The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart will hold its annual novena to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Cork city from the end of August and into September.
Deacon Rodrigue Mortel, who as director of the Missions Office for the Archdiocese of Baltimore inspired dozens of parishes in the archdiocese to support sister churches in his homeland of Haiti and led hundreds of Catholic high-schoolers on summer missions there, died April 22 at his home in Hershey, Pa.
Bells will toll from Catholic churches throughout the Archdiocese of Los Angeles at 9 a.m. today to invite the community to participate in a special moment of prayer, the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord.