 3:15–16, 21–22. Jesus spends thirty years leading a quiet life in [...]
Saturday, January 12
I Must Decrease The world would have us believe that increasing our wealth and fame will lead to happiness. Yet here is John the Baptist, whose call has been to prepare the way for the [...]
Friday, January 11
Thy Will Be Done Luke’s Gospel account highlights the posture of a leper asking Jesus for a cure: “he fell prostrate.” To fall is to lose control; to be prostrate is to make oneself little [...]
Archbishop William E. Lori has made public the following appointments:
Father Joseph Konikattil is appointed designated pastor of Fairmont Catholic School for a term of three years, effective Jan. 1. This is in addition to his current assignment as administrator of St. Peter the Fisherman [...]
Thursday, January 10
God’s Purpose After forty days of prayer and fasting, Jesus visits his hometown synagogue in Nazareth, reads from the scroll, and declares that he is the fulfillment of the prophetic passage. He then travels to [...]