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Churches plan Advent events and services
By JO ANNE FLORES EMBLETON
TYLER – A variety of events are underway this Advent in the Tyler Diocese.
On Dec.
15-16, Jovenes para Cristo, the Hispanic youth group at St. Patrick
Church in Lufkin, will present a pastorela (play) after the 5:30 p.m.
and 7 p.m. Masses Dec. 15, as well as after the noon Spanish Mass on
Dec. 16.
A Dec. 21 penance service at St. Michael Church in Mount Pleasant begins at 6 p.m.
The
music ministry of St. Mary Chapel at Stephen F. Austin State University
in Nacogdoches will perform a 3 p.m. Advent concert Dec. 9 at the
chapel.
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Father Denzil returns to Marshall
By SUSAN DE MATTEO
TYLER – Blessed Sacrament Father Denzil Vithanage has been reinstated as administrator of St. Joseph Parish in Marshall, with all his faculties restored, as of Nov. 13.
Father Vithanage was removed from ministry Sept. 17 following an arrest Sept. 14 in Upshur County on charges of criminal trespass.
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People need God to have hope, pope says in new encyclical
By JOHN THAVIS, Catholic News Service
VATICAN
CITY (CNS) – In an encyclical on Christian hope, Pope Benedict XVI
said that, without faith in God, humanity lies at the mercy of
ideologies that can lead to “the greatest forms of cruelty and
violations of justice.”
The pope warned that the modern age has replaced belief in eternal
salvation with faith in progress and technology, which offer
opportunities for good
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Bishop, parish to mark 140th year of Jefferson church
JEFFERSON
– Bishop Álvaro Corrada, SJ, will celebrate the 140th anniversary of
the dedication of Immaculate Conception Church with a 5:30 p.m. Mass
Dec. 12.
A reception will follow the liturgy.
The
Jefferson Catholic community was founded in 1863, when Father
Jean-Marie Giraud of France celebrated Mass in the home of Eugene and
Emma Meyer.
The town
was a booming river port, a stop for steamboats headed to New Orleans
and St. Louis, and a thriving manufacturing town during the Civil War.
Prosperity continued through the years of Reconstruction, and in 1867,
a Catholic church was built.
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Bishop to ordain 35 permanent deacons, starting in Tyler
By SUSAN DE MATTEO
TYLER – Bishop Álvaro Corrada, SJ, will ordain 35 men to the permanent diaconate at four Masses this month.
The
group ordinations will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Dec. 8 at the Cathedral
of the Immaculate Conception in Tyler, Dec. 15 at St. Mary Church in
Longview, Dec. 22 at Sacred Heart Church in Nacogdoches and Dec. 29 at
Sacred Heart Church in Texarkana.
The
men to be ordained represent 23 churches in the Diocese of Tyler and,
after ordination, will bring the number of permanent deacons working in
the diocese to 88.
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Parishes, groups to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe
By JO ANNE FLORES EMBLETON
TYLER
– Special novenas and celebrations are being planned at churches
throughout the Tyler Diocese as members honor Our Lady of Guadalupe,
whose feast day is Dec. 12.
The
tradition dates back to 1531, according to legend, when an Indian
peasant named Juan Diego was approached by the Blessed Mother as he
made his way to Mass in Mexico City. She asked him to appeal to the
bishop of Mexico to build a church in her honor on the spot where she
appeared.
He
agreed to the request, but encountered setbacks along the way. With her
help, however, he convinced the prelate to honor her request when the
tilma (poncho) in which he carried a bouquet of fragrant, out-of-season
roses, bore an image of La Virgencita.
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