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A program created by John Meehan, English teacher and instructional coach at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, is trying to change teaching with games.

Decorated with Tibetan prayer flags hanging from the basketball hoops and the stage bursting with colorful tapestries, the St. Bernadette School gym in Springfield was transformed Aug. 25 for the Capital Area Tibetan Association’s visit by the seventh Yongzin Ling Rinpoche, who speaks internationally on Buddhism. 

We have just begun the four-and-a-half-month span — between the solemnities of the Assumption (Aug. 15) and Mary, mother of God (Jan. 1) — into which all our holy days of obligation are now compressed. 

Principals from the Diocese of Arlington gathered at St. Bernadette School in Springfield Aug. 8 to prepare for the new school year. They began the day with Mass and heard presentations by several diocesan representatives.  

Father J. Edwin Thayer Tewes, former parochial vicar at Holy Trinity Church in Gainesville, was remembered as someone who united his suffering to the cross of Christ at a funeral Mass at Holy Trinity Aug. 27. He died Aug. 17 at age 65. 

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