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Dominique Verville, a parishioner at Holy Spirit Parish in Montgomery, was selected as the 2020 Distinguished Young Woman of Alabama.

Congratulations to St. Pius X eighth-grader Riannon Heinl, who won the 57th annual Mobile/Baldwin Catholic Schools Spelling Bee on Jan. 27 at St. Pius X Parish’s Sarto Center.

Fr. Burke Masters is a Catholic convert, played college and minor league baseball, became a priest who currently serves as chaplain of the Chicago Cubs and also saw family members convert to Catholicism.

Faithful from throughout the Archdiocese of Mobile hit the streets of Washington and Mobile to stand up for life. Nearly 600 people made the pilgrimage to Washington and joined tens of thousands at the 47th annual national March for Life.

Last week I attended the 47th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of thousands of people, many of them teenagers and 20-somethings, marched through our nation’s capital witnessing to their respect for life and asking our nation to respect life.

What does love have to do with stewardship? … We know that we are called to be disciples of Christ and the path to being a disciple is through living a life of stewardship.

I am writing this before I leave for Washington D.C. for the annual March for Life.  You will be reading it after I and some 600 others from the Archdiocese of Mobile have returned from this annual event.  We become part of a throng numbering in the hundreds-of-thousands.  It is really a remarkable thing to see and to be a part of.

Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi and the Director of Development and Stewardship for the Archdiocese of Mobile, Mrs. Shannon D. Roh, have announced that the 2020 Catholic Charities Appeal goal is $4,500,000. The basic pledge is $576 per year, which is $48 per month for 12 months.

In the wake of the recent canonization, and in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Our Savior Parish will host a conversation on the ecumenical implications of the life of St. John Henry Newman at 7 p.m. Jan. 23.

Fr. Patrick Driscoll, pastor of St. Dominic Parish in Mobile, will be the guest speaker at the “Cast the Vision” dinner at the Original Oyster House on the Causeway, at 6 p.m. Jan. 27.

Thanks to the generosity of parishes throughout Mobile and Baldwin counties the Catholic Maritime ministry distributed about 300 Christmas bags to seafarers visiting Mobile this Christmas Season. The bags were filled with hats, gloves, scarfs, various toiletries, playing cards, candies and writing papers. Christmas cards written by school students from St Vincent de Paul Catholic School, who also filled the bags, were included to add a personal touch.

Volunteer angels from St. John the Evangelist parish in Ozark delivered 99 hot Christmas meals and more than 100 blankets to the elderly, homebound, alone and financially distressed on Christmas day.

Seventh-graders from St. Mary, Little Flower and Corpus Christi Catholic Schools participated in a day of service titled: “Compassion in Action” on Friday, Jan. 10.

Academics +: New Scholarship Fund enhances parents’ ability to choose Catholic education for their children. Imagine as a parent you have found the school you feel will give your children the best opportunity for success, providing not only a solid academic foundation, but a spiritual one as well.

The Catholic Charities Appeal is blessed with many great volunteers throughout the Archdiocese of Mobile. The Appeal could not happen without the generosity of time and hard work given by our ministry speakers, parish chairs, district chairs, deanery chairs and archdiocesan chairs.

El 21 de enero se celebra la fiesta de Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia, quien es venerada como madre y protectora de la República Dominicana. El nombre Altagracia tiene sus orígenes en el primer capítulo del evangelio según San Lucas, cuando el ángel Gabriel le dijo a Maria “llena eres de gracia, el Señor está contigo”;

Almost 20 years ago, a small group of Jesuit High School students, accompanied by a few faculty members and a couple of Jesuit priests, traveled from New Orleans to Washington, D.C., for the annual March for Life. They traveled by plane, slept on a gym floor, experienced winter weather and stood for the right to human life with thousands of others.

I was reading something a few days ago, it was in fact on Saturday, Jan. 4 and what I read had to do with the Epiphany. The reading made me start thinking about the star that lead the Magi to the Christ Child.