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The September-October 2023 issue of Catholic Herald magazine has been published. The theme for this issue is respect life. The digital edition of the magazine is available at https://catholicmagazines.org/magazine-archive/catholic-herald/sac0923

- Your Faith

In preparation for Communion, there is a small yet significant ritual called the Fraction Rite or the Fraction of the Bread. The priest breaks the consecrated host and makes preparation for the distribution of Holy Communion, with the assistance of the deacon. While these rituals are conducted, the assembly recites or sings the simple — normally three-part — invocation to the Lamb of God: “Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.” The last invocation ends with “grant us peace.” The text echoes the proclamation of John the Baptist made to his disciples as Jesus approached them along the banks of the River Jordan, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” (Jn 1:29)

- Your Stories

In photo above, Martin Wong with altar servers, left to right, Isabella-Marie P. Eulie, Tyler Parkpakorn and Nathaniel Garcia, before the altar inside St. John Vianney Church in Rancho Cordova.

In February 2022, when parishes throughout the Diocese of Sacramento got word from Bishop Jaime Soto that altar servers could return to the liturgy with some restrictions after the COVID-19 pandemic, many parishes found themselves rebuilding the typically youth-centered altar server ministry from the ground up.

“It became a formation opportunity,” says Martin Wong, chair of the pastoral council at St. John Vianney Parish in Rancho Cordova, who stepped up to lead and coordinate the remake of the parish’s altar server ministry about a year and a half ago.

- Your Stories

In photo above, Josue Barraza holds a poster of Blessed Carlos Acutis outside St. Lawrence the Martyr Parish in North Highlands.

When Josué Barraza, 23, moved to California from El Paso, Texas, with his family in 2018, he carried in his heart a still relatively unknown, would-be saint – Carlo Acutis, then Venerable – an Italian teen whose life was cut short by leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15.

“I heard about him because my dad used to work for the Diocese of Las Cruces,” Josué explains, sharing how Carlo Acutis became one of three patron saints selected for a youth rally. “I had never heard of him before. He was not popular yet, which is part of the reason I liked him,” he adds, also citing that as a teenager at the time, “I could really relate to him.”

- Diocesan News

The September-October 2023 issue of Catholic Herald magazine has been published. The theme for this issue is respect life. The digital edition of the magazine is available at https://catholicmagazines.org/magazine-archive/catholic-herald/sac0923

- Your Faith

In preparation for Communion, there is a small yet significant ritual called the Fraction Rite or the Fraction of the Bread. The priest breaks the consecrated host and makes preparation for the distribution of Holy Communion, with the assistance of the deacon. While these rituals are conducted, the assembly recites or sings the simple — normally three-part — invocation to the Lamb of God: “Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.” The last invocation ends with “grant us peace.” The text echoes the proclamation of John the Baptist made to his disciples as Jesus approached them along the banks of the River Jordan, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” (Jn 1:29)

- Your Stories

In photo above, Martin Wong with altar servers, left to right, Isabella-Marie P. Eulie, Tyler Parkpakorn and Nathaniel Garcia, before the altar inside St. John Vianney Church in Rancho Cordova.

In February 2022, when parishes throughout the Diocese of Sacramento got word from Bishop Jaime Soto that altar servers could return to the liturgy with some restrictions after the COVID-19 pandemic, many parishes found themselves rebuilding the typically youth-centered altar server ministry from the ground up.

“It became a formation opportunity,” says Martin Wong, chair of the pastoral council at St. John Vianney Parish in Rancho Cordova, who stepped up to lead and coordinate the remake of the parish’s altar server ministry about a year and a half ago.

News & Events | Around the Diocese

September 22, 2023 - Event

In collaboration with Holy Spirit Parish in Sacramento, the diocese's Office of Youth and Young Adults will host "Theology on Tap" for young adults (ages 21-39) for an evening of fellowship and talk by guest speaker Andrew Brown.


September 22, 2023 - Event

Ministry leaders from across the Diocese of Sacramento are invited to Ministry Days 2023, on Sept. 22 and 23, with the theme, "With Open Hands."


September 30, 2023 - Event

Los programas de Madre e Hija exploran el regalo especial de Dios sobre la fertilidad humana y la belleza ya la maravilla del plan de Dios para crecer y convertirse en una mujer, 


October 23, 2023 - Event

Bishop Jaime Soto will preside at the annual Red Mass for attorneys, judges, law school professors and students, government officials and all those working in the legal system or involved in the process of government, who are invited to attend.


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