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Santa Fe Family Life Center is seeking an operations manager. Major duties and responsibilities include management, member relations, financial, operations and human resources. Bachelor’s degree in kinesiology, business administration or related field. Send cover letter and resume to james.timberlake@sfflc.com.

Cristo Rey Oklahoma City Catholic High School is seeking substitute teachers for the current academic year. Substitute teachers are responsible for learning continuity, maintaining classroom management and delivering behavior strategies for the safety and welfare of all scholars. They provide students with specified learning activities and experiences in the core academic subject area assigned to help them fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical and social growth. Cristo Rey OKC educates young people of limited economic means to become men and women of knowledge, faith, purpose and service. The rigorous college preparatory curriculum, combined with the unique corporate work-study program where all students work five days per month, prepares students to succeed in college and beyond. Candidates may apply at www.cristoreyokc.org/careers.

Cristo Rey Oklahoma City Catholic High School is seeking a school nurse for the current academic year. The position’s responsibilities include developing protocols for acute, chronic and emergency health problems, conducting medical screenings, managing policies and protocols for administering drugs to students, and tracking student immunization records. The school nurse leads all health trainings and initiatives for Cristo Rey OKC including providing relevant guidance and counseling to assist students and parents with student health maintenance, assisting the athletic director and HR department with student and staff injury reports, and assisting counseling with planning and implementing parent works. Applicants must be an RN or LVN, be bilingual (English and Spanish), have up-to-date CPR and AED certification, and maintained state certification for vision, hearing and spinal screening. Candidates may apply at www.cristoreyokc.org/careers.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis announced he will create 13 new cardinals Nov. 28, including Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Washington.

The author of the Letter to the Hebrews wrote, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race that lies before us while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter of faith” (12:1-2).

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The feast of All Souls’ Day, when Catholics remember and pray for the dead, has weighted significance this year when so many have died of COVID-19 and the pandemic’s restrictions have prevented usual funeral services and final goodbyes in person.

Gospel of Life Disciples will have a Lunch & Learn session by Suzanne Clem, RN at 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Oct. 28 at the Bl. Stanley Rother Barn, 4113 S. Eastern Ave., in Moore. Bag lunch provided. Contact Sr. Maria of the Trinity, (405) 778-1107.

Gospel of Life Disciples will have a Tree of Life Celebration at 3 p.m. Nov. 1 at the St. John Paul II Dwelling, 4113 S. Eastern Ave., in Moore to honor those God has called home during the past year.

"¿Hay alguien entre ustedes que se encuentra enfermo? Dejen que envien por los sacerdotes de la Iglesia y que los sacerdotes oren por ellos, untándolos con aceite en el nombre del Señor."

“Are there any who are sick among you? Let them send for the priests of the Church, and let the priests pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.”

A medida que la Confirmación se traslada a la escuela secundaria, alentamos a los padres a practicar la fe familiar

Nuestra primer y más importante identidad es que somos hijos e hijas de Dios. Todo lo que somos, todo lo que tenemos, es todo un don de Dios para nosotros como sus hijos. Nos ha creado a su imagen y semejanza, lo cual significa no solo que nos parecemos y tenemos su dignidad, sino que somos, en verdad, sus hijos.

Vocations office serving young people, discerners during modern challenges

After months of prayer and input from clergy, parish staff and parents with the goal of boosting involvement in youth ministry and better serving families, Archbishop Coakley announced on Sept. 29 a change in placement for the Sacrament of Confirmation in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. Preparation for Confirmation will be completed in one year instead of two and will be held in the sixth grade or seventh grade instead of during high school.

Deacon Clyde Grover, a beloved father, husband, friend, teacher and deacon, died Oct. 14 in Midwest City from complications with COVID-19. He was 62.

ADA – The Saint Joseph Catholic Church Smorgasbord always has been a huge undertaking, but this year, because of COVID-19, it faced cancellation. Saint Joseph’s Smorgasbord Committee met every two weeks to create a plan that ensures everyone is safe and healthy, and to make certain that the church will be able to provide nearly 1,000 meals to the Ada community.

For more than four decades, Virginia Hubble has taken part in thousands of the most intimate moments of family life. As a labor and delivery nurse at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, she has guided families through the best of times and some of the worse times of their lives.

Monsignor Everard van der Grinten witnessed nearly a half century of growth of the Church in Oklahoma after arriving from Holland in 1910. He was a key player in that growth as he worked throughout Oklahoma, ending his career in Langley, Okla.

This is part of a series to introduce the seminarians of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.

Our first and most important identity is we are sons and daughters of God. All that we are – all that we have – is all a gift from God to us as his children. He has created us in his image and likeness, which means not only that we look alike and have his dignity, but that we are, indeed, his children.