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 ...
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, ...
Walking into the American Rescue Workers building for the first time, Chad Ling had nothing but a bleach stained T-shirt, a pair of beat-up black jeans and a smelly pair of shoes. He had just been released from jail in Centre County and was looking for a fresh start. Nobody judged him as he ...
“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 ...
