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Jesus meets us wherever we are

There’s a story that we usually tell during the Easter season about how Jesus appeared to two disciples after his resurrection. You can read it in the Bible yourself (Luke 24:13-35), but here’s a summary. The two disciples in question were traveling to a village called Emmaus, just a few days after his death. Some of their friends had spread the rumor that Jesus was alive, but they didn’t seem to know what to do with that information. While they were talking, Jesus appeared to them, but they didn’t recognize him. When he asked them what they were talking about, they began to ...

Christ Episcopal talks progress as it nears 180 years

The original congregation may have first come together way back in 1841, but those worshipping at Christ Episcopal Church today, at the corner of Mulberry and East Fourth streets, are definitely moving forward into the 21st century. “I think the one thing that the whole church universally ...

Man finds God, sobriety, American Rescue Workers

There was a gun down Chad Ling’s throat. Another was pointed to his side. In front of him stood a pre-teen boy with an assault rifle of some kind pointed directly at him. Ling’s life of drugs had brought him to this point, being held at gunpoint in a shady apartment in Phoenix, Arizona, ...

Pure Religion

“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 ...

Our Lady of Lourdes holds holy Eucharistic procession

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 ...