Thursday, May 15, 2008
FAITH
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PORT ALLEN — The Rev. Jim Sawyer went into the operating room Oct. 17 to fix his back, but a rare surgical complication would change his life and his ministry.
TODAY
About a month after his 50th birthday, Aubrey Foster Sr. was “basically homeless” and fired from the church he had pastored for nearly five years. Pastor Alfred Booker remembers being a teenage father with little education and no job. The desperation he felt and the gun he imagined remain vivid memories for the 66-year-old minister. “I remember feeling disconnected because I couldn’t read. I had no skills, and no one would give me a job. My family needed to eat,” he said. At a shrine in Italy, the casket of Saint Padre Pio is on display. A spokesman says the body is on display to promote “the spiritual growth of his devotees” as “happened when Padre Pio was still alive.” VATICAN CITY — The body of Italy’s beloved saint Padre Pio went on display April 24 at his shrine in southern Italy; over the coming months, more than 1 million people are expected to see it. Pilgrims file past a casket with walls of bullet-proof glass, where Pio lies with his face covered by a life-like silicone mask, produced by a British firm that supplies wax museums. Religion Bulletins for May 3, 2008 A Louisiana Catholic attending her first Papal Mass last week found the experience so powerful, she can’t quite remember what Pope Benedict XVI said. “I know it was a message of hope, but it’s so overwhelming and emotional to be there,” Shannon Duplessis said of her experiences last week at Nationals Park in Washington D.C.. “That’s why I wanted (family) to tape it from here so I could listen to it later.” Beth Shalom Synagogue will change rabbis this summer, and strangely enough, the Pacific Far East figures into the journeys of both men. Rabbi Stanton M. Zamek, after nine years of ministry, is leaving in June for a synagogue in Hong Kong. Medicines and miracles didn’t provide instant healing for Lynn Morrison’s failing liver. However, Morrison did get his healing in a relatively short amount of time, undergoing a successful liver transplant only two months after getting on the waiting list. Religion Bulletins for April 26, 2008 Religion Bulletins for April 19, 2008 In addition to Passover (see the story at the bottom of this page), this weekend is full of holidays. Jenny Buchtel says digging in the dirt is more than her ministry: It is also an act of worship. “I feel like I’m closer to God’s heart in the garden than any other place,” she said. That closeness goes along with Jesus Christ’s commandment to feed his sheep she said of her work with Our Father’s Garden. ROME (AP) -- From a presidential welcome, to two Masses at baseball stadiums, to a stop for prayer at ground zero in New York, Pope Benedict XVI will get a heavy dose of the American experience in his first pilgrimage to the United States. Benedict departed for Washington on Tuesday, with President Bush planning to make the unusual gesture of greeting him when his special Alitalia jetliner touches down at Andrews Air Force Base - the first time the president has greeted a foreign leader there. |
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