Parents, you may remember when your child was baptized: you and your child’s godparents faced west and renounced the devil and all his deeds. Then, you faced east and proclaimed your commitment to Christ three times. This is what we need to do for ourselves again today, so as to follow the faith we received from our parents and grandparents and to keep the witness of Jesus Christ alive, because Jesus Christ is indeed alive. You are sent to proclaim Jesus Christ, maybe not through preaching, but by your life. READ MORE.

PRESOV, Slovakia — The last bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Church who vividly remembered the abolition and liquidation of the Byzantine Catholic Church in 1950, died this month. The former auxiliary bishop of Apostolic Exarchate of Prague, Bishop Jan Eugen Kocis, died Dec. 4, the day after the 52nd anniversary of his secret episcopal ordination, at the age of 93. At the time of his death, Bishop Kocis was the second-oldest Byzantine Catholic bishop in the world and had been a priest 69 years. READ MORE.