St. Callistus Catholic Church

White smoke! The 133 Cardinal electors gathered in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel have elected the new Pope. He will appear soon at the central window of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Black smoke emerged from the chimney over the Sistine Chapel at 21:00 on Wednesday evening, signalling that a first ballot has been held at the conclave and has concluded without the election of a Pope. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2025-05/black-smoke-end-first-day-conclave-no-pope.html

Few artists who focus on Catholic music find themselves nominated for Grammy awards. Fewer within that group write songs that you regularly find in your hymnal or missal. Even fewer in that group share those songs in person at your church.

Former Grammy nominee Sarah Hart regularly offers that for audiences in the pews, as she has done for years sharing songs for the Holy Father and for tens of thousands inside stadiums hosting Catholic conferences.

“Expect joy. They should expect to leave feeling more joyful than they came,” Hart says to those who will hear her voice, guitar and piano alongside fellow Catholic singer-songwriters Steve Angrisano and Jesse Manibusan for St. John the Baptist Church's “Story and Song” concert on Friday, May 16 at 7 p.m. inside the parish gym in El Cerrito.

Read the full story and learn how to purchase tickets for this event at https://oakdiocese.org/news/grammy-nominee-hart-to-co-lead-catholic-singer-songwriter-night-in-el-cerrito

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Sarah Hart Steve Angrisano

Today's Daily Jolt comes from Damian Lillard.