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Catholic schools??? faith-based approach eases kids??? testing fears
1+ week, 3+ day ago (485+ words) Help us to serve you better Small figures of the Blessed Mother stood on the desks of Kristina Juliano’s fourth-grade students as they completed New York State assessments at St. Lawrence School in Greece last spring. Juliano gave the figurines…...
Rochester parish celebrates 125 years of faith, outreach
1+ week, 3+ day ago (587+ words) Mary and Jim Holleran did not know anyone in town when they moved to Rochester as newlyweds in the 1980s. At Blessed Sacrament Parish, however, they soon found a home away from home. “Those people really became gifts in our lives,…...
Faith carries Catholics who lost family to 9/11 terror attacks
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1229+ words) (OSV News) — Joseph Connor had his back turned to the large window of his 36th floor office when he “suddenly more felt than heard” the massive impact of a commercial jet slamming into the north tower of the World Trade Center…...
Camp Koinonia???s Family Camp strengthens relationships, faith
1+ week, 5+ day ago (459+ words) On a whim, Cathy Houston-Wilson and her husband decided to bring their children to Camp Koinonia for a week of Family Camp 25 years ago. By the end of the week, they knew there was something special about Family Camp, especially…...
Holy and Beloved - Couple's Retreat
4+ week, 1+ day ago (139+ words) August 21 @ 5:00 pm – August 23 @ 12:00 pm EDT Strengthen your relationship with one another and with God at Notre Dame Retreat House’s Couples Retreat, August 21–23, “Holy and Beloved.” Marriage is a journey of growing together in faith, love, and holiness. This retreat offers…...
Rochester-area churches to offer Season of Creation events
2+ week, 5+ day ago (222+ words) Catholic Courier Several parishes in Monroe County will offer events during the Season of Creation, an ecumenical celebration that spans five weeks between the Sept. 1 World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation and the Oct. 4 feast day of…...
Pope: Faithful must actively participate in the liturgy
2+ week, 3+ day ago (779+ words) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “Firmly rooted” in the Church’s living tradition, the liturgical reform put forth by the Second Vatican Council grew from the need for the faithful to celebrate the liturgy more “consciously and actively,” and not “as strangers and…...
Women at Newark parish faithfully care for the altar, honor Mary
1+ week, 2+ day ago (479+ words) A group of women has quietly worked behind the scenes at St. Michael Church in Newark for 80 years. The women in the parish’s Rosary Altar Society care for the church’s altar linens, make sure their pastor has the vestments he…...
Pope encourages deepen prayer through Liturgy of the Hours
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (499+ words) of prayer is “no longer passed on” even in many Christian families, even though prayer is a “fundamental...
Pope: Catholics cannot be 'unengaged spectators' amid current events
1+ week, 3+ day ago (419+ words) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The faithful are called to leave behind “all passivity and indifference” toward current events and the lives of others, especially amid the “rapid and profound changes we are experiencing today,” Pope Leo XIV said at his weekly…...