Rome, Italy, Sep 7, 2010 / 06:07 pm (CNA).- Participants of the laity congress taking place in Seoul, South Korea, this week sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI offering their commitment as a "small flock" in a vast continent of millions to "proclaim Christ in Asia today."

Los Angeles, Calif., Sep 7, 2010 / 03:01 pm (CNA).- In his Labor Day homily at Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral on Monday, Los Angeles Coadjutor Archbishop Jose Gomez spoke of the "gift of labor" as a participation in the "work of God." He urged all of the faithful to work for a world in which the Christian vision of humanity prevails, and "in which our talents are employed to serve our brothers and sisters for the love of God."

Blessed Ralph Corby was born to a devout Irish Catholic family in Maynooth, Ireland, on March 25, 1598. All of Blessed Ralph's family took religious vows, including his parents who decided to do so after their children had all joined various orders. Ralph's father became a Jesuit lay brother and his mother a Benedictine nun.Ralph joined the Jesuits, along with his two brothers and volunteered for the perilous mission to minister in England at a time when it was illegal to be a Catholic priest.He ministered covertly in the north of England, near Durham, for 12 years before he was discovered and subsequently sentenced to death.Blessed Ralph was hanged, drawn, and quartered on September 7, 1644 at Tyburn, England.  He was beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1929.

1 How is it that anyone of you, having a dispute against another, would dare to be judged before the iniquitous, and not before the saints? 2 Or do you not know that the saints from this age shall judge it? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy, then, to judge even the smallest matters? {6:3} Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more the things of this age? 4 Therefore, if you have matters to judge concerning this age, why not appoint those who are most contemptible in the Church to judge these things! 5 But I am speaking so as to shame you. Is there no one among you wise enough, so that he might be able to judge between his brothers? 6 Instead, brother contends against brother in court, and this before the unfaithful! 7 Now there is certainly an offense among you, beyond everything else, when you have court cases against one another. Should you not accept injury instead? Should you not endure being cheated instead? 8 But you are doing the injuring and the cheating, and this toward brothers! 9 Do you not know that the iniquitous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not choose to wander astray. For neither fornicators, nor servants of idolatry, nor adulterers, 10 nor the effeminate, nor males who sleep with males, nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor the inebriated, nor slanderers, nor the rapacious shall possess the kingdom of God. 11 And some of you were like this. But you have been absolved, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified: all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.