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The Knights of Columbus council at Our Lady of the Valley Church in Luray recently completed a successful drive to collect personal hygiene products for Page County Public School students. The Knights collected more than 350 donations from parishioners the weekend of Jan. 27-28. On behalf of the Knights’ Monsignor Paul V Heller Council No. […]
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The Virginia Ancient Order of Hibernians established its first new division in more than two decades. The division’s membership is equally divided between Culpeper and Fauquier counties, and based in Warrenton. Eighteen Irish Catholic men became the charter members in a ceremony led by state Hibernian officers last month at O’Brien’s Irish Pub in Warrenton. […]
Parishes
Many parishes are planning fish frys and soup suppers, both dine-in and carryout, during Lent. Check your parish website or bulletin for more listings and updates. FISH FRYS — All Saints Catholic Church, Manassas: Feb. 16 and 23, March 1, 8 and 22, 5-7:30 p.m. in Bishop Flaherty Hall (Knights Hall behind church). See […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
ROME — In an age when even one’s most intimate thoughts and feelings can become fodder for social media, Lent is a time to cast aside appearances and to find God at work in the depths of the heart, Pope Francis said. Without realizing it, Christians have become immersed “in a world in which everything, […]
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By Russell Shaw
It happens every year on Ash Wednesday. In our downtown parishes, women and men, old and young, office and construction workers, corporate lawyers, police officers, messengers and many others cut short their lunch hours and stream up the aisles to have a cruciform smudge of ashes planted on their foreheads. It’s a yearly reminder that […]
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By Anna Harvey
Sporting hearts on their clothing and ashes on their foreheads, diocesan Catholics marked the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday Feb. 14 also St. Valentine’s Day. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge celebrated Mass in Burke Hall at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. In his homily, Bishop Burbidge encouraged the faithful to reconsider their […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will go to Venice in April to visit a women’s prison where the Holy See has set up its pavilion for the Venice Biennale, a major international contemporary art exhibition. The pope will make the one-day trip April 28, according to a joint press release Feb. 13 from the Dicastery […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The vice of “acedia,” often translated as “sloth,” can cause laziness, but it is much more than that; it is a lack of caring for anything and being bored with everything, even one’s relationship with God, Pope Francis said. “The demon of acedia wants precisely to destroy the simple joy of the […]
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The Knights of Columbus Council 8183 at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Lake Ridge hosted an “Italian night” dinner last month to foster a greater community of faith. The council served a crowd of more than 150 people Jan. 27 with salad, pasta and meatballs. The dinner was part of a council effort to […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
James “Jim” Hannan, who played most of his 10-year major league baseball career pitching for the Washington Senators 1962-70, died Feb. 9 at 85. Hannan was a parishioner of St. Ambrose Church in Annandale. James John Hannan was born Jan. 7, 1940, in Jersey City, N.J. The Notre Dame graduate was a pitcher for the […]
