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Month: December 2020
Obituaries, Week of Dec. 12, 2020
Sister Patricia Berliner, C.S.J.; Sister Janice Heisey, I.H.M.; Sister Lorraine Mahoney, O.P.; Sister Rosario Maria Morales-Urrutia, C.S.J.; Sister Joan Ann Rogers, C.S.J.; Sister Florence Therese Sarsfield, C.S.J.,; Sister Lorna Rita Strachan, C.S.J.; Mrs. Eleanor Zimmermann.
Invited to Preach in a Church Where I Was an Altar Boy
Experiences in grammar school can positively influence a person for the rest of one’s life. This was certainly true for me. In 1965 I graduated from Sacred Heart Grammar School in East Glendale. I had an extremely positive experience as a little child in that parish school, and in the country-style church that is Sacred Heart. The Dominican Sisters, who taught my siblings and me, planted the seeds in us to be lifelong Catholics who appreciated our faith.
Prayer and Pandemic
If there was ever a situation in life that seems to call for prayer it is a pandemic. My guess is that many may find new ways of praying during a pandemic. Others might rely on favorite prayers. I rediscovered the value, beauty, and power of a prayer I have been saying daily for close to forty years.
Loughlin Hoops Coach Thriving After Aneurysm
Hoops coach Ed Gonzalez is back after a health scare.
Diocesan Assignments – December 12, 2020
Rev. Gesson Agenis, from parochial vicar of Most Precious Blood – Ss. Simon and Jude, Bath Beach, to parochial vicar of St. Rosalia – Regina Pacis, Borough Park, effective Dec. 1.
Only in Print: Christmas Traditions Altered by COVID-19 Locally and Abroad
Pope John XXIII once said, “Mankind is a great, an immense family … This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.” The Christmas spirit will still be alive — albeit in modified ways, due to the pandemic — thanks to how Catholic parishes and dioceses will continue their annual programming.
Only in Print: First Remote TACHS Was Overall Success
The Test for Admission into Catholic High Schools (TACHS), which was administered online last month due to the pandemic, seemed to go off without a hitch. More than 10,000 eighth-graders from Catholic, public, and private schools in the Diocese of Brooklyn, the Archdiocese of New York, and the Diocese of Rockville Centre, took the exam this year.
Advent Candles Help Prepare for Christ, Light of the World
Advent is upon us, and parishes have placed their wreaths with four candles on the altar in keeping with the Catholic Church’s teachings. But there are many Catholics unaware of the significance of their deeper meaning.
Those Who Question the Sanctity of John Paul II
From 1991 until 2005, Cardinal Camillo Ruini served Pope John Paul II as the papal Vicar for Rome — the man who handled the daily affairs of the diocese of which the Pope was, of course, bishop. Ruini was a creative cardinal-vicar who energized the Diocese of Rome for the New Evangelization — a concept he grasped perhaps better than any other Italian prelate.