April 12, 2012
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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, On Tuesday, May 22, 6:30 – 8:30 pm at the UNLV Student Union Ballroom something quite remarkable will occur. Faith leaders and community members from all over the Las Vegas Valley will come together to focus on issues impacting families and to build an organizational response that offers great promise over time. I encourage you to join me in attending this event. In addition to me, the Lutheran, Methodist and Episcopal bishops will be present with leaders from 65 churches, synagogues, mosques, schools and non-profits. Many of our priests and parishes in the Diocese of Las Vegas are already encouraging or directly involved in this ground- breaking effort. This growing list includes: St. Christopher, Christ the King, St Andrew, Holy Family, St Peter, St John Neumann, St Thomas Aquinas Newman Center, and St Joseph, Husband of Mary. To those who aren’t, permit me to express my encouragement in the strongest possible terms that you send a delegation to discover what this work is all about. Please consider getting directly involved in this vital effort. In these challenging times we hear the drumbeat of growing human needs in the Las Vegas Valley. Issues from human trafficking, particularly of minors, neighborhood crime and blight, the isolation of vulnerable elderly, immigrant integration and education require a deeply collaborative response. The First Las Vegas Valley Community Convention for the Common Good on May 22 is just such a response. I encourage you to take this opportunity to step forward with others in a prayerful and constructive manner to help make our Valley a better place for children, for families, for the vulnerable, for all of us.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Bishop Joseph A Pepe |
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 Friday, May 18 - Sunday, May 20 on
Mt. Potosi, Potosi Pines Camp, will be the 2nd Project: Genesis Las Vegas Young Adults Retreat. It is open to all adults 18-years and up. UNLV’s St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Center is sponsoring this retreat which is open to anyone in the Las Vegas Diocese. Fr. Albert Pace is a strong believer in this retreat that will inspire your parish adults to be more faithful to the church and allow them to be energized wanting to give back to their parish.
For more information about the Project Genesis retreat or retreat team, contact Jennifer Arnot 702-340-4824 and by email: jenniferarnot@gmail.com or you can contact the St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Ctr. 702-736-0887.
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|  Saturday & Sunday, May 19 & 20, 2012 - Join us for the 19th Annual Spanish Charismatic Congress to be held at Cashman Center.
Les invitamos al XIX Encuentro de la Renovación Carismática Católica que se llevará acabo el 19 y 20 de Mayo 2012 en el Cashman Center.
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FAITH VALUES AND ETHICS IN THE WORKPLACE
"Ethics in the Marketplace” is the title of the ministry of Jesuit, Fr. Max Oliva, who makes his home in the Vegas valley. Father Oliva will be the Presider for the 12:10pm Mass at the Cathedral on the last Wednesday of each month. The focus of his homilies (sermons) will be Living One’s Faith in the Workplace. Non-Catholics are welcome.
Please mark your calendars for: May 30, June 27, July 25. For information on Father’s work, see his web site: www.ethicsinthemarketplace.com.
 The Diocese of Las Vegas joyfully invites you to celebrate the ordination of Deacon Samuel Martinez to the Order of Presbyter through the invocation of the Holy Spirit and the laying on of hands by the Most Reverend Joseph A. Pepe, D.D., J.C.D. on Friday, June 1, 2012 at 7:00pm at the Guardian Angel Cathedral.
June 8-9 2012 (Friday & Saturday)
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Catholic Charities has scheduled the following adoption orientation dates at 1501 Las Vegas Blvd. North, Las Vegas, NV 89101.
Tuesday, June 12 from 3-5 pm.
The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is the biggest one day food drive across the nation held by the National Association of Letter Carriers. This year marks its 20th anniversary! On May 12th each postal letter carrier in our valley will collect non-perishable food items at your home and it will be given to several charity organizations helping those in need in Southern Nevada.
How You Can Help!
Visit your local Albertsons Sav-on Pharmacy between Wednesday, May 2 and Saturday, May 12 and support the 2012 Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. Shoppers can purchase a pre-packaged bag of non-perishable food that will be donated to Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada to help families in need. Shoppers can also donate $1, $5 or $10 at the register and a “stamp” will be hung in honor of each donation.
Set food out for your local letter carrier on May 12!
Looking to volunteer? We need people to greet customers and hand out information about the food drive on Saturday, May 12 from 9am to 1pm and from 1pm to 5pm For more information, please contact 385-2662.
