The Gabriel Project has a new video explaining what they do and who they help. Their amazing video explains how we can respond to help women and children. It comes as the agency is seeking to rehab an old home to further serve its clients. We also have our own Gabriel Project ministry for the Catholic Churches of Jennings County. … Read More

The Missy’s Hope Banquet was a night that brought tears falling, but spirits soaring as women told their stories of placing their children for adoption. The testimonies were part of the 2022 fund-raising dinner at St. Mary’s Parish Center for Missy’s Hope, a maternity home in Jennings County. The home is a community faith-based effort. The evening raised almost $10,000 … Read More

St. Philip Neri is quite the saint and while in Rome, Fr. Jerry Byrd got to visit and celebrate Mass at some of the most important places in Neri’s life! Fr. Byrd went to Italy — mostly Rome — for the Third International Convocation of the Confraternities of Catholic Clergy (US, Australia, Great Britain). Here he learned more deeply about … Read More

Today is a day of recommended fasting and abstinence for the end of abortion in the United States and all over the world. January 22 is the anniversary of the 1973 Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States. The General Instruction of the Roman Missal designates this anniversary as a particular day of prayer … Read More

Celebrate Candlemas with us on February 2 at the 9:30 a.m. Mass at St. Mary. What is Candlemas? Celebrated on February 2, Candlemas is a significant day in the liturgical calendar for Catholics. Also known as the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Presentation of Jesus Christ in the Temple. On this day, the church is filled with … Read More

Please Read This Note from Fr. Byrd today! Today, I had the privilege to offer Holy Mass at the Church of  San Girolamo (St. Jerome) near the Campo de Fiori in Rome. This is the church that St. Philip Neri came to after his priestly ordination and where the Oratory of St. Philip began. He lived here for 33 years … Read More

January is giving us some strong prayer partners with Fr. Byrd’s trip to Rome to pray as various tombs of the saints, seminarian prayers, hope in action in California and the start of our Jubilee Year! You can download the full CCJC Memo PDF Here. There’s four pages this time! Or click the images and links below! Here are the … Read More

For those who don’t know Fr. Jerry Byrd has a deep devotion to St. Philip Neri — the saint of joy! While in Rome at his conference on the Mission of the Priest Fr. Byrd was able to visit the church where St. Philip Neri lived and pray at this saint’s tomb! Fr. Byrd also got to catch up with … Read More

We are never going to quite have a year like 2025 with the Jubilee Year of Hope. Every 25 years a Jubilee Year is proclaimed for the Catholic Church throughout the world. Jubilee years forgive all sins and the remission of all temporal punishments of those sins. This year is a time to focus on our conversion from sin into … Read More