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Weddings are big deals, no doubt about it. But as the pope points out, it is easy for couples to lose sight of the bigger picture — the marriage — if their focus is on a single day's celebration.

WASHINGTON — When Father Leo Patalinghug was leading parish marriage preparation programs, he noticed couples put a lot into wedding planning but didn't necessarily think about celebrating small milestones after they were married such as their month anniversaries.

But as he sees it, newlyweds should not wait a year to celebrate their wedding anniversary but instead they should do something special once a month to celebrate their marriage.

Holy Spirit students are reminded of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s humanity with the gift of a first-class relic.

Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax expects to break ground on the new school in Loudoun County this spring, according to Head of School Ginny Colwell. “There is no guarantee whether or not the current freshman class will graduate from the current building,” says Colwell.   The contractor is Whiting Turner. VMDO Architects designed […]
An exhibit at the National Gallery of Art brings together the works of three generations of the Florentine family of artists founded by 15th-century artist Luca Della Robbia. Luca’s masterpiece in the tin-glazed terracotta medium that he invented, a nearly life-size “Visitation” loaned from a church in Pistoia for the first time, is alone worth […]

Even in the world of real people and real faces, the conversations are shutting down. We don’t want to hear any more. Too much contention. Too much anger. Too much fear where there once was friendship, or at least neighborliness. It’s as if the running thread has been pulled, and the fabric of community is falling away into tatters. It’s the era of “unfriending.”

Q: Growing up Catholic, I was taught that in order to fulfill your Sunday obligation, you were required to be present for three parts of the Mass — the Gospel, the offertory and Communion. Our parish just started hearing confessions at the very time the Sunday Mass is being celebrated (i.e., not just before or […]
Gospel Commentary MT 5:17-37   One of the characters made famous by the television series “Star Trek” was Mr. Spock. Spock was the completely rational person. His vision was unclouded by emotion. Sometimes, we imagine ourselves to be like that, making rational decisions, rational choices and rational responses.    In fact, we are not like […]

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