• 5 steps to pray away worry
    5 steps to pray away worry
    April 9, 2020
    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:
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  • Reaching those not 'connected'
    Reaching those not 'connected'
    April 9, 2020
    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.
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  • Bishop calls for bell ringing on Easter Sunday
    Bishop calls for bell ringing on Easter Sunday
    April 9, 2020
    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.
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  • Chrism Mass celebrated in empty cathedral
    Chrism Mass celebrated in empty cathedral
    April 7, 2020
    Bishop McManus called for renewed zeal at the Chrism Mass, which he celebrated Tuesday in an empty St. Paul Cathedral.
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  • Bishop lifts Good Friday fast and abstinence for health care workers
    Bishop lifts Good Friday fast and abstinence for health care workers
    April 7, 2020
    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.
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  • Bishop McManus blesses hospitals
    Bishop McManus blesses hospitals
    April 6, 2020
    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."
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  • Palms and adoration in St. John's parking lot
    Palms and adoration in St. John's parking lot
    April 6, 2020
    Catholics in the Diocese of Worcester found alternative ways to celebrate Palm Sunday, the popular holy day, in light of coronavirus restrictions.
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  • Palm Sunday in Diocese of Worcester
    Palm Sunday in Diocese of Worcester
    April 5, 2020
    Parishes around the Diocese of Worcester distributed palms - many in their parking lots.  See photo album.
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  • Seminarian makes profession
    Seminarian makes profession
    April 5, 2020
     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.
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  •  Theology on Tap via Zoom
     Theology on Tap via Zoom
    April 5, 2020
    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
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  • Birthday greetings for Father Nick
    Birthday greetings for Father Nick
    April 2, 2020
    Vehicles lined up in the parking lot of St. Mary Parish in Uxbridge on April 2 despite social distancing.  Why?  It was Father Nick Desimone's birthday.
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  • Priests trained for special ministry to the sick
    Priests trained for special ministry to the sick
    April 2, 2020
    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.
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  • Bishop McManus asks parishes to pray for a day
    Bishop McManus asks parishes to pray for a day
    April 2, 2020
        “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.
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  • Parishes to distribute palms as sign of hope
    Parishes to distribute palms as sign of hope
    April 2, 2020
    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.
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  • Dioceses in Boston Province transition to nationwide reporting system
    Dioceses in Boston Province transition to nationwide reporting system
    April 1, 2020
    WORCESTER –  The Diocese of Worcester is joining with dioceses around the country to promote a nationwide system to report abuse by a bishop. 
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