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"Juan Diego, Juan Diegotzin, xocoyotito mío, el más amado, por que tienes miedo? Qué acaso no estoy yo aquí que soy tu madre?”

In 1980, Sister Jude Janecek, IWBS, became the first “full-time paid Youth Minister” for the Diocese of Corpus Christi. Three years later, when Bishop Rene Gracida became the fifth bishop for the diocese, he named Sister Jude Director of Youth Ministry and Young Adults.

As summer begins, schools end their academic year. Seminarians are home for the summer and ordinations and professions of faith are being planned. Such is the case in the Diocese of Corpus Christi.

On June 25, 2012, the Vatican released a set of guidelines to help bishops and church communities promote, recruit and educate a new generation of men for the priesthood. These guidelines were an effort to respond to a “clear and pressing” need for priests.

If you were about to make one decision that would dramatically impact the rest of your life, how would you go about it?

In today’s society the importance of having a father in the home is often down played.

The feast of Corpus Christi brings together my ministry as bishop and the ministry of all who comprise the Body of Christ. The sentiment that I have celebrating this feast is one of great hope. The Body of Christ is the sacrament of communion, communion with Christ and communion with one another. All of us should take seriously that we form the Body of Christ together as working together, praying together and serving as His body.

What Is Prayer? Prayer, we are told, is the lifting up of our minds and hearts to God.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Incarnate Word Academy eighth graders graduated on Tuesday, May 28. Students and their families, along with faculty and staff, celebrated with a Mass at St. Patrick Catholic Church.

As a teenager in his native Ireland, doctors told Msgr. Morgan Rowsome he would never become a priest.

The remote village in southeastern India in which Father Sebastian Pasupalety was born is 100 percent Catholic. And yet, they had never had a priest come from their ranks until Father Pasupalety was ordained 32 years ago.

In his message for the 43rd World Communications Day in 2010, Pope Benedict XVI said that the new form of social media “can offer priests and all pastoral workers a wealth of information and content that was difficult to access before, and facilitate forms of collaboration and greater communion in ways that were unthinkable in the past.”

Eleven persons with special needs spent the day at the Texas State Aquarium on May 13, as part of an effort by the Diocese of Corpus Christi to help with their spiritual and educational needs. They started and ended the trip with a prayer of thanks.

On Sunday, June 2, as part of the Feast of Corpus Christi, Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey will celebrate the 9:30 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral, and at 10 a.m. worshipers will join Pope Francis for an hour of Eucharistic Adoration from St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.

For over 10 years now, the campus of Our Lady of Corpus Christi has been a refuge from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

From ancient Roman times insignias were used on shields to identify military units. However, over the ages such images became means of recognizing families and individuals in unique heraldic designs.

The Fortnight for Freedom, which Catholics celebrated for the first time last year, takes place from June 21 to July 4 this year.