During this time of coronavirus, a pilgrimage doesn't have to take you far from home (Photo: Unsplash/Adi Goldstein) Going to the Holy Land, tackling the 500-mile pilgrimage trail to Santiago de Compostela or the 100-mile Pilgrim's Way to Canterbury are just not possible right now. |
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For the first time in world history, a pandemic has totally changed the way Catholics observe the Holy Week. During this period, especially on Good Friday, Filipino Catholics either stay at home or go to church to pray and meditate on Christ’s crucifixion and death. |
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KRZYSZTOF Penderecki, an award-winning conductor and one of the world’s most popular contemporary classical music composers, whose works have featured in Hollywood films like “The Shining” and “Shutter Island,” died at his Krakow home in Poland last week. He was 86. |
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Would you like to be part of the virtual congregation singing "Thine be the Glory" the last hymn on Easter Sunday Worship with the Archbishop of Canterbury? Full instructions on how you can send in a recording and sing along at home to organist Graham Eccles’s recording are below. |
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NEW YORK >> In Sandwich, New Hampshire, a town of 1,200 best known as a setting for the movie “On Golden Pond,” broadband is scarce. Forget streaming Netflix, much less working or studying from home. Even the police department has trouble uploading its reports. Julie Dolan, a 65-year-old retiree in Sandwich, has asthma. |
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Some Mississippi houses of worship are offering online services during the coronavirus pandemic. Others are inviting people to sit in vehicles outside the sanctuary to have socially distant prayer and maybe to hear a pastor's message over the radio. Gov. |
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Instead of picking up palm branches on Palm Sunday, the area’s half-million Catholics are being asked to grab their iPads. Holy Week is going virtual. The solemn holiday season that begins Palm Sunday and runs through Easter Sunday usually is the busiest churchgoing time of the year. |
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For some in Berks County, Easter Sunday begins with the annual dawn service on the grounds of the William Penn Memorial Fire Tower in Lower Alsace Township. But with the county and all of Pennsylvania under Gov. Tom Wolf’s order to stay at home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, some feared the.... |
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All Masses of the Palm Sunday will be celebrated through online livestreaming, the Archdiocese of Davao announced on their social media pages. This is in compliance to pastoral advisory issued by Davao Archbishop and Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Romulo Valles, and.... |
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I am not to be trusted on the subject of Bob Dylan and I've always known it. I don't get him – not really. This has been a lifelong problem for me. It's literally true that most of the contemporaries – and those younger – I've liked and/or loved in this world have put Dylan on a high plateau that's too long and steep a climb for me. |
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) He couldn’t use his regular fire hydrant across from the homeless encampment tornado winds ripped up a giant tree and smashed it against the hydrant, knocking it out of service. So Paul Schmitz parked his three-shower trailer a block away from the Jefferson Street bridge that about 50 people call home. |
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