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Getting an inside look from a peer mentor of Bishop O’Connell High School's expanded services program in Arlington.
St. Paul VI Options Programs students played in a special inter-squad basketball scrimmage in Fairfax Feb. 7.
The Bishop O'Connell High School Knights and St. Paul VI Catholic High School Panthers played a close basketball game in Fairfax Feb. 7. The Panthers won 73-64.
A Mass and Anointing of the Sick will be celebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge March 23 at St. Ambrose Church, 3901 Woodburn Rd., Annandale, at 11a.m. The Order of Malta Federal Association USA Northern Virginia Region will host the Mass.
With the hope that it may further the healing process for victims and survivors of clergy sexual abuse, Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of the Diocese of Arlington, has directed that a list of priests who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse of minors be released to the faithful of the Diocese.
Pope Francis has signed a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed John Henry Newman, the English cardinal, clearing the way for his canonization.
Young people from 155 countries had a long journey to prepare for this global event of the church. Many were young adults committed to ministry who, inspired by other pilgrims, renewed their zeal for sharing God's love and mercy.
How can we not be anxious in these times? How can we face and find our way through the darkness around us? In past weeks our state’s General Assembly has considered legislation that would have undone vital protections for the unborn, repealed health and safety standards for pregnant women and their children, restricted the exercise of religious liberty in offering health coverage, and legalized physician-assisted suicide. And in these final weeks of the session, important decisions remain about abortion funding in the state budget, the death penalty, family life education, and whether to expand our state’s surrogacy law
The Guadalupe Free Clinic of Colonial Beach recently received a grant from the Joe and Mary Wilson Community Benefit Fund of Mary Washington Hospital Foundation. The grant will be used to defray operating costs and purchase medications and medical supplies for clinic patients this year. Mary Washington Hospital has supported the free clinic since its establishment in 2005.
Is Jesus speaking to me?
Just before this passage in the Gospel of St. Luke, we find Jesus calling his disciples to himself, then, from among them, calling the Twelve Apostles. We pick up the story this Sunday when those disciples and apostles arrive with Jesus “on a stretch of level ground” where “… a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon ...” have come to meet Jesus. To complete the context of the passage we hear this Sunday it is helpful to notice two verses which are left out. Those verses say that the great crowd “… came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and even those who were tormented by unclean spirits were cured. Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all.”