Faith - The Journal

Holy Week Laity services

Holy Week Laity Services are conducted by lay people from a number of local churches. These services take place at 7 a.m.. The locations this year are: Monday, April 13: St. Barna...

DATE: Apr 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Take time, thought to re-establish healthy habits

Habitual human behavior affects us the same way as the moon influences ocean tides and the sun influences Earth’s daily rotation through the solar system. Once established and re...

DATE: Apr 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Passover offers chance remember the Lamb

By Bill Kuik Spring is a time of renewal. We anticipate the arrival of early blooming flowers and green fields emerging all across the Four Corners region. Springtime is also whe...

DATE: Mar 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Enduring hope

Pair strive to turn around lives of female inmates through ministry

DATE: Mar 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

The Word Moved Into the Neighborhood Can you hear me now?

Ever since my boys began going to school on the Front Range, I text or talk to them every morning on the phone. Recently, the conversation between my youngest and I hit a snag, and it remin...

DATE: Mar 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Ash Wednesday reminds us of mortality

Standing on a busy street corner offering an expression of your faith is an interesting proposition. It’s not one in which I ever thought I’d engage. I suppose that’s because mos...

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Inmate chaplain provides light, liberation behind bars

Shelby Smith never saw himself as a minister, but now his favorite chair in the world is by the window in the jail where he meets with up to 20 inmates a week at the Montezuma County Jail. ...

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Catholic Daughters Day heralds the installation of court’s new members

Recently the mayor of Cortez, Dan Porter, recognized the only existing Junior Catholic Daughters Court in Colorado for their ongoing community outreach and service to the Church. At an insta...

DATE: Mar 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Mountain View to hold revival

Mountain View Baptist Church will hold Revival Services Sunday, March 9 through Wednesday, March 12. The guest evangelist will be Dr. Charles Patrick Jr. Patrick is director of op...

DATE: Feb 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Pope: Internet is a ‘gift from God’

VATICAN CITY – The Internet is a “gift from God” that facilitates communication, Pope Francis said in a statement released Thursday, but he warns that the obsessive desire to stay connected ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Communists roast in fire in Montenegro fresco

PODGORICA, Montenegro – Look up at the wall and you can see Yugoslavia’s late autocratic leader Josip Broz Tito drowning in red fiery waves of hell – along with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel...

DATE: Feb 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Rejoice, and the world might just join in with you

I discovered an interesting mystery working In-Patient Psychiatry for almost thirty years: I discovered that our staff rarely admitted happy patients for treatment. Regardless of...

DATE: Jan 31, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith