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Knights of Columbus join other Catholic relief agencies in supporting Ukraine aid
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MARCH 22, 2022
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Pope Francis to consecrate Russia, Ukraine to Mary
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VOL. 58, NO. 20
FRYING UP A GOOD TIME
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary during a penitential prayer service in St. Peter’s Basilica March 25, the Vatican said. On the same day, the Vatican said, Konrad Cardinal Krajewski, the papal almoner, will carry out a similar consecration at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal. According to the Vatican’s translation of the messages of Fatima, when Mary appeared to the three shepherd children in Fatima in 1917, she told them, “God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace.” Warning of “war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father,” Mary told the children, “to prevent this, I shall come to ask for the See CONSECRATION, page 2
EDUCATION
St. Peter School to transform into first Catholic career, tech high school in Texas BY JO ANN ZUÑIGA Texas Catholic Herald HOUSTON — Partnering with nearby downtown Houston businesses, the Texas Medical Center, and others who need a professionally trained workforce, the Archdiocese is opening the state’s first Catholic Career and Technical High School. Daniel Cardinal DiNardo said plans are to renovate St. Peter the Apostle Catholic School, a parochial elementary and middle school shuttered since May 2019, into the St. Peter Catholic Career and Technical High School. Located on a 10-acre campus off Old Spanish Trail near the 610 Freeway, the two-story brick building will offer programs for careers first in information technology and web development; See HIGH SCHOOL, page 8
PHOTOS BY JAMES RAMOS/HERALD
Members of the Knights of Columbus Father Roach Council 3217 fry up some fish during their Lenten fish fry at their KC Hall on March 11 in Dickinson. The parish continues its Lenten fish fry service every Friday in Lent.
Lenten traditions revive, deepen parish community ties Season of penance, prayer signals rebirth of community life at several parishes BY JAMES RAMOS Texas Catholic Herald DICKINSON — It didn’t take long for the pan to empty. Four new plates of fried and baked fish flew out the serving window as Sandy Sabatier eyed a growing line at the register that sat at the double-door entrance to the Father Roach Council 3217’s Knights of Columbus Hall. Fish lovers had a choice this year: drive-thru or dine-in, and there were lines for both. Outside the hall, Knights, their wives and other volunteers braved a March 11 marked by a windy chill and occasional rain showers. They manned four vats of fry oil, sending hand-breaded fried
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fish and hush puppies to the indoor service kitchen, which also cooked up baked fish, and to a drive-thru center that ran out hundreds of meals to hungry diners waiting in their cars. Since Feb. 25, the Knights became a well-oiled machine, cranking out hundreds of meals every Friday to a community eager for a full return to parish life. Certainly not their first fish fry, as the group hosted a monthly fish service, but Feb. 25 was their first dine-in service since they transitioned to drive-thru only in July of 2021. The first few Lenten fish fries saw lines that wrapped around the block,
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EMBRACING LENT
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Father Rodney Armstrong, SSJ, distributes ashes during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Texas Southern University Catholic Newman Center in Houston March 2. The Newman Center finally welcomed students and community members back for mid-week Masses for the first time since March 2020.
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