From Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria to Christ Church Alert Bay, where 15 children died at the Anglican-run St. Michael’s Residential School, bells will ring in unison with 45 other Anglican churches in the diocese. “That we discovered the remains of 215 children in a mass unmarked grave at a residential school in Kamloops is a tragedy beyond words,” the bishop said in a video posted on the cathedral’s website. “We are being told, though, that some of the children in this unmarked grave were as young as three. Their death is a large enough tragedy, but even bigger than that is that their parents, their grandparents, their siblings, their aunties and uncles, their communities could not come together to mourn their loss, to honour them, to mark their graves.”
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First Communion recipient overcomes obstacle, gives hope to others Carson Crosby receives first Communion from Father Augustine Asante at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Columbus, Texas, April 24, 2021. Crosby has a mitochondrial disease that prevents him from consuming food orally so a fraction of the host was dissolved in a small amount of distilled water. (Janet Jones, The Catholic Lighthouse/CNS)
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COLUMBUS, Texas (CNS) Carson Crosby, a student at St. Anthony Catholic School in Columbus who received his first Communion this spring, faced a unique challenge.
Carson has a genetic mitochondrial disease that prevents him from consuming food and drink orally. Since his infancy, he has been receiving nutrition through a feeding tube, but the Catholic Church does not allow the Eucharist to be given in this manner.