News from the Baltimore Province
By Jim Link | Mary Weaver, the Province’s communications director, and I have been working with Fathers Allman, Dabney, Gargani, Kingsbury, and Murray to promote the icon’s 150th anniversary of being entrusted to the Congregation. I write to ask you to put two dates on your calendar and let you know we’ll be sending you some promotional materials. Departing on […]
» Read moreIn June several confreres celebrated jubilees. The two photos below, shot by Patrick Hayes, feature Father Francis Skelly, who
» Read moreBy 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 moreOn 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 moreArchivist Patrick Hayes, Ph.D., shared the following photos (click the button to view), taken during the annual St. Patrick’s Day open house at OLPH on 61st Street in Manhattan. The open house has been held at least since the 1960s, when the provincial house was on East 74th Street near Fifth Avenue, steps away from the parade route. “It was […]
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» Read moreThe beginning of Lent, as in all Catholic parishes, was a busy one at Visitation BVM in Philadelphia but with an important twist. Ash Wednesday saw large crowds at our five Vietnamese, English, and Spanish Masses. Father Tom McCluskey had the school students excited to begin a season of change. Confessions were held for one hour at noon, and two […]
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