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Gallery Four | April
Haven of Our Lady of Peace resident celebrates 50th jubilee
Original Publication Date: 01.03.69
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PENSACOLA | Carmelite Sister M. Cecilia cuts a cake celebrating her golden jubilee during a Christmas celebration at Haven of Our Lady of Peace in Pensacola. At the ceremony, financier Edward Ball and Mrs. Jessie Ball DuPont gave checks totaling $22,500. to the home for the aged. Sister Cecilia officially celebrated her golden jubilee Dec. 8 at the mother house of the Carmelites in Milwaukee, then celebrated it today with the haven’s 70 residents.
Posted: 04.30.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Ascension Parish Women’s Guild plans bazaar
Original Publication Date: 10.01.65
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EAU GALLIE | Displays from the Ascension Catholic Women’s Guild are being admired by (from left) Mrs. James Rickert, Father Thomas McGrane and Mrs. Carlo Mayer. Ascension Catholic Women’s Guild, Eau Gallie, which plans its sixth annual bazaar on Nov. 20, welcomed members from Ascension and from Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Canova Beach, recently at a get–acquainted event in the Ascension hall. The event was attended by more than 150 persons.
Posted: 04.29.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Fort Myers Centro Jesus Obrerro confirmation Mass
Original Publication Date: 05.08.77
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FORT MYERS | Father Antonio Diez speaks to the congregation at Centro Jesus Obrero in Fort Myers during a confirmation Mass.
Posted: 04.28.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Beach community dedicates Our Lady of Fatima shrine
Original Publication Date: 02.19.54
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ST. PETE BEACH | Joanne McPhee, far left, crowns a statue of the Blessed Mother during dedication ceremonies for the new shrine of Our Lady of Fatima at St. John Vianney Parish in St. Petersburg Beach Feb. 7. A “Living Rosary” was featured, each bead represented by a St. John School student. A candle was lit as each student recited his prayer. Father Patrick Trainor, pastor, directed the program. Msgr. John J. Mullins, V.F., talked on “Our Lady of Fatima.” Msgr. J.A. Charest gave Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
Posted: 04.27.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Benedictine novices receive habits
Original Publication Date: 03.24.1961
SAN ANTONIO | Left to right, Patricia Driscoll, Florence Cosgrove and Helen Frey don bridal attire and receive the habits of Benedictine Novice during their investiture ceremony at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in San Antonio. Driscoll became Sister Mary Brendan Driscoll; Cosgrove became Sister Miriam Cosgrove; Frey became Sister Mary Eva Frey.
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Posted: 04.25.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
St. Ignatius Parish celebrates BVM feast day, first Communion
Original Publication Date: 12.16.1966
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TARPON SPRINGS | The Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was a special day for 11 children of St. Ignatius Church in Tarpon Springs. Father William H. Neuhaus gave them First Holy Communion at 6 p.m. In back row, left to right, are Mrs. Irene Fahrenkopf, teacher, and Father Neuhaus, pastor; middle row, Michael Fahrenkopf, John Maddox, Leopold Beyens, Timothy Trese, James Degenhardt and Jose Lopez, Jr; and foreground, Joseph Koenn, Regina Pierzynowski, Mary Frances Manos, Dianne Sapp and Steven Hejl.
Posted: 04.25.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Tampa’s St. Joseph School students make first Communion.
Original Publication Date: 01.04.1963
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TAMPA | Above and Below: Father John Stevens C.SS.R, pastor, offered Mass and gave first holy Communion to this class at St. Joseph Parish in Tampa. The event took place on a Sunday in December. Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco, who staff the grade school in the parish, also posed with the children.
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Posted: 04.25.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Confirmation ‘tour’ stops at Sacred Heart Parish
Original Publication Date: 12.30.1949
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TAMPA | Bishop Thomas J. McDonough administers the sacrament of Confirmation to the boys of Sacred Heart Parish in Tampa.
During the recent Confirmation tour from Nov. 25 to Dec. 16, Catholics in 20 parishes scattered over the length and breadth of Florida were anointed with Holy Chrism as a sign of their reception of the Holy Ghost. Bishop Thomas J. McDonough, D.D., J.C. D, auxiliary bishop of St. Augustine, conferred the sacrament amid impressive ceremonies.
The bishop addressed capacity congregations at every parish. He spoke first of the new dignity that accrued to the souls of those confirmed, the new duty and the new dedication they had as soldiers of Jesus Christ. Speaking directly to those confirmed, he said, “You are now enlisted in army of Christ, and it is your solemn duty to promote the cause of Christ as zealously and even more so than the Communist promotes the teachings of Karl Marx.”
