Two decades of celebrating Our Lady of Guadalupe: Honor Your Mother Mass and procession...
Because of the Virgin Mary’s intercession, “I am here today because as a mother she wants the best for her children,” says Miguel Dominguez. Coordinator of Católicos en Acción at St. Augustine Parish in Phoenix, Dominguez pondered what his life would have been like if he and his family weren’t part of the Church or saved by Christ. “The Virgin Mary has shown me that humility, obedience and will that you need to give to the Lord.”
Hope in the face of hardship: St. Anthony Mission
It was in January 2000 when St. Anthony Mission Church in Sacaton, Ariz., on the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) went up in flames. The community would soon learn that the cause of the fire was arson. Carol Jackson, a parishioner, grew up on the reservation and was in a building next door the night of the fire. “I saw smoke…Everybody rushed over there. We stayed there with the church and watched it. Everybody was crying.” Smoke lingered in the air the next morning when the fire department investigated the interior and pulled out vestments that were completely untouched as well as a glass container of holy water. After the building cooled off, Jackson went inside as the fire department dismantled the tabernacle and pried it off, revealing an interesting burn mark on the wall.
