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Parish Services: A 3-year look

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Celebrating a year of televised Spanish Masses

By Msgr. Hugh J. Shields In our office we have been blessed to get feedback from many of our elderly and others on the Sunday TV Mass in Spanish. The overriding sentiment is one of gratitude. This Nov. 2 with Cardinal Justin Rigali celebrating the Mass, we commemorate one full year of collaboration with Telemundo […]

Celebrando un año de misas televisadas en español

Por Mons. Hugh J. Shields En nuestra oficina, tenemos la bendición de recibir comentarios de muchos de nuestros ancianos y otras personas acerca de la misa dominical televisada en español; el sentimiento predominante es uno de gratitud. Este dos de noviembre, en la misa celebrada por el cardenal Justin Rigali, estamos conmemorando un año completo […]

At St. Paul, a weekly Mass sung in Latin

By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Introibo ad altare Dei, ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam. As of Oct. 25 worshippers at the noon Mass at St. Paul Church in South Philadelphia can say they go to the altar of God, Who gives joy to their youth (or in some cases their parents’ youth). The […]

Sharing gifts in a time of solace

By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T The Oct. 14-16 retreat at Malvern Retreat House, St. Joseph in the Hills, was a special one for special people. It was the annual Our Lady of Confidence Retreat for people with physical or mental disabilities. That’s not the same as the disability that really matters – a crippled […]

Opening our hearts to God through Scripture

By Sister Ruth Bolarte, I.H.M. How can we love someone we do not know? God’s self-revelation has been given to us through Scriptures and Jesus, the Incarnate Word. It is necessary that we are formed in the reading and meditation of the Word so this living Word can become our nourishment and the core of […]

Lectura orante de la Biblia

Por Hna. Ruth Bolarte, I.H.M. ¿Cómo podemos amar a alguien a quien no conocemos? Nuestro Dios se ha revelado y dado a conocer a través de las Escrituras y su Palabra encarnada, Jesús. Es necesario que nos eduquemos en la lectura y meditación de la Palabra para que sea nuestro alimento y centro del compromiso […]

Helping people experience the mercy of God

A director of spiritual formation at St. Charles Seminary reflects on growth in holiness for seminarians, or anyone By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer In the first of a monthly series of questions-and-answers with priests reflecting on their ministries in this Year of the Priest, the CS&T caught up with Father Joseph F. Gleason at […]

Priest helps seniors carry their cross

By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer During the Year of the Priest, the CS&T talks with priests in the varied ministries of the priesthood. Msgr. Thomas J. Duane, 66, is a chaplain with the status of senior priest at St. Mary Manor in Lansdale, Montgomery County. St. Mary Manor is a nursing and retirement residence […]

Play about ‘Vianney’ hailed a success

By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer HATBORO – “Vianney,” a dramatic one-man stage production depicting St. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, the patron saint of all the world’s priests, received rave reviews at its archdiocesan premiere Monday night, Nov. 30, at St. John Bosco Church in Hatboro, Bucks County. “This play is an opportunity for the laity to […]