The Leadership Institute of the Diocese of Bridgeport is an excellent website for Catechetical, Family, and Liturgical resources along with events that might be of interest to you. To get started here is an excellent article titled Talking About Race and Racism with Children.
Bishop Caggiano Radio Show On Veritas Network
The hour-long program, titled, “Let Me Be Frank,” will air every Wednesday at Noon on WNLK-AM 1350 radio and be available later that day as a podcast at https://www.veritascatholic.com and the Diocese of Bridgeport website, https://www.bridgeportdiocese.org.
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Veritas Catholic Radio 1350 AM
Traveling? Use catholicmasstime.org to find the time and place for the next Mass at your location.
Please pray the following prayer at Communion Time – Act of Spiritual Communion
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.
THE FRIEND OF JESUS PRAYER
Don’t walk behind me because I may not want to lead. Don’t walk ahead of me I may not want to follow. Walk aside me and be my friend!
Prayer is a powerful tool and I am sure many of you can witness to that, but if you have not been one to turn to prayer this will be a good place to start. A few months ago at a Family Mass we talked about the importance of prayer. We talked about starting a Prayer Walk and asked families to sign up to be part of our Prayer Walk. With the Prayer Walk we send you an email when we receive special prayer intentions. We have about 35 parishioners at this time signed up. If you would like to participate in this Prayer Walk you can sign up by sending us your name and email to denisebartelson@olgstratford.com. We send out an email about once a month to everyone who signs up and we ask you to pray when we receive special prayer intentions.
Hope you will join us on our Prayer Walk!
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Marian Prayer of Pope Francis
O Mary,
you always shine on our path
as a sign of salvation and of hope.
We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick,
who at the cross took part in Jesus’ pain, keeping your faith firm.
You, Salvation of the Roman People,
know what we need,
and we are sure you will provide
so that, as in Cana of Galilee,
we may return to joy and to feasting
after this time of trial.
Help us, Mother of Divine Love,
to conform to the will of the Father
and to do as we are told by Jesus,
who has taken upon himself our sufferings
and carried our sorrows
to lead us, through the cross,
to the joy of the resurrection. Amen.
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Education Our Spiritual Lives
If you are looking for a place to find a daily prayer meditation, for information regarding the Saint of the day, please look at the website https://info.franciscanmedia.org. It offers a daily meditation and a notice of the Saint of the day.
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The Diocesan Leadership Institute website offers much information for your spiritual well-being. Please visit the Institute at https://formationreimagined.org/
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Family Bible Challenge – Accept the Challenge of learning more about the Bible through weekly reflections, trivia questions, access to videos introducing each book of the Bible, and other resources. Click here to learn more and sign up to accept the challenge!
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The Face of Prayer® exists for those in need of prayer, healing, and answers.
We believe prayer is important because prayer is powerful and can transform everything.
Join the movement today! Click here to learn more.
Text PRAY to 55778 to receive daily prayers from Bishop Caggiano. Message & data rates apply.
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Alpha-Bits
Alpha-Bits is a new resource aimed at helping parents of Generation Alpha (birth to 7 years) raise faith-filled children. This project, funded in part by a grant from the St. John Paul II Fund for
Religious Education and Youth Ministry, contains resources, tips, and practical suggestions for parents and grandparents. It is available on the Family Formation page at https://formationreimagined.org
Lifelong Micro Lessons
Introducing Lifelong Lessons, a new video channel on the Institute website that includes more than two dozen videos to help the faithful encounter the person of Christ by reflecting for a few minutes with experts from around the country. These videos range from personal reflections of faith to suggestions on how to become a more effective listener. To see the complete library, which will be updated each week, visit https://formationreimagined.org/lifelong-lessons/
Spiritual Education
One of the leading spiritual writers for men is Father Richard Rohr OFM. He has written many books regarding men’s spirituality.