Story by Joe Pisani Many, many years ago, so many I lost count, I was on retreat at My Father’s House in Moodus, led by the late Father Bill McCarthy. By my reckoning, it was the first retreat I had been on since I went to St. Joseph High School and the Marist Brothers shipped [...]
Story by Michelle DiFranco In January, I attended a prayer service for Sanctity of Human Life Sunday at my church. The entire evening was quite beautiful. What really set the tone was what I saw driving up to the church before the service. In the darkness of the night were hundreds of luminaria lining [...]
Seen here wearing their traditional African Sunday best, parishioners from St. Isaac Jogues Ghanaian Catholic Quasi Parish in East Hartford will join Archbishop Leonard P. Blair later this week at the Fourth African National Eucharistic Congress in Washington, D.C. Photo by Aaron Joseph Story by Shelley Wolf Archbishop [...]
Feast Day July 14 Tekakwitha, born in 1656 to a Christian Algonquin mother and Mohawk father, embraced a life of gentle service to others from an early age. She and her family contracted smallpox when she was a child; she was scarred from the disease and lost her family to it. Although her uncle took [...]
Story by Shelley Wolf Synod 2020 might be in the rearview mirror, but the parishioners at St. Stanislaus Parish in Bristol were inspired by the challenge of addressing the needs of the local Church. Ever since the Synod Closing Mass in August 2021, they’ve been finding ways to revitalize their parish community and extend [...]
Story and Photos by Karen A. Avitabile “AT TIMES, THE LORD TESTS OUR FAITH BY WAITING AWHILE BEFORE HE ANSWERS. WHEN OUR PRAYERS ARE NOT ANSWERED IMMEDIATELY, WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO PRAY, PERSEVERE AND ASK HIM QUESTIONS APPLICABLE TO OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM AND TO THE SITUATION NEEDING HEALING. I FOUND I NEEDED [...]
Story by Sheri Wohlfert “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.” (Gal 5:22-23) Summer arrives with some of God’s great gifts! He gives us longer days with warm sunshine, green grass, beautiful flowers and my favorite summer gift … delicious, colorful, sweet fresh fruit! When we think of [...]
The 2023 Archdiocesan Summa Scholars from St. Paul Catholic High School in Bristol. Photo by Laura McCaffrey Story by Shelley Wolf Thanking God for his “grace and guidance” and asking that he equip them with “wisdom and humility,” 38 scholars prayed in gratitude for being named this year’s [...]
Archbishop Leonard P. Blair presents Jim Smith, who was named by Pope Francis as a “Knight of St. Gregory the Great,” with a framed document from the pope as well as the Cross of the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great at St. Thomas Chapel in Bloomfield. Photo by Aaron Joseph [...]
At St. Thomas Chapel in Bloomfield, Monsignor Ronald A. Ferraro reads a framed document in Latin in which Pope Francis named him as “Chaplain to His Holiness” with the title of Monsignor. Photo by Aaron Joseph Story by Shelley Wolf BLOOMFIELD – On behalf of Pope Francis, Archbishop [...]