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Aug 23, 2024 | 
scchawks.com | Alyssa Marino |Christina Benavides
The Santiago Canyon College women's soccer team has outscored the San Bernardino Valley College Wolverines 14-1 in their last four meetings. Tonight was no different as the Hawks blanked the Wolverines 6-0 during the team's season opening contest under the lights. The Hawks displayed a deep roster by featuring 19 players while leaning on a pair of returners on the offensive front.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
northtexascatholic.org | Christina Benavides
When Monica Segura looks back, God’s plan for her family is so clear. “We’re told not to complete our will, but God’s will,” her husband, Cruz, agreed. Parents to Jesus and Jose, both of whom are discerning their vocation in seminary for the Diocese of Fort Worth, Monica and Cruz Segura reflected on how the family has worked to open themselves to God’s will.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
northtexascatholic.org | Christina Benavides
photo galleryGRAPEVINE — On Saturday, June 1, St. Francis of Assisi Parish observed the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ with a Eucharistic procession and their annual cookout picnic. “The sacrament of the Eucharist is the greatest of sacraments,” Father Sojan George said in his homily. “The Eucharist is not just a symbol of Christ's presence with us. It is not just a reminder of Christ's self-offering in the past.
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May 28, 2024 | 
northtexascatholic.org | Christina Benavides
North Texas CatholicHE IS: Father Ariel Muñoz Sanchez, CORC, pastor of St. Matthew Parish in Arlington. A MOTHER’S DEVOTION: Raised in the countryside of Querétaro, Mexico, Fr. Muñoz and his mother walked upwards of an hour to Mass at the nearest church. “My mother was very close with those at church and with the priests of the parish.
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May 24, 2024 | 
northtexascatholic.org | Christina Benavides
MORE PHOTOSFORT WORTH — It may seem like an ordinary cotton tee with a large graphic heart at the center. But on the third Monday of every month at St. Michael Parish in Bedford, parishioners wear the shirt promoting the “God’s Own Children” ministry logo on their chests with pride as they worship at the ministry-organized Special Needs Mass. “They all have the same logo, but they’re all in different colors because everybody got to pick their own shade.
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May 21, 2024 | 
northtexascatholic.org | Christina Benavides
In Lumen Gentium, the dogmatic constitution on the Church, Pope Paul VI once described that a deacons’ hands “are imposed ‘not unto the priesthood, but unto a ministry of service’” (LG 29). Deacon Alfonso Ramírez of Immaculate Conception Parish in Denton is a great example of this dedication. Through the strength of his faith and immense joy for his work, the deacon of 15 years has devoted himself to sharing the eternal love of God with others.
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May 2, 2024 | 
northtexascatholic.org | Christina Benavides
When he was just 11 years old, a young Luis Miguel Urrutia served as a lector for the first time in his hometown parish in rural Michoacán, Mexico. “I completely butchered it,” Urrutia recalled, laughing as he remembered the rush of nerves he’d felt. “But all of that quickly faded away because of a sense that was very deeply embedded in me — an understanding that despite the bullying and the cutting jokes that I’d received for my childhood lisp, I’d prayed to God that He would help me.
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May 1, 2024 | 
northtexascatholic.org | Christina Benavides
In his apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia (On Love in the Family), Pope Francis wrote, “Spouses are consecrated and, by means of a special grace, build up the Body of Christ and form a domestic church.”A couple firmly grounded in their faith and bound together by God’s love, Thang and Theresa Nguyen are witnesses and participants of the power of a domestic church and the grace of the mystical body of Christ.
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May 1, 2024 | 
northtexascatholic.org | Christina Benavides
Photo galleryFORT WORTH — The morning of April 25, the St. Patrick Cathedral sanctuary quietly hummed with youthful hope, excitement, and fellowship. Bishop Michael Olson opened the annual Eighth Grade Vocations Mass, warmly welcoming the hundreds of students filling the pews, dressed in their diocesan Catholic school uniforms, to the heart of the Diocese of Fort Worth.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
northtexascatholic.org | Christina Benavides
The secret to helping people establish a life of faith is found in a three-tiered wedding cake. Metaphorically, of course. Jeff Hedglen developed the sweet philosophy in 30-plus years of experience in youth ministry in all corners of the diocese, and he applies it every day as campus minister for University of Texas at Arlington’s Catholic Community.
