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By Gretchen R. Crowe
Three mothers, one story. Throughout the last quarter-century, the lives of Bernice Gillespie, Lorraine Ondrasik and Eva Ondrasik have become forever entwined – an interconnected triangle of motherly strength, courage and love. Their story began in 1986, when then-17-year-old Bernice Clark, a 1986 graduate of Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, said goodbye to […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde celebrated the annual jubilee Mass for diocesan and religious order priests to recognize milestone anniversaries of their ordination to the priesthood May 5 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Md. 55 Years Father Cornelius O’Brien, ordained June 5, 1955, is retired and […]
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By Katie Bahr
The sacraments are for the birds. And the mice. And the butterflies. In the new book The Little Butterfly Who Loved Jesus, the sacraments are actually celebrated by many animals, including a cricket, a fish, two turtle doves and a butterfly. In a series of short stories, the book walks young readers through all the […]
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By Carol Glatz and Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – After nine years of work involving Vatican officials, English-speaking bishops around the world and hundreds of consultants, Pope Benedict XVI received a complete version of the English translation of the Roman Missal. The white-bound, gold-edged missal, which contains all of the prayers used at Mass, was given to the pope during a […]
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By Richard Szczepanowski
WASHINGTON – More than 3,500 people crowded into the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception April 24 to attend the first traditional Latin Mass in decades to be celebrated at the high altar there. Sponsored by the Paulus Institute for the Propagation of Sacred Liturgy, the Mass in the extraordinary form was […]
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By Fr. John Catoir
In the February 2010 issue of “Catholic Update,” a publication under the auspices of St. Anthony Messenger Press, there is an excellent article by Jesuit Father Mark E. Thibodeaux, “Praydreaming: Key to Discernment.” He speaks of prayerful daydreaming as the key to discernment. Accordingly, the Holy Spirit speaks to us through our own daydreams and […]
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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI received a cake on his 83rd birthday from the U.S.-based Papal Foundation, which also presented him with a list of the projects they have funded in his name this year. The 120-member group – including Cardinals Justin Rigali of Philadelphia and Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington – […]
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By Thomas J. Craughwell
Blessed Margaret's life is one of the most heart-wrenching stories in the calendar of saints. She was born blind, with severe curvature of the spine; her right leg was an inch and a half shorter than her left, and her left arm was malformed. She never grew beyond four feet tall.
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By Fr. Peter J. Daly
I wish I were a better priest. I wish I prayed more. Then maybe I would have grace to share when needed. I wish I knew the Scriptures better. Then I would have the right words to say when sorrows come and tragedy visits a household. But time and again I know that I am […]
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By Teresa Hoffman Greenley
When Father Horace (“Tuck”) Grinnell celebrates the Arlington Diocese’s healing Mass at a different parish each month, the New Spirit Singers (NSS) are there beside him to provide music of comfort, hope and reconciliation – a healing ministry joined nearly three years ago by the choir that first came together in 1972 at Holy Spirit […]
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