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Have you ever wondered what Catholics truly believe?  Has God been calling you to seek Him in the 2000 year Old Catholic Church? Have you ever witnessed the Miracle of the Catholic Mass?

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Statement of Beliefs

The following is from "The Catholic Mass...Revealed!"   The Catholic Mass is the most sacred act of worship a person can participate in upon earth. At the Last Supper, Jesus Christ, sat down with his chosen Apostles for what He knew would be their last meal together. At that supper, Jesus does something new, something never done before, and yet something which continues until the end of time. Knowing more about the Mass, (all of chapter 6 in John's gospel) we can be closer to Christ and to the miracle He left us on that Holy Thursday night. (1 Cor 11:23-26) “The Catholic Mass…Revealed!”  is designed to help all people, whether Catholic or not, to better understand the miracle of the Mass. We can come to appreciate its beauty, its rhythm, even why many in history have faced death rather than be deprived of the opportunity to participate in the Mass. Our prayer is that you come to know and love the Mass as making present again the one sacrifice of Christ’s love for us, (1 Peter 3:18) and a continuation of His Last Supper with his apostles. You too can come to know and love Jesus Christ who both commands and invites us to encounter Him in this very special way. About the Publisher: Thy Kingdom Come, Inc. www.tkc.net Today’s Scripture & Meditation...Read Why do Catholic Make the sign of the cross?...Read "by making use of bodily signs of humility, our desire to submit ourselves to God is aroused."  The Mass "For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes." -- 1 Cor 11:26 ...Read Total Trust "Striving for ‘perfection’ is the most disastrous of the mistakes good people fall into. It feeds the very vice it intends to destroy."....Read Artist Transformed    Cache Valley artist brings her own suffering to crucifix creation...Read ________________________________________________________ O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam,   .....which gained for us so great a Redeemer! The power of this holy night dispels all evil, washes guilt away, restores lost innocence, brings mourners joy. Night truly blessed when heaven is wedded to earth and man is reconciled with God.  ~liturgy of Holy Saturday Somehow, original sin, that inner anguish and brokeness that is even beyond our own doing, can become the place where we come in touch with our original blessing. Somehow our broken father, our limited mother, our neurotic brother, our confused sister and our own inner struggle push us and create in us a hunger to go beyond the pain. "My soul is restless," as St. Augustine says, "until it rests in you, O Lord." When we begin to know intimacy with God and to accept others and ourselves as we are, we then begin to speak about "happy guilt" or "happy brokenness." Our inner struggle is no longer such a burden, but a way to the truth, to the light, to the life. How could we ever become children of God, embraced by the love of the Father, the Son and the Spirit, and be let into the intimacy of the triune life if God hadn't shown compassion with us, as we are? Through Jesus' incarnation we come to know about the inner life of God. It is in our fragile and mortal flesh that God's original blessing is revealed to us.       –Fr. Henri J.M. Nouwen Again welcome to this mission. You may be attending or thinking about attending a Catholic Mass, or maybe you have considered attending the Catholic RCIA program or this may be your first experience with the Catholic Church, or maybe you have had previous contact with members of the Catholic faith. In any case, you have probably come to this site with some questions about the Catholic Church, its beliefs and the Catholic RCIA. God always speaks the truth to us. Jesus described himself as "the way, the truth and the life" (John 14: 6-11).  God encourages us to live in His truth through Jesus Christ, within the Trinity. Faith cannot be built upon a false pretense. Faith-seeking is one of the oldest preoccupations of the human mind. We seek to understand as best we can God our Creator and His love for each one of us. At one time or another we all may feel alone. Some of us have been rejected; some of us have rejected another. Some have come against great trials and given up on life altogether. It is our hope that we can share the Love of Christ with you, because He can help our lives become happier and more meaningful. The peace that Christ can bring when we come to Him for strength in our suffering and our joy can replace every pill ever made, every drink ever drank and every new age psychiatrist that ever lived. Jesus did not come to condemn you or me; Jesus came as a physician to heal us, to save us.  As we all say together at Mass “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the Word and I shall be healed. All sinners are welcome in God's Church. To know God's love through Jesus is the ability to give Gods love to others. To help others find a special place in this life where one can go to receive unconditional love that only God, through Jesus can give. To find peace, true happiness in good times as well as in bad times.  "We are all in need of our Savior" The Parable of the Prodigal Son in the Gospel of Luke is familiar to all of us, as we are all in need of our savior. The Prodigal son has the nerve to ask for his inheritance even before his father has died. Then without thought or good conscience he goes out and spends every lastpenny on those things that only the world could offer.   Not until he is confronted with hopeless failure and a deep despair, does he yearn to return home, to his fathers embrace.  Repentant and willing to do anything possible to win back his father's love he begins his journey back home. . . as he approaches his home to his surprise his father comes running towards him with open arms. He embraces his son, glad that his son has returned home to him, and giving no mind to what he has done or what he has failed to do. Its a breathtaking story of God's mercy for all of us, God's patient grace, and His willingness to welcome each of us home into His loving and forgiving arms forever. "For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.

Church History

History of St. Thomas Aquinas The history of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish is a "living history." Although Catholics were present in Cache Valley as early as 1872, the first Mass in Logan was celebrated on September 19, 1918, by Fr. Thomas N. Station It wasn't until 1941 that Catholics in Cache Valley had a permanent home. On December 8, 1941 (the day after Pearl Harbor), Fr. Joseph Valine and Fr. Colin McEachen arrived to celebrate Mass in the nearly completed church at 45 East 500 North (now the dining room of the the Alta Manor Suites Bed and Breakfast). Both were Dominicans. Fr. Valine from the Azores and Fr. McEachen from Newfoundland. The first regular Sunday Mass was celebrated a week later on December 14th but the new St. Thomas Aquinas church wasn't dedicated until May 17, 1942 with a solemn high Mass celebrated by Bishop Hunt. The new church was made possible by a generous grant from the Catholic Church Extension Society. At the time it served an area nearly the size of Massachusetts. Five years later, in 1947, the parish keys were handed over to Fr. Jerome Stoffel. An avid Utah historian, Fr. Stoffel was aided briefly by a refugee priest from Czechoslovakia. Beloved by members of the parish Fr. Stoffel shepherded the parish until 1977—thirty years of devoted service to the Catholic Community. By 1955, the original church at 45 East 500 North was overcrowded and the parish needed a new home. Fr. Stoffel guided the transition. In 1957, the diocese purchased the Sigma Nu fraternity house at 795 North 800 East, formerly a private residence built in 1928 and known as "Windsor Castle." In September Bishop Hunt dedicated it as the site for a Newman Center and new chapel. The cornerstone of the new St. Jerome's Chapel was laid in March, 1960, by Bishop Federal. The first Mass was celebrated on St. Jerome's Feast day on September 30th. In 1958, to the joy of the parish, Fr. Stoffel became Monsignor Stoffel. Four years later, the dioceses closed the church which had been built in 1941. Today, both members of St. Thomas Aquinas parish and students from the attached Newman Center celebrate Mass in St. Jerome's Chapel.