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Holy Week services return to churches closed last Easter by COVID Updated Mar 01, 2021; Posted Mar 01, 2021 St. Michael's Parish in East Longmeadow will offer Holy Week services on site that will also be live streamed. (Photo by Anne-Gerard Flynn, Special to The Republican) Facebook Share Last April, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield marked Easter morning with the ringing of steeple bells as Masses were suspended and churches closed mid-way through Lent by the diocese in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Practicing Catholics in the four counties of Western Massachusetts that the di...

Will the pope visit the Yazidis when he goes to Iraq? Exclusive interview with the founder of the organization that helps survivors of the ISIS-led genocide of the Yazidis, a minority group largely living in Iraqi displacement camps In August 2019, Yezidi demonstrators erected signs with photos of the victims of Daech's 2014 invasion of their region. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED/AFP) Organizers of Pope Francis' historic trip to Iraq have insisted that the papal visit is meant for all the people of the war-ravaged Middle Eastern county. In fact, during his March 5-8 visit, the 84-year-old pope is ...

Shrine offers Lenten learning series Zimmerman MARIA STEIN – The Maria Stein Shrine Adoration Guild is offering a Lenten Season Learning Series, presented by Sister Joyce Ann Zimmerman, C.PP.S. The first session “Fasting & Lent” will be held on March 9, 2021, at 10 a.m. It is a reflection on fasting and the progression through Lent of a call to conversion as guided by the Lectionary. For a long time in the church members primarily understood Lent in terms of a fasting period. Is this still so today? Of what value is fasting? What is a healthy understanding of fasting and what are the r...

Shine’s Lenten Series begins in March Staff report Sister Joyce Ann Zimmerman, C.PP.S. will lead the Maria Stein Shrine Adoration Guild’s 2021 Lenten Season Learning Series, which begins Mar. 9. For more information, stop by the Shrine, located at 2291 St. John’s Road in Maria Stein, or visit mariasteinshrine.org Provided photo MARIA STEIN — The Maria Stein Shrine Adoration Guild is happy to offer the following Lenten Season Learning Series, presented by Sister Joyce Ann Zimmerman, C.PP.S. Sister Joyce Ann is the founding director of the Institute for Liturgical Ministry in Dayton, ...

Ash Wednesday marks the start of the Season of Lent with the traditional imposition of ashes. During the 40-day Lenten season, more than 80 million Filipino Catholics are enjoined to  repent for their past sins, do works of mercy, and to personally prepare for the renewal of their baptismal promises on Easter Vigil.  (Photo by: Juan Carlo de Vela / MANILA BULLETIN) On Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, Catholics who are 14 years old and above are obliged to practice abstinence, and those aged 18 to 60 years old are obliged to fast. While, on all Fridays of Lent, Catholics aged 14 years old an...