JAMAICA PLAIN While observing the feast of the Annunciation, but with an eye toward the coming Easter, leaders and representatives of the Roman Catholic, Ukrainian Catholic, and Ukrainian Orthodox communities united to lead a prayer service for peace in Ukraine.
JAMAICA PLAIN Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley and the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the U.S., Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of Philadelphia, will preside at a Lenten prayer service of hope and solidarity for the people of Ukraine on March 25.
Holy Thursday evening before we began our celebrations of the Easter Triduum we hosted a meal at the cathedral for a number of priests from Regina Cleri and others who were able to join us, as a Holy Thursday dinner and celebration of the priesthood.
Last Saturday, after many years of consultation and work, the Holy Father promulgated the new Constitution on the Roman Curia, Praedicate Evangelium. Many of the ideas contained therein have already been implemented by the creation of new dicasteries and policies within the curia. Still, it certainly pulls together many of the themes of Pope Francis's pontificate, and has evangelization as its unifying theme. As I always say, if the Church exists to evangelize, the curia must exist to evan
BOSTON At a special Mass on March 25, the feast of the Annunciation, Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley led the faithful of the archdiocese in joining Pope Francis' consecration of Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, praying for peace in Ukraine and throughout the world.