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Easter Services and Celebrations Set From Beaches to Downtown
Easter Masses and services will be celebrated today at churches throughout Los Angeles County while sunrise services will be held aboard the battleship Iowa and in Rancho Palos Verdes, Manhattan Beach and Santa Monica.
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Southland Leaders Condemn Sri Lanka Attacks
Southland religious leaders Sunday condemned the Easter morning terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka that have killed more than 200 people and injured more than 450.
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An Easter Sunday message: No flames will ever destroy our faith!
WE were all in shock at seeing on television and social media the historic Notre-Dame De Paris Cathedral engulfed in flames last Monday, April 15. How could this 850-year-old gothic style cathedral, Paris’ symbol of Catholicism, be gone before our eyes? Those of us who have visited and seen this magnificent work of art and place of worship could not hold back our tears especially at witnessing its legendary spire collapse and fall apart.
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Dogs, cats and more get blessed at annual L.A. ‘Blessing of the Animals
For pet-owners and animal-lovers, the traditional “Blessing of the Animals” was a wonderful way for many to spend the day before Easter.
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Every bunny — and dog, cat and reptile — got Archbishop José H. Gomez’s blessing on Holy Saturday
Critters of all varieties — dogs, cats, birds, goats, reptiles and, of course, some Easter bunnies — received their blessings on Saturday.
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Dogs, cats and more get blessed at annual L.A. ‘Blessing of the Animals’
The event has been a part of downtown L.A. since 1930, but the practice dates back to the 4th century which blesses animals to promote good health. In the early days, the priest from La Placita Church would bless the farmer’s livestock to keep them healthy and productive, which would benefit the entire community.
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Celebrating Easter Sunday in Los Angeles, Orange counties
Southern Californians can choose from an array of worship and recreational activities on Sunday to celebrate the Easter holiday.
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Southern California’s French Catholics lead fundraising efforts to rebuild burned Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
Bernard Prat was born in 1946, a little over a year after the bells of the Notre Dame Cathedral tolled for the last time — marking the Liberation of Paris during World War II.
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Archbishop Gomez to Celebrate Good Friday Liturgy
Archbishop Jose H. Gomez will celebrate the Good Friday liturgy at noon Friday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles.
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‘It’s very sad’: LA’s priest to French-speaking community can only watch — and remember — as Notre Dame Cathedral burns
This was supposed to be a day off for Father Germán Sánchez.
Then, he got the text: His beloved Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, in the country where he spent more than two decades of his priesthood, was being consumed by fire as a shocked French nation and the world looked on.
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