The Church has added  the World Day of Grandparents and Elderly beginning this year in 2021 on the fourth Sunday of July, near the liturgical memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, the grandparents of Jesus. That is TODAY! Prayer for the First World…

In some parts of the country, a number of Diocesan parish priests take a pause in their work as pastors of parishes in the U.S. to spend five years or more as a “temporary missionary” somewhere in the world. While…