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 Roman Catholic Marriage in Las Vegas
There is no "quickie" way for Catholics to be married in Las Vegas. Catholic marriages (as a valid sacramental union) cannot be witnessed in a hotel, casino, wedding chapel or outdoor arena in Las Vegas. Roman Catholics wishing to marry validly should be suspect of any so-called (roman) catholic priest offering such accommodations. For further information, please contact the Diocesan Tribunal Office, 702-735-1210, Monsignor Francis Vivona, S.T.M., J.C.L.
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On Ascension Sunday we are reminded that Jesus is on his throne.
Do we allow him to reign over our lives?
One of the ways we show this is by living in humility, gentleness and love in a bond of peace. Do we reflect this in our marriage relationship? Allow Jesus to be Lord of your marriage relationship; attend a Worldwide Marriage Encounter weekend and let God strengthen, renew and rekindle your sacrament.
The next weekend is September 28-30 in the Las Vegas area. Early registration is highly recommended.
For more information, call Wayne and Marcia Kessler at 702-566-8753. For information on Spanish-language weekends, call Jose and Patti Santiago at 702-326-2453.
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Retrouvaille (Re-tro-vi) . . .
can Help Give Your Marriage a New Beginning!!
If you are living in the disappointment and pain of a marriage in trouble, whether it is from lack of communi-cation or something more serious and you have no hope, the Church has another avenue than Divorce, it is a program called Retrouvaille, which will help you rebuild your marriage.
Please call Chuck and Carol Moore for more Information at (702) 604-1006.
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|  Are you a professed Secular Franciscan, or have you ever thought about being a Secular Franciscan? We have a fraternity here in Las Vegas, NV and meet
at 12:30pm on the 4th Sunday of the month at 1420 W. Bartlett Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89106. For more information, please call Ann or Wayne at (702) 362-7989, Frank at (702) 339-2501, or Madge at (702) 453-2417.
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"Lord, when did we see you in prison and come to visit you?"
 The Catholic Prison Ministry at the Clark County Detention Center (CCDC) is in need
of additional volunteers to serve as lay ministers to the men and women incarcerated at the CCDC.
If you have at least one Saturday afternoon a month to share your Catholic faith, you can make a lifetime of difference to these prisoners.
For more information on how to become a lay prison minister at the CCDC, please call Jim Henry at 702-518-2245, or you may write to him at jimhenrynet@gmail.com
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The Telephone Reassurance Program at Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada is looking for seniors age 55 years and older to volunteer their time by making daily phone calls to other seniors in the community. Seniors across the valley are increasingly more alone, depressed, homebound, and isolated. Your daily phone call will ensure that an isolated senior is safe and has someone to talk to on a regular basis. Please contact the Telephone Reassurance Program at (702) 382- 0721 for more details on how you can make a difference. |
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Most Reverend Joseph A. Pepe
was ordained a bishop and installed as the second Bishop of the Diocese of Las Vegas on
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holy days of obligation
for year 2012
May 17, [Thursday]
The Solemnity of the Ascension
of the Lord has been transferred
to the following Sunday, May 20th.
August 15, [Wednesday]
The Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin Mary.
November 1, [Thursday]
All Saints Day
December 8, [Saturday]
Immaculate Conception
December 25, [Tuesday]
Christmas
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Protecting God's children
If you believe you are a victim of
sexual abuse please call our hotline
at 702-235-7723
Si usted cree que usted es una
víctima del abuso sexual llama
por favor nuestra línea directa
en 702-235-7723
Link to a List of
Upcoming Workshops
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Select Las Vegas, NV (Diocese)
President of USCCB Reiterates Bishops' Resolve to Deal Firmly with Clerics Who Abuse Children
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INTERCESSIONS
for life
updated 5/17/12
That all who are struggling to over-come addicitions—-
whether to alcohol, drugs, pornography or gambling— may find healing, forgiveness, and the strength to break free;
We pray to the Lord:
Para que todos los que luchan por superar adicciones—
ya sea al alcohol, las drogas, la pornografía o el juego—
encuentren sanación, perdón y la fortaleza para liberarse;
Roguemos al Señor:
Prepared by the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities
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A Call
to
Political Responsibility from the
Catholic Bishops of the
United States
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LIFE LINES
 Updated 5/17/12
“...I will demand an accounting for human life: If anyone sheds the blood of man,
by man will his blood be shed;
For in the image of God,
has man been made.”
