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God created men to be the leaders of the faith in their family and in the community. We are encouraging all men to answer this call. One way is to demonstrate your faith to your family by attending communal prayers such as our Men's Rosary. Bring a brother, uncle, father, son, cousin, co-worker, or friend to join us as we gather as men of faith, Friday May 1st in the Church.

Women are invited to pray in the hall at the same time as the men. Refreshments will be provided following the Rosary.

11th English Young Adults Arcoiris Encounter Application 11th English Young Adults Arcoiris Encounter July 09th - July 12th, 2026 @ St. Francis of Assisi - Yuma, Arizona

Holy Week Hours:
We are open Monday-Thursday 10am-6pm and closed on Good Friday, April 3rd. We will resume regular business hours on Saturday, April 4th.

For those who have been waiting, we received our shipment of 1st Communion dresses for this season and have them all out displayed now. Thank you for your patience!

Para los que estan interesados, estan pasando la pelicula Bendito Corazon aqui en Yuma esta semana en Main Street Cinemas. Esta tarde va salir a las 5:10pm y 7:20pm. La película está en español con subtítulos en inglés.

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Here is our schedule for the last week of 2025:
Monday (12/29) Closed
Tuesday (12/30) 10am-6pm
Wednesday (12/31) 10am-4pm
Thursday (1/1) Closed
Friday (1/2) 10am-6pm
Saturday (1/3) 10am-5pm
Sunday (1/4) Closed

Our Christmas Week schedule will be as follows:
Monday & Tuesday (12/22-23) 10am-6pm
Wednesday (12/24) 10am-2pm
Thursday (12/25) Closed
Friday (12/26) 10am-6pm
Saturday (12/27) 10am-5pm
Sunday (12/28) Closed

Are We No Longer Able To Call Mary Co-Redemptrix or Co-Mediatrix? Fr. Chris Alar addresses the recent doctrinal note Mater Populi Fidelis (“Mother of the Faithful of God”) released by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the F...

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Join us in thanking Fr. Tamen at St John Neumann Parish Yuma, Arizona for his service to the Church. Fr. Tamen is one of two Via Christi priests who will be leaving the diocese to return to Nigeria. You can read all about it in today's New Outlook https://news.diocesetucson.org/news/returning-to-nigeria-two-priests-leaving-the-diocese

The month of November is dedicated to the Holy Souls in Purgatory!

In purgatory, God puts men and women face to face with their sins. There, they fully understand how they acted against God, and they cannot grasp for any distraction or rationalization in facing even the smallest things that still separate them from God.

Dante expresses the healing of purgatory beautifully at the end of the “Purgatorio”—the second part of his Divine Comedy. There, Beatrice chastises Dante for abandoning the love he had for her and God and for choosing to obsess over futile things instead.

Faced with the shame and gravity of his sins, he weeps and then gets plunged into the waters of the Lethe. The Lethe, according to Greek mythology, makes one forget the whole of life. Dante, however, adapts this river to suit his higher vision.

His Lethe makes one forget his sins and the warped mentality they gave him in life; it restores lost innocence and heals interior wounds. It makes a person like a little child, ready to enter the kingdom of heaven.

That purgatory purifies, heals, and brings souls to holiness is a great mercy and a source of hope.

Even men and women who have struggled with sin all their lives, but not yet reached “sainthood” in this life, can be made perfect after death and thereafter dwell with God.

Let us thank God for the gift of purgatory and pray for those who dwell there, that God’s work in them may be complete.
—Fr. Cyril Stola, O.P.