110, Oakland, CA 94621. This ancient Order has endured through the trials and vicissitudes of the centuries and in our own time exists as a major support group for the native Christians in the Holy Land who have been under intense social and economic pressure as a disenfranchised minority in the midst of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Please contact your parish for the local Council. A new community formed in the Diocese ofReno, the Korean Catholic Community meets the first and third Sundays of the month at Holy Cross Catholic Community in Sparks. Mass will be celebrated in Korean about every two months.
Members seek to adapt the spirituality off the Order to their lay state in life.
This spirituality, or charism, is a vocation to prayer, community and ministry based on developing a contemplative practice of living in the presence of God Catholics at least 17 years of age can become Lay Carmelites after a period of formation. The Parish Nurse Program was established to provide education and support for registered nurses to develop health and wellness ministries in churches. The Parish Nurse serves as a health counselor, educator, referral agent and advocate for health related needs. As Serra International is in the lay vocation arm of the church, their mission is to foster and affirm vocations to the ministerial priesthood and vowed religious life in the USA and Canada and through this minisistry further their members common Cafholic faith.