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By Christine Stoddard
Step into St. John the Beloved Church’s thrift shop in McLean and you are as likely to find a gently used designer dress as you are a retiree committed to keeping the place going. Out of the shop’s approximately 45 regular volunteers, Manager Sue Clemente, a retired flight attendant and supervisor, said “only four or […]
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By Christine Stoddard
“As Catholic women – single, married, widowed and consecrated, mothers both spiritual and natural – you all know the meaning of suffering,” said Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde during the Mass at the diocesan Women’s Conference March 28. “We have all been saddened by loss, and we have all been hurt by sin. We recognize […]
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Joe Sebastian has been named the new head football coach at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, according to an announcement by the school. Sebastian has taught at PVI for 14 years and was the head coach on the junior varsity and freshman level the past two seasons. He has coached high school and […]
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will welcome Pope Francis to the White House Sept. 23. “During the visit, the president and the pope will continue the dialogue, which they began during the president’s visit to the Vatican in March 2014, on their shared values and commitments on a wide range […]
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By Katie Scott
When he was about 13 years old, Father Joseph D. Bergida, now parochial vicar of St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Clifton, took an oil-painting class with his brother and sister. While most students painted canvas, the siblings asked the instructor if they could paint statues instead. Father Bergida’s sister painted a figurine of Mary […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
Palm Sunday is on the horizon, and with it come hundreds of fresh palm fronds just waiting to be transformed into crosses and roses. You can brush up on your palm-weaving skills by viewing the video below. When you are done you can create a variety of arrangements to decorate your house or place them […]
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By Soren Johnson
“The conference ‘high’ wears off fast,” one dad told me the week after the record-breaking 1,100-man-strong diocesan men’s conference earlier this month, “and you’re back in the thick of daily life.” That said, in talks that were at times fierce and gentle, hilarious and sobering, keynoters Father Larry Richards, Father Marc Drouin, and Arlington Bishop […]
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The community garden outside the Sister Maureen Joyce Center was once an abandoned lot in a low-income neighborhood in Albany, N.Y. Today, it provides fresh fruits and vegetables to the center’s soup kitchen, where nearly 130 people gather three times a week for a lunch made from scratch by volunteers like Lois Keefrider. Keefrider praises […]
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By Dave Borowski
The annual Mass for the Anointing of the Sick was celebrated at St. Ambrose Church in Annandale March 21. Scores of people in wheelchairs, with crutches and canes and others whose ailments were not visible were greeted by men and women of the Knights and Dames from the Northern Virginia Region of the Sovereign Military […]
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Pierogis, fish fry, pizza and soup have long been staples of Lenten Friday meals at local churches. The dinners help raise money for parishes and Knights of Columbus councils. Knights of Columbus Council No. 12791 at Our Lady of Hope Church in Potomac Falls had an idea for something different. One of the Knights, David […]
