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Once the music director at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Clinton, and still a parishioner there, Paul Jernberg has been composing sacred music for the liturgy for 25 years.

The Worcester Catholic Men's Conference is organizing remote sites where small groups of men can “attend” together on March 20.

The pandemic has created hardship, but also opportunity. “It forced us into the 21st century,” said Father Kenneth R. Cardinale, pastor at St. John Paul II Parish in Southbridge.

No sports season taught Cody Smith or Connor Knowles more about fighting through tough times than the one that the St. Paul Diocesan Junior/Senior High School boys’ basketball team experienced this winter.

Bishop McManus: This year’s Lenten journey to Holy Week and Easter will again be different. But ... the reasons for, and the fruits of, this annual holy season of prayer, penance and almsgiving remain the same.

Barry Finneron has coached high school basketball for nearly half a century. But nothing he experienced prepared him for this season molding a team out of former rivals.

Inviting students to attend SEEK21 was just the latest way that the FOCUS team has been encouraging them in the faith since it began its WPI missionary journey in the fall.

As the second Lent affected by the coronavirus pandemic approaches, parishes are looking at how to enable people to safely and conveniently participate in devotions and receive formation.

At an outdoor fire on a cold night last week, leaders and parishioners of St. Mary of the Hills Parish in Boylston prayed and prepared for Lent, burning palms and petitions.

The faculty and staff at All Saints Academy in Webster strive to guide students to be good citizens, to love God and neighbor, and to enrich society with the messages of the Gospel.

For their Catholic Schools Week service project at St. Anna Elementary School in Leominster, eighth-graders made blankets for other children.

Vincent D. Rougeau, dean of the Boston College Law School, has been chosen as the 33rd president of the College of the Holy Cross.

Receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17, will be different this year, because of the coronavirus. The diocese is making recommendations for continuing this tradition safely.

Bishop McManus asks the faithful to support the new Ash Wednesday Collection that will assist diocesan retired priests.

WEBSTER – On Sunday the St. Joseph School community gathered to kick-off Catholic Schools Week. Following the Migration Mass, Bishop McManus toured St. Joseph School.

Jacqueline (Ptak) Gemme, 87, formerly of Westminster, died peacefully on Jan. 30, in Clove Lake Rehabilitation Center, Staten Island, New York after an illness.