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Deacon Schmid in Valley magazine
I keep forgetting to mention that I ran across a Q-and-A with Deacon Will Schmid in Raising Arizona Kids magazine last week. The article explores his discernment process.
The piece was coincidentally written by a former classmate of mine when we were in one of the pilot classes exploring the world of online media. Therefore, the online [...]
Alternative New Year’s
Today’s entry on the xt3 Christmastide calendar listed alternative ways to ring in the New Year. The Franciscan Renewal Center in Scottsdale, is one of four U.S. venues who made the list.
That’s because the center is offering a way to ring in the New Year Catholic-style — by treating yourself to spiritual renewal in 2009. [...]
Issue Preview: Jan. 1, 2009
Our first issue of the year is, once again, packed with a variety of local stories covering the life of the Phoenix Diocese.
You’ll find an advance on a pro-life speaker at Christ the King Parish in Mesa, a story on perpetual adoration starting at St. Bernadette Parish in Scottsdale and an update on the new [...]
High schoolers become Santa for Soldiers
I got a press release from Xavier College Preparatory last week about the school’s effort to bring Christmas to soldiers whose service to their country has separated them from their families at Christmas. I since learned that other Catholic high schoolers also reached out to them.
It was all through the efforts of Bridget Alcocer from Phoenix, [...]
Christmas Mass online
Unable to make it to a Christmas Mass this year?
That’s okay.
Now, Skyline Productions, the same people responsible for the TV Mass broadcast live from Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral every Sunday, is helping to put this year’s Christmas Eve Mass with Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted online.
Homebound Catholics won’t have to miss the communal celebration of this [...]