Our LGBTQ+ Ministry will be sharing stories during June, Pride Month, from its members and leadership. Today, we share Melody's reflection. She is a member of the Leadership Team.
Each time we gather to offer prayers of thanksgiving for this ultimate gift Jesus has given us, let us recommit our promise to strengthen the Body of Christ through actions of mercy and love: Let us promise to never use language that dehumanizes anyone as we strive to break down those cultural, racial, and political forces that separate us from one another, and from our God.
Our LGBTQ+ Ministry will be sharing stories during June, Pride Month, from its members and leadership. Today, we share Mary Lou's reflection. She is a member of the Leadership Team
We don't need to understand others to see the Divine in them. We don't need to understand the mystery of the human person to love like Jesus taught us.
Thank You to all who continue to supply snacks and/or made sandwiches for the 688 guests who came to our Open Door Lunch Ministry during the month of April. Needs: bottled water, chips, soft fruit (bananas, grapes, oranges), fruit cups, applesauce cups, crackers, cookies, snacks.
Happy Mother’s Day and Happy Ascension! Today each of us is invited to celebrate with gratitude the woman who brought us into this world. For some of us it may not be our birth mother who has protected and nurtured us through the years, but someone else who has loved us very much.
“Sin is the failure to bother to love.” James Keenan, S.J., wrote those words in his book, A History of Catholic Theological Ethics. I just finished reading it. In a few weeks a good friend and colleague told me they will be "coming out" and sharing their story as a transgender person. I pray the Church is loving, that everyone is loving. Anything less is sin.
On Tuesday of this past week, Bishop John Stowe announced the commitment of the Diocese of Lexington to achieve net zero energy usage by 2030. This initiative is in furtherance of the goals espoused by Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical letter, Laudato Si.
Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, announces a net-zero initiative, pledging to reach net-zero emissions across its 59 parishes as well as schools and other institutions in the next six years.
CONGRATULATIONS FATHER RICHARD ON YOUR NOMINATION for the Pax Christi USA 2024 Teacher of Peace Award! Your commitment to LGBTQ+ inclusion, racial equity, and the dignity of the food deprived and homeless needs no introduction.
by Stan “JR” Zerkowski, Executive Director, Fortunate Families
"As Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the Prefect of the Dicastery, emphasized in the press conference launching the document, Dignitas infinita’s core message is that “[e]very human person possesses an infinite dignity, inalienably grounded in his or her very being, which prevails in and beyond every circumstance, state, or situation the person may ever encounter” (1)." "The Declaration identifies a long list of “grave violations of human dignity”... Near the end of this list are two examples of “violations” which most directly affect transgender people: “gender theory” and “sex change.” Unfortunately, these sections continue a pattern among church documents of interpreting the experiences of transgender people through the lens of an ill-defined ideology of gender."
