STRATFORD—All are invited to learn more about sharing our faith at Our Lady of Peace Parish Hall, Stratford. The speaker is Kevin Dowd on Wednesday, August 30 at 6:30 pm. Please RSVP to olopreled@sbcglobal.net.
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BRIDGEPORT—In this video, Bishop Frank Caggiano reflects compares prayer to cooking and suggests a “recipe” to enrich our prayer life.
BRIDGEPORT—Faith Formation teacher, writer and presenter Susan Kay of Sadlier Religious will deliver a keynote on “Friendship” at the DRE/CRE Kick-Off Gathering set for August 28, in Queen of Saints Hall of the Catholic Center.
BRIDGEPORT—Join us! Become a tutor at Mercy Learning Center. As a volunteer tutor, you will be paired with one or more of Mercy Learning Center’s adult female students. No experience is necessary! All volunteer tutors attend a one-day training and receive ongoing support and professional development throughout the year.
KENTUCKY—From June 24-July 2, a group of 42 students and chaperones traveled to Neon, Kentucky for Notre Dame’s 26th annual Appalachia trip. While in Kentucky, the group worked with HOMES, Inc., a group committed to building residential housing and providing low-interest mortgages for residents of this coal-mining community. Notre Dame has worked with HOMES since 2000 (with the exception of two years spent in West Virginia).
DANBURY—A group of elementary school students at St. Joseph School in Danbury had a vision of writing and performing in their very own school production. In May of 2016, they set to work on writing an original play that they hoped would one day be performed on the St. Joseph School stage.
Of all of the headliners billed for last month’s World Youth Day Unite in Washington, D.C., I was guessing that the two musicians — Audrey Assad and Tony Melendez — were the biggest draw for the young pilgrims who traveled to the St. John Paul II National Shrine.
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NORWALK—Msgr. Joseph Kohut died on August 5 at Notre Dame Convalescent Home in Norwalk. He was 98 years old.
Joseph John Kohut was born on December 12, 1918 in Peekskill N.Y. After graduating high school he was employed as a stenographer at Standard Brands, Inc., and at Texaco. This work was interrupted by his Army service in World War II in France, Germany and Austria, for which he won the Bronze Star., and by Air Force service in the Korean War.
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NORWALK— Religious and government leaders urged comprehensive immigration reform this evening at St. Jerome Church, and said it was time for good people to speak out against policies that are needlessly dividing families.
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Teens from Christ the King Parish in Trumbull spilled onto the grounds of Vikingsborg, the guest house of the Sisters of St. Birgitta in Darien. They were there for a June picnic to wrap up the year’s youth group activities.
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Pope Francis’s prayer intention for the month of August is “That artists of our time, through their ingenuity, may help everyone discover the beauty of creation.” This action from the pope is the latest in a long history of Catholic Church teaching on environmental protection, and comes amid new concerns about the quickening pace of climate change.
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BRIDGEPORT—In this brief video, Bishop Frank J. Caggiano invites people throughout the diocese to join him in a day of prayer on September 23 pilgrimage to The Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
BRIDGEPORT—In celebration of its 55th Anniversary, the Cardinal Shehan Center recently hosted its first ever Reunion at the Shehan Center at 1494 Main Street in Bridgeport.
The event drew current board members, former board members, current and former staff, donors, former Shehan Center members and friends, said Lorraine Gibbons, Shehan’s Director of Development.
NEWTOWN—Fr. Fernando Suarez will be returning to celebrate a Healing Mass at St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown on Tuesday, September 5 at 6:30 pm. He was with us back in August of 2013 and we are so blessed to have him back to St. Rose.
FAIRFIELD—Father Ray Petrucci and Dorothy Riera, co-hosts of the radio program “Thoughts for the Week” recently sat down with Diocesan Safe Environments leader Erin Neil and sexual abuse survivors to discuss healing from clerical sexual abuse.
