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A prayer vigil is planned for Thursday, November 18, at 3 pm, outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester for Julies Jones, who is scheduled to be executed at 4 pm. Prayers will be offered for Paul Howell, whom Jones was convicted of murdering in 1999, as well as for Jones and the corrections officers taking part in the execution. The vigil will conclude when word is received that the sentence has been carried out.

The Catholic Dioceses in Oklahoma - the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa--have launched a new project to study the history and experiences of Catholic Indian boarding schools in Oklahoma.

The Catholic faith exists not so much to teach us extraordinary or unusual things but rather to instruct us how to sanctify ordinary things. A Catholic life well lived will embrace the whole of life, from our most profound thinking to the simplest acts of eating, loving, working, and celebrating.

The Diocesan Women's Bible Study group invites all women of the Diocese to join them in the study of the Book of Revelation followed by the study of The Passion and Resurrection narratives of Jesus Christ.

Bishop David Konderla shares his thoughts on faith and reason, or Fides et Ratio. These truths are best known by the union of telescopes, microscopes and particle colliders with scripture, prayer and preaching. We need both of our wings to rise to contemplate the beauty of God and better understand the fullness of the truths of this universe and our human existence.

National Vocation Awareness Week will be celebrated in our country November 7-13, 2021. Please ask Our Lord for more dedicated, holy priests, deacons, and consecrated men and women. May they be inspired by Jesus Christ, supported by our faith community, and respond generously to God's gift of vocation.

The 44th annual Christmas Bazaar will be held at St. Henry Catholic Church in Owasso on November 20, 2021 from 9 am to 5 pm.