The mission of the Wreaths Across America project is simple: Remember, Honor, Teach.
It has been fulfilled every year since 1992, and one the organization looks to this weekend as it coordinates December wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery as well as thousands of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations across the country.
That work is carried out by volunteers whose efforts ensure that the graves of service members again will be honored with the placement of live, balsam veteran’s wreaths. More than 2,100 locations are scheduled to participate in this year’s ceremonies, which will be held Saturday.
Services have been planned for many cemeteries throughout the Tri-State Area, each of which will be part of a bigger effort that seeks to remember the men and women who have served and sacrificed from the Revolutionary War to our present conflicts.
14 Stations of the Cross
Good Friday is the day traditionally set aside to remember the death of Jesus on the Cross. Good Friday is one of only two days in the year that Roman Catholics do not have Mass. Instead, on this day, most Catholic churches recite the Stations of the Cross (these are normally found an pictures around the inside walls of all churches). In the 12th century, Saint Francis of Assisi devised the list and started the tradition of reciting it as a type of devotional service. Structurally, Mel Gibson’s 2004 film,
The Passion of the Christ, follows the stations. This is the complete list of the 14 stations, as Saint Francis defined them.
It was like fate the way nurses Princess Holt and Nikki Roberts, First Refuge Ministries and Mount Calvary Baptist Church came together to start a new clinic for those who need medical services in Southeast Denton, Holt said.
Holt and Roberts have the skills and the heart, and now they have the means to volunteer their time and services as nurses to the clinic that will operate out of Mount Calvary Baptist Church, 1111 Wilson St. Theyâll see their first batch of patients Saturday through a partnership with the church and First Refuge Ministries, a local organization that offers free medical and counseling services, as well as a food pantry.