CCD Parish Update - April 2025

Today I would like to call us to a deeper understanding of solidarity. It is easy to look around right now and feel separated or isolated. Our faith calls us to reach out across divisions and join together with our brothers and sisters in need.

Solidarity teaches us to treat everyone as our neighbor. Thanks to our partnership with parishes, we are able to bring our services directly into your neighborhoods. Our food trucks drive your streets and serve in your parking lots. Our parenting classes and early literacy classes take place in your classrooms and parish halls. We are so grateful for this opportunity to bring our services directly to you.

Catholic Charities Dallas lives out solidarity by answering the call to help all in need. We know there are neighbors in your pews who could use a hand up. If you would like to partner deeper with us, and bring any of our services to your campus, please reach out.

I invite you to pray about how you are called to live out solidarity in our community and in your personal prayer life. Are you called to invite someone new to Mass? Could you pray for those in need around the world and in your parish? How is God calling you to serve His children?

I am going to close with the personal prayer of Servant of God Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ, and I invite you to pray with me.

Grant me, O Lord, to see everything now with new eyes,
to discern and test the spirits
that help me read the signs of the times,
to relish the things that are yours, and to communicate them to others.
Give me the clarity of understanding that you gave Ignatius.

Amen.

Update about the CCD HOPE Project: Effective this month, Catholic Charities Dallas will no longer be offering the HOPE Project, our former chat-bot that encouraged healthy coping mechanisms. When we started this virtual project in 2020, we were exploring new ways to offer a resource related to anxiety and depression while the world was living through an isolated time. We hope it was beneficial to your parishioners during that time, and we appreciate you removing any flyers or bulletin ads related to HOPE going forward. Thank you.

Learn more about CST

• Examination of Conscience in Light of CST
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