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‘La Virgen de Guadalupe: Dios Inantzin’ celebrates 15th year at the cathedral
For theatergoers around the world, the Christmas season is synonymous with famous productions, such as Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker.” But over the past 15 years, a growing number of people in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, particularly its Mexican Catholic demographic, have also come to associate yuletide theater with the Latino Theater Company’s (LTC) annual performance of the powerful play “La Virgen de Guadalupe: Dios Inantzin” at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels in Downtown L.A.
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Rebuilding a mother’s home
The one-story, sturdy working-class house at 187 Nob Hill Lane in Ventura is gone. Burnt to the ground by the ravenous Thomas Fire. Father Michael Sezzi was just there a week ago visiting his 77-year-old mother. He lived there from the sixth grade through St. Bonaventure High School and until he entered St. John’s Seminary. His dad had built the cozy house in 1975-76. As a boy, the priest could look out his bedroom window and see the Camarillo Airport. And if he glanced out the front, he could take in the Pacific Ocean all the way to the Channel Islands.
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Catholic Filipino tradition of Simbang Gabi begins at 125 churches throughout archdiocese
The nine-day celebration leading up to Christmas began with a Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels celebrated by Archbishop José H. Gomez.
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Mater Dei, Bishop Diego win state football crowns in dominant performances
A team ranked tops in the nation all season and a team with its thoughts and hopes clouded by smoke and fire at home earned their first-ever state titles Dec. 16 in the finals of the CIF Championship Bowl Series.
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‘La Mañanitas’ honors Our Lady of Guadalupe at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
Thousands of faithful packed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles Dec. 11 in a celebration honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe that culminated with midnight Mass celebrated by Archbishop José H. Gomez. The celebration marks 15 years of honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe at the Cathedral since its inception in 2002.
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Girls’ Volleyball: Santa Margarita wins state D-1 title
After falling just short in 2016, Santa Margarita High School won the CIF state Division 1 championship in girls’ volleyball Dec. 1 at Santiago Canyon College in Orange.
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Feligreses honran a la Virgen de Guadalupe en el Este de Los Ángeles
Hubo carrozas, danzantes aztecas, mariachis y todo tipo de grupos católicos
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Father Boyle on 30 years of Homeboy and his new book
In 1986, Father Greg Boyle, SJ, became pastor of Dolores Mission Church in the Boyle Heights — a fortuitous appointment that would change him forever, and positively impact the lives of countless young men and women on the margins.
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Hollywood Blvd. becomes Hollywood ‘Beloved’: First World Day of the Poor celebrated in Los Angeles
At the corner of Highland Ave. and Hollywood Blvd., an LAPD black-and-white blasted its high-pitched siren, followed by the vehicle’s driver proclaiming, “You cannot cross here. Thank you” over the patrol car’s loudspeaker. A Eucharistic procession, led by a ramrod-straight seminarian name David Allen holding up a pole topped with a gold crucifix, came to a halt on the wide sidewalk.
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Archbishop Gomez urges action to protect DACA youths
With a deadline looming for congressional action, Archbishop José H. Gomez is calling on Catholics and all people in the Los Angeles Archdiocese to urge their House representatives to protect more than 800,000 young men and women who were brought to this country as minors by undocumented parents.
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