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Several bishops requested the addition of the feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest, and their request was granted in 1987.

The gospel reading of the Mass on Tuesday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time (Mk 9,30-37) reminds us that true wisdom, given our wounded human condition

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will discusses her new memoir at a special event with Gov. Ned Lamont on May 29 at the Mark Twain House & Museum.

Two year ago I had the privilege of giving the Pentecost Sunday sermon at the Episcopal church I have been involved with over the past dozen years.

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Michael SImone, S.J.

Almighty and everliving God, conform our wills freely to yours, and direct our hearts to share your glory by our undivided service; through Jesus Christ who is alive with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

O God, from whom all good things come, grant that, by your inspiration, we may discern what is right, and by your merciful guiding may do it; through Jesus Christ who is alive with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Let us not give up meeting together—even when we disagree.

O God, you inspire the hearts of the faithful with a single longing, grant your people to love what you command and to desire what you promise, so that in all the changes and chances of this uncertain world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ who is alive with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

It took Doris Kearns Goodwin a while to adjust to leaving the Concord farmhouse she shared with her husband. But Boston has its compensations.