Sentences with phrase «catholic events these days»

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The march has arguably become one of the most inspiring and uplifting days on the American Catholic calendar, especially inrecent years as the event has become more and more overtly a rally composed predominantly of young people.

The Catholic University of America held such an event several days ago, and it included, appropriately enough, a beautiful mass led by Washington's Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl.

This quiet but compulsively readable column is about the spiritual life, written from the point of view of a working Parish Priest; it is, for me, the most unmissable regular contribution to the Catholic Press (I have an interest to declare here: it was I who in my days as editor of The Catholic Herald installed it as a weekly event).

Benedict XVI is coming to World Youth Day, a weeklong series of religious events that the Roman Catholic Church organizes internationally every three years, last held in Sydney, Australia.

Francis, whose concern for the poor has earned him the nickname the «slum pope» in Latin America, is in Brazil through Sunday for World Youth Day, a weeklong Catholic event.

When Pope Francis arrived here Monday for World Youth Day, a weeklong Catholic event held every few years, the massive security effort was temporarily undermined by a traffic jam.

During his week in Brazil for World Youth Day, an international Catholic event, mob scenes erupted everywhere Francis went, despite cold temperatures and driving rain for much of the week.

To that end, Pastor Warren's church will host The Gathering on Mental Health and the Church on March 28, a day long event with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange and the National Alliance on Mental Illness, to raise awareness and spread information regarding the truth about mental illness and how the Church can positively get involved.

As the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions have known for centuries, and many other churches have discovered too, the only way that this extraordinary narrative will yield its meaning is quite simply if we play the events at their original speed — God's speed, not ours — living in and through the events day by day: the grieving farewells, the betrayal and denial, the shuddering fear in the garden, the stretched - out day of torture and forsakenness, and the daybreak of wonder, color and tomb - bursting newborn life.

The discussions also focused on recent events affecting relations between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, reiterating the shared will to continue and to consolidate the ecumenical relationship between Catholics and Anglicans, and recalling how, over coming days, the commission entrusted with preparing the third phase of international theological dialogue between the parties (ARCIC) is due to meet.

The only event I know of is back in my hometown of St. Louis every St. Patrick's Day when the whole town turns out for a silly, clumsy parade and a few thousand crowd the local Catholic church for corned beef and cabbage meals and beers.

As a Catholic institution sponsoring a conference on evolution, the Gregorian's event attracted a lot of high - profile media interest: even the BBC news website in the UK included a feature on the conference's opening day.

A project launched by the Association of Catholic Women, «A Day of Art and Music» for primary - school teachers and catechists became a popular event held in various places, with attendees learning some simple chant in the afternoon, and singing it at a Mass as the day finishDay of Art and Music» for primary - school teachers and catechists became a popular event held in various places, with attendees learning some simple chant in the afternoon, and singing it at a Mass as the day finishday finished.

Earlier in the day, Cuomo spoke at an event honoring the anniversary of the founding of Catholic Charities.

RCPHS members along with our Advisory Board member Ed Day (Rockland County Executive) attended this local event to support the fine work done by the Catholic Charities Community Services of Rockland organization.

Share a Pencil Day is also being promoted by The Church of England Education Office and the Catholic Education Service to encourage their schools to take part and as a result will be the biggest event of its kind in the UK.

my sisters and I began demanding change and forcing it upon them when necessary... We were tired of a van service that only took students to a Catholic Church when none of us were Catholic, we demanded that they invite Nikki Giovanni as a guest speaker (and they did), we researched and slowly changed the face of some of the «required events», we invited teen black boys from Hartford to spend the day on campus (this made many nervous, including the security guards who would grow frustrated with their inability to curtail this), we grew tired of the school dances that invited other boarding schools and included a DJ that played other music so we invited kids from Hartford, including a DJ and began hosting our own parties... I never forgot who I was and the rich history of my ancestors...... I am thankful for my varying educational experiences for they have shaped the educator that I have become.

 For many of the townÂ's children, there were a lot of diverse activities to take part in, and at the San Pedro Roman Catholic Primary School, the ChildrenÂ's Day events ended with a grand parade.

Special events celebrate Belize's diverse cultures Catholic heritage at Carnaval (Sunday - Tuesday before lent); the array of Central American cultures at Costa Maya Festival (early August) and Garifuna lifestyle on Garifuna Settlement Day (19 November), especially in Dangriga.

Associated with the Roman Catholic veneration of a Ecce Homo representing Jesus Christ following the Passion (retold in Luke 23:1 — 25 in the New Testament), a gift to the sisters of the Convent of Caloura in the mid-16th century, the event, as it paralyzes the streets of the city for a day.

One of the lesser - known 9/11 memorials in the city, the Ground Zero Catholic Memorial features four memorial statues dedicated to some of the groups affected by the events of that day — St Joseph: the patron of construction workers, St Florian: the patron of fire fighters, St Michael the Archangel: the patron of police and St Mary Magdalene: first witness to the resurrection.