Events: May 5, 2024

The riches of South Florida’s spiritual art are captured in “Visions of Faith,” an interfaith exhibit to make visible the ways that Jewish and Catholic congregations build beauty into their faith and worship.

Included are 26 photos of wall-filling stained-glass windows from synagogues and Catholic churches, plus Torah scrolls, murals, statuettes, metal sculptures, and other artworks.

The p exhibit is  co-produced by James Davis writer-photographer, who has worked for more than a decade with The Florida Catholic, the newspaper for the Archdiocese of Miami. Before then, he was the longtime religion editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Florida. His photographic exhibition is being sponsored by the St. Thomas University and curated by Isabel Medina, assistant archivist and museum coordinator.

The other contributor of the exhibit is Ellen Goldberg, a photographer and longtime Jewish communal professional.

The exhibit will open Tuesday, March 12, at 2 p.m. Rev. Jorge A. Sardiñas Gallery, on St. Thomas University and will be open daily through June 12.

Exhibition hours:

Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sundays from noon to 7 p.m. 

For information or to arrange tours, call Isabel Medina at 305-628-6769.

The Miami Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women is holding its 66th annual convention at the DoubleTree in Deerfield Beach/Boca Raton, Florida on May 3 to May 5, 2024.

This important event will recognize the Catholic women who have served the communities of South Florida in religious, social, educational, and charitable endeavors during the past year.

Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Carol Razza, a full-time faculty member and formation advisor at St. Vincent de Paul Seminary in Boynton Beach. On Sunday morning, we have Marlene Watkins, author of the "Everyday Miracles of Lourdes."

Auxiliary Bishop Enrique Delgado will be joining us for Mass and banquet on Saturday to present our Scholarship Winners and our Golden Rose Award Winner. At the Saturday luncheon we will announce our Member of the Year and Our Lady of Good Counsel winners.

The full convention package is $185 before April 12; $205 after. Hotel stay is separate and deadline is also April 12. Single day registration is $50 before April 12, $55 after. Participants also can choose to attend only the Saturday luncheon or banquet dinner or Sunday breakfast. 

See attached PDF for complete prices and information.

Camino del Matrimonio es un movimiento de la Arquidiócesis de Miami que ofrece un taller de fin de semana de preparación para el Sacramento del Matrimonio en la Iglesia Católica.

El taller es una oportunidad para que las parejas reflexionen y dialoguen acerca de los temas que más le ayudarán al éxito del matrimonio, con Dios en el centro de la relación.

Camino del Matrimonio enfatiza los valores del Evangelio para formar matrimonios que sean Iglesia Doméstica y familias evangelizadoras.

Puede registrarse en linea en  www.caminodelmatrimonio.org

Encuentro Familiar 338.

"Diálogo es el amor entre padres e hijos hecho palabra." P. Florentino Azcoitia, S.J. - Fundador de los Encuentros Familiares

El Movimiento Apostólico 'Encuentros Familiares', tiene más de 53 años de estar "llevando a Cristo a las Familias" y esta dirigido a matrimonios con sus hijos adolescentes (12-21 años).

Los Encuentros Familiares desde sus comienzos, han luchado con tesón incansable por los hogares de nuestra comunidad. Seglares comprometidos, padres e hijos, son un ejemplo de un apostolado integral, porque abarca a toda la familia.

El gran ideal de los Encuentros Familiares es el cooperar en la creación de familias que sientan paz y unidad y que estén convencidos de que tienen la misión de cooperar con fe y en comunidad a la extensión del Reino de Dios.

A.M.D.G.

Encuentro Familiar Uniparental 65

El Encuentro Familiar Uniparental está diseñado para personas divorciadas, padres y madres solteras o separadas con sus hijos adolescentes (12 a 21 años).

El divorcio o separación tiene un impacto psicológico muy grande, tanto en los padres como en los hijos.

El programa del Encuentro está diseñado para ayudarlos a manejar esa separación y sus implicaciones psicológicas y espirituales. El programa está estructurado para que los encuentristas reciban herramientas que se llevan para su hogar y vida cotidiana como: comunicación, encuentro con uno mismo, encuentro de padres e hijos y lo principal, un encuentro con Jesucristo.

Los esperamos.

A.M.D.G.

 

Del 3 al 5 de mayo de 2024.

¿Qué es un Retiro de Emaús?

Un retiro de Emaús es un punto de entrada hacia una experiencia espiritual intensiva. Durante el retiro, las participantes apreden sobre el infinito e incondicional amor de Dios y su abundante misericordia.

