
Homily: Rite of Election 2025
My dear catechumens, we long for the day when we can gather around God’s altar as brothers and sisters to receive his presence, his love, and his strength in the Holy Eucharist.
My dear catechumens, we long for the day when we can gather around God’s altar as brothers and sisters to receive his presence, his love, and his strength in the Holy Eucharist.
Happy Feast Day! In this Advent season, we continue our prayerful preparation for the coming of the Christ child at Christmas—Emmanuel—“God is with us.”
The Catholic Church “needed this time of grace and discernment, a time to look back on the road we have traveled, with its glories and failures, and draw lessons for a new beginning,” Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa said in his homily during a Mass with synod participants in St. Peter’s Basilica Oct. 13.
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Located in Northeast Ohio, the Diocese of Youngstown includes six counties; Ashtabula, Columbiana, Mahoning, Portage, Stark and Trumbull.