December Parish Life meeting recap (December 8th 2015)

Highlights from the December 28th, 2015, meeting of the Parish Life Meeting:

Cookie Walk – Final figures for the Cookie Walk will be available at the next meeting, as there are continuing sales of items. Many positive comments were received, especially on the selection of cookies and the helpful, friendly volunteers. Church decorating – All . . . → Read More: December Parish Life meeting recap (December 8th 2015)

There are perils in hiding from unfashionable realities

Burning of the USS Philadelphia

Video footage of students at some of the nation’s most highly regarded universities and colleges brow-beating and obscenely berating their professors and administrators was eerily reminiscent Chairman Mao’s ‘Cultural Revolution’.

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, youthful Red Guards—many of them students—rampaged through China purging schools, universities, government, industry, the military, and the Communist Party . . . → Read More: There are perils in hiding from unfashionable realities

Saint Stephen

martyrdom of st stephen by carracci

Grant, O Lord, that, in all our sufferings here upon earth for the testimony of thy truth, we may stedfastly look up to heaven, and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed; and, being filled with the Holy Ghost, may learn to love and bless our persecutors by the example of thy first . . . → Read More: Saint Stephen