Children to Pope Benedict XVI:
Relax on your birthday, let us do the work
LINDA REEVES | FC
(Left to right) Britton Glynn, Katie Humes, Catie Wegman, Sean Denes and Sabrina Probst design, cut and tie cloth to make a blanket as part of a service project at All Saints School in Jupiter. The on-going project is called “Katie’s Kovers” and was created to honor the memory of Kaitlin Charlton, an All Saints student who died in 2005 at age 13 of a brain tumor. The blankets are distributed to adults and children at hospitals.
Happy Birthday, Pope Benedict XVI! The Catholic students of Florida and the rest of the United States present you with countless gifts of acts of love wrapped with generosity and self-sacrifice in lovely packages of goodness tied with ribbons of kindness and gently topped with bows of peace and joy.
“Happy Birthday, and I hope you have a great day and great year. We’re helping out so you don’t have anything to worry about. Relax and have a great birthday, because we’re taking care of everything else,” said Christian Biggs, a seventh-grader at St. Anthony Catholic School in Lakeland, expressing his wish for the Holy Father. Christian’s gifts to the pope include serving at the altar, helping out in classrooms and participating in his school’s going-green efforts by picking up trash and cleaning school grounds. MORE…
Carpenter says building altar for papal Mass is ‘awesome’
Posted: 04.04.08
CNS | MICHAEL HOYT, CATHOLIC STANDARD
Deacon Dave Cahoon works in his St. Joseph’s Carpentry Shop crafting the furniture that will be used at the April 17 Mass with Pope Benedict XVI at Nationals Park in Washington.
POOLESVILLE, Md. | For Deacon Dave Cahoon, working at his St. Joseph’s Carpentry Shop on a quiet country road in Poolesville, this year’s Holy Week was one like no other.
“How awesome is this? It’s Holy Thursday, and I’m working on the altar for the Eucharist, for the papal Mass. How awesome is that?” he said, smiling.
With a hammer and chisel, the carpenter worked on a long maple board for the base of the altar that Pope Benedict XVI will use for his April 17 Mass at Nationals Park in Washington. MORE…
Popemobile arrives
Posted: 04.03.08
Pope Benedict XVI’s popemobile is transported on a flatbed truck along Interstate 295 near Wilmington, Del., April 2. An air cargo company had the popemobile, made by Mercedes–Benz, sent from the Vatican to the U.S. in time for the pope’s April 15–20 visit.
CNS | JOHN RANDOLPH, REUTERS
We’re off to see the pontiff
Despite 18 months of fundraising, this summer’s World Youth Day in Australia remained out of reach for the teens at St. Paul of the Cross in North Palm Beach. But even as economic realities were closing the door on the youths’ hopes of seeing Pope Benedict XVI in person, the Vatican’s travel planners were opening a window.
“When we heard the pope was coming to New York we moved on it,” said St. Paul youth minister Paul Chesnes. The group has raised nearly $15,000 and will use it for a “family pilgrimage” for about 30 children, parents, grandparents and young adults during the pope’s mid-April visit to the United States, he said.
They will be among scores of Floridians heading to Masses, meetings and other events in New York and Washington, D.C., during Benedict XVI’s first papal trip to the United States April 15-20. MORE…
Florida Catholic Web special for Pope’s visit debuts
Posted: 04.01.08
A special Web presentation covering the visit of Pope Benedict’s XVI to the United States is now online. Over the next two weeks, we will be working to keep our readers informed with background articles, advance stories on how Floridians and others are preparing for this historic journey and, upon the pope’s arrival, near “real-time” coverage of his activities and events from Washington and New York.
Prior to the pope’s arrival, new information and articles will be posted here daily. During the pope’s visit, our site will be updated frequently throughout each day.
In addition to the resources of Catholic News Service, Florida Catholic writers and photographers will be on hand in Washington and New York to bring you a Catholic perspective online as well as in the print editions. MORE…
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