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By Nora Hamerman
The very name of Jesus Christ reveals the dual environment into which Our Savior was born in Roman-ruled Judea around, as scholars now believe, between 6 and 4 B.C. Jesus is a Jewish name, and Christ (the anointed one) is Greek. The Christian order gradually, over centuries, came to replace the Greco-Roman one. No one […]
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By Dave Borowski
Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine Church in Annandale welcomed Bishop Kurt R. Burnette from the Eparchy (Diocese) of Passaic, N.J., Jan. 30 as he ordained a local man to the priesthood. Deacon Lewis Michael Rabayda was born in Summit Hill, Pa., in 1983. After graduating from the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, he came […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
In one of his informative dispatches from Rome during the Synod on the Family last fall, Robert Royal remarked with regret on the extent to which the synod fathers appeared to have taken their prescriptions for families from a secular playbook instead of from their own Catholic tradition. Most synod participants, Royal wrote, “seemed to […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Today, Pérez-Alcalá is a consecrated layman at McLean's Stabat Mater, a secular Marian institute founded by Father Tomás Morales Pérez in Madrid. But once he was an engineering student who was completely unaware that his life was about to change on an otherwise ordinary day walking down the streets of Madrid.
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By Ashleigh Buyers
To kick off their celebration of the Year of Mercy, St. Ambrose Church in Annandale is inviting everyone in the diocese to embrace Pope Francis’ call to live mercifully like the Father through a new lecture series. The talks discuss related topics of mercy and the lives of saints who exemplify this virtue. The first […]
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By Christina Capecchi
Melina Birchem has uploaded 777 images to her Instagram account over the past two years: sushi, Starbucks, her new tattoo, rosary beads, cowboy boots. Sometimes the juxtaposition is jarring. A glowing monstrance, a chilled margarita. A snapshot from waitressing, a prayer journal documenting her consecration to the Blessed Mother. As a freshman at the University […]
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Missionhurst Father Paul G. Wynants died Dec. 24, 2015, at Mount Tabor Community in Vienna, a house of prayer and Christian community established in 1975 by Missionhurst Father Arthur Verstraete. He was 90. Father Wynants was born Aug. 2, 1925, in Heverlee, Belgium. He entered the Missionhurst Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in […]
Schools
Paul VI High School in Fairfax scored big over Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria 83-54. The game was played in Alexandria Jan. 31.
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By Ashleigh Buyers
The quiet of an Alexandria neighborhood was interrupted by the sound of a bell ringing from the top of the Mary, Mother of the Church Monastery of the Poor Clares Jan. 26. The sound signaled the beginning of a wonderful and unusual liturgical event and served as an invitation to all to join the celebration. […]
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Norms for the United States, established by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in November 1966 and reiterated in November 1973, may be summarized as follows: Abstinence Everyone older than 14 years of age is bound to observe the law of abstinence. Abstinence is to be observed on all Fridays within the season of Lent […]
