Great news! Our online payment partner, GiveCentral.org, is getting a new look soon. Besides a crisp new logo and color scheme, the most important changes are an improved interface for the user: you! 

Soon, instead of seeing the screen on the left, you'll see something like the screen on the right (it's still being tweaked.)

Spiritual Bouquets are a beautiful, prayerful way to acknowledge your mother, father or other beloved parental presence in your life. Whether Mom and Dad are alive or have passed away, they will be remembered with one year's worth of weekly mass intentions.

A Spiritual Bouquet for a mother begins with intentions at all masses on Mothers' Day, May 13, 2012, and continues with once-weekly mass intentions through the week prior to Mothers' Day 2013. For fathers, the year of intentions begins on Fathers' Day 2012, and continues through the week prior to Fathers' Day, 2013. In both cases, the once-weekly mass intentions will vary throughout the year and will be included in the our bulletin's listing of mass intentions.

Americans of all faiths and religious denominations have enjoyed religious liberty for generations. For the first time in our history, those cherished freedoms are at risk. This is a matter of principle -- not personality, nor partisanship -- that threatens all of us. Our Church is not a political party, but a moral voice that always speaks for freedom. The USCCB is committed to keeping these issues before us without being captured in political debate in a partisan way. As the weeks go by we'll be sharing educational articles published by the USCCB that will address a wide range of issues. The first in this series is entitled Religious Liberty: The Most Cherished of American Freedoms.