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Dominicans mark 800 years

The Dominican community at Saint Catherine of Siena Newman Center in Salt Lake City marked the 800 anniversary of their order’s founding with a Dominican Rite Mass on Nov. 8, followed the next night with a special presentation on Dominican charisms by Fr. Serge Propst, a member of the Dominican Preaching band. Other special speakers will be brought in throughout the year, said Dominican Father Peter Hannah, the parish’s associate pastor, who presided at the Mass.   >>>

Holy Cross Ministries' counselors begin program to build school as a community

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Holladay's interfaith Thanksgiving service to be celebrated at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church

For 16 years the Annual City of Holladay Thanksgiving Interfaith Service has been inviting the community to participate in a service that has attracted as many as 1,200 persons. >>>

KSA students celebrate Earth Science Week

The 1st-, 2nd- and 3rd-graders from Kearns-Saint Ann School recently took a field trip to the Utah Geological Survey Core Research Center to celebrate Earth Science Week.  >>>

Ode to old socks

You would not give them a second glance, this tweedy pair of socks. They reach just above the ankles and are knit from cotton thread. In the sole of one is a hole the size of a fifty-cent piece; the same area on the other is starting to fray as well. >>>

Saint Joseph Elementary hosts 'I Spy' math night for students and families

Saint Joseph Elementary School hosted a family math evening on Oct. 8, during which a variety of “I Spy”-themed math activities were provided at all levels from preschool to seventh grade.  >>>

Taizé invites entire community to candlelit vigil

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Reception of communion from the chalice is intrinsic to the Mass

The General Instruction of the Roman Missal (2003) provides the protocol for the reception of Communion from the chalice by all members of the assembly, not just the clergy: “Holy Communion has a fuller form as a sign when it is distributed under both kinds. For in this form the sign of the Eucharistic banquet is more clearly evident and clear expression is given of the divine will by which the new and eternal Covenant is ratified in the Blood of Christ, as also the relationship between the Eucharistic banquet and the eschatological banquet in the Father’s Kingdom” (no. 281). Official statements on the value of Communion under both kinds are variants on this principle >>>

Sonia West steps down as the Blessed Sacrament advancement director, remains school accountant

 Sonia West has been a part of Blessed Sacrament School since the early 1990s, when her two daughters were enrolled as students. She became the school’s accountant in 2002 and the advancement director in 2006. >>>