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As a kid I always associated two things with the first day of school — getting new shoes and having to write about what I did during summer vacation. My siblings and I never really had exceptional summer adventures, but I do have fond memories of beach outings, camping trips, museum visits, swimming lessons and hours spent playing with the other kids in the neighborhood. It's been many year...
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This summer Catholics around the world are invited to participate in two exciting, inter-related events in the life of the Church. The World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly will take place on Sunday, July 23, and World Youth Day is being celebrated in Lisbon, Portugal during the first week of August. To highlight his desire for the young and the old to deepen their bonds with one another, ...
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The COVID-19 public health emergency has officially ended and summer is almost here, promising happier times in the months ahead. And yet our surgeon general, Dr. Vivek H. Murphy, has just issued an advisory signaling a new public health threat in our country. The issue is loneliness. It’s actually not a new problem at all, but an invisible epidemic that has been spreading through our society u...
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Culture of loneliness meets culture of death in MAiD epidemic: speaker Catholic Vancouver March 06, 2023 Caring and compassion are the most effective solutions we have to combat the growing requests for Medical Assistance in Dying, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Executive Director Alex Schadenberg told a large gathering at St. Nicholas Church in Langley. The presentation, entitled “How d...
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Jesus’ Transfiguration is one of the most dramatic scenes in the Gospels. It is a central image of Lent, reminding us that during this season we are invited to ascend a high mountain with Jesus to live a unique spiritual experience. Pope Francis has chosen the Transfiguration as the theme for his Lenten message this year. Highlighting the voice coming from the cloud, “This is my beloved Son, wi...
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Sr. Constance Veit, l.s.p. Thanksgiving will soon be upon us with its cornucopia of beloved traditions — from pilgrim scenes to turkey, pumpkin pie, parades and football. Today, however, the warm, nostalgic sentiments once associated with this holiday have been overshadowed by our 21st century indictment of the first Thanksgiving as a regrettable example of colonialism and the oppression of ind...
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by Sr Constance Veit, l.s.p. When I was a kid I was fascinated by magnets. I loved to watch the little magnetic skaters glide across a mirror in our family’s Christmas village at the flip of a switch, and I enjoyed doing science experiments with magnets and iron shavings in school. Much later I was struck by a comparison Pope Saint John Paul II made between the Eucharist and the force of a magn...
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La Vallée des Saints, as it is called in French, is located in Carnoët, a small village of about 700 inhabitants located in central Brittany. Conceived in 2008 as a cultural and historic project, the Valley saw the installation of the first group of enormous granite statues in 2010. The hundredth statue was inaugurated in 2018. The site’s creators envision the installation of 1,000 statues ove...
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from our Little Sisters in Philadelphia XXI World Congress of Catholic Nurses in Doylestown, PA August 2-4, 2022 Are you a Nurse who is Catholic, or are you a Catholic Nurse? A wonderful opportunity for nurses from around the world to tackle the challenge of this question by coming together for spiritual nourishment, education, and mutual moral support was being offered in the U.S. for the first...
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At our Home in Washington DC the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly was well prepared and very well celebrated, with an afternoon of family visits and entertainment provided by a talented family and a local magician. For several weeks a group of nursing care Residents created artwork reflecting the themes of "still bearing fruit" and "still fresh and green," although shades of purple se...
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