SAD DAY MOVING

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WILTON MANORS | Rosanne Maitellez cries as she watches parishioners remove the painting of The Divine Mercy that adorned Divine Mercy Haitian Mission in Fort Lauderdale. Sept. 30 was moving day for the mission, which merged with St. Clement in Wilton Manors Oct. 1. Parishioners carried their statues and tabernacles in a festive procession along the two–mile route between the churches. Read the full story and see a slideshow of photos, here.

Seminarian’s mural honors Mary

MIAMI | Two years ago, Msgr. Michael Carruthers, rector-president of St. St. John Vianney College Seminary, asked seminarian Peter Dionne to create a mural for a white wall outside the seminary’s St. Raphael Chapel.

A white statue of the Virgin Mary stood in front of the white wall that overlooks a small pond.

“When I became the seminary’s rector four years ago, I envisioned art on the wall depicting a water theme, instead of the uninspiring blank wall I remembered as a seminarian,” said Msgr. Carruthers, a 1987 graduate of St. John Vianney.

Dionne, 26, and in his second year of theology at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, had created murals for businesses in Rockledge, from where he hails. What happened next could only be called divine inspiration. CONTINUED...