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Come, Holy Spirit, Come!
This morning I am writing from Lamar, where the Confirmation season has begun. Yesterday evening we celebrated the Confirmations of...
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Apr 27, 20222 min read
Centura Mercy Hospital Launches Patient-Facing Produce Prescription Program
Mercy Hospital will expand its Roots of Health (ROH) Community Food Security Program and implement a new patient-facing produce...
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Apr 25, 20222 min read
New Life for My Spirit, Soul, and Body
My favorite sight and smell of spring is the lilac bush in the front yard of our family home in Pueblo. The purple hue and delightful...
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Apr 20, 20223 min read
Allelulia! Allelulia! The Lord is Risen!
From the Last Supper through the horrible journey of the Cross, Jesus suffered and finally passed, his body quietly laid in the tomb. ...
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Apr 14, 20222 min read
Lent: The Liminal Journey
Our Lenten journey is approaching its final, liminal stage, a threshold of change. It is time to pause and reflect, how am I keeping the...
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Mar 31, 20222 min read
Consecration of Russia and Ukraine
March 20, 2022 Yesterday morning, in answer to Pope Francis’ call for a united Prayer of Consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the...
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Mar 31, 20223 min read
HB22-1279 Reproductive Health Equity Act: Testimony of Bishop Berg
On Thursday, March 17, 2022 Bishop Berg testified before the Colorado Senators. What follows is his testimony. Thank you, Chairman Lee...
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Mar 23, 20222 min read
Join the diocesan-wide Novena – Happening NOW!
AN INVITATION FROM BISHOP BERG NOVENA TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY On Tuesday, March 15, it was announced that on March 25, during the...
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Mar 18, 20221 min read
40 Days to Conversion
We began our Lenten observance on Ash Wednesday, hearing the powerful appeal of the prophet Joel: “Even now, says, the Lord, return to me...
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Mar 14, 20223 min read
Limitless abortion bill poised to radicalize Colorado
March 8, 2022 State legislators propose removing parental rights, enshrining late-term abortion Denver, CO—March 8, 2022—Colorado is set...
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Mar 9, 20223 min read
Love Your Enemies
Love your enemies? Do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, offer your cheek again to those who strike you? Jesus’...
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Feb 24, 20222 min read
This is the mission of Jesus!
Father Derrek Scott and I just completed some on-site work in the Grand Junction deanery. You may recall that we began a series of...
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Feb 8, 20222 min read
Teens encounter Christ with NET Missionaries
On January 14 & 15, Christ the King parish in Pueblo hosted 120 middle and high school students from fourteen different parishes to...
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Jan 25, 20222 min read
Our Day at the 2022 Celebrate Life Rally and March in Denver
We joined approximately 5,000 pro-life advocates from around the state in a march around the Civic Center Park. The marchers arrived by...
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Jan 24, 20222 min read
Practicing the Presence of God
The new year is underway, and our world prepares for what comes next. We are reading, maybe at home, away from home, busy, concerned,...
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Jan 17, 20222 min read
All Life be Held Sacred
Greetings in the Lord, the New Year is underway! After two weeks of Montana vacation and a Bishop’s retreat in Tucson, I am glad to be...
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Jan 14, 20222 min read
Organ Donation Gives Gift of Life to Four Individuals
Recently, the Mercy family came together to support an organ donation that gave the gift of life to four deserving individuals. Amid a...
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Jan 13, 20223 min read
On the Horizon
As you read this, Fr. Derrek Scott and I recently visited the Durango deanery for four days of parish, mission and school visitations....
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Dec 15, 20212 min read
Gazing in Prayer
The contemplative community of the Capuchin Poor Clares put forth such a service in prayer for the whole church...
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Dec 15, 20213 min read
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