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In 2023, Rhode Island Catholic will bring readers Q&As from the great educators from all around our schools in the Diocese of Providence, and we think you’ll enjoy getting to know what drives their passion for serving others.

PROVIDENCE — For her years of dedicated support for the local church, including her donation of $4.5 million to the Diocese of Providence, which allowed for the completion of the recent restoration of the towers project at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Barbara Papitto, along with her late husband Ralph, a successful local businessman, will be honored in March with a plaque in their name which will be affixed to a back wall of the cathedral.

Toda la comunidad de habla hispana de Rhode Island, están cordialmente invitados a asistir. Actos culturales seguirán a la Misa, incluyendo bailes folclóricos y aperitivos étnicos. También habrá una transmisión en vivo disponible a través de YouTube para aquellos que no puedan asistir. Mira la transmisión en vivo - https://provd.io/live.

Sunday, January 28 to Saturday, February 3 is Catholic Schools Week! (Photo: George Martell)

PROVIDENCE — The annual Mass for Life was held on Saturday, Jan. 21, at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul. Sponsored by the diocesan Office of Life and Family Ministry, the liturgy was offered to ask for God’s blessings upon the pro-life movement.

ROME — On January 15, His Eminence Arthur Cardinal Roche, Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, conferred the Ministry of Lector in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at the Pontifical North American College, Vatican City State, on 25 seminarians, including three young men from the Diocese of Providence: Stephen Coutcher, Nathan Ledoux and Mateusz Puzanowski. (PHOTOS: PNAC PHOTO SERVICE)

PROVIDENCE — Linda A’Vant-Deishinni, a prominent member of the African-American Catholic community in Rhode Island, was honored with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. State Holiday Commission Community Service Award, commemorating her service to the people of the state in a celebration held in honor of MLK Jr. Day, Jan. 16, at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Providence.

Welcome Bishop Henning! It was a joyful and historic day as the Diocese of Providence welcomed new Coadjutor Bishop Richard G. Henning at a Holy Mass of Reception today, Thursday, Jan. 26, in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Providence.

It is indeed rare that all four Scripture selections at Mass – Old Testament, Psalm, New Testament and Gospel readings – promote an identical message. The New Testament readings especially stand out from the other choices since they tend to be continuous passages from a given text, like a letter of St. Paul, rather than assorted episodes chosen to highlight a certain theme. Yet this coming Sunday, the four texts not only agree in topic but almost exactly in words and phrasing.

Watch the livestream of the Holy Mass of Reception to welcome Bishop Richard G. Henning as Coadjutor Bishop of Providence at 2 p.m. on Thursday, January 26 on the diocesan YouTube channel - youtube.com/DioceseofProvidenceRI (https://provd.io/live)

The Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is visiting the Diocese of Providence from today until Feb. 5 - schedule here! (Image: USCCB)

Prayer suddenly became acceptable in the public square in the aftermath of the horrific injury suffered by Buffalo Bills’ defensive back Damar Hamlin on January 2, which took place in front of a national television audience on Monday Night Football....

As individuals, we are called to observe this day through the penitential practices of prayer, fasting and/or giving alms. (Note: this day of prayer is usually celebrated on Jan. 22, since it falls on a Sunday in 2023, we mark it Jan. 23)

PROVIDENCE — Noting the words of St. Paul, “For we walk by faith, not by sight,” (II Cor 5:7), Bishop Thomas J. Tobin this week launched the 2023 Catholic Charity Appeal in the Diocese of Providence, introducing the theme chosen for this year’s campaign: “Walking Together in Faith.”

January 26-February 5 (or by appointment), click for list of schools and the dates/times for all upcoming open houses. Hope to see you!

Toda la comunidad de habla hispana de Rhode Island, están cordialmente invitados a asistir. Actos culturales seguirán a la Misa, incluyendo bailes folclóricos y aperitivos étnicos. También habrá una transmisión en vivo disponible a través de YouTube para aquellos que no puedan asistir.

PROVIDENCE — If the COVID-19 pandemic did education in the U.S. any favors, Ed Bastia says that “it brought the classrooms into the living rooms and into the homes of the families” in such a way that “parents now want more independence and want more involvement in their child’s education.”

Whether it’s for a football player stricken during a Monday night game, or for an ailing pope at the Vatican, or for a persecuted cardinal in China, or for the restoration of peace in Ukraine, or for a missing mom in Massachusetts – it seems that the community has been summoned to prayer on an unusual number of occasions recently.

The solemn Mass will be presided in Spanish by Monsignor José Dolores Grullón Estrella, Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana, who is visiting from the Dominican Republic. The Dominican People are the largest Hispanic immigrant group in Rhode Island.

Join Bishop Tobin for a Holy Mass for Life in thanksgiving for the gift of life in the Cathedral Saturday, January 21 at 9 a.m. In addition, the Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be in the Cathedral this special morning for veneration.