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Six priests from the Diocese of Arlington are retiring from active ministry after decades of service. Read their stories.
i>After decades of service to the diocese and many ministries, Father John T. O'Hara is retiring. He reflects on his years of service in an interview with the Catholic Herald./i>Father John T. O’Hara always wanted to help people, whether that involved offering spiritual advice or finding someone an old used car.
i>After decades of service to the diocese and many ministries, Father David L. Martin is retiring. He reflects on his years of service in an interview with the Catholic Herald./i>When Father David L. Martin was studying counseling and applied spirituality in California in the late 1970s, he went on a 30-day Ignatian retreat that turned out to be a “profound and guiding experience” for his years in the priesthood.
Fr. Pinizzotto retires after 42 years of ministry.
For some people, a shift into Phase 2 means taking one step closer to how things use to be, another step back to something normal: a return to work, to stores, or restaurants, or haircuts. For some people, relaxed restrictions are a welcome relief.
Is anyone else wondering how we got here? Or, more accurately, got back here? It’s like I woke up one morning and somebody had turned the clock back to 1968. Racial unrest, riots in the streets. Have we made so little progress in all this time?
Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address is one of the most remarkable documents in American history — a serious theological meditation by a president as well as a work of great literary art. Speaking March 4, 1865, to a deeply moved crowd just weeks before his death, Lincoln suggested that “this terrible war,” the Civil War, was God’s punishment of America for the sin of slavery.
This month we observe Religious Freedom Week, which begins every year on June 22, the memorial of Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More. Thomas More, the patron saint of our diocese, was a lawyer and governmental official who fought for the freedom of the church and for freedom of conscience. While he was a dedicated civil servant, he remained “God’s servant first.”
Not many weeks ago, the church celebrated the Ascension of Our Lord. This event might strike us as a sort of postscript to Our Lord’s earthly life: Hasn’t he accomplished our salvation through the cross and resurrection? In this article, let’s consider three ways the Ascension is significant, and let’s refer to these three ways as the salvific, the ecclesial and the eschatological significances.
A cup of water
Today, the church celebrates the 13th Sunday in ordinary time. I am not a big fan of the use of the word “ordinary” to describe this moment in the church’s liturgical year. At a minimum, it informs us that we are not in the Advent, Christmas, Lent or Easter seasons. However, during “ordinary time,” we strive to allow the profound mysteries and abundant graces of Christ which we celebrate during Christmas and Easter seasons to penetrate the depths of our hearts, heal our brokenness and empower us to live Christlike lives. There is nothing ordinary about that reality.