Perspectives

Saints go marching in

Catholic Central High School in Troy and Siena College launched their “Crusader to Saint” Academic Partnership, last week which will allow seniors to take college-level courses on Siena’s campus.
Lessons from a laptop labyrinth

I was at the tail end of a silent retreat one weekend when I began reaching my silent-prayer saturation point.
You can’t fail Lent

Lent is one of those seasons that always begins with the best of intentions and rapidly goes downhill, at least that’s how it usually plays out for me.
Think how Jesus would respond, then put that into practice
Speak up for life, now more than ever

The most important thing we can do right now to build a Culture of Life is to speak up in our little corner of the vineyard.
Without marriage and family life, there would be no other vocations

On any given day, you’ll find me and Dennis running the gauntlet of modern family life. If you live it, you know it — or at least your own version of it. Early to rise, lunches to make, school forms to sign, commutes to drive, work to do, more work to do, gymnastic meets to attend, and what’s for dinner again?
A call to penance, communion & change

“The earth was moved and trembled when your way lead through the sea, your path through the mighty waters, and no one saw your footprints.” (Psalm 77:19-20).
Bassi keeps on smiling in retirement

While Mrs. Bassi has technically retired from three jobs, the parishioner at St. Paul’s parish in Schenectady has found that each retirement wasn’t the closing of a book — as it often can appear — but the beginning of her next chapter in life.
Sunday Masses, heavy snow and “something missing”

Surely Mass is an obligation but, for most, it is more, and something isn’t quite right without it. No Jesus. No community. No light from the preached Word. No Eucharist.
Catholic school makes dream a reality for students, parents

The dream of having a child who wakes up on a Monday morning excited to go to school, isn’t a dream at all. It’s a reality for us at our Catholic school.

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