Holy Week may seem to be an interruption, a time to be ignored. Yet, if we enter into it with even a modicum of attention, we experience a hot molten core of brightness. Such matters strengthen our faith.

Lent enables us, by great traditional practices of prayer, fasting, almsgiving and new acts of justice, to recognize that we are sons and daughters and not slaves.

In this world dominated by isolation and individualism, we are meant to come together as a People of Faith to live out the Gospel message both near and far. We answer this call because, as St. Paul reminds us in his Letter to the Romans, We are the Lord’s!

758 Catholics from at least 72 parishes across the Archdiocese received the Sacrament of Confirmation at six separate Masses celebrated by Cardinal DiNardo and Bishop Dell’Oro, according to catechetical leaders.

“Mary is the first disciple to show faith and to bring human beings a living hope so they would not grow weary and seek Jesus.”

Preparing a way for the Lord is about opening hearts, most especially our own, to receive Him in everyday experiences where He begins to show Himself.

Daniel Cardinal DiNardo and Auxiliary Bishop Italo Dell’Oro, CRS, were among the U.S. bishops gathered November 13-16 for their fall plenary assembly in Baltimore.

On Oct. 25, Cardinal DiNardo celebrated Mass with several retired diocesan priests at the Warren Chapel of St. Dominic Village.

Joining the entire college of 242 cardinal members representing more than 91 countries, Daniel Cardinal DiNardo attended the recent consistory convened by Pope Francis in September, which saw 21 new cardinals receive their red hats and join Cardinal DiNardo in the College of Cardinals.

An act of thanks goes out to all the teachers in our schools: Catholic, private and public. Teachers are most frequently quiet, even unassuming. However, they are essential leaders and active agents in our culture... how much we owe to our teachers!

Everyone is a participant in the Eucharist and thus should be conscious of what is happening; everyone is active in a very distinctive way and should be joyful that the Lord is “working” in the midst of the assembly.

We are in a year of Eucharistic Revival, a time of careful thinking and consideration about our love of the Eucharist, the summit and center of worship, and the backbone of our mutual charity. Let us remember our heritage, our history, our recent joys of adding new members, and our well-founded hope: Christ!

In Holy Week and Easter, all the activity, preaching, healing, Good News, and miracles of Jesus are synthesized and intensified in Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection. Jesus was and is always for His Father and for us — this service, this servitude, has reached its climax. The hour comes, and He enters it with complete freedom. He beckons us to follow.

This year, the Memorial of Saint Patrick falls on Friday, March 17. It is well known that Saint Patrick's Day is a day of friendly social celebration for many American Catholics. I, therefore, decree that on Friday, March 17, 2023, all Catholics of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, no matter where they may be, and all other Catholics present in the Archdiocese on that day, are, by my authority, dispensed from the obligation to abstain from meat.

Following the sudden and shocking murder of Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell in late February, Daniel Cardinal DiNardo sent a message from Houston and extended his “sincere condolences and sorrow” to Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez, as well as the clergy, religious and laity of the Archdiocese, and said “be assured of my closeness in prayer to you and the local Church of Los Angeles.”

Each year Ash Wednesday and its resounding invitation to let the Lord raise us up begins a very serious season, a quarantine — a 40-day observance of renewal and penance to seek the Lord Jesus and to accompany Him in His action of salvation for us, His Passion, Death and Resurrection.

It is with deep sadness and hope in the Resurrection that we mourn the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

The Gospels speak even today. They show us a faith that grows from natural human wonder to the joy of discovering Christian faith, the face of Jesus Christ.

As your bishop, I would like to make a recommendation for a synodal Advent this year.