Dudley parish to take collections for Ukrainian refugees

Editor of Jesuit magazine, Father Matt Malone preaches on war, synod and the Eucharist at St. John novena.

The Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion brought 128 individuals to St. Paul Cathedral.

RCIA participant sees that "Catholicism really is beautiful."

Youth experiences were so profound that Timothy Messenger found the calling to devote his life and career to Catholic youth programs.

Notre Dame Academy has revealed its new mascot, Rose the Rebel – a roughly six-foot-tall girl with green and gold hair, sporting an NDA athletic uniform.

WORCESTER – Bishop McManus asked worshippers at the St. Francis Xavier novena to add prayers for the people of Ukraine to their own intentions.

GRAFTON – With the arrival of Lent, St. James Parish will probably need more votive candles. “People are really into the practice,” said Father Anthony J. Mpagi, pastor.

With ashes on our foreheads, we have begun Lent’s 40 days of deeper prayer, more frequent penance and greater almsgiving. We do so because we are sinners in need of repentance. Those practices are an external manifestation of contrition - a sorrow for sin, a rejection of it and a resolution not to sin again.

STURBRIDGE – Father Jerome A. Lively, A.A., 57, died Sunday, Feb. 27, after an illness. He was director of faith formation at St. Anne and St. Patrick Parish.

Sr. Beata Wilk, a Sister of the Holy Family of Nazareth, is helping people in war-torn Ukraine. She is a friend of Fr. Richard W. Polek, Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish.