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Coming off the success of more than 50 guns turned in at a West Baltimore church in September, but concerned that gun violence in the city remains high, St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church will sponsor its eighth “Gun Turn-In Day” Dec. 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the church at 1542 N. Gilmor St. The program will expand to the east side of the city, with the first-ever weapon collection at St. Wenceslaus Church, 2111 Ashland Ave. at the same day and time.

Father Gerard Francik, Father Richard B. Hilgartner, Father Michael S. Triplett and Monsignor Arthur W. Bastress will celebrate a Mass for Thanksgiving at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 26 at the Shrine of St. Alphonsus in Baltimore, prior to the annual Turkey Bowl between Calvert Hall College High School and Loyola Blakefield.

St. Louis in Clarksville is mourning the loss of John Alexander Evans, a 19-year-old parishioner who died Nov. 7 after completing a 10-mile road march at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington.

A funeral Mass for Vincentian Father Paul Michael Murphy was offered Nov. 16 at St. Joseph in Emmitsburg. Father Murphy, in residence at St. Joseph since 2007, suffered a fatal heart attack Nov. 12.