During this time like none of us has ever experienced, we invite you to draw closer to Jesus, using the names or titles for Jesus from the New Testament. Here are five steps for doing so:
What if you can’t use a computer to learn about or watch what your parish is doing during the coronavirus pandemic? There’s always telephone, television and mail.
Bishop McManus has asked that church bells be rung at noon on Easter Sunday, in solidarity with other churches, as a reminder of our faith and as a call to prayer.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bishop McManus has issued a decree dispensing health care workers in the Diocese of Worcester from the mandatory fast and abstinence of Good Friday.
Bishop McManus visited two Worcster hospitals, St. Vincent and UMass, Monday to offer a blessing on those "who work and rest in this house of healing."
As turbulent as things are with this pandemic, “I’m very much at peace and feel incredibly blessed … that God has brought me to this point,” said John Larochelle, a seminarian in the Diocese of Worcester.
About 16 Theology on Tap participants met at their regular time March 24. But rather than at the group’s normal meeting place, the Compass Tavern in Worcester, they met online, via Zoom
Nineteen priests in the diocese have been trained to be designated ministers to the sick, according to Msgr. James P. Moroney, director of the Office for Divine Worship.
“This time of pandemic must also be a time of prayer,” Bishop McManus said in a letter to priests. He asked them to invite their parishioners to participate in a new prayer initiative so that someone in the diocese is praying every hour of the day until Easter Sunday.
There will be palms on Palm Sunday. But parishioners are prohibited from populating pews for Mass, as a pandemic precaution. Many parishes, however, will be offering palms outside their churches, with appropriate social distancing.
