The latest edition of our award-winning Faith West Tennessee Magazine, September issue, is in our homes, churches, schools, and businesses. It is another outstanding issue that shares informative and interesting articles about our faith, prayers, celebrations, parishioners and much more across our Diocese—and it includes incredible photos. This latest edition features Deacon Jeff Drzycimski and …
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More than 20,000 Served: Highlighting the Effort and Dedication of the Members of the St. Alphonsus Food Pantry
More than 20,000 served! If you are ever feeling disenchanted with your Tuesday mornings and need to be reminded of the Holy Spirit at work, look no further than the Food Pantry on Tuesdays at our beautiful St. Alphonsus Catholic Church. Located in our Northern Deanery, St. Alphonsus, serving as Tipton County’s only Catholic Church, …
Check out our Diocese’s Event Calendar!
On our newly designed homepage, we have added an Events Calendar to the top menu: Events – Catholic Diocese of Memphis (cdom.org). If you would like to request an event to be publicized, email officeof.communications@cc.cdom.org.
St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen in Downtown Memphis Needs Your Help
St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen–the longest, continuously running soup kitchen since 1870–serves our community’s poor, homeless, and less fortunate six days a week. Each person is given a sandwich, cup of soup, snack, dessert, and drink. The Soup Kitchen needs the following items: vegetables (onions, cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes, beans, etc.), stew meat, chips/pretzels, cookies/brownies, coffee, sugar, …
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School Teaching Mass for the Parish Year of the National Eucharistic Revival
As the Parish Year of the National Eucharistic Revival (June ‘23-July ‘24) continues across our 47 churches, Fr. Jolly Sebastian, MCBS, Pastor, at our beautiful Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, 8151 Poplar Ave., celebrating teaching Holy Masses for OLPH students this year beginning with the school’s 8th graders. Our churches are focused on …
Update on the Synod Process
The Synod on Synodality is a three phase process. Last summer, July 2022, our Diocese’s Synod Report was submitted to U.S. Bishops based on input from our churches, schools, and groups, which completed Phase One. Then, this Spring, April 2023, the North American Synod Report was submitted to the Vatican, which completed Phase Two. Please …
Christian Brothers University Ranked in the top three for Best Value among the Top Tier Southern Universities
At Christian Brothers University, 650 E Pkwy S, Memphis, they strive to provide high-quality education with a strong Catholic Faith for an affordable price—and recently the prestigious US News & World Report agrees. The magazine ranked CBU in the top three for Best Value among the Top Tier of Southern Universities and CBU scored extremely …
Memphis Catholic Preschools featured in Memphis Parent Magazine
Memphis Parent featured in ad in its September issue highlighting our preschools. To view the ad, click here. Call one of our schools today to schedule a tour.
September is Hispanic Heritage Month
Starting Sept. 15, through Oct. 15, our Diocese is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month to recognize and celebrate the many contributions, diverse cultures and extensive histories of the American Latino community across our parishes, missions and schools. Also, there are 22 Spanish-speaking countries in the world and Spanish is the second most-spoken language in the world …
Register today for Miracle of the Eucharist: A pilgrimage to Italy with John Edwards and Fr. Joe Sax in 2024!
All are welcome to register for a Eucharistic Pilgrimage to Italy with Father Joe Sax and Pew Ministries Founder John Edwards for 12 days from June 3-14, 2024. Registration opened last week and is filling up fast. Many from Memphis and around the world will be joining the two spiritual leaders on an amazing journey. …
