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As I stood at the ambo and began the narration from the Passion of the Lord, I looked up and saw only an iPad looking back at me. The pews in the church were empty and it was absolutely silent. The parishioners could see me on their livestream, but I could not see them. This was my first Palm Sunday as a seminarian and as a lector and it could not have been more unusual.
A Scottish bishop speaks on the first day of the event organized by an apostolate for people who experience same-sex attraction.
A parishioner's idea to honor his late wife by funding a project to sew cloth masks to give away at St. John Neumann Church in Reston has resulted in an impressive undertaking involving more than 35 volunteers who have already made more than 600 masks.
Tens of thousands of Vietnamese Catholics took part in a special online Mass and prayed to Our Lady of La Vang for their nation and the world to soon overcome the COVID-19 pandemic.
Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has announced the U.S. bishops will join the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops May 1 in consecrating the two nations to the care of the Blessed Mother under the title "Mary, Mother of the Church."
The loss of an electricity source leaves the Thomassique clinic scrambling in the midst of a pandemic.
It can be hard to be cheerful during this crisis that currently plagues the world. Stores are closed, education is online and friends remain at a distance — at least 6 feet, to be exact. However, no trial is too trying and no setback can obstruct progress when we trust in God. The Covid-19 crisis presents everyone with numerous inconveniences with which we have to cope. But the Lenten season that we just spent six weeks living teaches us that all our struggles have a redemptive quality.
No one anticipated last Easter that we would be home, a year later, involuntarily missing the Holy Week services; nor were countless parents prepared to be ‘homeschooling’ their children, albeit with some heroic efforts by educators to support the task via ‘e-learning’; nor were record numbers of employed adults expecting to be facing temporary unemployment, lower hours, or modified work environments (aka my kitchen table). What each of these unexpected events has in common is their cause — COVID 19 — and their impact: stress — from some combination of isolation, strain on interpersonal relationships, insecurity about some area of life, and fear about the future and the health of loved ones or even oneself.
Once a week throughout this pandemic, we’ll be bringing you fun and uplifting videos, photos and posts from people throughout the diocese.
