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Bishop Michael F. Burbidge was the celebrant and homilist at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper March 29 at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington.
Busy but flat animated adventure in which the hero (voice of James McAvoy) and heroine (voice of Emily Blunt) of 2011's "Gnomeo and Juliet" team with the detective of the title (voice of Johnny Depp) and his sidekick, Dr. Watson (voice of Chiwetel Ejiofor), to stop a spate of garden gnome kidnappings taking place across London that they suspect may be the work of the sleuth's arch-nemesis, Moriarty (voice of Jamie Demetriou).
Director Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the 2011 novel by Ernest Cline (who co-wrote the screenplay with Zak Penn) offers a dizzying immersion into virtual reality via an alternative universe called the Oasis. In the dystopian world of the year 2045, everyone straps on a pair of goggles and uses this device to escape their miserable existence and embrace narcissism. Before he died, its creator, an eccentric scientist (Mark Rylance), designed a contest for his gamers in which the winner would not only inherit his fortune but gain control of the Oasis.
A teenager (Bella Thorne) suffers from an incurable disease due to which any exposure to sunlight could prove fatal. Housebound during the day, she is cared for by her overprotective father (Rob Riggle) and best friend (Quinn Shephard). Venturing out one evening, she meets her longtime crush (Patrick Schwarzenegger), whom she has secretly watched from her bedroom window for years. They fall for each other, but he is unaware of her condition.
Perhaps no other Mass celebrated this year at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington has as great an impact on every parish in the diocese than the holy Thursday Chrism Mass.
Before washing the feet of 12 prisoners, Pope Francis told them and hundreds of inmates to remember that Jesus constantly stands before them with love, ready to cleanse their sins and forgive them.
Jesus "could have been a scribe or a doctor of the law, but he wanted to be an 'evangelizer,' a street preacher," the bearer of good news for his people, the pope said March 29 during the Chrism Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.
Bible-based drama in which St. Paul (pleasingly sonorous James Faulkner), imprisoned in Rome and facing martyrdom in the wake of that city's Great Fire of A.D. 64 — which the Emperor Nero notoriously blamed on the followers of Jesus — is visited by his longtime collaborator and friend St. Luke (Jim Caviezel) to whom he recounts the circumstances of his conversion and some of the other events chronicled in the Book of Acts.
A stalking victim (Claire Foy) left with mental health issues by her experience is involuntarily committed by a predatory facility that leeches payments from its captive patients' insurance companies. Things take an even darker turn when she becomes convinced that her former pursuer (Joshua Leonard) is working there under an assumed name — and dispensing her medication.
