As a child growing up in India, Father Ajeesh Ouseph learned how to make rosaries. PHOTO BY JOE PISANI Classes demonstrate techniques for making a chain-link rosary. Story by Joe Pisani When Ajeesh Ouseph was a boy growing up in India, his family would gather before dinner to sing religious songs, read [...]
"Attentive silence and listening is part of worship, and there are other times when we are called to sing." In today's National Eucharistic Revival update, Fr. Ruminski conveys the joys of worshipping as a community with our voices in adoration and praise.
Story by Karen A. Avitabile A new plaque honoring the late Archbishop Henry J. O’Brien was recently re-installed in the Mandell Jewish Community Center of West Hartford as a tribute to his generosity and commitment to interfaith collaboration and goodwill more than 60 years ago. In 1960, the Jewish community was in the process [...]
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 [...]
St. Joseph Roman Catholic in Winsted reopens its doors with a new look and a bright future. Story and Photos by Karen A. Avitabile Parishioners of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Connecticut’s northwest corner is experiencing a renewal and rebirth of the Holy Spirit after a six-year plan to renovate the church was [...]
Story by Richard Budd The other day, I was home with my family after Sunday Mass and, while sitting around the table for our traditional Sunday brunch, the thought crossed my mind: “I hope my kids hold on to their Catholic faith when they’re adults.” Right now, they’re young and they do what my wife [...]
This week is National Catholic Schools Week! It has been celebrated annually throughout the United States for the past 46 years. Today, at St Joseph School, the theme was VOCATION. The school principal Mr. Eric Frenette invited Father Ivan to visit each class. Fr. Ivan shared his call to the vocation of Holy Priesthood [...]
In celebration the one year anniversary of her beatification in Rome last November 3 and her Feast Day on , the Office of Campus Ministry and the Charism Connection team recently sponsored school-wide Blessed Clelia Days of Prayer and Service. Blessed Clelia Merloni, the foundress of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the [...]
St. Mary School in Milford welcomed special guest visitors to their fourth grade! Dr. Deirdre Yeater, her colleague Dr. Pierce, and a group of her students from Sacred Heart University did a presentation about the importance of bees. Students learned all about bees, made their own bee habitats to bring home, were given honey to [...]
St. Mary School's third grade kept the tradition alive when they walked over to the Milford Historical Society grounds and spent the morning learning about our town's history. They played with old fashioned toys, learned about life in Milford during the colonial times, wrote with quill pens and enjoyed lunch on the lawn. [...]