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A few years ago, my brother convinced me to sign up to run a half-marathon with him. Now, I’m not a runner. In fact, simply running with no ball to chase seemed to me to be cruel and unusual punishment. Nevertheless, I embraced the challenge as an opportunity to get into shape, and I began training multiple times a week.  

“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are Easter people and Alleluia is our song.” St. John Paul II 
Alleluia is our song. But do we dare sing it? 

"Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy." Our Lord Jesus Christ spoke these words to St. Faustina about the meaning of the two rays in the image of Divine Mercy. 

Lent is a time to ponder deeply how far down Jesus stooped when he chose to dwell among us. Jesus lowered himself in the most surprising ways to demonstrate his love and to fulfill the Father’s plan of freeing us from sin. This stooping down, or self-emptying, marked the whole of his earthly journey but was particularly made manifest in his birth in a stable and baptism in the Jordan River. It comes to a spectacular crescendo, as we know, on the cross.

Across the diocese, Catholics celebrated the days leading up to Easter with live stations, holy hour pilgrimages, first sacraments and more. Here is the i>Catholic Herald/i> roundup of Holy Week.

Priests get to go skiing? “I thought they were in the church praying all the time,” said Shelby Doyle, an eighth grader at St. Michael School in Annandale. “I didn’t know they could still joke around with each other. I thought they had to be very serious and devout.” Students at Catholic schools often see […]

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