Search Results
Schools
By Michaela Reyes
“To me, there are few things as rewarding as working with others to produce something truly beautiful,” said Elizabeth Foeckler, choir and chamber choir director at Seton School in Manassas. Foeckler became Seton’s choir director in spring 2013 and created the chamber choir, an auditioned, select group, in the fall. The chamber choir sings a […]
Local
Photographer Gerald Martineau captured the blessing of the palms and a Passion Play at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Vienna on March 29.
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
There is so much in the Gospel of the days leading to the Crucifixion that makes me squirm. When I read it, and I put myself in the scene, I wonder what I would have done. Would I have stayed awake in the Garden of Gethsamane? I’d like to think so, but I know well […]
Arts
Giorgio Vasari’s oil painting, “Crucifixion,” is among more than 60 works part of “Picturing Mary,” an international exhibit of Marian art at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington through April 12.
Schools
The Bishop Ireton Cardinals jumped out to an early 2-0 lead March 30 against Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, but the visiting Falcons came roaring back for a convincing 14-2 victory. The game was played at Lucketts Field in Alexandria. The Cardinals are fielding a young team this season, as many of their […]
Columns
By Arland Nichols
Surrogacy became mainstream when, in the fourth season of the popular sitcom, “Friends,” the ever-spacey Phoebe became the surrogate mother of her brother’s children in the episode titled “The one with the embryos.” The episode’s writer noted that never before had this been seen on television – the story arc was considered “risky,” and writers […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
For many members of the Marine Corps being invited to a retirement party for a fellow Marine is sometimes sadder than attending a funeral. Retirement thrusts them away from the camaraderie of their brothers and sisters in arms and into the civilian world. In 1968, Maj. Rick Spooner recognized the need for a place to […]
Columns
By Fr. William Saunders
Q: I have wondered about a new phrase in Eucharistic Prayer II: The priest says “like the dewfall.” It sounds sort of funny. – A reader in Philadelphia A: Admittedly, the phrase “like the dewfall” does sound “sort of funny,” or at least very poetic at first hearing. Please keep in mind that this is […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
In his March 4 weekly audience, Pope Francis devoted his message to the elderly and the problems confronting them. “Thanks to the progress of medicine, lifespans have increased: But society has not ‘expanded’ to life,” said the pope. “While we are young, we are led to ignore old age, as if it were a disease […]
Death, where is your sting?