(OSV News) – The National Eucharistic Congress is inviting young people to step out in faith — literally — by walking hundreds of miles in a major national pilgrimage. Organizers are inviting young adults ages 19 to 29 to apply as participants in the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, which will take place May 17 to …
SCRANTON – Four parishes in Lackawanna County officially entered into two new linkages this week after two of them said goodbye to their longtime leaders. The Cathedral of Saint Peter in downtown Scranton and Immaculate Conception Parish in the city’s Hill Section came together in a new linkage on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Father Jeffrey …
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St. Ann’s Monastery Scranton Solemn Novena to Saint Ann Monday, July 17 – Wednesday, July 26, 2023 Daily Masses and Novena Services : 8:00am – Mass & Novena; 11:45am – Mass & Novena; 3:30pm Novena Service only; 5:30pm – Mass & Novena; 7:30pm – Mass & Novena July 26 – Feast of St. Ann : …
(OSV News) – The Archdiocese of Hartford is investigating a possible Eucharistic miracle at one of its parishes, where Communion hosts seemingly multiplied during a March 5 Sunday Mass. Father Joseph Crowley, pastor of St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish in Thomaston, Connecticut, said in a YouTube livestream of his March 12 homily that an unnamed extraordinary …
SCRANTON – As hundreds of people gathered to begin the Lenten season at the Cathedral of Saint Peter on Ash Wednesday, they were reminded of their need for God and encouraged to trust more deeply in God’s merciful presence. “Saint Matthew, in today’s Gospel, reinforces the words of the prophet Joel and sets forth in …
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DUNMORE – After losing not one, but two children in less than a year, unbearable pain and suffering could have consumed Deb Hadley. Instead, she turned that deep suffering into an opportunity to find God’s love and help others. “In every situation, you can choose to turn toward God or you can choose to turn …
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“The challenge that awaits us, then, is to communicate by encountering people, where they are and as they are.” —Pope Francis, World Communications Day, 2021 Parishes in the Diocese of Scranton will conduct a second collection on the weekend of May 28-29 for the Catholic Communication Campaign (CCC). Fifty percent of the funds collected …
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. (CNS) – Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi, Italy, brought a first-class relic of Blessed Carlos Acutis to a Catholic high school on Long Island April 4 as he began a five-day tour with the relic. Blessed Acutis, an Italian teen who died of leukemia in 2006 and was beatified in 2020, is entombed …
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Below is a copy of the letter sent to clergy of the Diocese of Scranton from Bishop Bambera on Friday, March 18, 2022: On Friday, March 25, 2022, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, our Holy Father Pope Francis will be consecrating Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary at noon, Eastern Standard …
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SCRANTON – The Most Reverend Joseph C. Bambera, Bishop of Scranton, will join Pope Francis and other Bishops throughout the world in consecrating Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The consecration will be a plea to God and to the Blessed Virgin Mary to intercede on behalf of the people of …