Cardinal DiNardo will preside at a Mass on Wed., Nov. 19 at 6:30 pm at St. Theresa Catholic Church, 6622 Haskell Street, Houston, 77007.

There will be a reception immediately following Mass.

This Mass will commemorate the 30 year anniversary of the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Pastoral Statement on People with Disabilities. In this Church document the bishops called upon each of us to see the face of Christ in persons who have disabilities and described how we can and should include people with disabilities into the full life of the Church.

This is something the deceased ordinary of New York, Cardinal John O’ Connor, held very dear to his heart: the disabled. He would often say Mass for the mentally and physically handicapped. The more we celebrate people with special needs, the greater our capacity for compassion becomes. Life is always precious. The vulnerable show us the face of Christ, who, as last Sunday’s Mass readings proclaim, emptied himself and took our humble human form, accepting even death, death on a cross.

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