Each year in Lent we read an account of the Transfiguration of the Lord, a story found in all three of the synoptic Gospels. Each Gospel telling shares the common experience of the three disciples, …
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By Bishop Robert P. Reed
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3/14/24
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WARWICK — How does one teach the truths of the Faith to a child who may not be able to speak, much less comprehend the inscrutable mysteries of the Supreme Being – as if any one person …
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By Jennifer Barton, Rhode Island Catholic Correspondent
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3/14/24
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(OSV News) — A profound experience with the Eucharist during Mass in his freshman year at Texas A&M University compelled Charlie McCullough to make Jesus the center …
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By Maria Wiering
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3/14/24
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PROVIDENCE — The Senate Judiciary Committee has heard testimony relating to the Lila Manfield Sapinsley Compassionate Care Act, a bill that would legalize physician-assisted suicide in the …
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By Cole DeSantis, Rhode Island Catholic Correspondent
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3/14/24
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CUMBERLAND — Our Lady of Fatima Parish has closed its year of events celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of their parish. The February 25 Mass was celebrated by Bishop Richard G. …
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By Cole DeSantis, Rhode Island Catholic Correspondent
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3/14/24
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On March 19, the Church observes the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It’s one of the few times we get a foretaste of the liturgy’s more palpable delights …
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His neighbors in 1940s Oklahoma would have found it hard to imagine the boy they knew as Stanley Francis Rother as a future martyr, and the first beatified American parish priest. Young Stan did …
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Jesus Christ was applauded by throngs in life and jeered by crowds at death. And the crowds were extensive. “Large crowds followed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and …
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Family-friendly Eucharistic Adoration WARREN — Saint Alexander Church, 221 Main St., will host a family-friendly period of Eucharistic Adoration on Tuesdays in Lent from 6-7 p.m., helping …
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PASTORS
Reverend Jean Joseph Brice, from Parochial Vicar, St. Michael Parish, Providence, and Parochial Vicar, St. Patrick Parish, Providence, to Pastor, St. Patrick Parish, …
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3/14/24
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Is it possible to speak like a Christian but live like an atheist? In the demands and distractions of daily life, is it possible to live much of our day with little thought for God? We may start or …
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3/14/24
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During this season of Lent, we practice self-denial, intensify our commitment to prayer and seek spiritual opportunities such as missions or retreats. We confess our sins and engage in works of …
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3/7/24
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ROME — On March 3, The Most Rev. Joseph Augustine Di Noia, Adjunct Secretary of the Dicastery for Doctrine of the Faith conferred the Ministry of Acolyte in the Chapel of the Immaculate …
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3/7/24
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The Rhode Island Catholic continues its series on the Eucharist for the second phase of the National Eucharistic Revival, speaking with Brother Sixtus Roslevich, O.S.B., a monk of Portsmouth Abbey in …
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By Daniel McQuillan, Rhode Island Catholic Correspondent
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3/7/24
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The anger or wrath of God is a concept — an idea — that confuses many people. And that’s understandable. After all, St. John explicitly tells us in his first letter that “God …
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3/7/24
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The Catholic Church specifies that those 14 years and older abstain from meat on both Ash Wednesday and all the Fridays in Lent. Those ages 18-59 also observe a fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. …
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3/7/24
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It is certainly rare that a pagan king be praised at all in the Sacred Scriptures and definitely not in the Old Testament. So, the laudatory words written about the Persian King Cyrus in the Second …
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3/7/24
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PAROCHIAL VICAR Reverend Yakoburaju Garikimukkula, HGN, to Parochial Vicar, St. Philip Parish, Greenville, effective March 1, 2024.
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In RIIL Boys Basketball Division 1 Championship on Sunday, March 3, the La Salle Academy Rams battled Portsmouth High School for a chance to compete in the finals against Classical High School at the …
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Photos by Chris Jenkins
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3/7/24
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PROVIDENCE — On Sunday, March 3, seven aspirants to the permanent diaconate from the Diocese of Providence publicly expressed their intention of receiving Holy Orders before the Most Rev. …
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By Cole DeSantis, Rhode Island Catholic Correspondent
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3/7/24
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