Posted: 04.25.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
FSU’s Newman Club players present ‘Barter’
Original Publication Date: 04.30.1954
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TALLAHASSEE | Claire Dardis and George Goldstein play roles in “Barter,” a play by the Florida State University Newman Club’s Theatre Guild. The play was written by Father Urban Nagle, OP, who also wrote “City of Kings,” the play presented by the guild last year.
Bill Chavers, who graduated from the department of speech last February, directed the production. Others in the cast were Barbara Waddell, Lorenzo F. Lopez, Carolyn Grumbly, Betty Mullins, Sheldon Musgrove and Charles Cunningham.
Posted: 04.17.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Encuentro exchange
Original Publication Date: 03.29.1977
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WASHINGTON | Representatives from six southeastern dioceses came together to discuss plans for the southeastern region’s participation in the second national Encuentro in Washington this summer. Members pictured are, from left, Msgr. Agustin Roman, Spanish vicar for the Archdiocese of Miami; three Guadalupana Sisters who do migrant ministry, Mary Mooney (behind the sisters of the Pensacola–Tallahassee Diocese, Father Juan Lopez of Naranja, Fla.; and Father Esteban Soy of Epiphany Parish in Venice.
Sent by their local dioceses because of their work in Spanish–speaking apostolate, they exchanged information about their diocesan programs.
“Our groups are very fragile,” said Sister Ann Kendrick, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, who is the coordinator of the migrant apostolate for the Orlando diocese. “We often address migrant workers in our own categories, and they find it difficult to understand a Church they have never experienced. Now we must try to use examples from their own lives and let them tell us about their needs.”
Posted: 04.17.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
At 40 feet long, it takes a team prayer to use this rosary
Original Publication Date: 06.19.1987
LAKELAND | Clayton Tebo, 74 (foreground) carries the 40–foot rosary he created with the help of Theodore Leopold, 90 and Rose Marie Tebo, 72.
What has 59 beads, takes at least three people to carry and is so long that seven average men lying head to toe would barely stretch around it? Right, a 40–foot wooden rosary.
The rosary, with its beads so large each has to be held in two hands, is a symbol of faith and love for Mary, the Blessed Virgin, hopes its maker. The beads alone are each 6 inches long and 3 inches wide, said Clayton Tebo, who built the rosary two years ago. It weighs 100 pounds. “It’s all made with fir,” he said. “Oak would have been too heavy. We wouldn’t have been able to lift it.”
Still, he said, “It takes 59 people to say the rosary properly on it –– one person on every bead.”
Tebo, a former Wisconsin home builder who retired to Florida 14 years ago, said it took him and his brother four months to build the rosary.
“We worked five days a week, eight hours a day on it,” he said.
“It’s a dedication to my mother. When I was growing up the rosary was the driving force in my home. We said it every day. This is something for her.”
JACQUE BRUND | FC FILE
Posted: 04.16.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
A fairly good year for science at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs
Original Publication Date: 06.07.1968
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SARASOTA | Students from Our Lady Queen of Martyrs School recently held a science fair. Award winners were, from left, Mary T. McClesky, Billy Hegedus, Michele Hegedus, Tony Lee, Kevin Jones, Thomas Glass, Rickey Olson and (not pictured) Karen Olson. Glass, a fifth–grader, was the overall winner. McClesky, a sixth–grader, won the intermediate grade division, while Jones, a third–grader, won the primary division.
Posted: 04.15.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Face–to–face confession, er reconciliation
Original Publication Date: 12.19.1975
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ORLANDO | Orlando Bishop Thomas Grady, left, converses with Father Richard Walsh as Father Walsh shows the face–to–face option of the new rite of penance. Penitents always have the choice of choosing which way to celebrate the sacrament of penance, including communal penance celebrations.
Although the new rite of penance may seem much the same as the old rite, there are fundamental and important differences, according to Bishop Grady.
Posted: 04.14.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
St. Martha School Parents’ Club supports library
Original Publication Date: 04.15.1969
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SARASOTA | At the April meeting of the Parents’ Club, eighth–graders of St. Martha School, Sarasota, displayed new books purchased for the school through the club this year.
Posted: 04.13.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
The light of the risen Christ
Original Publication Date: 04.19.1968
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ST. AUGUSTINE | The Easter candle, a symbol of the risen Christ is lowered by Bishop Paul F. Tanner (center) into water being solemnly blessed at the Easter vigil service in the cathedral. Water blessed there and in other parish churches in the diocese is used throughout the year for baptisms. Assisting the bishop (left to right) are Father Roland Julien, Father James K. Bluett, Father David O’Shea and David Thompson.
