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The novel coronavirus has changed Seton School in Manassas quite a bit, and one class impacted significantly is band. Last year, with the state-required lockdowns, band Director Jennifer Erwin searched for a way to proceed with the spring concert the students had worked hard to prepare for. She came up with a plan for a virtual concert.
JERUSALEM — During this year of COVID-19 lockdowns and lack of international pilgrimages, the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land has had to adjust its funding priorities and trim its budgeting, and difficult though that has been, Father Ramzi Sidawi fears the worst is still to come.
CLEVELAND — It was during the first days of March 2020 that the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 turned up in discussions of the executive team at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington.
A spring breeze gently blew through the branches of a willow tree in front of a white home on a quiet residential street in Fredericksburg March 21. For years, the house had witnessed hundreds of University of Mary Washington students seek the sacraments through the faith community of the Catholic campus ministry at the neighboring St. John Bosco Center. Thanks to contributions from the Bishop’s Lenten Appeal, the house now joins the center as a place to foster the faith in young people. Fittingly, the house was dubbed the St. Dominic Savio House.
BOULDER, Colo. — Officer Eric Talley, an 11-year veteran of the Boulder Police Department, was the first to arrive at the scene of a mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store the afternoon of March 22 and the first of 10 to be killed at the store.
"When you grow up in a home that teaches you about God, you don't put religion first — you put the needs of people first," said Haddad.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge will celebrate the following Masses and liturgies during Holy Week.
First of all, I want to thank you all for the tremendous outpouring of support we have received in the wake of my mother’s death. It has been so touching to receive your condolences, prayer pledges and Mass cards. My family and I are so grateful.
Lent.
The word has always signified a sacrifice to me — a subtraction, a forfeit, a paring down, a letting go. We try to eliminate the distractions, to focus on the most essential. Actually, though, a quick etymological discovery trail casts a different light on the very word.
