MADISON HEIGHTS — Children from St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Dennis parishes acted out the story of Jesus’ birth Dec. 18 before a packed house of their parents and fellow parishioners, and you’d never know anything was different. When St. Dennis Parish, Royal Oak, and St. Vincent Ferrer Parish, Madison Heights, began meeting this...
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By Fr. Joseph Esper | The Michigan Catholic In 1854 the fateful “Charge of the Light Brigade” occurred during the Crimean War; during that same conflict, Florence Nightingale organized a unit of 38 fellow nurses to treat wounded soldiers. In the United States, Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden, his most famous work. During that...
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Dear Friends in Christ, “ gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn” (Lk. 2:7). In considering what I’d say in this Christmas message to you, my thoughts kept coming back to this passage...
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DETROIT — A Warren parishioner’s Christmas crèche that was the subject of a federal lawsuit will be returning to the median of Mound Road just south of Chicago Road in Warren this weekend, thanks to a favorable ruling from the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. John Satawa and a couple of helpers plan...
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DETROIT —Artists with ties to local parishes have released two albums in time for Christmas. Peter Kolar, a pianist for several years at St. Clement, Center Line; St. Sylvester and St. Edmund, Warren, has produced his debut “Variations,” a solo piano album featuring Kolar’s signature arrangements of Catholic songs such as “Joyful, Joyful” and...
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