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Blessed Sacrament receives Parish Life Director

Wednesday, 10 August 2011 12:12

The first Parish Life Director at a Jesuit-sponsored parish was installed July 17 at Blessed Sacrament Church in Hollywood.

Auxiliary Bishop Edward Clark and Jesuit Father John McGarry, Provincial, concelebrated the installation Mass of Yolanda Scott Brown, DMin., before an assembly of nearly 1,000 people. Brown most recently served seven years as Pastoral Associate at Dolores Mission in Boyle Heights, also a Jesuit-administered parish in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

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From N.H. to L.A.: Warm reunion after five decades of prayer

Tuesday, 09 August 2011 12:04

Anita Theresa Lafond was 10 years old when a Holy Cross nun at her grammar school in New Hampshire asked her to pray — in memory of Anita’s father, who had just died from pancreatic cancer — for a group of seven recently ordained Oblates of Mary Immaculate priests.

Fifty-one years later, Lafond was “pleasantly surprised” to see in a Tidings’ story (May 5, 2011) where her “prayers had taken” one of the missionaries listed on the card that she has kept throughout the years (it now rests on a “prayer altar” next to her bed).

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Obituaries, Aug. 5, 2011

Friday, 05 August 2011 09:09

Fr. Robert Byrne, former pastor of St. Cyprian, dies

Funeral Mass was held July 20 at St. Cyprian, Long Beach, for Father Robert Byrne, 86, a retired priest of the archdiocese who died July 13.

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Pro-life group witnesses closing of La Puente abortion clinics

Friday, 05 August 2011 08:58

“Bittersweet” is how members of 40 Days for Life in the San Gabriel Valley described their feeling as they watched a La Puente abortion facility — the one they prayed in front of for 2 ½ years — permanently close its doors and move out of the area.

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News Briefs

Friday, 05 August 2011 08:52

St. Finbar organizes blood drive for school student

BURBANK — St. Finbar in Burbank will hold a blood drive for parish school student Matthew Fernandez on Aug. 7, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., at St. Finbar’s Community Center. The five-year-old was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia on April 3 and is currently receiving treatment from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

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