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The Deacon's Bench
Irish pubs to open on Good Friday
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jmcgee
It’s always been a “dry” holy day in Ireland — but not this year: A Limerick judge ruled Thursday that the city’s 110 pubs can open April 2 because the city is hosting a major Irish rugby match attracting tens of thousands of visitors. This will be the first time in the history of the…
A deacon’s “Annunciation”
By
jmcgee
When she saw these images of the Annunciation, the wife of a deacon in Alaska sent me an icon created by her husband. It’s a stunner. Below is the Annunciation by Deacon Charles Rohrbacher, from the Diocese of Juneau.
Do the deacon dance!
By
jmcgee
And now for something completely different: here’s part of the closing mass at the just-concluded Religious Education Congress in Anaheim. It includes the procession of all the clergy — including a dancing deacon. Really.
The handmaid of the Lord
By
jmcgee
For today, the Feast of the Annunciation… “In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Hail,…
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