St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

Marriage: Unique for a Reason is an initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage.

It is one part of the bishops’ overall Priority on Strengthening Marriage and complements the many resources already available through the bishops’ National Pastoral Initiative on Marriage, one of which is the recent Pastoral Letter on Marriage.

Marriage: Unique for a Reason provides resources to assist with the catechesis and education of Catholics on why marriage is unique and why it should be promoted and protected as the union of one man and one woman. The initiative will eventually include five videos with companion viewer’s guides, resource booklets, and an interactive Web site. The videos serve as an introductory step of catechesis and are meant to be used with their companion Viewer’s Guide and Resource Booklet. Together they are a tool to assist those with the important responsibility of preaching and/or teaching. Nothing can replace the vital and necessary role of the catechist, teacher, and preacher. While the materials are primarily intended for a Catholic audience, it is hoped that Marriage: Unique for a Reason can be of assistance to all those who seek to understand the truth and beauty of marriage.

See Unique for a Reason

If you could not come up with all seven gifts of the Holy Spirit when Fr. Ray asked during his homily on Penecost.  The catechism answer is

1831 The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. They belong in their fullness to Christ, Son of David.¹⁰⁹ They complete and perfect the virtues of those who receive them. They make the faithful docile in readily obeying divine inspirations.

A nice discussion of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit  can be found here here Wikipedia Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Sr. Denis holds donated medicines.

The second collection for the Third Sunday in ordinary time, Jan 23-24, will be used for Haiti.  The money will be sent directly to the Little Sisters of Saint Teresa (Sr. Denise).  Sr. Denise will use the donation to help the people in her section of Haiti.

When we upgraded our sound system, we gained the ability to record our Sunday homilies.  Many of these homilies are archieved so that you can listen to them later.  You can hear them by going to www.sjtech.org