Our PREPARES (pregnancy and parenting) ministry set up a changing table in the entrance of the church to begin our “Pack the Crib” drive to help struggling parents. PREPARES is a new ministry in the parish, developed and encouraged by the Washington State Bishops. Click here for a list of suggested items.

(CNS photo/Paul Haring)
       
Pope Francis is often called a “man of Vatican II.” In his newly-released Gaudete et Exsultate, he offers a powerful magisterial reflection on the Council’s “universal call to holiness”:

“Rejoice and be glad” (Mt 5:12), Jesus tells those persecuted or humiliated for his sake. The Lord asks everything of us, and in return he offers us true life, the happiness for which we were created. He wants us to be saints and not to settle for a bland and mediocre existence. (§1)

Gaudete et Exsultate (GE) is an apostolic exhortation, a type of document that ranks below an encyclical but above everyday papal homilies and speeches. It is the third one issued by Francis, after Evangelii Gaudium and Amoris Laetitia. 
From Gaudete et Exsultate: An Overview by Bill McCormick, SJ, of The Jesuit Post
https://thejesuitpost.org/2018/04/gaudete-et-exsultate-an-overview/