by andrew.bash | Mar 26, 2020 | Guest Blogs
By: MaryBeth Eberhard As Catholics around the world move to celebrate mass virtually during this unusual health crisis, many families are seeking ways to bring the sacred into the home. As a mom of many, the challenge of gathering everyone in one room on their best...
by andrew.bash | Mar 26, 2020 | Weekly Faith
The Fifth Sunday of Lent Readings: Ezekiel 37:12–14Psalm 130:1–8Romans 8:8–11John 11:1–45 As we draw near to the end of Lent, today’s Gospel clearly has Jesus’ passion and death in view. That’s why John gives us the detail about Lazarus’ sister, Mary—that she is the...
by andrew.bash | Mar 19, 2020 | Weekly Faith
The Fourth Sunday of Lent Readings: 1 Samuel 16:1, 6–7, 10–13Psalm 23:1–6Ephesians 5:8–14John 9:1–41 God’s ways of seeing are not our ways, we hear in today’s First Reading. Jesus illustrates this in the Gospel—as the blind man comes to see and the Pharisees are made...
by andrew.bash | Mar 18, 2020 | Service Awards
You Asked, We Listened The Service Awards deadline has been extended to Wednesday, April 15th! For the 8th consecutive year, the Office of Vocations and Face Forward are offering two $500 Service Awards. Two students in the Columbus Diocese in grades 8-12 will be...
by andrew.bash | Mar 17, 2020 | Face Forward
Article originally posted in The Catholic Times By Tim PuetCatholic Times Reporter The spread of the coronavirus has altered life in major ways throughout central Ohio, bringing about the closing of schools for at least three weeks, the closing of all bars and...
by andrew.bash | Mar 16, 2020 | Face Forward
During these trying times, with the worldwide outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19), we provide prayers below. Pope Francis encourages us, “Let us call upon him today, firmly rooted in prayer, for without prayer all our activity risks being fruitless and our message...
