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TULSA, Okla. — Ahead of a May 30 ecumenical prayer service to recall the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, Bishop David A. Konderla said it was important "to pause and reflect on how such an unspeakable horror could take place so that we can avoid any such evil in our own day."
VATICAN CITY — While uncertainty in the world may deter young couples from taking the next big step in their relationships, the vocational call to marriage is a risk worth taking, Pope Francis said.
Read profiles and watch video interviews with the four men ordained to the priesthood June 5, 2021 at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington:
Father Thomas J. Lehning has had a passion for theology ever since he studied the relationship between revelation, Christology and faith in Rome in the late 1960s.
Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, Deacon Jonathan Smith wasn’t sure what he wanted to do for a living, but one thing he did know was that “I wanted to be a husband and father.”
Deacon Joseph Townsend’s priestly formation began at home as a big brother, even though he didn’t realize it at the time.
Deacon Fioramonti credits his family, coaches and peers with leading him to the priesthood.
When discerning the priesthood, Deacon John Paul Heisler had the example of many religious men and women among his relatives and the faithful Catholic families in his hometown.
Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori and Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge join other bishops of the province to announce the general dispensation from the obligation to attend Mass will be lifted June 26-27.
Corpus Christi
St. Thomas Aquinas was greatly blessed with one of the sharpest minds of any saint in the church. In addition, and more importantly, he was a mystic, a man of deep, deep prayer. His intellect, combined with prayer and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, led him to proclaim in reference to the Eucharist, “O precious and wonderful banquet, that brings us salvation and contains all sweetness! Could anything be of more intrinsic value?"