Fourth week calls us to await the revelation of Christ Incarnate
The faithful hear the Annunciation in the Gospel. Mary’s example of faith and obedience to God allow her to respond with her fiat.
Notable feasts during Advent: Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe honors diocesan patroness
The “Miracle of the Roses” occurred at Tepeyac hill on this day in 1531.
Notable feasts during Advent: Feast of the Immaculate Conception a holy day of obligation
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception — a holy day of obligation — is the first of two important Marian feast days that fall during Advent.
Notable feasts during Advent: Feast of St. Nicholas recognizes real-life Santa
The feast of St. Nicholas, the inspiration for Santa Claus, celebrates a fourth-century saint who was a Greek bishop in Myra.
East Valley parishes, Serra Club lose faithful deacon
Dcn. Richard Cuprak was a family man who spent later years serving his universal family through the Church.
Gilbert woman enters novitiate with Carmelite Missionaries
Sr. Isabel is the first novice from the Diocese of Phoenix to take this formal discernment step with the sisters since they established a novitiate in Arizona two years ago.
‘Let the friendship begin,’ says Tucson’s new bishop at installation
TUCSON (CNS) — Using his installation Mass homily to launch his episcopacy as the seventh bishop of Tucson, Bishop Edward J. Weisenburger laid out as a blueprint for ministry the day’s Gospel reading about Jesus’ call to the disciples as friends, not slaves.
‘Honor Your Mother’ celebration sparks joy in downtown Phoenix
“I feel a lot of happiness and joy in uniting myself with the bishop. We are one Church and one body to honor Our Lady. It thrills me,” one participant said.
St. Mary’s named to Catholic Education Honor Roll
The 100-year-old school received specific recognition for its strong integration of Catholic identity, including the integrity of its mission, and the strength of its community and rich spiritual life.
Buckeye men take walk to ‘Bethlehem’
The men got Advent started off on the right foot, literally, when they took “A Walk to Bethlehem" via the Arizona desert.
