“The rule to follow in all cases,” the reflection says of family ministry, “is the love and mercy of the Lord.”

The Memorial will celebrated on the Monday after Pentecost in churches throughout the world.

The pope left chocolate eggs as gifts during his surprise visit to Casa di Leda, a group home for incarcerated women with small children.

Some dicasteries once led by cardinals are now led by bishops and priests and, thus, pave the way for more participation by laypeople, especially women, in church decisions, said Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa.

Father Grande was known as a champion of the poor and the oppressed at a time when El Salvador was on the threshold of a civil war, a war that eventually killed over 70,000 people.

Even when we are unaware of the acts of God, He continues to operate in our lives with the ineffable, inscrutable power of his love.