Gulf Pine Catholic • March 13, 2026 15 Want to know more about Jesus? Come with childlike faith BAY ST. LOUIS -- The Holy Infant of Good Health Biloxi Diocesan Shrine invites the community to a special morning of faith and fellowship centered on the Holy Infant of Good Health Devotion. On Saturday, March 21, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, the Missionaries of the Holy Infant Jesus of Good Health Sisters will present the spirituality and history of the devotion at St. Ann Church, 5858 Lower Bay Road, Bay St. Louis. Attendees will learn about the origins of the devotion, its spiritual significance, and the presence of the Holy Infant’s Sanctuary. The Biloxi Diocesan Shrine is the only diocesan shrine in the United States honoring the Holy Infant of Good Health, making this a unique opportunity for Catholics and all people of faith to deepen their relationship with Jesus through childlike trust and devotion. For more information about the March 21 presentation, please contact: Yvonne Garcia at (228) 332-3622. Pictured left: Bishop Louis F. Kihneman III is pictured with the Holy Infant of Good Health statue at St. Ann Catholic Church in Clermont Harbor. Photo/Juliana Skelton Holy Infant of Good Health Feast Day Celebration The faithful are also warmly invited to attend the annual Feast Day Celebration on: Sunday, April 26 Mass at 2 p.m. Celebrant: Bishop Louis Kihneman III Schedule of Events: • 12:45 p.m. -- Rosary, music, and testimony • 1:45 p.m. -- Procession • 2 p.m. -- Mass All are encouraged to join in prayer as we honor the Holy Infant of Good Health. Triduum Celebration In preparation for the Feast Day, a Triduum will be held April 22–24, each evening: • 6 p.m. -- Adoration • 6:30 p.m. -- Rosary • 7 p.m. -- Mass Come and experience the joy, peace, and spiritual renewal found in devotion to the Holy Infant of Good Health. All are welcome. Archbishop Rodi From page 14 And Christians, he emphasized, never suffer alone. Recalling the conversion of Paul the Apostle on the road to Damascus, he noted that the risen Jesus asked, “Why do you persecute me?” -- not “my followers.” Whatever is done to Christ’s people is done to Him. “He is with us in everything,” the archbishop-emeritus said. That conviction helps explain a distinctly Catholic symbol, he added. While some Christians display an empty cross, Catholics often pray before a crucifix bearing the body of Christ. The empty cross rightly proclaims the Resurrection. The crucifix, however, emphasizes that Jesus remains present in human suffering. “Yes, He is risen. We believe that,” he said. “But He is also present with us in our crosses.” In a particular way, that presence is encountered in the Eucharist. When John the Baptist identifies Jesus as the Lamb of God, the title recalls the Passover lamb sacrificed before the Israelites’ deliverance from Egypt. Marking their doorposts with its blood spared them from death and led to freedom. Christ, Archbishop Rodi said, is the true Passover Lamb — whose sacrifice frees humanity not from political oppression, but from sin and death. Each time Catholics hear at Mass, “Behold the Lamb of God,” they are reminded that the One who suffered, died and rose is still with them. As Lent unfolds, he urged the faithful to reflect honestly on their own crosses and to entrust them to God. The season is not about morbid introspection, but about renewal — about blooming spiritually in the springtime of grace. “We may not understand,” he said. “We may cry out, ‘Why?’ But like Job, like Margaret, like Jesus Himself, may we say, ‘Into Your hands I commend my spirit.’” And in that surrender, he concluded, believers discover a consoling truth: even in suffering, they are never alone.
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