WORCESTER – Sister Ann Marshall, a Religious Sister of Mercy for 72 years, passed away peacefully on Friday, Oct. 29. Her funeral is Wednesday at St. Peter Church, 931 Main St.

EUCHARIST SERIES Part 2: To empower regular churchgoers to invite family, friends, and others to come back to Mass.

For more than 40 years Robert Dymon has been tending to Jesus and his cross atop the holy stairs at St. Anne Shrine in Sturbridge. On his own time. At his own expense.

WORCESTER – Neither personal ailments nor a worldwide pandemic have stopped a determined group of women.

WORCESTER – Vincent D. Rougeau was installed Oct. 22 at the College of the Holy Cross as its 33rd president – the first lay and first Black president to lead the 178-year-old institution.

St. Peter-Marian Junior/Senior High School is closed for good and is scheduled to be torn down to make room for a retirement community. But an important part of St. Peter-Marian will live on.

WINCHENDON – Faith can be resurrected, Bishop McManus told members of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish.

EUCHARIST SERIES: Introduction

EURCHARIST SERIES: Part 1 Do you remember when our churches were essentially closed at the start of the pandemic? No more than 10 people were allowed to enter for Mass and then the doors were locked.

Bring the Good News to a world in desperate need of a message of hope

Bishop McManus has a dream – that local Catholics’ love for the Mass will be renewed and they’ll want to participate in it each Sunday.

The purpose of the Office for Vocations video is "to show that we have a very ethnically diverse diocese and vocations come from all these different communities.”

ATHOL – A faithful 101-year-old and an eager 5-year-old were among those observing St. Francis of Assisi Church’s 100th anniversary, where a call for renewed vibrancy was issued.

Good news and recognitions graced the evening as the Serra Club of Northern Worcester County, which promotes vocations, held its 70th anniversary/priest appreciation celebration.

St. John’s High School in Shrewsbury named a makerspace after an alumnus from whose estate the school is to receive $1 million.

Nativity School of Worcester has received a historic $1.8 million gift from the late Catherine Butler, the school announced in a press release this week.

It has been said of the priest that he is to be an “icon of Christ,” a living image of the Lord Jesus. St. Ambrose said of the priest that Christ “made them vicars of love.”

Francesca Zicaro was chosen to help illustrate ways to protect the earth. She suggested planting flowers, which she loves doing.

WORCESTER – “Our state legislators are Pilates ... asking us what we want them to do" about assisted suicide, Kris Correira said.

“Education is the basis of a prosperous future in Haiti,” says Magdala Joseph, who was educated through Haitian Outreach’s child sponsorship program.