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La personal de la Oficina de las Caridades Católicas de la Diócesis de Corpus Christi están capacitados y certificados para ofrecer ayuda legal y psicológica a cualquier víctima de violencia que pida ayuda sin importar de su estatus migratorio. La oficina puede aplicar, de parte de victimas de violencia, para beneficios de inmigración que ofrecen protección.

La violencia intrafamiliar no es un problema solo criminal, es un problema que afecta a toda la sociedad y como sociedad es importante combatirla juntos: escuelas, hospitales, religiosos, médicos y padres de familia.

Existen muchas maneras de ayudar a las víctimas de abuso, sean mujeres, hombres o niños, pobres o ricos, documentados o indocumentados o adultos mayores, dijo Laura Garza Jiménez, la Fiscal del Condado de Nueces.

Alguien a quien tu amas te lastima? El amor no debe doler. Si no te sientes segura en tu hogar o si tienes miedo al escuchar que tu pareja llega a casa, tal vez es el momento de preguntarse si no estás viviendo en una situación de violencia doméstica. Pero lo más importante no pienses que no hay salida o sientas que estás sola, porque no es así. No estas sola.

La violencia do- mestica es un problema muy grave, y cuando las víctimas son personas indocumentadas el abuso es mayor. Además del abuso físico y mental, constantemente las están amenazando diciéndoles, “Voy a llamar a la migra para que te deporten y te voy a quitar a los niños.”

Esperanza Strong (not her real name) remembers with chilling clarity the precise moment her life would change forever. Her husband had a loaded gun pointed at her head. She could hear her small children scrambling in the next room, whispering among themselves how they could help their defenseless mother.

Every diocese in the United States is committed to providing a safe environment for children in churches and parochial schools across the country. The Church has extended that protection so children feel empowered to listen and trust their instinct at all times through a program called “Circle of Grace.” The program is taught in every religious education and school in the Diocese of Corpus Christi.

Some men think violence against their partners is normal because it was all they saw as they grew up. “Men have said to me ‘I always saw my dad beat my mom and my uncle beat up his wife and I thought everybody did that,’” Nueces County District Attorney Mark Skurka said.

KLUX Radio 89.5 will air all of the evening Holy Week Liturgies live from Corpus Christi Cathedral. Programming available on KLUX 89.5HD-1 will be available simultaneously online as streaming audio at KLUX.org and on its smartphone app.

Some 300 parishioners, representing 50 parishes from throughout the Diocese of Corpus Christi, gathered at the Omni Hotel in Corpus Christi on March 19 to seek ways to become an “amazing” parish. Bishop Michael Mulvey said to them, “I want to assure you that I support this effort.”

The statistics are startling. Unofficially, about 25 to 35 percent of the 12,000 to 13,000 misdemeanor and felony cases filed each year in the Nueces County District Attorney’s Office are related to domestic violence. And more than 50 percent of those cases are dismissed because of lack of evidence. Local news reports have been telling the horrifying stories of domestic violence in recent months, many ending in murder-suicide.

Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament will honor five Jubilarians at a Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Patrick Church, 3350 South Alameda, Corpus Christi, on Saturday, April 18, at 10:30 a.m.

We now arrive at the part of the Mass called the Liturgy of the Word. We will listen attentively as a reader proclaims the Scripture to us from the ambo.

Each religious congregation or order has a special gift to bring to the Church…to offer the world. The uniqueness of this charism or spiritual gift marks the congregation with its own personality and dynamic—both internally and externally.

Parents with children considering a life as a priest or religious sister or brother often have many questions. This is the first of two-part series in which we will review some of these questions. Perhaps you have not thought of all these questions or perhaps you have others, but it is important that you honestly consider these questions so that you can provide your son or daughter the support they need.

As we entered the William G. McConnell Unit in Beeville and began to pass the security and many gates on our way to the gymnasium where Mass was to be held, I was reminded of Piri Thomas, who wrote a book called “Down These Mean Streets.” It describes his conversion from being a convict, a drug addict and an attempted killer to becoming an exemplary Christian.

I take this opportunity to wish each of our readers a very joyful Easter and Easter season. We recall that God so loved the world that he sent his only Son to redeem the world. Christ’s love was made manifest in the most perfect way as he sacrificed himself on the cross.

Ten Islander Catholics joined Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi students for the BIG Event on March 28. They had the opportunity to provide a much needed facelift to the Lindale Recreational Center where they scraped and painted the outside of the main building.

Bishop Garriga Middle Preparatory School eighth grade student, Joseph Afuso, will be headed to Washington D. C. for the National Geographic Geography Bee on May 11-13.

Many parishioners attended the Immaculate Conception Mission Hall groundbreaking ceremony in Concepción on March 22.