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Amid record snow, Texas scrambles to reconfigure Ash Wednesday
Feb 17, 2021 national correspondent
Vehicles drive on snow and sleet covered roads Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, in Spring, Texas. A winter storm dropping snow and ice sent temperatures plunging across the southern Plains, prompting a power emergency in Texas a day after conditions canceled flights and impacted traffic across large swaths of the U.S. (Credit: David J Phillip/AP).
Parishes across the state of Texas have canceled Ash Wednesday masses amidst a winter storm that’s left over three million people without power and brought record low temperatures all week.
NEW YORK– Parishes across the state of Texas have canceled Ash Wednesday Masses amid a winter storm that’s left over three million people without power and brought record low temperatures all week.
Annual #iGiveCatholic Giving Day breaks record on fundraising, donor numbers
This is a screen grab of the website #iGiveCatholic, https://www.igivecatholic.org. (Credit: CNS photo/screen grab.)
The sixth annual #iGiveCatholic Giving Day raised nearly $13 million from more than 48,000 donors on #GivingTuesday Dec. 1, smashing previous records, according to Cory J. Howat, president of #iGiveCatholic.
NEW ORLEANS The sixth annual #iGiveCatholic Giving Day raised nearly $13 million from more than 48,000 donors on #GivingTuesday Dec. 1, “smashing previous records,” according to Cory J. Howat, president of #iGiveCatholic.
“We are overwhelmed by the generosity of so many people across this country and throughout the world,” Howat said in a statement Dec. 10.
This is a screen grab of the website #iGiveCatholic, https://www.igivecatholic.org. (CNS photo/screen grab)
By Catholic News Service • Posted December 11, 2020
NEW ORLEANS (CNS) The sixth annual #iGiveCatholic Giving Day raised nearly $13 million from more than 48,000 donors on #GivingTuesday Dec. 1, “smashing previous records,” according to Cory J. Howat, president of #iGiveCatholic.
“We are overwhelmed by the generosity of so many people across this country and throughout the world,” Howat said in a statement Dec. 10.
“These gifts will be used to meet the spiritual, physical and educational needs that exist every year but are especially acute during this time of global suffering,” he said. “We are extremely grateful to Our Sunday Visitor, our national sponsor, for their support and belief in what can be accomplished for the church through #iGiveCatholic.”