Articles For Heart Mind Soul

  Personal reflection:    There is no such thing as New Year’s Mass, it is the Mass of the Solemnity of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God. Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.

  Personal reflection: At Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church and Saint Joseph Catholic Church in Del Rio, Texas there was no Midnight Mass. Another Catholic tradition bites the dust. A beautiful and blessed Mass has been disregarded and thrown away like a heap of rubbish.  But we have candy canes and pine needles representing Christmas! Infant King of Joy, reign majestically over our joyful mysteries of life. Infant King of Sorrow, reign majestically over our sorrowful mysteries of life. Infant King of Glory, reign majestically over our glorious mysteries of life. Infant King of Light, reign majestically over our luminous mysteries of life.

  Parish finance manager faces federal time MICHELLE LA ROSA November 8, 2024  As a Florida woman prepares to be sentenced next week for embezzling nearly $900,000 from the parish where she worked, a retired IRS investigator says the case shines a spotlight on the need for parishes to implement measures to help detect theft. In June, Heather Darrey pled guilty to embezzling hundreds of thousands from Christ the King parish in Tampa, where she had been the finance manager.  A sentencing memo in the case, filed in a U.S. district court Friday, revealed that Darrey used the $875,000 she stole from the parish to help fund a lavish lifestyle, including the purchase of a boat, and vehicle, and the installation of a pickleball court at her house.  “From October 2023 to March 2024, Heather Darrey violated one of the most basic moral imperatives—thou shalt not steal—by embezzling $875,323.19 of Church #1’s money for her own personal enrichment,” prosecutors argued. Between Oc...