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By Special To The Herald
It is no secret that grandparents play an important role in the lives of their grandchildren. From giving encouragement and life advice to helping out as a caretaker, many turn to their grandparents for support. In fact, 72 percent of grandparents take care of their grandchildren on a regular basis, and 70 percent of those […]
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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 […]
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By Soren Johnson
On the fifth day home with five young kids five miles down an unplowed gravel road, something broke. Gratefully, it wasn’t my psyche. Or my back from shoveling. We did enjoy some Norman Rockwellian family moments, but in the escalating number of school cancellations, kid-versus-kid skirmishes, garbage bags stacked near the back door, angstyness, etc., […]
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By Katie Scott
While local governments scrambled to dig out streets and sidewalks from the massive Jan. 22-23 East Coast snowstorm, students celebrated the storm dubbed “Snowzilla” by swapping classes for snowballs, movies and hot cocoa. Most diocesan schools were closed the entire week following the blizzard, which brought as much as three feet of snow to the […]
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By Katie Scott
They regularly play toe-tapping tunes for the president, vice president and secretary of the Navy, but Feb. 1 the U.S. Navy Band Country Current brought its country-bluegrass lineup to students at St. Andrew the Apostle School in Clifton. The mini concert was held in the parish hall and kicked off Catholic Schools Week. “It’s a […]
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An ecumenical gathering took place at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Arlington to celebrate the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
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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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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 […]
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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 […]
