During long hours of relief work in a Port-au-Prince children’s hospital, Father Pedro Arteaga often looked to the Eucharist housed in a makeshift tabernacle. It was the only way to get through the constant suffering.
MOUNT ANGEL — They might have been leaders of industry, or professors and social workers in the secular world, with chic urban apartments. They would have made admirable mothers and grandmothers. Instead, the 39 Benedictine Sisters at Queen of Angels Monastery pray and work. They live a chaste and sparing communal life on the edge of an out-of-the way town.
There’s a move under way in Oregon to seek Vatican approval for a patron saint of human trafficking and slavery victims.
Most folks here in the Archdiocese of Portland are well aware of Mount Angel Seminary, owned and operated by the Benedictine monks of Mount Angel Abbey. The third Archbishop of Portland, The Most Rev. William Gross, asked the monks to establish a seminary for the formation of priests to serve here in the church of the great Northwest.
BEND — A murder trial took place in Kansas. It was the kind of murder trial over which editors of newspapers salivate. It is the case of a man accused of shooting and killing a well-known late term abortionist. It is most important, at the outset, for me to strongly condemn the action of the man accused of taking the abortionist’s life.
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 6:1-2a,3-8 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 or 15:3-8,11 Luke 5:1-11 It is not surprising that fish are often mentioned in the Gospel. Today’s story takes place at the Lake of Gennesaret. The Lake is also called the Sea of Galilee or the Sea of Tiberius. Gennesaret is a plain on the west side of the lake.
