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By Katie Bahr
After a combined 43 years of service to St. Agnes School in Arlington, preschool teacher Kathy Brown and preschool aide Bonnie Beringer are retiring at the end of this school year. To honor the two women, St. Agnes faculty and staff, parents, and students held a special schoolwide assembly last Friday morning. The assembly began […]
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By Gretchen R. Crowe
On his journey to the priesthood, Deacon Joe Bergida often was inspired by the clergy around him. At a young age, he would watch priests celebrate liturgies, then would go home and “play Mass.” As he grew, he witnessed the camaraderie and the holiness exhibited by young priests at the parishes he attended. And while […]
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By Katie Bahr
Some people know from a young age exactly what they want to do with their life. As children, they pick a path for themselves and they stick with it through high school, college and beyond. Seminarian Jason Burchell, now in his third year of theology at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., was not […]
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By Katie Bahr
Deacon Keith Cummings knows the importance of a smile. With only weeks left until he is ordained to the priesthood, he is quick to laugh and make jokes – especially about himself – and he said he feels more fulfilled and satisfied than ever before. “The joy I’ve had from the past 10 years, … […]
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Catholic Herald Staff Report According to the diocesan Office of Catholic Schools, the following people will retire at the end of this school year: At All Saints School in Manassas, Peggy Engstrom, who taught for 24 years, and Marsha Vice, who taught for 16 years. At Blessed Sacrament School in Alexandria, Mary Lee Charles, who […]
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When: Tuesday, June 5 at 11 a.m. Where: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington, D.C. Baccalaureate Mass: June 4 at St. Bernadette Church in Springfield at 7 p.m. Total graduates: 203 Graduates include: Catherine L. Addington, Christopher Alexander Adleson, Margaret Sara Alcal, Sophia Mahrus Alkhanbeshi, Wil Joseph […]
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When: Thursday, May 31at noon Where: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington, D.C. Baccalaureate Mass: May 20 at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington at 9 a.m. Graduation speaker: Kevin J. Fay, president of Alcalde & Fay, a lobbying firm based in Arlington Total graduates: 276 Graduates […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Eighty eighth-graders from local schools recently were awarded scholarships to the following diocesan high schools. Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria Salesian Scholarship Katherine Beutner and Veronica Roach, from Holy Spirit School in Annandale; Michelle Dwyer and Joseph Siedlarz, from St. Louis School in Alexandria; Sophia Gull, from Corpus Christi School in Falls Church; Brandon […]
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When: Sunday, June 3 at 2:30 p.m. Where: George Mason Patriot Center, 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax Baccalaureate Mass: June 1 at St. Timothy Catholic Church in Chantilly at 7:30 p.m. Graduation Speaker: Col. Joseph M. Gesker, U.S. Army (retired) Total Graduates: 226 Graduates include: Mitchell Hale Aker, Micaela Rose Aldrich, Tyler McIlree Alger, Brian Joseph […]
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55 years Josephite Father Francis M. Hull was born Dec. 20, 1923, in Philadelphia and graduated from St. Thomas More High School. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the South Pacific for three years during World War II. In 1948, he entered the Josephite minor seminary in Newburgh, N.Y., and was ordained […]
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