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by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2022 | Acts of the Apostles, Christmas, Easter, Francis X. Weiser, Holy Spirit, Holy Trinity, Jesus Christ, News, Pentecost, The Dispatch | 0 |
How do you celebrate Pentecost? In years past, my tradition consisted of showing up to Sunday Mass, glancing at the bulletin, and thinking, “Is it Pentecost already? I should have worn my red dress.” Why […]
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Gospel (Read Jn 13:31-33a, 34-35) St. John tells us that after Satan had entered Judas, driving him out into the night to report to Jesus’ enemies (see Jn 13:21-30), the Lord began to speak in an unexpected and baffling way: “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.” We know […]
by bcadmin | May 6, 2022 | Apocalypse, Easter, Eschatology, Exodus, Jesus Christ, New Covenant, News, Salvation, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readings: • Acts 13:14, 43-52 • Ps 100:1-2, 3, 5 • Rev 7:9, 14b-17 • Jn 10:27-30 Pop quiz: which book of the Bible describes black helicopters, high-tech warfare involving Russia and China, and computer […]
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During Christ’s Passion, Peter stood near the warmth of a charcoal fire and denied knowing Him. Today, Jesus and Peter meet again near a charcoal fire. Why? Gospel (Read Jn 21:1-19) St. John tells us that an appearance of Jesus at the Sea of Tiberius (also called the Sea of Galilee) was “the third time Jesus was […]
by bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Easter, News, Ukraine | 0 |
Hearing that his ailing mother was in a hospital in his homeland of Ukraine, Yuri Ivan, music director at St. Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Church in Minneapolis, realized he had to get home.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, Church in Asia, Easter, Easter Sunday bombing, lead, News, Pope Francis, Sri Lanka, Terrorism, Vatican | 0 |
Victims of the gruesome 2019 bombings in Sri Lanka gathered in Rome this week alongside local church leaders to seek support from the pope and to call for justice and an independent inquiry into who is responsible.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Easter, News, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
The sun came out as Ukrainians marked Orthodox Easter in the capital, Kyiv, on Sunday with prayers for those fighting on the front lines and others trapped beyond them in places like Mariupol.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the Middle East, Easter, News, Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine Crisis, United Arab Emirates | 0 |
Hundreds of Russians and Ukrainians alike crowded into the only Russian Orthodox Church on the Arabian Peninsula on Sunday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, COVID restrictions, Easter, Greece, Greek Orthodox, News | 0 |
For the first time in three years, Greeks were able to celebrate Orthodox Easter without the restrictions made necessary by the coronavirus pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the Middle East, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, East Jerusalem, Easter, Holy Land, Israel, Jerusalem, News, Orthodox Church | 0 |
Orthodox Christians celebrated their “Holy Fire” ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Saturday against a backdrop of rising tensions with Israel.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Biden Administration, Church in Europe, Easter, News, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, US State Department | 0 |
The U.S. secretaries of state and defense met Sunday night with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the highest-level visit to the country’s capital by an American delegation since the start of Russia’s invasion.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | Church in Europe, Easter, lead, News, Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
Pope Francis sent a message of congratulations to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill this Sunday for Orthodox Easter, praying for the Holy Spirit to “make us true peacemakers.”
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