2025-06-18

Immersion project offers hands-on look at serving the needy
Jun 18, 2025 ORLANDO | Every summer seminarians for the Diocese of Orlando receive different assignments based on their stage of formation. Over the next several weeks, Florida Catholic will follow different seminarians as they share their varied experiences. First stop — Catholic Charities of Central Florida. Three seminarians arrived to serve in various ministries June 1, 2025.…

St. Anthony of Padua honored through bread blessing
Jun 18, 2025 ORLANDO | To honor the feast day of St. Anthony of Padua, Mari Da Gama, her daughter, Melissa, and son-in-law, Hans Michel, brought two baskets of bread to be blessed and shared with the people at St. James Cathedral, June 13. “This is a tradition we always practiced in Miami,” explained Melissa. The family moved…

Sacred Presence: Diocese offers a new course in Spiritual Direction
Jun 18, 2025 Editor’s note: The following is part one of a two-part series WINTER PARK | Sacred Presence is a new 10-month spiritual direction certification course offered at San Pedro Spiritual Development Center in Winter Park. The first class graduates in July. The new program, a partnership between the Diocese of Orlando and Mayslake Ministries in Chicago,…