Posted: 04.13.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Following in the footsteps of the apostles
Original Publication Date: 04.19.1968
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ST. AUGUSTINE | Just as in the Last Supper when Christ set an example of service by washing the Apostles’ feet, so also on Holy Thursday, the rite called the “Mandatum” was repeated at the Vatican and elsewhere in the world. At the St. Augustine Cathedral, James Millitello, altar boy, assisted Bishop Paul F. Tanner as he washed the feet of a dozen men including, from left, Thomas Meehan, David Fischer, Clarence Burchfield, Albert Lopez, George Edwards and X.L. Pellicer. Cathedral parish priests assisted the bishop.
Posted: 04.13.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Living the Stations of the Cross
Original Publication Date: 03.22.1991
ORLANDO | Jesus (portrayed by Mark Mueller) meets his mother (Lori Mueller) while a guard (Brian McConahay) tells them that their time together is over during the “Living Stations of the Cross” presentation at St. John Vianney Parish in Orlando. About 30 parishioners take part in the re–enactment of Jesus’ passion. The production began 12 years ago by St. John Vianney parishioner Jim Valentine, who died in December. Motivated with the hopes of helping young people learn more about Jesus, he came up with the idea. Mark Mueller plays Jesus, while two of his four daughters are also an integral part of the performance. Mr. Mueller has faced physical challenges playing the part, performing one year with a fractured hip and another year with the flu. “If anything bad is going to happen to me it always seems to happen during the Lenten season,” Mr. Mueller said. “The Lenten season is a time of sacrifice though, and a lot of times when I am up there performing, I am in pain. You really get caught up in the actual acting of it, though, and I think dealing with the pain has helped me do a better job of portraying Jesus.” Lori, 14, plays Mary while sister Trisha, 13, plays a child of Jerusalem.
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Posted: 04.13.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
It’s SRO at Orlando cathedral for chrism Mass
Original Publication Date: 04.08.1988
ORLANDO | Priests and deacons from the Diocese of Orlando nearly fill one side of St. James Cathedral during the annual chrism Mass.
In today’s world, where “greed and aggression” are so common, it is the duty of every Catholic to stand for “love and holiness,” Bishop Thomas Grady said during the annual chrism Mass.
All Catholics, he said, are members of one “royal family.” And everyone has a duty to promote God’s message.
During the Mass, which takes place every year on the Wednesday before Easter, central Florida’s priests rededicated themselves to the Church, seminarians and men studying to become deacons were called to candidacy and oils that will be used for ordinations, confirmations and baptisms were blessed by Bishop Grady.
It was standing–room–only as an estimated 800 persons filled the cathedral to celebrate the Mass with the bishop and about 100 priests of the diocese. About 20 permanent deacons also participated in the liturgy.
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Posted: 04.07.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Rehearsing for Good Friday
Original Publication Date: 04.05.1974
BRADENTON | Veronica (Joan Egan) offers Jesus (John Knowles) a towel for wiping his face during rehearsals for the Living Stations of the Cross in front of Mary (Patty Quinn). The students of Sacred Heart Parish in Bradenton will put on the production April 12 following the 7 p.m. Good Friday services. Others in the cast are Rex Reiter as Pilate, Kelly Morris and Simon and a guitar group headed by Amara Suamell.
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Posted: 04.06.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Signing on for the Catholic faith
Original Publication Date: 02.27.1997
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ORLANDO | Linda Felix of St. Mary Magdalen Parish signs her name into the Book of Elect as her sponsor, Jean–Louis Jabouin, shows his support during the rite of election at St. James Cathedral in Orlando. Orlando Bishop Norbert Dorsey, CP, welcomed 386 catechumens and 430 candidates over the course of three consecutive rite of election ceremonies at the cathedral. The catechumens from 55 parishes took part in the rite and will formally join the Catholic Church during the Easter Vigil. Catechumens will receive all the initiation sacraments – baptism, confirmation and Eucharist – while candidates will receive confirmation and Eucharist.
Posted: 04.03.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
‘For the birds’ project lands recognition for Ocala class
Original Publication Date: 08.20.1965
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OCALA | Miss Cecilia Ryder, second from left, president of the sixth grade at Blessed Trinity School, Ocala, receives as a state award to her class and a check from Mrs. Fred Montsdeoca, right, chairman of the Junior Garden Clubs. The students drew numerous sketches and drawings in a scrapbook entitled “Birds Seen In Florida,” and constructed bird houses and feeders. Looking on is Sister Matilda Ann OSB, left, and Mrs. D.W. Inglass, school chairman of the clubs.
Posted: 04.02.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
‘Heredity of Man’ is a winner for Fort Walton Beach student
Original Publication Date: 03.28.1971
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FORT WALTON BEACH | Carla Myers of St. Mary’s School in Fort Walton Beach won the eighth–grade division at the St. Mary’s Science Fair in March. She will compete in the regional science fair April 1–4 in Pensacola. She won with her exhibit “Heredity and Man.”
Posted: 04.01.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page