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By Katherine Long | Editor In December of 1977, Bishop Frank J. Harrison sent a letter to his brother priests in the Diocese of Syracuse, announcing a new initiative to fund the myriad critical services provided by the local Church. “The message we want to bring...
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Palm Sunday Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday. The Church recalls Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem with a procession of palms and reads the account of his Passion. On March 25, the communities of St. Joseph’s and St. Stephen’s in Oswego presented the annual Easter...
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@SyracuseHistory takes on #CNYChurchCrawl By David Haas | Special to the Catholic Sun Editor’s note: Visitation is a long-standing Holy Thursday tradition. There are a few explanations of the tradition’s origins, but the devotion remains the same: the...
Apr 5, 2018 | Sun April 5, 2018
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Easter makes it clear that in the life of Jesus, but also in the lives of modern men and women, “death, solitude and fear” do not have the last word, Pope Francis said before giving his Easter...