“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world” (James 1:27 ESV). People find it hard to grasp that Jesus Christ was killed by religious people for religious reasons. It ...
Fr. Mike McCormick, of Our Lady of Lourdes, holds the monstrance during an outdoor Eucharistic Procession at the church in Montoursville on Tuesday to pray for the end of the coronavirus pandemic. The Eucharistic procession begins with a consecrated host that is placed within a monstrance, which is then lifted and carried by a priest who leads the faithful in procession. Like a pilgrimage, a eucharistic procession normally starts at one holy place and ends at another. The processions usually take place on Holy Thursday and the Corpus Christi. Eucharistic processions have also been ...
I was recently at a safety training seminar, and the instructor said, “We tend to believe that in a crisis people will rise to the occasion and meet the challenge, but that is not true. We only rise to the level of our training.” As I write this article, the world is experiencing a ...
A person is a whole world. People exist as their own entity. People have memories unique to them, and they have their own joys, preferences, dislikes, and struggles. They are their own system of DNA and brain cells, blood and tissue that constantly changes and grows and adapts as they grow ...
Time passes swiftly. Ready or not, the hands of time propel us forward into a future filled with uncertainty, yet never void of purpose. October 1, 2020, is a date in time which will greet us sooner rather than later. On this date, “The Department of Homeland Security will require a REAL-ID…driver’s license/photo ID Card marked with a Gold Star, or another form of federally-acceptable ID to board a domestic commercial flight or enter a federal building or military installation” (PennDOT Document). Identifications are important. IDs inform others about who we are as we engage ...
