Pope Francis is inviting all of the world’s Catholics to participate in a consultation about how the Church journeys together, inviting authentic communication, listening to concerns, and promoting participation in the full life of the Church.
This will be an intensive process of encounter, listening and discernment, inviting us to greater communion, participation and mission.
Join us Wednesday, May 25th from 6 to 8:30 pm for a parish Listening and Discusion Session. RSVP by calling the parish at 208-232-1196 or emailing holyspirit@hscc.org.
His life was one marked by transformation: he served as a soldier, then an explorer, had a conversion experience and became a monk, and finally a desert hermit, serving most of his years among the Tuareg people of Algeria.
Pope Francis called attention to Charles de Foucauld for his quiet, personal witness to faith and human fraternity among the people he served during his life as a simple hermit, priest, and friend in the expanses of the Sahara desert. At the end of his encyclical Fratelli tutti, the Pope Francic wrote:
“Yet I would like to conclude by mentioning another person of deep faith who, drawing upon his intense experience of God, made a journey of transformation towards feeling a brother to all. I am speaking of Blessed Charles de Foucauld. Blessed Charles directed his ideal of total surrender to God towards an identification with the poor, abandoned in the depths of the African desert. In that setting, he expressed his desire to feel himself a brother to every human being, and asked a friend to “pray to God that I truly be the brother of all”. He wanted to be, in the end, “the universal brother”. Yet only by identifying with the least did he come at last to be the brother of all. May God inspire that dream in each one of us. Amen. (Fratelli tutti, 286-287)”
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Enjoy this wonderful presentation by Dr. LaVonne Mills and Paul Yochum on the history of St. Joseph Chapel in Pocatello, Idaho.
In part I, Dr. Lavonne Mills shares the history of our founder Rev. Cyril Van der Donckt and the challenges he and the parishioners faced building and outfitting this remarkable church.
In part II, Paul Yochum describes the remarkable restoration of St. Joseph's.
Fr. Joseph Lustig presents the extraordinary history of Fr. DeSmet, the "Apostle to the Rockies"!
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Holy Spirit Catholic Community
208-232-1196 / holyspirit@hscc.org
Parish Office 524 N 7th Ave, Pocatello, ID 83201
St. Anthony Chapel 504 N. 7th Ave, Pocatello, ID 83201
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