Saturday I’m going to the ordination of Catholic priests for the Arlington, VA, Diocese. I happen to know that Harrisburg and Allentown up in Pennsylvania are also doing ordinations that day. Philadelphia is done. Lincoln, Nebraska is done. Washington, DC ordinations will take place on June 21. That seems very late to me. I would [...]
I have several different thought lines running at the moment. Here’s an update to keep me clear. In regards to the mysterious figure in the 9th Station at my church, Our Lady of Hope, in Potomac Falls, Virginia, I got in touch with the Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg. A researcher there [...]
As I mentioned a week ago, in 'A Little Detective Work' (November 28), I have been looking intently at the Stations of the Cross in my home parish. When our church was built the pastor, Father Saunders, did a lot of scavenging for the furnishings. The Stations came from Saint Thomas the Apostle Church in [...]
My beautiful parish church has marble statues from a church in California, that was damaged in an earthquake. (They were free, except we had to pay transport. So, not free. Very expensive, in fact.) There are stained glass windows from two different churches, torn down in Pennsylvania, and the Stations of the Cross are molds [...]
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