ArchdioceseOfDubuque

It is with great pride that we congratulate our 2025 high school graduates. This is a culmination of up to 15 years of faith-filled, rigorous education. Graduates, we ask God to guide you on your faith journey and look forward to seeing you serve God’s people in the years ahead.

On Pentecost morning, the Holy Spirit descended on Mary and the apostles like a roaring wind and tongues of fire. They walked out of the Upper Room and preached and three thousand were baptized that day. The Church was born.

This May, we give thanks for four archdiocesan priests celebrating milestone jubilee anniversaries of priestly ordination. Their faithful service, leadership, and dedication to God’s people continue to be a blessing to our archdiocese. Join us in keeping them in prayer!

St. Rita of Cascia is called the "Saint of the Impossible" because her life looked impossible and she met it with prayer instead of bitterness. St. Rita, pray for us.

On Saturday, May 16, Archbishop Zinkula commissioned 26 new spiritual directors who completed the 2-year Institute of the Transfiguration formation program. Learn more about this program and the next cohort starting this Fall at dbqarch.org/spiritual-dire….

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The next time anxiety closes around your chest, try Bernardine's remedy: simply whisper the name. Jesus.

The Church has never been promised an easy road. Only a sure one.

The Ascension is not Christ's departure from us. It is his expansion into us. He is no longer bound by a single body in a single place. Through the Spirit who comes at Pentecost, he is now present in every tabernacle, in every prayer, in every act of love performed in his name.

So many of us carry burdens we have never actually placed before God in prayer. We assume He is too busy. We assume our concerns are too small, or too embarrassing, or too tangled to bring to Him. What is the one thing you have been carrying alone this week? Ask. Today.

In a culture that treats labor as a means to an end, Isidore reminds us that ordinary work, done with love, is itself a path to holiness. The plow can be an altar. ⁣ St. Isidore the Farmer, pray for all who work the land and for all who eat the food they grow.

St. Matthias was chosen by lot to replace Judas. Not by vote. Not by resume. By trust in the Holy Spirit. The early Church prayed together and then cast lots and God guided the outcome. Do you trust God in YOUR decisions?

Thank you for including Journey in Faith in your prayers on the second Wednesday of each month throughout 2026. Consider praying a Lectio Divina today: bit.ly/JIF-Lectio-Div…

On May 13, 1917, three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, saw Our Lady for the first time. Her message: Pray the Rosary. Do penance. Consecrate your heart to her Immaculate Heart. 109 years ago... and the message hasn't changed. Are you listening?

The Rosary is one of the most powerful prayers in the Church's treasury. May is the perfect month to start or restart the daily Rosary. Even one decade a day is a start!

Having a set day of communal prayer will strengthen our bonds as an Archdiocesan community. Lifting up our souls, hearts and minds simultaneously surely will rise as a pleasing offering before God.⁣ On Wednesday, we will share a communal prayer to offer up for Journey in Faith.

Happy Mother's Day! This Sunday's Gospel: 'I will not leave you orphans.' John 14:18. Jesus promises never to abandon us. Just as a good mother never abandons her child... Christ never leaves us.

For every mother who has lost a child. For every mother fighting illness. For every mother who is tired or grieving. Mary stood at the foot of the Cross. She knows suffering too. She is with you.

This Mother's Day, we think about a Mother who said YES when it would cost her everything. Her 'yes' at the Annunciation changed all of history. To every mother who has said yes to life, to love, to sacrifice... we see you.

The National Day of Prayer is observed on the first Thursday of May each year.