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Religious education continues in different format during pandemic
When parishes announced they were no longer having public Masses or church events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this brought typical religious education classes, youth retreats and preparation programs for first Communion and confirmation across the country to a stop or at least sent them in a slightly different direction.
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LA chaplains look to create ‘bridges’ with isolated coronavirus patients
When asked if ministering to patients with the coronavirus (COVID-19) at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Ventura and St. John’s Hospital in Camarillo was different from other patients, chaplains Father Calin Tamiian and Veronica Marchese needed a moment to explain.
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At an empty Easter Vigil, a word of hope for RCIA catechumens
Across two Sundays in early March, RCIA candidates and catechumens stood shoulder to shoulder in the sanctuary of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels during the Rites of Election and Calling.
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LA archdiocese to lead novena for sexual abuse healing
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles will lead nine days of prayer and reflection for healing from sexual abuse, from April 18-26.
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Coronavirus ends their season, but their faith endures
There are goals, and then there are goals. High achievers set high goals, including, and maybe especially, those who are about to graduate from high school.
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Music teacher keeps students tuned in via weekly community psalm sing
Heidi Vass, music director at La Reina High School and Middle School in Thousand Oaks, California, was searching for a way to keep her students singing even though distance learning kept them from singing together.
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Archbishop Gomez: Jesus rises ‘to tell us his love is stronger than death’
Standing in “the joyful light of Easter,” we know “our world is still darkened by loss and despair,” but Jesus rises “to tell us that his love is stronger than death,” the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in an Easter statement.
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As Easter nears, LA auxiliary bishops reflect on faith in the time of the coronavirus
The image of the Holy Father, walking alone, issuing the “urbi et orbi” blessing two weeks ago, hit home for Bishop Alex Aclan. “The plaza behind him that is usually filled with people completely empty; rain pouring down copiously like tears from heaven — a fitting image of how a lot of us are feeling at the moment. Alone. Isolated. Dejected.”
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Archbishop Gomez and US Catholics look to the Sacred Heart in Good Friday litany
Isolated in their homes on a Good Friday unlike any other, Catholics across America tuned in April 10 for a litany to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, led by the president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, who himself stood nearly alone in a cathedral built to welcome thousands.
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US Catholics invited to pray Litany of the Sacred Heart on Good Friday amid pandemic
Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles will lead the nation’s Catholics in praying the Litany of the Sacred Heart on Good Friday to “seek healing for all those who are unwell, wisdom for those whose work in halting the spread of the coronavirus, and strength for all God’s children.”
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