DIOCESAN OFFICES

From Office of Marriage and Family Life

Virtual Conference:  A Day of Hope & Healing – Summit 2025
Catholic in Recovery and iThirst invites you to Summit 2025, a national gathering that brings together a Catholic response to addiction. The summit will feature inspiring speakers, powerful testimonies, breakout sessions, prayer, fellowship, and the celebration of the Sacraments. This event is open to individuals in recovery, family members, ministry leaders, and clergy.  Join us for a weekend of hope, healing, and renewal.  Register at:  catholicinrecovery.com/2025-summit/.

Promotional flyer at this link:  https://shorturl.at/11ebi

World Mission Sunday
World Mission Sunday is scheduled for the weekend of October 18-19, 2025, and this year’s theme is “Missionaries of Hope Among All Peoples.” During this Jubilee Year of Hope, the theme is most appropriate, and all are called to engage in missionary work in one form or another, thereby bringing hope to those in despair. This annual worldwide collection helps to provide aid to 1,124 dioceses that cannot sustain themselves because they are too poor, young, or actively persecuted.

To learn more about World Mission Sunday and the communities supported by the collection, please go to the Pontifical Mission Societies’ website at this link: https://pontificalmissions.org/wms.

PILGRIMAGES AROUND THE DIOCESE

If your parish is offering a pilgrimage within the coming months, we invite you to share this information with the Pastoral Bulletin: pastoralbulletin@dosp.org.  This allows readers to view opportunities to participate in an upcoming pilgrimage.  The pilgrimages are posted in the Diocesan website under the Pastoral Bulletin page at this link.