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A prickly encounter with nature

After a morning trip to the library, we pulled up outside the house, and our sons jumped out and ran toward the front door.I started gathering the 25 books we had managed to scatter through the minivan during the quick drive home.All of a sudden I heard Leo yelling for
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Haiti service immersion trip

For one week during Spring Break, 10 Calvert Hall students, including myself, are going to St. Marc, Haiti for a service immersion trip. We will be running a Spring Break camp for some young students at Les Bons Samaritains (The Good Samaritans School) and learning about the local culture as
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On Easter, Archbishop urges Catholics to put the risen Christ at center of their lives

Archbishop William E. Lori celebrated his first Easter Sunday Mass as Archbishop of Baltimore March 31.
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Which comes first—Easter or the eggs?

We just spent a fantastic, exhausting weekend visiting with my sister and her family out of town.We dyed a few eggs.We celebrated my niece’s sixth birthday, singing to her at least three times. We fasted on Friday, feasted on birthday cake on Saturday, and the cousins played nonstop from dawn
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In Reflection, Beauty of Holy Week Comes Alive

Often times life’s biggest events are not truly understood or appreciated until we have the opportunity to look back and reflect. Holy Week is an example. During this most sacred time of our liturgical year, there is the busyness of preparation, along with the logistics of planning and rehearsals for our
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Love yourself with all of your fears

Holy Week is a time to look at the fears that run our lives. Let me begin with a story.
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Where do you go from here?

It’s Easter Weekend and we have been preparing our minds and spirits since Ash Wednesday for the glorious resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We have been abstinent; we have fasted; we have done acts of charity and spent much time in prayer.We have even witnessed the retirement
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Walking the Walk

Every year on Good Friday, my parish, St. Joan of Arc in Aberdeen, joins its neighbor, Grace United Methodist Church for an ecumenical commemoration of Jesus’ journey from condemnation to death. The procession of the cross begins at Grace United Methodist Church with a prayer service. Then, participants gather outside
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Sacred Heart in Highlandtown takes Good Friday Stations to the streets

Catholics filled the streets bordering Sacred Heart of Jesus-Sagrado Corazón de Jesús for an annual Good Friday procession.
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Buckeystown parish to break ground on new church April 14

St. Joseph on Carrollton Manor in Buckeystown is breaking ground April 14 for construction of a new $4.7-million church, a project driven by expanding parish membership.
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Local Catholics rally for marriage in Washington

Catholics from Baltimore-area parishes joined traditional-marriage supporters March 26 in Washington, D.C., for a rally and accompanying march to the U.S. Supreme Court building.
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