Page 50 - Blessed Trinity News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Andrew P. Napolitano WASHINGTON — God works in strange ways. Last weekend, two friends and I were deeply moved when we saw a theatrical production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” This is the famous and popular tale of the transformation and redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge from a rasping, grasping old miser into a lovable, generous old man who, late in life, becomes determined to make amends for all his extreme selfishness and his public denunciations of charity. After a tossing-and-turning Christmas Eve night, during which he has dreams showing him lonely in his youth, showing...

Local students win national Christmas artwork contest Andrea Verch, a seventh-grader at the Regina Coeli Academy in Abington, was one of two national winners from the Philadelphia Archdiocese in the Missionary Child Association’s 2019-20 Christmas Artwork Contest. (Photo courtesy of Alixandra Holden/Missionary Child Association, Archdiocese of Philadelphia) By Gina Christian • Posted December 18, 2020 Two area Catholic school students have been named national winners in a prestigious annual art competition for children. Andrea Verch, a seventh grader from the Regina Coeli Academy in Abin...

Detail from "Simeon with the Infant Jesus" (c. 1796) by Benjamin West [WikiArt.org] As our Advent journey draws to a close, we want to consider the last two canticles presented for our prayerful consideration by St. Luke, the Gloria Nunc Dimittis. We now move into the second chapter of St. Luke’s Gospel, where we read of the birth of Jesus and various events connected to the infancy and early life of the Child Savior. These texts have been known to us since childhood, enchanting us then; it is devoutly to be hoped that they enchant us still. If they don’t, it may be a very worthwhile Chr...

Special to the USA TODAY Network God works in strange ways. Last weekend, two friends and I were deeply moved when we saw a theatrical production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." This is the famous and popular tale of the transformation and redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge from a rasping, grasping old miser into a lovable, generous old man who, late in life, becomes determined to make amends for all his extreme selfishness and his public denunciations of charity. After a tossing-and-turning Christmas Eve night, during which he has dreams showing him lonely in his youth, showing present ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) God works in strange ways. Last weekend, two friends and I were deeply moved when we saw a theatrical production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” This is the famous and popular tale of the transformation and redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge from a rasping, grasping old miser into a lovable, generous old man who, late in life, becomes determined to make amends for all his extreme selfishness and his public denunciations of charity. After a tossing-and-turning Christmas Eve night, during which he has dreams showing him lonely in his youth, showing present suffering...