Catholic Weddings By Father Ricky

Father Ricky is an inspirational, caring, warm and sensitive Catholic priest, incardinated in the Old Catholic Church, NOT affiliated in any way or form with the Roman Catholic Church. He ministers to the unaffiliated from all faiths, serving them in all their spiritual needs: Baptisms, Confessions, Communions, Marriages, Anointings, House/Business Blessings, Life Celebrations [funerals], ...
 
Marriages

Getting married is one of the most important events in a person's life. Your ceremony should reflect your love, excitement, and deep emotions of the day. Father Ricky experienced ministry is always reflected in the incredibly spiritual, warm, personalized, and touching ceremonies, allowing the "You" to be expressed throughout. You will experience a wonderful Marriage Ceremony that will fulfill and exceed all your expectations. Father Ricky's from-the-heart ceremony will properly reflect the wonderful journey on which you are embarking.

Do contact Father Ricky. He will be happy to custom-design the ceremony you have always dreamed of.

Lent

Basic Facts
Liturgical Color(s): Violet (Purple)
Type of Holiday: Fast
Time of Year: Immediately following Ordinary Time after Epiphany; varies

Duration: Liturgically Lent lasts 44 Days, begins on Ash Wednesday and ends before the Paschal Triduum (and includes Sundays). The traditional Lenten fast is observed for 40 days, starting on Ash Wednesday, going through Holy Week, excluding Sunday Celebrates/Symbolizes: Jesus' wilderness fast; Preparation for Easter.
Alternate Names: "Great Lent"

Lent, the period of the liturgical year leading up to Easter. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer — through prayer, penitence, almsgiving and self-denial — for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events linked to the Passion of Christ and culminates in Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Conventionally, it is described as being forty days long, though different denominations calculate the forty days differently. The forty days represent the time that, according to the Bible, Jesus spent in the desert before the beginning of his public ministry, where he endured temptation by Satan.

IV Sunday of Lend
March 14, 2010

Fourth Lent: Joining God in Forgiveness and Celebrating His Love
The Son repents, The Father forgives,The brother misses the meal.

My guess is that most of us could recite the parable of today's gospel almost word for word. When we think of God's forgiveness, the picture of the Father looking out across the fields, longing and waiting for his son to return, enters our minds. We see God giving us a hug, embracing us, calling out to the servants to put a ring on our finger and get the finest cloak. We know that God is not concerned with the hurt He feels when we reject Him. He is concerned only about us, how we are hurting ourselves. When we think of our own sinfulness, and picture the son who offended his father, we remember how sin puts us in the mud with the pigs. We remember how we