(Genesis (:5-7)
Life News on April 18 reported that during an annual “Pro-Life Legislative Day” in Montgomery, Alabama in April, the attendees heard a surprise witness, Ed Henry, a Republican representative in the state assembly tell an emotional real life experience of how abortion has affected him. His reason for speaking at the rally was to help people understand why elective abortion should never be part of health care insurance plans. Earlier in the rally, he was moved by the experience that a woman from Birmingham shared with the crowd. She had been forced by “her gun-toting boyfriend” to go through with an abortion twenty-five years earlier; that action crippled her with regret psychologically.
As he listened to her story and talked with her later he decided he needed to share his story which he had never vocalized before. In his own words, “It ripped my heart out with the devastation these abortions cause. In ’91 I was in a similar situation where I had a girlfriend who was with child and I made a decision that I will regret — that we went and I murdered my child, my first child. I’ve never said this publicly,” he said “as he choked back tears”. He said the impact of it hit him several years later, when he was 30 and his wife was 12 weeks pregnant with their daughter. He recounted accompanying her for a medical checkup. “I saw that ultrasound of my baby, my child, and it came down on me like a ton of bricks that I had murdered my first child. And I will carry that with me to my grave.”
Andy Moore, who writes a pro-life blog, used the story to point out that it is important for men to have a voice in the abortion debate. Too often society thinks that abortion is a decision between “a woman and her doctor” but that is not the truth. Those who champion abortion as a solution tell men that they are not involved in the abortion debate. Really! Half of the babies killed in the womb are male and 100% of the aborted babies leave behind a father of a dead child.
Abortion affects us all, because we have all been created by God and therefore belong to one human family. Therefore, each of us is responsible to do our part to overturn Roe vs Wade and Doe vs Bolton. How do we do that, you ask? Through letters and telephone calls to the elected officials and through constant prayer and sacrifice asking God to send his Holy Spirit to enlighten the hearts and minds of those immersed in the abortion mentality.
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DON’T FORGET TO KEEP THE LETTERS, E-MAILS AND PHONE CALLS TO OUR REPRESENTATIVES GOING BECAUSE IT IS ONLY THROUGH OUR CONCERN THAT THEY WILL CONSIDER CHANGES IN LEGISLATION.
Important numbers to give those who need help
Catholic Charities Adoption Services -- 702-385- 3351
First Choice Pregnancy Services -- (702) 294-2273
Women’s Resource Centers of Southern Nevada --
(702) 366-1247
Living Grace Home -- (702) 212-6472
(Serving the special needs of pregnant young moms)
Rachel’s Vineyard -- (702) 737-1672
(Sufferers of post-abortion trauma)
For more information on Health Care Reform
visit the Website for USCCB
or
New England Journal of Medicine
Government Contacts:
Senator Harry Reid: 528 Hart Senate Office Bldg. Washington, DC 20510, DC Phone: (202) 224-3542
e-mail at www.reid.senate.gov
Phones: DC Phone (202) 224-3542; NV 388-5020
Senator
Dean Heller.
: 4 Russell Courtyard,
Washington, DC 20510. DC Phone ( 202) 224-6244
e-mail at www.heller.senate.gov
Representative Shelley Berkley: 405 Cannon House Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20515
Phones: DC (202) 225-5965; NV (702) 220-9823
e-mail at www.berkley.house.gov
Representative Joe Heck: 132 Cannon House Office Bldg. Washington, DC 20515.
e-mail at
www.heck.house.gov
Phones: DC (202) 225-3252; NV (702) 387-4941
Representative Mark Amodei: 125 Cannon House Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20515
DC Phone (202) 225-6155
www.amodei.house.gov
President Barack Obama
www.whitehouse.gov
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
www.hhs.gov
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - 200
Independence Avenue, S.W. - Washington, D.C. 20201
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 PRAYER DURING TIME OF ECONOMIC CRISIS
Gracious God,
We know that your love is infinite and that you care about all areas of our life.
In this time of economic insecurity, help us to trust that all of our security is in you.
Keep us mindful that you always have and always will provide for our needs.
Apart from you we can do nothing.
Merciful God,
We ask that you give our leaders the wisdom to guide our nation and the world
out of the current economic crisis.
Help us to protect the poor and all those who are struggling during this difficult time.
Provide for their needs and give them hope.
Open new opportunities for them and furnish the resources they need to live with dignity. Encourage those who have enough to share essential resources
with those who lack the necessities of life,
and to do so with humble, grateful and loving hearts.
We ask this through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.
A Catholic Framework for Economic Life
Catholic Bishops of the United States
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