Category: 2015
Gallery: Good Friday at OLPH, Brooklyn
Gallery: Holy Week at OLPH, Brooklyn
Baptisms at St. Peter the Apostle, Philadelphia
Father Jim Wallace on YouTube: ‘Going to the chapel’
Visitation hosts sixth annual Crawfish Festival
By Father Luong Uong | Six years ago a Vietnamese couple—Isabel and Xinh Nguyen—at Visitation BVM Parish in Philadelphia suggested to their priest the idea of selling crawfish as a parish fundraiser. Every spring their sister, Thuy Nguyen of Houston, would drive to Philadelphia to visit her family, and she would bring some crawfish to sell after Mass on Sunday. […]
» Read moreRedemptoristine Nuns celebrate 50th and 65th anniversaries of profession
On April 16 the Redemptoristine Nuns celebrated the 50th anniversary of profession of Sister Lydia Lojo de la Cruz and Sister Mary Anne Reed of the Sacred Heart’s 65th anniversary of profession. The Eucharist was concelebrated in the Chapel of Lourdes Health Care Center in Wilton, Conn., where the two Sisters reside. Father Thomas Travers was
» Read moreMore than $25,000 contributed for the Diocese of Erbil
By Father Paul Borowski | Dear Brothers: Greetings during this Easter season! Thanks to those communities who made generous donations to the Province’s Lenten program to raise funds for Archbishop Bashar Warda, C.Ss.R., the Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil. As a Province we were able to send Archbishop Warda $25,489.81. A special word of
» Read moreSt. Mary’s steps up its game
A report from St. Mary’s Parish, Annapolis | Annapolis is a city blessed with great physical beauty—a charming historic setting along the banks of the water—yet our community is a study in contrasts. Within the city St. Mary’s Parish calls home are both very wealthy residents and those who are in need of support for food and shelter. Our parish […]
» Read moreBrother Bob Skinner dies at 76
Redemptorist Brother Robert Paul Skinner was born on May 23, 1938, in Binghamton, N.Y. He professed his first vows on August 29, 1981, and made his final profession on September 7, 1985, at the Bishop Neumann Shrine/St. Peter’s Church in Philadelphia. He died peacefully, surrounded by the comforting prayers of his confreres, on April 13, 2015, in Ephrata, Pa., just […]
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