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Jun 06, 2026

Good morning and happy Saturday.

I apologize for the great gaps between my postings as of late. This May and this June are proving to be very busy.

I will start by asking for your prayers for two young men from my parish in Ishpeming, Michigan, who were ordained to the priesthood yesterday. I was blessed to be at the Mass and am looking forward to welcoming one of them home as our associate pastor.

I am also excited to announce that in addition to Cor Fidei, season two of the Purple Catholic Literature Collection is coming this summer. This season will focus on Myles Connolly’s book Mr. Blue. It is a tale of a man who has that childlike faith that Jesus calls for, told from the perspectives of those whose lives he touched. More details on a date and a print edition are coming soon.

I’ll point your attention to a couple of important stories linked below. This week, the Holy Father is in Spain, a country that has collapsed into secularism and is at the front of Europe’s migrant crisis. Pope Leo XIV will be visiting some of those areas that are inundated with people making their way across the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe.

Also, Canada’s The Globe and Mail is having a mea culpa moment as they admit that they did not accurately verify claims of mass graves at residential schools in western Canada. They admit that they took a press release from the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation as fact.

Now, The Globe and Mail is not a right-wing publication; it has taken them a while to get to this point, and they do spread blame around to all of “the media” in Canada for failing to look into the claims. But what it plainly shows is that readers, consumers of media, don’t want news; they want what is going to confirm their notions.

Finally, the USCCB is set to vote on a revised edition of the Dallas Charter. The charter was the American church’s response to the allegations of abuse and coverup by clergy. It instituted new norms which have largely been successful; claims of abuse following the actions taken in the charter have dropped significantly.

In recent years, canonists and advocates have argued that changes were needed to the Dallas Charter particularly in the areas of abuse of power, episcopal misconduct, and coercion. The new draft appears to address some of these concerns and some were already addressed universally in Pope Francis’ motu proprio Vos estis lux mundi. The last revision to the charter was in 2018.

And that is some of the latest news.

Please continue to pray for me and all of us who work on the Purple Catholic in some way and I will speak to you next week.

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Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

The readings for Mass this Sunday are: Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14-16; Paslm 147; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; and John 6:51-58. We will also hear the Lauda Sion sequence.

Here is a calendar for the rest of the week:

Tuesday, June 9 - Memorial of St. Ephrem, deacon and doctor (optional)
Thursday, June 11 - Memorial of St. Barnabas, apostle
Friday, June 12 - Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Saturday, June 13 - Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, priest and doctor (optional) or Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary (optional)

I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.

John 6:51

Have a good weekend,

Matthew

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