APRIL 25, 2023 • ARCHGH.ORG/TCH
‘LORD, ARE YOU ASKING ME TO GARDEN?’ Parish gardening ministries thrive in the spring season ▪ SEE PAGE 8
APRIL 25, 2023
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FINDING FAITH NATURALLY Camp Kappe’s 130 acres of forests in Plantersville connects youth to faith and nature ▪ SEE PAGE 9
Proclaiming the Good News to the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston since 1964
VOL. 59, NO. 21
WE ARE AN EASTER PEOPLE
FATHER FORGIVE ME...
Embracing Easter can also mean going to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. When’s the last time you went to confession? ▪ SEE PAGE 7
MINISTRIES
PHOTO BY JAMES RAMOS/HERALD
Above, Father Philip Lloyd, pastor of St. Theresa Catholic Church in Memorial Park, baptizes a woman during Easter Vigil Mass on April 8. During Holy Week at parishes and Catholic communities all around the Archdiocese, Catholics celebrated the Paschal Mystery. SEE PAGE 4 AND 5.
As minor changes take effect, all sins are still ‘washed away’ by God’s mercy in confession BY JAMES RAMOS Texas Catholic Herald HOUSTON (OSV News) — Since Divine Mercy Sunday, April 16, the experience of the Sacrament of Penance in the Roman rite is now slightly different, thanks to approved changes in the English translation that took effect this year. The prayer of absolution will include three modifications so that the revised version will read as follows: “God, the Father of mercies, through the death and resurrection of His Son, has reconciled the world to Himself and poured out [formerly “sent”] the Holy Spirit for [previously “Holy Spirit among us for”] the forgiveness of sins; through the ministry of the Church may God grant [instead of “give”] you pardon and
LIVING A LIFE OF PRAYER
See CONFESSION, page 6
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ESPAÑOL † 17
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