Se basa en el Evangelio segun San Lucas 24:13-35, que relata el encuentro de los discipulos de Emaús con Jesus. 

5to. Retiro de Emaús Mujeres, Saint Francis de Sales, 3, 4 y 5 de Mayo 2024.

Los retiros de Emaús traen muchos beneficios en la vida de cada participante. Estos ayudan a reforzar fundamentalmente nuestra relación con Dios y fortalecernos como personas a superar los problemas de la vida cotidiana.

Vengan a compartir con las mujeres de la iglesia St. Francis de Sales una experiencia inolvidable.

Para más información:

Lula Olmedo 305-775-4851

Gaby Dallape 786-606-0549

Claudia Aguilar 305-546-3677

El grupo de apoyo Betania, para padres que han perdido un hijo, se reune todos los primeros domingos de mes a las 10 a.m. en Casa Manresa, situada en el Centro de Espiritualidad Ignaciana de Miami, 12190 S.W. 56th St. (Miller Drive), Miami, FL 33175.

Para más información pueden llamar al Centro de Espiritualidad Ignaciana o a Ofelia Menéndez al 305-221-3761.

The Volunteer Services Department of Catholic Hospice offers an array of volunteer opportunities for individuals looking to join an organization committed to providing care to vulnerable populations. Catholic Hospice volunteers can choose to serve in a number of special programs: Companion Care, Acts of Kindness Project, Camp Erin, We Honor Veterans, Pet Peace of Mind and more.

Share your compassion and companionship. Your help means the world to those facing difficult times. Provide companion care, assist with pet care, shopping or other tasks. Families are grateful for any time you can spare.

To learn more about volunteer opportunities, please contact our Volunteer Services Department at 305-351-7052 or [email protected].

"We are an Easter people and Halleluia is our song!"  (Saint John Paul II) Join us for our 5th Annual Via Lucis, this time as a series from April 14 through May 5.

The Way of Light (Via Lucis) takes us on a beautiful journey with our Risen Lord through 14 significant events from His rising from the dead all the way through Pentecost singing to the tune of "Sons and Daughters, much like the Way of the Cross helps us to walk in the footsteps of Jesus' passion, death, and burial through 14 stations singing to the tune of Stabat Mater.

We begin at 12 p.m. with Mass, friends from other parishes are welcome to join us after celebrating Mass with your respective parishes.

 

Immediately after Mass, we will have: 

• The Stations of Light (Via Lucis)
• Faith sharing on which stations of light spoke most deeply to us that week & why,
• and ways to apply those insights to our lives in the week (s) to follow 
• Our usual weekly Community Prayer/ Intercessions and Thanksgiving  
• Plus some surprises.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided, yet welcome to bring something to share if desired yet not required! Plus special Eastertide surprises.

Though the Way of Light is relatively recent (90s), it was inspired by an ancient inscription found on a wall of the San Callisto Catacombs named for Saint Callistus, a slave who eventually became the 16th pope located on the Appian Way in Rome, the inscription came from the first letter St. Paul wrote to the church at Corinth (around 56 A.D.) in response to the report that some members were denying the Resurrection.

As we move our reflection and prayer focus from Christ's suffering to His glorious resurrection, we stand personally reminded of His great love for us as well as God's promises and joyful plans for us while also being offered an opportunity to contemplate together what this all might mean to each of us, how it all connects to our walk with Christ and each other as the Paschal Mystery becomes alive in our lives.

Catholic News Agency also proposes that [as we focus or refocus on life anew]  "The Via Lucis is a potential stimulus for the restoration of a "culture of life" which is open to the hope and certitude offered by faith, in a society often characterized by a "culture of death", despair, and nihilism." 

"All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord who is the Spirit." (2Cor 3: 18) 

In what ways did our Lenten walk open your heart to enter into Easter fully embracing the NEW LIFE being offered to you,  so as to more brightly SHINE as, by His grace, as He leads and brings you "from glory unto glory"? 


 Join the "SHINE Challenge" now thru Pentecost as sisters in Christ come together to pick up where the growth and transformation experienced during our Lenten and Holy Week journeys left off to cheer each other on along the path to kicking things up a notch in our resolve to more fully enter in and more intentionally live in the joy of Christ's resurrection, in the hope that in Christ, our transformation, our METANOIA, continues for His glory and our blessings as well as the blessings of others every time He SHINES more brightly through us.