Ann VucicLast Updated: September 20th, 2024Church News, Medjugorje, Pope Francis
September 19, 2024 – vatican ruling on medjugorje My alarm clock awakened me at 4:27 am on Thursday morning, September 19, 2024. Blurry eyed, but wide awake and excited, I took my ipad to watch the live Vatican press conference about Medjugorje, starting at 4:30 am CST, on the Vatican YouTube channel. This was a … Read More
Andrea JLast Updated: March 10th, 2021Church News, News, Pope Francis
In a bulletin sent out on February 12 in preparation for the upcoming liturgical season, Pope Francis invites us all to a time of renewal this Lent. In his 2021 Lenten Message, entitled “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem” (Mt 20:18), the Holy Father calls Lent “a time for renewing faith, hope, and love.” … Read More
Andrea JLast Updated: January 20th, 2021Camino de Santiago, Church News
The city of Santiago de Compostela has been looking forward to 2021 since the end of 2010 for a very important reason – it is the next Holy Year (Jubilee) of Santiago! These Jubilee years occur whenever the Feast of St. James (July 25th) falls on a Sunday. The next time this will happen will be 2027.
TEKTON MINISTRIES FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information or to arrange a pilgrimage with your parish or diocese contact Richard Sontag at 317-574-4191 or [email protected]. Marian Shrine in Bosnia-Herzegovina draws more than 40 million pilgrims since 1981 Medjugorje— May 13, 2019 Pope Francis has authorized official pilgrimages to Medjugorje, meaning that any Catholic entity (diocese, … Read More
Most Catholics today lovingly refer to St. John Paul II as “The Pilgrim Pope.” After all, during his 26 years as pontiff, he made pilgrimages to 129 different countries on six continents. But this month, we celebrate the canonization of the “original” Pilgrim Pope, Pope Paul VI. Now known as St. Paul VI, he was … Read More
Ann VucicLast Updated: September 11th, 2020Church News, Medjugorje, Pope Francis
Timeline of the Church’s response to Medjugorje 1981: Apparitions of Medjugorje begin 1984: Local bishop, diocese of Mostar forms a commission to investigate the events in Medjugorje. 1986: Bishop submits a negative decision about Medjugorje to the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF), which at the time was led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later, … Read More
Fr. Zlatko Sudac is a modern-day priest, mystic, and stigmatist. The wounds of Christ which he bears have been thoroughly investigated by the Vatican and found to be of no known human origin.
A French nun who had suffered from a debilitating pinched nerve for more than 40 years was healed after a pilgrimage to Lourdes in 2008 – the 70th miracle of Lourdes.
(Aleteia) Churches will be crowded soon with more people heading to Mass who don’t regularly attend. We’ll all be seeing some unfamiliar faces in the pews. And I know I’ll be seeing people in the Communion line I’ve never seen before; some will be casual Christmas-and-Easter Catholics, some will be visitors from out of town. … Read More
Sadly for Tekton Ministries and for Filipino Catholics in the United States, we have not yet found a priest who is interested in leading a pilgrimage to the Philippines for the International Eucharistic Congress being held there in January of 2016 but for those who might be making the pilgrimage without a priest, we thought … Read More
