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Capuchin Novices receive habit
Wednesday, 10 August 2011 14:26
On July 24, 22 men from the United States, Canada and Great Britain received the Capuchin Franciscan habit at the friary of San Lorenzo, in Santa Ynez. Father Frank Grinko, heading the formation team for the novitiate, blessed the habits which are part of the formal entrance of candidates into the Capuchin Order. World Youth Day pilgrims receive special pre-trip blessing
Wednesday, 10 August 2011 12:19
On the first day of the week in which many local people will leave for Madrid, Spain, to attend World Youth Day, several pilgrims gathered at Sunday mid-morning Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels for a special blessing by Archbishop José Gomez. More than 20 pilgrim chaperones, teenagers and young adults from throughout the archdiocese and also the San Bernardino Diocese attended the Aug. 7 liturgy in advance of the Aug. 16-21 WYD event, which is expected to draw a record number of youth from the United States. Currently 29,437 U.S. pilgrims are registered to attend, including 262 traveling from the L.A. Archdiocese.
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.
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).
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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