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In Lenten tradition, parish creates new paschal candle from old
ROWLEY -- The history of St. Mary Parish is piled into a small box on a kitchen table. The flakes of white, waxy dust line the cardboard interior like snow lines the roads outside the church. Parishioner Anne Girard uses a knife to scrape old, worn-down candles into the box. The gritty work typically takes two or three hours. Into the box go the impurities, the burnt bits, everything that must be sloughed off for the candles to be melted, molded, and reborn in time for the Easter season. In the flakes, Girard sees "the pain, the injury, the woundedness" of past years.
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Cheverus profiles: Lorena Araujo of Holy Family Parish, Rockland
ROCKLAND -- In a long line, hundreds stream out of the doors of Holy Family Parish in Rockland. It is the night of March 1, and the evening Brazilian Mass has just ended. Father Chris Snyder glides between English and Portuguese, greeting parishioners with hugs and high fives. Some families linger in the crowded stairwell to venerate the statue of the Virgin Mary. The sanctuary, once filled with loving voices, is eerily silent as Lorena Araujo, director of Holy Family's Brazilian community choir for 12 years, packs up for the night. You've got to be tough to direct a church choir, she says.
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Seniors network with industry leaders at CSF Celebration of Excellence
BOSTON -- Over 140 seniors from the Archdiocese of Boston's Catholic high schools got a head start with their future careers at the Catholic School Foundation's Celebration of Excellence, held at the PWC building in Boston's Seaport District on Feb. 27.
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